Tracy Y. Espy will become president of Mitchell College.
Corey S. Bradford Sr., senior vice president for business affairs at Prairie View A&M University, has been named president of Harris-Stowe State University, in Missouri. He will replace Dwayne Smith, who has served as interim president since Dwaun Warmack stepped down in August 2019.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Tracy Y. Espy will become president of Mitchell College.
Corey S. Bradford Sr., senior vice president for business affairs at Prairie View A&M University, has been named president of Harris-Stowe State University, in Missouri. He will replace Dwayne Smith, who has served as interim president since Dwaun Warmack stepped down in August 2019.
R. Charles Byers, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at West Virginia State University, has been named interim president. He will replace Anthony L. Jenkins, who is leaving to become president of Coppin State University.
Tracy Y. Espy, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Pfeiffer University, in North Carolina, will become president of Mitchell College, in Connecticut, on July 1. She will be the first African American woman to lead the college.
Joseph Harroz Jr., interim president of the University of Oklahoma since May 2019, has been named to the post permanently. He became interim president after Jim Gallogly’s resignation.
Lamont Repollet, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, will become president of Kean University on July 1. He will succeed Dawood Farahi, who plans to step down.
Ivy Taylor, former mayor of San Antonio, Tex., has been named president of Rust College, in Mississippi. She will be the first woman to lead the college.
Resignations
Joshua Merchant, president of Buena Vista University, in Iowa, since February 2017, has stepped down.
Retirements
John Gratton, president of New Mexico State University at Carlsbad, plans to retire on June 30.
CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Jenn Capps, dean of the College of Professional Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Humboldt State University on August 1.
Karlyn Crowley, interim assistant vice president for academic affairs and a professor of English at St. Norbert College, will become provost at Ohio Wesleyan University on July 1.
Carl Kemnitz, senior vice provost for academic affairs at San Jose State University, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University at San Marcos on July 1.
OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Edward Aractingi,chief information officer at Marshall University, will become chief information officer at the College of William & Mary on June 10.
Sean T. Bennett
Sean T. Bennett, assistant dean of academic operations and student success in the College of Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will become vice president for diversity and inclusion at Salem State University on June 1.
Davida Loren Haywood, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Alabama State University, will become vice president for student affairs at Johnson C. Smith University on July 1.
Adrianne Jones,director of admissions at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, has been named chief admissions officer at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Sarah Lacz, assistant vice president for advancement and alumni engagement at Saint Peter’s University, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Bloomfield College.
Wendy W. Lin-Cook,associate provost for enrollment management and academic services at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, will become vice president for enrollment management at Montclair State University on June 1.
Lorna A. Malcolm, assistant dean of development in the College of Engineering at Temple University, has been named vice president for advancement at the City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Douglas Minter, vice president for business services and institutional effectiveness at Heartland Community College, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Waubonsee Community College.
Brad Moffett, a professor of music and director of graduate programs in the School of Music at Lee University, has been named vice president for university relations.
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Ed Prohaska, chief financial officer at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has been named chief financial officer at California College of the Arts.
DEANS
Appointments
Beverly Brockman,a professor of entrepreneurship and head of the department of marketing and entrepreneurship in the Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has been named dean of the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration at the University of Evansville.
Richard Buttimer Jr.,director of the Childress Klein Center for Real Estate and a professor of finance in the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will become dean of the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida on June 27.
Tina Freiburger, a professor and chair of the criminal-justice department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, will become dean of the university’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare on August 1.
Sharon Garcia
Sharon Garcia, assistant dean of communications, humanities, and arts at Waubonsee Community College, has been named dean of communications, humanities, and arts.
Susan T. Gooden, interim dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University since May 2018, has been named to the post permanently.
Evan Leach,interim dean of the College of Business and Public Management at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the post permanently.
John Leyba,interim dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at the University of North Georgia, has been named to the post permanently.
Ann Marie P. Mauro, associate dean, professor, and director of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation in the School of Nursing at Rutgers University, will become dean of the Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies at Monmouth University on July 13.
D. Mark Meyers, a professor of education and former dean of the College of Social Sciences, Health, and Education at Xavier University, in Ohio, will become dean of the School of Nursing, Education, and Human Studies at Robert Morris University on June 1.
Mitzi Montoya,a professor in the Carson College of Business and former provost at Washington State University, will become dean of the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico on July 1.
James Pritchett, interim dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Colorado State University, has been named to the post permanently.
Nancy Berryman Reese,chair of the department of physical therapy at the University of Central Arkansas, will become dean of the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences on July 1.
Dawndra Sechrist, associate dean of outcomes and assessment in the School of Health Professions at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been named dean of the school.
Leslie Sharp,associate vice provost for graduate education and faculty development at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will become dean of the Georgia Tech Library on July 1.
J. Michael Weber, founding dean of the Graduate School of Business and a professor of marketing at the University of Maine at Orono, will become dean of the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise at Florida Southern College on July 6.
DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
Appointments
Dennis K.J. Lin, a professor of supply chain and statistics at Pennsylvania State University, will become department head of statistics in the College of Science at Purdue University.
Irena Swanson, a professor of mathematics at Reed College, will become department head of mathematics in the College of Science at Purdue University.
OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Bruce Cottrill, interim vice chancellor for human resources at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education, has been named associate vice president for human resources at Danville Community College, in Virginia.
Alexandra (Sasha) Deyneka,a graduate research assistant at the Sloane Art Library and an assistant at the research-and-instructional-services desk in the R.B. House Undergraduate Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named librarian for art and art history in the Sloane Art Library.
Andrew Griffith, an adjunct professor of neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Maryland and an adjunct professor of otolaryngology and head-and-neck surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will become senior associate dean of research in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine in July.
Catherine McCollum, director of graduate and extended programs at Western Michigan University-Thomas M. Cooley Law School, has been named director of online learning in addition to her current role.
Sarah Olejniczak, vice president for student affairs and Title IX coordinator at Mount Mary University, in Wisconsin, will become Title IX and compliance coordinator at St. Norbert College on July 1.
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Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, director of the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University, will become director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University on July 1.
Mark Rushing, assistant vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named associate vice chancellor for university relations.
Jennifer Yoos, principal and chief executive at VJAA, a Minneapolis-based design studio, will become head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities on June 8.
FACULTY
Appointments
Cathy Hwang, an associate professor of law at the University of Utah, will become a faculty member in the University of Virginia School of Law.
Jacob Victor, an acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University School of Law and a fellow at its Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, has been named an assistant professor at the Albany School of Law.
Retirements
Britt Dickens,a professor of education at Mississippi College, plans to retire this spring.
CARNEGIE FELLOWS
The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded the following 27 Andrew Carnegie Fellows stipends of up to $200,000 each for their research and writing in the humanities and social sciences.
Emily Bernard, a professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Unfinished Women”
Cathy J. Cohen, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, “Race and Democratic Futures: GenForward Survey of Young Adults and the Politics of Vulnerability”
Rohit De, an associate professor of history at Yale University, “The Jurisprudence of Decolonization: Mobile Lawyers, Civil Liberties and the Global History of Rebellious Lawyering”
Sarah Deer, a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas, “Indigenous Democracies: Native Women and the Future of Tribal Nations in the United States”
Bathsheba Demuth, an assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University, “The Yukon Watershed: An Environmental History of Nonhuman Rights 1700-2000”
Susan M. Dynarski, a professor of public policy, education, and economics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Closing the Gap: Reducing Inequality in Education”
Jack A. Goldstone, a professor of public policy and a scholar in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, “10 Billion: How Global Population Trends Will Challenge Security, Prosperity and Democracy in the 21st Century”
Paul Gronke, a professor of political science at Reed College, “Stewards of Democracy: How Street Level Administrators Can Restore Public Faith in American Democracy”
Meghan C. L. Howey, a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of New Hampshire, “The Socioecological Shock of Colonialism: A Community-Engaged and Interdisciplinary Archaeological Framework”
Solomon Hsiang, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, “Quantifying the Risk of Economic Stagnation, Increased Inequality, and Mass Migration Due to Climate Change Using Two Million Historical Aerial Photographs and Machine Learning”
Sarah J. Jackson, an associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, “The Story of Us: Black Media-Makers and the 21st-Century Struggle for America’s Soul”
Paulina Jaramillo, a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, “Energy, Climate, and Perceptions of Fairness in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Azmat Khan, a visiting professor on First Amendment issues at Columbia University, an investigative journalist in residence in the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and a professor of practice at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies, “Precision Strike”
Jason Lyall, an associate professor of transnational studies and government at Dartmouth College, “Improving Humanitarian Assistance in Violent Settings”
Alice E. Marwick, an assistant professor of communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Redpills and Radicalization: Understanding Disinformation’s Impact”
Ana Raquel Minian, an associate professor of history at Stanford University, “No Man’s Lands: A New History of Immigration Restriction”
Yonatan L. Morse, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, “Discovering Welfare: Democracy and the Transformation of Social Protection in Africa”
Megan Mullin, an associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University, “Reshaping Communities: Local Political Response to Climate Risks”
Michael A. Neblo, a professor of political science at Ohio State University, “Connecting to Congress”
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Aaron Panofsky, an associate professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles, “Unjust Malaise: Race in the Fog of Genetics”
David A. Pietz, a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Arizona, “Death and Life on the Yangtze: Extinction, Conservation, and Environmental Change in China”
Andrés Reséndez, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, “The Magellan Exchange”
Jennifer Anne Richeson, a professor of psychology at Yale University, “The Mythology of Racial Progress”
Thea Riofrancos, an assistant professor of political science at Providence College, “Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition”
H. Luke Shaefer, a professor of social work and of social justice and social policy, and director of the Poverty Solutionsprogram, in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Deepening Our Understanding of America’s Most Vulnerable Communities”
Amy Erica Smith, an associate professor of political science at Iowa State University, “Religion and Climate Change: The Deluge and the Dessert”
Duncan J. Watts, a professor of computer and information science, communication, and operations, information, and decisions at the University of Pennsylvania, “Project Ratio: Quantifying Misinformation and Its Consequences for Democracy”
ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Ret. Lt. Gen. Mike Gould,former superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy, has been named the first dual chief executive of the academy’s Association of Graduates and the Air Force Academy Foundation.
Jennifer Mathes, interim chief executive of the Online Learning Consortium since May 2019, has been named to the post permanently.
DEATHS
Charles E. Ares,a professor emeritus and former dean of the College of Law at the University of Arizona, dies on April 29. He was 93.
John Horton Conway,a professor emeritus of mathematics at Princeton University, died of complications related to Covid-19 on April 11. He was 82. He is credited with discovering “surreal numbers” and what is known as the Conway group, an entity in the realm of mathematical symmetry that inhabits 24-dimensional space.
Joseph R. Fink, president emeritus of Dominican University of California, died on May 2. He was 83. He led the university from 1988 to 2011.
Richard Friedman, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and faculty member at Columbia University, died on March 31. He was 79. Friedman is best known for his book Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective (1988), which argued that sexual orientation is biological.
Henry Graff, a professor of history at Columbia University and author of several books on the presidency, died of complications of Covid-19 on April 7. He was 98.
Leo Kornfeld, former U.S. deputy commissioner of education, died on April 8. He was 97. Kornfield, who worked as a consultant to colleges, became deputy commissioner in 1977 and directed the Bureau of Student Financial Assistance in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He was a senior adviser to the secretary of education from 1992 to 1997. He also wrote How to Beat the High Cost of Learning (1981) with Gonnie and William Siegel.
Lanny D. Schmidt,a professor emeritus of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on March 27. He was 81. Schmidt wrote the textbook The Engineering of Chemical Reactions (1998) and was named one of 50 “research leaders” in 2004 by Scientific American.
Cheryl A. Wall,a professor of English at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, died on April 4. She was 71. Wall’s work focused on African American literature, American literature, and feminist criticism, and she wrote several books, including Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana University Press, 1995).
Julia Piper, a data coordinator, compiles Gazette and manages production of the Almanac and Executive Compensation. Email her at julia.piper@chronicle.com.