Transitions: Naval Postgraduate School Selects New President, New Provost Named at Cabrini U.

Chief executives

Appointments

Bradley J. Caskey, provost at Birmingham-Southern College, has been named interim president. He will replace Linda Flaherty-Goldsmith, who stepped down on October 1.

Bonny Copenhaver, vice president for academic affairs and Superior campus administrator at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, will become the first female president of New River Community and Technical College on January 2. She will replace Kathy Butler, who has served in the interim after L. Marshall Washington left to become president of Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

Brian Durham, deputy director for academic affairs at the Illinois Community College Board, has been named the new executive director. He will succeed Karen Hunter Anderson, who plans to retire on November 30.

Tedd L. Mitchell, interim chancellor of the Texas Tech University system, has been named the sole finalist for chancellor of the system. He has served as president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center since 2010 and became interim chancellor on September 1.

Nancy Nekvasil, provost and professor of biology at Saint Mary’s College, in Indiana, has been named interim president. She replaces Jan Cervelli, who resigned on October 5.

Ret. Vice Admiral Ann Elisabeth Rondeau, president of the College of DuPage, has been named president of the Naval Postgraduate School. She will succeed retired Vice Adm. Ronald A. Route, who plans to step down.

Resignations

Susan E. Borrego, chancellor of the University of Michigan at Flint since 2014, plans to step down in July.

Mitchel B. Wallerstein, president of City University of New York Bernard M. Baruch College since 2010, plans to resign in June. He plans to return to the classroom as a professor of international security and public policy in the college’s Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

Retirements

Jay Gershen, president of Northeast Ohio Medical University since 2009, plans to retire on September 30, 2019.

Lisa A. Rossbacher, president of Humboldt State University since 2014, plans to retire at the end of the academic year.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Susan Agre-Kippenhan, dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Linfield College, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Vann R. Newkirk, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of history at Elizabeth City State University, became provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fisk University on October 1.

Chioma Ugochukwu, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Cottey College, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Cabrini University.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Robert Cashion, senior associate vice president for development and senior associate dean of development for the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University, will become senior vice president for university development and alumni relations at New York University on December 3.

Christopher Cramer, associate dean for research and planning in the College of Sciences and Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, will become vice president for research on November 12.

Wayne Edwards, vice president for student affairs and chief diversity officer at State University of New York College at Old Westbury, has been named vice president for institutional advancement and executive director of the Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc.

Wayne Guthrie, associate vice chancellor for human resources at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become vice president for human resources at the University of Delaware on December 1.

Michael Kinane, assistant to the president for advancement at State University of New York College at Old Westbury, has been named vice president for communications and chief communications officer.

Nancy Rubin, interim chief financial officer and vice president for business and finance at Hiram College, has been named to the position permanently.

Usama Shaikh, assistant vice president for student affairsat State University of New York College at Old Westbury, has been named vice president for student affairs and chief diversity officer.

Nicole Steinberg, director of communications and brand management for Mural Arts Philadelphia, has been named chief marketing and communications officer at Moore College of Art and Design.

Daryl Weinert, associate vice president for research, business operations at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, will become chief of staff and vice president for strategic initiatives at Carnegie Mellon on November 26.

Deans

Appointments

Claudia Marin Andrade, assistant dean of students and director of the Office of Student Advocacy and Prevention Awareness at Hofstra University, has been named dean of students at State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

Byron Hughes, director of fraternity and sorority life at Virginia Tech, became dean of students on October 1.

Peter M. Loomer, chair of periodontology and implant dentistry and director of the Center for Global Oral Health Sciences at New York University’s College of Dentistry, will become dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on February 1.

Jackson Miller, associate dean of faculty and professor of communication arts at Linfield College, has been named dean of faculty.

Department chairs

Appointments

Matthew Gabriele, professor of religion and culture at Virginia Tech, has been named chair of the department.

Leslie Walker-Harding, chair of pediatrics at Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine, will become chair of pediatrics, associate dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Washington on February 15, as well as senior vice president and chief academic officer for Seattle Children’s.

Other administrators

Appointments

Timothy Bizoukas, a learning-system instructional strategist for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., has been named director of employee development at Waubonsee Community College.

William (Chip) Bryan, senior associate director of financial aid at the University of Richmond, has been named assistant vice president and director of financial aid.

Shannon Dobrovolny, director of residence life at Cazenovia College, has been named director of student life, diversity and inclusion at Moore College of Art and Design.

Heather Ducote, director of marketing and communications for the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, has been named the university’s director of marketing.

Kimberly Fox, area coordinator for residential enrollment and housing operations at West Liberty University, has been named director of residence life and housing at Moore College of Art and Design.

Jacob Heller, an associate professor at State University of New York College at Old Westbury, has been named assistant vice president for institutional research and assessment.

Joanna Jenkins, an assistant professor of undergraduate and graduate studies at Howard University, has been named associate dean of graduate, professional and continuing education at Moore College of Art and Design.

Ted R. Kocher, leadership and planned gift officer at Muhlenberg College, has been named director of major gifts at Misericordia University.

Carl Leak, systems biology and life sciences librarian at the Mercer Library at George Mason University, became health-sciences librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 10.

Warren Lloyd, director of regional advancement for New England at the University of Rochester, has been named a senior development officer at Ringling College of Art and Design.

Barbara Maylath, former director of development at the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering, has been named director of leadership giving at Moore College of Art and Design.

Laurel A. Miner, a senior analyst in the Office of the Under Secretary for Standards and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been named chief of staff in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech.

Jamie O’Brien, an associate professor of business administration--management at St. Norbert College, has been named associate dean of the Schneider School of Business and Economics.

Gerardo Ochoa, assistant dean of diversity and community partnerships at Linfield College, has been named special assistant to the president and director of community relations.

Rossano Rovello, associate director of individual giving at St. Francis College, in New York, has been named director of advancement initiatives at State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

David Schabdach, senior executive director and attending veterinarian of the Division of Laboratory Animal Resources and clinical professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, will become associate vice president for research and innovation and director of the university program for laboratory animal resources at Virginia Tech on January 7.

The Rev. McKennon Shea, major-gifts and Leadership Annual Fund officer at Duke Divinity School, has been named assistant vice president for development at High Point University.

Jeney Slusser, director of advancement at the nonprofit provider for behavioral healthcare Centerstone, has been named a senior development officer at Ringling College of Art and Design.

Faculty

Appointments

Lori Guy, an adjunct professor of music at University of Mobile, has been named a visiting assistant professor of music in the Alabama School of the Arts.

Aleksandar Hemon, former writer-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago and author, has been named a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Art at Princeton University.

Richard Killeaney, an adjunt faculty instructor at Fairfield University and designer for Denyse Schmidt Quilts, has been named a visiting professor of fashion design at Moore College of Art and Design.

Joe Kulka, a children’s book author and illustrator, and current illustrator of Smokey Bear for the USDA Forest Service, has been named an associate professor of illustration at Moore College of Art and Design.

Vitali Mindel, a recent doctoral recipient in computer information systems from Georgia State University, has been named an assistant professor of business information technology at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.

Maya Pindyck, a faculty member in Parsons School of Design at the New School, has been named an assistant professor in the liberal arts at Moore College of Art and Design.

Alicia Rodriguez-Pla, who recently completed a clinical fellowship in rheumatology at Boston University and residency in internal medicine at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, has been named a clinical assistant professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology the University of Arizona.

Alex Sinha, a litigation associate at the New York office of an international law firm, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, has been named an assistant professor in the School of Law at Quinnipiac University.

Kelli Williams, an animator and visual and community artist, has been named an assistant professor of animation and game arts at Moore College of Art and Design.

Tenure awards

The following professors were awarded tenure at their institutions. If a faculty rank is not included, the faculty member is being promoted to the rank of associate professor. The changes take effect on varying dates.

Bates College

Ali Humayun Akhtar, to associate professor of religious studies

Jonathan Cavallero, rhetoric, film, and screen studies

Raluca Cernahoschi, German

Jakub Kazecki, German

Katharine Ott, mathematics

Larissa Williams, biology

Changes in rank

Professors’ new ranks follow.

Bates College

Stephen Engel, an associate professor of politics, to professor

Lisa Maurizio, an associate professor of classical and medieval studies, to professor

State U. of New York at New Paltz

Cesar Barros, an assistant professor of languages, literatures and cultures, to associate professor

Kerry Carso, an associate professor of art history, to professor

Jennifer Davis-Duerr, an assistant professor of teaching and learning, to associate professor

Thomas Festa, an associate professor of English, to professor

Andrea Frank, an assistant professor of art, to associate professor

Eric Keeling, an assistant professor of biology, to associate professor

Colleen Lougen, to librarian at the Sojourner Truth Library

Meg Devlin O’Sullivan, an assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, to associate professor

Karla Vermeulen, an assistant professor of psychology, to associate professor

Frederick Vollmer, an associate professor of geology, to professor

Jason Wrench, an associate professor of communication, to professor

Virginia Tech

Elizabeth Grabau, a professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, to professor emerita

Robert W. Hendricks, a professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Engineering, to professor emeritus

Patricia Lavender, an associate professor of theatre arts in the School of Performing Arts in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, to associate professor emerita

Hervé Marand, a professor of chemistry in the College of Science, to professor emeritus

Awards

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Awards

Michael Clay Carey, a professor of journalism at Samford University, received the AEJMC Tankard Book Award for his work, The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia.

Brooks Fuller, an assistant professor of media law at Louisiana State University, received the Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award.

Mia Moody-Ramirez, an associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media at Baylor University, received the Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research.

S. Shyam Sundar, professor of communications and founding director of the Media Effects Laboratory in the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, received the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.

Donald K. Wright, a professor of public relations at Boston University, received the Dorothy Bowles Public Service Award.

Organizations

Appointments

Ashante Barnes Connor, chief administrative officer for student development and campus life at Berkeley College at Woodland Park, New Jersey, has been named co-chair of the New Jersey Title IX Administrators Working Group.

Gita Gopinath, a professor of international studies and economics at Harvard University, has been named chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

William Miller, a regional chief development officer for the American Red Cross, has been named chief executive of the Kean University Foundation.

Ben Vinson III, provost and executive vice president of Case Western Reserve University, has been named chairman of the National Humanities Center.

Retirements

Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation at the J. Paul Getty Trust, plans to retire at the end of December.

Deaths

Brenda Armstrong, professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for student diversity, recruitment, and retention at the Duke University School of Medicine, died on October 7. She was 69. Armstrong was the second black woman in the United States to become a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and was associate dean for admissions at Duke for more than 20 years.

Thomas E. Brennan Sr., founder of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, died on September 29, in Lansing, Michigan. He was 89. Brennan was the president of the school from 1972 to 1975 and from 1978 until his retirement in 2002. He also served as the youngest Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1969 to 1970.

Bruce Buehler, director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 1983 to 2007, died on September 19. He was 75. Buehler also served as the chair of pediatrics from 1994 until his retirement in 2007. He was considered a national leader in being an advocate for children with disabilities.

Marilouise (Mel) Michel, a professor of theatre at Clarion University for 29 years, died on September 24. She was 56.

Carlo D. Montemagno, chancellor of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale since 2017, died on October 11. He was 62. Montemagno publicly shared his diagnosis of cancer in June, but his cause of death was not revealed. Prior to his tenure as president, he was a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of California at Los Angeles and dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati.

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