Michael T. Cahill,professor and former co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden, will become president and dean of Brooklyn Law School on July 1.
Lisa M. Chapman,senior vice president and chief academic officer at the North Carolina Community College System, has been named president of Central Carolina Community College. She will succeed T. Eston Marchant, who will retire on April 1.
Hilary Link,dean of Temple University’s campus in Rome, Italy, will become president of Allegheny College on July 1. She will succeed James Mullen Jr., who plans to retire.
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Hilary Link will lead Allegheny College.
Chief executives
Appointments
Michael T. Cahill,professor and former co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden, will become president and dean of Brooklyn Law School on July 1.
Lisa M. Chapman,senior vice president and chief academic officer at the North Carolina Community College System, has been named president of Central Carolina Community College. She will succeed T. Eston Marchant, who will retire on April 1.
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Hilary Link,dean of Temple University’s campus in Rome, Italy, will become president of Allegheny College on July 1. She will succeed James Mullen Jr., who plans to retire.
Philomena V. Mantella,senior vice president and chief executive of the Lifelong Learning Network at Northeastern University, has been named the next president of Grand Valley State University. She will be the first woman in that role and will succeed Thomas J. Haas, who plans to retire on June 30.
Satish Udpa,executive vice president for administrative services at Michigan State University, has been named acting president.
Retirements
David Angel,president of Clark University since 2010, plans to retire in June 2020.
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John Engler,interim president of Michigan State University since February 2018, will retire. Engler’s interim presidency has been dominated by the fallout from the conviction of Larry Nassar, a former university doctor, for criminal sexual conduct. Most recently, the university’s Board of Trustees denounced Engler’s comments that some of Nassar’s victims were “enjoying” the “spotlight.”
Chief academic officers
Appointments
Nadine Aubry
Nadine Aubry,dean of the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, will become provost and senior vice president at Tufts University on July 1.
Karen Bjorkman, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Toledo, has been named interim provost.
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Dennis C. Jacobs,provost and vice president for academic affairs at Santa Clara University, will become provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Fordham University on July 1.
Jeremy L. Moreland,provost and chief academic officer for University of the Rockies, has been named provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University.
Deborah Tahmassebi,dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Santa Clara University, will become provost as Westminster College, in Utah, on July 1.
Titilayo Ufomata,special adviser to the president and Board of Trustees at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will become provost and senior vice president at Saint Mary’s College, in Indiana, on June 1.
Resignations
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Kathleen Enz Finken,provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, plans to step down.
Other top administrators
Appointments
Farnaz Khadem,chief communications officer at California Institute of Technology, will become vice president for university communications at Stanford University on March 11.
Jim Matteo,associate vice president and treasurer at the University of Virginia, will become vice president for finance and treasurer at Princeton University on February 25.
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Nate Nickerson,vice president for communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will become vice president for communications at Yale University on March 1.
Steve Pelham,chief of staff to the governor of Alabama, will become chief of staff and vice president for economic development at Auburn University on February 1.
Resignations
Jeffrey S. Akman,vice president for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University, plans to step down from both roles.
Deans
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Appointments
Danielle M. Conway,dean and professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law, will become dean of Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson Law on July 1.
J. Glenn Forister
J. Glenn Forister,associate professor and division head of physician assistant education in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, will become dean of the School of Health Professions at the University of North Texas Health Science Center on February 4.
Barbara Hempstead,a professor of medicine and neuroscience and senior associate dean of education at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been named dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
Thomas R. Koballa Jr.,dean of the College of Education at Georgia Southern University, has been named dean of the Tift College of Education at Mercer University July 1.
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Michael Mathis,department head at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University, will become dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
Rubin Patterson,chairman of the department of sociology and criminology at Howard University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in July.
Karen L. Ryan,a professor of Russian language and literature and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stetson University, will become dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Merrimack College on July 1.
Astrid Sheil,dean’s fellow for program outreach and promotion and a professor of communication and business at California State University San Bernardino, will become the first female dean of the Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business at Shenandoah University on July 1.
Resignations
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Suzette Grillot,dean of the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, was removed from her position on January 18 after resisting cuts to the college, she said in a note to colleagues. She will continue to hold her faculty position as a professor of international and area studies.
Other administrators
Appointments
Tracey Brame, assistant dean of WMU-Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus, has been named associate dean of the campus.
Gary H. Cheek,a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army, has been named the director of the Bass Military Scholars Program at Vanderbilt University.
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Lorrie Faith Cranor,former chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, has been named director of the CyLab Privacy and Security Institute and professor of security and privacy technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Carla C. Johnson,provost fellow for P-12 STEM, executive director of Indiana GEAR UP, and a professor of science education at Purdue University at West Lafayette, will become executive director of the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and associate dean of the College of Education at North Carolina State University on July 1.
Ashley Jones,an information technology administrator and technical writer at the Center for Quality Medication Management in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida, has been named the first esports coach at Park University.
John R. Kasich,governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2018, has been named a senior fellow at Otterbein University.
Carol Kondrach,associate vice president for information technology at Rider University, has been named deputy chief information officer at Princeton University.
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Jane Livingston,associate iniversity chief information officer for Information Technology Services at Yale University, has been named chief information officer and associate vice president for Information Technology Services at Florida State University.
Laura McAleer,acting principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense, has been named associate vice president for federal and Washington relations at the University of Notre Dame.
Karen Chance Mercurius,director of alumni relations at Harvard University’s Law School, will become associate vice president for alumni and constituent relations at the University of Rochester on March 18.
Sarah Swager,interim vice president for student affairs at Carlow University, will become vice provost for student success at the University of Montana at Missoula on February 1.
Gisela Vega
Gisela Vega,associate director of LGBTQA initiatives at Florida International University, has been named director of the LGBTQ Student Center at the University of Miami.
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Faculty
Appointments
Matt Blaze,a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named to a joint appointment as a professor of law and of computer science at Georgetown University.
Valeria Luiselli,author of La historia de mis dientes (Sexto Piso, 2013) among other works, will become a writer-in-residence and a research associate in the division of languages and literature at Bard College.
Duncan Watts,a principal researcher and partner at Microsoft Research and a professor-at-large at Cornell University, will become the Stevens University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a post that includes joint faculty appointments across three schools.
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Retirements
Lowell Bergman,a professor of investigative journalism at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, plans to retire and return as an emeritus chair to work in association with the school’s Investigative Reporting Program.
The Association of American Colleges & Universities named the following Ph.D. candidates as the 2019 recipients of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The honor is given to graduate students whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning, and who are planning a career in higher education.
Brianna Benedict, engineering education, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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Naniette H. Coleman, sociology, University of California at Berkeley
Andrew Katz, engineering education, Purdue University at West Lafayette
Aurora B. Le, public health, Indiana University at Bloomington
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, philosophy, American Indian and Indigenous studies, Michigan State University
Hannah Volkman, public health, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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Arley R. Ward II, history, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Deaths
Nathan Glazer,a leading urban sociologist and a professor emeritus of sociology and education at Harvard University, died on January 19. He was 95. Glazer held teaching positions at Bennington College, Smith College and the University of California at Berkeley over the course of his career. He was an early leader for neoconservatism, co-editing The Public Interest from 1973 to 2005.
Martha A. Nichols,who was dean of students at Goucher College for 34 years, until her retirement in 1976, died on December 20. She was 102.
Jean Ruth Robinson, a professor emerita in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, died this month. She was 93. Robinson first came to the university in 1965 as a lecturer in family management in the College of Home Economics, eventually becoming associate dean of the College of Human Ecology from 1988 until her retirement in 1990.
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Harris Wofford,the founding president of State University of New York College at Old Westbury, died on January 21. He was 92. Wofford led Old Westbury from 1966 to 1970, and then served as president of Bryn Mawr College from 1970 to 1978. Before his first presidency, he worked in Washington as a special assistant for civil rights under John F. Kennedy and helped to found the Peace Corps. He was later appointed to fill the vacant Senate seat for Pennsylvania after John Heinz III’s death.