Transitions: New President for the College of Charleston, Quinnipiac U. Names New Chief of Staff

Chief executives

Appointments

Byron D. Clift Breland, interim chancellor of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, has been named to the post permanently. He became interim chancellor in July when Deborah Budd retired.

Kevin Horan, vice president for instruction and student services at Los Medanos College, will become president of Crafton Hills College on January 7. He will replace the interim president, Audre Levy.

Andrew T. Hsu, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Toledo, has been named president of the College of Charleston. He will replace Stephen Osborne, who has served as interim president since Glenn McConnell retired in July.

Diana Stithem, former executive vice president at Mohave Community College, will become interim president in early 2019. She will replace Michael Kearns, who plans to retire.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Kathryn Carrico, associate vice chancellor for development at the University of California at Los Angeles, will become vice president for health-sciences advancement at the University of Southern California in January.

Cheryl Jones, vice president for human resources at Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System, in Texas, has been named vice president for employee and organizational development at Amarillo College.

David Morales, senior director of engineering for the information systems division at Walmart, has been named chief information officer and senior vice president for technology at Western Governors University.

Bethany Zemba, senior associate dean, chief of staff, and senior adviser to the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Yale University, has been appointed vice president and chief of staff at Quinnipiac University.

Resignations

Peter Fiedler, vice president for administrative services at Boston University, plans to step down at the end of December.

Deans

Appointments

Peter W. Grandjean, associate dean for research collaboration and graduate studies and director of the Division of Health Professions in the Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences at Baylor University, has been named dean of the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Mississippi.

Scott Heinerichs, interim dean of the College of Health Sciences at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the post permanently.

Christopher Stubbs, a professor of physics and astronomy and interim dean of science at Harvard University, has been named dean of science.

Jeffrey A. Waldrop, associate provost and director of the David Allan Hubbard Library at Fuller Theological Seminary, will become dean of the University Library at Mercer University on July 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

Johanna Burton, director and curator of education and public engagement at the New Museum, in New York , has been named director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.

Jessica Hong, assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston, has been named associate curator of global contemporary art of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.

Said Ibrahim, chief of health-care-delivery science and innovation at Weill Cornell Medicine, will become senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion in January.

Kathleen LeBesco, senior associate dean for academic affairs at Marymount Manhattan College, has been named associate vice president for strategic initiatives.

Lucy Sankey Russell, associate dean for strategic initiatives at Boston University, has been named vice provost and chief of staff at the University of Pittsburgh.

Anna E. von Gehr, chief officer for advancement and external affairs at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, in Sarasota, Fla., will become executive director of development and strategic initiatives for the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in January.

American Mathematical Society Awards

Marsha Berger, a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, will receive the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics for her work with adaptive mesh refinement and Cartesian mesh techniques.

Arkadi Nemirovski, a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will receive the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics for “his fundamental contributions to high-dimensional optimization and for his discovery of key phenomena in the theory of signal estimation and recovery.”

Organizations

Appointments

Latha Chandran, vice dean of academic and faculty affairs at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, has been elected president of the Academic Pediatric Association.

The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, executive vice president and chief operations officer for the Catholic health system, Ascension, and former president of DePaul University, has been named president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.

Deaths

Douglas D. Drysdale, a former lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law, died on November 25 in Charlottesville. He was 94. He taught tax law at the school from 1960 to 1981.

Olivia Hooker, professor emerita of psychology at Fordham University, died on November 21. She was 103. During World War II, she became the first black woman to serve on active duty with the United States Coast Guard. Hooker was a professor at Fordham from 1963 to 1985.

Peter J. Reed, former chair and professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on November 22. He was 83.

Donald J. White, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston College, died on November 18. He was 96. White joined the economics faculty in 1946 and worked his way up to dean in 1971. He retired as dean in 1994.

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