CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments William J. Bisset,vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Marymount University, has been named president of Lourdes University.
Ann E. Cudd,provost and senior vice chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named president of Portland State University.
J. Kyle Dalpe, interim president of Western Nevada College, has been named to the post permanently.
Christopher Dougherty,an associate professor of business and former vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Chestnut Hill College, in Pennsylvania, has been named president of Madonna University, in Michigan.
Christopher Heigle,vice president for student affairs at Arkansas Northeastern College, has been named president.
Patrick Jacobson-Schulte, interim president of Briar Cliff University since July 2022, has been named to the post permanently.
William Kennedy,vice president for admissions and athletics at Midway University, in Kentucky, has been named president of Andrew College, in Georgia.
Cheryl A. McConnell, interim president of Saint Joseph’s University, in Pennsylvania, has been named to the post permanently. She will become the first woman to serve as permanent president of the university.
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John Karl Scholz, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison, has been named president of the U. of Oregon.
CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments William J. Bisset,vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Marymount University, has been named president of Lourdes University.
Ann E. Cudd,provost and senior vice chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named president of Portland State University.
J. Kyle Dalpe, interim president of Western Nevada College, has been named to the post permanently.
Christopher Dougherty,an associate professor of business and former vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Chestnut Hill College, in Pennsylvania, has been named president of Madonna University, in Michigan.
Christopher Heigle,vice president for student affairs at Arkansas Northeastern College, has been named president.
Patrick Jacobson-Schulte, interim president of Briar Cliff University since July 2022, has been named to the post permanently.
William Kennedy,vice president for admissions and athletics at Midway University, in Kentucky, has been named president of Andrew College, in Georgia.
Cheryl A. McConnell, interim president of Saint Joseph’s University, in Pennsylvania, has been named to the post permanently. She will become the first woman to serve as permanent president of the university.
James Moorehas been named president of West Virginia Wesleyan College after serving as interim president since February 2022.
Andreia Nebel,vice president for academic affairs at Clarkson College, in Nebraska, has been named president of the college.
Aparna Dileep-Nageswaran Palmer,vice president for the Boulder County Campus and interim vice president for the Larimer County Campus of Front Range Community College, in Colorado, has been named chancellor of the University of Alaska Southeast.
Stuart Rayfield, vice chancellor for leadership and institutional development at the University System of Georgia, has been named president of Columbus State University.
Laura A. Rosenbury,dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, has been named president of Barnard College.
John Karl Scholz,provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been named president of the University of Oregon.
Aondover Tarhule,vice president for academic affairs and provost at Illinois State University, has been named interim president.
John Wesley Taylor V,an associate director of education at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, has been chosen as the next president of Andrews University.
Safa Zaki, dean of the faculty and a professor of psychology at Williams College, has been named president of Bowdoin College. She will be the first woman to lead the institution.
Resignations Gregory T. Busch, president of Mesalands Community College, in New Mexico, has resigned.
Raymond E. Crossman,president of Adler University since 2003, plans to step down at the end of the next academic year.
Thomas Hudson,president of Jackson State University, in Mississippi, has resigned after being placed on administrative leave.
William Shiell,president of Northern Seminary since 2016, has resigned. John Bowling, former president of Olivet Nazarene University, has been named acting president.
CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS Appointments Amir Dabirian,vice president for information technology and chief information officer at California State University at Fullerton, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at the university.
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Joseph R. Franco, interim provost at Pace University, has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.
KerryAnn O’Meara,a professor of higher education and special assistant to the provost for strategic initiatives at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been named vice president for academic affairs, provost, and dean of Teachers College, Columbia University.
Resignations Pardis Mahdavi,provost and executive vice president of the University of Montana at Missoula, will step down at the end of the semester.
OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS Appointments Larry Brandolph,interim vice president for information technology at Temple University, has been named to the post permanently.
Endia DeCordova,vice chancellor for advancement at Rutgers University at Camden, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Morgan State University and executive director of the Morgan State University Foundation Inc.
Wilson Garone,vice president and chief financial officer at Seattle University, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Santa Clara University, in California.
Kevin Hoeft, a former director of education-policy development in the Florida Department of Education, has been named vice president for enrollment management at New College of Florida.
Jake Lemon,president and chief executive of the UConn Foundation at the University of Connecticut, has been named vice president for philanthropy and alumni engagement at the University of Kentucky.
Courtney McKenna, associate vice president for organizational development at Wentworth Institute of Technology, has been named vice president for student affairs.
D’Andra Mull,vice president for student life at the University of Florida, has been named vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Thiadora Pina, a clinical professor and director of the externship program in the Santa Clara University School of Law, has been named the school’s first senior director for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Ellen Reynolds, interim vice president for student affairs at the University of Rhode Island, has been named to the post permanently.
Benjamin E. Rohdin,interim vice president for enrollment management and student success and associate vice president for enrollment management and student success at New Jersey City University, has been named vice president for enrollment management at LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York.
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La’Leatha Spillers,chief advancement officer for the YWCA West Central Michigan, has been named vice president for marketing and communications at Calvin University.
Kumble Subbaswamy,departing chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named interim senior vice president for academic and student affairs and equity for the University of Massachusetts system.
Kathryn Svinarich,associate provost and dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at Kettering University, has been named chief of staff.
Eric Young,director of undergraduate admissions at Walsh University, has been named vice president for enrollment at Malone University, in Ohio.
Retirements Ellen Taylor, vice chancellor for student affairs at Washington State University at Pullman, plans to retire in December.
DEANS Appointments Kristina K. Bethea Odejimi,dean of students at Bowdoin College, has been named dean of students and associate vice president for belonging, engagement, and community at Emory University.
James Buss,dean of the Honors College at Northern Kentucky University, has been named dean of the Honors College at Ball State University.
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Darryl Butt,dean of the College of Mines and Earth Sciences and director of the Multi-Scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Utah, has been named dean of the university’s Graduate School.
Kelly Chandler-Olcott, interim dean of the School of Education at Syracuse University, has been named to the post permanently.
David De Cremer, a professor of management and organization in the Business School at the National University of Singapore, has been named dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
Elaine Gagliardi, interim dean of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana since June 2022, has been named to the post permanently.
John W. Miller Jr.,dean of curriculum and senior diversity officer at St. Norbert College, has been named dean of the Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science at the University of Louisville.
Behzad Mortazavi,chair and professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.
Brittany Schaffer,head of artist and label partnerships in Nashville for Spotify, has been named the first female dean of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University, in Tennessee.
Edward Thomas Jr., interim dean of the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn University, has been named to the post permanently.
Fabrice Veron, interim dean of University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, has been named dean of the college.
Dlynn Armstrong Williams,head of the department of political science and international affairs at the University of North Georgia, has been named dean of the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences at Austin Peay State University.
Resignations Ed Kelley,dean of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma since 2016, plans to resign.
Retirements Linda Petrosino,dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance at Ithaca College, plans to retire.
OTHER ADMINISTRATORS Appointments Gloria DiFulvio,undergraduate program director for the public-health-sciences major in the School of Public Health and Health Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs.
Johnson Eapen, associate vice president for human resources at Franklin and Marshall College, has been named associate vice president for human resources at Alvernia University.
Rodmon King,dean of institutional equity and inclusion at Connecticut College, has been named assistant dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the School of Public Health and Health Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Taylor Ogden,director of development at the Orchard School in Indianapolis, has been named director of development at Franklin College.
Jordan Pascucci,associate dean of evaluation and selection at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named vice dean and director of admissions.
Dina Refki,director of the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University at Albany, has been named executive director of the Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy at the State University of New York.
Kristina Wong Davis,former vice provost for enrollment management at Purdue University, has been named vice provost for enrollment management at Carnegie Mellon University.
Corey Zink, executive director of academic advising and assessment in the Division of Student Affairs at Idaho State University, has been named associate vice president for enrollment management.
Resignations Roderick Perry,director of athletics at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, will step down.
ORGANIZATIONS Appointments Frank Dooley, chancellor of Purdue Global, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Council on Education.
Kara D. Freeman,senior vice president and chief operating officer of the American Council on Education, has been named president and chief executive of the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
Gabriella Gómez,deputy director of policy and finance for U.S. program policy and communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been named executive vice president for policy, advocacy, and communications at Strada Education Network.
DEATHS Francisco Ayala,a former professor of biological sciences and philosophy at the University of California at Irvine, died on March 3. He was 88. Ayala resigned from the university in 2018 after multiple sexual-harassment allegations against him.
Larry G. Coleman, a former director of multicultural affairs at the Community College of Baltimore County, died on January 22. He was 76.
William R. Cotter, the longest-serving president of Colby College, died on March 9. He was 87. Cotter was president of the college from 1979 to 2000.
Bernard Dobroski,professor emeritus and former dean of the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, died on February 19. He was 76.
Audrey Eubanks,a former vice president for academic affairs at the University of Mobile, died on February 26.
Donald Snyder,a former president of Lehigh Carbon Community College, died on March 4. He was 71. Snyder led the college from 2000 to 2013.
Julia Piper, a data coordinator, compiles Gazette and manages production of the Almanac and Executive Compensation. Email her at julia.piper@chronicle.com.
