Transitions: New President Selected at Goucher College, Centre College Chief to Retire

Chief executives

Appointments

Bradley J. Davis, president of West Valley College, will become chancellor of the West Valley-Mission Community College District on July 1.

Kent Devereaux, president of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, will become president of Goucher College on July 1.

Joseph A. Favazza, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Stonehill College, will become president of Saint Anselm College in July. He will succeed Steven R. DiSalvo, who will become president of Endicott College.

Charles A. Fowler, senior pastor of Germantown Baptist Church, in Tennessee, will become president of Carson-Newman University on July 1. He will replace Paul Percy, who has served as interim president since Randall O’Brien’s retirement in 2018.

Susan Fritz, executive vice president and provost and dean of the graduate college at the University of Nebraska, will become interim president of the University of Nebraska system on August 15. She will replace Hank Bounds, who plans to step down.

Jeremy Haefner, provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Denver, will become chancellor on July 15. He will succeed Rebecca Chopp, who plans to step down.

Josee Larochelle, vice president for administration and finance at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, will become officer-in-charge at the college on July 1. She will be the chief administrator following the retirement of John Ettling as president.

Michelle Curtain Stewart, vice president for academic affairs at Lane College, will become president of the Institute for Clinical Social Work on July 1.

The Rev. Paul R. Taylor, executive vice president of Saint Vincent College, will become president on July 1.

Resignations

Dewey Clark, president of North Carolina Wesleyan College since 2014, said on June 10 that he would resign effective immediately.

Don Laackman, president of Champlain College since 2014, plans to step down on June 28.

Thomas J. Minar, president of Franklin College since 2015, plans to step down at the end of the 2019-20 academic year.

Jack Thomas, president of Western Illinois University since 2011, will step down on June 30.

Retirements

John Roush, president of Centre College since 1998, plans to retire on June 30, 2020.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Suzanne Buglione, interim vice president for academic affairs at Bristol Community College, has been named to the post permanently.

Patrick Phillips, a professor with the Institute for Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon, will become provost at the university on July 1.

Maynard Schaus, associate provost and dean of University College at Virginia Wesleyan University, will become vice president for academic affairs on July 1.

Brian Schmisek, dean of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago, has been named provost and dean of faculties at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

Melody Tankersley, senior associate provost and dean of graduate studies at Kent State University, will become interim senior vice president and provost on July 1.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Matthew Bennett, executive vice president for global communications at the Motion Picture Association of America, will become vice president and chief communications officer at American University on June 24.

Archie Blanson, former deputy superintendent of the Aldine Independent School District, in Texas, will become vice chancellor for student success at Lone Star College on July 15.

Earlhagi (Hagi) Bradley, vice president for student life and dean of students at Earlham College, will become vice president and dean of student life at St. Lawrence University in July.

Jeffrey Breneman, president of Spectrum Public Affairs, in Kalamazoo, Mich., will become vice president for government relations at Western Michigan University on July 15.

Leslie Davidson, chief strategy and innovation officer at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, has been named vice president for enrollment management at Beloit College.

Sean Garrick, associate vice provost in the Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, will become vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on August 1.

Jim Jermier, vice president for development at Luther College, has been named vice president for university advancement and president of the UNI Foundation at the University of Northern Iowa.

Laurie Koehler, senior vice provost for enrollment and the student experience at George Washington University, has been named vice president for marketing and enrollment strategy at Ithaca College on August 7.

Theresa Mayer, vice president for research and innovation at Virginia Tech, will become executive vice president for research and partnerships at Purdue University at West Lafayette on August 1.

Teresa McKinney, assistant vice president for student affairs at the University of North Texas, will become vice president for student services at Texas Southern University on July 1.

Cory Miller, vice president for engineering services at Bremer Bank NA, has been named vice president for information technology at Northwestern Health Sciences University.

Tracy Muscat, senior director of development at Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at the College for Creative Studies.

Michael Schoop, president of the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College, will become vice president for evidence, inquiry, and retention for the college on July 1.

Gowri Shankar, a tenured faculty member in the School of Business at the University of Washington at Bothell, will become interim vice chancellor for planning and administration on August 1.

Kenneth Wetstein, vice president for development with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, will become vice president for university advancement at Eastern Illinois University on July 15.

Resignations

Charlie Pagnam, vice president for advancement and executive vice president of the UMass Foundation at the University of Massachusetts system, will step down to become chief philanthropy officer and executive director of the USGA Foundation with the United States Golf Association.

Deans

Appointments

E. Scott Adler, a professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate affairs.

Needha Boutté-Queen, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Behavioral Sciences at Texas Southern University, has been named to the post permanently.

Joan R.M. Bullock, former president and dean at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has been named dean of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.

Jeannie Chapman, interim dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University of South Carolina Upstate, has been named to the post permanently.

Jennifer Dugan, director of faculty programs at the Associated Colleges of the South, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pikeville on July 20.

Geoffrey Garrett, dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, will become dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in July 2020.

Barbara Habermann, interim senior associate dean of nursing at the University of Delaware, will become dean of the School of Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University on July 15.

George Kieh Jr., a professor of political science and interim chair of the department of criminology at the University of West Georgia, has been named dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.

Daniel Kirk, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at American University of Ras al Khaimah, in United Arab Emirates, will become dean of the College of Education at Winona State University on July 8.

Lesley Lokko, director of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, in South Africa, will become dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of City University of New York in December 2019.

Virginia McDermott, interim dean of the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University, has been named to the post permanently.

Joseph P. Messina, senior associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Social Science and assistant vice president for research and innovation at Michigan State University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama in August.

Rashid Mosavin, executive associate dean of the School of Pharmacy at Loma Linda University, has been named dean of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at Texas Southern University.

Dan Pitera, executive director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, will become dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy on August 1.

S. Manian Ramkumar, interim dean of the College of Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been named to the post permanently.

Gretchen Ritter, former dean of arts and sciences at Cornell University, will become executive dean and vice provost of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University on August 1.

Anthony Eudelio Varona, a professor in the Washington College of Law at American University, has been named dean of the School of Law at the University of Miami.

David Yen, a professor of management, marketing, and information systems at State University of New York at Oneonta, has been named dean of the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Texas Southern University.

Retirements

Tommie (Tonea) Stewart, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University, announced her retirement on June 1.

Department chairs

Appointments

Sanjay B. Maggirwar, a professor and vice chair in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been named chair of the department of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Other administrators

Appointments

Pamela Barnes, an assistant professor in the School of Education at McKendree University, will become director of the School of Education at Millikin University on August 1.

Ana Lillia Barraza, director of communications at Whittier College, has been named associate vice president for marketing and communications.

Sue Curry, interim executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa, has been named administrative fellow in the office of the president and a senior adviser for preventive services for the National Institutes of Health.

Amanda Devitt, former senior associate athletics director for student-athlete services and success at the University of Hartford, has been named athletic director at the University of Saint Joseph.

Joachim Homann, curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, will become curator of drawings at Harvard Art Museums on August 19.

Jennifer E. Joslin, associate director of Nacada: The Global Community for Academic Advising, will become the first director of the Robert and Mary Cox Compass Center at Drury University on July 1.

Mark Lane, assistant vice president for communications at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, has been named associate vice president for communications at the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

Elaine Madison, director of the Community Service Center and associate director for DukeEngage Programs at Duke University, has been named assistant vice president for Duke-Durham educational and workforce collaborations in the Office of Durham and Community Affairs.

Erica Moore, chief academic officer at the Lower Brule Community College, will become director of the American Indian Student Center at South Dakota State University on July 8.

Todd Nicolet, vice dean at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the first vice provost for digital and lifelong learning.

Ellen Peters, a professor of psychology and director of the Decision Sciences Collaborative at Ohio State University, will become director of the Media Center for Science and Technology in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in September.

Jayn Pettingill, former music librarian for the San Francisco Girls Chorus, has been named head librarian at the California Jazz Conservatory.

Kristi Schmidt, vice president and chief marketing and communications officer for Essentia Health, has been named corporate- and foundation-relations development officer at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.

William Stackman, associate vice president for student services at the University of Notre Dame, will become vice provost for student affairs at the University of Missouri at Columbia July 15.

Eric Wertheimer, a professor of English and American studies at Arizona State University, will become vice provost for graduate and professional education and dean of the Graduate School at Stony Brook University on July 1.

Nancy Zhang, a professor of statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, will become vice dean of Wharton Doctoral Programs on July 1.

Brandon Zollner, director of corporate and foundation relations at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has been named executive director of alumni relations.

Retirements

Mordean Taylor-Archer, vice provost for diversity and international affairs at the University of Louisville, plans to retire on June 30.

Organizations

Appointments

Damon Andrew, dean of the College of Education at Florida State University, has been named president-elect of the North American Society for Sport Management.

Deaths

Michael Appleman, a professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Southern California, died on April 10. He was 85.

Paul M. Gaston, a professor emeritus of history and a civil-rights activist at the University of Virginia, died on June 14. He was 91. Gaston worked at the university from 1957 until 1997. He served as faculty adviser to a student group, the Human Relations Council, and helped bring Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at the university in 1963.

Raymond Miles, a professor emeritus and a former dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, died on May 13. He was 86. Miles arrived at the university in 1963 as a professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations and served as dean of the business school from 1983 to 1990.

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