Transitions: New Presidents Selected for Ottawa U., U. of Nevada at Las Vegas, and Delaware State U.

Chief executives

Appointments

David C. Amberg, vice president for research at State University of New York Upstate Medical University, will become interim president of State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry on July 1. He will replace Quentin Wheeler, who plans to resign.

Keith Brown, interim president of Jefferson State Community College since 2014, has been named president.

Mark Colip, vice president for student, alumni, and college development at the Illinois College of Optometry, will become president on August 6. He will succeed Arol Augsburger, who plans to retire after 16 years as president.

Annette Funderburk, interim president of Ingram State Technical College since February 2017, has been named president.

Marta Meana, dean of the Honors College at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, has been named acting president, effective July 1. She will replace Len Jessup, who is leaving to become president of Claremont Graduate University.

Wilma Mishoe, acting president of Delaware State University, will become president on July 1. Mishoe has served as acting president since January, when Harry Lee Williams left to lead the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Lawrence Rouse, president of James Sprunt Community College since 2005, will become president of Pitt Community College on August 1. He will replace G. Dennis Massey, who plans to retire.

Jennifer Scott, senior director of assessment and program accreditation at Union Institute and University, has been named president of College of St. Joseph. She succeeds Lawrence Jensen, who plans to retire.

Reggies Wenyika, president of Southwestern Christian University, will become president of Ottawa University, in Kansas, on July 16. He is a native of Zimbabwe who has worked in higher education since moving to the United States with his family in 2000.

Retirements

Diane B. Call, president of City University of New York Queensborough Community College since 2013, plans to retire in August.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

David M. Timmerman, dean and vice president for academic affairs at Monmouth College, will become provost and chief academic officer of Carthage College on August 1. He will succeed David Garcia, who rejoined the faculty in February as a professor of English.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Nathan Dehne, vice president for admissions and enrollment services at Cardinal Stritch University, will become vice president for admission and financial aid at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, in Minnesota, on July 9.

Shani Lenore, associate vice president for enrollment at Maryville University, has been named vice president for enrollment.

Leonard N. Moore, interim vice president for diversity and community engagement and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named to the vice-president position permanently.

Joshua R. Newton, president and chief executive of the University of Connecticut Foundation, will become senior vice president for advancement and alumni engagement at Emory University on August 27.

George H. Stroud, assistant vice president for student life and dean of students at Cabrini University, will become vice president for student life and dean of students at Dickinson College on July 16.

Resignations

David S. Guzick, senior vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida and president of UF Health since 2009, plans to step down on July 1. Michael Good, dean of the College of Medicine, will step into those roles on an interim basis.

Retirements

Charles Boyer, vice president for agriculture at Montana State University at Bozeman, plans to retire in December.

Deans

Appointments

Jeffrey M. Buck, executive director of adult studies and graduate administration and professor of marketing at Anderson University, in Indiana, has been named dean of the School of Business and Information Technology at Purdue Global University.

Mark Frascatore, a professor of economics and financial studies in the David D. Reh School of Business at Clarkson University, became dean of the College of Business Administration at Niagara University on June 4.

John G. Geer, a professor of political science and vice provost for academic and strategic affairs at Vanderbilt University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Science on July 1.

Robin Lightner, interim dean of the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, became dean on June 15.

Karen T. Pardue, interim dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions at the University of New England during the 2017-18 academic year, was named to the post permanently, effective this week.

Department chairs

Appointments

Kibibi V. Mack-Shelton, a professor of history at Claflin University, will become a professor and chair of the Africana-studies department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston on September 1.

Roni Rosenfeld, a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will become head of the Machine Learning Department on July 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

George Ambriz, an adviser/success coach at the College of Southern Nevada, has been named director of academic and career advising at Berkshire Community College.

Tanika L. Beard, registrar at Paine College, became registrar at Newberry College on June 1.

Thomas Brock, commissioner of the National Center for Education Research at the U.S. Department of Education, will become director of the Community College Research Center at the Columbia University Teachers College in September.

Shannon Lynn Burton, associate university ombudsperson at Michigan State University, will become ombudsperson on July 1.

Gisela Carbonell, director of curatorial affairs at Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum, became curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College on June 18.

Andrew Erb, director of bands and chair of the performing arts department at Thiel College, has been named director of bands at Grove City College.

Grant Gosselin, vice president for enrollment and dean of admission and student aid at Wheaton College, in Massachusetts, will become director of undergraduate admission at Boston College on July 23.

Rose Labriola, interim chief nursing officer at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, has been appointed to the position permanently.

Soyoung Lee, a curator of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, will become chief curator at the Harvard Art Museums on September 24.

Ameerah McBride, director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, has been named chief diversity officer, director of equity and access, and Title IX coordinator at Texas State University.

Erica McKinley, former chief operating officer for the National Basketball Players Association, has been named general counsel at the University of Mississippi.

Taylor Ormon, coordinator of student employment at Mississippi College, became associate director of the Career Services Office in May.

Lyndsay Pittman, registrar and director of veterans services at Oklahoma State University at Oklahoma City, has been named registrar at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Heidi Honegger Rogers, assistant professor in the University of New Mexico College of Nursing, has been named director of Interprofessional Education at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.

Heath Vester, web-design specialist at the University of Mobile, has been named creative director for marketing and public relations.

Stelfanie Williams, president of Vance-Granville Community College, will become vice president for Durham affairs at Duke University on August 13.

Retirements

Rhonda Rogers, executive assistant in Cultural and Community Centers at Virginia Tech, plans to retire. She has held various positions in the department of student affairs since 1973.

Faculty

Appointments

Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella, a professor and director of the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, in Mexico, has been named a faculty member in the department of plant and soil science in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech.

Resignations

Celeste Kidd, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences in the Center for Visual Science and director of the Rochester Baby Lab at the University of Rochester, has resigned and plans to move her research to the University of California at Berkeley. Kidd was one of the women who accused T. Florian Jaeger, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences and computer science, of sexual harassment, and cites the university’s mishandling of the complaints as the reason behind her resignation.

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.

Marymount U., in Virginia

Matthew Bakker, sociology

Mark Benbow, history and politics

Moira Denson, interior design

Gwendolyn Francavillo, health and human performance

Brian Hollar, accounting, economics, and finance

Ioana Marcus, clinical mental health counseling

Matthew Shadle, associate professor of theology/religious studies

Jennifer Tripken, health and human performance

Southeast Missouri State U.

Christopher Baldwin, political science, philosophy, and religion

Jennifer Bengtson, modern languages, anthropology, and geography

Hyeon Cho, human environmental studies

Susan Davis, elementary, early, and special education

Rebeccah Kurzhals, biology

Kimberly Louie, modern languages, anthropology, and geography

Stephen Nettelhorst, psychology

James Newman, political science, philosophy, and religion

Quantella Noto, management and marketing

Peter Oman, mathematics

Adolfo Ramos, health, human performance, and recreation

Francis Tayie, human environmental studies

Emmanuel Thompson, mathematics

Nicolas Wilkins, psychology

David Yaskewich, economics and finance

Changes in rank

Professors’ new ranks follow.

Marymount U., in Virginia

Stephanie Ellis Foster, assistant professor of criminal justice, to professor

Tonya-Marie Howe, assistant professor of literature and languages, to professor

Palm Beach Atlantic U.

Mark Aliapoulios, associate professor of voice, to professor

Sanaz Dovell, assistant professor of chemistry, to associate professor

Jenifer Elmore, associate professor of English, to professor

Ryan Gladwin, assistant professor of ministry, to associate professor

Erenie Guirguis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, to associate professor

R. Audy Johnston, assistant professor of leadership, to associate professor

Thomas Miller, assistant professor of leadership, to associate professor

Linda Sedlacek, assistant professor of Earth science and oceanography, to associate professor

Mariette Sourial, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, to associate professor

Elizabeth Stice, assistant professor of history, to associate professor

Stephen Sylvester, assistant professor of health and human performance, to associate professor

Antonio Zarro, associate professor of cinema arts, to professor

Virginia Tech

David Crane, professor of fine art in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, to emeritus

Scott L. Hendricks, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering, to emeritus

Awards

Elizabeth H. Bradley, president of Vassar College, received the 2018 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research from the Baxter International Foundation and the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.

James Forman Jr., a professor of law at Yale University, received the Lillian Smith Book Award for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).

George T. French, president of Miles College, received the Dr. Eugene D. Stevenson Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award from the Higher Education Leadership Foundation.

Monica Kraft, a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, received the William J. Martin, II Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society.

Nancy MacLean, a professor of history and public policy at Duke University, received the Lillian Smith Book Award for Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Viking, 2017).

Organizations

Appointments

David M. Scobey, a senior scholar with the Philadelphia-based adult college nonprofit, The Graduate! Network, will become project director of Bringing Theory to Practice on July 1.

Alphonso Simpson Jr., a professor of African-American studies at Western Illinois University, has been named vice president of the National Council for Black Studies.

Susan Stone, president of Frontier Nursing College, has been named president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

Deaths

Hazel Dicken-Garcia, a professor emerita of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on May 30. She was 79. She taught at the campus from 1978 to 2008.

David Belcher, chancellor of Western Carolina University since 2011, died of brain cancer on June 17. He was 60. During his tenure, freshman-to-sophmore retention rose to 80 percent and enrollment rose by 18 percent.

Edward A. Fletcher, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on June 12. He was 93. Fletcher first joined the university faculty in 1960, coming from NASA (then NACA) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Jesse C. Fletcher, president emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University, died on June 14. He was 87. Fletcher served as president of the university from 1977 to 1991, and as chancellor from 1991 to 2001. He was involved in the formation of the NCAA Division I Trans-America Athletic Conference (now the Atlantic Sun Conference) in 1978, and oversaw the endowments of schools in education, theology, and nursing at the university. Outside of his role as president, he wrote Bill Wallace of China (Broadman Press, 1963) and The Southern Baptist Convention: A Sesquicentennial History (Broadman & Holman, 1994), among other published works.

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