Javaune Adams-Gaston will become president of Norfolk State U.
Chief executives
Appointments
Javaune Adams-Gaston,senior vice president for student life at Ohio State University, has been named president of Norfolk State University. She will replace Melvin Stith, who has served as interim president since Eddie Moore Jr.'s retirement in 2017.
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Javaune Adams-Gaston will become president of Norfolk State U.
Chief executives
Appointments
Javaune Adams-Gaston,senior vice president for student life at Ohio State University, has been named president of Norfolk State University. She will replace Melvin Stith, who has served as interim president since Eddie Moore Jr.'s retirement in 2017.
Thom D. Chesney,president of Brookhaven College, will become president of Clarke University on July 15. He will succeed Joanne Burrows, who plans to retire.
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William M. Downs,dean of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, will become president of Gardner-Webb University on July 1. He will replace Ben Leslie, who has served as interim president since Frank Bonner’s retirement on February 1.
James Houpis,dean of academic support and learning technologies at Skyline College, will become president of Modesto Junior College on March 1. He will replace Steve Collins, who has served as interim president since Jill Stearns left to become president of Cuesta College.
Ioannis Miaoulis,former president and director of the Museum of Science in Boston, will become president of Roger Williams University in August. He will replace Andrew Workman, who has served as interim president since Donald J. Farish’s death in July 2018.
Avis Proctor,president of the North Campus of Broward College, will become president of Harper College on July 1. She will succeed Ken Ender, who plans to step down.
Thad Seymour Jr.,vice president for partnerships and chief innovation officer at the University of Central Florida, was named interim president after the university’s Board of Trustees accepted Dale Whittaker’s resignation on February 20.
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Resignations
Philip A. Glotzbachpresident of Skidmore College since 2003, plans to step down at the end of the 2019-20 academic year.
Retirements
Patrick E. White,president of Millikin University since 2013, plans to retire on June 30, 2020.
Chief academic officers
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Appointments
Shawn Akers, vice provost and dean of the Helms School of Government at Liberty University, has been named provost for online programs.
Cheryl A. McConnell,dean of the College of Business, Influence and Information Analysis and associate provost for academic affairs at Rockhurst University, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Saint Joseph’s University, in Pennsylvania, on June 15.
Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak
Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak,dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University, has been named provost at Bucknell University.
Joshua B. Powers, an administrative fellow for the Vermont State Colleges system and former associate vice president for academic affairs at Indiana State University, will became provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at William Paterson University of New Jersey on July 8.
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Resignations
David Rosowsky,provost and senior vice president at the University of Vermont, plans to step down.
Other top administrators
Appointments
Michael Douzuk Jr.,senior vice president for finance operations at Quorum Health, in Brentwood, Tenn., has been named chief financial officer of University of Louisville Health, a system which includes the University of Louisville Hospital and the university’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center.
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Jorge L. Escobar, acting president of San Jose City College, has been named interim vice chancellor for administrative services at San Jose/Evergreen Community College District.
Robert Herr,dean of enrollment at Wagner College, will become vice president for enrollment management and dean of college admissions at Drew University on May 1.
Teresa A. Miller,vice provost for equity and inclusion at the University at Buffalo, has been named senior vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and chief diversity officer at the State University of New York system.
Jason Moran,dean of enrollment at Plymouth State University, will become vice president for enrollment at Juniata College on June 1.
Wilson Paine,social investment officer of workforce development and director of strategic partnerships at Stand Together, a community-revitalization nonprofit organization in Arlington, Va., will become vice president for institutional advancement at Ferrum College on April 1.
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Michael Papadakis,interim senior vice president for business and finance, and chief financial officer at Ohio State University, has been named to the post permanently.
Harold L. Paz,executive vice president and chief medical officer at Aetna and an adjunct professor of internal medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, has been named executive vice president and chancellor for health affairs at Ohio State University.
Renetta Garrison Tull,associate vice provost for strategic initiatives at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and director of graduate and professional pipeline development and special assistant to the senior vice chancellor for the University System of Maryland, has been named vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion at University of California at Davis.
Frances Villagran-Glover
Frances Villagran-Glover, associate vice chancellor for special programs and success at Houston Community College, has been named vice president for student services at Northern Virginia Community College.
Resignations
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Rebecca O. Bagley,vice chancellor for economic partnerships at the University of Pittsburgh, plans to step down on March 15.
Retirements
Craig Hillemeier,dean of the Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine and senior vice president for health affairs and chief executive officer of Penn State Health, plans to retire in summer 2019. After his retirement, this role will be separated into two.
Deans
Appointments
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April Barton,associate dean for academic affairs in the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University, will become dean of the School of Law at Duquesne University on July 1.
Mark Button,professor and chair of political science at the University of Utah, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on July 1.
Tracie Collins,chair of the department of preventive medicine and public health in the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas, will become dean of the College of Population Health at the University of New Mexico in July.
Dan Huttenlocher,dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech and a professor of computer science at Cornell University, has been named the inaugural dean of the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dianne Hyson,associate dean of the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University at Sacramento, has been named dean of the college.
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Maria Donoghue Velleca,a professor of neurobiology and former senior associate dean of faculty affairs and strategic planning at Georgetown University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University on June 30.
Resignations
Blake D. Morant,dean of George Washington University Law School, plans to step down at the end of the current academic year and return to the faculty after a sabbatical.
Jacqueline Royster
Jacqueline Royster,dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, plans to step down on August 31.
Other administrators
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Appointments
Matthew Brandon,director of development in the Ridley Scholarship Family of Funds at the University of Virginia, has been named chief advancement officer for inclusion and diversity at Virginia Tech.
Beatriz Chaidez, assistant superintendent for human resources in Salinas City Elementary School District, has been named associate vice chancellor for human resources at San Jose/Evergreen Community College District.
Jennie Marie Durán, an Equal Employment Opportunity investigator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named affirmative-action officer at the State University of New York system.
Amy Hauft,a professor of sculpture at the University of Texas at Austin, will become director of the College & Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1.
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Caryn Lerman,a professor of cancer research and vice dean of strategic initiatives in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will become director of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California on March 15.
Richard J. Sifuentes,assistant director of the Small Business Development Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been named director of the center.
Dean Southern,head of the voice and opera division at the Cleveland Institute of Music, has been named director of opera and artistic director of the institute’s Opera Theater.
Martha Whitehead,vice provost for digital planning and university librarian at Queen’s University, in Ontario, Canada, will become university librarian, vice president for the Harvard Library, and librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in June.
Huixin Wu, an assistant professor of nursing at Chatham University, has been named director of the bachelor’s nursing programs at Davis & Elkins College.
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Faculty
Appointments
Sally Entrekin,a recent doctoral recipient in biology from the University of Notre Dame, has been named an associate professor of entomology at Virginia Tech.
Jamey Ray, an assistant professor of music at Rollins College, along with his 11-member a capella group Voctave, has been named artists-in-residence at the college.
Matthew Worth,a baritone who has performed with the Boston Lyric Opera and Washington National Opera, among others, will become a faculty member in the voice department at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the fall.
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Changes in rank
Professors’ new ranks follow.
Rosemary Carucci Goss,professor of apparel, housing, and resource management at Virginia Tech, to professor emerita
Justin Hollander,associate professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, to professor
Tracey du Laney, director of science and technology development at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Kafui Dzirasa, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University
Samira Kiani, an assistant professor of biological and health systems engineering at Arizona State University
Aaron Levine, an associate professor of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Christopher D. Lynn, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama
Oge Marques, a professor of computer science and engineering at Florida Atlantic University
Jin Kim Montclare, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at New York University
Robert Riener,a professor for sensory-motor systems at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Leia Stirling, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Bill Wuest, a distinguished investigator and associate professor of chemistry at Emory University
Deaths
Thomas E. Bitterwolf,a professor of chemistry at the University of Idaho since 1988, died on January 30.
Orley R. Herron Jr.,president of National-Louis University from 1977 to 1999, died on February 14. He was 85. He oversaw the opening of a new campus in Wheeling, Ill., which led to the university’s establishing campuses and locations around the globe. In 1970, at age 36, he became the youngest-ever president of Greenville College, now Greenville University.
Martha Jackson,an instructor at Diné College, died on January 16. She was 86. Jackson taught a variety of Navajo language-based courses, including Navajo linguistics and narrative writing. She was a key force behind curriculum development at the college, which she attended as a student when it was still called Navajo Community College.
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Donald N. Langenberg,chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland, died on January 25. He was 86. Langenberg led the system from 1990 to 2002. He began his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960, teaching physics, and was named deputy director of the National Science Foundation in 1980 by President Carter. In 1983, he became chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago and held that position until 1990.
Roy J. Ruffin Jr.,professor emeritus of economics at the University of Houston, died on February 17. He was 80. He was co-author, with Paul R. Gregory, of Principles of Economics and other economics textbooks.