Transitions: Oregon State U. Selects New President, New Provost at U. of Michigan at Dearborn

Chief executives

Appointments

F. King Alexander, president of Louisiana State University since 2013, has been named the next president of Oregon State University. He will succeed Edward J. Ray, who plans to step down in June.

A. Gregory Cant, dean of the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University, will become president of Wilkes University on June 15. He will succeed Patrick F. Leahy, who left to become president of Monmouth University.

Marc C. Conner, provost at Washington and Lee University, will become president of Skidmore College on July 1. He will succeed Philip Glotzbach, who plans to retire.

Kevin M. Guskiewicz, interim chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since February, has been named to the post permanently.

Bruce Jarrell, executive vice president and provost and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, has been named interim president. He will replace Jay A. Perman, who has been named chancellor of the University System of Maryland.

Brendan Kelly, chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate, has been named the finalist for president of the University of West Georgia.

James Lentini, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Oakland University, will be the next president of Molloy College. He will succeed Drew Bogner, who plans to retire in June.

Daniel López Jr., vice president for student affairs at Northeastern Illinois University, will become president of City Colleges of Chicago, Harold Washington College on January 21.

Resignations

Michael T. Benson, president of Eastern Kentucky University since 2013, plans to step down on January 6.

Retirements

Paul Baldasare, president of St. Andrews University since 2006, plans to retire on May 31.

Jay K. Box, president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System since 2014, plans to retire on June 30.

Anthony S. Caprio, president of Western New England University since 1996, plans to retire at the end of June.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Susan E. Alcock, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Michigan at Flint, will become provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Michigan at Dearborn in January.

Reginald DesRoches, dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, will become provost on July 1.

Keith A. Moreland, a professor of accounting and former associate dean of the School of Management at the University of Michigan at Flint, has been named interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Timothy Sherwood, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at Oakland Community College, has been named vice president for academic affairs at Harford Community College.

Elizabeth Spiller, dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Davis, has been named executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Connie Walton, interim vice president for academic affairs and provost at Grambling State University since May, has been named to the post permanently.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Randyll P. Bowen, vice president for student life and enrollment management at D’Youville College, has been named vice president for enrollment management at Hilbert College.

Vernon J. Hurte, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Iowa State University, will become vice president for student affairs at Towson University on February 17.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon, a professor and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Adelphi University, has been named the university’s vice president for diversity and inclusion.

Chris Sharp, assistant city manager and finance director for the city of Canyon, Tex., has been named vice president for business affairs at Amarillo College.

Gina Vance, assistant vice president for campus engagement at Westminster College, in Pennsylvania, has been named vice president for student affairs and dean of students.

Retirements

Barrie Wilkes, vice president for finance and administrative services at Central Michigan University, plans to retire on June 30.

Deans

Appointments

Alfred Bryant, a professor of counseling and former dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, will become dean of the School of Education at Campbell University in June.

Eric Bullard, associate vice president for international programs and global engagement and dean of the College of Professional and Global Education at California State University at Los Angeles, has been named dean of Continuing Education and UCLA Extension at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Nathan Bullock, executive director of academic program development in the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at Delaware Valley University, has been named dean of extended studies at Southeast Missouri State University.

B. Stephen Carpenter II, a professor of art education and African American studies and interim director of the School of Visual Arts at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Architecture.

Thomas H. DeLuca, dean of the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana at Missoula, will become dean of the College of Forestry at Oregon State University on June 30.

Daryl Fridley, interim chair of the department of leadership, middle, and secondary education and former associate dean of educator preparation at Southeast Missouri State University, has been named dean of the College of Education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

M. Daniel Givens, associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn University, will become dean of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech on June 1.

Brian Kite, special academic senior associate dean and chair of the theater department in the School of Theater, Film, and Television at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been named interim dean of the school.

Wayne D. Lewis Jr., commissioner of education for the Kentucky Department of Education, has been named the inaugural dean of the School of Education at Belmont University.

Mark Lundstrom, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University at West Lafayette, has been named acting dean of the College of Engineering.

Christina S. McGowan, interim university librarian at Fairfield University since June, has been named dean of the library and university librarian.

William Quillen, acting dean of the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College since November 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Leo Ranzolin Jr., interim dean of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University since July, has been named to the post permanently.

Hazel Sive, a professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named dean of the College of Science at Northeastern University.

Shari Tarver-Behring, interim dean of the Michael D. Eisner College of Education at California State University at Northridge, has been named to the post permanently.

Other administrators

Appointments

Sybol Cook Anderson, chief diversity officer at Loyola University New Orleans, has been named executive director of diversity and inclusion at the College of Southern Maryland.

Andrea Carroll-Glover, associate vice president for online strategy and development at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, has been named vice provost for online strategy and programs.

Judith Brown Clarke, diversity director of the Bio-Computational Evolution in Action Consortium Science and Technology Center at Michigan State University, will become chief diversity officer at Stony Brook University in February.

Shannon Clute, senior director of brand and communications for the division of alumni affairs and development at Cornell University, has been named director of the Hatchery, a new center for innovation at Emory University.

Erin Ebersole, a major-gift officer at California Lutheran University, has been named associate vice president for planning, institutional effectiveness, and research at the College of Southern Maryland.

Ellen Flowers-Fields, regional director of the Small Business Development Center at the College of Southern Maryland, has been named associate vice president for continuing education and workforce development.

Lorraine Forcinito, director of human resources and Title IX coordinator at Carroll University, has been named associate vice president for human resources at the College of Wooster.

Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been named faculty director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.

Martin Hunter, registrar at St. George’s University, in Grenada, has been named registrar at Salisbury University.

Tanya Jachimiak, Title IX and Section 504 coordinator at Wake Forest University, will become associate vice president for the Office for Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance at Michigan State University on February 3.

Leslie Kane, a Philadelphia-based human-resources consultant and former vice president and director of learning and employee development at First Niagara Financial Group, has been named associate vice president for human resources at Alvernia University.

Tenita Philyaw-Rogers, a consultant and former director of transfer articulation at the University of North Carolina System, has been named strategic-partnerships manager at WGU North Carolina, an affiliate of Western Governors University. In this role, she will act as a liaison with the North Carolina Community College System.

Jayne Schreiber, assistant dean of career services at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has been named assistant dean of career planning in the Law School at Fordham University.

Bruce E. Smail, deputy director of the Black AIDS Institute, in Los Angeles, has been named interim director of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center and special assistant to the vice president at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Retirements

David Brunnemer, registrar at Western Washington University, plans to retire on January 9.

John Green, former interim president, special assistant to the president for strategy and transition, and director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, plans to retire.

Deaths

Wendell Bell, a professor emeritus of sociology at Yale University, died on November 3. He was 95. Bell joined the faculty in 1963, and served as chair of the department of sociology, director of the Comparative Sociology Training Program, and senior research scientist in the Yale Center of Comparative Research during his time at the university. Before Yale, he taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Los Angeles.

John H. Davidson, a professor emeritus in the School of Law at the University of South Dakota, died on November 16. He was 77.

Shirley Walker Dixon, a former assistant professor of education at Cabrini University, died on November 29. She was 73. Dixon arrived at the university as an adjunct professor in 1992. She also served as coordinator of diversity initiatives, and she was the first African American trustee at the university. In 2018, she became the first person to receive a doctoral degree from the university, from which she has already earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Mary Lowe Good, founding dean of the Donaghey College of Engineering and Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, died in November. She was 88. Good also taught at at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and the University of New Orleans.

Lucie S. Kelly, a professor emerita of public health and nursing at Columbia University, died in November. She was 94. Kelly taught at California State College, Los Angeles before she joined the faculty at Columbia. She also served as president of Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing from 1983 to 1985.

David S. Kidwell, dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities from 1991 to 2001, died on November 28. He was 79.

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