Transitions: Shaw U. Makes Interim President Permanent, New Chief of Staff Named at American International College

Chief executives

Appointments

Paulette R. Dillard, interim president of Shaw University since July 2017, has been named to the position permanently. She replaced Tashni-Ann Dubroy, who left to become executive vice president and chief operating officer at Howard University.

Lisa Williams, vice president for learning and engagement at Cuyahoga Community College, has been named president of the college’s Eastern Campus. She will succeed J. Michael Thomson, who left to become president of Northwest State Community College.

Resignations

Judy Genshaft, president of the University of South Florida system since 2000, plans to step down on July 1, 2019.

Retirements

Dennis Harkins, president of Orange Coast College since 2009, plans to retire at the end of the fall 2018 semester.

David J. Schleich, president of the National University of Natural Medicine since 2007, plans to retires on July 1, 2019.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

The Rev. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, an associate professor of theological field education and New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, became academic dean and vice president of academic affairs on July 1.

Theresa Hand, associate provost at the Sage Colleges, has been named interim provost.

Lizbeth J. Martin, former provost and vice president for academic affairs at Holy Names University, has been named interim provost and senior vice president at Gonzaga University.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Noelle Bartl, executive director of the Eastern New Mexico University Foundation, has been named associate vice president for advancement at the university.

Patrice Caldwell, director of planning and analysis at Eastern New Mexico University, has been named vice president for planning, analysis, and governmental relations and chief of staff to the president.

Nicolle Cestero, senior vice president for human resources and Title IX coordinator at American International College, has been named senior vice president for human resources and chief of staff.

Albert Colom, associate vice president for enrollment services at the University of North Florida, will become vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire on October 1.

Tim Culver, vice president for advancement at Lexington Catholic High School, in Kentucky, became vice president for advancement at Midway University on August 15.

John Haven III, executive director of college administration and chief financial officer at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, will become vice chancellor for finance and administration the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire on September 24.

Marti Heil, former vice president for development and alumni relations at Virginia Commonwealth University, will become vice president for university advancement at Michigan State University on October 3.

Loretta Martinez, general counsel and vice chancellor for legal affairs at City University of New York, will become chief legal counsel at the University of New Mexico on October 1.

Tim McMahon, senior associate vice president for university advancement at Villanova University, will become vice president for university advancement at Marquette University on October 1.

Evelyn Nazario, associate vice chancellor for human resources management at California State University, will become vice chancellor for human resources on October 1.

Sarah Rebecca Thomas, dean of the college at Bard College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Earlham College.

John Zacharek, executive director of development at Binghamton University, has been named vice president for development at State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill.

Retirements

Henry Nemcik, chief executive and president of the University of New Mexico Foundation since 2010, plans to retire in 2019.

Deans

Appointments

Lawrence D. Bobo, a professor of the social sciences at Harvard University, will become dean of social science on October 1.

Stephen Fowl, interim dean of Loyola College at Loyola University Maryland since July 2017, has been named to the position permanently.

Sandy Jones, director of community and local government relations at the University of California at Irvine, became dean of students at the University of Colorado at Boulder on August 20.

Daniel Katz, provost, dean of labor studies, and a professor of history at National Labor College, has been named dean of arts and sciences at Alfred State College.

Deborah Lawrence, a professor of mathematics and dean of Russell Sage College, has been named undergraduate dean at the Sage Colleges.

Lena Rodriguez, former endowed director of the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at National University, will become dean of the Angell Snyder School of Business at Ottawa University in mid-October.

Alan R. Sams, executive associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, will become dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University on October 31.

Christopher Smith, program coordinator for special programs and special assistant to the president at Philander Smith College, has been named dean of student services at the University of Arkansas at Hope-Texarkana.

Department chairs

Appointments

Santhosh K.G. Koshy, director of interventional cardiology and vice-chair of medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, has been named chair of internal medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

Other administrators

Appointments

Larry Abramson, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Montana at Missoula, became special adviser to the provost on September 10.

Jason F. Arnold, director of global health programs and special projects at New York University College of Global Public Health, has been named director of operations for the environmental health sciences concentration.

Stephen Brand, executive director of global learning and development at Bay Path University, has been named associate director of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship in the Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Frank J. Cilluffo, associate vice president and director of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at Georgetown University and former director of the Homeland Security Advisory Council under President George W. Bush, became director of the Charles D. McCrary Institute at Auburn University on September 17.

Kevin J. Edgar, professor of sustainable biomaterials in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, has been named associate dean at the Graduate School.

Juan Espinoza, interim associate vice provost for enrollment management and director of undergraduate admissions at Virginia Tech since December 2017, has been named to the position permanently.

Martha Garcia-Murillo, a professor of information studies at Syracuse University, has been named senior associate dean of the School of Information Studies.

Dwight K. Hamilton, associate vice president for equity and Title IX coordinator for Northwestern University, has been named associate vice president for diversity and inclusion at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

Christina Hoang, director of the Center for Student Success at Trident University International, has been named associate vice president for admissions.

John Houser, director of marketing and communications at Eastern New Mexico University, has been named assistant vice president for marketing and communications.

Rebecca Jones, a faculty member and student-success advisor and manager at Trident University, has been named senior director of the Center for Student Success.

Nikki Koontz, interim executive director of university marketing and communications at Southern Utah University, has been named to the position permanently.

Raghuraman Thulasi Kumar, associate provost and chief data officer for the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at George Mason University, became associate vice provost for academic decision support at Virginia Tech on September 10.

James Logan, a professor and director of African and African-American studies and professor of religion at Earlham College, has been named associate academic dean.

Tyler Price, assistant director of athletics/communications at Baker University, became assistant director of athletics for media relations and marketing at Park University at September 4.

Daniyal Saud, director of admissions for Larkin University’s College of Pharmacy, has been named associate vice president for enrollment at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

Gregory S. Thomas, a strategist in the Emerging Innovation Group at Corning Incorporated and president of the UMass Amherst Alumni Association Board, will become executive director of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship in the Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts at Amherst on October 1.

Wei Wang, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at the University of New Mexico, became director of the drug-discovery program and professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy on September 4.

Dominic Willsdon, curator of education and public practice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will become executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University on December 1.

Chris Woods, associate director of multicultural affairs and LGBTQ outreach at Columbia University, has been named director of the LGBTQ Student Center at New York University.

Faculty

Appointments

Aleksandra Jaeschke, an adjunct faculty member at the Woodbury University School of Architecture, has been named an assistant professor of architecture-sustainable design at the University of Texas at Austin.

Phoebe McCormick Lickwar, founder and principal of Forge Landscape Architecture and an associate professor at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, has been named an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, will become a professor of the practice of public leadership and the director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard University Kennedy School in January.

Sandra E. Taylor, founder and president of the consulting firm, Sustainable Business International, and a former senior vice president for corporate responsibility at Starbucks, has been named a professor of socially responsible business at Chatham University.

Awards

C. David Allis, a professor at Rockefeller University, and Michael Grunstein, a professor of biological chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, received the 2018 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. They are recognized for their work in discovering and explaining how the proteins that package DNA within chromosomes influence gene expression.

Rita Charon, chair and professor of medical humanities and ethics and professor of medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has been selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the 2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

Joan Argetsinger Steitz, a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, received the 2018 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science for her decades of work in her field.

Organizations

Appointments

S. James Gates Jr., a professor of physics at Brown University, has been named vice president and president-elect of the American Physical Society.

Susan Heegaard, a senior consultant for HCM Strategists, state policy adviser for the Lumina Foundation Strategy Labs, and former director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, has been named president of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact.

Deaths

Deborah Hatton, professor emerita of special education at Vanderbilt University, died on September 4. She was 65.

Erik Hauri, a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science since 1994, died of cancer on September 5. He was 52. During his time with Carnegie, Hauri led the team that discovered water in the Moon.

Robert L. Scott, professor emeritus of speech and communication studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on July 26. He was 90.

Martin Shubik, professor emeritus of mathematical institutional economics at Yale University, died on August 22. He was 92. Shubik started as a professor of economics at Yale in 1963, and wrote Game Theory in the Social Sciences: Concepts and Solutions (MIT Press, 1982) among many other books and articles.

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