Transitions: St. Thomas Aquinas College Names New President, Cornell College Selects Chief Academic Officer

Chief executives

Appointments

Kenneth D. Daly, chief operating officer at US Electric at the National Grid, has been named the next president of St. Thomas Aquinas College. He will succeed Margaret Fitzpatrick, who will retire on June 30 after having led the college for 25 years.

Laurie Stenberg Nichols, interim president of Black Hills State University since July, has been named to the post permanently. She became interim president when Tom Jackson Jr. left to become president of Humboldt State University.

Sean Megan Scott, a professor and a former senior associate dean at Loyola Marymount University’s Loyola Law School who served as associate director of the Association of American Law Schools from 2018-19, will become president and dean of the California Western School of Law on August 1.

Bentley Wallace, dean of the School of Technical and Professional Studies at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College, will become president of South Arkansas Community College at El Dorado on February 1.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Matt Cecil, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Minnesota State University at Mankato, has been named interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

Ilene Whitney Crawford, associate vice president for academic affairs at Southern Connecticut State University, will become vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Cornell College on July 1.

Linda Merkl, director of business programs at Northeastern Junior College, has been named vice president for academic affairs.

Dean Pribbenow, vice president for academic affairs and academic dean at Edgewood College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Elmhurst College.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Eric Arneson, vice chancellor for student affairs and campus climate at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, will become vice president for student affairs at Kennesaw State University on February 10.

William Bisset, vice president for enrollment management at Manhattan College, has been named vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Marymount University.

Carie Edmiston, acting vice president for finance and administration at Peninsula College, has been named to the post permanently.

James Felton III, chief diversity officer at State University of New York College at Cortland, will become vice president for equity and inclusion at the College of New Jersey on March 2.

Doriane K. Gloria, vice president for human resources at the New York Blood Center, has been named vice chancellor for human-resources management at the City University of New York.

Derek Hartl, interim vice president for enrollment management at Luther College, has been named to the post permanently.

Trevor S. Jackson, vice president for administration and finance at Hagerstown Community College and an adjunct professor of business education at Alvernia University, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Harford Community College.

Ellen Leverich, associate vice president for development at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, will become vice president for college advancement and executive director of the Geneseo Foundation at State University of New York College at Geneseo on February 20.

Joe Mazur, vice president for administration and finance at College of Central Florida, has been named vice president for business operations/chief financial officer at Seminole State College of Florida.

Suzanne Musho, a vice president at Zubatkin Owner Representation, a project management firm, has been named vice president for capital planning and facilities operations and chief architect at the New York Institute of Technology.

Lisa M. Scott, dean of institutional equity and inclusion at Luther College, has been named vice president for equity, inclusion, and student success.

Bill Spindle, vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer at Texas A&M University at San Antonio, will become vice president for finance and administration at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology on January 21.

Stephen K. Sporer, director of principal and major gifts at Macalester College, has been named vice president for development at Luther College.

Resignations

Brenda Harms, interim vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of Wisconsin at Superior, will leave to take a position at 2U, an education-technology company.

Retirements

David Gray, senior vice president for finance and business and treasurer at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, plans to retire in August.

Deans

Appointments

Horace E. Anderson Jr., interim dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, has been named to the post permanently.

Adam Bradford, associate dean of graduate studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University, has been named dean of the Graduate School at Idaho State University.

Marty Brock, interim dean of the College of Business and Professional Studies at Mississippi University for Women since August 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Camille M. Davidson, a former professor and associate dean of academic affairs and faculty development at Charlotte School of Law, has been named dean of Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Michael Davila, dean of students at Navarro College, has been named associate vice chancellor and dean of students at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Rajiv Dewan, a professor and director of the M.S. in business analytics program in the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, has been named dean of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

Richard Fountain, chair of the department of accounting and finance at the University of West Florida, has been named dean of the College of Business.

David Kamitsuka, acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College, has been named to the post permanently.

Meline Kevorkian, interim dean of the College of Computing and Engineering at Nova Southeastern University, has been named to the post permanently.

Sally Lewis, interim dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at Tarleton State University since the summer of 2018, has been named to the role permanently.

Michael L. McFrazier, interim dean of the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University, has been named to the post permanently.

Eric Morrow, interim dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at Tarleton State University for the past year, has been named to the post permanently.

Harriet B. Nembhard, a professor of engineering and head of the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, will become dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa on June 29.

Gurupdesh Pandher, a former professor and senior associate dean in the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor, in Canada, has been named dean of the College of Business and Social Sciences at West Virginia State University.

Vicki Rosen, a professor and chair of developmental biology at Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine, has been named interim dean of the school.

Kim Rynearson, interim dean of the College of Education at Tarleton State University, has been named to the post permanently.

Desha L. Williams, chair of the department of teacher education at Georgia College and State University, has been named dean of the College of Education and Social Work at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Donna E. Young, a professor of law and public policy at the Albany Law School, will become the founding dean of the faculty of law at Ryerson University, in Ontario, in January.

Resignations

Nicol C. Rae, dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at Montana State University at Bozeman, plans to step down in June.

Other administrators

Appointments

Jerel Benton, director of the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Wisconsin at Superior, has been named special assistant to the provost at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi.

Andrew Block, former director of the Department of Juvenile Justice for the Commonwealth of Virginia and a former associate professor of law and director of the Child Advocacy Clinic in the School of Law at the University of Virginia, will return to the law school faculty and become director of the State and Local Government Policy Clinic in the spring.

Roger N. Brindley, vice president for USF World at the University of South Florida, will become vice provost for Global Programs at Pennsylvania State University on April 6.

James M. Burns, a professor and chair of the department of history and geography in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University, has been named interim associate dean of academic affairs for the college.

Kerry Case, assistant provost for integrative learning at Westminster College, in Utah, has been named chief sustainability officer at the University of Utah.

Karla M. Digirolamo, executive director of the Bleeding Disorders Association of Northeastern New York, has been named executive director of the new Women’s Institute at Sage Colleges.

Anne E. Dorrance, a professor of plant pathology at the Wooster campus at Ohio State University, has been named associate dean and director of the campus and associate director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

Kimberly Flowers, director of the Global Food Security and the Humanitarian Agenda at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., will become executive director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs at Colby College on March 1.

Amber Handy, director of the Kossen Center for Teaching and Learning and an associate professor of history at Mississippi University for Women, has been named associate vice president for faculty enrichment and research.

Jim Herbsleb, interim director of the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named to the post permanently.

Darryl Jones, vice president of the York Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, has been named associate vice president for academic affairs at Hudson County Community College.

Yoon Kang, director of the Margaret and Ian Smith Clinical Skills Center and an associate professor of medical education at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been named senior associate dean of education.

Marlon Lynch, senior vice president for campus services and safety at New York University, has been named the first chief safety officer at the University of Utah.

Teresa D. McKinney, director of community engagement at Juilliard School, will become Diamond Family Director of the Arts at Colby College on April 1.

Joseph Modica, interim director of the School of Music at the University of Redlands, will become director on July 1.

Suzanne Morse Moomaw, an associate professor of urban and environmental planning and director of the Community Design Research Center at the University of Virginia, has been named director of the University of Virginia Press.

Marie Schultz, assistant vice chancellor at the University of California at Riverside, has been named associate vice chancellor for development.

Lisa Stark, a broadcast correspondent for Education Week and PBS NewsHour, has been named assistant vice president for communications and media at American University.

Tamiko Strickman, associate to the chancellor for institutional equity and compliance and Title IX coordinator at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, has been named associate vice president for institutional equity at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Holly Tapper, director of the M.B.A. and M.A. in human resource management programs at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, has been named director of online operations.

Organizations

Appointments

Angela Gunder, director of instructional design and curriculum development in the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Arizona, has been named vice president for learning at the Online Learning Consortium.

Deaths

Lawrence Busch, a professor of sociology at Michigan State University since 1997, died on December 28.

John C. Carmody, a professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on December 9. He was 72.

Irvin Glassman, a professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, died on December 14. He was 96. Glassman joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1950 and became a full professor in 1964.

Carol Hovanec, a former dean of the School of American and International Studies and a professor of literature at Ramapo College in New Jersey, died on December 26. In her long career, Hovanec also taught at the University of Mary Washington, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and New York University.

David Kidwell, a former dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died in November. He was 79. Before serving as dean of the school, he was dean of the School of Business at the University of Connecticut and worked at Purdue University, Tulane University, the University of Tennessee and Texas Tech University.

Robert B. Kvavik, an emeritus professor of political science and vice provost at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on September 1. He was 77.

James J. McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography and director emeritus of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, died on December 11. He was 75. He received the 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work on phytoplankton productivity amid climate change.

Robert L. Parkinson Jr., former dean of the School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, died on December 19. He was 68. Parkinson later served as chairman of the Board of Trustees.

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