Transitions: Temple U. Names First Black President; Ohio State U. Selects New Provost

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer at Morgan State University, has been named the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University.

Scott Dalrymple, president of Columbia College, in Missouri, has been named president of Paul Smith’s College. He will replace Jon Strauss, who has served as interim president since last year.

Michael Gavin, vice president for learning at Anne Arundel Community College, has been named president of Delta College.

Christine Holt, chief of staff for the University of Missouri System, has been named chancellor of the University of Arkansas Community College-Hope-Texarkana.

Jonathan G.S. Koppell, dean of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University, will become president of Montclair State University on August 2. He will succeed Susan A. Cole, who plans to retire.

Summer Johnson McGee, founding dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven, has been named president of Salem Academy and College, in North Carolina. She will succeed Sandra Doran, who left to become president of Bay Path University, in Massachusetts.

Herbert A. Medina, provost at Portland University, will become acting president after the Rev. Mark L. Poorman steps down.

Barbara Morris, associate vice provost and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the State University of New York, will become president of Prescott College on July 15.

Diana Z. Rodriguez, president of San Bernardino Valley College, will become chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District on August 1. She will succeed Bruce Baron, who retired in December 2019.

Benjamin Rusiloski, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Delaware Valley University, has been named interim president. He will replace Maria Gallo, who will leave to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at River Falls.

Todd Saliman, senior vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Colorado, has been named interim president. He will replace Mark Kennedy, who will step down after a faculty vote to censure him.

Hugh Sherman, former dean of the College of Business at Ohio University, has been named president. He will succeed M. Duane Nellis, who plans to step down on July 1.

Jason Wingard, a professor of professional studies in human capital management and former dean of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University, will become the first Black president of Temple University on July 1. He will succeed Richard M. Englert, who will retire.

Resignations
Corey S. Bradford Sr., president of Harris-Stowe State University since May 2020, has stepped down.

Retirements
Bradley W. Bateman, president of Randolph College since 2013, plans to retire on June 30, 2022.

Grafton J. Nunes, president of the Cleveland Institute of Art, plans to retire on June 30, 2022.

Steve Schwab, chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center since 2010, plans to retire on June 30, 2022, or until a successor is named.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Melissa L. Gilliam, vice provost at the University of Chicago, will become executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University on August 1.

Leroy Hamilton Jr., special assistant to the president at Norfolk State University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Kentucky State University.

Antony Norman, dean of the Ernst and Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education at Morehead State University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Richard Ogle, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University-Stanislaus.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Sharon Beverly, interim director of athletics at Guilford College and former head women’s basketball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University, has been named acting vice president for athletics and recreation at the University of Hartford.

David Braverman, interim executive director of the student experience at the California Institute of the Arts, will become vice president for student success at Western Illinois University on July 1.

Karen J.L. Burg, a former vice president for research at Kansas State University, has been named vice president for research at the University of Georgia.

The Rev. Austin Collins, a professor of sculpture at the University of Notre Dame, has been named vice president for mission engagement and church affairs.

Elliott Dawes, chief diversity officer for institutional equity and inclusion at State University of New York Empire State College, will become executive chief diversity officer at City University of New York Bernard M. Baruch College on August 2.

Tim Downs, executive director for facilities finance and administrative services at Princeton University, will become vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Ithaca College on August 2.

Melina R. Kibbe, a professor and chair of the department of surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will become dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia and chief health affairs officer for UVA Health on September 15.

Glen Nakata, assistant dean of finance and administration in the College of Education at the University of North Texas, has been named vice chancellor for financial and administrative affairs at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Michael E. Zwick, associate vice president for research at the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center and associate dean of research and professor of human genetics and pediatrics in the School of Medicine at Emory University, will become senior vice president for research at Rutgers University on September 1.

DEANS
Appointments
Kimberly Jacob Arriola, executive associate dean of academic affairs in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, will become dean of the Laney Graduate School on September 1.

Penny Bishop, a professor of education and former associate dean at the University of Vermont, will become dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine on July 1.

Eric Brevik, a professor of geology and soil science at Dickinson State University, will become dean of the College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale on July 1.

Dayna Cunningham, founder and executive director of the Community Innovators Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.

Samuel Graham Jr., chair of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will become dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park on October 1.

Eric Lau, a professor of saxophone and chair of the department of music in the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, has been named dean of the Honors College and the dean of University College.

Leo Lo, associate dean of learning, undergraduate services, and commonwealth campuses in the University Libraries at Pennsylvania State University, has been named dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico.

Rodney Lyn, senior associate dean of academic and strategic initiatives and interim dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University since 2019, has been named dean of the school.

Julianne Malveaux, president of PUSH Excel and a president emerita of Bennett College, has been named dean of the new College of Ethnic Studies at California State University at Los Angeles.

Lillian Mills, interim dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin since April 2020, has been named to the post permanently.

Simon Neame, dean of libraries at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will become dean of university libraries at the University of Washington on September 1.

Kymberly Pinder, acting president of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, will become dean of the School of Art at Yale University on July 1.

Mary Ellen Poole, director of the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, will become dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University on August 1.

R. Anthony Rolle, dean of the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Rhode Island, has been named dean of the College of Education at the University of South Florida.

Endalyn Taylor, a dancer and former director of Dance Theatre of Harlem School in New York, will become dean of the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of Arts on August 1.

Maya Tolstoy, a professor in Columbia University’s department of earth and environmental sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will become dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington on January 1.

Eboni Ford Turnbow, interim dean of students at Humboldt State University since August 2019, has been named to the post permanently.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Nicole Annaloro, senior associate director of athletics at Sonoma State University, has been named senior director of athletics.

Derrick Gragg, senior vice president for inclusion, education, and community engagement at the NCAA, has been named athletic director at Northwestern University.

Dozie Ibeh, associate vice president for the Project Delivery Group at Temple University, has been named associate vice president for capital projects at Princeton University.

Sara Clarke Kaplan, an associate professor in the department of ethnic studies and the critical gender-studies program at the University of California at San Diego, will become executive director of Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University on August 1.

Angela Mosley-Monts, assistant vice chancellor in the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Arkansas, has been named associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Sophia G. Saeed, a professor and associate dean of patient care at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry, has been named associate dean of clinical affairs in the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Connecticut.

Yolanda Smith, special sheriff and superintendent of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, in Massachusetts, will become executive director of public safety at Tufts University on July 1.

Resignations
Mike Hamrick, athletic director at Marshall University since 2009, plans to step down on June 30.

FACULTY
Resignations
Walter Lasecki, a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has resigned after multiple allegations of sexual assault against him came to light.

DEATHS
Thomas C. Barker, the founding dean of what is now the College of Health Professions at Virginia Commonwealth University, died on May 28. He was 90.

Worth David, dean of undergraduate admissions from 1972 to 1992 at Yale University, died on June 1. He was 87.

Sister Maureen Fay, founding president of the University of Detroit Mercy, died on May 27. She was 87.

Mukund S. Kulkarni, a former chancellor of Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, died on June 2. He was 75. Kulkarni led the university from 2010 until his retirement in 2018. He first joined the university as a faculty member in 1985.