Transitions: Texas A&M U. at Commerce Selects New Leader, NEH Names 2018 Public Scholars

Chief executives

Appointments

Mark J. Rudin, vice president for research and economic development at Boise State University, has been named president of Texas A&M University at Commerce. He will succeed Ray M. Keck III, who was named president emeritus.

Karrin Wilks, senior vice president and provost at City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College, will become interim president on September 1. She will replace Antonio Pérez, who is stepping down at the end of the month, after having led the college for 23 years. He will become a professor at CUNY’s Hunter College.

Resignations

Michael S. Brophy, president of Benedictine University since 2015, resigned on August 10. He will return to the faculty after a year-long sabbatical.

Herbert Swender, president of Garden City Community College, was terminated under a mutual agreement with the college’s Board of Trusteees this month. He will remain as a consultant through January 1. The agreement comes after a Faculty Senate report to the Board of Trustees that made allegations of bullying, intimidation, sexual harassment, and retaliation against Swender.

Retirements

Chris Bustamante, president of Rio Salado College since 2010, retired on August 4. This follows an investigation that found that the college “failed to take effective action” in response to sexual-harassment allegations against LeRodrick Terry, who was then vice president for student affairs. Terry, who has denied the allegations, resigned on June 30.

Tom Ries, president of Concordia University at St. Paul since 2011, plans to retire in the summer of 2019.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Alan J. Silva, executive vice president and provost at St. Catherine University, has been named executive vice president and provost at Marian University, in Indiana.

Resignations

Karen Hanson, executive vice president and provost at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, plans to step down in January.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Juan de Pablo, a professor of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has been named vice president for national laboratories at the university.

Gregg Goldman, senior vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer at the University of Arizona, will become vice chancellor and chief financial officer at the University of California at Los Angeles on October 22.

James E. Page Jr., vice president and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, became vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Vanderbilt University on August 17.

Anthony Savia, assistant dean of finance and administration for the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, will become chief financial officer at Bowie State University on September 4.

Heather Ulrey, administrative director of external relations at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, will become vice president for strategic alliances at Franciscan University of Steubenville on August 27.

Resignations

Charles McClelland, vice president for intercollegiate athletics at Texas Southern University, has resigned to become commissioner of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Ingrid S. Stafford, vice president for financial operations and treasurer at Northwestern University, plans to step down on September 1. She will serve as a senior adviser for the university until retiring on August 31, 2019.

Deans

Appointments

Jean Boreen, associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Northern Arizona University, has been named dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science at Southern Utah University.

Sophie Clavier, associate dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, became dean of graduate studies on July 1.

Andrew Martino, director of the honors program at Southern New Hampshire University, has been named dean of the Honors College at Salisbury University.

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley, became dean of the Boston University School of Law on August 15. She will be the first person of color to serve in that role.

Laura Ray, a professor of engineering at Dartmouth University, has been named interim dean of the Thayer School of Engineering.

Lori Beth Way, interim dean of undergraduate education and academic planning at San Francisco State University, was appointed to the position permanently on June 1.

Resignations

Lynne Parker, interim dean of the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, will step down to become assistant director for artificial intelligence for the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House.

Other administrators

Appointments

Elizabeth Adams, an associate with the University Industry Demonstration Partnership and former assistant vice president for research administration at the University of Virginia, has been named director of the Office of Research and Project Administration at Princeton University.

Marcia Bolton, assistant dean of education, accreditation, and licensure and director of certification and student teachers at Widener University, became associate dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Millersville University of Pennsylvania on July 2.

Jovanka Jaime Franco, a reservist with the Marines in Columbia, Md., has been named regional manager for strategic military and community relations at Trident University International.

Jennifer Hunter, director of diversity and inclusion in the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become the first associate director of athletics for diversity and inclusion initiatives at Brown University on August 30.

Jane Irungu, director for the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, has been named interim associate vice president for university community.

Tyler Papadinis, associate head coach for men’s basketball at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became head men’s basketball coach at Rhodes College on August 15.

Heather Parnock, publications supervisor at El Camino College, became director of community relations at Compton College on August 1.

Edward F. Pierzak, managing director of investment strategy with Bridge Investment Group, in Salt Lake City, will become director of the Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate and a faculty member in the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University later this month.

Cal Ribbens, a professor and head of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named interim executive director of the Biocomplexity Institute.

Brian Shawver, a professor of English and special assistant to academic affairs at Park University, became associate provost for teaching at learning on August 1.

Hal Shorey, a faculty member and director of the psychology and business joint degree program at Widener University, has been named director of the Oskin Leadership Institute.

Colonel Gerald Smith, director of the Veteran Resource and Support Center at Texas A&M University, has been named director of veteran services at the Texas A&M University system.

Camille R. Wallace, a training and development manager at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has been named interim director of diversity and inclusion.

Faculty

Appointments

Bryonn Bain, supervisor for International Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, has been named an associate professor of world arts and cultures/dance.

Vishal Jugdeo, an artist and former visiting professor of intermedia at California State University at Long Beach, has been named assistant professor of art at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Lacker, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, became a professor of economics at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business on August 16.

Candice Lin, an artist and former visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, has been named an assistant professor of art at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Byron Pitts, co-anchor of Nightline on ABC News, has been named journalist-in-residence at High Point University.

Awards

Public Scholars Grant Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Grant Program supports academics writing books in the humanities that are intended for a broader audience.

Listed below are the 15 of the 22 winners with academic affiliations, with the names of their institutions and works.

Julie Elizabeth Byrne, a professor of religion at Hofstra University, American Catholicism and the Cantor Fitzgerald Employees Who Lost Their Lives on 9/11

Natalie Anne Dykstra, a professor of English at Hope College, Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924): A Life in Art

Carl Elliott, a professor of bioethics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Exposing Wrongdoing in Medical Research on Human Subjects

Carole Emberton, an associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, An Intimate History of Freedom: The Biography of Emancipated Slave Priscilla Joyner

Frank Lee Holt, a professor of history at the University of Houston, A Social History of Coins: Money and the Making of Civilization

Robert Kanigel, a professor of science writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American Scholar Milman Parry (1902–1935) and the Study of Oral Tradition in Classical Literature

Devoney K. Looser, a professor of English at Arizona State University, Biography of Sisters Jane Porter (1775–1850) and Anna Maria Porter (1778–1832), 19th-Century British Novelists

Theresa MacPhail, an assistant professor of science and technology studies at Stevens Institute of Technology, A Cultural History of Allergies, 1819-2017

Thomas F. Madden, a professor of history at St. Louis University, The Fall of Republics: A History

Stephen Mihm, an associate professor of history at University of Georgia, Industrial and Technical Standards in Modern Life: A History

Stephen R. Platt, a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Evans Carlson (1896–1947) and America’s Long War for China, 1937–1950

James Romm, a professor of classics at Bard College, The Sacred Band of Thebes and the Last Days of Greek Freedom (379–338 B.C.)

Susan Lynn Schneider, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Future Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Brain Enhancement, and the Nature of the Self

Courtney Thorsson, an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, The Sisterhood: A Black Women’s Literary Organization

John G. Turner, an associate professor of religious studies and history at George Mason University, Out of Small Beginnings: Plymouth Colony and the Making of American Liberty

Organizations

Appointments

Fred Weiss, a strategic adviser at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, became the first chief research and data officer on July 1.

Deaths

Donald O. Ericksen, acting president and then president of University of Northwestern at St. Paul from 1983 to 1997, died on August 6. He was 85.

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, an associate professor of history at San Francisco State University, died following an asthma attack on August 10. She was 46. In addition to her academic work, she was a community activist in her hometown of Stockton. She co-founded the Little Manila Foundation and wrote a book on the neighborhood, Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California (Duke University Press, 2013).

John David Renley, a longtime vice chancellor for human resources for Coast Community College District, died on June 17. He was 81. He retired in 2006.