Transitions: U. of Maryland-Eastern Shore Names New President, Leaders of U. of Colorado and Nebraska Wesleyan U. Will Retire

Chief executives

Appointments

Heidi M. Anderson, special assistant to the president and former provost and vice president for academic affairs at Texas A&M University at Kingsville, will become president of University of Maryland-Eastern Shore on September 1. She will replace Mickey Burnim, who has served as interim president since Juliette Bell stepped down on July 1.

Kenneth Boham, former interim president at Martin Community College and the retired president of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, has been named interim president of James Sprunt Community College, in North Carolina. He will replace Lawrence Rouse, who will become president of Pitt Community College on August 1.

E. Joseph Lee II, vice president for enrollment management at the University of Maine at Orono, will become interim president of Spring Hill College on August 1. Christopher Puto, who had led the college since 2015, became president emeritus on June 1.

Andrew D. Martin, dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, will become chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis on June 1, 2019. He will succeed Mark S. Wrighton, who plans to step down.

Gregory McLeod, provost and interim dean of health professions at Thomas Nelson Community College, will become president of Edgecombe Community College in mid-August. He will replace Mark Lorence, who has served as interim president since June 1.

Retirements

Bruce D. Benson, president of the University of Colorado system since 2008, plans to retire in July 2019.

Frederik Ohles, president of Nebraska Wesleyan University since 2007, plans to retire on July 1, 2019.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Gerald P. Koocher, dean of the College of Science and Health at DePaul University, will become the first provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Quincy College on September 10.

Tod A. Laursen, president of Khalifa University, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has been named senior vice chancellor and provost at the State University of New York system.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Heather Krajewski, assistant vice president for advancement at the University of Richmond, has been named vice president for college advancement at Hampden-Sydney College.

Ashley R. Lomery, assistant vice president for development at Temple University, will become chief development officer at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on August 13.

Claire Machamer, chief technology officer and interim chief marketing officer at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, has been named the first vice chancellor for strategic communications.

Candy McCorkle, director of diversity and inclusion at Alma College, will become vice president for diversity and inclusion at Western Michigan University on August 1.

John Nisbet, vice president for finance at Creighton University, became vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer at Saint Leo University on July 1.

Michael Tompos, vice president for philanthropy with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Foundation, will become vice president for institutional advancement at Hamline University on August 1.

Theresa Travis, senior associate vice president for development and alumni relations at Saint Joseph’s University, in Philadelphia, has been named vice president for university advancement at Widener University.

Laura Troendle, director of budget and finance for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, will become vice president for administration, finance and treasurer at Pitzer College on July 23.

Resignations

Carolyn Ainslie, vice president for finance and treasurer at Princeton University, will step down to become chief financial officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on October 1.

Deans

Appointments

Lisa Allen, associate dean of the School of Education, chair of graduate programs and associate professor of education at Campbellsville University, has been named interim dean.

Carlos Barrezueta, assistant dean of social sciences/business/history at Union County College, has been named dean.

Susan Catron, senior associate dean of continuing and professional education at the University of California at Davis, has been named interim dean.

Gert-Jan de Vreede, a professor of information systems and decision sciences at the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, has been named interim dean of the College of Business at University of South Florida-Sarasota/Manatee.

David Elrod, vice president for business development at Jacobs Engineering, will become dean of the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University on August 1.

Ursula Furi-Perry, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Becker College, will also serve as interim dean of the new School of Graduate and Professional Studies.

David A. Gier, professor and director of the School of Music at the University of Iowa, has been appointed dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on October 1.

Sharon M. Gordon, associate dean for research at the School of Dental Medicine at East Carolina University, will become the first female dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Connecticut on August 31.

Marina Kaufman Holz, professor and chair of biology at Yeshiva University, will become dean of the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences at New York Medical College on September 1.

Christine E. Kasper, a professor of nursing at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and program manager for university affiliations in the Veterans Affairs Office of Nursing Services, has been named dean of the College of Nursing at University of New Mexico.

Charles Richardson, dean of the School of Business and associate professor of marketing at Claflin University, has been named dean of the College of Business at Misericordia University.

Yan Searcy, associate dean in the School of Health and Human Services at Southern Connecticut State University, will become dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University at Northridge on August 20.

Department chairs

Appointments

Kelly A. Hutcheson, director of ophthalmology for Westchester Medical Center Health Network, has been named chair of ophthalmology at New York Medical College.

Juanita L. Merchant, a professor of gastrointestinal sciences in internal medicine at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has been named chief of gastroenterology and hepatology the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson.

Other administrators

Appointments

Lessie Branch, deputy chair of business at Monroe College, has been named associate dean of the School for Business at Metropolitan College of New York.

John Giannini, head coach of men’s basketball at La Salle University, has been named director of the Center for Sports Communication and Social Impact at Rowan University.

William G. Hundley, medical director of cardiovascular imaging at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has been named director of the Pauley Heart Center at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Bridget Miller, director of institutional research and assessment at Cazenovia College, director of institutional research at Manhattan College.

Rani Roy, assistant vice president for faculty and student development at Manhattan College, has been named associate provost.

Jeffrey S. Trimbath, senior adviser to the president for donor relations at the Heritage Foundation, will become executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College on August 6.

Robert Walsh, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, has been named senior adviser for strategic partnerships at Manhattan College.

Jim Zook, head of communications for Deloitte & Touche, in Atlanta, has been named associate vice chancellor for strategic communications and marketing at the University of Mississippi.

Retirements

Dana Skinner, director of athletics at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell since 1995, plans to retire in September.

Faculty

Appointments

Caroline D. Ciraolo, former acting assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice Tax Division and a partner at the D.C.-based tax law firm, Kostelanetz & Fink, has joined the faculty of the University of Baltimore Graduate Tax Program.

Resignations

Robert Kurzban, professor and former chair of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, resigned in early July. Kurzban was the subject of a university investigation into allegations that he had inappropriate romantic relationships with students he was overseeing. He has denied allegations that he engaged in behavior that violated university policy.

Tenure awards

The following professors were awarded tenure at their institutions. If a faculty rank is not included, the faculty member is being promoted to the rank of associate professor. The changes take effect on varying dates.

Elizabethtown College

Dmitriy Krichevskiy, assistant professor of economics

Brenda Read-Daily, assistant professor of engineering

Matthew Telleen, assistant professor of communications

Perimeter College

Tiffany A. Flowers, assistant professor of education

Awards

John Watson, a professor of communication at American University, has received the Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. The award recognizes individuals who work to make journalism more diverse.

Artress White, a visiting assistant professor of American cultural studies at Albright College, has received the 2018 Trio Award for her collection of poems, My Afmerica. It will be published by Trio House Press.

Organizations

Appointments

Andre L. Green, political director at the Massachusetts art advoacy group, MASSCreative, will become executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest) on November 8.

James X. Sullivan, a professor of economics at Notre Dame University, has been named a member of the U.S. Commission on Social Impact Partnerships.

Retirements

Nancy Hansel, president of the New American Colleges & Universities, plans to retire on June 30, 2019.

Deaths

Robert George Gilpin Jr., professor emeritus of international affairs and politics at Princeton University, died on June 20 in Waterbury, Vermont. He was 87. Gilpin joined the faculty of the university in 1962 and earned emeritus status in 1998. He wrote several books, one of which, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton University Press, 1987), won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in 1988.

Burton Richter, professor emeritus in the physical sciences at Stanford University, died on July 18. He was 87. Richter served as director of the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 2007 to 2012. He received the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics with Samuel Ting for their discovery of the J/psi, a new subatomic particle.

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