Compiled by Ruth Hammond, Julia Piper, and M.J. Prest
April 13, 2018
Chief executives
Appointments
James W. Dean Jr.,a professor of organizational behavior and former executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will become president of the University of New Hampshire on June 30. He will succeed Mark W. Huddleston, who plans to retire.
Lawrence Feick,vice provost for special projects at the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus, will become interim president of the campuses at Bradford and Titusville on June 30. He will replace Livingston Alexander, who plans to retire.
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Chief executives
Appointments
James W. Dean Jr.,a professor of organizational behavior and former executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will become president of the University of New Hampshire on June 30. He will succeed Mark W. Huddleston, who plans to retire.
Lawrence Feick,vice provost for special projects at the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus, will become interim president of the campuses at Bradford and Titusville on June 30. He will replace Livingston Alexander, who plans to retire.
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Andrew Feinstein,provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at San Jose State University, has been named the sole finalist to be president of the University of Northern Colorado. He will succeed Kay Norton, who plans to retire in June.
Joan Ferrini-Mundy,chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation, will become president of the University of Maine at Orono and of the University of Maine at Machias on July 1. She will succeed Susan J. Hunter, who plans to retire, at the helm of both campuses.
Len Jessup,president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas since 2015, will become president of Claremont Graduate University on July 1. He cited “interference” from the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education and the system’s Board of Regents as a reason for leaving his current role. Jessup will replace Jacob Adams, who has been serving as Claremont’s interim leader since January 2017.
Cynthia Pemberton,vice president for academic affairs at Colorado Mesa University, will become president of Lewis-Clark State College. She will succeed J. Anthony Fernandez, who plans to retire in June.
Kevin Satterlee,chief operating officer and vice president and special counsel at Boise State University, will become president of Idaho State University on June 18. He will succeed Arthur C. Vailas, who will retire.
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Raymond Tymas-Jones,associate vice president for the arts and a former dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah, will become president at Cornish College of the Arts on July 1. Tymas-Jones will be its first African-American president. He will replace Star Hang Nga Rush, acting president. The last permanent president, Nancy J. Uscher, stepped down in 2016.
Luther Marshall Washington,president at New River Community and Technical College, will become president at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. He will succeed Marilyn Schlack.
Daniel A. Wubah,a professor of biology and a former provost and senior adviser to the president of Washington and Lee University, will become president of Millersville University of Pennsylvania on July 1. The current leader, John M. Anderson, plans to retire on June 30.
Resignations
Pamela Davies,president of Queens University of Charlotte since 2002, plans to step down on June 30, 2019, or sooner if a successor is in place before then. She will remain as a professor of strategy in the university’s McColl School of Business.
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Paul Drayton,president of Rowan College at Burlington County since 2015, plans to resign on September 1. He was placed on administrative leave on August 30, after a discrimination complaint was filed against him. Drayton cited “medical reasons” for his departure. Michael Cioce, vice president for enrollment management and student success, is serving as acting president.
Beverlee McClure,president of Adams State University since 2015, has resigned, effective March 31. The university’s Board of Trustees had placed her on a leave of absence in February following a disagreement over priorities for the institution, and announced her resignation on April 5.
Retirements
Verna Fitzsimmons,dean of the College of Technology and Aviation and chief executive at Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus since 2012, plans to retire on August 26.
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Chief academic officers
Appointments
Mohamed Abdelrahman,vice president for academic affairs at Arkansas Tech University, will become provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Colorado State University at Pueblo on June 1.
Tracie Costantino,interim provost at Rhode Island School of Design, will become provost at California Institute of the Arts this summer.
Kathleen Ferrel, vice president for student affairs at Nicolet Area Technical College, has become executive vice president for academic and student affairs.
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Jonathan M. Harbor,associate vice provost for teaching and learning and executive director of digital education at Purdue University at West Lafayette, will become executive vice president and provost at the University of Montana this summer.
Timothy G. Laurent,former vice president for academic affairs at the University of Providence, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Mount Mercy University, in Iowa, in June. He will succeed Janet Handler, who plans to retire.
Lisa Springer,associate dean at New York University School of Professional Studies American Language Institute, will become provost at LIM College on June 4.
Other top administrators
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Appointments
Dan Allen,vice president for development at DePaul University, will become vice president for advancement on July 1.
Adam J. Castro,vice president for enrollment management at Bloomfield College, will become vice president for admissions at Mercy College on June 1.
James D. Jorgensen,a deputy counsel and an adjunct assistant professor in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, will become chief of staff and chief legal counsel at Pitzer College on July 2.
John Lawrence,interim vice president for extension and outreach at Iowa State University, has become vice president.
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Philips McCarty, founder and chief executive officer of the consulting company Good Scout, will become vice president for advancement at the Fashion Institute of Technology and executive director of the FIT Foundation.
Sheri Parks,associate dean for research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and programming for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland at College Park, will become vice president for strategic initiatives at Maryland Institute College of Art on June 1.
Robert Pastoor,interim vice president for student affairs at the University of Saint Francis, in Indiana, will become vice president for student affairs at the University of Providence on June 1.
Chad A. Reed,associate vice president for budget and financial planning at Radford University, will become vice president for finance and administration on June 25.
Nsombi B. Ricketts,assistant provost for diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University, will become vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion at Pratt Institute on July 5.
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Toby Roth,former director of government relations and public affairs at Central Michigan University, was appointed interim vice president for government and external relations this month.
Gregory Sanial,chief of staff in the U.S. Coast Guard Fifth District (Virginia), will become vice president for finance at Grand Valley State University in the spring.
Rory Shaffer-Walsh,executive director of university advancement at Adelphi University, became vice president for institutional advancement at Saint Joseph’s College, in New York, this week.
Kathleen M. Wilbur,former vice president for government and external relations at Central Michigan University, has become executive vice president for government and external relations at Michigan State University.
Robert G. Wilhelm,vice chancellor for research and economic development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will become vice chancellor for research and economic development at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on May 15.
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Denise Wilkerson,special assistant to the provost at American University, has been named the University System of Maryland’s new chief of staff to the chancellor and the system office. She succeeds Janice Doyle, who retired on March 31.
Retirements
Albert R. Checcio,senior vice president for advancement at the University of Southern California, says he will retire on June 30. Under his guidance, the university has raised more than $6.6 billion since 2011.
Jerry May,vice president for development at the University of Michigan, plans to retire at the end of the year.
Allen Morgan,vice president for athletics at Carson-Newman University, plans to retire on June 30.
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Deans
Appointments
Nezam Al-Nsair,chair and director of the nursing department at the University of Mount Union, will become dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions at York College in July.
Mario Barnes,senior associate dean for academic affairs at the University of California at Irvine, will become dean of the University of Washington School of Law on July 5.
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Örn B. Bodvarsson,former dean of the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University at Sacramento, will become dean for the Bill & Vieve Gore School of Business at Westminster College, in Utah.
Jeffrey Cole,associate dean of the faculty and a professor of anthropology at Connecticut College, will become dean of the faculty on July 1.
Alberto Dávila,professor of economics and lead associate dean of administration, graduate studies and research at the Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, will become dean of the Donald L. Harrison College of Business at Southeast Missouri State University on June 1.
Ursula Furi-Perry,a professor of legal studies and criminal justice at Becker College, will be dean of the college’s new School of Humanities and Social Sciences, effective July 1.
Lena Hill,senior associate to the president, interim chief diversity officer, and associate vice president at the University of Iowa, will become dean of the College at Washington and Lee University on July 1.
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Sanjeev Khagram,professor of global political economy, diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College, will become director-general and dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University on July 1. He will succeed Allen Morrison, who will step down on June 30 and return to teaching and research.
Jelena Kovacevic,head of the department of electrical and computer engineering, and a professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named dean of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, effective August 15. She will be the engineering school’s first female dean.
John Mahoney,director of undergraduate admission at Boston College, has been named dean of undergraduate admission and financial aid.
Keith Mellinger,interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Mary Washington, attained permanent status.
Bobby Pace, former chair of the social-sciences department at Community College of Aurora, has become dean of academic affairs for concurrent enrollment.
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Gordon Tomaselli,chief of the division of cardiology and co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will become dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine on July 1.
Timothy L. Wilson, assistant vice president for student development at Seattle University, will become dean of student affairs at University of Washington at Bothell on July 10.
Department chairs
Appointments
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Mark Lee,founding partner of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee and a design critic in architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, will become chair of the department of architecture and a professor in practice of architecture on July 1.
Other administrators
Appointments
Benjamin Akande,former president of Westminster College, in Missouri, became senior adviser to the chancellor and director of the Africa initiative at Washington University in St. Louis on April 1.
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Ann Marie Alexander,senior director of corporate and foundation relations in the development office at Clemson University, will become assistant vice president for strategic corporate partnerships.
Todd G. Andrews,vice president for alumni relations at Brown University, will become executive director of alumni relations and constituent engagement at the University of Utah on June 18.
Nichole Capitanio,director of staff and employee-assistance programs at Cleveland Clinic, will become director of personal-assistance service at Duke University on April 16.
Neijma Celestine-Donnor,a training specialist at the Ruth H. Young Center for Families and Children at the University of Maryland at College Park School of Social Work, will become program manager for hate/bias response on April 20.
Qiang Chang,associate professor of medical genetics and neurology and interim director of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become director of the Waisman Center on July 1.
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Donna Elliott,senior associate dean for student and educational affairs in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, will become vice dean for medical education and chair of the department of medical education in the Keck school on June 1.
Garlin Gilchrist II,former director of innovation and emerging technology for the City of Detroit, was named founding executive director of the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Carlton Green,a counselor at the counseling center at the University of Maryland at College Park, became director of diversity training and education this week.
Michael Gunderson,associate director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business at Purdue University, will become director on May 1.
Ray Hawkins,associate director of University of Mississippi’s police department, became chief of police this month.
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Sharon Hill, former charitable-gift officer for the Interlochen Center for the Arts, has become assistant vice president for leadership and regional development of the New York Metro/Northeast region at the University of Cincinnati Foundation.
Ying Hua,associate professor and director of undergraduate studies for the department of design and environmental analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, became director of the Cornell China Center on April 1.
Dean Luethi,associate professor and coordinator of music education at the School of Music at Washington State University, became director of School of Music on April 1.
Maura Mulligan, director of the Center for Wellness and Disability Services at Wentworth Institute of Technology, has taken on an additional role as assistant dean of students.
Joe O’Reilly,executive director of student achievement support at Mesa Public Schools, was appointed director of the Decision Center for Educational Excellence at Arizona State University, which was created in partnership with Helios Education Foundation.
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Ninez Ponce,a professor of health policy and management at the University of California at Los Angeles, will become director of UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research on July 1.
Max Rollinger, program-operations lead for technology festivals and conferences including HUBweek and XLIVE, became inaugural director of programming at Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center at Wentworth Institute of Technology in March.
The Rev. Kevin Sandberg,acting executive director of the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to the post permanently, effective July 1.
Marc Sears, former assistant vice president of benefits, compensation, and wellness at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has become director of human resources at High Point University.
Rachel Switzky,executive director of business strategy at the design consulting firm IDEO, will become the inaugural director of the Siebel Center for Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on June 18.
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Tamara D. White, dean of students at Community College of Aurora, has become associate vice president for student affairs.
Karen E. Willcox,co-director of the Center for Computational Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will become director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin on August 1.
Alina S. Wong,associate dean for student life at Barnard College, will become assistant vice provost for educational equity at Pennsylvania State University at University Park on June 1.
Resignations
Joseph D. Bishop Sr.,chief of police at Tulane University, has resigned. The university is in the midst of an internal investigation into complaints that university police officials played down or tried to hide incidents of excessive force by officers.
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Retirements
William Alexander,director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Pennsylvania, plans to retire on August 31.
Faculty
Appointments
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Bobby Alvarado, welder, was named a professor of welding at Arizona Western College.
Pamela Herd,professor of public affairs the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become a professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.
Terry McAuliffe,former governor of Virginia, has become a visiting professor at George Mason University.
Donald Moynihan,director of and a professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become a professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University this fall.
Resignations
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Ching-Shih Chen,a former professor of medicinal chemistry and cancer-treatment researcher at Ohio State University, resigned in September after an internal investigation found that he committed research fraud. In March, the university announced the results of the investigation and Chen’s resignation.
Awards
Bancroft prizes
Columbia University has presented the 2018 Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy to the authors of three books. The award carries a cash prize of more than $12,000.
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Waldo Heinrichs, history professor emeritus at San Diego State University, and Marc Gallicchio, a professor of history at Villanova University, for Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Louis S. Warren, professor of western U.S. history at the University of California at Davis, for God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America (Basic Books, 2017).
Douglas L. Winiarski, professor of religious studies and American studies at the University of Richmond, for Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2017).
Stoneman award
Martha Albertson Fineman,a professor of law and founding director of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative and of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, received the Miriam M. Netter ‘72 Stoneman Award from Albany Law School in recognition of her efforts to expand opportunities for women.
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Deaths
Paul Murrill,chancellor of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge from 1974 to 1981, died on April 2. He was 83. During his tenure, Murrill oversaw expanded opportunities for female athletes under Title IX and worked with the botanical artist Margaret Stones to begin developing a collection of watercolor drawings of the native flora of Louisiana.
Paul Ranslow,president of Ripon College from 1996 to 2002, died on April 9 in California after a short battle with cancer. He was 70.