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Chief executives

Appointments

Leah Barrett, vice president for student affairs at the Northern Wyoming Community College District, has been named the first female president of Northeast Community College. She will replace Mary Honke and Steve Schram, who have served as co-interim presidents since Michael Chipps retired in May.

Jay Golden, vice chancellor for research at East Carolina University, will become president of Wichita State University in January. He will replace Andy Tompkins, who has served as interim president since John Bardo’s death in March.

Ron Mitchelson, provost and senior vice chancellor of academic affairs at East Carolina University, has been named interim chancellor.

Christopher F. Roellke, dean emeritus and professor of education at Vassar College, will become president of Stetson University on July 1. He will succeed Wendy B. Libby, who plans to retire.

Resignations

Walter Asonevich, president of Pennsylvania Highlands Community College, will step down. This came after posts on his social media prompted the Board of Trustees to suspend him for comments they found “unprofessional, demeaning and offensive.”

Brian Bruess, president of St. Norbert College since 2017, plans to step down at the end of the academic year.

Marc Johnson, president of the University of Nevada at Reno since 2012, plans to step down and return to the faculty on June 30, 2020.

Tedd L. Mitchell, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System and president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will step down as president and remain as chancellor.

Retirements

Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College since 2007, plans to retire on June 30, 2020. She is the first woman to lead the college.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Suzanne Blum Malley, senior associate provost at Columbia College Chicago, will become provost at Methodist University on January 15.

Christine Sapienza, interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Jacksonville University since May 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Aswani Volety, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and executive director of the Center for Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Elon University.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Warren Anderson, vice president for inclusion and diversity, chief diversity officer, and Title IX coordinator at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, will become vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire on December 16.

George Battle, general counsel for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, will become the first vice chancellor for institutional integrity and risk management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next year.

Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Mississippi, has been named vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Mark Wahlers, former provost at Concordia University, Oregon, has been named chief administrative officer at Concordia College, New York.

Meghan Harte Weyant, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Rollins College, will become vice president for student life at Rhodes College on July 1, 2020.

Deans

Appointments

Theodorea Regina Berry, a professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies in the College of Social Sciences at San Jose State University, will become vice provost for teaching and learning and dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida on January 2.

Robert A. Flowers II, deputy provost for faculty affairs at Lehigh University, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Mona Hicks, dean of students at Saint Louis University, has been named senior associate vice provost and dean of students at Stanford University.

Julie Hoff, a professor and dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, will become dean of the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in January.

Michael Huggins, a professor of chemistry and former dean of the Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering at the University of West Florida, will become dean of the College of Science and Technology at Tarleton State University on January 13.

Carol Johnson, interim dean of the College of Business at Northern Michigan University, has been named to the post permanently.

Beverly Keel, chair of the department of recording industry in the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University, has been named dean of the college.

Steven McClung, senior associate dean of the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University, has been named dean of the School of Business and Industry at Jacksonville State University.

Lawrence McNeil, an associate professor of economics at Prairie View A&M University, will become dean of the College of Business at Bowie State University on December 16.

Elaine Morrato, associate dean for public health practice and professor of health systems, management, and policy Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, will become founding dean of the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health at Loyola University Chicago on February 1.

Angie Reams, interim associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Iowa since January, has been named to the post permanently.

Lori Steiner, an associate professor of mathematics and director of institutional research at Newman University, will become dean of the university’s School of Arts and Sciences on January 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

Olivia Aguilar, an associate professor in the McPhail Center for Environmental Studies at Denison University, will become director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment and an associate professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College in January.

Julie Ancis, associate vice president for institute diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named a professor of psychology and director of cyberpsychology in the department of humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s College of Science and Liberal Arts.

Spencer Bevis, a digitization specialist at Duke University Libraries, has been named project librarian for North Carolina Historic Newspapers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stuart Clarke, executive director of the Town Creek Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation, will become vice president for strategic initiatives at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

John Dascanio, executive associate dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Lincoln Memorial University, has been named senior associate dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Tammie Durham, director of financial aid at New York University, has been named assistant vice provost and executive director of financial aid at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Stuart Adam Eisenstadt, a former lecturer, ABET coordinator, and director of the LEAD Lab in the department of computer science at the State University of New York-Korea, in Songdo, South Korea, an affiliate of Stony Brook University, has been named assistant dean of undergraduate and graduate information technology programs at Thomas Edison State University.

Keith Frazee, assistant director of orientation programs at the University of Oregon, has been named assistant vice president and chief of staff for the Division of Student Services and Enrollment Management.

Christine Caron Gebhardt, director of the Gender Relations Center at the University of Notre Dame, has been named assistant vice president for student services in the division of student affairs.

Cathy Glaze, former Title IX coordinator at Stanford University, has been named interim Title IX coordinator and director of equity investigations. Glaze retired in 2018 and returned to the post after Jill Thomas stepped down last month.

Edward L. Golding, a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute who was head of the Federal Housing Administration from 2015 to 2017, has been named executive director and senior lecturer at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Mark Kamimura-Jimenez, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs at Texas Christian University, will become associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis on January 1.

Laurie Lewis, vice provost for faculty affairs, a professor of communication, and a fellow at the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, became associate vice provost for faculty success at the University of Texas at San Antonio on September 9.

Mitzi Montoya, former provost and executive vice president at Washington State University, has been named special assistant to the dean of the university’s Carson College of Business.

Rodney Ridley, executive director of The Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Wilkes University, has been named associate provost and vice president and chief operating officer of the O’Pake Institute for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship at Alvernia University.

Cynthia Sims, former associate dean of academics and student affairs at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, has been named associate vice president for academic partnerships and learning resources at College of DuPage.

Barry Paul Sleckman, associate director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, will become director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on January 6.

Romona West, assistant director of graduate recruitment and outreach for the Graduate School and International Education at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named director of diversity and inclusion for the university’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Mark White, a representative for District 83 in the Tennessee state general assembly and chair of the Tennessee House Education committee, has been named director of leadership and public service in the College of Leadership and Public Service at Lipscomb University.

Robert Winn, director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center in Chicago and associate vice chancellor for health affairs in community-based practice at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System, will become director of the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University on December 2.

Resignations

Harry Perretta, head coach of women’s basketball at Villanova University since 1978, plans to retire at the end of the 2019-20 season. He will stay at Villanova through 2020-21 as special assistant to the athletic director.

Organizations

Retirements

The Rev. Michael J. Sheeran, president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities since 2013, will retire in June 2020.

Deaths

Bernard Fisher, a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, died on October 16. He was 101. Fisher established the first Laboratory of Surgical Research at the university in 1953 and performed the first kidney transplant in Pittsburgh in 1964. His research focused on breast cancer treatments, which provided a scientific basis for less extensive surgery.

Thaddeus Seymour, former president of Rollins College, died on October 26. He was 91. Seymour was president of the college from 1978 to 1990. He established a College Planning Committee and oversaw raised faculty salaries and increased enrollment. Before Rollins, Seymour served as president of Wabash College for nine years.

Dwight D. Vines, former president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, died on October 25. He was 88. Vines was president of the university from 1976 until 1991. After he left the university, he worked as the economic development officer for the city of Monroe.

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