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CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Monica Baloga, provost at Limestone University, in South Carolina, has been named acting president. She succeeds Darrell Parker, who resigned.
Joy Bodin, interim president of Hennepin Technical College, in Minnesota, has been named to the post permanently.
Chris Brussalis, chairman of the Hill Group Inc. and a member of Point Park University’s Board of Trustees, has been named interim president of the Pennsylvania university. He succeeds Donald Green, who resigned in January.
Dale G. Caldwell, executive director of the Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University, has been named president of Centenary University, in New Jersey. He will be the first Black president of the university.
Marta Yera Cronin, president of Columbia Gorge Community College, in Oregon, has been named president of Delaware County Community College, in Pennsylvania.
Keith Dunn, provost and dean at Millsaps College, in Mississippi, has been named interim president. He will succeed Robert Wesley Pearigen, who has been named vice chancellor and president of Sewanee: The University of the South.
Glynis A. Fitzgerald, senior vice president and provost at Alvernia University, has been named president of the Pennsylvania university. She will succeed John R. Loyack, who will become its chief executive.
Chris Gilmer, interim president of West Virginia University’s Potomac State College, has been named to the post permanently.
Colin Irvine, provost and executive vice president at Augustana University, in South Dakota, has been named president Concordia College, in Minnesota.
Gregory L. King, vice president for advancement at the University of Mount Union, has been named president of the university.
Lori Kloos, who has served as interim president of St. Cloud Technical & Community College since July 2022, has been named president.
Fletcher Lamkin, a former president at Westminster College, in Missouri, has been named interim president of Clarke University, in Iowa.
Susan L. Parish, dean of the College of Health Professions at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named president of Mercy College, in New York.
Robert Wesley Pearigen, president of Millsaps College, in Mississippi, has been named vice chancellor and president of Sewanee: The University of the South. He will succeed Nancy Berner, who has served as acting president since Reuben E. Brigety II stepped down, in December 2021.
John Shannon, provost and senior vice president at Trine University, has been named president of the university.
Gregory M. Tanner, vice president for advancement, government relations, and athletics at South Georgia State College, has been named interim president of the college.
Departures
Paul Czarapata, president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College system, has stepped down. Larry Ferguson, president of Ashland Community and Technical College, has been named interim president.
Patricia Okker, president of New College of Florida, has been removed by the Board of Trustees. Brad Thiessen, chief of staff at the college, has been named interim president.
CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Michael Adams, dean of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at Campbell University, has been named vice president for academic affairs and provost.
Katherine Baicker, a professor and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, has been named the university’s provost.
Corey Campbell, vice president for student engagement and retention at Jefferson Community College, in New York, has been named vice president for academic affairs at Cleveland State Community College, in Tennessee.
John L. Jackson Jr., a professor and dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the university’s provost.
Elliott Visconsi, associate provost and chief academic digital officer at the University of Notre Dame, has been named provost and dean of the college at the College of the Holy Cross.
OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Rebecca Brown, assistant vice president for finance and administration in charge of business and auxiliary services at Florida A&M University, has been named chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration.
Leslie Brunelli, senior vice chancellor for business and financial affairs at the University of Denver, has been named executive vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Washington State University.
Nina Caldwell, vice president for student life at Maryville University, has been named vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Alejandro Diaz, chief compliance officer at Temple University, has been named the first chief compliance officer at Dartmouth College.
Kamal Khayat, a professor of civil engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named vice chancellor for research and innovation at the university.
Kara Kolomitz, former chief operating officer at Regis College, in Massachusetts, has been named inaugural joint chief operating officer at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, in Minnesota.
Sarah Kottich, former executive vice president at the College of Saint Mary, in Nebraska, has been named executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Millikin University.
Rich Mendola, enterprise chief information officer and senior vice provost for information technology at Emory University, has been named vice president and chief information officer at the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Keith Michel, associate vice president for development at Mount Holyoke College, has been named vice president for advancement at Bennington College.
Don C. Sawyer III, vice president for equity, inclusion, and leadership development at Quinnipiac University, has been named vice president for diversity, inclusion, and belonging at Fairfield University.
Michael Thomas, vice president for administration and chief risk officer at Middlebury College, has been named chief financial and administrative officer at Amherst College.
Kathleen Wong, chief diversity officer at San Jose State University, has been named university diversity officer at California State University-East Bay.
Resignations
Damon Sims, vice president for student affairs at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, has stepped down. He will serve as special assistant to the president until June 30, after which he will join the faculty.
DEANS
Appointments
Todd R. Andel, chair and professor of computer science at the University of South Alabama, has been named dean of the university’s School of Computing.
David Borrok, interim vice provost and dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named to the post permanently.
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Sean Ferns, senior director of operations and systems in the Office of Financial Aid at Brown University, has been named interim dean of financial aid.
Greg Ford, chair of the department of physical therapy at Daemen University, has been named founding dean of the university’s new College of Health Professions.
Kendra Hall-Kenyon, interim dean of the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University, has been named to the position permanently.
Robert Kidd, interim dean of the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University since October 2021, has been named to the post permanently.
Jason King, chair of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, has been named dean of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
Maha Lund, division chief and director of the physician-assistant program at the Emory University School of Medicine, has been named dean of the School of Health Sciences at Elon University.
Megan L. Ranney, a professor and deputy dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, has been named dean of the School of Public Health at Yale University.
Margaret Watkins, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seattle Pacific University, has been named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Providence College.
Resignations
Amy Wildermuth, dean of the School of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, has stepped down and returned to the faculty.
DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
Appointments
Joy Gaston Gayles, a professor of higher education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the College of Education at North Carolina State University, has been named head of the college’s department of educational leadership, policy, and human development.
OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Mel Brennan, chief executive of United Way of Southern Maryland, has been named executive director of the Center for Experience and Opportunity at McDaniel College.
Ruel Desamero, a professor of chemistry at the City University of New York, York College, has been named director of the undergraduate research program.
Alyssa Hadley Dunn, a former associate professor at Michigan State University, has been named an associate professor and director of teacher education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.
María Estorino, interim vice provost for university libraries and university librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named to the position permanently.
Katie McLaughlin, a professor and director of the Stress and Development Laboratory at Harvard University, has been named executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon.
Lauren McLellan, senior development officer at Harvard Business School, has been named assistant vice president for development at Bryant University.
B. Afeni McNeely Cobham, chief equity and inclusion officer at Grand Rapids Community College, has been named associate vice chancellor and vice provost for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Matthew Notowidigdo, a professor of economics in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, has been named co-scientific director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Michelle Robinson, interim dean of the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named senior vice provost for faculty affairs.
Brenda Tindal, executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, has been named chief campus curator for Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Lisa Weingarth, vice president for external affairs at the St. Louis-based nonprofit Rung for Women, has been named senior adviser for St. Louis initiatives in the Office of the Chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis.
ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Jacob Fraire, director of policy and strategy for the Diana Natalicio Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso, has been named president of the nonprofit ECMC Foundation.
DEATHS
William C. Agee, a curator and a former professor of modern American art at the City University of New York’s Hunter College, died on December 24. He was 86.
David Allis, a molecular biologist who was a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, in Texas, and Syracuse University, died on January 8. He was 71.
Timothy W. Edlund, a former professor of strategic management at Morgan State University’s Graves School of Business and Management, died on December 13. He was 92.
R. Kent Greenawalt, a professor emeritus in the Columbia University Law School, died on January 27. He was 86.
Michael J. Kelly, a former dean of the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, died on January 20. He was 85.
Walter Roettger, a president emeritus of Lyon College, died on January 29. He was 81.
Barbara Stanley, a professor of psychology at Columbia University and director of suicide-prevention training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, died on January 25. She was 73.
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