Lipscomb U. Names First Female President; Tuskegee U.’s Interim President Becomes Permanent Leader

Cathy Cox, former secretary of state in Georgia and a former dean of the Mercer University School of Law, has been named president of George College & State University. She will succeed Steve Dorman, who will step down in September.

Jane Fernandes, president of Guilford College, became president of Antioch College on August 16. She is the second woman to serve as president of the college and succeeds​ Tom Manley, who retired.

Mark Fuller, interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth since January, has been named to the post permanently.

Michael Gavin, vice president for learning at Anne Arundel Community College, in Maryland, has been named president of Delta College, in Michigan.

Bashar Hanna, president of Bloomsburg University and interim president of Lock Haven University, has been named interim president of Mansfield University. The ​​Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education plans to integrate all three institutions into a single university.

Roger Hughes, head football coach at Stetson University, has been named president of Doane University. He succeeds Jacquie Carter.

David L. Kaufman, interim president of Capital University since June 2020, has been named to the post permanently.

Candice McQueen, chief executive of the National Institute of Excellence in Teaching and former education commissioner for the state of Tennessee, has been named president of Lipscomb University. She will be the first woman to lead the university, where she used to be senior vice president and dean of the College of Education.

Orinthia T. Montague, president of Tompkins Cortland Community College, in New York, has been named president of Volunteer State Community College.

Charlotte P. Morris, interim president of Tuskegee University since Lily McNair stepped down, became its second female president on August 1.

Charles Robinson, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named interim chancellor. He succeeds Bill Kincaid, who was named acting chancellor after Joe Steinmetz resigned.

Michael J. Sosulski, provost at Wofford College, in South Carolina, has been named president of Washington College, in Maryland. He will succeed Wayne Powell, who has served as interim president since last year.

Kevin Weinman, chief financial and administrative officer at Amherst College, has been named president of Marist College. He will succeed Dennis Murray, who was named interim president after David Yellen stepped down.

Antoine M. Garibaldi, president of the University of Detroit Mercy since 2011, will step down in June 2022 and, after a sabbatical, return to the faculty.

Richard V. Homan, president and provost of Eastern Virginia Medical School, has stepped down.

Nicole Pride, president of West Virginia State University for less than a year, has resigned.

Carol Quillen, president of Davidson College, plans to step down at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.

Greg Gillespie, chancellor since 2014 of the Ventura County Community College District, in California, will retire at the end of June 2022.

Jean Goodnow, president of Delta College since 2005, planned to retire at the end of August.

Nasser H. Paydar, chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and executive vice president for Indiana University since 2015, plans to retire next year.

Sandra Affenito, executive vice president for operations at Norwich University, in Vermont, has been named vice chancellor for academic administration at Johnson & Wales University, in Rhode Island.

Katrice A. Albert, founder and managing member of Third Eye Consulting Group and former executive vice president for inclusion and human resources at the National Collegiate Athletic Association, will become vice president for institutional diversity at the University of Kentucky on September 27.

Mark Bieger, chief of staff to the president at the University of South Carolina, has been named vice president for strategy at Louisiana State University.

Karen C. Goff, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Agnes Scott College, has been named vice president and dean of students at Oberlin College.

Heather Hayes, associate dean of strategic and student affairs at Boston College’s Law School, has been named vice president and chief of staff at the College of Holy Cross.

Brad Hermes, chief financial officer at the Communication Service for the Deaf, has been named chief financial officer at Gallaudet University. He is the university’s first deaf senior financial leader.

Bill Johnson, vice president for advancement at California State University-East Bay, has been named vice president for advancement at the University of Nevada at Reno.

Carmen Johnson, director of diversity initiatives and recruitment in the College of Law at Stetson University, has been named the university’s executive officer for diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.

Katy Herbert Kotlarczyk, assistant vice president for central advancement at the University of Colorado system, became vice chancellor for advancement at the University of Colorado at Boulder on August 23.

Barbara J. Lawrence, vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Title IX coordinator, at Guilford College, will become the first vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and chief diversity officer, at Rider University on September 13.

Frances Magee, associate provost and dean of students at Clark University, in Massachusetts, has been named vice president for student life and dean of students at Susquehanna University.

David Massaron, budget director for the state of Michigan, has been named chief business officer, chief financial officer/senior vice president for finance and business operations, and treasurer at Wayne State University.

William Mullen, vice provost for enrollment and communications at Saint Mary’s College of California, was slated to become vice president for enrollment management at Willamette University on September 1.

W. Anthony Neal, vice president for institutional advancement at LeMoyne-Owen College, has been named senior vice president for institutional advancement at Wiley College.

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, an associate professor in the department of English and a faculty affiliate with the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, the program in Latinx studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, was slated to become vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Sarah Lawrence College on August 30.

Adrienne Amador Oddi, dean of admission and financial aid at Trinity College, has been named vice president for strategic enrollment and communications at Queens University of Charlotte.

Michelle Crimi, interim dean of the Graduate School at Clarkson University, in New York, has been named to the post permanently.

Ramona Denby-Brinson, a professor and associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Social Work at Ohio State University, has been named dean of the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will be the first Black woman to serve as the school’s dean.

Jackie Jones, assistant dean of programs in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University, has been named dean of the school.

Anthony J. Marchese, associate dean of academic and student affairs in the Walter L. Scott Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University at Fort Collins, has been named dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

Venetria K. Patton, head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University at West Lafayette, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Evan Sprinkle, associate vice president in the undergraduate-admissions office at Queens University of Charlotte, will become dean of undergraduate admissions at Elon University on September 20.

Aimée Surprenant, associate vice president and dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, was slated to become dean of the Graduate School at Virginia Tech on September 1.

Marcus C. Tye, dean of the School of Health Sciences and interim dean of the School of Education at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, has been named dean of the College of Health Professions at Pace University.

Jolanda Westerhof, former president of Principia College, has been named dean of the Ella Cline Shear School of Education at the State University of New York’s College at Geneseo.

Ward Farnsworth, dean of the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, plans to step down after the 2021-22 academic year.

Bob Pianta, dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia since 2007, plans to step down at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.

Luis Zayas, dean of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin since 2012, will return to the faculty next summer.

Nena Peragallo Montano, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, plans to retire.

Nakia White Barr, secretary of the Board of Trustees at Michigan State University, has been named assistant vice president in the Office of the President at Princeton University.

Megan Coval, vice president for public policy and federal relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, has been named executive director of the BC3 Education Foundation and external relations at Butler County Community College.

Ivory W. Lyles, associate dean of engagement and director of extension at the University of Nevada at Reno, has been named vice provost for extension and engagement and director of the OSU Extension Service at Oregon State University.

Geraldine McGinty, an associate professor of clinical radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and chief strategy officer and chief contracting officer of the Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Organization, in New York, was slated to become senior associate dean of clinical affairs on September 1.

Suzanne Shanahan, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, will become executive director of the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame on October 1.

Misty Shepherd, interim vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Central Florida, has been named senior associate vice president for financial affairs.

Jim Sterk, athletics director at the University of Missouri at Columbia, plans to step down.

Noel Brewer, a professor of health behavior in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named Gillings Distinguished Professor in Public Health.

Jack Szostak, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, at Harvard University and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been named a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago.

Sameer Gadkaree, senior program officer for education and economic mobility at the Joyce Foundation, will become president and chief executive of the Institute for College Access and Success on October 1.

Susan Keith, an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, has been named president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Jee Hang Lee, senior vice president at the Association of Community College Trustees, has been named president and chief executive of the association.

Stanley Aronowitz, a social theorist and professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, died on August 16. He was 88. Aronowitz wrote several books, including False Promises: The Shaping of American Working-Class Consciousness (1973) and Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters (2008).

Theodore C. Bestor, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University, died of cancer on July 1. He was 69.

Floyd Boschee, a professor emeritus at the University of South Dakota, died of Covid-19 on August 12. He was 86.

Paul Errol Bragdon, the longest-serving president of Reed College, died on August 7. He was 94. Bragdon led the college from 1971 to 1988.

Paula Caplan, a feminist psychologist and a professor at many institutions, died on July 21. She was 74. Caplan taught at the University of Toronto, American University, the University of Rhode Island, Brown University, and Harvard University.

Henry Givens Jr., president emeritus of Harris-Stowe State University, died on July 20. He served as president from 1979 to 2011.

Barbara Kannapell, an adjunct professor at Gallaudet University and a deaf activist known for her advocacy of American Sign Language as a legitimate language, died on August 11. She was 83.

Jane Leach, dean of nursing at Collin College, died of complications from Covid-19 on August 11. She was 61.

James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995) and a visiting professor at the Catholic University of America, died on August 19. He was 79. Loewen began his career as a professor of sociology at Tougaloo College and later moved to the University of Vermont.

John Peacock, an offensive-line coach for the football team at Western Carolina University, died of Covid-19 on August 18. He was 32.

Charles J. Ping, president of Ohio University from 1975 to 1994, died on July 27. He was 91.

Mike Rose, an education research professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, died on August 15. He was 77.

Hugo Sonnenschein, president of the University of Chicago from 1993 to 2000, died on July 15. He was 80.

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