Massachusetts Institute of Technology Names New President; New Provost at Gettysburg College

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Jim Cawley, interim president of Rosemont College, has been named to the post permanently.

Kenneth A. Jessell, interim president of Florida International university, has been named to the post permanently. Jessell became interim president after Mark B. Rosenberg resigned, in January.

Sally A. Kornbluth, provost of Duke University, has been named president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She will succeed L. Rafael Reif, who plans to step down.

Joseph S. Paul, interim president of the University of Southern Mississippi, has been named to the post permanently.

Rev. Jonathan Lee Walton, dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University, has been named president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He will succeed M. Craig Barnes, who plans to retire.

Greg Weiner, interim president since April of Assumption University, in Massachusetts, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations
William T. Bogart, president of Columbia College, in South Carolina, will step down at the end of the academic year.

Kurt T. Steinberg, president of Montserrat College of Art since July 2018, will step down in January to become chief operating officer of the Peabody Essex Museum.

Retirements
Larry Clark, chancellor of Louisiana State University at Shreveport since 2014, plans to retire at the end of the academic year.

Devorah Lieberman, president since 2011 of the University of La Verne, in California, plans to retire in July 2023.

Devinder Malhotra, chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, plans to retire in August.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Alicia Bertone, interim associate vice provost for strategic data and analysis at Ohio State University, has been named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Jamila Bookwala, a professor of psychology and former dean of the faculty at Lafayette College, has been named provost of Gettysburg College, in Pennsylvania.

Suzan Harkness, associate vice president for academic affairs and assessment at Notre Dame of Maryland University, has been named provost of the State University of New York at Morrisville.

Nicholas P. Jones, a special adviser to the president and former executive vice president and provost at Pennsylvania State University, has been named executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Illinois System.

Allyson M. Lowe, former vice president for academic affairs at Trocaire College, in New York, has been named inaugural provost and executive vice president at Yorkville University, in New Brunswick, Canada.

Katherine S. Newman, system chancellor for academic programs and senior vice president for economic development in the Office of the President of the University of Massachusetts, has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of California system.

Resignations
Dennis Papini, vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at the University of Illinois at Springfield, has resigned.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Amy Considine, president of the Integrative Insights Group, has been named vice president for workforce partnerships at Wells College.

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Courtney Howard, associate dean of the School of Education at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina, has been named the college’s chief diversity officer and vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Lauren Jacobson, a managing director in Columbia University’s Columbia Investment Management Company, has been named chief investment officer at Hamilton College.

Rana Johnson, associate vice president for inclusive excellence and strategic initiatives at Indiana State University, has been named vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Kansas State University.

Senthil Kumar, vice president for strategic enrollment management at Saint Leo University, has been named vice president for strategic enrollment management at Regis University.

Stacy Ludwig Johnson, vice president for academic operations for the School of Education at Western Governors University, has been named executive dean of the School of Education and senior vice president for the university.

Heather L. Meier, vice president for finance and chief financial officer at Georgian Court University, in New Jersey, has been named vice president for finance and chief financial officer at Gwynedd Mercy University, in Pennsylvania.

Rachel A. Pell, associate vice president for strategic communications at Pennsylvania State University, has been named interim vice president for strategic communications.

Jodie Penrod, senior director of technology in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine at Ohio University, has been named chief information officer at Marshall University.

Nicole Arleane Roberson, director of equal opportunity and diversity at the Texas A&M University system, has been named vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Laurie Saroff, chief of staff to U.S. Representatives J. Luis Correa and Janice Hahn, both Democrats from California, has been named vice president for federal relations at the University of Southern California.

Arbin Smith, an associate principal for the Hackett Group, has been named chief of staff and vice president for strategic initiatives at DePaul University.

Ravi I. Thadhani, chief academic officer and dean of faculty affairs at Mass General Brigham and a professor of medicine at Harvard University, has been named executive vice president for health affairs and executive director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University.

Matt Tidd, chief university budget officer at West Virginia University, has been named the chief financial officer at Marshall University.

Dave Traube, vice president for communications and marketing at the University of Charleston, has been named chief marketing and communications officer at Marshall University.

Anita B. Walton, vice chancellor for university advancement and executive director of the foundation at Elizabeth City State University, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Hollins University.

Resignations
A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and president and chief executive of the Duke University Health System, plans to step down in June 2023.

DEANS
Appointments
Andrew Barnes, former dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Pratt Institute, has been named dean of the School of the Arts, Communication, and Global Studies at York College.

Helen Boucher, interim dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer for Tufts Medicine, has been named to the roles permanently.

L. Ebony Boulware, director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, vice dean of translational science in the School of Medicine, and associate vice chancellor for translational research at Duke University, has been named dean of the School of Medicine at Wake Forest University.

Scott C. Brown, interim dean of the college at Dartmouth College since August 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Emmanuel B. John, chair and associate professor of the department of physical therapy at Chapman University, has been named dean of the Dr. Donald E. and Lois J. Myers School of Nursing and Health Professions at York College.

Elizabeth Kranz, assistant dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Post University, has been named dean of the school.

Chris Riley-Tillman, interim dean of the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Missouri at Columbia since December, has been named to the post permanently.

David Rudder, chair of the department of human services and associate dean of the School of Social Work and Behavioral Science at Springfield College, has been named dean of professional studies at Regis College.

Resignations
Carol Becker, dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University since 2007, plans to step down at the end of this academic year.

David N. Hempton, dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University, will step down and return to the faculty at the end of the 2022–23 academic year.

M. Eric Johnson, dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, plans to step down in June 2023.

Diane Lyden Murphy, dean of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, plans to step down at the end of the academic year in 2023.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Lee Emmons, vice president for institutional advancement at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, has been named director of philanthropy for the western Kentucky region at the University of Kentucky.

Leah Falk, program coordinator of the Writers House at Rutgers University at Camden, has been named director of education and engagement for Penn Live Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rev. Brandon Harris, a former chaplain and adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University, has been named associate dean of religious and spiritual life at the University of Southern California.

Kevin Lovaincy, assistant director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for public health hospitals in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, has been named executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Quinsigamond Community College.

Sheena McFarland, director of marketing and communications at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, has been named executive director of public affairs and communications at Reed College.

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Amelia Salazar, executive director of student success at the University of Alabama, has been named associate vice provost for student success at Sam Houston State University.

Christopher D. Smith, dean of student services at the University of Arkansas at Hope-Texarkana, has been named director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education.

David Spivey, interim vice provost for enrollment management at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named to the post permanently.

Todd Steury, an associate professor of wildlife biology in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University, has been named the college’s associate dean of academic affairs.

Randi Lynn Tanglen, executive director of Humanities Montana, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has been named vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of North Dakota.

Oliver M. Thomas, interim director of external affairs at North Carolina A&T State University, has been named to the post permanently.

Robert J. Williams, deputy director of international affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., has been named executive director of the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education.

FACULTY
Appointments
Connie Schultz, a columnist with USA Today and author, has been named a professor of practice in journalism at Denison University.

ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Denise Forte, interim chief executive of the Education Trust, has been named to the post permanently.

DEATHS
Lawrence A. Davis Jr., chancellor emeritus of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, died on October 15. He was 85.

Vince Dooley, former football coach and director of athletics at the University of Georgia, died on October 28. He was 90.

Gordon Fellman, a professor of sociology at Brandeis University, died on October 19. He was 88.

Robert Freeman, former dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, died on October 18. He was 87.

Jay O. Light, who served as dean of Harvard University’s Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15. He was 81.

John Jay Osborn Jr., author of The Paper Chase (1971) and a former professor of law who taught at the University of San Francisco School of Law, died on October 19. He was 77.

James Richard Reeder, a former adjunct professor of computer science at Loyola University Maryland, died on October 24. He was 89.

Elizabeth Mary Schaaf, former archivist and curator at the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, died on October 20. She was 81.

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