CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Bradley J. Andrews, president of Southwestern College, has been named president of Brevard College. He will succeed David Joyce, who plans to retire.
Rebecca M. Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been named president of Northwestern University. She will be the first woman to serve as president of the university, and will succeed Morton O. Schapiro after he steps down next summer.
Tim Faltyn, president of Oklahoma Panhandle State University, has been named president of Murray State College, in Oklahoma. He will succeed Joy McDaniel, who plans to retire.
Kyle Farmbry, a professor of public administration in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University at Newark, will become president of Guilford College on January 1.
Janell Oberlander, vice president at Gillette College of the Northern Wyoming Community College District, has been named interim president of the new Gillette Community College District, in Wyoming.
Andrea Young, vice president for finance and director of strategic initiatives at Ripon College, has been named interim president. She will succeed Zach Messitte, who will step down at the end of the semester.
Resignations
Glenn Cummings, president of the University of Southern Maine since 2015, plans to step down in June 2022.
Lisa Larson, president of Eastern Maine Community College, will step down to lead the Community College Growth Engine Fund Initiative at the Education Design Lab, in Washington, D.C.
Joel W. Martin, president of Wagner College since 2019, will resign at the end of the fall term. Angelo G. Araimo, senior vice president for advancement, enrollment, and planning, has been named interim president.
Mary Papazian, president of San Jose State University since 2016, plans to step down on December 21.
Mark S. Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor since 2014, plans to step down in June 2023.
Charles Wight, president of Salisbury University since 2018, plans to step down at the end of June 2022.
Retirements
Danny Anderson, president of Trinity University, in Texas, plans to retire in May 2022.
Sister Janet Eisner, president of Emmanuel College, in Massachusetts, since 1979, plans to retire next year.
Jose V. Sartarelli, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington since 2015, plans to retire in June.
CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Damara Hightower Mitchell, interim provost at Voorhees College, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Tara Natarajan, dean of the faculty at St. Michael’s College, in Vermont, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Earlham College on February 1.
OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Michael Büsges, senior adviser to the provost at Pennsylvania State University, has been named interim vice president for information technology and chief information officer. He succeeds Donald J. Welch, who left to become vice president for information technology and global university chief information officer at New York University.
Lenora Chapman, associate vice president for financial planning and budget at Sam Houston State University, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Southwestern University.
Kevin Honigford, chief financial officer at the Ivy Tech Foundation, has been named vice president and chief financial officer at Franklin College.
Eric Mayes, founding executive director of the Arkansas Academy for Educational Equity at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Lawrence University.
Jim Miller, interim senior vice president for university advancement at Duquesne University since July, has been named to the post permanently.
DEANS
Appointments
Thomas J. Christensen, a professor of international relations at Columbia University, will become interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs on January 1, after Merit Janow steps down.
Lawrence M. Drake II, president and chief executive of the LEAD Program, has been named dean of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Bethune-Cookman University.
Gretchen Givens Generett, interim dean of the School of Education at Duquesne University, has been named to the post permanently.
Sara Fletcher Harding, interim dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Florida Southern College, has been named to the post permanently.
Dianne Harris, a senior program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington.
Yan He, an information-literacy librarian at Indiana University at Kokomo, has been named dean of the library.
Marla Love, interim dean of students at Cornell University since September 2020, has been named to the post permanently.
Jazmine Rodriguez, a recruitment and operations specialist and assistant director of campus life at Northwestern University, has been named dean of equity and engagement in the division of student life at Rhodes College.
Debbie G. Thomas, vice chancellor for learning and instruction at Arkansas State University Mid-South, has been named dean of the College of Education at Grambling State University.
Resignations
Steve Coll, dean of the journalism school at Columbia University, plans to step down and return to the faculty.
Paul Kirgis, dean of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana at Missoula, plans to step down and return to the faculty. This followed allegations that he had discouraged students from reporting sexual assaults to the university’s Title IX office.
Lawrence J. Marnett, dean of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences at Vanderbilt University since 2016, plans to step down on June 30.
Trevor Morrison, dean of New York University’s School of Law, plans to step down at the end of the academic year.
Retirements
Twyla Cummings, associate provost and dean of the Graduate School at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will retire on June 30.
Christopher (Kit) Spicer, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts at Western Washington University since July 2013, will retire in March 2022.
OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Doug Ewald, vice chancellor for business, finance, and business development at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been named executive associate athletics director and chief financial officer in the athletics department at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
David Hricik, a professor in the School of Law at Mercer University, has been named associate dean for faculty research and development in the law school.
Arthur Johnson, associate athletics director for football operations at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named vice president and director of athletics at Temple University.
Sandra Ryeom, an associate professor of cancer biology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, has been named associate dean for postdoctoral affairs and new master’s-degree programs in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Neva Specht, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University, has been named vice provost for faculty policies and development.
Joe Wheeless, assistant director of student-leadership development at the College of William & Mary, has been named director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Virginia Commonwealth University.
FELLOWSHIPS
The College Excellence Program has named 25 community-college presidents as recipients of 2021-22 Aspen New Presidents Fellowships.
Rebecca Ashford, Chattanooga State Community College
Seher Awan, Los Angeles Southwest College
Vincent Bowhay, Independence Community College
John Buxton, Durham Technical Community College
Karin Edwards, Clark College
Angélica Garcia, Berkeley City College
Veronica Garcia, Northeast Lakeview College
Tracy Hartzler, Central New Mexico Community College
Greg Hodges, Patrick & Henry Community College
Stephanie Kashima, West Valley College
Georgia Lorenz, Seminole State College of Florida
Kimberlee Messina, Spokane Falls Community College
Rachel Pokrandt, Umpqua Community College
Christy Ponce, Temple College
Omid Pourzanjani, San Joaquin Delta Community College District
Monte Randall, College of the Muscogee Nation
Anton Reece, West Kentucky Community and Technical College
Ángel Reyna, Madera Community College
Claudia Schrader, Kingsborough Community College
Ricky Shabazz, San Diego City College
Ron Slinger, Miles Community College
Willie Smith, Baton Rouge Community College
Russell Swagger, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College
Justina Wilhelm, Ilisagvik College
Jermaine Williams, Nassau Community College
NOBEL PRIZES
Joshua D. Angrist, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Guido W. Imbens, a professor of economics at Stanford University, were jointly awarded half of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships,” along with David Card, a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, who received half of the prize for “his empirical contributions to labor economics.”
David Julius, a professor of physiology at the University of California at San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, a professor of neuroscience at Scripps Research, were jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”
Benjamin List, a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, in Germany, and David W.C. MacMillan, a professor of chemistry at Princeton University, were jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”
Syukuro Manabe, a senior meteorologist in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, and Klaus Hasselmann, a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in Germany, were jointly awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming,” along with Giorgio Parisi, a professor of theoretical physics at the Sapienza University of Rome, who received half of the prize for “the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Debra Fischer, a professor of astronomy at Yale University, has been appointed director of the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Shelly C. Lowe, a member of the National Council on the Humanities and executive director of the Native American Program at Harvard University, has been nominated as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
DEATHS
Peter C. Bunnell, a professor emeritus of the history of photography and modern art at Princeton University, died on September 20. He was 83.
Eric Cassell, a clinical professor emeritus of public health at the Weill Cornell Medical College, died on September 24. He was 93.
Myriam P. Sarachik, a professor emerita of physics at City College of the City University of New York, died on October 7. She was 88.
Martin J. Sherwin, a professor of history at George Mason University, died on October 6. He was 84. Sherwin won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in biography with his co-author, Kai Bird, for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a former instructor and assistant dean of student affairs at Yeshiva University, died on September 28. He was 95.
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