Pennsylvania State U. at University Park Names New President; State U. of New York Chancellor Resigns

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Neeli Bendapudi, president of the University of Louisville, will become president of Pennsylvania State University at University Park in spring 2022. She will be the first woman and person of color to serve as president of the university.

Jennifer M. Collins, dean of the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University, has been named president of Rhodes College. She will succeed Carroll Stevens, who has served as interim president since Marjorie Hass stepped down to become president of the Council of Independent Colleges.

Bret S. Danilowicz, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida Atlantic University, has been named president of Radford University.

Lori Gonzalez, executive vice president and provost at the University of Louisville, was named interim president after Neeli Bendapudi was selected as president of Pennsylvania State University at University Park.

Alejandro (Alex) Hernandez, dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia, has been named president of Champlain College, in Vermont.

Gordon Jones, dean of the College of Innovation and Design at Boise State University, has been named president of the College of Western Idaho.

Daniel Kittle, vice president for student life and dean of students at Wartburg College, has been named president of Dakota Wesleyan University. He will succeed Amy Novak, who left to become president at St. Ambrose University.

Dennis Lancaster, interim chancellor of Missouri State University at West Plains since July 2020, has been named to the post permanently.

Richard Linton, dean of agriculture and life sciences at North Carolina State University, will become president of Kansas State University in mid-February. He will succeed Richard Myers, who is retiring after five years in office.

Albert Mosley, senior vice president and chief mission integration officer for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, has been named president of Morningside University, in Iowa.

Mike Muñoz, interim superintendent-president of Long Beach City College since March, has been named to the post permanently.

Annebelle Nery, vice president for instruction at College of the Desert, has been named president of Santa Ana College.

Jerald S. Paul, president of the government-affairs consulting company Capitol Access, has been named president of the Maine Maritime Academy.

Andrea Talentino, provost at Nazareth College, in New York, has been named president of Augustana College, in Illinois.

Cody Teets, a member of the Board of Trustees of Regis University, has been named interim president. She will succeed the Rev. John P. Fitzgibbons after he steps down at the end of December.

Lisa Vollendorf, interim provost and chief academic officer at the University of Northern Colorado, has been named president of State University of New York Empire State College.

Resignations
Reuben E. Brigety II, vice chancellor and president of Sewanee: The University of the South, plans to step down on December 21 to become U.S. ambassador to South Africa.

Alan Cureton, president of University of Northwestern at St. Paul since 2002, plans to step down.

James Malatras, chancellor of the State University of New York, will resign on January 14.

Kevin Quinn, president since 2017 of Aquinas College, in Michigan, resigned in December. The provost, Stephen Germic, will serve as interim president.

Valerie Roberson, president of Roxbury Community College since 2013, will step down. Current and former employees called for her resignation in a letter to the board of trustees in October.

Retirements
William Craft, president of Concordia College at Moorhead since 2011, announced his plan to retire in June 2023.

Jonathan Spiro, interim president of Castleton University, plans to resign. Castleton, along with Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College, will be consolidated into Vermont State University in 2023.

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CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
James J. Clark, dean of the College of Social Work at Florida State University, has been named the university’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.

Chris Clemens, a professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will become executive vice chancellor and provost on February 1.

Robin N. Coger, dean of the College of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, has been named provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at East Carolina University.

Keith Hargrove, dean of the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Tuskegee University.

Tonya Smith-Jackson, senior vice provost for academic affairs at North Carolina A&T State University, has been named interim provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Jeff Thompson, interim executive vice president and provost at the University of Nevada at Reno since December 2020, has been named to the post permanently.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Katrina Armstrong, a professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School, a professor of epidemiology in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and chair of the department of medicine and physician-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been named chief executive of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences, and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine.

Shea Kidd Brown, associate vice chancellor for student life and dean of students at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has been named vice president for campus life at Wake Forest University.

Rachel Carpenter, interim dean of students at Pace University, will become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at the University of Evansville on June 1.

Boyd Farnam, interim vice president for legal affairs and general counsel at Oakland University, has been named to the post permanently.

Hellen Hom-Diamond, chief communications officer at Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, D.C., will become vice president for strategic marketing and communications at Trinity College (Conn.) on January 24.

Nichole Ipach, vice president for university advancement at California State University-Channel Islands, will become vice president for university relations and advancement at California State University at Northridge in January.

Jessie Minton, vice provost and chief information officer at the University of Oregon, will become vice chancellor for technology and chief information officer at Washington University in St. Louis on April 15.

Aditya Misra, director of audit and investigations at Johnson & Johnson, has been named university auditor and chief audit executive at Cornell University.

Kimberly M. Scott, vice president for student affairs at Tuskegee University, will become vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth on January 10.

Resignations
Dana Bradley, chief people officer at George Washington University, stepped down this fall after two years in the new role at the university.

Monica Delisa, vice president for development at the University of South Carolina since January, resigned this week. Stacey Bradley, senior associate vice president for student affairs and academic support, will take on the role in the interim.

Steve Owens, general counsel for the University of Missouri system for 14 years, plans to step down on March 1.

DEANS
Appointments
Pamela Kennett-Hensel, interim dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of New Orleans since July 2020, has been named to the post permanently.

Rodmon Cedric King, chief diversity and inclusion officer at the State University of New York College at Oswego, will become dean of institutional equity and inclusion at Connecticut College on January 31.

Jessica Lang, interim dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at City University of New York Bernard M. Baruch College, has been named to the post permanently.

Cataldo Leone, interim dean of the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston UniverSIty, has been named to the post permanently.

Cynthia Lietz, interim dean of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University since July, has been named to the post permanently.

Aneil K. Mishra, a professor of leadership in the College of Business at East Carolina University, has been named dean of the School of Management at the University of Michigan at Flint.

Torsten Reimer, head of content and research services at the British Library, will become university librarian and dean of the university library at the University of Chicago on March 15.

David Vanden Bout, senior associate dean in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named dean of the college.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Lisa M. Anderson, an associate professor of women and gender studies and former deputy director in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, has been named associate dean of academic affairs in the Graduate College.

Annette Jakubisin Konicki, a clinical professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut, has been named interim associate dean of graduate studies.

Annette T. Maruca, a clinical professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut, has been named interim associate dean of academic affairs.

Virginia Teachey, vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, has been named associate vice president for finance at Pennsylvania State University at University Park.

Jennifer Wu, interim vice dean of academic affairs in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named to the post permanently.

FACULTY
Appointments
Christopher Emdin, an associate professor of science education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, has been named the Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching and a professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.

Muqaddesa Yourish, a former deputy minister for commerce and industry of the previous government of Afghanistan, will become a visiting professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in January.

Departures
Jared Nicholson, a professor of law and director of the Community Business Clinic at Northeastern University, planned to step down before his inauguration as mayor of Lynn, Mass., on January 3.

ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Fran Bradford, deputy secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Virginia, will become secretary of education after Atif Qarni leaves to become managing director at Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice.

Thema Bryant-Davis, a professor of of psychology and director of the Culture and Trauma Research Lab at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University, has been voted president-elect of the American Psychological Association.

Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University, has been elected chair of the board of directors for the American Council on Education. He currently serves as vice chair of the board.

Mamie Voight, interim president and chief executive of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, has been named to the post permanently.

DEATHS
George K. Brushaber, president emeritus of Bethel University, died on December 13. He was 82. Brushaber served as the university’s fourth president, from 1982 to 2008.

Donald R. Gerth, who led California State University at Sacramento from 1984 to 2003, its longest-serving president, died on December 6. He was 93.

Dave Hickey, a professor emeritus of criticism at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, died on November 12. He was 82.

bell hooks, the author and public feminist intellectual who also taught at Berea College, died on December 15. She was 69. The college opened the bell hooks Institute in 2010.

Linda Lopez McAlister, a philosophy and women’s studies professor and a founder of the feminist journal Hypatia, died on November 9. She was 82.

Shirley McBay, a former dean of student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on November 27. She was 86. McBay was the first Black person to receive a doctorate from the University of Georgia, in 1966. Before MIT, she taught at Spelman College and worked at the National Science Foundation.

Walter L. Smith Sr., a president emeritus of Florida A&M University, died on November 25. He was 86. Smith served as president from 1977 to 1985.

Zena Stein, a professor and co-founder of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, died on November 7. She was 99.

Tyler Stovall, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University, died on December 10. He was 67.

Robert Farris Thompson, a professor of African American studies and the history of art at Yale University, died on November 29. He was 88.

Mark Steinberg Weil, a former chair of the department of art history at Washington University in St. Louis, died on November 18. He was 82.

David S. Weissbrodt, a professor emeritus in the School of Law at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on November 11. He was 77.

The Rev. James A. Woods, Boston College’s longest-serving dean and the man for whom the Woods College of Advancing Studies was named, died on November 20. He was 90.

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