Rice U. Provost to Become President; U. of Minnesota at Duluth Chancellor to Retire in 2022

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Rosemary Allen, provost and dean of the college at Georgetown College, has been named acting president after William A. Jones was fired.

Charles Ambrose, president and chief executive of KnowledgeWorks and a former president of the University of Central Missouri, has been named chancellor of Henderson State University, in Arkansas.

Richard J. Bailey Jr., president of Northern New Mexico College, will become president of Southern Oregon University on January 15. He will succeed Linda Schott, who will retire in December.

Jo Bonner, chief of staff to Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama and a former Republican U.S. congressman, has been named the next president of the University of South Alabama.

DeAnnia Clements, interim president of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, has been named to the post permanently.

Reginald DesRoches, provost at Rice University, has been named president. He will succeed David Leebron, who plans to step down next year.

Bill Hardgrave, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Auburn University, has been named president of the University of Memphis. He will succeed M. David Rudd, who will step down and return to the faculty.

Marcus Jones, interim president of Northwestern State University, has been named the university’s first Black president.

Chuck Karr, a former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, has been named interim president. He will replace Darren Dawson, who retired.

Joanne Roberts, executive vice president for academic affairs at Yale-NUS College, in Singapore, has been named president. She will succeed Tan Tai Yong, who will step down at the end of the academic year. Yale and the National University of Singapore announced in August that they planned to end the jointly run liberal-arts college in 2025.

David Schecter, provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina Upstate, will become president of East Georgia State College on January 3.

Tarek M. Sobh, vice president for academic affairs and provost at Lawrence Technological University, will become president on January 1.

Daria Willis, president of Everett Community College, in Washington, has been named president of Howard Community College, in Maryland. She will succeed Kate Hetherington, who retired.

Resignations
Rodney Ellis, chancellor of Southern University at Shreveport since 2016, plans to step down. Vladimir Alexander Appeaning, vice president for strategic planning, will serve as interim chancellor.

Retirements
Lendley (Lynn) Black, chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Duluth since 2010, will retire next year.

Rolf Wegenke, president of the Wisconsin Association of Private Colleges and Universities since 1992, plans to retire next year.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Samuel B. Mukasa, senior executive for global STEM initiatives in the Office of the Provost at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, has been named executive vice president and provost at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Jan Roberts-Breslin, dean of graduate and professional studies at Emerson College, has been named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Richard Rothaus, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Central Michigan University, has been named interim provost.

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Tarshia L. Stanley, dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences at St. Catherine University, in Minnesota, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Wagner College, in New York, on June 1.

Resignations
Ralph Wilcox, provost and executive vice president at the University of South Florida, plans to step down and return to the faculty next year.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Christopher Aimone, executive director of development and senior director of planned giving at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Carroll College.

MarQuita D. Barker, assistant dean of campus life/director of residence life at Elon University, in North Carolina, has been named vice president for student development at Knox College, in Illinois.

Elizabeth Coria, interim assistant superintendent and vice president for student success and support programs at Cuesta College, has been named to the post permanently.

Roger Demareski, vice president for finance and administration at Lafayette College, has been named executive vice president for administration and operations at Villanova University.

Jerima DeWese, chief diversity and affirmative action officer, Title IX coordinator, and ADA Section 504 compliance officer at the State University of New York College at Purchase, has been named the first chief diversity officer/dean of diversity at the City University of New York Queens College.

Elizabeth Milavec, senior associate vice president for finance at the University of Rochester, has been named interim senior vice president for administration and finance, chief financial officer, and treasurer.

William J. Nunez, vice chancellor for business and finance at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will become vice chancellor for finance and administration at Texas Christian University on January 1.

Corinne Peek-Asa, a professor and associate dean of research in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, will become vice chancellor for research at the University of California at San Diego on January 1.

Cynthia Polk-Johnson, a former associate dean of students at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has been named vice president for student affairs at Tennessee Tech University.

bec rollins, chief global communications officer at Pathfinder International, has been named chief marketing officer at Simmons University.

Crystal McCormick Ware, director of diversity and inclusion initiatives in the library system at the University of Pittsburgh, will become chief diversity officer and senior adviser to the president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Duquesne University on January 5.

DEANS
Appointments
Afua Arhin, associate dean of the School of Nursing at Fayetteville State University, has been named dean of the College of Health, Science, and Technology.

Tonya Edmond, a professor and associate dean for social work and social policy, and Rodrigo Reis, a professor and associate dean for public health, have been named co-interim deans of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Heidi Hennink-Kaminski, senior associate dean for graduate studies in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named interim dean of the journalism school.

Ohad Kadan, vice dean of education and globalization and a professor of finance in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Kamala C. Kiem, associate dean of students and director of student engagement at Fairfield University, has been named associate provost and dean of students at Clark University, in Massachusetts.

Kim McLarin, a professor of creative writing and director of the graduate program for the MFA in popular fiction at Emerson College, has been named interim dean of graduate and professional studies.

Susan Murin, vice dean of clinical affairs of the School of Medicine, executive director of the UC Davis Medical Group, and associate clinical strategy officer at the University of Californa at Davis, has been named interim dean of the School of Medicine.

Janet V. Ray, assistant dean of undergraduate studies, sophomore dean, director of international student success and an adjunct instructor at Providence College, has been named dean of the Attleboro campus of Bristol Community College.

Anne Stevens, a professor of English and chair of the interdisciplinary-, gender-, and ethnic- studies department at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, will become dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh on January 31.

Mary Ellen Stolder, director of graduate nursing and interim director of the School of Nursing at Viterbo University, has been named dean of the College of Nursing and Health.

Brigham C. Willis, senior associate dean of medical education in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Riverside, has been named dean of the school of medicine at the Health Science Center at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Tiffani Wise, a curriculum coordinator and clinical site coordinator for the accelerated bachelor of science in nursing program at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been named regional dean for the university’s School of Nursing in Dallas.

Departures
Howard Marchitello, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University at Camden, was removed from his post.

Retirements
Kathleen B. Scoble, dean of the School of Nursing at Elms College, plans to retire.

Joseph J. Zambon, dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo, plans to retire on January 5.

DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
Appointments
R. Barry Dale, a professor, department chair, and program director of the department of physical therapy at the University of South Alabama, has been named chair of department of physical therapy in the College of Health Professions at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Travis Losey, an associate professor of neurology in the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University, has been named chair of the department of neurology.

J. Milo Sewards, a professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, has been named chair of the department of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Kim Barrett, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego and director of the division of graduate education at the National Science Foundation, has been named vice dean of research in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Davis.

Sharmla Chetty, president of global markets, North America, Europe and the U.K., Asia, and Africa at Duke Corporate Education, has been named chief executive of the leadership development group that branched off of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Bobby L. Cummings, a former chief of police with the City of Wilmington Police Department, has been named chief of public safety at Delaware State University.

Michele Kibler, registrar at the Columbus College of Art and Design, has been named registrar at Ohio Wesleyan University.

David Nirenberg, dean of the Divinity School and a professor of medieval history at the University of Chicago, will become director of the Institute for Advanced Study on July 1, 2022.

Michael Pelletier, a former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros, has been named executive director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the University of Houston.

Andy Vail, senior director of the Office of Capital Projects and Facilities Services in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, has been named assistant dean in addition to his current position.

Retirements
Michael Yaffe, associate dean of the School of Music at Yale University, retired this month.

ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Jared Cash, vice president for enrollment and marketing at the University of Southern Maine, has been named president and chief executive of the Maine higher education nonprofit, the Mitchell Institute.

Susan T. Gooden, dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named president of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration.

Stephen Moret, president and chief executive of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, will become president and chief executive at the Strada Education Network in January.

Elissa Tenny, president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been named chair of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.

Resignations
Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities since 2006, said he would retire in September 2022.

DEATHS
Harris A. Berman, dean emeritus of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, died on October 30. He was 83.

Harold L. Cohen, dean emeritus of the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, died on November 2. He was 96.

Margaret M. Healy, a former president of Rosemont College, died of brain cancer on November 11. She was 87.

Pamela McCorduck, author of Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979) who taught creative writing at Columbia University, died on October 18. She was 80.

Richard Ohmann, a professor emeritus of the English language at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, died on October 8. He was 90.

James Lincoln Peterson, president of Gustavus Adolphus College from 2003 to 2008, died on October 29. He was 78.

Quandra Prettyman, the first Black full-time faculty member at Barnard College, died on October 21. She was 88. Prettyman taught English, focusing on Black women writers.

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