U. of Maryland-Baltimore County Names New President; New Provost at U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Shaun King

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Valerie Sheares Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University, has been named president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. She will succeed Freeman A. Hrabowski III, who has led the university for 30 years.

Wiebe Boer, chief executive of Shell–All On, an energy investment company in Nigeria, has been named president of Calvin University.

Jennifer Bonds-Raacke, provost and vice president for academic affairs at St. Norbert College, has been named president of Saint Martin’s University. She will be the first woman to serve as president of the university.

Ericke Cage, interim president of West Virginia State University since September, has been named to the post permanently.

Marc P. Christensen, dean of the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, has been named president of Clarkson University, in New York.

Kelly R. Damphousse, chancellor of Arkansas State University, has been named the sole finalist for president of Texas State University.

Rod Flanigan, dean of business and technology at Cochise College, has been named president of the North Dakota State College of Science.

Janet L. Gooch, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost of Truman State University, has been named chancellor of the University of Illinois at Springfield and vice president of the University of Illinois System.

Rachelle Keck, president of Briar Cliff University, has been named president of Grand View University.

Peter K. Kilpatrick, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has been named president of Catholic University of America. He will succeed John Garvey, who will step down this summer.

Jolene Koester, a senior consultant for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and a former president of California State University at Northridge, has been named interim chancellor of the California State University system.

John Kowal, who has served as administrator-in-charge of Clinton Community College, in New York, since August 2021, has been named president.

William W. Latimer, vice president of the Bronx Campus of Mercy College, in New York, has been named president of Chestnut Hill College. He will succeed Carol Jean Vale and will be the first lay person to serve as president.

Rhea Law, interim president of the University of South Florida since August 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Adam J. Morris, executive vice president, chief transformation officer, and chief institutional-advancement officer at Biola University, will become president of Azusa Pacific University on July 1.

Rebecca Neiduski, dean of the School of Health Sciences at Elon University, has been named president of Wartburg College.

Bill Pink, president of Grand Rapids Community College, has been named president of Ferris State University.

Frank Shushok Jr., vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech, has been named president of Roanoke College. He will succeed Michael C. Maxey, who plans to retire in July.

Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, has been named interim president of Mount Holyoke College. She served as acting president of the college in 2002 and will succeed Sonya Stephens, who stepped down to lead the American University in Paris.

Gregory Vincent, former president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has been named president of Talladega College.

Departures
Eugene Giovannini, chancellor of Tarrant County College, has been fired after the Board of Trustees voted to terminate his contract.

Merrill Irving Jr., president of Hennepin Technical College, resigned in February after accusations surfaced that he allegedly harassed and discriminated against employees.

John Jasinski, president of Northwest Missouri State University since 2009, plans to step down.

Lynn Morton, president of Warren Wilson College since 2017, plans retire at the end of the academic year.

Brennan O’Donnell, president of Manhattan College since 2009, plans to step down in July. He will take a sabbatical before joining the faculty as a professor.

Melody Rose, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education since June 2020, stepped down.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Robert Bohrer II, senior associate provost for academic success at Gettysburg College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Hiram College.

Rachel Bowser, associate provost for strategic initiatives and a professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of Agnes Scott College.

Fred Chilson, who has served as interim vice president for academic affairs at Lewis-Clark State College, in Idaho, for the past year, has been named to the post permanently.

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Gerald Griffin, interim provost of Hope College since January 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Sheila Adamus Liotta, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Providence College, has been named vice president for academic affairs at Saint Anselm College.

Laurie McCauley, dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Kristina Cammarano, assistant vice chancellor for student success at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been named vice president for student affairs and chief diversity officer at Midland University, in Nebraska.

Deborah Garrison, interim dean of the Patricia H. Garman School of Nursing at D’Youville University, has been named vice chancellor and dean at Indiana University at Fort Wayne.

William Guerrero, vice president for finance and administration at Springfield College, has been named vice president for finance and chief financial officer at the University of Bridgeport.

Miranda Powers, associate vice president for student life at Bethel University, in Minnesota, has been named vice president for student experience.

Susan Sciame-Giesecke, chancellor of Indiana University at Kokomo, has been named vice president for regional campuses and online education at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Roger Stackpoole, chief financial and administrative officer at Le Moyne College, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Wheaton College, in Massachusetts.

Retirements
John M. Barry, vice president for communications and chief marketing officer at the University of Richmond, plans to retire in July.

DEANS
Appointments
Andrew Belser, director of the School of Theater, Film, and Television at the University of Arizona, has been named dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Anadeli Bencomo, a professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies at the University of Houston, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Nicola A. Boothe, a professor in the Florida A&M University College of Law and a visiting professor of law at the Boston University School of Law, has been named dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Law.

Leah Chan, associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, will become dean of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas on July 1.

Pero G. Dagbovie, a professor of history and an associate dean in the Graduate School at Michigan State University, has been named associate provost for graduate and postdoctoral studies and dean of the Graduate School.

C. Debra M. Furr-Holden, associate dean of public-health integration and director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, has been named dean of the School of Global Public Health at New York University.

William Gibbons, associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Fine Arts at Texas Christian University, has been named dean of the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York College at Potsdam.

Martine Kei Green-Rogers, interim dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, will become dean of the Theatre School at DePaul University on July 1.

Stacey Harris, associate director of disability and access services at Boston University, has been named dean of students at the College of William & Mary.

Yoshitaka Iwasaki, a professor and chair of the department of public health and recreation at San Jose State University, has been named the inaugural dean of the College of Health, Education, and Social Transformation at New Mexico State University.

Melanie B. Jacobs, a professor and former interim dean of the Michigan State University College of Law, has been named dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.

David A. Jenkins, dean of the Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science at the University of Louisville, has been named dean of the College of Social Work at Ohio State University.

Ashish Joshi, senior associate dean of academic and student affairs and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics in the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, has been named dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Memphis.

Christine Karshin, associate dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Eastern Michigan University, has been named dean of the College of Health Professions at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Sunita Gupta Kramer, associate vice president for research and experiential education at Rutgers University, has been named dean of the School of Science at the College of New Jersey.

Juliet Langman, senior associate dean and associate dean of graduate studies in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will become dean of the Graduate College at Kennesaw State University on July 1.

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, vice provost for undergraduate education at North Carolina A&T State University, has been named interim dean of the university’s College of Engineering.

David J. Nguyen, an associate professor of higher education and student affairs and interim associate dean for research and graduate studies in the Patton College of Education at Ohio University, has been named dean of the University College.

Sharon Porterfield, chair of the division of education at Miles College, has been named dean of the College of Education at Stillman College.

William H. Robertson, interim dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso since March 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Bernard Rousseau, associate dean of equity, inclusion, and community engagement at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named dean of the Doisy College of Health Sciences at Saint Louis University.

Mary Ann Scully, co-founder and chief executive of Howard Bank, has been named dean of the Rev. Joseph A. Sellinger, S.J., School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland.

Paola Sztajn, interim dean of the College of Education at North Carolina State University, has been named to the post permanently.

Amy Hardison Tully, interim associate provost for student success at Oakland University, has been named dean of the College of Fine Arts at Texas Christian University.

Lisa Vernon-Dotson, associate dean and chair of the department of interdisciplinary and inclusive education in the College of Education at Rowan University, has been named dean of the Dwight Schar College of Education at Ashland University.

Shatrela Washington-Hubbard, interim dean of the College of Business and Communication at Brenau University since August 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Jessica Aylor, vice president for community engagement and director of community investment for the Triangle Community Foundation, has been named director of development and interim executive director of library development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kim Dupree Jones, dean of the School of Nursing at Linfield University, has been named associate dean of academic advancement in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.

Karen Mourtzikos, executive vice dean of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, has been appointed associate vice president of Wayne State University Health Affairs.

Shawana Singletary, director of admissions and recruitment at Metropolitan College of New York, has been named assistant vice president and chief enrollment officer at Adelphi University.

LaNiece R. Tyree, a former director of auxiliary services and event management for Prince George’s Community College, has been named assistant vice president in the Office of Auxiliary Enterprises at Howard University.

DEATHS
Julian P. Heicklen, a former professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, died on March 11. He was 90. After his retirement, Heicklen participated in a series of public protests in defense of civil liberties, culminating in a 2011 indictment, later dismissed, for jury tampering.

Richard Howard, a poet and professor of writing at Columbia University, died on March 31. He was 92. Howard received a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his work Untitled Subjects.

Joan Joyce, a former coach of the women’s softball team at Florida Atlantic University, died on March 26. She was 81. Joyce played volleyball and golf as well as softball, and also coached golf at Florida Atlantic.

Nancy Milford, who taught English at various institutions, including Vassar College and the University of Michigan, died on March 29. She was 84. Milford wrote biographies of Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Eugene N. Parker, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Chicago, died on March 17. He was 94. Parker received the National Medal of Science in 1989 and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He predicted the existence of the solar wind, and a NASA probe was named in his honor.

Philip M. Phibbs, a president emeritus of the University of Puget Sound, died on March 21. He was 90. Phibbs led the university from 1973 to 1992.

Thomas F. Staley, director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, died on March 31. He was 86.

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