Over the past year, enrollment at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is up by more than 7 percent. Since the women's college launched a new strategic plan in 2023, enrollment has increased by nearly 20 percent.

Dr. Mahoney became the first woman president of San Francisco State University in 2019. She is slated to retire next summer after nearly two decades of service to the California State University system.

Ellen Ziliak now serves as the university-wide dean of faculty. There are three new assistant provosts: Julie Cowgill, Olga Lambert, and Cheryl Mascarenhas.

Dr. Brabant was a long-time professor of sociology at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. She was known for her research on death and bereavement.

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions in the academic world. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Baylor College of Medicine's Huda Zoghbi has been awarded Columbia University's Louisa Gross Horowitz Prize and Villanova University's Mendel Medal in honor of her groundbreaking research into the genetic causes of neurological disorders.

The new deans are Bethany Cieslowski at the George Mason University School of Nursing, Irma Medina at Holyoke Community College, Susan English at Wor-Wic Community College, and Raida Abuizam at the Honors and University College of Purdue University Northwest

Dr. Ryu has taught at Elon University in North Carolina for the past seven years. She was recently honored by the Mathematical Association of America for her dedication to undergraduate mathematics education, mentorship, and research.

The appointments are Lara Hodgson at Georgia Tech, Marla A. Vickers at Georgia State University, Chidi Blyden at Harvard University, Lindsay Gavin at Townson University, Lindsey Hunter at Langston University, Renee Craig-Marius at the California Community Colleges system, and Terri L. Winfree at Gogebic Community College.

Dr. Jeon, a linguistics professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, focuses her scholarship on reading comprehension and language proficiency. Her co-edited book, Understanding L2 Proficiency, was recently honored by the Japanese Language Testing Association.

The women who have been selected for endowed positions are Yuehwern Yih at Purdue University in Indiana, Dominique Somda at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Abigail Swingen at Yale University, Erika Consoli at the University of Idaho, and Melanie Kornides at the University of Pennsylvania.

Indiana University has named three women scholars to lead implementation of the Chicago Principles on their campuses. The Chicago Principles are a statement of values that emphasize the role of universities as places to freely examine, debate and challenge ideas in the pursuit of knowledge.