Leslie Henry has been promoted to professor of music therapy. Malena Taylor and Jessica Willenbrink have been promoted to associate professor.

Dr. Kurtinitis has led the Community College of Baltimore County for more than 20 years. She is slated to step down from her presidency in 2027 and officially retire in 2028 following five decades in higher education.

Evans was a longtime administrator in the Office of Communications and Development at her alma mater, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

The appointments are Katrina Armstrong at Columbia University, Melissa Schwartzberg at Princeton University, R.F. Kuang at the College of the Holy Cross, Khadijah Ali-Coleman at Coppin State University, Stacey Saunders-Adams at Ohio University, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Jess Jones at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Cartwright, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, was awarded for her contributions to the philosophy of science in practice, which have reshaped the scholarly understanding of scientific evidence, causality, and objectivity.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new dean positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Dr. Schiebinger is a leading authority on sex and gender in the history of science and the study of women scientists in the eighteenth century. She has been a faculty member at Stanford University for more than two decades.

The women who are taking on new administrative roles in higher education are Susan Monagan, Sherria N. King, Amanda Canales, Jamie Steiger, Talibah M. Bayles, Ellen Herbst, Janny Manasse, Traevena Byrd, Nicole J. Sakraida, Sarah Sussman, Michelle McDonald, and Gita Manaktala.

Dr. Gaul is a cultural historian whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of food, gender, and culture in the Arabic-speaking world. She was honored for her book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato.

In the School of Medicine, Celeste M. Karch is the inaugural Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor and Janet S. Lee is the inaugural Selma and Herman Seldin Distinguished Professor of Medicine. In the College of Arts and Sciences, Yan Yu is the inaugural Art Krieg Professor.

Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.

In 2024, women made up a larger percentage of college and graduate students than was the case at all other lower grades of education. There were 10,050,000 women enrolled in higher education in 2024. They made up 57.8 percent of all students.