Dr. Donovan began her tenure at Bellarmine University in Louisville in 2017. Earlier, she spent 32 years at Loyola University Maryland, where she ultimately served as executive vice president.

Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Ozzie Abaye of Virginia Tech were appointed to prestigious faculty ranks at their institutions, Hannah Pollin-Galay was awarded tenure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Dora Epstein Jones was named chair of the architecture department at the University of Colorado Denver.

Dr. Whiting, a scholar of architectural history and theory, is the first woman to serve as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She previously served as dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University in Houston.

The new deans are Soojung Kim at the University of North Dakota, Kesha James at Miles College in Alabama, Amanda Morgan at Greenville Technical College in South Carolina, Terri Hasseler at Bryant University in Rhode Island, Elizabeth Haller at Northern State University in South Dakota, Susan Hagness at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, Gina Craft at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and Sharon Beard at Pepperdine University in California.

Dr. García currently serves as the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. She was recently honored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for her contributions to the fields of refugee, asylum, and immigration history.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative 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.

Jennifer Tank has served as a professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame for more than 25 years. She has conducted extensive research on the ecology and biogeochemistry of streams.

The scholars who have been selected for endowed faculty appointments are Sharon Tucker at the University of Central Florida, Sarah Allred at Rutgers University-Camden, and Judith Wolfe at Boston College.

“When scientists simply check a box to say they included women, but fail to analyze the data by sex, we lose the ability to understand whether or how treatments affect men and women differently,” said Nicole Witowich of Northwestern University.

For the past two years, Dr. Torti has served as president of the College of the Atlantic in Maine. Earlier, she was dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.

In analysis of 1.14 billion global news stories, the authors found that misogyny-related news coverage averaged just 1.6 percent of total online news output from 2017 to 2025, hitting a decade low of 1.3 percent in 2025

Dr. Martin has led Kilgore College on an interim basis since November 2025. She has been an administrator with the community college for the past 25 years.