New Women Deans in Higher Education

• Linda Kirk Fox was named dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is currently professor and associate dean at the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University.

Dr. Fox holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Oregon State University.

• Shauna T. Mendini was appointed dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts at Southern Utah University in Cedar City.  She has served as interim dean for the past year. Dean Mendini has been on the faculty of the university for 18 years.

• Mary Susan Fishbaugh is the new dean of the College of Education at the Montana State University in Billings. She has been interim dean for five years.

Dr. Fishbaugh holds a master’s degree from Indiana University and a doctorate from the University of Houston.

• Amber D. Miller is the new dean of science at Columbia University. She is the Walter LeCroy Jr. Associate Professor of Physics at the university.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dean Miller earned her Ph.D. at Princeton University.

• Margaret Crocco, currently chair of the department of arts and humanities at Teachers College of Columbia University, was named the 15th dean of the College of Education at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Crocco is a graduate of Georgetown University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

• Victoria Niederhauser was appointed dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Currently, she is associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii.

Dr. Niederhauser is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree from Boston College and a doctorate in public health from the University of Hawaii.