Three Women Named to New Academic Posts

Susan B. Marine, assistant dean of student life and director of the Harvard College Women’s Center, has announced she will leave Harvard at the close of the academic year to become director of higher education programs at Merrimack College’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Marine has been at Harvard since 2002.

Rebecca Wardlow has been promoted to provost at Ashford University in Clinton, Iowa. She was executive dean at the university’s College of Education.

Dr. Wardlow is a graduate of San Diego State University. She earned a master’s degree at the University of California at Riverside and an educational doctorate at the University of California at San Diego.

Joye Norris, professor of education at Drury University in Springfield, Illinois, was named associate provost for access and outreach at Missouri State University, also in Springfield. Previously, she was dean of the College of Education at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She will begin her new job on July 1.

Professor Norris earned her doctoral degree at Illinois State University.