Elizabeth Warren, adviser to Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, has announced that she is returning to her post as the Leo Gottlieb Professor at Harvard Law School. Warren was the first to propose the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and President Obama brought her to Washington last fall to oversee the creation of the new agency, which was authorized in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Some Democrats in Massachusetts are trying to convince Professor Warren to challenge GOP U.S. Senator Scott Brown when he stands for reelection in 2012.
Professor Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and the Rutgers University School of Law.
Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Most recently, Dr. Van Vlerah served as vice president for student success and institutional strategy at Manchester University in Indiana. She is slated to become the fifteenth president of Notre Dame of Maryland University on July 6.
Dr. Egan comes to her new role as president of Bennington College from Connecticut College, where she has been serving as the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, dean of the faculty, and chief academic officer.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
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.