New Deans at Augustana College and Northeastern University

Pareena G. Lawrence is the new academic dean of students at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. She is the first woman to hold the position. Dr. Lawrence was a professor of economics and management and chair of the division of social sciences at the University of Minnesota at Morris.

Dean Lawrence holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Delhi in India. She earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics at Purdue University.

Terry Fulmer was named dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, effective October 1. She was the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and dean of the College of Nursing at New York University.

A graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Dr. Fulmer earned a master’s degree in nursing and an educational doctorate at Boston College.

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