Six Women in New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Linda Rose was appointed vice president of academic affairs at Santa Ana College in California. Since 2005, she has served as dean of liberal arts at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California.

Dr. Rose holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She earned an educational doctorate at UCLA.

Nancy G. McDuff, associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management at the University of Georgia, was elected chair of the Association of Chief Admission Officers of Public Universities. She will take office next June and serve a two-year term.

McDuff is a graduate of Loyola University of New Orleans and holds an MBA from Tulane University. She has been at the University of Georgia since 1995.

Karol Kain Gray was named vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective December 1. She has been serving as vice president for finance and administration at Stony Brook University in New York.

A graduate of Hofstra University, Gray has served as a financial analyst, accountant, and administrator at Stony Brook for more than 30 years.

Jennifer Farrell is the new curator of exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum. She was the director of the Nancy Graves Foundation in New York City. Previously she was the Florence B. Selden Senior Curatorial Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Dr. Farrell is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York. Her new book, Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art, will be published by Yale University Press in December.

Robin Camputaro was named associate director for MBA marketing and recruiting at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She was manager of advertising and concessions for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority in Florida.

Camputaro is a graduate of the University of Florida and holds an MBA from Jacksonville University.

Mary Rutherford was appointed director of corporation and foundation relations at Boise State University in Idaho. She was president of the University of Alaska Foundation and chief development officer for the University of Alaska.

Rutherford is a graduate of Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, and holds a master’s degree from Indiana University.