Sylvia Spears is the new director of the educational doctorate program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. She was acting dean of the college at Dartmouth. In her new role, Dr. Spears will also serve as an associate professor and assistant vice president for academic initiatives. The new doctoral program is enrolling 24 students this fall who can concentrate in either higher education leadership or K-12 education leadership.
Dr. Spears earned a master’s degree and an educational doctorate at the University of Rhode Island.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.