The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has hired four new faculty members. Two of the four are women.
Alice Cepeda is a new assistant professor. Previously she taught at the University of Houston. She is currently conducting research on crack cocaine use in Mexico City.
Dr. Cepeda holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York.
Emily Putnam-Hornstein is also a new assistant professor. She was working at the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Putnam-Hornstein is a graduate of Yale University. She holds a master of social work degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Braswell comes to her new appointment with extensive leadership experience in state government, including her current role as general counsel to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont. In her new role, she will provide strategic oversight for the 16 campuses within Connecticut's public higher education system.
Jennifer Gaither, a lawyer by training, has been a Sullivan University faculty member for the past 25 years. She most recently served as the university's associate provost.
Dr. Crowley has served as provost at Ohio Wesleyan University since 2020. She is slated to become the nineteenth president of Kalamazoo College on July 1.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
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 selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.