DeVry University has announced that Deidre Shaffer will be the new dean of its Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, campus. The Fort Washington site is of one of three Philadelphia-area campuses of DeVry University. Previously, Shaffer was dean of students at Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
Shaffer holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
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.