Four Women Named to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Amy R. Cecil was appointed registrar and director of institutional research at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was the associate registrar for the business school at Wake Forest University.

Cecil is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she majored in applied mathematics and atmospheric science.

Jennifer O’Flannery Anderson was named vice president for community engagement at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and executive director of the FAU Foundation. She has been serving as president and CEO of United Way of Broward County, Florida.

Dr. Anderson earned a Ph.D. in public administration from Florida Atlantic University.

Stephanie Spangler, deputy provost for health affairs at Yale University, has been asked to take on additional duties and oversee the Title IX program at the university. Dr. Spangler has been a deputy provost since 1995. She is also a clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Spangler earned her medical degree at Brown University.

Katherine Sawyer is the new executive director of institutional advancement at Elgin Community College in Illinois. She will also be the leader of the ECC Foundation. Sawyer was the associate executive director of the Harper College Educational Foundation.

Sawyer is a graduate of West Virginia University and holds an MBA from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

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