Fourteen Women With New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

Ann K. Craig was promoted to director of organizational advancement at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Since 2007 she has been director of communications and program development for the university’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science.

Craig has been on the staff at Virginia Tech since 1975. She is a graduate of New River Community College and earned a bachelor’s degree at Radford University.

Loretta A. Moore was named associate vice president for research and scholarly engagement at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Since last year, she has been serving as interim associate dean of the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology at the university. She joined the university’s faculty in 1998 as a professor of computer science.

Dr. Moore is a graduate of Jackson State University. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Latanya Walker was promoted to director of alumni relations for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Since 2005, she has been the assistant director of the university’s Upward Bound program. She has been on the staff at the university for 13 years.

Walker is a graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a master’s degree from Radford University in Radford, Virginia.

Ieva Zake was named the inaugural associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Biomedical Science at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She has been serving in the same post for the College of Science and Mathematics. The new school is expected to hold its first classes in the fall of 2013.

Dr. Zake is a graduate of the University of Latvia. She holds a master’s degree in women’s studies from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts.

Rachel Teagle was named the inaugural director of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California at Davis. The museum is expected to open in 2016. For the past five years, Dr. Teagle has been executive director of the New Children’s Museum in San Diego.

Dr. Teagle earned a Ph.D. in contemporary art history at Stanford University.

Brandi Porter was appointed director of the Stanley Library at Ferrum College in Virginia. She was director of the library at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Porter holds a master of library and information science degree from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in information science from Nova Southeastern University.

Krishna R. Winston was named director of the Service-Learning Center at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She is the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature at the university. Professor Winston has translated more than 30 books from German to English.

Dr. Winston is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She earned a master’s degree at Wesleyan University and holds a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Catherine Shea was appointed chief of staff for the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been serving as senior associate counsel for technology transfer and research compliance for the University of Colorado system. Before joining the university system, she was chief of staff at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Shea is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University Columbus School of Law.

Michelle Sterk Barrett was named director of the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She served for nine years as the assistant director of the PULSE Program for Service Learning at Boston College.

Barrett is a graduate of Villanova University. She holds a master’s degree from Boston College and is currently working toward an educational doctorate from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Sandra Bishop was appointed associate dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast. She has been serving as an assistant professor at the college. She will oversee recruitment, admissions, the curriculum, and retention programs.

Dr. Bishop holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of South Alabama. She earned her doctorate in nursing science from Louisiana State University.

Kimberly Frazier was promoted to assistant vice president for student affairs at Auburn University in Alabama. She has held several administrative positions in student affairs at the university. Prior to coming to Auburn, she was an assistant professor of education at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Dr. Frazier is a graduate of Clemson University in South Carolina. She earned a master’s degree at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and a doctorate from Georgia State University.

Joanne Davis was appointed assistant vice president for development and outreach at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She has been serving as the executive director of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in South Florida.

Davis is a graduate of the College of Business at Florida State University, where she majored in finance.

Maureen O’Malley was named associate director of the School of Nursing at the University of Alaska at Anchorage. Dr. O’Malley joined the faculty at UAA in 1993. In 2009, she was awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor.

Dr. O’Malley is a graduate of William Paterson University in New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a doctorate from the College of Nursing at Rush University in Chicago.

Rachel Cogburn was named executive director of the I-81 Corridor Coalition at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The coalition includes government, private-sector, and nonprofit organizations in states which include the federal highway, Interstate 81. The goal of the commission is to create a “safe, efficient, environmentally sensitive, and seamless intermodal transportation corridor.”

Cogburn was senior management analyst for the Atlanta Regional Commission. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.