Six Women in New Higher Education Administrative Roles

Carmen R. Green was appointed the inaugural associate vice president and associate dean for health equity and inclusion at the University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Green joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School as an assistant professor of anesthesiology. She rose through the ranks to her current position as a tenured professor with a joint appointment at the medical school and the School of Public Health.

Dr. Green is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Flint and earned her medical degree at the College of Human Medicine of Michigan State University.

Kathy Spiegelman was named vice president and chief of campus planning and development at Northeastern University in Boston. She established her own consulting firm in 2011 after spending 25 years at Harvard University.

Spiegelman is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She earned a master’s degree in historic preservation from the School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York City.

Jamie B. Slater is the new assistant provost for institutional effectiveness, assessment, and sponsored research at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. Since 2008, Dr. Slater has been the director of institutional research and assessment at Queens University in Charlotte.

A graduate of Indiana University, Dr. Slater earned an MBA at Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne and a doctorate in educational administration from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Wendy Parent-Johnson was appointed executive director of the Center for Disabilities at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. She was a research associate professor and assistant director of the Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Parent-Johnson holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Lois Badey was named senior director of development for the Center for the Arts at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She was the director of development for the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Badey is a magna cum laude graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.

Pat Whitely, vice president for student affairs at the University of Miami, was elected chair of the board of directors of NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. She will serve one year as chair-elect and then will serve a one-year term as chair beginning in March 2014.

Whitely has served as vice president for student affairs at the University of Miami since 1997. Previously she was director of student life and associate director of residence halls at the university.