Six Women Taking On New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

briceLinda M. Brice was named director of the bachelor’s degree program in nursing on the Lambuth campus of the University of Memphis. She was a professor of nursing at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock.

Dr. Brice is a graduate of the University of Memphis where she majored in microbiology. She holds bachelor’s degrees in health science administration from Southern Illinois University and nursing from Creighton University in Omaha. She earned a master’s degree in counseling from Chapman College in Orange, California and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of South Florida.

izzoRobin Izzo was promoted to director of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety at Princeton University. She has been serving as the associate director for laboratory safety at the university. Before joining the staff at Princeton in 1992, she was a chemical safety expert at the University of Vermont. She will begin her new role on March 1.

Izzo holds a master’s degree in environmental science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Goodyears256Anne Collins Goodyear has been appointed co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She will share directing duties with her husband Frank H. Goodyear III. She was the associate curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery. She is also the president of the College Art Association and served as a lecturer in art at George Washington University.

Dr. Collins is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Texas at Austin.

walenga, gailGail A. Walenga is the new director of the student health center at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She was the assistant vice president for student affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the former director of pediatrics and medical genetics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Dr. Walenga stated that she wanted to work with a larger student population and was excited to become a fan of the Purdue basketball team.

hflanagan_150Hilary Flanagan was named director of career services at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She was director of career services at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.

Flanagan is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She holds a master’s degree in student development from the University of Maine.

BeckerLisa Tamiris Becker was named director of the University of New Mexico Art Museum. She is the former director of the art museum at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

A native of Leeds, England, Becker is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

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