Three Women Named to Dean Positions

Gail Holt was appointed dean of financial aid at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She has been serving as senior associate director of student financial services at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She has been on the staff at Mount Holyoke since 2005 and previously worked in the financial aid offices of Boston University and Northeastern University. She will take on her new role on March 1.

Holt is a graduate of Boston College and holds a master’s degree in educational administration from Boston University.

T. Kyle Vanderlick has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University. She was originally appointed to the post in 2008. Previously, she served as professor and chair of the department of chemical engineering at Princeton University.

Professor Vanderlick holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Bridget M. Keegan is the new interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She has been serving as professor of English and director of the world literature program at the university. She also is the director of scholarships and fellowships at Creighton.

A graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Keegan holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system.