Patricia Gentile has been chosen as the fourth president of North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts. If her appointment is approved by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, she will assume the role of president on January 1. At the current time, Dr. Gentile is dean of advancement and enrollment management at the Cape May campus of Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey. She has been on the staff at Atlantic Cape Community College since 1999. Earlier in her career, she was an executive with the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. and the Women’s Humane Society in Philadelphia.
Dr. Gentile is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in educational leadership and higher education from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Dr. Burris has served as provost of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina for the past four years. She is slated to become the next president of SUNY's Buffalo State University on July 1.
Dr. Thompson's appointment marks a return to Union Theological Seminary, where she previously taught for three years. Most recently, she was the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Black Homiletics & Liturgics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Julie Sanford of the University of Alabama, Eileen Boris of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Itohan Osayimwese of Brown University, Jane Grant-Kels of the University of Connecticut, and Rani Sullivan of Mississippi State University have been appointed to leadership positions with professional organizations in their academic fields of study.
For the past two years, Dr. Torti has served as president of the College of the Atlantic in Maine. Earlier, she was dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.
Dr. Martin has led Kilgore College on an interim basis since November 2025. She has been an administrator with the community college for the past 25 years.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.
The University of Arizona School of Music seeks a visionary and collaborative Director to lead its comprehensive music program through a time of opportunity and transformation.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track.