Six Women in New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Treby Williams was promoted to executive vice president at Princeton University. She has worked in the office of the executive vice president since 2007 and has been serving in the post on an interim basis. Previously, she held the positions of director of planning and administration and assistant vice president for safety and administrative planning. She is a former assistant U.S. Attorney.

Williams is a graduate of Princeton University and the law school at New York University.

Alissa Carr was appointed director of marketing and external relations at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne. For the past two years, she has been the marketing manager at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Carr is a graduate of Towson University in Maryland, where she majored in mass communication with a concentration in public relations and advertising.

Allison K. Dykes was promoted to vice president and secretary of the university at Emory University in Atlanta. She was the vice president for alumni relations. She joined Emory in 1997 as the director of regional programs. She will begin her new role in January.

Dykes is a 1992 graduate of the University of Georgia, where she majored in French and earned a certificate in global policy studies.

Maureen Silva was named vice president for institutional advancement at Bridgewater College in Virginia. For the past three years she was vice president for advancement and executive director of the SMSM Foundation at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Previously, she held fundraising positions at the University of Denver and the Colorado School of Mines.

Dr. Silva holds a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Regis University in Denver and a doctorate in higher education organization and governance from the University of Denver.

Becky Varian is the new director of the Center for Student Progress at Youngstown State University in Ohio. She has been a staff member at the center since 2006.

Varian is a graduate of Kent State University in Ohio, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree in student affairs leadership from Youngstown State University.

Laury Flint is the new chief of campus police at Indiana University in Bloomington. She has been involved with the campus police force since 1980.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Indiana University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.