Lynda Goodrich, who retired last May after serving for more than a quarter century as director of athletics at Western Washington University in Bellingham, has been chosen to receive the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division II Athletics Directors Association. Goodrich is currently serving as special assistant to the president for athletic fundraising at Western Washington University.
Goodrich has spent more than 40 years at the university, including terms as coach for basketball, golf, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Western Washington University.
Patty Perillo, vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech, has been selected to receive the 2014 Esther Lloyd-Jones Professional Service Award from ACPA-College Student Educators International. Before coming to Virginia Tech in 2012, Dr. Perillo was associate dean of students at Davidson College.
Dr. Perillo holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Delaware. She earned a doctorate at the University of Maryland.
Dorothy Horrell, chair of the board of governors of Colorado State University, has had a scholarship program named in her honor that has been funded by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation in Denver. The Dorothy Horrell Making the Best Better Scholarship will be awarded to a junior or senior in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Colorado State.
Dr. Horrell holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees, all from Colorado State University.
Sascha Scott, an assistant professor at Syracuse University who is an expert in American and American Indian art, was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association.
Dr. Scott is a graduate of Colorado College. She earned a master’s degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University.
Karen Fairbanks, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Professional Practice and chair of the department of architecture at Barnard College in New York City, received the Building of the Year Award from World-Architects, an online magazine. Professor Fairbanks was honored for her design of the Glen Oaks Branch Library in Queens, New York.
Professor Fairbanks has taught at Barnard College since 1996. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a master of architecture degree from Columbia University.
Four years after she was named the first woman president of the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Cowley has announced that she will step down and return to the faculty.
Prior to her new role, Dr. Walsh was dean and campus director of the University of Maine at Machias. Before that, she spent more than a decade with St. Bonaventure University in New York.
Dr. Frost has been a member of the Great Falls College community since 2011. For the past six years, she has served as executive director of instruction and student success.
"I have seen firsthand the difference technical education can make for our students, their families, and the businesses and industries that depend on a skilled workforce," said Amanda Foreman, the new interim president of Coastal Pines Technical College in Georgia.
Sara M. Butler is vice chancellor for academic affairs at Honolulu Community College in Hawaii and Jennifer L. Cumpston is vice president for academic affairs at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina
We seek to make an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, in the health humanities or critical social sciences of health, including but not limited to medical anthropology and the history of medicine.
Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Philosophy to begin Fall 2027. The Department of Philosophy seeks a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning Fall semester, 2027.
The Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago invites applications for an open-rank Instructional Professor position in the undergraduate Global Studies program.
The University of Chicago’s Development Innovation Lab and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics invites applications for a non-tenure track Senior Research Associate position, with a focus on Development Economics and Mathematics.
The Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History to begin July 1, 2027. “Modern” is defined as 1895 to the present.