New Administrative Roles for 19 Women at Colleges and Universities

Sheila Manion was promoted to vice president for development at Saint Louis University in Missouri. She joined the university’s staff in 2010 as associate vice president for development. Earlier, she held fundraising posts at Loyola University of Chicago and Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

Manion is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago.

LaWana Richmond was named staff adviser to the University of California Board of Regents. She has been serving as senior business analyst for the University of California, San Diego.

Richmond has been on the staff at the University of California, San Diego for 10 years. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation in educational leadership in a joint program of the University of California, San Diego and California State University, San Marcos.

Carol Parker was appointed assistant vice president for faculty affairs at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been serving as the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. She has been on the faculty at the College of Law at the University of Tennessee since 1994.

Professor Parker holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She earned a juris doctorate at the University of Illinois.

Kristi Bohlender was promoted to executive director of the Colorado State University Alumni Association. She has been serving as director of development for the College of Liberal Arts at the university. Earlier, she was assistant athletic director for development.

Bohlender holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Darrice Griffin was appointed senior associate athletic director for internal operations and senior woman administrator at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was associate athletics director for intercollegiate sports programs at Columbia University.

Griffin is a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where she majored in psychology and played varsity basketball.

Ansile T. Nibert was appointed associate dean of the Nelda C. Stark College of Nursing at the Texas Woman’s University Institute for Health Sciences in Houston. She is a former associate professor of nursing at Houston Baptist University.

Dr. Nibert is a graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. She holds a master’s degree in critical care nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and a Ph.D. in nursing from Texas Woman’s University.

Kristin Morse was named director of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School in New York City. The center is an applied policy research institute. Morse was the executive director of the Center for Economic Opportunity of the City of New York.

Morse is a graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and earned a master’s degree in urban policy analysis from The New School.

Takeyah Young was named interim director of alumni relations at The Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Core Connection Lifestyle, a health and lifestyle consulting firm. She has been an adjunct faculty member in mathematics at the University of the District of Columbia and Howard County Community College in Columbia, Maryland.

Young is a graduate of The Lincoln University, where she majored in physics with minors in Japanese and mathematics. She holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Samantha Veeder was appointed executive director of financial aid at Syracuse University in New York. Since 2009, she has been director of financial aid at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Earlier she held similar posts at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Keuka College.

Veeder is a graduate of Ithaca College in New York, where she majored in health services administration. She holds a master’s degree in management from Nazareth College.

Marsha D. Rappley was named vice president for health sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She will also serve as CEO of the VCU Health System. For the past decade, Dr. Rappley has been serving as dean of the College of Human Medicine and professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University.

Dr. Rappley earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature at Wayne State University in Detroit. She became a practical nurse and then went back to college at the University of Michigan to get a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Two years later she entered medical school at Michigan State University.

Anne Alexander was promoted to associate vice president for undergraduate education at the University of Wyoming. She has been serving as director of international programs at the university.

Dr. Alexander holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wyoming.

Deborah Dean a professor of English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, was appointed associate dean for curriculum of undergraduate education at the university. She had been serving as associate dean for general education.

Professor Dean is a graduate of Brigham Young University. She holds a doctorate in education from Seattle Pacific University in Washington State.

Roberta Pokphanh was named the academic director of the Academic Accelerator Program at the University of Kansas. The program prepares international students for study and campus life at the university. Dr. Pokphanh has been serving as assistant dean in the Office of Graduate Studies at the university.

Dr. Pokphanh holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all in the history of art from the University of Kansas.

Kelsey Keimig is the new assistant director of sexual assault prevention and advocacy in the Office of Student Life at North Dakota State University in Fargo. She joined the staff at the university in 2011.

Keimig holds a bachelor’s degree from Concordia College and a master’s degree in criminal justice administration from North Dakota State University.

Jenny Hall-Jones was named interim vice president for student affairs at Ohio University in Athens. She is associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at the university. She has been on the staff at the university for the past 19 years.

Dr. Hall-Jones holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all from Ohio University.

Nancy Buffone is the new associate vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was serving as the interim director of the Office of Communications at the university.

Dr Buffone holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in higher education, and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy, all from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Joan Rentsch was appointed associate dean for academic programs in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is a professor of communication studies at the university and joined the faculty in 1999.

Professor Rentsch is a graduate of Ohio State University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Maryland.

Amy Chasteen Miller was promoted to associate provost for academic excellence at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Miller joined the faculty at the university in 1997 and since 2013 has served as associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Arts and Letters.

Dr. Miller is a graduate of the University of Alabama. She holds a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in sociology with a concentration in culture and gender studies from the University of Michigan.

Rita Dibble was named assistant vice president for advancement at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. She was the director of alumni relations at The Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Earlier she was director of alumnae relations at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Dibble holds a master’s degree from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India and a master’s degree in mass communications from Syracuse University in New York.