Six Women Stepping Down From Their College or University Posts

Barbara Entwisle has announced that she is stepping down as vice chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Entwisle will remain at the university as a Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences. She has served as vice chancellor since 2011.

A graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Dr. Entwisle holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Wilma Dunaway was appointed professor emerita of sociology in government in the international affairs program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She has been a member of the Virginia Tech community since 1999.

Professor Dunaway holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all the from the University of Tennessee.

Katharyn May is stepping down as dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin. She has served as dean for the past 15 years. Dr. May will remain on the faculty of the nursing school.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. May was dean of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. Earlier in her career, she served on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco and Vanderbilt University.

Ann Clarke, dean of College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University in New York, announced that she will step down as dean at the end of the academic year. Clarke will take a one-year sabbatical and then return to the Syracuse University faculty in the fall of 2017.

Dean Clarke joined the Syracuse University faculty in 1998. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a master of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Esther Levine, professor of Spanish at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, has retired after teaching at the college for 35 years. Professor Levine joined the faculty in 1980.

During her tenure at Holy Cross, Professor Levine also served as dean of the classes of 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. She was also dean of ALANA (African American, Latin American, Asian American, and Native American) students.

Elizabeth C. Fine was named professor emerita of humanities at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She has been a member of the Virginia Tech community since 1979. Professor Fine is the author of The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print (Indiana University Press, 2000) and Soulstepping: African American Step Shows (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

Dr. Fine holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a master’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley.