Rebecca Royal was appointed dean of student success at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. Since 2012, she has been serving as director of financial aid at the college. Previously, she was director of financial aid at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City.
Royal is a graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. She earned a master’s degree in educational administration and supervision at St. Peter’s University.
Cody Yeager was named dean of career and technical education at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay. She was the director of transfer and pre-college programs at Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles, Oregon.
Dean Yeager is a graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She holds master’s degrees from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Oregon.
Elizabeth M. Daley was reappointed to a new five-year term as dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dean Dailey joined the faculty at the university in 1989 as head of the film and television production program. She has served as dean since 1991.
Dr. Daley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tulane University in New Orleans. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.