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.
Dr. Burris has served as provost of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina for the past four years. She is slated to become the next president of SUNY's Buffalo State University on July 1.
Dr. Thompson's appointment marks a return to Union Theological Seminary, where she previously taught for three years. Most recently, she was the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Black Homiletics & Liturgics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Julie Sanford of the University of Alabama, Eileen Boris of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Itohan Osayimwese of Brown University, Jane Grant-Kels of the University of Connecticut, and Rani Sullivan of Mississippi State University have been appointed to leadership positions with professional organizations in their academic fields of study.
For the past two years, Dr. Torti has served as president of the College of the Atlantic in Maine. Earlier, she was dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.
Dr. Martin has led Kilgore College on an interim basis since November 2025. She has been an administrator with the community college for the past 25 years.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.
The University of Arizona School of Music seeks a visionary and collaborative Director to lead its comprehensive music program through a time of opportunity and transformation.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track.