New Administrative Posts for Six Women at Major Universities

April Eastman is the new director of the American Indian Education and Cultural Center at South Dakota State University. She joined the staff at the center in 2012 and was named interim director in August 2014.

Eastman is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Morris. She earned a master’s degree in counseling and human resource development at South Dakota State University.

Mary K. Scott was appointed acting director of international programs at the University of Wyoming. She has been an assistant lecturer in Spanish at the university since 2011.

Dr. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and Spanish and a master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Wyoming. She earned a Ph.D. in world art studies at the University of East Anglia in England.

Margaret Ann Bollmeier is the new president of the Medical College of Virginia Foundation at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The foundation is responsible for the management of a $480 million endowment which supports the university’s five health sciences schools.

Bollmeier was associate dean of alumni affairs and development for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia.

Renia Ehrenfeucht was appointed director of community and regional planning for the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. She was an associate professor and chair of the planning and urban studies department at the University of New Orleans.

Dr. Ehrenfeucht is the co-author of Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation in Public Space (MIT Press, 2009). She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Laura Spitz is the new vice provost for international affairs at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She has been serving in the position on an interim basis since July. Previously, Dr. Spitz was associate dean for international affairs at Cornell Law School.

A graduate of the University of Toronto, where she majored in history, Dr. Spitz holds law degrees from the University of British Columbia and Cornell Law School.

Elizabeth Boluch Wood was named assistant to the president for capital gifts at Princeton University. Since 2010 she has served as vice president for development at the university. Wood worked as a development officer at Princeton from 1995 to 2001 and rejoined the university’s development staff in 2005.

Wood is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts.