The board of trustees of Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, has announced the awarding of tenure to 10 faculty members. Four of the faculty members awarded tenure are women. The tenure appointments are effective on August 1.
Daniela Augustine is currently an assistant professor of theological studies in the School of Religion at Lee University. She is the author of At the Crossroads of Social Transformation: An Eastern-European Theological Perspective (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010). Dr. Augustine holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of National and World Economy in Bulgaria. She earned a master of divinity degree from what is now the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Jackson, Tennessee, and a doctorate in theology from the University of South Africa.
Ingrid Hart is an assistant professor of accounting. Before joining the faculty at Lee University, Dr. Hart served as a certified public accountant in Atlanta. Dr. Hart is a graduate of Lee University, where she majored in accounting. She went on to earn an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and Ph.D. in accounting from Anderson University in Indiana.
Mary McCampbell is an assistant professor of humanities. She joined the faculty at Lee University in 2010 and teaches courses on postmodern theory and fiction, film and philosophy, popular culture, and modernism. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. McCampbell holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England.
Debra Mimbs is an assistant professor of mathematics. Dr. Mimbs has been a member of the Lee University faculty since 2010. She is the co-director of Mentoring Mathematicians in the Making Program which seeks to steer high schools students into the field. Dr. Mimbs is a graduate of Lee University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in applied and computational mathematics from the University of Alabama Birmingham.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
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.