Eleven Women Who Have Been Appointed to New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Lisa Intagliata was appointed assistant vice president of constituent engagement at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. She was director of development for the Sarasota Memorial Health Care Foundation.

Intagliata is a graduate of Florida Southern College in Lakeland.

Nichol Luoma is the new associate vice president for university business services and university sustainability operations at Arizona State University. She has served in the post on an interim basis since November. Earlier, Luoma was chief procurement officer for the university.

Luoma is a summa cum laude graduate of Arizona State University, where she majored in supply chain management. She earned an MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Patricia Lowe is the new executive director of the Office for Institutional Diversity at Boston College. She has served in the post on an interim basis since November 1. She has worked in the human resources department at the college since 2010.

Lowe is a graduate of Boston College and the Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

Laura E. Sanders was named director of fraternity and sorority affairs at Syracuse University in New York. She was director of alumnae and alumni relations at Wells College in Aurora, New York. She is the former assistant dean of students at Cornell University.

Sanders is a graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she majored in history and German. She holds a master’s degree in student affairs and higher education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Cheryl Matherly is the new vice president and vice provost for international affairs at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was vice provost for global education at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

Dr. Matherly is a graduate of the University of New Mexico. She earned a master’s degree in college student personnel administration from Indiana University and an educational doctorate from the University of Houston.

Jackie Stein was promoted to director of research development at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She was a grant development specialist at the university. She joined the staff at the university in 2007.

Before joining the staff at Old Dominion University, Stein was mental health clinician for the city of Virginia Beach. She also taught at Tidewater Community College.

Susan Dressler Martin was named director of Agile Technology Solutions, a research center in the Achievement & Assessment Institute at the University of Kansas. She has been a software developer at Hewett-Packard for the past 20 years.

Martin is a 1983 graduate of the University of Kansas, where she majored in computer science.

Sandra Hodge was appointed interim vice president for the Division of Institutional Advancement at Jackson State University in Mississippi. She has been serving as a special assistant to the president of the university.

Before joining the staff at the university, Hodge was the regional chief executive officer of the American Red Cross in Mississippi. Hodge is a 1997 graduate of Jackson State University.

Deborah Shaffer was promoted to vice president for finance and administration at Ohio University in Athens. She was senior associate vice president for finance and administration. In her new role, she will also serve as treasurer of the board of trustees and treasurer of the Ohio University Foundation.

Before joining the administration at Ohio University in 2013, Shaffer was vice president for finance and chief financial officer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Joelle A. Murchison was appointed associate vice president and chief diversity officer at the University of Connecticut, effective July 5. Currently, she is vice president of enterprise diversity and inclusion for The Travelers Companies.

Murchison is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she majored in public policy. She holds a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and a second master’s degree in communications management from Syracuse University in New York.

Ana Ramirez was promoted to associate vice president for facilities engineering and planning at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She has been a member of the facilities engineering and planning staff at the university for 24 years.

Ramirez is a magna cum laude graduate of Texas A&M University, where she majored in environmental design. She is a registered architect and registered interior designer.