New Administrative Posts at Major Universities for 11 Women

Michelle Villegas-Frazier is the inaugural director of Native American retention initiatives in the Office of Student Affairs at the University of California, Davis. She was the program coordinator in the Office of Student and Resident Diversity for the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.

Villegas-Frazier is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she majored in political science. She holds a master’s degree in higher education leadership from Sacramento State University.

Laura McCullough was named director of public safety and chief of police at Georgia Southern University. She has served in the post on an interim basis since May 2015. She joined the workforce at the university in 2005.

McCullough is a graduate of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She holds a master’s degree in education from Georgia Southern University and a master’s degree in event management from the University of Tennessee.

Alexandra Epsilanty was promoted to associate vice president for international engagement in the Division of Advancement and External Affairs at Syracuse University in New York. She has been on the staff at the university for 20 years, most recently serving as assistant dean for advancement at the College of Law.

Epsilanty is a graduate of Boston University, where she majored in business. Before joining the staff at the university, she worked for Xerox Corporation.

Lori A. Lewis was appointed vice chancellor for development and alumni engagement at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, effective June 6. Currently, she is vice president for institutional advancement at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

Lewis holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in special education from Ohio University in Athens.

Pamela Nolan Young is the inaugural director for academic diversity and inclusion at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is the former director of institutional diversity and equity at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Young is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Salem State University and a law degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Michelle Howard was named associate vice president for student affairs at the University of Georgia. She has been serving as director of early college programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Dr. Howard holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education and a master’s degree in student personnel services from the University of South Carolina. She earned a doctorate in leadership studies in higher education from the University of Tennessee.

Lynette Clemetson was named director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan, effective July 1. The fellowships offer mid-career journalists an opportunity to spend a year at the university and the awards honor young journalists under the age of 35.

Clemetson has been serving as the senior director of strategy and content initiatives at National Public Radio. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from the University of Pittsburgh.

Alice Li is the new executive director of the Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University. She has been serving in the post on an interim basis since August 2014. Dr. Li joined the licensing group at the university in 2002.

A graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, Dr. Li earned a doctorate at Cornell University. She holds U.S. patents for imaging tools used in bioapplications.

Katie Ziglar was appointed director of the Ackland Art Museum on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective July 6. Since 2003, she has served as director of external affairs for the Freer/Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Ziglar is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in history. She holds a master’s degree in Islamic art and architecture from the American University in Cairo.

Shawna Young was named director of the Talent Identification Program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The program identifies gifted youth and brings them to Duke for summer academic programs. Young has been serving as director of the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Young is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in chemistry. She holds a master’s degree in science education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Kristin Agatone was appointed chief financial officer at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was the managing director of Summit Rock Advisors, a New York-based investment firm.

Agatone holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA from Harvard University.