Four Women Stepping Down From College and University Posts

Susan C. Scrimshaw, president of the Sage Colleges in Troy and Albany, New York, has announced that she will step down at the end of the 2016-17 academic year. Dr. Scrimshaw has been president of the Sage Colleges since 2008.

Dr. Scrimshaw is a graduate of Barnard College in New York City. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.

Nancy McMenamy has retired and was named professor emerita of nursing in the College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s University in Dallas.

Professor McMenamy is a graduate of the University of Texas. She holds a master’s degree in medical/surgical nursing from Texas Woman’s University.

Susan Grayzel is stepping down as director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi. She will remain at the university as a professor in the history department. Professor Grayzel is the author of several books including At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Dr. Grayzel joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 1996. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Carol Ann Bailey was named associate professor of sociology emerita at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She joined the Virginia Tech community in 1987.

Dr. Bailey is a graduate of the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Washington State University.