Seven Women in Higher Education Taking on New Administrative Duties

Jami C. Powell was appointed the inaugural associate curator of Native American Art at the Hood Art Museum on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She has been serving as a lecturer in the American studies program at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

A member of the Osage Nation, Dr. Powell is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Denver where she majored in anthropology and Spanish. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chantelle Cleary will be the new Title IX coordinator at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, effective June 4. She currently serves as assistant vice president for equity and compliance and Title IX coordinator at the University at Albany of the State University of New York System.

Cleary spent 10 years as an assistant district attorney concentrating on sexual assault cases. She is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the Albany Law School.

Susan Barone is the new executive director of international student programs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She was the executive director of global learning and education at the university.

Dr. Barone has been on the staff at Vanderbilt for 26 years. She is the coauthor of the textbook American Legal English: Using Language in Legal Contexts (University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Gloria S. Graham was appointed associate vice president for safety and security at the University of Virginia. She was assistant vice president for safety and security and deputy chief of police at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Graham is a graduate of North Carolina Wesleyan College, where she majored in criminal justice. She holds a master’s degree in leadership development from Saint Mary of the Woods College in Indiana.

Cynthia W. Roseberry was named vice president of institutional advancement and executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Wilberforce University in Ohio. She has been serving as secretary for the university’s board of trustees.

Roseberry is a graduate of Wilberforce University and earned a juris doctorate at the Georgia State University College of Law.

Tanya Vogel will be the next director of athletics and recreation at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has been serving as acting director since January 1 and has been on the staff since 2015. Earlier, Vogel was senior associate athletics director, senior woman administrator, and deputy Title IX coordinator at Northern Arizona University.

Vogel holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exercise science and an MBA, all from George Washington University.

Nancy Nicely was named vice chancellor and chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Denver, effective July 1. She currently serves as secretary of the college and vice president for communications at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She joined the staff at Swarthmore in 2007.

Nicely is a graduate of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she majored in English and psychology. She holds a master’s degree in organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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