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

LeAnna Rice was appointed director of the African, Latino, Asian, Native American (ALANA) Center at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. She was the campus advisor for the JED Foundation and previously served as a mental health counselor and outreach coordinator for Binghamton University in New York.

Rice holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Amy Whitney was appointed director of the Center for Innovation at the University of North Dakota. She has been serving as director of innovation and entrepreneurship at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Before joining Clark University, Whitney served as an adjunct faculty member teaching online management courses at the Community College of Vermont in Montpelier.

Whitney holds a bachelor’s degree in government and an MBA from Clark University. She is completing work on a doctorate in educational leadership from Northeastern University in Boston.

Margaret Miller was promoted to deputy vice president for volunteering engagement at Princeton University in New Jersey. She has served for the past 16 years as deputy vice president for alumni affairs.

Miller is a 1980 graduate of Princeton University.

Lori Pickens was appointed senior vice president and executive director of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital. She has been serving as associate vice president for oncology services for the Duke University Health System and as associate dean of the Cancer Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine.

Pickens is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she majored in business administration. She holds a master’s degree in health administration from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Lori Brooks was named vice provost for informational technology and chief information officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been serving as vice provost for information and technology and chief information officer at Oregon State University.

Brooks is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, where she majored in applied economics. She holds MBAs from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University in New York City.

Tracey Shickel will be the director of economic development at the University of Delaware. She will play a key role at the university’s Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) campus. Shickel has been serving as vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship at Delaware Innovation Space, a nonprofit organization supporting scientific entrepreneurs in Wilmington, Delaware.

Shickel earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware.

Klaire Miller was appointed assistant director of annual giving at Mississippi State University. She will be in charge of the Bulldog Calling center that employs up to 40 students to make telephone solicitations from the university’s more than 142,000 living alumni.

Miller is a 2017 graduate of Mississippi State University, where she majored in kinesiology.

Kim McCuistion was named chief of staff to the president of Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. She has been serving as director of animal nutrition for the United Sorghum Checkoff Program. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. McCuistion was interim dean of the Honors College at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Dr. McCuistion holds a bachelor’s degree in animal science and a Ph.D. in agriculture from Texas A&M University. She also earned a master’s degree in animal science from Kansas State University.

Lucy Holman was appointed University Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has been serving as dean of the Langsdale Library at the University of Baltimore.

Dr. Holman holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history and a master of library science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a second master’s degree in human development and learning from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a doctorate in communications design from the University of Baltimore.