New Administrative Posts for Thirteen Women at Colleges and Universities

Kara Primrose has been selected as director of career services at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. She has worked for the Whitman School’s Career Services department since 2008.

Primrose holds a bachelor of arts degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges where she also spent more than a decade working in admissions.

Nancy Bocksor has been appointed director of the Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy at Texas Woman’s University. Previously, she was an adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, a board member of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale, and president of her own consulting firm, The Nancy Bocskor Company.

Bocksor holds a bachelor’s degree from Otterbein College in Ohio where she double majored in political science and business administration.

Tamika S. Edwards has been announced as the new executive director of the Social Justice Institute at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was the director of governmental affairs at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.

Edwards holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a master’s degree in Professional and Technical Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and a law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

DeShanna Brown has been named the vice president for institutional advancement, development, marketing and communications at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida. She was the former director of development in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs at Louisiana State University.

Dr. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational communication from Kennesaw State University, a master of public administration degree from the Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University, and an educational doctorate from Nova Southeastern University.

Felita Y. Singleton has been appointed as the associate dean of students for Warner Pacific University in Portland, Oregon. Formerly, she was the director of Student Veteran Services for Portland State University.

Singleton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in educational psychology and counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Tina Byford has been named the vice president for university advancement at New Mexico State University. She was the chief operating officer for the New Mexico State University Foundation since 2015 and has worked for the university since 1988.

Dr. Byford earned her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in higher education from New Mexico State University.

Susan Kennedy has been appointed associate vice president for IT strategic operations at the University of Delaware. She was formally the Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Security Officer at Trinity Health.

Kennedy earned her bachelor’s degree from Temple University in Philadelphia where she majored in finance and business law and her MBA in accounting from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Maryanne Steele has been promoted to assistant director of campus safety and fire prevention at Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been serving as interim assistant director since July 2017 and was previously in charge of construction safety.

Steele holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Angela Campbell has been appointed the first executive director for the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. Formerly, she was the assistant dean for the School of Education, assistant professor of education, and inaugural co-director of the Center for Urban Education Equity, and Improvement at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Campbell earned her bachelor’s degree from LaSalle University in Philadelphia where she double majored in human communication and sociology. She earned a master’s degree in speech communication and rhetoric from University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in urban education from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Brighid Dwyer has been selected as the new associate dean for diversity and inclusion at Princeton University. She was the director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Dwyer holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of California,Los Angeles, and a master’s and doctoral degree from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.

Melissa Hodge-Penn has been named assistant vice chancellor for the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Mississippi. She was the director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects in the College of Education and Human Development at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Hodge-Penn earned her bachelor’s degree from Grambling State University in Louisiana and her master’s degree from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Sarah Kutten has been appointed director of student services at the University of Oregon. She was the assistant director of career management at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and contributing assistant professor at the university’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management.

Kutten holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and cultural anthropology from Willamette University. She received a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy, student affairs in higher education from Portland State University where she is also a doctoral candidate in education leadership with a specialization in postsecondary education.

Jackie Griffith has been named director of government and community relations at Delaware State University. She has been serving as chief of fiscal policy in the Office of the Controller General for the State of Delaware. In this position she provided guidance to the Delaware General Assembly concerning fiscal and policy matters.

Griffith holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration management from Wesley College in Dover, Delaware.