Lora Taub-Pervizpour has been appointed dean for digital learning at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has served as associate dean for digital learning since 2013 and is a professor of media and communication.
Dr. Taub-Pervizpour holds a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. all in communications from the University of California, San Diego.
Tiffany L. Steinwert has been named dean for religious life at Stanford University, effective February 2019. She currently serves as dean of religious and spiritual life at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Prior to that, she was dean of Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University in New York.
Dr. Steinwert holds a bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and a master of divinity degree and a Ph.D. in practical theology from Boston University.
Braswell comes to her new appointment with extensive leadership experience in state government, including her current role as general counsel to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont. In her new role, she will provide strategic oversight for the 16 campuses within Connecticut's public higher education system.
Jennifer Gaither, a lawyer by training, has been a Sullivan University faculty member for the past 25 years. She most recently served as the university's associate provost.
Dr. Crowley has served as provost at Ohio Wesleyan University since 2020. She is slated to become the nineteenth president of Kalamazoo College on July 1.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.