Four Women Scholars Taking on New Roles at Colleges and Universities

Karen B. Gaskill has been named chair of the department of accounting in the Ketner School of Business at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina. She has served as an assistant professor of accounting at the college since 2017.

Professor Gaskill is a magna cum laude graduate of Catawba College where she majored in accounting. She holds a master’s degree in accounting with a concentration in information systems from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently completing a doctor of business administration degree at Jacksonville University.

Claire Gmachl has been named head of Whitman College, one of Princeton University’s six residential colleges. She currently serves as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and has been a Princeton faculty member since 2003.

Dr. Gmachl holds a master’s degree in physics from the University of Innsbruck in Austria and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna.

Kelli V. Randall has been named vice president of academic affairs at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. She will continue to serve in her current roles as a tenured professor of English, dean of liberal arts and humanities, and accreditation liaison.

Dr. Randall holds a Ph.D. in English from Emory University in Atlanta.

Tammie Walker has been named director of the School of Music at the University of Iowa. She currently serves as director of the School of Music at Western Illinois University.

Dr. Walker is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she majored in piano performance. She holds a doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance and literature with a minor in musicology from the University of Illinois.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Related Articles

Latest News

University of Texas at Arlington President Jennifer Cowley to Step Down

Four years after she was named the first woman president of the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Cowley has announced that she will step down and return to the faculty.

Megan Walsh to Lead Academic Affairs at Edgewood University in Wisconsin

Prior to her new role, Dr. Walsh was dean and campus director of the University of Maine at Machias. Before that, she spent more than a decade with St. Bonaventure University in New York.

Leanne Frost Is CEO of Great Falls College in Montana

Dr. Frost has been a member of the Great Falls College community since 2011. For the past six years, she has served as executive director of instruction and student success.

Amanda Morris Foreman Named Interim President of Coastal Pines Technical College

"I have seen firsthand the difference technical education can make for our students, their families, and the businesses and industries that depend on a skilled workforce," said Amanda Foreman, the new interim president of Coastal Pines Technical College in Georgia.

A Pair of Women Tapped to Lead Academic Affairs at Two-Year Colleges

Sara M. Butler is vice chancellor for academic affairs at Honolulu Community College in Hawaii and Jennifer L. Cumpston is vice president for academic affairs at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Health Studies

We seek to make an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, in the health humanities or critical social sciences of health, including but not limited to medical anthropology and the history of medicine.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Philosophy to begin Fall 2027. The Department of Philosophy seeks a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning Fall semester, 2027.

Instructional Professor (Open Rank) in Global Studies

The Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago invites applications for an open-rank Instructional Professor position in the undergraduate Global Studies program.

Senior Research Associate, Development Innovation Lab

The University of Chicago’s Development Innovation Lab and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics invites applications for a non-tenure track Senior Research Associate position, with a focus on Development Economics and Mathematics.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History

The Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History to begin July 1, 2027. “Modern” is defined as 1895 to the present.