A Dozen Women Who Have Accepted Appointments to New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Leah Zimmerman has been named executive director of the Study Disability Resources Office at Pennsylvania State University. She has been serving as the Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator for Penn State’s affirmative action office since 2017.

Dr. Zimmerman is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree in education and human development and a doctorate in education both from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Betti-Sue Hertz has been named director and chief curator of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York City. She most recently served as director of visual arts at Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and curator of contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art.

Hertz holds a master of fine arts degree from Hunter College in New York.

Tiffany Thompson has been named associate director of gender and sexuality initiatives at the Intercultural Center and program manager for the Women’s Resource Center at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She most recently served as the associate director of the LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Thompson is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in international business and marketing with a minor in Japanese. She holds a master’s degree in strategic communications from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Caitlin Cleaver has been named director of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area and the Bates College Coastal Center at Shortridge. Most recently, she served as a marine biologist/marine science lead at FB Environmental Associates in Portland, Maine.

Cleaver holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, a master of public administration degree in environmental science and policy from Columbia University, and a master’s degree in marine biology/marine policy from the University of Maine. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine.

Charlise Anderson has been named director of assessment and accreditation at Tennessee State University. She was the director of institutional research, effectiveness, and assessment, and the accreditation liaison at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas.

Dr. Anderson is a graduate of Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, where she majored in general studies. She holds a master’s degree in instructional technology and education from St. Joseph’s University and a doctorate in higher and adult education from the University of Memphis.

Kristi Smith has been named interim director of the University of Arkansas Little Rock Alumni Association. She is the senior director of development in the university’s Office of Alumni and Development. She has been a member of the staff at the university since 2016.

Smith holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in public administration both from the University of Arkansas Little Rock.

Julie Cromer has been named director of athletics at Ohio University. Her appointment makes her the first woman to serve in this role in the university’s history. She most recently served as senior deputy athletics director, associate vice chancellor, and senior woman administrator for Razorback Athletics at the University of Arkansas.

Cromer is an honors graduate of Missouri State University. She holds a master of public administration degree in policy analysis from Indiana University.

Andrea Ballinger has been named vice provost for information and technology at Oregon State University. Most recently, she served as associate vice president and chief technology officer at Louisiana State University.

Ballinger holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and an MBA both from the University of Illinois.

Samantha Hoover has been named director of alumni relations for the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke. She most recently served as alumnae and donor communications coordinator at Hollins University in Roanoke.

Hoover holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and a master’s degree in educational leadership both from the University of Lynchburg in Virginia.

Amy Yancey has been named vice president for development at Boston College. She currently served as the associate vice president for development at the University of Virginia.

Yancey holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in plant sciences with a minor in agricultural economics both from the University of Tennessee.

Stacie E. Brennan has been named the inaugural curator of education at the Art Galleries of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She most recently served as the senior director of visual arts for ArtsQuest, where she led programs with contemporary artists, including several public art projects in Bethlehem.

Brennan is a graduate of Lehigh University where she double majored in art and marketing with a minor in Spanish. She holds a master’s degree in leadership in museum education from Bank Street College in New York.

Julie Rehm has been named vice president of advancement at Cleveland State University and executive director of the CSU Foundation. Most recently, she served as vice president of foundation and government relations at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Dr. Rehm holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree both in chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester.