Janelle Chiasera has been appointed dean of the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. She is the former senior executive associate dean for the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Chiasera is a graduate of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She earned a master’s degree in allied health education and a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy from Ohio State Univerity.
Rose Marie Ward appointed interim dean of the Graduate School at Miami University in Ohio. She will also hold the title as interim associate provost. Dr. Ward is a professor in the department of kinesiology and health and since 2017 has been serving as associate dean of the graduate studies.
Dr. Ward is a graduate of Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Rhode Island.
Shannon Collier-Tenison has been named interim dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is an associate professor of social work at the university and has been serving as associate dean.
Dr. Colliear-Tenison graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in social work from Washington University in St. Louis.
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 women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.