Manica Finch is the new dean of enrollment management at Harris Stow-State University in St. Louis. She was associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Earlier, she was director of admissions and recruitment at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Dr. Finch is a graduate of Alabama A&M University. She earned a master’s degree in higher education and a doctorate in educational leadership and management from Capella University.
Aliza Wong, a professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. was appointed interim dean of the Honors College at the university. She joined the faculty at Texas Tech in 2002.
Dr. Wong is a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts, where she was a triple major in history, English and Asian languages and civilizations. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Melissa Feuer was named acting dean of the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has been serving as the college’s associate dean for student and academic affairs. She joined the university in 2007 as an adjunct professor of paralegal studies. Feuer has served as director of career services and dean of students for the college.
Feuer earned her bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and her law degree from the New York University School of Law.
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.