Vickie Mazer has joined McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, as the new dean of graduate and professional studies. For the past 13 years, Dr. Mazer served as the director of graduate services at Frostburg University in Maryland.
Dr. Mazer received both a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from West Virginia University. She earned a doctoral degree in educational leadership from Frostburg University.
Maria Galli Stampino recently began an internship as dean of undergraduate affairs at the University of Miami in Florida. She was senior associate dean of faculty affairs and diversity in the College of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, she has taken a one-year leave of absence from the University of Miami to serve as vice president and dean of academic affairs at the American University of Rome.
Dr. Stampino holds a master’s degree in American studies from the University of Kansas. She earned a Ph.D. in Italian at Stanford University.
Deborah Uman is the new dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, effective January 1. She has been serving as a professor and chair of the department of English at St. John Fischer College in Rochester, New York. She is the author of Women as Translators in Early Modern England (University of Delaware Press, 2012).
Dr. Uman received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Yale University. She earned a master’s degree and a P.D. in English literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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.