Jinliu Wang was appointed executive vice president for research, innovation and knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University. Dr. Wang joins Ohio State from the State University of New York System, where she was most recently senior vice chancellor for research and economic development and interim president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Wang received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Lauren L. Misale was appointed chief of police at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has been on the university’s police force for 12 years. In 2013, she was promoted to sergeant, the first woman to hold that position. Misale also has served as an adjunct professor, teaching criminal justice at Anna Maria College, Quinsigamond Community College, and The American Women’s College at Bay Path University.
Misale is a graduate of Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. She holds a master of public administration degree from Clark Univerity.
Karyn C. Nooks was appointed director of the Office of Alumni Affairs at Fort Valley State University in Georgia. Most recently, she served as the senior enrollment specialist and senior admissions counselor at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Nooks graduated from Fort Valley State University in 2016 with a bachelor of business administration degree in marketing with a minor in logistics.
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.