Four Women Who Are Stepping Down From High-Level Positions in Academia

Jerrilee K. Mosier will retire from her position as chancellor of the Ivy Tech Community College Fort Wayne and Warsaw locations on September 10. She has served in this role for the past 11 years.

Dr. Mosier is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, where she majored in special education. She holds a master’s degree in learning disabilities from the University of Tulsa and a doctorate in higher education administration from Oklahoma State University.

Betty Jo Licata is retiring after more than 26 years as dean of the Williamson College of Business Administration at Youngstown State University in Ohio. Earlier, she was dean of the Dahlkemper School of Business Administration at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Licata is a graduate of SUNY-Geneseo, where she majored in psychology. She earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in human resource management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Lisabeth Chabot is retiring from her position as college librarian at Ithaca College in New York on May 14. She has served as college librarian since 2003.

Chabot is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She earned a master of library science degree from the University of Michigan.

Lauren Robel, who has served as provost of Indiana University Bloomington and executive vice president of Indiana University since 2012, will step down from her executive roles on June 30 and return to her full-time faculty position as the Val Nolan Professor of Law. She began teaching at the university’s law school in 1985.

Professor Robel is a graduate of Auburn University in Alabama, where she majored in English. She earned a juris doctorate at Indiana University.