Colleges and Universities Appoint Ten Women to Administrative Positions

Jaci Lindburg has been named associate vice president for digital education at the University of Nebraska and director of University of Nebraska Online. She has been serving as assistant vice president for information technology strategy for the university’s Information Technology Services and director of digital learning at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Dr. Linburg earned a bachelor’s degree from Hastings College in Nebraska. She holds a master’s degree from Doane University in Crete, Nebraska, and a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in Missouri.

Christina Moylan is the new associate provost for graduate and professional studies at Ithaca College in New York. She had been serving as director of public health emergency preparedness at the college.

Dr. Moyan is a graduate of Cornell University, where she majored in educational psychology. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Melissa L. Bard has been named vice president and chief human resources officer at the University of Delaware. Bard has led the human resources operations at Frederick Community College in Maryland, California State University, East Carolina University, and Pennsylvania State University.

Bard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in human resources management from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Nicole Reaves was appointed executive vice president and chief programs officer at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. Reeves served in senior leadership roles at Northern Virginia Community College, the second-largest community college in the nation, Wilbur Wright College, the largest of seven colleges in the City of Chicago system, and Westmoreland County Community College, in Youngwood, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Reaves holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She earned a doctorate in higher education administration from North Carolina State University.

Hilary A. Craiglow, who has led the Walker Management Library at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for more than a decade, has been named interim university librarian. She will oversee nine divisional libraries, the Fine Arts Gallery and the Television News Archive.

Craiglow earned a bachelor’s degree from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she majored in human development. She holds a master of library and information science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ingenue’ Schexnider-Fields was promoted to controller at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has worked as an accountant at the university since 2003. Most recently, she served as director of financial reporting/external audits.

Schexnider-Fields is a graduate of Southern University-New Orleans, where she majored in accounting.

Klara Jelinkova was appointed vice president and chief information officer at Harvard University. For the past seven years, she has been vice president for international operations and information technology at Rice University in Houston.

Jelinkova, a native of the Czech Republic, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in economics and Slavic languages. She earned a master’s degree in education from Boston University.

Alonda Thomas is the new associate vice president for university communications and chief communications officer at Jackson State University in Mississippi. She has been serving as director of public relations at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

A native of Miami, Florida, Thomas attended the prestigious New World School of the Arts, where she studied musical theater. She received her bachelor’s degree in public relations from Florida A&M University and a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from Florida State University.

Kim Robinson has been promoted to university registrar at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She will be the 11th individual to hold the position. Previously, she was associate registrar.

Robinson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

W. Rebecca Brown was named interim chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration at Florida A&M University, She has been on the staff at the university for 22 years, most recently as assistant vice president for finance and administration.

Earlier in her career, Brown was chief financial officer at Morehouse College in Atlanta. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University.

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