Eleven Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Agnes Wong Nickerson was appointed vice president for business and financial affairs and chief financial officer at San Diego State University. She has served in these roles on an interim basis since 2019. Earlier, she was the associate vice president for financial operations from 2014 to 2019.

Wong Nickerson earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MBA with a focus in international finance from the University of San Francisco.

Katie Treadwell was named assistant vice provost for student affairs at the University of Kansas. She has been on the staff at the university for the past nine years.

Dr. Treadwell received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She earned a doctor of education degree from Teachers College at Columbia University.

Hellen Hom-Diamond is the new vice president for strategic marketing and communications at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the chief communications officer for the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.

Hom-Diamond holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Columbia University in New York City.

Dawn M. Nail has been named interim associate vice provost for enrollment management and head of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Nail has led the university’s Center for Academic Excellence, a position she held since February 2020 after serving as associate director for two years. Earlier, she was associate director of undergraduate admissions at the university.

Dr. Nail earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from North Carolina A&T State University. She holds a master’s degree in corporate communication from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and a doctorate in educational leadership and management from Capella University.

Amy Lientz will join the University of Idaho as assistant vice president for alumni relations, effective April 11. Lientz is currently the senior director of supply chain energy programs for Battelle Energy Alliance at Idaho National Laboratory.

Lientz holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Boise State University. She earned a master’s degree in industrial technology from the University of Idaho.

Alicia Miñana de Lovelace has been named chair-elect of the board of directors of the UCLA Foundation. She has been a member of the foundation’s board of directors since 2015.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico of Cuban ancestry, Miñana de Lovelace graduated from Princeton University in 1984 with a degree in biology and a minor in Latin American studies. She holds a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Victoria Nichols was promoted to assistant vice president of enrollment management at Virginia Union University in Richmond. She joined the staff at the university in 2021 as director of admissions. Earlier, she was assistant director of recruitment at Virginia State University.

Nichols earned a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from Virginia State University and a master’s degree in educational management from Strayer University.

Karen Hunt is the new vice president of enrollment management at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Hunt began working for the college in late 2021 as interim enrollment chief of staff. Before coming to Luther College, Hunt worked as the vice president for enrollment management and marketing at Bethany College in West Virginia.

Hunt earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from Wilmington College in Ohio and holds a master’s degree in college student personnel service from Miami University of Ohio.

Maura Reilly, a curator, writer, art consultant, and nonprofit leader who has organized dozens of exhibitions internationally that focus on marginalized artists, has been named the new director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Dr. Reilly is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Dr. Reilly received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Rhonda L. Harris was named assistant vice president for public safety and chief of police at Florida State University, effective in May. She has served as chief of police at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, since 2012, adding the title of assistant vice president for public safety in 2014. Earlier, she was chief of police at Rutgers University.

Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in public affairs and administration from Rutgers University. She earned a master’s degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Colette LaBouff was appointed executive director of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, effective June 1. Since 2018, she has been the director of New Mexico’s Taos Center for the Arts.

Dr. LaBouff holds a master of fine arts degree and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine.

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