Carolyn Long, campus president of West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, announced that she will step down at the end of the calendar year. She was named campus president in 2011. President Long spent a year as as interim chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission from 2018 to 2019.
President Long is a graduate of Fairmont State University in West Virginia, where she majored in elementary education. She holds a master’s degree in education administration from the West Virginia University College of Graduate Studies.
Andrea Lee, one of the nation’s longest-serving college leaders, announced that she will end her service as president of Alverno College in Milwaukee, effective June 30, 2022. Dr. Lee was named the eighth president of Alverno College in 2016. For the previous 18 years. Dr. Lee was president of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
President Lee is a graduate of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where she majored in music and elementary education. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees in educational administration from Pennsylvania State University.
Jennifer Orlikoff is stepping down as president of Potomac State College in Keyser, West Virginia, on June 30. She was named campus president in 2016. Earler, Dr. Orlikoff was an associate professor of French and director of the Center for Women and Gender Studies at West Virginia University’s flagship campus in Morgantown. She joined the faculty at the university in 2008.
Dr. Orlikoff is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in French language and literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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 women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.