Linda Marie Golian-Lui will be the new dean of university libraries at Florida Atlantic University, effective August 15. She has been serving as the associate dean of libraries at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Earlier, Dr. Golian-Lui held positions within the academic libraries at Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Dr. Golan-Lui is a graduate of the University of Miami. She holds a master’s degree from Florida State University and an educational doctorate from Florida Atlantic University.
Stephanie Walker has been appointed as the new dean of University Libraries at the University of Massachusetts Boston, effective August 22. For the past seven years, she has been dean of Libraries & Information Resources at the University of North Dakota.
Walker holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from the University of Waterloo in Canada. She earned a master of library science degree at the University of Toronto.
Lori E. Harris has been named interim dean and university librarian of the University of Cincinnati Libraries. Harris initially joined the libraries in 2015 as an associate fellow from the National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine. She previously served as assistant dean and director of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library at the university.
Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies, museum studies, and archives from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She earned a master of library and information science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Donna L. Hayward has been appointed interim university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Michigan. She has been serving as associate dean and has been on the library staff since 2001.
Hayward is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she majored in business and music education. She holds a master’s degree in information from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Most recently, Dr. Van Vlerah served as vice president for student success and institutional strategy at Manchester University in Indiana. She is slated to become the fifteenth president of Notre Dame of Maryland University on July 6.
Dr. Egan comes to her new role as president of Bennington College from Connecticut College, where she has been serving as the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, dean of the faculty, and chief academic officer.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.