McLean Fahnestock was appointed chair of the department of art and design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. She has served as an associate professor of art foundations at the university since 2016.
Professor Fahnestock received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Middle Tennessee State University. She earned a master of fine arts degree from California State University, Long Beach.
Julia Carboni, an associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York, has been appointed director of the William D. Ruckelshaus Center — a public policy-minded collaboration between Washington State University and the University of Washington.
Dr. Carboni is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, where she majored in social work. She holds a master of public administration degree and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Arizona.
Emily Pritchard was appointed assistant vice president for academic affairs for health innovation and strategic alliances at Florida State University. Dr. Pritchard has faculty affiliations with the College of Medicine and Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship and will continue to serve as director of the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate Program.
Dr. Pritchard holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Tennessee.
Shirlkeymu L. Winston, an assistant professor of African American history at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina, was granted tenure. Earlier, she served as the program developer for the African American Diaspora and African American Studies Program at the university.
Dr. Wilson earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in African history from North Carolina Central University. She holds a Ph.D. in African diaspora studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Braswell comes to her new appointment with extensive leadership experience in state government, including her current role as general counsel to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont. In her new role, she will provide strategic oversight for the 16 campuses within Connecticut's public higher education system.
Jennifer Gaither, a lawyer by training, has been a Sullivan University faculty member for the past 25 years. She most recently served as the university's associate provost.
Dr. Crowley has served as provost at Ohio Wesleyan University since 2020. She is slated to become the nineteenth president of Kalamazoo College on July 1.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
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 selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.