New Administrative Role for Six Women in Higher Education

Sharon P. Pitt will become the vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Virginia Tech, effective February 1. She has been serving as vice president for information technologies and chief information officer at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Pitt earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in architecture from Virginia Tech.

Dawn Medley will join Drexel University in Philadelphia as senior vice president for enrollment management, effective January 2. She has been serving as vice provost for enrollment management and retention at Stony Brook University in New York. Prior to joining Stony Brook, Dr. Medley served as associate vice president for enrollment management at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Medley holds a bachelor’s degree in English education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She earned a master’s degree in administration from Southeast Missouri State University, and a doctorate in higher education leadership from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.

The University of Colorado Boulder has named d’Andre Willis as assistant vice chancellor for planning and design. She will continue to serve as campus architect.

Willis holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She earned a master of architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

ZeNai Brooks was appointed chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance and administration at Martin University in Indianapolis. For the past 13 years, Brooks led the finance and operations functions for a Fortune 200 Company Foundation, concentrating on non-profit audit and consulting work.

A certified public accountant, Brooks holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Louisville.

Jill Stephens Walton has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Georgia. She will also serve as the executive director of the University of Georgia Foundation. Walton is a longtime development professional who has served the University of Georgia in a variety of key roles over nearly 25 years. Since July 2019, she served as senior executive director of development until being named interim vice president for development and alumni relations in April 2023.

Walton holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications and a master of public administration degree from the University of Georgia.

Susan Thompson was appointed the inaugural student success administrator at the University of Oklahoma Polytechnic Institute in Tulsa. Most recently, she was the program director for Engineering and STEM Initiatives at Houston Community College. Prior to that, she served as the founding director of the Tulsa Alliance for Engineering.

Thompson earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in adult education and community service from the Univerity of Central Oklahoma.