Noemi Custodia-Lora has been named vice president of academic affairs and workforce development at Urban College of Boston. Her background includes over two decades of academic and administrative experience in higher education. She comes to her new role from Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts, where she most recently served as vice president of the Lawrence campus.
Dr. Custodia-Lora holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Puerto Rico and a Ph.D. in endocrinology and microbiology from Boston University.
Alicia C. Miles has been named the inaugural director of graduate admissions and recruitment initiatives at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She brings nearly a decade of experience in law school admissions to her new role.
Miles holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a juris doctorate from Valparaiso University in Indiana.
Claudia Aguayo has been named general counsel for the University of Nevada Reno. She currently serves as the senior deputy district attorney for Clark County, Nevada. Prior to her current role, she spent two decades as an attorney with the City of North Las Vegas.
Aguayo received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada and her juris doctorate from the University of California, Davis.
Since 2021, Dr. Raver has been serving as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She will begin her new duties at the University of Michigan on December 1.
Dr. Rhine comes to her new presidency with nearly four decades of leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was president and chief executive officer of Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.
On August 10, Dr. Bloebaum became the chief academic officer at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She had been serving as dean of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University in Ohio for the past eight years.
Dr. Barkley is slated to become the first woman president of Spoon River College on August 31. She comes to her new role from John Wood Community College in Quincy, Illinois, where she serves as vice president of academic and student affairs.
Dr. Konan, a professor of economics and dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has been selected to serve as the university's interim provost. A faculty member for more than 30 years, she previously served as interim chancellor.
Princeton University is searching for a faculty member at the level of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the Program in Plasma Physics of its Department of Astrophysical Sciences, to begin in fall 2027.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for a full-time Research Associate for a three-year term starting in the 2026-2027 academic year.
The Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The area of specialization is open.
Tufts University’s Gordon Institute is seeking an exceptional leader to shape the future of entrepreneurship education as the Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Palaeoanthropology, with a focus on early hominins, including early Homo.