Six Women Appointed to Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Lisa Clough was recently named vice chancellor for research at North Carolina A&T State University. She has worked for the National Science Foundation for over a decade, currently serving as acting director of the Ocean Sciences Division. Earlier in her career, Dr. Clough was a biology professor and associate vice chancellor for research at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Dr. Clough holds a Ph.D. in coastal oceanography from the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University in New York.

Stephanie Monastra Wilder has been appointed director of campus and community events at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. Most recently, she was director of the conference center at Kent State University at Stark in Ohio. Before joining the Kent State staff, she spent 13 years at Diebold, Inc., serving in various event management leadership roles.

Wilder earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and her executive MBA from Kent State University.

Christie Torruella Smith has been named vice president for enrollment management at Alfred University in New York. She has nearly two decades of experience in higher education admissions and student services. Most recently, Smith was associate vice president for university admissions and enrollment at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York.

Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations from the State University of New York at Oswego and a master’s degree in higher education administration from the University of Rochester.

Heather Woods is the new chief information officer at Smith College, a women’s liberal arts educational institution in Northampton, Massachusetts. She comes to her new role from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was the inaugural chief information officer. Earlier in her career, she was associate chief information officer at Wellesley College, another Massachusetts-based women’s liberal arts college.

Woods received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Wellesley College and her master’s degree in data analytics from Southern New Hampshire University.

Dana Bodine is the inaugural chief marketing officer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. With over two decades of experience in marketing and communications, she most recently served as vice president of Trustpilot, a global technology company. She previously held various marketing roles with Pagaya, Mastercard, Apple, Time Inc., NBC, and The New York Times. 

Bodine received her bachelor’s degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland.

Following eight months of interim service, Laura Fultz has been named the permanent chief digital information officer for Emory Healthcare, the healthcare system affiliated with Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Fultz first joined Emory Healthcare in 2007 as an application solution analyst. Prior to her interim appointment, she was associate chief information officer and vice president of applications and digital experience.

Fultz earned her bachelor’s degree in management information systems and marketing from the University of Georgia.

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