Jamesia Harrison has been appointed director of university communications at North Carolina A&T State University. Prior to her new role, she was senior director of marketing and communications at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her other experience in academia includes marketing roles with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and Central Virginia Community College.
Harrison holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from North Carolina A&T State University and a master’s degree in integrated marketing from Walden University.
Valerie Hausman has been named associate vice provost for global administration at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She currently serves as associate vice provost for Duke Kunshan University, a liberal arts educational institution jointly operated by Duke and Wuhan University in China. Earlier in her career, Hausman was associate dean for global executive education at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.
Hausman received her bachelor’s degree in economics with a concentration in international relations from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Erin Sexton was named vice president for government and community relations at the University of Minnesota. She comes to her new role from the Mayo Clinic, where she most recently served as senior director of external relations. Her earlier roles include government affairs and policy positions at Medtronic, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, the Minnesota Medical Association, and Xcel Energy.
Sexton earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Pomona College and Pitzer College in California have selected Danielle Lynch to serve as director of athletics for the Pomona-Pitzer athletic program. She has over two decades of leadership experience in collegiate athletics administration, including compliance, equitable access and oversight, and student athlete welfare. Most recently, Dr. Lynch served as director of athletics at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lynch is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she double-majored in geography and anthropology. She holds a master’s degree in education from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in lifelong learning and adult education from Pennsylvania State University.
Lisa Nashua is the new executive director of the Friends of the Fullerton College Foundation. With over 25 years of experience in higher education and development, Dr. Nashua specializes in serving as a community liaison to build partnerships with philanthropy, business, nonprofits, academic leadership, and faculty to enhance student support programs. Earlier, she held leadership roles with the Chaffey College Foundation and the Los Angeles Community College Foundation.
Dr. Nashua holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Claremont McKenna College in California, a master’s degree in leadership and management from the University of La Verne in California, and a Ph.D. in education from Claremont Graduate University.
Brandi Tatum-Fedrick was promoted to vice president for university advancement at Florida A&M University. She will also serve as executive director of the FAMU Foundation. She has held these roles on an interim basis for the past four months. Prior to her new appointment, Tatum-Fedrick served in a series of progressive leadership roles at the university, most recently as assistant vice president for annual and affinity giving and alumni affairs.
Dr. Tatum-Fedrick is a two-time alumna of Florida A&M University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education and her master’s degree in public administration. She holds a doctorate in higher education from Florida State University.
After eight months of interim service, Dana Haggas has been officially named chief information officer for Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She first joined the university in 1999 as an application developer. Over the past two decades, she has served in several information technology leadership positions, including manager of PeopleSoft applications, senior director, interim deputy chief information officer, and associate chief information officer in enterprise applications.
Haggas received her bachelor of business administration in accounting from the University of Georgia.