Erin Cleghorn was appointed vice president for institutional advancement at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. With more than 25 years of experience in advancement, Dr. Cleghorn most recently served as Meredith’s associate vice president for institutional advancement. She first joined the women’s college in 2012 as director of annual giving. She previously held leadership roles at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the North Carolina State University Alumni Association.
Dr. Cleghorn holds a bachelor’s degree in media communication from Florida State University, an MBA from Meredith College, and a doctorate in higher education leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Corinne Webster is the inaugural director of wellness at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences. Dr. Webster previously served as director of the University of Tennessee Chatanooga’s Counseling Center. She has also spent time in K-12 school counseling, inpatient behavioral health work in Wyoming, and as a professor of counseling at Oregon State University.
Dr. Webster is a graduate of the University of Texas, where she majored in communication. She holds a master’s degree in counseling from Texas Woman’s University and a doctorate in counseling from the University of North Texas.
Rachel Gordon was promoted from interim vice provost to permanent vice provost for faculty affairs at Northern Illinois University. Previously, Dr. Gordon served as associate vice president for global affairs and faculty development and associate dean for research and administration in the university’s College of Health and Human Sciences. Before joining Northern Illinois University, Dr. Gordon spent more than two decades with the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Gordon is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago.
LaShaunda Reese has been appointed associate director for continuing education and enrichment in the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. Dr. Reese has been serving as a senior clinical ethicist at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. She has also taught as an adjunct professor of religion and ethics at Morehouse College. As a scholar, Dr. Reese studies the intersection of narratives and decision-making, particularly within Black and African diasporic communities and in the context of health and healthcare.
An Xavier alumna, Dr. Reese holds a master’s degree in ethics and a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Loyola University Chicago as well as a second master’s degree in theological studies from Emory University.
Cyndi Beltran is chief of staff for the Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen. Before her new role, Beltran spent 10 years with the Texas A&M School of Public Health as program manager for the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in public health. Prior to her career in higher education, she spent a decade working at four legal practices throughout the Rio Grande Valley.
Beltran received her bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry from the University of Texas-Pan American.
Sarah Dundish is associate vice chancellor for University of California, Los Angeles Housing & Hospitality, where she has worked for more than two decades. Most recently, Dundish was director of administration and chief of staff. In her previous roles, she provided executive leadership across enterprise planning, financial strategy, organizational effectiveness, and decision-making.
Dundish is an alumna of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tamara White is the first-ever executive director for belonging and servingness at the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. White previously served as associate dean of students at the University of Denver. Her background in higher education includes prior roles at Fort Range Community College, the Community College of Aurora, and the Community College of Denver, and the Colorado Department of Higher Education. She has also served as an education policy advisor for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Colorado.
Dr. White received her bachelor’s degree in business administration and her doctorate in higher education, diversity, and higher learning from the University of Denver. Before earning her doctoral degree, Dr. White completed a master’s degree in college student personnel from Western Illinois University.
Diana Lasswell is vice president for institutional advancement at Langston University in Oklahoma. For the past two years, Lasswell has been executive director of planned giving at the University of Oklahoma. She has previously held senior roles in planned giving at the Oklahoma State University Foundation, the University of South Florida, the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, and The Salvation Army Oklahoma and Arkansas Division.
Lasswell holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology and sociology from the University of Tulsa.