Christine Stallmann is the new senior vice president for risk and compliance and chief risk officer at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Stallmann comes to her new role with two decades of experience in higher education compliance and risk management. She previously served as chief compliance and privacy officer at Cornell University and as chief compliance officer at Syracuse University.
Stallmann holds a bachelor’s degree in safety science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in hazardous waste management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Lesley Rosenthal has been appointed university secretary for Yale University. Rosenthal comes to Yale from The Juilliard School, where she has been serving as chief operating officer and corporate secretary. From 2005 to 2018, she was general counsel and secretary at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Rosenthal is the author of Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits (Wiley, 2012).
Rosenthal received her bachelor’s degree and law degree from Harvard University.
Leandra Hayes-Burgess has been selected to serve as interim vice chancellor for university advancement at North Carolina A&T State University. Most recently, Hayes-Burgess was vice president for institutional advancement at Benedict College in South Carolina. Her other experience in higher education includes service in advancement and development leadership roles with the University of Miami, Claflin University, Talladega College, Bennett College, and Livingstone College.
Hayes-Burgess is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she majored in communication arts. She holds a master’s degree in philanthropy and development from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
Megan Jordan was promoted to senior vice president and chief communications officer at the University of Southern California. She had been serving in the role on an interim basis since January. Jordan first joined the university in 2014 as vice president of executive communications and strategic initiatives. Earlier in her career, she was chief communications and marketing officer at Claremont McKenna College in California.
Jordan received her bachelor’s degree in public relations from the University of Southern California.
Christine Mellampe is the executive director of human resources at Bronx Community College in New York City. Most recently, Mellampe served as chief human resources officer for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. She has also served in human resources leadership roles at the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Mellampe is a graduate of the College of New Rochelle in New York, where she majored in psychology. She holds an MBA in finance from Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Mandy Guinn is director of the North Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research at North Dakota State University. Guinn has nearly two decades of experience in higher education, research development, and academic leadership. She is an ecologist and former faculty member in environmental science at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Guinn is a graduate of Concordia College in Morehead, Minnesota, and holds a master’s degree in biology from the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in biology at the University of North Dakota.