Suzan Harrison was appointed dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Harrison joined the college’s faculty in 1989 and currently serves as professor of rhetoric.
Professor Harrison is a graduate of Eckerd College and holds a master’s degree from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jenny Hall-Jones was appointed dean of students and vice president for student affairs at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She has been serving in the post on an interim basis and was one of three finalists chosen in a national search.
Dr. Hall-Jones holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, a master’s degree in college student personnel, and an educational doctorate, all from Ohio University.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.