Lynda Goodrich, who retired last May after serving for more than a quarter century as director of athletics at Western Washington University in Bellingham, has been chosen to receive the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division II Athletics Directors Association. Goodrich is currently serving as special assistant to the president for athletic fundraising at Western Washington University.
Goodrich has spent more than 40 years at the university, including terms as coach for basketball, golf, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Western Washington University.
Patty Perillo, vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech, has been selected to receive the 2014 Esther Lloyd-Jones Professional Service Award from ACPA-College Student Educators International. Before coming to Virginia Tech in 2012, Dr. Perillo was associate dean of students at Davidson College.
Dr. Perillo holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Delaware. She earned a doctorate at the University of Maryland.
Dorothy Horrell, chair of the board of governors of Colorado State University, has had a scholarship program named in her honor that has been funded by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation in Denver. The Dorothy Horrell Making the Best Better Scholarship will be awarded to a junior or senior in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Colorado State.
Dr. Horrell holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees, all from Colorado State University.
Sascha Scott, an assistant professor at Syracuse University who is an expert in American and American Indian art, was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association.
Dr. Scott is a graduate of Colorado College. She earned a master’s degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University.
Karen Fairbanks, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Professional Practice and chair of the department of architecture at Barnard College in New York City, received the Building of the Year Award from World-Architects, an online magazine. Professor Fairbanks was honored for her design of the Glen Oaks Branch Library in Queens, New York.
Professor Fairbanks has taught at Barnard College since 1996. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a master of architecture degree from Columbia University.
Since 2021, Dr. Raver has been serving as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She will begin her new duties at the University of Michigan on December 1.
Dr. Rhine comes to her new presidency with nearly four decades of leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was president and chief executive officer of Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.
On August 10, Dr. Bloebaum became the chief academic officer at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She had been serving as dean of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University in Ohio for the past eight years.
Dr. Barkley is slated to become the first woman president of Spoon River College on August 31. She comes to her new role from John Wood Community College in Quincy, Illinois, where she serves as vice president of academic and student affairs.
Dr. Konan, a professor of economics and dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has been selected to serve as the university's interim provost. A faculty member for more than 30 years, she previously served as interim chancellor.
Princeton University is searching for a faculty member at the level of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the Program in Plasma Physics of its Department of Astrophysical Sciences, to begin in fall 2027.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for a full-time Research Associate for a three-year term starting in the 2026-2027 academic year.
The Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The area of specialization is open.
Tufts University’s Gordon Institute is seeking an exceptional leader to shape the future of entrepreneurship education as the Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Palaeoanthropology, with a focus on early hominins, including early Homo.