Margarita David has been appointed interim dean of the Rita & Larry Salva School of Nursing & Health Professions at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and education, Dr. David has been serving as founding director of interprofessional education in the university’s Virtua Health College of Medicine & Life Sciences. Before that role, she was director of simulation programming at the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. David is a graduate of the City College of New York, where she majored in finance. After earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Drexel University in Philadelphia, she completed a master’s degree in leadership and education and a doctor of nursing practice degree from Wilmington University in Delaware.
Jennifer Jackowski is the new dean of STEM at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Most recently, Dr. Jackowski was director of the statewide associate degree in engineering pathway program for the Wisconsin Technical College System and a full-time faculty member at Madison Area Technical College. Earlier in her tenure at Madison Area Technical College, she served as department chair for engineering and industrial technology.
After attending Madison Area Technical College, Dr. Jackowski transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in botany, a bachelor’s degree in the biological aspects of conservation, and a Ph.D. in environmental chemistry and technology.


