Nine Women Appointed to Administrative Positions at Colleges and Universities

Nicole Tami was named the next director of global education initiatives at the University of New Mexico, effective August 1. She has been serving as director of international student integration at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Tami is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois.

Evelyn A. Edney was named principal of the Early College High School at Delaware State University in Dover. She was principal at Dover High School.

Dr. Edney holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in English from the University of Delaware. She earned a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Phoenix.

Barbara Will was named associate dean for arts and humanities at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Will is the A. and R. Newbury Professor of English at the college. She joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1994.

Professor Will is a graduate of Yale University. She holds a master’s degree in English from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University.

MaryAnne Young was appointed vice president for advancement and executive director of the New College Foundation at New College of Florida in Sarasota. She has been serving as vice president for advancement at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Young is a 1981 graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she double majored in French and international relations.

Teesa Brunson was promoted to assistant vice president for university advancement at Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina. Brunson joined the staff at the college in 2007 and has been serving as director of communications.

Brunson is a graduate of South Carolina State University, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree in print journalism from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee and currently is pursuing a doctorate in higher education leadership from Nova Southeastern University.

Ellen Granberg was appointed associate provost for faculty affairs at Clemson University in South Carolina. She is an associate professor and chair of the department of sociology and anthropology at the university.

Dr. Granberg is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ann Ardis was named interim vice provost for graduate and professional education at the University of Delaware. She is deputy dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the university. Dr. Ardis joined the faculty at the university in 1989. She is the author or editor of several books including New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 1990).

Dr. Ardis is a graduate of the University of Kansas, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Precious Porras was appointed interim director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas. She has been serving as associate director. She joined the administrative staff at the university in 2005.

Porras is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. She holds a master’s degree in counselor education from Emporia State University in Kansas and is currently working on a doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Kansas.

Jacqueline Higgs Caldwell was named the inaugural vice president for diversity and engagement at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. She has been serving as associate vice president and director of the Presidential Scholars Program at the university.

Caldwell is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She holds law degrees from the University of Paris and the University of Pennsylvania.