Terri Mitchell was appointed to the position of controller and associate vice president for administration at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Foundation in Blacksburg. She has been an administrator at the foundation for the past three years.
Mitchell, who is a certified public accountant, is a graduate of Virginia Tech and holds an MBA from Old Dominion University.
Susan Stryker is the new director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. She was an associate professor of gender studies at Indiana University.
Dr. Stryker earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of California at Berkeley and did postdoctoral research at Stanford. She is the co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly, a new journal that is expected to publish its first issue in 2013.
Canan Bilen-Green was named interim director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. She is a professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at the university.
Professor Bilen-Green has been on the NDSU faculty since 1998. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming.
Jan Hathcote was appointed registrar at the University of Georgia. She has been serving in the position on an interim basis. Since 1997 she was associate dean for academic affairs and research in the university’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, Dr. Hathcote earned a doctorate in human ecology from the University of Tennessee.