Five Women Announce Their Retirements From High-Level University Positions

Diana George was named professor emerita of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. Professor George, who is the author of four books, joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 2005.

Professor George holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Missouri.

Jeannine Raymond, assistant vice chancellor for human resources at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced that she will retire from her position on December 31. She has served in the post since 2006.

Raymond has had a 40-year career in public higher education. Before joining the staff at the University of California, Berkeley, she was director of human resources at California State University, Fresno.  Dr. Raymond holds a Ph.D. in statistics and research methodology from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Donna Ferriero, the W.H. and Marie Watts Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, announced that she will retire at the end of the 2016-17 academic year. She will continue to conduct research on neonatal brain injuries at the university as part of an eight-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Ferriero earned her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco and completed her residency in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Sandra Robertson Greenwood, director of budget and strategic initiatives at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, has announced her retirement. Forty years ago, she began her long career at the university as a learning lab coordinator. On two occasions she served as interim provost and vice president for academic affair.

Dr. Greenwood is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where she majored in English and communication. She holds a master’s degree in communication from the University of Arkansas and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Arkansas Little Rock.

Zoe Woodell Locklear, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, announced that she will retire at the end of the current academic year on June 30, 2017. She became provost in September 2015. Earlier, she was dean of the School of Education.

Dr. Locklear is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in special education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.