Eight Women Named to New Administrative Positions in Higher Education

Portia Hoeg was appointed executive director of athletics at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. For the past six years Hoeg has served as director of athletics and recreation at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Hoeg is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She earned an MBA at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois.

Anne Bailey was named the founding director of the Montana Journalism Media Lab. A journalist and filmmaker, Bailey served as the Distinguished Anthony T. Pollner Professor at the university’s School of Journalism for the Spring 2017 semester.

Bailey is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She earned a master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Montana.

Sulgi Lim was named director of admission at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Lim has been on the admissions staff at the college since 2007.

Lim is a 2006 graduate of Williams College. She is studying for an MBA at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Suzanne Sparrow is the new director of student services at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994 she had been serving as director of student financial assistance at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She first joined the staff at Ursinus College in 1991.

Sparrow is a graduate of East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, where she majored in health and physical education.

Manicia Finch was appointed associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has been serving as director of admissions at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Finch was assistant director of admissions at Alabama A&M University. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership and management from Capella University.

Susan Dileno is the new vice president of enrollment management at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio. She is the former vice president for enrollment management at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. From 2003 to 2014, Dileno was vice president of enrollment management at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio.

Dileno is a graduate of Niagara University in New York. She holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Jingyu Wang was appointed executive director of the University of Notre Dame’s Beijing Global Gateway. She will serve students, faculty, and alumni, of Notre Dame in China. She was the director of Global Maximum Educational Opportunity Chengdu Center, an independent study abroad facilitator.

Wang was a contributing author in A Kaleidoscope of China: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Janet Williams was named vice president for finance at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has been serving as interim vice president of the Division of Finance and Administration at Ithaca College in New York. Earlier, Williams served as director of finance and administration for the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University.

Williams is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in accounting. She earned an MBA with a concentration in production operations management at the University of North Texas.

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