Seven Women Who Are Stepping Down From Their Current Posts in Higher Education

Marcy P. Driscoll, dean of the College of Education at Florida State University, is retiring on June 30. She has served as dean for the past 13 years. She joined the faculty at the university in 1980 as an assistant professor in instructional systems and educational psychology. At the time, she was the only woman on the faculty of the Department of Educational Research.

Dr. Driscoll is a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Diane B. Call, president of Queensborough Community College in New York City, has announced she will retire in August. She was appointed interim president in 2010 and was named permanent president of the college in 2013. She is the first woman to lead the college. Prior to being named interim president, Dr. Call was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the college.

Dr. Call is a graduate of the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York System. She holds two master’s degree and an educational doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University.

Florence Schmieg, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware, is retiring and has been granted emerita status. She also served as the chair of the Health Sciences Advisement and Evaluation Committee at the university.

Dr. Schmieg holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.

Gabriela Weaver, vice provost for faculty development and director of the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is stepping down from these posts. She will remain at the university as a professor of chemistry.

Dr. Weaver joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 2014 after teaching at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Colorado.

Nancy Brickhouse, provost at Saint Louis University in Missouri, is resigning her post as of August 15. She will take a one year sabbatical and return to her tenured position in the department of education.

Dr. Brickhouse was named provost in 2015. Earlier, she spent 27 years on the faculty at the University of Delaware and served as deputy provost for academic affairs. Professor Brickhouse is a magna cum laude graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she majored in chemistry. She holds a master’s degree in chemistry and a doctorate in science education from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Sarah Jane Flint, professor of molecular biology at Princeton University in New Jersey, is retiring and has been granted emerita status.

Professor Flint holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from University College, London. She conducted postdoctoral research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and joined the faculty at Princeton in 1977.

Anne D. Yoder is stepping down as director of the Lemur Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. During her tenure, 285 lemurs have been born at the center.

Dr. Yoder will take a one-year sabbatical conducting research in Europe and Madagascar. She will return to Duke in the fall of 2019 as the Braxton Craven Professor of Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Yoder is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.