Jennifer E. Swanberg has been named dean of the School of Professional Studies at Providence College in Rhode Island. She previously held a joint appointment as professor in the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work and the university’s School of Medicine. Before that, she was a professor of social work and the founding executive director of the Institute for Workplace Innovation at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Swanberg holds a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of New Hampshire. She earned a master’s degree in management of human services and a Ph.D. in social policy from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Margaret Sova McCabe has been appointed dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law. She will be the third successive women appointed to the position and the 13th dean since the school’s founding in 1924. She was previously a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Sova McCabe holds a bachelor’s degree from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and a juris doctorate from the University of Maine.
Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Most recently, Dr. Van Vlerah served as vice president for student success and institutional strategy at Manchester University in Indiana. She is slated to become the fifteenth president of Notre Dame of Maryland University on July 6.
Dr. Egan comes to her new role as president of Bennington College from Connecticut College, where she has been serving as the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, dean of the faculty, and chief academic officer.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.