A Quartet of Women Named to New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Vijaya Gandhi was named director of the Cincinnati Cancer Center at the University of Cincinnati. She was the associate director of administration and strategic planning at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center.

Dr. Gandhi holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Nagpur University in India and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Nicola C. Partridge is the inaugural director of the Center for Skeletal and Craniofacial Biology at the New York University College of Dentistry. She is a professor of basic science and craniofacial biology at the College of Dentistry.

Dr. Partridge holds bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Western Australia.

Margo Crutchfield was appointed curator at large for the Center for the Arts at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She is the former senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously, she was an associate curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

Crutchfield is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Karen Sibley, dean of continuing education at Brown University, was voted president-elect of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.

Dr. Sibley holds a master’s degree from Brown University and an educational doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

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