Tracy Hall was named instructional services librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She was a reference and instructional librarian at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Hall is a graduate of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, and holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Louisiana State University.
Noor Azizan-Gardner was appointed chief diversity officer for the University of Missouri at Columbia. She has served in the position on an interim basis for the past year. She has been on the staff at the university since 1990. Previously, she taught at Stephens College and Columbia College.
Azizan-Gardner holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Georgia.
Rhonda Gibler was named director of budget at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Dr. Gibler has been on the staff at the university for the past 19 years, most recently serving as associate vice provost for extension management.
Dr. Gibler is a graduate of Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. She holds a master’s degree in economics and a Ph.D. in human environmental sciences from the University of Missouri.
LouAnn Westall was appointed associate provost of academic planning at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She was vice president and chief operating officer at Strategy Implemented Inc.
Westall is a graduate of Worcester State University in Massachusetts and holds an MBA from Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts.
Patricia Watson was named senior vice president for university advancement at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She was senior associate vice president of alumni affairs and development at Cornell University. She will begin her new job on December 1.
Watson has been an administrator at Cornell for the past eight years. She is a 1983 graduate of Cornell University.
April Flint was named assistant athletic director for recreation at Emory University in Atlanta. She will direct the Emory Play program, a new health and wellness program at the university. Dr. Flint was director of intramural sports at Clemson University.
Dr. Flint is a graduate of Georgia Southern University. She holds a master’s degree in sport administration from Georgia State University and a doctorate in educational leadership from Clemson University.
Linda P. Kurtos was appointed director of sustainability at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is an environmental lawyer and has been serving as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University.
Kurtos is a graduate of Michigan State University and the Northwestern University School of Law. She also holds a master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Dr. Hrycyna has served as dean of UC San Diego's School of Physical Sciences for the past three years. She is slated to become the university's next executive vice chancellor for academic affairs on January 1.
Dr. Albin is an associate professor of pediatrics and founding director of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's culinary medicine program, an initiative that aims to empower people to have a thriving relationship with the food they eat.
Dr. Borzewski has served as the interim provost of the Seminole campus and Health Education Center of St. Petersburg College in Florida for the past year. An alumna of the college, she has worked for St. Petersburg since 1999.
Since 2021, Dr. Raver has been serving as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She will begin her new duties at the University of Michigan on December 1.
Dr. Rhine comes to her new presidency with nearly four decades of leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was president and chief executive officer of Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.
The Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History to begin July 1, 2027. “Modern” is defined as 1895 to the present.
The University of Chicago, Division of the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of assistant professor of American Politics for an initial 4 year renewable term.
The Department of Economics at Michigan State University in East Lansing invites applications for a tenure-system Assistant Professor in microeconomic theory with an anticipated start date of August 16, 2027.
Princeton University is searching for a faculty member at the level of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the Program in Plasma Physics of its Department of Astrophysical Sciences, to begin in fall 2027.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for a full-time Research Associate for a three-year term starting in the 2026-2027 academic year.