The University of Missouri announced the appointment of five regional directors as part of the ongoing realignment of its extension services. The new regional directors join two existing regional directors as University of Missouri Extension adopts a structure that includes six geographic regions and an urban region focused on the St. Louis and Kansas City metro areas. Two of the five new regional directors are women.
Shelley Bush-Rowe is the new director of the northeast region. She has served the university as a regional community development specialist for 20 years.
Bush-Rowe received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, a master’s degree in regional and community planning from Kansas State University, and a master’s degree in adult education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Cynthia Zluticky is the urban regional director who focuses on programs in the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas. She joined the University of Missouri in 2002 as program director in Jackson County. Previously she taught for the University of Nebraska.
Zluticky holds a bachelor’s degree in home economics and a master’s degree in adult and continuing education from the University of Nebraska.
With more than 30 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Richtermeyer has spent the past three years as executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Rutgers University-Camden
Cheryl Norman was appointed president of Ridgewater College in Minnesota and Ellen Kennedy was named interim president of Cape Cod Community College in Massachusetts.
Dr. Scarlatta has led the University of Michigan-Dearbon on an interim basis for the past year. Pending approval from the board of regents, she is slated to become the university's permanent leader on May 22.
Nicole Reaves has been serving as executive vice president and chief programs officer at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. On July 15, she is slated to become the first woman president of Schenectady County Community College within the State University of New York System.
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