With more than three decades of faculty and administrative experience, Dr. Gille has served as the University of North Georgia's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs since 2019. She will now serve as the university's interim president, effective November 1.
“By making managerial performance attributable, comparable, and visible, firm structure can influence who advances to the highest levels of leadership. For women managers, divisionalized structures may provide a clearer path to CEO promotion because they make accomplishments harder to overlook and easier to evaluate,” the study authors write.
“Faculty are the lifeblood of any university, and students are the reason we do this work,” said Dr. Brown. “I look forward to listening, building trust, and working alongside this community to advance our land-grant mission through teaching, research and service.”
Margarita David was named interim dean of the Rita & Larry Salva School of Nursing & Health Professions at Rowan University in New Jersey and Jennifer Jackowski was named dean of STEM at Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts.
In November, Dr. Holley will be installed as the eighteenth president of Payne Theological Seminary in Ohio. She previously served as the seminary's interim president, academic dean, and director of the Alternative Theological Extension Program.
Dr. Dittmar has served as the Howard R. Hughes Provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Rice University since 2022. Her contract was recently extended, and she will now serve in the role through the 2031 fiscal year.
Sherree R.B. Davis is interim dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education at Hampton University. Tina Jackson is dean of workforce education and public service at McLennan Community College in Texas and Filiz Tabak is dean of the School of Business and Technology at Emporia State University in Kansas.
Dr. Kostelis, the new interim president of Central Connecticut State University, has been with the university for more than two decades. For the past five years, she has served as provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Mary Ann Villarreal took the helm of CSU Dominguez Hills on January 1, 2026. She will continue to serve as the university's interim president through the 2028–2029 academic year.
Lisa Prosser is the inaugural dean of the forthcoming School of Public Health at Wayne State University in Detroit. Carolyn Keller was promoted to dean of the College of Business, Industry, Life Science, and Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Cynthia Gray was promoted to dean of nursing and allied health sciences at Florence-Darlington Technical College in South Carolina.
The new deans are Geeta Swamy at Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Ashley S. Dukes at the Americus campus of South Georgia Technical College, and Merritt McAlister at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law.
