Melissa Mazan and Amanda Durik are taking on interim dean appointments at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, respectively. Jenn Snow is dean of the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education at the University of Montana.
Prior to her new role, Dr. Walsh was dean and campus director of the University of Maine at Machias. Before that, she spent more than a decade with St. Bonaventure University in New York.
The new deans are Julie Akers at Washington State University, Leslie Rissler at the University of Montana, Rhonda L. Mingo at Presbyterian College in South Carolina, Leigh Giles-Brown at Lincoln Land Community College in Illinois, Jasmin Feimster at Pitt Community College in North Carolina, and Kayla Caron at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts.
"I have seen firsthand the difference technical education can make for our students, their families, and the businesses and industries that depend on a skilled workforce," said Amanda Foreman, the new interim president of Coastal Pines Technical College in Georgia.
Sara M. Butler is vice chancellor for academic affairs at Honolulu Community College in Hawaii and Jennifer L. Cumpston is vice president for academic affairs at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina
Dr. Farmer is the first Black woman to chair the board of directors of the American Dental Education Association. With more than three decades of experience in dental practice and education, she currently serves as dean of the School of Dentistry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.
The new deans are Brenessa Lindeman at Case Western Reserve University, Sarah J. Williams at Penn State Dickinson Law, Tamera Halter at Vincennes University, Bethany Sansing-Helton at Wenatchee Valley College, Anne Shaffer at the University of Georgie, Terri L. Warholak at the Medical University of South Carolina, Brittaney S. Lott at Voorhees University, and Cheryl A. Thaxton at Winston-Salem State University.
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.
Dr. Petersen was named president of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, in January 2023. She recently received a contract renewal, extending her presidency through May 31, 2031.
The new deans are Carrie Hoverman Colla at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Caddie Putnam Rankin at Washington College in Maryland, Dawna Jones at Duke University in North Carolina, and Sarah Hartman at Tusculum University in Tennessee.
