Dr. Barkley is slated to become the first woman president of Spoon River College on August 31. She comes to her new role from John Wood Community College in Quincy, Illinois, where she serves as vice president of academic and student affairs.
Dr. Konan, a professor of economics and dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has been selected to serve as the university's interim provost. A faculty member for more than 30 years, she previously served as interim chancellor.
Dr. Glover has served as River Valley's chair of allied health programs for the past five years, overseeing the licensed practical nursing, respiratory therapy, radiological technology, and medical laboratory technician programs.
As president of the Kansas Board of Regents, Dr. Bonds-Raacke will provide strategic leadership to the state's 32 public higher education institutions. A former president of Saint Martin's University in Washington, Dr. Bonds-Raack has been serving as the board of regents' vice president for academic affairs.
Jennifer Brown has been named interim chancellor of Montana State University-Northern. A scholar of economics, she has served as the university's provost since 2023.
Janis Terpenny of George Mason University is president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Corine Tachtiris of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is president of the American Literary Translators Association and Mengmeng Gu of Colorado State University is president-elect of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Dr. Dotson spent six years as president of Yuba College in California. Earlier, she served eight years as a senior administrator with Clover Park Technical College in Washington.
Dr. Shah is the Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases and associate dean for translational research at the Duke University School of Medicine. She will serve as president-elect of the American Heart Association in 2026–2027, followed by a one-year term as president in 2027–2028.
Dr. Batten will become interim president of Horry-Georgetown Technical College on August 1. She most recently served as the two-year college's vice president for student affairs.
Dr. Kahanov became the twentieth president of Notre Dame de Namur University in California on July 1. She previously served as provost at Alvernia University in Pennsylvania, Stockton University in New Jersey, and SUNY Oneonta.
Most recently, Dr. Sanders served as vice president of experiential product management and interim vice president of product and technology at Western Governors University.
Dr. Allmendinger began her tenure as the sixth president of Delta College in Michigan on June 29. Prior to her new role, she spent three years as vice president of student affairs at Southeastern Community College in Iowa.
