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Jennifer Evans-Crowley Named President of the University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Evans-Crowley has been serving as provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of North Texas. Earlier, she was a member of the faculty at Ohio State University. She served there as vice provost for capital planning and regional campuses, associate dean for academic affairs and administration in the College of Engineering, and department chair and professor in the department of city and regional planning.
Yoshiko Harden Is the New Interim President of Seattle Central College in Washington State
Dr. Harden served as vice president for student services at Seattle Central College from 2016 to 2021, overseeing areas such as student development, enrollment and registration, and the Guided Pathways initiative. Prior to Seattle Central, she served as vice president for diversity at Bellevue College, and as director of multicultural services and student development at Highline College.
Rosemary Allen Will Be the First Woman to Lead Georgetown College in Kentucky in Its 193-Year History
Since 2004, Dr. Allen has served as provost and dean of Georgetown College. She is the first woman to serve in these roles at the college. Dr. Allen is also a professor of English. She was the founder and chair of Georgetown’s Honors Program from 2001-2004. Dr. Allen also has been the chair of the department of English and the division of humanities.
Angela K. Wilson Is the New President of the American Chemical Society
Angela K. Wilson is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University. She is a prominent scholar in the fields of theoretical and computational chemistry. Before joining the faculty at Michigan State, Dr. Wilson was the director of the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation from 2016 to 2018.
Bárbara Medina Named the New Leader of Northern New Mexico College in Espanola
Dr. Medina is an educational consultant based in Albuquerque and Denver. Earlier, she served as director of English language acquisition programs for the Denver public schools and was assistant commissioner for innovation and transformation for the Colorado Department of Education.
Framingham State University in Massachusetts Appoints Nancy Niemi as Its Eighth President
Dr. Niemi has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne. Earlier, she was professor and chair of the education department at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
Pardis Mahdavi Will Be the Next Provost at the University of Montana
Dr. Mahdavi now serves as dean of social sciences at Arizona State University. Earlier, she served as acting dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and dean of women and president and director of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College in California. She will become provost at the University of Montana next summer.
Annebelle Nery Is the New President of Santa Ana College in California
Dr. Nery was the vice president of instruction at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California. Earlier, she served as vice president of student success at the College of the Desert.
Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, Names Katricia Pierson as Its Next President
Since 2017, Dr. Pierson has been serving as the first woman president of East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. She previously served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at East Central University. Earlier in her career, Dr. Pieerson served on the faculty at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, and at the University of Pikeville in Kentucky.
Deborah Stanley to Lead the State University of New York System
Stanley has been serving as president of the SUNY-Oswego campus. She had announced this past June that she would be stepping down as president after leading the university for 26 years. She had served on the staff at SUNY-Oswego for 44 years.
Tonya Smith-Jackson to Serve as Provost at North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Smith Jackson has worked for North Carolina A&T since 2013, most recently as senior vice provost for academic affairs. She originally joined A&T as a professor and chair of the department of industrial and systems engineering. Earlier in her career, she taught at Virginia Tech.
Lori Gonzalez Appointed to Lead the University of Louisville
Lori Stewart Gonzalez was appointed interim president of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Since April 2021, Dr. Gonzalez has served as executive vice president and provost at the university. From 2015 to 2020, Dr. Gonzalez was vice chancellor for academic, faculty, and student affairs at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
Katrina Armstrong to Lead the Columbia University Medical Center and the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Armstrong has been serving as the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and chair of the department of medicine and physician-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the staff at Harvard in 2013.
Crystal Williams Will Be the Eighteenth President of the Rhode Island School of Design
President-elect Williams has been serving as a professor of English and vice president and associate provost for community & inclusion at Boston University. She began her academic career at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She later served as associate vice president for strategic initiatives at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Jennifer Collins Appointed President of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee
Collins has served since 2014 as the Judge James Noel Dean and professor of law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She was appointed to the law faculty at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2003 and was named associate provost for academic and strategic initiatives in 2010 and vice provost in 2013. She will become president of Rhodes College on July 1.
Idaho State University Names New Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
Valerie Martin Conley is currently the dean of the College of Education at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Before joining the faculty there in 2015, Dr. Conely was department chair and professor of counseling and higher education in the Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education at Ohio University. She will become provost at Idaho State in the summer of 2022.
Andrea Talentino Will Be the Next President of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois
Dr. Talentino currently serves as provost of Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Before arriving at Nazareth, Dr. Talentino served as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norwich University in Vermont. Prior to that, she was an associate dean at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She also has served on the faculty at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Neeli Bendapudi Has Been Selected as the Next President of Pennsylvania State University
When she takes office in the spring, Dr. Bendapudi will be the university’s nineteenth president and the first woman to hold the position. Dr. Bendapudi has been serving as president of the University of Louisville since May 15, 2018. Earlier, Dr. Bendapudi was executive vice chancellor and provost at the flagship campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
East Carolina University Appoints Robin Coger as Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dr. Coger is currently the dean of the College of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Before joining North Carolina A&T in 2011, Professor Coger was a faculty member in the department of mechanical engineering and engineering science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1996 to 2011.
Ruth López Turley Appointed Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University in Houston
Dr. Turley has been serving as associate director for the Kinder Institute. She has been at Rice since 2010. Raised on the U.S.-Mexico border, she experienced firsthand the hardships caused by educational inequities. She is a professor of sociology and founder and director of Rice University’s Houston Education Research Consortium.
Kassie Silvas to Serve as Provost at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene
Dr. Silvas will be handling the duties of two college vice presidents who are retiring after the first of the year. Under the arrangement. Dr. Silvas will take on the duties of vice president of student services and vice president for instruction until June 30. She is the former dean of career, technical and workforce education at the college.
Carole Goldsmith Appointed Chancellor of the State Center Community College District in Fresno, California
Dr. Goldsmith has been serving as the president of Fresno City College, the largest campus of the system. Earlier, Dr. Goldsmith served as president of West Hills College Coalinga for nearly four years. Prior to that, Dr. Goldsmith held the office of vice chancellor of educational services and workforce development at West Hills for four years.
Two Women Scholars Will Serve as Co-President of Sociologists for Women in Society
Mary Osirim, a professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Melanie Heath, an associate professor of social sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has been named co-president of Sociologists for Women in Society. Founded in 1971, the organization is a nonprofit professional feminist group dedicated to encouraging the development of sociological feminist theory and scholarship.
Thema Bryant-Davis Has Been Named President-Elect of the American Psychological Association
Dr. Bryant Davis. professor of psychology and director of the Culture and Trauma Research Lab at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, is the youngest person to be elected president of the association.
Suzanne Keen Will Be the Next President of Scripps College in Claremont, California
Dr. Keen is a distinguished scholar and professor of English literature. Since 2018, she has served as vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She is the former dean of the college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where she served as chair of the English department. She will become president of Scripps College on July 1, 2022.
A Scholar of International Terrorism Will Be the First Woman President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Since 2016, Louise Richardson has been the vice chancellor of the University of Oxford in England. Earlier, she was the first woman to serve as principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dr. Richardson served on the faculty at Harvard University for 20 years and was the executive dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She will begin her leadership of the Carnegie Corporation in January 2023.
Former Law School Professor Named President and Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund
Janai Nelson has served as associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for the past eight years. Earlier, she spent nearly 10 years in academia as a full professor and high-level administrator and dean at St. John’s University School of Law in New York.
Katherine Zatz Appointed Acting President of the American Public University System
The American Public University System, headquartered in Charlestown, West Virginia, offers more than 200 online degree and certificate programs through American Military University. The system has approximately 110,000 alumni worldwide. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Zatz was the assistant dean of Petrocelli College at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Amanda Stent to Lead New Artificial Intelligence Institute at Colby College in Maine
Before working in the private sector, Amanda Stent was a tenured associate professor of computer science at Stony Brook University in New York, where she created an interdisciplinary computational linguistics graduate program and designed and taught new graduate courses in speech processing, natural language processing, and information retrieval.
Daria Willis Will Be the Next President of Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland
Dr. Willis currently serves as president of Everett Community College in Washington. Earlier, Dr. Willis was the provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Onondaga Community College of the State University of New York and dean of academic studies at Lee College in Baytown, Texas.
Robin Cautin Appointed Provost at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut
Dr. Cautin had served as acting provost since May. Earlier, she was dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the university for seven years. Dr. Cautin holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Delaware and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
The New Leader of Sterling College in Craftsbury Commons, Vermont
Lori Collins-Hall has been serving as senior vice president and chief operating officer at the college. Prior to joining Sterling, she was provost and vice president of academic affairs at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and earlier taught sociology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
DeAnnia Clements Is the New President of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College in Valdosta
Clements’ career in technical education began as an adjunct instructor for South Georgia Technical College in 1999. She has held a number of positions at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College since 2010 including dean of professional services and dean of allied health, associate vice president for academic affairs, and vice president for academic affairs.
Sharmla Chetty Is the New Chief Executive Officer of Duke Corporate Education
Duke Corporate Education spun out of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in 2000 to focus specifically on leadership development. The group offers ready-to-learn courses and virtual masterclasses that address current problems facing leaders. Chetty joined the organization in 2007 and since 2019 has been head of the global markets division.
Once Again, Regina Favors Selected to Lead Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock
For the second time, Regina Favors has been named interim president of Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock. Favors is the former president and CEO of Pinnacle Business Solutions, a subsidiary of Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. She previously served as interim president in 2018.
