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Stefani Hicswa Will Be the First Woman Chancellor of Montana State University Billings
Dr. Hicswa currently serves as president of Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, a position she has held since 2013. Prior to Northwest College, Hicswa served for seven years as president of Miles Community College in Miles City, Montana. She will become the chancellor of Montana State University Billings on January 11.
Three Women Scholars Appointed to Provost Positions at Colleges and Universities
Suzanne Sherman was recently appointed provost at New College of Florida in Sarasota. Francine Conway was named provost at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Melody Tankersley was promoted to senior vice president and provost at Kent State University in Ohio.
California State University, Northridge Names Erika Beck as Its Next President
In 2016, Dr. Beck was named the second president of California State University, Channel Islands in Camarillo. Previously, she was provost and executive vice president of Nevada State College in Henderson. Dr. Beck will become president of California State University Northridge on January 11.
Erica Muhl Has Been Chosen as the First Woman President of the Berklee College of Music in Boston
Dr. Muhl comes to Berklee College after a distinguished 30-year career at the University of Southern California, where she was dean and founding executive director of the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation and the former associate dean of the Thornton School of Music.
Northwestern University’s Carol D. Lee Selected to Lead the National Academy of Education
Dr. Lee served as Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy and as a professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She became professor emerita in 2019. Professor Lee will serve a four-year term as president of the National Academy of Education beginning in November 2021.
College of Mount St. Vincent in New York Selects Its Next President
Susan R. Burns is currently vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. Prior to her tenure at Clarke, Dr. Burns was associate dean for academic affairs at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. She will become the College of Mount St. Vincent’s sixth president on January 1.
Gadsden State Community College in Alabama Chooses Kathy L. Murphy as Its Next President
Dr. Murphy currently serves as superintendent of Hoover City Schools. Prior to her service in Hoover City Schools, she was superintendent of Monroe County Schools. She was also a professor at the University of West Georgia and Judson College.
Theresa B. Felder Selected as the Tenth President of Harford Community College in Maryland
Dr. Felder comes to Harford Community College from Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio, where she most recently served as the senior vice president for student success. Prior to this position, she was the vice president of student affairs and administrative dean for Clark State’s largest branch campus.
Maria Lumpkin Is the New Leader of Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina
For the second time this year, Maria A. Lumpkin was named interim president of Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina. She served as interim president for several months earlier this year before Irving Pressley McPhail took office as the university’s twelfth president on July 15. Dr. McPhail died on October 14, from complications relating to the COVID-19 virus.
Yale University’s Louise Glück Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Louise Glück, an adjunct professor of English at Yale University, is the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since Toni Morrison in 1993. Overall, 16 women have won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Nicola Pitchford Will Be the Next President of Dominican University of California
A native of the United Kingdom, Dr. Pitchford came to Dominican University in 2011 after teaching at Fordham University in New York. She currently serves as vice president for academic affairs, dean of the faculty, and as a professor of English.
Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Names Britt Rios-Ellis as Its Next Provost
Dr. Rios-Ellis has been serving as the founding dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at California State University, Monterey Bay. From 2005-2015, she served as founding director of the California State University, Long Beach Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation and Leadership Training.
Cynthia Nances Named Chair-Elect of the the American Bar Foundation Fellows
The foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization with a mission to expand knowledge and advance justice through innovative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous empirical research on law, legal processes, and legal institutions. Professor Nance holds an endowed chair and is the former dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law
Michele Shirley Is the New Leader of North Georgia Technical College in Clarkesville
Dr. Shirley has served as vice president of administrative services at North Georgia Technical College since February and previously was the director of administrative services for the college. She has been on the staff at the college for the past 14 years.
Barnali Gupta Will Be the Next Dean of the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University
Dr. Gupta currently serves as professor of economics and associate dean for curriculum in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the first woman to hold the rank of full professor of economics at the university.
The University of Oregon Appoints Carol A. Stabile to Lead its Clark Honors College
Dr. Stabile is a professor of journalism and communication and has been serving as the associate dean for strategic initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences. From 2008 to 2014, Professor Stabile was the director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon.
DoVeanna Fulton Is the New Provost at Norfolk State University in Virginia
For the past eight years, Dr. Fulton has served as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history, humanities, and languages at the University of Houston–Downtown. Earlier, she taught at the University of Alabama.
The University of Arkansas Appoints Two Women to Dean Positions
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has announced that Kim Needy will serve as dean of the College of Engineering and Patricia Koski will be the dean of the Graduate School and International Education. Dr. Needy will be the first woman to lead the university’s College of Engineering.
A Trio of African American Women Who Have Been Appointed University Deans
Stephanie Dance-Barnes was appointed dean of the College of Science and Health at DePaul University in Chicago. Stacy Gee Hollins was named dean of the School of Business at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis and Isi Ero-Tolliver is the new interim dean of the School of Science at Hampton University in Virginia.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Reappoints Antonia M. Villarruel as Dean
Among Dean Villarruel’s accomplishments are a near-doubling of National Institutes of Health funding, to $15.3 million in fiscal year 2019 from $7.8 million in fiscal year 2015; the launch of a Doctor of Nursing Practice program; and the creation of strategic global initiatives in regions including Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
After Ousting President, Lincoln University Now Gives a New Five-Year Contract to Brenda Allen
Less than three months ago, the board of trustees of Lincoln University voted to oust Brenda Allan as the institution’s president. After a lawsuit, the board has now given President Allen a new five-year contract.
Parneshia Jones Appointed Director of Northwestern University Press
Parneshia Jones joined the Northwestern University Press in 2003 as marketing assistant and served in several progressively more responsible positions. Most recently, she served as editorial director for trade and engagement.
University of Massachusetts Amherst Names the Next Dean of Its Graduate School
Jacqueline Urla is chair and professor of anthropology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a linguistic and political anthropologist who has conducted long-term ethnographic research on Basque language and cultural politics.
Jennifer Rawlinson Elected to Lead the American Veterinary Dental College
Over the last seven years, Dr. Rawlinson built and led the Dentistry and Oral Surgery Service at the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University. Her team provides comprehensive dental, oral and maxillofacial evaluations for dogs, cats, horses, pigs, livestock, llamas, and alpacas.
Christen Crouch to Be the Next Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College in New York
Dr. Crouch has been an associate professor of history and director of American studies at Bard College since 2014. Her research focuses on the histories of the early modern Atlantic, comparative slavery, American material culture, and Native American and Indigenous studies.
Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing to Lead the University of Wollongong in Australia
In 2013, Dr. Patricia Davidson was named the fourth dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. When she begins her new duties on May 1, she will be the first woman and first alumna to serve as vice-chancellor of the University of Wollongong, a public research university about 50 miles south of Sydney, Australia.
Anne Williamson to Direct the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Dr. Williamson joins the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where she served as the Victor and Caroline Schutte/Missouri Professor of Urban Affairs and director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs. Earlier, she taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Alabama.
Medical School Professor Selected to Lead the Hawaiʻi Department of Health
Elizabeth “Libby” Char, an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has been chosen by Hawai’i; Governor David Ige to serve as interim director of the Hawaiʻi Department of Health.
The College of Medicine at Ohio State University Selects Its New Dean
Carol Bradford has been serving as the executive vice dean of academic affairs at the University of Michigan medical school and chief academic officer at Michigan Medicine for four years. Prior to that, she was chair of the department of otolaryngology at the medical school.
University of Pittsburgh’s Sharon Alvarez to Lead the Academy of Management
Sharon Alvarez is the Thomas W. Olofson Chair in Entrepreneurship and professor of business administration at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. She will serve a five-year term in leadership posts, culminating as president of the Academy of Management.
Tracy Langkilde Appointed Dean of the College of Science at Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Langkilde joined the Penn State faculty as an assistant professor of biology in 2007. She was named the head of the department in 2016. As department head, she oversees 100+ faculty, 15 administrative staff, 120 postdoctoral and graduate students, and more than 10,000 undergraduates.
The Next Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Lindsey A. Criswell, professor of medicine and vice chancellor of research at the University of California, San Francisco, will become the leader of the institute in 2021. The agency is one of 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health.
The First Woman Dean of the School of Science at MIT
Nergis Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, has been named the new dean of School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Mavalvala is known for her pioneering work in gravitational-wave detection.
Jacqueline Bixler Named Director of the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech
Professor Bixler, who served as chair of the department of modern and classical languages and literatures from 2012 to 2018, is an internationally recognized scholar of contemporary Latin American theatre, with a focus on Mexican performance art.
Elizabeth Mauch Named the First Woman President of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas
Dr. Mauch has been serving as interim president for the past year. Earlier, she was vice president of academic affairs at the college. From 2012 to 2017, Dr. Mauch was dean of the College of Education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She also served as a professor of mathematics at the university.
