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Towson University Names Kim Schatzel as Its Next President
Dr. Schatzel has been serving as interim president, provost, and executive vice president for academic affairs at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. She is the former dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dr. Schatzel will become president of Towson University on January 25.
Women Are a Majority of New Entrants to U.S. Dental Schools
The number of women applying to U.S. dental schools has increased by 82 percent since 2000. During the same period male applicants to dental schools increased by 27.8 percent. In 2014, women made up 51.2 percent of all new enrollees at U.S. dental schools.
The First Woman President of Kilgore College in Texas
Dr. Brenda Kays has served as vice president for student learning and success at Guilford Technical Community College in North Carolina and as dean of instructional services and chief academic officer at Vernon College in Texas.
A Continuing Decline in the Enrollments of Women in Higher Education
In 2014, there were 11,713,439, women enrolled in Title IV educational institutions in the United States. They made up 56.7 percent of all enrollments. That year, there were 632,286 fewer women students enrolled in higher education than was the case in 2011.
Mary-Rita Moore Is the New President of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois
Mary-Rita Moore has been serving as interim president of Triton College since January. Previously she was associate vice president of strategic planning at the college, which is located just west of Chicago.
The Next President of the Salk Institute
Elizabeth Blackburn was named the next president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, effective January 1. The University of California, San Francisco molecular biologist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Jamel Santa Cruze Bell to Lead Eureka College in Illinois
The board of trustees of Eureka College in Illinois has named Jamel Santa Cruze Bell as interim president of the educational institution, effective July 1, 2016. She currently serves as vice president for strategic and diversity initiatives.
New Data on the Gender Gap in Degree Attainments
For the 2013-14 academic year, the data shows that women received 1,886,440 degrees from four-year institutions. This was 58.1 percent of all degrees earned at these institutions. Women earned an even higher percentage of all awards at private colleges and universities and at for-profit institutions.
The College of Wooster Chooses Sarah Bolton as Its Next President
Dr. Bolton currently serves as dean of the college and a professor of physics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She will become the twelfth president of the College of Wooster on July 1, 2016.
Another Women’s College Considering a Switch to Coeducation
The College of New Rochelle in New York was founded by the the Ursuline Sisters in 1904. It was the first Catholic college for women in New York State. Now, the college is considering admitting men to all of the bachelor’s degree programs that to date have been restricted to women.
Women Making Gains in Top-Ranked MBA Programs
New data from the Forte Foundation finds that the percentage of women enrolled in full-time MBA programs at its 36-member, high-ranking business schools rose from 32.3 percent in 2011 to 36.2 percent in 2015.
The First Woman Board Chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Anne Kapuscinski is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science and a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2009, she taught at the University of Minnesota for 25 years.
Mary Hendrix Named President of Shepherd University in West Virginia
Dr. Hendrix has been serving as president and chief scientific officer of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
The Founding Dean of the Medical School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Barbara Atkinson, a professor emerita at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, has spent the past 18 months as planning dean at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In this role she has hired faculty and staff, raised funds, and developed curriculum.
President of Wittenberg University Abruptly Resigns From Her Post
Laurie M. Joyner, the president of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, announced that she was stepping down from her post immediately. She has been president of the university since 2012 and was the first woman to lead the university.
Julie Wollman Appointed the Tenth President of Widener University
Since June 2012, Dr. Wollman has been serving as president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Previous to that appointment, Dr. Wollman served as vice president for academic affairs at Wheelock College in Boston.
George Mason University Scholar Appointed Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Hester Peirce, the director of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, was nominated by President Obama to serve as a commissioner overseeing the nation’s financial markets.
Defiance College in Ohio Selects Its First Woman President
This coming January, Richanne C. Mankey will become the first woman president in the 165-year history of Defiance College in Ohio. She has been serving as vice president for institutional advancement at Daemen College in Amherst, New York.
A Milestone Appointment for Women in Collegiate Athletics
Judy MacLeod, the former director of athletics at the University of Tulsa, was named commissioner of Conference USA. She is the first woman commissioner of a conference that fields teams from universities competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Football Bowl Subdivision.
The Next President of Emporia State University in Kansas
For the past three years, Allison Garrett has served as executive vice president at Abilene Christian University in Texas. She will become the 17th president of Emporia State University in January.
Three Women Named President at Alabama Community Colleges
Martha Griffith Lavender was appointed president of Gadsden State Community College. Valerie Richardson was named president of Bishop State Community College and Susan Burrow was named president of Central Alabama Community College.
Margaret Spellings Elected President of the University of North Carolina System
Margaret Spellings has been serving as president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. During President George W. Bush’s second term, Spellings was U.S. Secretary of Education.
Virginia Tech’s Anisa Zvonkovic to Lead the National Council on Family Relations
Dr. Zvonkovic, a professor and chair of the department of human development at Virginia Tech, will serve two years as president-elect followed by two years as president of the multidisciplinary professional organization focused on family research.
The New President of the Ecological Society of America
Monica G. Turner, the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and the Vilas Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin, was elected president of the Ecological Society of America.
Ana Mari Cauce Appointed the 33rd President of the University of Washington
Dr. Cauce is the first woman and the first Latina to serve as president of the flagship state university. For the past seven months she has been serving as interim president. Earlier she was provost and a professor of psychology and American ethnic studies.
The New President of Kaplan University
Dr. Vandenbosch has been with Kaplan University since 2008, most recently serving as provost. Earlier she was dean of students and vice president of the School of Business and Information Technology.
Rebecca Dutch to Lead the American Society of Virology
Rebecca Dutch will become president of the 3,000-member organization in 2016. She is a professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry and associate dean of biomedical education in the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky.
Dorothy Horrell Named Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver
Dr. Dorothy Horrell was appointed to the Colorado State University Board of Governors by Governor John Hickenlooper in 2009 and served as board chair from 2013 to 2015. She is the former president of the Colorado Community Colleges System.
American Catholic Historical Association Selects a New President
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is an associate professor of American studies and history and the director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Marcia Buck to Lead the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
Dr. Buck is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a clinical associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia, and an affiliate clinical professor in the School of Pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Andrea Lee Announces She Will Step Down as President of St. Catherine University
Andrea Lee, president of St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, announced that she will end her 18-year tenure as president on July 1, 2016. She became president of the Catholic university for women in 1998.
Mary Sue Coleman Chosen to Lead the Association of American Universities
Dr. Coleman has served as president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. She will lead an association that represents 60 research universities in the United States and two in Canada. Member institutions confer nearly one half of all doctoral degrees awarded in the United States.
The New Director of the Consortium on High Achievement and Success
Jennifer L. Baszile was named director of the nation’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to the success of underrepresented students on liberal arts college campuses nationwide. She previously served on the faculty at the University of Connecticut and Yale University.
Kim Bonine to Lead the Lake of the Ozarks Campus of Columbia College
The Ozarks campus, in Osage Beach, Missouri, was established in 1990 and serves about 900 students annually in classroom and online education, offering degrees in nursing and teacher education certification.
Eileen Boris Elected President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History
Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Boris is the first American to be elected president of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. She will serve a five-year term.
