All Entries in the "Retirements" Category
Debra W. Stewart to Step Down as President of the Council of Graduate Schools
Dr. Stewart has led the organization, dedicated to the improvement of graduate education and research, since 2000. She will stay on until June 30, 2014 and then turn her full attention to writing and research.
Wellesley College Professor Retires After 44 Years of Service
Nancy Harrison Kolodny, the Nellie Zuckerman Cohen and Anne Cohen Heller Professor of Health Sciences at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, joined the chemistry department faculty at the college in 1969.
Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU Will Step Down Next August
Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for the past 22 years, will take a one-year sabbatical and then return to the Tisch School as a tenured professor in the department of art and public policy.
Salem College President to Retire Next June
Susan E. Pauly, the nineteenth president of Salem College, the liberal arts educational institution for women in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has announced that she will step down from her post on June 30, 2014. She became president of the college in 2006.
Patricia Hardaway to Step Down From Presidency of Wilberforce University
Patricia A. Hardaway became president in 2009 and is only the second woman to hold the post. Earlier, she was the first woman to chair the university’s board of trustees.
Treasurer at Syracuse University Announces Retirement
Barbara Wells has announced that she will retire from her position on September 15. Wells has been on the staff at the university for 38 years and in her present post since 1990. She manages the university’s $1.3 billion investment portfolio.
Two Women Administrators Announce Their Retirements
Kate Haugen is stepping down at the end of 2013 from her post as vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University and Madelyn Ross is retiring as vice chancellor for national media relations at the University of Pittsburgh.
Director of Federal Relations for the University of Wisconsin Retires
Rhonda Norsetter has spent nearly a half century on the Madison campus first as a student and then as an administrator working in the Office of Student Financial Aid and as director of federal relations.
Goddard College President Announces That She Is Stepping Down
Barbara Vacarr, president of Goddard College in Plainview, Vermont, announced that she will step down at the end of the year, two years before the end of her contract.
Two Dartmouth Professors Retire
Seven faculty members at Dartmouth College with a combined 268 years of teaching and research experience at the college have retired. Two of the seven retiring faculty members are women, Brenda Silver and Marsha Swislocki.
Chief Investment Officer for the University of California Leaves Post
Marie N. Berggren abruptly retired for personal reasons from her post as the chief investment officer for the University of California. She held the post since 2006, overseeing an investment portfolio of about $80 billion.
Dean of the School of Social Work at Smith College to Retire Next Spring
Carolyn Jacobs was named acting dean of the School of Social Work at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2000 and was named permanent dean in 2003. She will step down next spring.
Yildiz Binkley Retires From Post as Dean of Libraries at Tennessee State University
Dr. Binkley, a Turkish immigrant, was hired in 1971 as a junior reference librarian and rose through the ranks. In 1991 she was named dean of libraries. She also served as a tenured professor at the university.
Two Deans Retire at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Angela Maynard Sewell is retiring after 16 years as dean of the College of Education and Wanda Dole has retired as dean of the Ottenheimer Library.
Four Women Named Professor Emerita at Lesley University
The four scholars transitioning to emerita status are Linda Brion-Meisels in education and psychology, Judith Beth Cohen in adult learning, Rosalie Frank in English, and Susan Merrifield in English education.
University of Miami’s Dean of Architecture Is Stepping Down After 18 Years
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, announced that she will step down from her post on July 1. She has served as dean for the past 18 years and has been on the faculty at the school since 1979. She will continue to teach at the university.
Princeton University Assigns Emeritus Status to 32 Faculty Members: Four Are Women
The four women who will become professor emerita at Princeton University are Marie-Helene Huet in French and Italian studies, Chiara Nappi in physics, Susan Naquin in history and East Asian studies, and Anne-Marie Slaughter in politics and international affairs.
Two Women Scholars Granted Emerita Status at Bowdoin College
Linda Docherty was named associate professor emerita of art history and Rosemary Roberts was appointed professor emerita of mathematics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Anne Meyers Retiring After 40 Years on the Social Work Faculty at James Madison University
When the social work program became an academic department in 1989 with Meyers at the helm, there were 50 students enrolled. Today there are more than 250.
Phoebe Haddon to Step Down as Dean of the University of Maryland School of Law
Haddon was selected as dean of the nation’s third-oldest law school in 2009 after serving for 25 years on the faculty of the Temple University School of law in Philadelphia. After a one-year sabbatical, she will return to serve on the law school’s faculty.
Harriett Matthews: The Second Longest Serving Faculty Member in Colby College’s 200-Year History
Professor Matthews joined the Colby College faculty in 1966. Only Julian Taylor who taught the classics at Colby for 63 years from 1868 to 1931, has served on the faculty longer.
Dean of the Duke University School of Nursing to Step Down in 2014
Catherine L. Gilliss has served as dean of the nursing school since 2004. Previously, she taught at the nursing schools of the University of California at San Francisco and Yale University. She is a past president of the American Academy of Nursing.
Nine Women Named Emerita Faculty at Vanderbilt University
The nine women retiring from the Vanderbilt faculty who were granted emerita status are M. Francille Bergquist, Vera A. Stevens Chatman, Charlotte M. Covington, Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, Carolyn Hughes, Jane Kirchner, Jeannette J. Norden, Ronnie J. Steinberg, and Mary Theresa Urbano.
First Woman Dean of Harvard College to Step Down
Evelynn Hammonds, the first woman and first African American to serve as dean of Harvard College, has announced that she will step from her post on June 30. She will take a sabbatical and then return to the university to head up a new program on the Study of Race and Gender in Science and Medicine.
Dean of the College of Education at the University of North Carolina Charlotte to Retire
Mary Lynne Calhoun, dean of the College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 1999, has announced that she will step down at the end of June.
President of Florida Atlantic University Tends Her Resignation
Mary Jane Saunders has stepped down from the presidency of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and will return to the faculty. The university has been involved in several controversies in recent months, including the decision to name its football stadium after a private prison company.
Long-Time Administrator at Montana State University Announces Her Retirement
Over the past 38 years, Groseth has met thousands of people and traveled an estimated 1 million miles performing her duties for the office of admissions and the alumni association.
UMass Historian Calling It Quits After 48 Years on the Faculty
Joyce Avrech Berkman has been teaching courses on U.S., British, and European women’s history and other topics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for nearly half a century.
Chancellor of Indiana University Southeast to Step Down a Year Earlier Than She Had Planned
Sandra Patterson-Randles has served as chancellor of Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana, since 2002. Her contract was recently extended to run through June 2014 but she is leaving a year earlier.
University of Michigan’s Mary Sue Coleman Announces Her Retirement
In 2002, she was appointed the first woman president of the University of Michigan. A biochemist, she had previously served as president of the University of Iowa for seven years.
The President of the University of Memphis Announces Her Retirement
Shirley C. Raines, president of the University of Memphis, has announced that she will step down from her post on June 30. She was named the 11th president of the university in 2001. She is the only woman to have held the position.
Three Women Academics Stepping Down
Lisa Calvert has left her position as vice president for development at Purdue. Dorothy Denburg is stepping down from her administrative post at Barnard College and Christine Kiebuzinsja was named professor emerita of English at Virginia Tech.
Feminist Scholar Announces Her Retirement From Case Western Reserve University
Dorothy C. Miller, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, has announced that she will retire at the end of the academic year.
Penelope Jennings Returning to Teaching at CalState Northridge
The associate vice president of faculty affairs at California State University Northridge for the past 12 years, has announced that she will step down from her post in August but stay at the university to teach business law.
Nancy Langston Stepping Down as Dean of the Nursing School at Virginia Commonwealth University
She has served as dean of the nursing school for the past 22 years. During her tenure, enrollment at the school increased from 444 to nearly 1,000 students.
