The endowed appointments are Paulina Jaramillo at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Samantha Cross at Babson College in Massachuetts, and Dawn Meredith Simmons at Boston College.
The new deans are Erika Smith at Connecticut College, Angela Gilmore at the University of the District of Columbia, Ammina Kothari at Simmons University, Gail Orum-Alexander at Marshall B. Ketchum University, Angela Starkweather at Rutgers University, Theodorea Regina Berry at Montclair State University, Sheila Whitley at North Carolina A&T State University, Donna Stoddard at Babson College, and Jessica Huber at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.
The three women faculty members who have been appointed to endowed chairs are Nicole Uphold at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, Audrey Sorrells at Texas Chrisitan University in Fort Worth, and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Babson College's Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership announced its latest WIN Lab (Women Innovating Now) initiative inside the Greenwood Women's Business Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The WIN Lab program aims to help women entrepreneurs launch successful businesses and create economic and social impact.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Dr. Rosansky has served as founding president of the Hult International Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dean of the University of New Haven College of Business, provost at the State University of New York's Levin Institute, and interim provost at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire.
The Women Innovating Now Lab business accelerator offers undergraduate and graduate students as well as Babson alumnae mentoring and other support in their entrepreneurial efforts.
Under the agreement, announced by the college's new president Kerry Healey, Babson will cooperate with a women's college in Jeddah to support women's leadership and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Kerry Healey has taught at several universities and served for four years as lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Mitt Romney administration. She will become Babson's first woman president on July 1.
