Tag: Bates College

Therí Pickens, Beverly Johnson, Lillian Nayder, Sonja Pieck, and Amy Bradfield Douglass have been appointed to endowed professorships at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

Dr. Cano joined the department of modern languages and literatures at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, 1999. She taught courses on a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses at the university, including courses on French cinema and the contemporary novel.

Clayton Spencer, president of Bates College in Waterville, Maine since 2012, announced that she will step down from her post on June 30, 2023, and Lori Bennett, president of Clovis Community College in Fresno, California, since 2016, has announced that she will retire at the end of the calendar year.

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.

The four women earning promotions at Bates College are Geneviève Robert in the department of earth and climate sciences, Meredith Greer in mathematics, Sonja Pieck in environmental science, and Therí Pickens in the English department.

Taking on new assignments are Seulgie Lim at Bates College in Maine, M. Denise Lovett at Valdosta State University in Georgia, Yiwei Haung at Purdue University in Indiana, Nina Lyon Bennett at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Holly Storkel at the University of Kansas, and Anjalé Welton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Patricia Sankey Imfeld Robinson taught at Bates College in Lewiston, Mine, from 1947 to 1950. She later taught physical education classes at the University of Connecticut for 22 years.

Dr. Frank has been serving as vice president of academic innovation and professor of English at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. From 2016 to this past summer. Dr. Frank was provost and vice president of academic and student life.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Valerie Smith, who took office as the 15th president of highly rated Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on July 1, 2015, has had her contract extended through 2025. Before becoming president of Swarthmore College, Dr. Smith was dean of the college and the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.