The new provosts are Anita Thomas at Meredith College in North Carolina, Margo DelliCaprini at the College of New Jersey, Rachel Davis Mersey at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Patricia Prelock at the University of Arizona.
Rachel Solemsaas will step down on June 30 as chancellor of Hawai‘i Community College. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young has announced that she is resigning as president of Texas Southern University in Houston after only two years on the job and Kathryn A. Foster is stepping down as president of The College of New Jersey but will return to the faculty at the college.
Since 2019, Dr. Hannigan has been named provost at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. Earlier, she was a faculty member and the founding dean of the School for the Environment at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Taking on new roles in diversity are Tacquice Wiggan Davis at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, Michelle Carter at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Nickey Woods at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, and Shawnboda Mead at the University of Mississippi.
Kit Saunders Nordeen pioneered women's athletics at the University of Wisconsin in the 1960s and 1970s, and, as an administrator, fought for equal opportunities for women athletes in the tumultuous years following the passage of Title IX.
Since 2012, Dr. Foster has served as president of the University of Maine at Farmington. Earlier, she served on the faculty of the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York System for 18 years. She will begin her new job on July 1.
Dr. Paul currently serves as executive vice president and provost at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. She has served as provost since 2009. She is also a tenured full professor of psychology at the university.
The women with new administrative jobs are Sharon Beverly, Jessica Stice, Joslyn DiPasalegne, Lucy Forster-Smith, Eileen Behr, Sharon Graham, and Jennifer Eury.
