D. Elaine Sipe had a 38-year career teaching at several colleges and universities. After graduating from Concordia College in River Forest, Illinois, in 1964 she joined the Peace Corps and served in Malaysia before beginning her academic career.
Here is this week's roundup of appointments and promotions of women to top-level administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The candidates are Emily A. Haddad, professor and associate dean for academics in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Dakota and Pamela Kalbfleisch, professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University in Chicago.