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Throughout her career, Dr. Selman has conducted extensive research on the privatization of prisons, punitive social control, moral panics, and law-enforcement technology. She currently serves as chair of the department of critical justice studies at Illinois State University.

Amy Hietapelto is dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University. Molly McGehee is interim dean of Emory University's Oxford College and Taviare Hawkins is dean of the School of Science at Hampton University in Virginia.

The new deans are Marisol Perez at Old Dominion University, Paula Massood at Brooklyn College, Carol Bishop Mills at Eastern Michigan University, Rebecca Berry at South Piedmont Community College, Tamalyn Peterson at Talladega College, Cinthya Ippoliti at California State University San Marcos, Elise Morgan at Boston University, and Ashlee Stevenson at Northwest Vista College.

"Rita's absence will leave a void that will be deeply felt by all who had the privilege of working alongside her," said University of Texas San Antonio vice provost and university librarian, Dean Hendrix. "Her legacy of excellence and the positive impact she had on our library and its patrons will be remembered with great admiration."

Eastern Michigan University has a long history of engagement with the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, offering uncredited courses to incarcerated people since 2008 before the federal government restored Pell eligibility for people who are incarcerated. Meghan Lechner has been hired as the director of the College in Prison Program.

The women appointed to dean positions are Grace Yoo at San Francisco State University, Denise J. Jamieson at the University of Iowa, Cathy Horn at the University of Houston, Brenda Ellington at Louisiana State University Alexandria, Brittini Brown at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Jennifer Kellman Fritz at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

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].

Taking on new roles relating to diversity are Marcella Gomez at the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Rockell Brown Burton at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York, and Doris Fields is serving as interim chief diversity officer at Eastern Michigan University.

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

Since 2016, Dr. Bennett-Fairs has been serving as vice president for student affairs at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Earlier, she was vice president for student affairs at Kentucky State University.

Rose Mary Healy Dougherty served as president of the White Plains campus of Berkeley College from 1991 to 1995. In January 1996, she was appointed senior vice president of academic affairs at Berkeley College in New York City. She was named provost there in 2005

Beth Doll, professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of School Psychologists. The award recognizes outstanding school psychologists who have had a national impact on the field.