Dr. Killen has been with Northeast College since 2017, when she joined as vice president of academic affairs. Before coming to Northeast, she was associate vice president of the Center for Professional Studies and an assistant professor of management at Keuka College in New York.
Professor Arterian taught in the College of Law at Arizona State University for 20 years and was the first women to serve as associate dean. In 2002, Professor Arterian was named dean of Syracuse University's College of Law, a position she held for 13 years.
Dr. Niemi has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne. Earlier, she was professor and chair of the education department at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Stepping down from their posts are Carolyn Ashe, a business professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, Pat Thompson, the vice president for athletics at Elmira College in New York, and Fiona Doyle dean of the graduate division at the University of California, Berkeley.
Responding to a student complaint, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education investigated Elmira College's response to 16 incidents that occurred over a three-year period. The government found that the "college was not prompt in completing its investigation and providing determination to the complainant."
Katherine L. Knight, professor and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Loyola University in Chicago, has been chosen as the 2015 recipient of the Marion Spencer Fay Award from the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.
