Dr. Mimms served as a faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, for two decades, including 10 years as the founding director of the college's Tacoma campus.
Currently, Professor McConnell serves as provost and vice president for academic affairs at West Virginia University; a role she has held since 2014. In addition to her administrative role, she serves as the Thomas R. Goodwin Professor of Law at the university. She will become president of Colorado State University on July 1.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Rhona Free is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Eastern Connecticut State University and Margaret E. Madden is provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Potsdam campus of the State University of New York System.
For the past six years, Joyce McConnell has been dean of the College of Law at the university. She has been on the faculty at the university for 19 years and is the Thomas R. Goodwin Professor of Law.
