Lesleigh Cushing, Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor in Jewish studies and professor of religion at Colgate Univerity in Hamilton, New York, has been named provost. And, Patricia A. Marshall will be the next provost and vice president of academic affairs at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts.
Appointed to positions as deans are Becky Copper-Glenz at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, Kathleen M. Blee at the University of Pitttsburgh, Peggy A. Johnson at Pennsylvania State University, Maureen Lally Green at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and Katrina Glanzer at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The women who have been appointed to dean posts are Carolyn Kapinus at Texas Woman's University, Michele C. Murray at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, Franca R. Barricelli at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. and Elizabeth Killingsworth at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Dr. Plotkin began her teaching career in 1993 as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Massachusetts while studying for master's and doctoral degrees. She was appointed a clinical assistant professor of nursing in 1995 and retired in 2014.
When Robin E. Bowen becomes president of Arkansas Tech University in July, she not only will be the institution's first president but will be the first woman to lead any state-operated four-year university in the state of Arkansas.
