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The new provosts are Kelly Bidle at Rider University in New Jersey, Helen White at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Beverly Warren at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Jeannette Riley at the University of New Hampshire.

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].

Dr. Siddiqui was honored for her book Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan, which discusses how political parties behave in anti-democratic behaviors because of political incentives.

Dr. Vendler was a poetry critic and professor of English at Harvard University for three decades. She was Harvard's first woman faculty member to earn the designation of University Professor.

Wendy Sternberg, vice president for academic affairs and dean of Occidental College, has been named provost of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She will begin her new duties on July 1.

Linda A. Bell, provost and dean of faculty at Barnard College in New York City, announced that she will step down at the end of the current academic year. She has served in these roles for more than a decade. After a sabbatical, Dr. Bell will return to Barnard as a faculty member in the department of economics.

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].

Since 2019, Joan T. A. Gabel was been serving as president and chief executive of the University of Minnesota System and the Twin Cities campus. From 2015 to 2019, she was the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina. Previously, she served as dean of the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business.

Taking on new administrative jobs are Cigdem Talgar at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Stacey Bradley at the University of South Carolina, Ahyana King at Haverford  College in Pennsylvania, Amy Armstrong at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Jennifer McCarrel at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Tammy Kenber at the University of California, Davis

Dr. Willie-LeBreton currently serves as provost and dean of the faculty at Swarthmore College, where she has taught since 1997. Earlier, she served on the faculty at Colby College in Maine and Bard College in New York. She will become president of Smith College on July 1, 2023.

Lou Charkoudian, an associate professor of chemistry, is the inaugural recipient of the Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. This award honors a tenure-track faculty member within 10 years of their first faculty appointment who demonstrates success in chemical sciences and whose mentoring practices have supported undergraduate research.

Thelathia “Nikki” Young was appointed vice president for institutional equity and access at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Emanuela Kucik was named faculty fellow for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Annie McGowan is the new vice president in the Office of Diversity at Texas A&M University.