The new deans are Ayana Allen-Handy at Hofstra University in New York, Margaret Meserve at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Michelle Hayes at Talladega College in Alabama, and Carolyn Clevenger at the University of Georgia.
Professor Angel taught at the Temple University Beasley School of Law from 1979 to 2017. Her scholarly work focused on civil rights, gender equity, and violence against women.
The new deans are Phyllis Ingham at West Georgia Technical College, Theresa Crichfield at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, Amity Noltemeyer at Miami University in Ohio, Tara Feld at Western Illinois University, and Amy Catalano at Hofstra University in New York.
Dr. Eisenberg currently serves as a professor of American History and foreign relations at Hofstra University. She was honored for her latest book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new dean positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news of appointments of women to higher education positions, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Previous research has shown that women are drinking more, engaging in more high-risk drinking, and increasingly developing alcohol-use disorders. But a new study, led by Ibraheem M. Karaye, an assistant professor of population health, and director of the health science program at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, finds a sharp rise in alcohol-related deaths among women.
In 2014, President-elect Holley was named dean and a professor of law at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Previously she was associate dean and a professor of law at the University of South Carolina Law School. Earlier in her career, she taught at the Hofstra University School of Law in New York.
Betty Diamond, a professor of molecular medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University in Uniondale, New York, was selected to receive the Presidential Gold Medal from the American College of Rheumatology and the Association of Rheumatology Professionals.
Dr. Poser has, for the past five years, served as the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago. Previously, she was dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska.
Vivian Gussin Paley was a renowned educator, author, and researcher of early childhood education. She spent nearly a quarter-century at the University of Chicago.
