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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.

Michelle Putnam's new appointment is not the first time she has served as a journal's chief editor. From 2014 to 2020, she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

The appointments to endowed professorships are Suzette Malveaux at Washington and Lee University, Jennifer Steffy at Vincennes University, Michelle Geoffrin-Vinci at Lafayette College, Martha Castañeda at Miami University, and Laba Obradovic at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

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 [email protected].

“Dr. Abbott was an incredibly kind and responsive physician,” said Mona Dugo, assistant vice president for wellness and dean of students for Northwestern Student Affairs. “Those of us who had the honor of working with her throughout her Northwestern tenure came to rely on her ability to lead with compassion.

The new deans are Sandra L. Wong has been appointed the next dean of Emory University School of Medicine, Janet A. Guyden at Bowie State University in Maryland, Amity Noltemeyer at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Mary Rezac at the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.

Rita Dove, the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, has been selected to receive the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the nonprofit organization that presents the National Book Awards. She will be honored in New York on November 15.

The women appointed to provost positions are Nicolle Parsons-Pollard at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Elizabeth Mullenix at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Marguerite S. Giguette at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, and Gabby McCutchen at the Scott Northern Campus of Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Rita Dove, the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, received the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for lifetime achievement from the Library of Congress. Professor Dove has published 11 collections of poetry. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987.

Gwendolyn Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor of women’s and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University in New York, will serve a six-year term as president-elect, president, and past-president, of the Rhetoric Society of America, beginning in July.

Taking on new duties are Jennifer Hall-Jones at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, Shea Kidd Brown at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Lissy Garrison at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Lisa VanDeWeert at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Kimberly Davidson at George Mason University in Virginia, Amy Shoemaker at Miami University in Ohio, and DeNeia Thomas at Texas Southern University.

Cathy J. Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor in the department of political science at the University of Chicago, received the 2021 Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award from the American Political Science Association. The award honors a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to the understanding of racial and ethnic politics.