The new endowed professors are Courtney Suess at Oklahoma State University, Chelsea Comadoll at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Kansas, and Flynn Murray at Montana State University.
Michelle B. Larson, an astrophysicist and experienced academic professional, has spent the past decade leading The Adler Planetarium in Chicago. She is slated to become Clarkson University's first woman president on April 1.
Stacey Sherwin has been appointed interim president of Salish Kootenai College in Montana following the resignation of former interim president Michael Munson, who is taking on a new role with Washington State University.
Following her retirement as president of Montana State University at the end of this academic year, Dr. Cruzado will step in as president of the APLU, an organization dedicated to supporting public and land-grant institutions across North America.
The American Society for Legal History and the American Historical Association have both honored Dr. Yannakakis for her book, Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico.
The faculty appointments are Candice Batton at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Kristina Booth at the University of Oklahoma, Elizabeth Rink of Montana State University, and Ela Austin at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Patricia Anderson worked for Montana State University for over three decades. In 1990, she sued the university, ultimately winning her case that revealed a pattern of pay discrimination against women employees.
Waded Cruzado, president of Montana State University, and Joyce F. Brown, president of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, have announced their intent to retire at the conclusion of the current academic year.
The women who have been hired to new administrative positions are Samantha Robey at Bellarmine Universityin Louisville, Alison Cole at Yale University, Mechelle English at Columbia College in South Carolina, Teri Antilley at Montana State University, and Alison Badgett at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed dean at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
Susan Gilbertz has been appointed the interim dean of the College of Business at Montana State University. Brietta Clark is the new Fritz B. Burns Dean of Loyola Marymount University Law School in California and Sarah Gordon is the new dean of the Graduate College at Arkansas Tech University.
