Anita Fernández was named the inaugural chief diversity officer at Prescott College in Arizona. Shawna Patterson-Stephens has been hired as the vice president and chief diversity officer at Central Michigan University and J. Goosby Smith has been named chief diversity officer at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Kristin Woolever was appointed chancellor of Pennsylvania State University Brandywine in Media, Pennsylvania. The campus, located in suburban Philadelphia, enrolls about 1,600 undergraduate students. She will begin her new job on February 1.