The board of governors of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, has extended the contract of President Mary J.C. Hendrix for an additional five years. She became the 16th president of the university in 2013. At that time, Dr. Hendrix was the first graduate of the university to be named president in the institution’s 144-year history.
Dr. Hendrix has been serving as president and chief scientific officer of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, has named Suzanne Shipley as one of three finalists to be its next president. Dr. Shipley is currently president of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
