The new provosts are Anita Thomas at Meredith College in North Carolina, Margo DelliCaprini at the College of New Jersey, Rachel Davis Mersey at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Patricia Prelock at the University of Arizona.
An associate professor of advertising and public relations at the University of Georgia, Dr. Yoon will lead the American Academy of Advertising for three years, serving one-year-terms as president-elect, president, and past-president.
Dr. Hersh-Cochran was the first woman to ever receive a doctorate from Southern Methodist University in Texas. After receiving her Ph.D. in economics, she went on to teach at Texas Woman's University for more than three decades.
Here is this week's roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
The four women scholars named to endowed professorships are Yue Hillon at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, Katarzyna Anna Bilicka in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, Dawn C. Nunziato at the George Washington University Law School, and Sally Fortenberry at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
The four women named to endowed university positions are Lorie Donelle at the University of South Carolina, Karin Nisenbaum at Syracuse University in New York, Phylicia Rashad at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Amanda W. Dotseth at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Nadia E. Brown, a professor of government and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and Danielle Casarez Lemi, a Tower Center Fellow at the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, are sharing the Ralph J. Bunche from the American Political Science Association.
The new deans are Susan Rivera at the University of Maryland, Robin Suzanne Poston at Southern Methodist University, Rachel Carnell at Cleveland State University, Andrea Woody at the University of Washington, Shelley Dionne at SUNY Binghamton, Nicole M. Westrick at Morgan State University, Tricia Seifert at Montana State University, and Virginia Franke Kleist at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Research by scholars at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain examined how the difference in preferences between men and women changes with a country's degree of gender equality.
Collins has served since 2014 as the Judge James Noel Dean and professor of law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She was appointed to the law faculty at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2003 and was named associate provost for academic and strategic initiatives in 2010 and vice provost in 2013. She will become president of Rhodes College on July 1.
Ruth Prouse Morgan served as a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas for 20 years. She was the first woman to chair the faculty senate and was the university’s first woman provost.
The four women finalists for dean of the University of Colorado School of Law are Michèle Alexandre of Stetson University, Johanna Bond of Washington and Lee University, Lolita Buckner Inniss of Southern Methodist University, and Sarah Krakoff of the University of Colorado.
