The deans are Heather Bush at the University of Kentucky, Susan Rowan at the University of Illinois Chicago, Patricia Sanchez Abril at the University of Miami, Marcilynn Burke at Tulane University, LaVonda Reed at the University of Baltimore, Jenna Shim at the University of Wyoming, Kalea Benner at Indiana University, Sheila Yeh at the University of Northern Colorado, Tracy Linderholm at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Franita Tolson at the University of Southern California, and Carol Dawnson-Rose at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. St. Germain joined Capella University in 2017 as provost. Earlier she was the executive dean at the University of Phoenix and vice president, dean, and professor of criminal justice for the American Public University System. She will become president of the university in September.
For the past decade, Dr. Glickman has served as president of Manchester Community College in Connecticut. Previously, she was vice president for teaching, learning, and student development at Elgin Community College in Illinois.
Carole Boston Weatherford, a professor of English at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, has been selected to receive the Randolph Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association.
The new deans are Christine Spencer at the University of Baltimore, Karen Allen at Valparaiso University in Indiana, Adrienne Frame at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and Cindy Juntunen at the University of North Dakota.
Dr. Kodat has been serving as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. There, she is also a professor of twentieth-century English literature and American studies. She will begin her duties as provost at Lawrence University on July 1.
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards recognize the best books of the year for children and young adults. This is the 50th year the awards have been presented.
Karen A. Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, will leave her post at the end of the academic year to become president and CEO of the nonprofit organization, Achieving the Dream.
The women who won awards are Hee Oh of Yale University in Connecticut, Bonnie Cramond of the University of Georgia, Ruth Haas at Smith College in Massachusetts, and Tara N. Richards of the University of Baltimore.
The appointment of two women with ties to the academic world to the Maryland Court of Appeals has made history on several counts. Women now make up a majority of the Court and for the first time there is an African America woman judge and a woman Chief Judge.
