Dr. Villanueva currently serves as dean of the College of Innovation and Design at Texas A&M University Commerce where she has worked for over two decades. She will assume her new position as provost of the University of North Carolina at Asheville this summer.
Karin Peterson, a professor and chair of the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, has agreed to serve as acting provost during the Spring 2018 semester.
Kay Norton, president of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, announced that she will retire at the end of the current academic year and Mary K. Grant, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will become president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
They are Jane Lubchenco at Oregon State University, Kristy L. Weber and Megan S. Ryerson of the University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Derryberry of the University of North Carolina, Asheville, Marina Angel of Temple University in Philadelphia, Yue Qi of Michigan State University, and Sangeeta Pratap of Hunter College in New York City.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The appointees are Janice Tawney, Lori S. White, Lorraince Acker, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Janice Lewis, Kirsten Waarala, Laura Simmelink, Nicole Edwards Evans, Sue Roberts, Sarah Covert, Ruth Jacobs Jackson, and Shannon Jackson.
Currently, Dr. Mary K. Grant is president of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams. She has served in that post since 2002. She will become chancellor on January 5, 2015.
Since 2008, Dr. Janes Fernandes has served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She is the former provost at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She will begin her new duties on July 1.
The honorees are Sonya Douglass Horsford at George Mason University, Billie J. Collier at Florida State University, Janice Haggart at North Dakota State University, and Virginia Derryberry at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Deborah Miles, executive director of the Center for Diversity Education at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, is sharing the 2013 Award of Merit from the Council of State Archivists.
The 11 women taking on new administrative roles in higher education are: Valandra German, Tracey Criss, Gina Eubanks, Claire Wurmfeld, J. Renee Navarro, Sarah Schroth, Gina Siesing, Erin McDermott, Ronna Vanderslice, Danielle Wood, and Nicole Norian.
