The new deans are Marjorie Jenkins at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, Allyson L. Watson at Florida A&M University, Stephanie G. Adams at the University of Texas at Dallas and Alicia Golston at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Roberta Trites, a distinguished professor of English at Illinois State University will be honored in October by the International Institute for Children's Literature in Osaka, Japan, for her for outstanding research in children's literature.
Appointed to dean positions are Akirah J. Bradley at the University of Colorado, Mary Loeffelholz at Northeastern University, Alison Carr-Chellman at the University of Idaho, Anne Balsamo at the University of Texas-Dallas, Susamma Barua at California State University, Fullerton and Suri Duitch at Tulane University.
Rachel Toni Algaze Croson, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, is currently on leave serving as a division director at the National Science Foundation.