Since 2019, Dr. Akey has been vice president for student success, analytics, and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has served the Mankato campus since 2000 in such roles as associate vice president for institutional research, strategy, and effectiveness and assistant to the vice president for student affairs.
Dr. Ford currently serves as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, a role she has held since 2009. Before joining the University of Wisconsin System, Dr. Ford served as vice president for student affairs at the University of West Florida, and vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Spalding University in Kentucky.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
A search committee at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, has announced a field of three candidates to become the educational institution's next president. Two of the three finalists are women: Deborah Ford, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and Cheryl Schrader, chancellor of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
A native of Maine, Stella Gray began teaching at what is now the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1958. Dr. Gray taught English composition, speech, and literature and was chair of the Humanities Division at the university. The university has established the Stella C. Gray Teaching Excellence Award in her honor.
