Carolyn Noll Sorg currently serves as vice president of enrollment and marketing at John Carroll University. She is slated to become the university's first woman president on June 1, 2026.
Ursuline College, a women's oriented educational institution in Pepper Pike, Ohio, has agreed to become the Ursuline College Campus of Gannon University. Both institutions have ties to the Catholic Church. The Ursuline College Campus of Gannon University will have distinct academic programs and maintain its own athletics teams.
“This is an important moment for both of our institutions,” said Walter Iwanenko Jr., president of Gannon University. “Today, we are joining our stories. One will not erase the other. Instead, together, we will begin crafting the next version of ourselves.”
ReBecca Koenig Roloff, president of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Christine De Vinne, president of Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, have announced that they will retire at the end of the academic year.
After working as a licensed social worker, Sharon Ann Zimmerman Wilson joined the faculty at Ursuline College in 1990. There she taught hundreds of students who went on to be social workers. She retired after serving on the faculty for 33 years.
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 contact@WIAReport.com.
The new deans are Lerzan Aksoy at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University in New York, Megan Ranney at the Yale School of Public Health, Jenise M. Snyder at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, Alma B. Littles at the College of Medicine at Florida State University, and Jennifer Frey at the Honors College at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.
