Dr. Black, a professor of nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, previously served as president of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. The organization's new Joyce Black Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions to pressure injury research and education.
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 Rae Matsumoto at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, Desha L. Williams at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, Allison Vorderstrasse at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Heather R. Parker at Saint Leo University in Florida, and Marianne Collins at Winona State University in Minnesota.
Appointed to dean positions are Tomiko Brown-Nagin at Harvard University, Adrienne Eaton at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Julie M. Anderson at Winona State University in Minnesota, Kim Crowley at Amarillo College in Texas, and Linda Schadler at the University of Vermont.
The new deans are Bridgette Young Ross at Emory, Sheryl Fontaine at CalState, Fullerton, Beverly Wendland at Johns Hopkins, Vikki Vandiver at the University of Alabama, Ann B. Bain at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, Sharon Lovell at James Madison, and Tarrell Awe Agahe Portman at Winona State.
