The new provosts are Elizabeth Dumont at the University of California, Merced, Marguerite Giguette at Xavier University in New Orleans, and Margaret Brown Marsden at Midwestern State University in Texas.
Since 2016, Dr. Richtermeyer has served as the dean of the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Earlier, she was a professor of accountancy and business law and associate dean of the College of Business at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
Maridee Shogren is the new dean of the College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines at the University of North Dakota. Donna Riley will be the next dean of the School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico and Melissa Burwell was appointed dean of retention at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
Ivy Banks was appointed vice president for institutional diversity and inclusion at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Patricia Bradley was named vice president for inclusion and institutional equity at Towson University in Maryland and Christine Taylor is the new institutional equity officer, equal opportunity officer, and Title IX coordinator at the University of Oklahoma.
The four women scholars who have been hired to new positions are Erica Brown at Yeshiva University in New York, Lawanda Greene at Fort Valley State University in Georgia, Karen Harris at Arizona State University, and Cirecie West-Olatunji at Xavier University in New Orleans.
The four women who have been named to diversity positions are Margie Gill at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, Sherrae Mack at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Renee Madison at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and Katrina Rugless at the University of Pikeville in Kentucky.
Gilda Barabino is the president of the Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. After serving for one year as president-elect, Dr. Barabino will serve one year as AAAS president and then one year as chair of the AAAS Board of Directors.
Since 2015, Dr. Hanycz has been serving as the first woman president of La Salle University in Philadephia. From 2008 to 2015, she was head of Brescia University College, a women’s college in London, Ontario, that is affiliated with the Catholic Church.
A respected researcher in the study of sickle cell disease, Dr. Barabino became dean of the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York in 2013. She also serves as the Daniel and Frances Berg Professor at City College.
The women faculty who are taking on new roles are Ching-Hsun Huang at Virginia Tech, Varsha Castro Gusman at Xavier University of Louisiana, Francesca dePasquale at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, Penny Yee at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and Tracy V. Dunbar at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Currently, Dr. White serves as senior vice president of student engagement and learning support at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York. She has conducted extensive research on strategies to reduce sexual assault on college campuses.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
