Two Women Stepping Down From High-Level University Administrative Posts

Beth Miller, senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has announced that she will retire on July 1. She has been the department’s senior woman administrator since 1981.

Dr. Miller holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She earned a doctorate in physical education at Middle Tennessee State University.

Sharon Davie, the founding director of the University of Virginia Women’s Center, has announced that she will retire in June after 37 years at the university. She has directed the Women’s Center since its founding a quarter century ago.

Dr. Davie is the editor of University and College Women’s Centers: A Journey Toward Equity (Greenwood Publishing, 2001). Dr. Davie is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.