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President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Is Stepping Down
Robin L. Garrell has served as president since August 1, 2020. Dr. Garrell had come under fire in August for the hiring of Marc Lamont Hill as the Presidential Professor of Urban Education. Professor Hill has been criticized for his remarks relating to the state of Israel.
Stanford University Appoints Jenny Martinez as Its Next Provost
Jenny S. Martinez is the dean of Stanford Law School and the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as law school dean, she served as associate dean for curriculum from 2013 to 2016. Professor Martinez is a leading expert on the role of courts and tribunals in advancing human rights. She will become the 14th provost of Stanford University on October 1.
Carey McDougall Is the New Leader of the Penn State Beaver Campus in Monaca
McDougall has served as the chief academic officer at the Beaver campus since 2014. Before coming to Penn State Beaver, she was an associate professor of art at the Stark campus of Kent State University in Ohio.
Jennifer Dugan Is the New Provost at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio
Since 2019, Dr. Dugan has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pikesville in Kentucky. Earlier in her career, Dr. Dugan served on the political science faculty at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Emily Messer Is the New President of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth
Dr. Messer comes to Texas Wesleyan from Jacksonville State University in Alabama where she served as vice president for advancement and enrollment management. Earlier, Dr. Messer was the vice president of enrollment management, assistant dean of students, and director of student life at Shorter University in Rome, Georgia.
A Trio of Women Who Have Been Appointed Provosts
Terese Wignot is the new provost at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. Andrea Stewart has been named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Toneyce Randolph is the new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Morris Brown College in Atlanta.
Donna Fry Is the New Leader of the University of Michigan-Flint
Dr. Fry has been serving as the dean of the College of Health Sciences at the Flint campus since 2015. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy and a Ph.D. in kinesiology and exercise science from the University of Michigan.
Donna Shalala Chosen as the Leader of The New School in New York City
Dr. Shalala was the president of the University of Miami from 2001 to 2015. During the Clinton administration, Dr. Shalala served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years. Earlier in her career, she was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Anita Olson Gustafson Is the First Woman President of Presbyterian College in South Carolina
Dr. Gustafson was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor of history at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Professor Gustafson’s teaching and scholarly interests include American immigration history, Swedish immigration, and the history of American women.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed Provosts
Claudia E. San Miguel was appointed provost at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. Shantay R. Grays was named provost at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, and Catherine Swick is the new provost at Trine University in Angola, Indiana.
Karen Colley Is the New Provost at the University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Collley has been serving as acting provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. She joined the faculty at the university in 1991 and was named a full professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics in 2002. Dr. Colley is the former dean of the Graduate College.
Maria Sophia Aguirre Is the Third President of Catholic Distance University
Dr. Aguirre has been serving as a tenured professor of economics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She has worked to develop and implement Integral Economic Development (IED), an interdisciplinary approach to economic analysis that recognizes the role of social relationships — first manifested by the family — as key drivers of economic activity.
Washington State’s Michelle Moyer Selected to Lead the American Society for Enology and Viticulture
Formed in 1950 as a professional society dedicated to the interests of enologists, viticulturists, and others in the fields of wine and grape research and production, ASEV’s membership of approximately 1,600 includes professionals from wineries, vineyards, and academic institutions and organizations from around the world.
Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza Will Be the Thirteenth President of West Valley College in Saratoga, California
Dr. Taylor-Mendoza has over 20 years of experience in the California Community College system, serving in a variety of roles. Since 2021, Dr. Taylor-Mendoza has served as the president of the College of San Mateo in California. She will become president of West Valley College on August 24.
Kayla Hale Named the Thirteenth President of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma
An alumna of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, Dr. Hale has spent 25 years at the University of Tulsa, most recently as vice president of university advancement and alumni engagement. Earlier, she served on the staff at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa and Rogers State University in Claremore.
Nancy Johnson Is the New Leader of Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Kentucky
Dr. Johnson retired as provost of Big Sandy Community and Technical College in 2016 and has remained an active local community member. She has served president, vice president, treasurer, and board member of the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce; and president, and vice president of the Prestonsburg Chapter of Rotary International.
Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke Is the New Provost at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
For the past two years, Dr. Tomlinson-Clarke has been serving as senior vice provost for academic and faculty affairs. Dr. Tomlinson-Clarke joined the faculty at the university in 1989. Her research focuses on the development of culturally responsive interventions to enhance learning.
Claire Oberon Garcia Is the New State Historian in Colorado
Dr. Garcia, who has been a professor at Colorado College for more than three decades, will also lead the State Historian’s Council. Dr. Garcia’s research focuses on the experiences of women of the Black Atlantic in the beginning of the twentieth century.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Scholar Chosen to Succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci
Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been selected to lead the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The institute, with a budget of $6.3 billion, was previously led by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
A Change in Leadership at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey
Dr. Passerini has served as provost and executive vice president at Seton Hall since June 2020. Previously, she served as the Lesley H. and William L. Collins Distinguished Chair and dean of the Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Earlier, she was dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
Emory University’s Jennifer Adamski to Lead the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Dr. Adamski is an associate professor and program director of the adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner program at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also a critical care acute care nurse practitioner for the Critical Care Flight team at Cleveland Clinic, the first in the nation to have a nurse practitioner-managed flight team.
The New Leader of Saint Xavier University in Chicago
Rebecca Sherrick served for 22 years as president of Aurora University in Illinois, where she was one of the longest-serving presidents in the institution’s history. She was the first woman to serve as president in the university’s history. Earlier, she taught history at Carroll University in Wisconsin for 20 years.
Claire Oliveros Named the Thirteenth President of Riverside City College in California
Dr. Oliveros has been serving as the vice president of institutional equity and research and planning at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. Earlier, she was was the assistant provost for student success initiatives at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the executive dean of student development and learning resources at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon.
A Pair of Women Who Have Been Named Provosts
Leamor Kahanov is the new senior vice president and provost at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, and Sheri Noviello was appointed interim provost and vice president of the Division of Academic Affairs at Valdosta State University in Georgia.
University of Alaska Fairbanks Appoints Two Women to Direct Regional Campuses
Wanda Wahl is the new director of the Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham, Alaska, and Minnie Naylor was named director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue. Both women had been serving their new roles on an interim basis.
Constance St. Germain Will Be the First Woman President of Capella University
Dr. St. Germain joined Capella University in 2017 as provost. Earlier she was the executive dean at the University of Phoenix and vice president, dean, and professor of criminal justice for the American Public University System. She will become president of the university in September.
Mildred García to Lead the 23-Campus California State University System
Since 2018, Dr. García has been serving as president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Earlier in her career, she served as president of California State University, Fullerton and California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Susan Kazama Named Interim Chancellor of Hawaiʻi Community College in Hilo
Kazama has worked in the University of Hawai’i system since 1987, starting as a librarian at Maui College and Honolulu Community College. She spent 12 years on the staff at the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa’s before accepting the library director position at Kapiʻolani Community College in 2001.
Deborah Casey Appointed President of Wor-Wic Community College in Salisbury, Maryland
Dr. Casey has been serving as vice president of student affairs at Green River College in Auburn, Washington. Dr. Casey first joined Green River College in 2006 as dean of student services and retention before becoming vice president of student affairs in 2011.
The New Leader of Hunter College of the City University of New York
Ann Kirschner served as dean of CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College from 2006 to 2016, after which she was appointed as special adviser to the chancellor for strategic partnerships. From 2017 to 2022, Dr. Kirschner was a university professor on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kimberly Andrews Espy Will Be the First Woman President of Wayne State University in Detroit
Dr. Espy has been serving as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a position she has held since 2018. Earlier, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon.
Mary-Ann Bjornsti Is the New Leader of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Dr. Bjornsti, the Newman H. Waters Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has served as associate director for the university’s Translational Research at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. Before joining the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2009, she taught at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Anita Hanson Is the New President of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, Minnesota
President Hanson has served on the staff at the college since 1994 in several capacities. Since November 2022, she has been acting president. Previously, Hanson was vice president of student services and enrollment management during the fall of 2022 and the dean of student services from 2018 to 2022.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed Provosts
The new provosts are Rebecca W. Doerge at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, Darcy L. Medica at the State University of New York-Cobleskill, Genyne Henry Boston at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville, Florida, and Dianne Oliver and Denise Baird who will serve as co-provosts at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Cynthia Bond Hopson Is the New Leader of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas
Dr. Hopson has been serving as chief equity officer and assistant general secretary of the Black College Fund at the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry in Nashville. Earlier, she served on the faculty of Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, Murray State University in Kentucky, and the University of Memphis.
