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Diane Parr Walker, deputy university librarian at the University of Virginia, has been named university librarian at the University of Notre Dame, Provost Thomas G. Burish announced. Walker’s appointment is effective July 25.
“Responding to the many demands and challenges of supporting our vision of being the pre-eminent Catholic research university will...Read More >> |
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The University of Denver's Daniels College of Business today announced the appointment of Gretchen Gagel as assistant dean of advancement and alumni relations.
Ms. Gagel is a '93 graduate of the Daniels MBA program, and most recently comes from the Women's Funding Network in San Francisco where she held the position of chief philanthropic engagement officer. ...Read More >> |
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University of Minnesota Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost E. Thomas Sullivan, will be stepping down from his position at the end of 2011, university officials announced today. Sullivan, who has held the position since July 2004, will be returning to the faculty of the Law School, where he’d previously served as dean.
“Serving as provost...Read More >> |
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Brenda Pejovich, Dallas, Texas, was appointed to The University of Texas System Board of Regents by Governor Rick Perry in July 2010.
Regent Pejovich serves on the Academic Affairs Committee, the Finance and Planning Committee, and the Student, Faculty, and Staff Campus Life Committee.
Ms. Pejovich is CEO of BFG Management Company, LLC. She is also CEO of...Read More >> |
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Berkeley College is pleased to announce the appointment of Marlene Doty as Vice President, Library Services. In this role, she leads the continued development of library resources and services that provide a contemporary means of information delivery and integration of information literacy throughout the College experience.
“Ms. Doty is a progressive thinker who...Read More >> |
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Seth Ablordeppy will serve as Florida A&M University’s interim dean of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences beginning Tuesday, according to a FAMU news release.
Ablordeppy, currently the college’s director of the Basic Science Division, will serve in that role until a permanent dean is named. The former dean, Henry Lewis III, was named president...Read More >> |
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The new chancellor at the University of Alaska Anchorage will be Tom Case, who previously was dean of the university's College of Business and Public Policy.
Case will succeed Fran Ulmer as chancellor of the university's Anchorage campus, said Pat Gamble, president of the University of Alaska system. Ulmer announced last year that she will retire later this...Read More >> |
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Appalachian State University is conducting a search for a new provost and executive vice chancellor with help from the search firm Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates. Consultants with the firm have visited campus to meet with various constituencies and listen to faculty, staff and students about the dynamic and enterprising leader they hope to bring to Appalachian.
A...Read More >> |
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Lubbock Christian University’s president today will become the first man in decades to take the title of the school’s chancellor, thus marking a gradual transfer of the presidency to a yet unknown successor.
Ken Jones, who began as LCU’s president in 2003, will continue overseeing the day-to-day operations of the university for the next year until a...Read More >> |
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The search committee charged with finding a new chancellor to lead the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture met Monday for the first time and outlined a plan to have a new leader in place by early summer.
The committee, chaired by UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, is searching for a replacement for Joe DiPietro, who was selected as the UT system's...Read More >> |
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A University of Minnesota vice president and Utah’s higher education commissioner have been named finalists for chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.
The MnSCU board of trustees voted unanimously Monday to forward the names of Steven Rosenstone, the U of M’s vice president for scholarly and cultural affairs, and William Sederburg,...Read More >> |
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The committee appointed to find Stephen Weber’s successor as president of San Diego State University will hold its first meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The gathering will be held in the Fowler Family Ballroom of the Payne Goodall Alumni Center on campus. It is open to the public. All other meetings of the search committee will be private.
The purpose of the...Read More >> |
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A search committee hopes to have a new chancellor at the University of South Carolina Upstate by July 1.
Current Chancellor John Stockwell announced last month he is retiring in August after 17 years, leaving a legacy of widespread growth on the campus.
The 17-member search committee was appointed by University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides. The...Read More >> |
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The committee to select the next University of Kentucky president voted Friday to keep all the candidates' names confidential throughout the interview process.
Once the list is honed to three to five finalists, the names of candidates to replace UK President Lee T. Todd Jr., who will retire in June, would be released only if all the finalists agreed to it.
The...Read More >> |
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The chairman of the Connecticut State University System Board of Directors tendered his resignation Wednesday, bringing to a total of six positions the new governor can fill on a board whose central office may be eliminated, or trimmed, as the state looks for efficiencies.
Karl J. Krapek, who has been on the board for 16 years and served as chairman since 2009,...Read More >> |
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An Indiana University professor is following in her late father's footsteps by being elected president of the American Folklore Society.
Diane Goldstein will serve this year as president-elect of the group before assuming its presidency in 2012 and 2013. The professor of folklore and ethnomusicology will be the fourth IU faculty member to serve as the group's...Read More >> |
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The University of Arizona has named Leonard M. Jessup, chair of the department of entrepreneurship and information systems and director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington State University, the new dean of the Eller College of Management. Jessup will begin his tenure as dean in May.
Jessup is an alumnus of the UA and the Eller College, where he...Read More >> |
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The University of Missouri on Thursday took its first steps down the long path toward finding its next president.
The system's Board of Curators met to discuss how they would go about replacing Gary Forsee, who resigned this month to spend time with his ill wife.
On Thursday, curators decided to hire a search consulting firm and agreed they would set no...Read More >> |
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DuPont-Columbia, Peabody and multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and media consultant John Larson has been named the 10th James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Larson will join the faculty for the spring semester to teach a seminar in storytelling and multimedia journalism. Larson will guide...Read More >> |
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Patricia Telles-Irvin, a veteran University of Florida administrator who has shown a large interest in alcohol policy and was recently named president-elect of an 11,000-member group of college student affairs employees, will be Northwestern's next vice president for student affairs, the University announced in a news release Monday afternoon.Telles-Irvin, who...Read More >> |
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Jennifer Granholm's first foray out of public office will include teaching at the University of California-Berkele and co-writing a book with her husband.
Granholm and Dan Mulhern both plan to teach courses at Berkeley, where the former governor received a bachelor's degree in 1984, through the 2013 academic year.
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Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson announced today that Larry Singell Jr. has been appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
Singell, the associate dean for social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon, is an economist whose research focuses on...Read More >> |
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The Third World Center has begun its search for a new director, following a semester under the interim leadership of Associate Protestant University Chaplain Reverend William Mathis.
The position of TWC director opened last summer following the unexpected year-long departure of Dean Karen McLaurin...Read More >> |
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Hal B. Jenson, M.D., has been named founding dean of the Western Michigan University School of Medicine and will assume his new post in March or April.
Jenson, professor of pediatrics and regional dean for the Western Campus of the Tufts University School of Medicine, was selected from among nearly 60 candidates...Read More >> |
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Students in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) will soon be answering to a new dean.
Eleanor Miller, dean of CAS, announced her resignation to the faculty in the form of a letter written on Dec. 21, 2010.
"I tendered my resignation last Friday, and President Fogel has accepted it. My current plan is to...Read More >> |
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The University of Southern Mississippi has named a Hattiesburg native as its new Chief Sustainability Officer.
Southern Miss has named Jonathan Williams Chief Sustainability Officer.
Williams is currently a Visiting Professor in the College of Business. He plans to develop educational programming to prepare students for...Read More >> |
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The Rockefeller University announced today that it has appointed Amy C. Falls as chief investment officer and vice president for investments effective April 4, 2011. Falls will oversee the University’s Office of Investments and
Amy C. Falls
manage the institution’s endowment, which has an estimated value of...Read More >> |
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After a national search, Yale found its next police chief closer to home.
Current Assistant Chief Ronnell Higgins was tapped to head the Yale Police Department on Wednesday. Higgins, who has been the department’s assistant chief since 2008, will be sworn in on Feb. 4, University President Richard Levin announced in an...Read More >> |
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When Alecia DeCoudreaux takes the reins at Mills College this summer, she will be the 13th president since the school was founded more than a century and a half ago.DeCoudreaux, a former Eli Lilly and Co. executive, will also become the first African-American woman to lead Mills since it opened in 1852.The former seminary moved to its current East Oakland location in...Read More >> |
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Allan Gilmour was unanimously elected by the Wayne State
University board of governors today to be the university's 11th
president, effective immediately.
Gilmour, selected interim president in late August, will continue as
president through the 2012-13 academic year.
"I've said before that higher education is a great calling," Gilmour
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Dr. Jack Thomas, provost and academic vice president at Western Illinois
University, has been named the University's 11th president, effective
July 1.
"We would like to express our appreciation to the presidential search
committee for bringing forth an impressive slate of candidates. After
the on-campus interviews and meetings with each candidate, the...Read More >> |
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W. Roger Webb announced his retirement Wednesday as president of the University of Central Oklahoma. His last day will be June 30.“I am leaving at a time when the image, reputation of the university, and the capacity and depth of talented faculty, administration and staff of Central has never been higher,” Webb said.“The exciting thing is that Central’s...Read More >> |
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The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees on Thursday tapped Robert Caret to be the new president of the five-campus UMass system.Caret will replace departing UMass President Jack Wilson, who is stepping down June 30.Caret is president of Towson University in suburban Baltimore, where he has also served as faculty member, dean, executive vice president...Read More >> |
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Meharry Medical College has named a new dean of its School of Dentistry.Janet Hayes Southerlandis currently the chairperson of the Department of Hospital Dentistry and chief of the oral medicine service at University of North Carolina School of Dentistry and Hospitals and Clinics.Meharry’s board of trustees unanimously confirmed Southerland’s appointment...Read More >> |
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Loren Swartzendruber will serve another four-year term as president of Eastern Mennonite University.Andrew (Andy) Dula of Lancaster, Pa., chair of the EMU board of trustees, announced at the opening convocation of second semester Wednesday, Jan. 12, that Dr. Swartzendruber has “gratefully accepted” an appointment to serve a third term that begins July 1, 2011 and...Read More >> |
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Joseph H. Seipel has been named dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts, the premier public graduate school of arts and design in the United States, effective March 15.Seipel, currently vice president for academic services at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., will provide leadership in education, research, community outreach...Read More >> |
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The Drexel University School of Public Health has announced that Dr. Ann Klassen is joining the school as its new associate dean for research. Dr. Klassen brings an accomplished career in public health research and practice that spans more than 30 years. She has a wealth of experience in securing federal research grants, and a reputation as being a strong...Read More >> |
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Timothy Jarry ’00 has been named chief investment officer at the College of the Holy Cross. He officially began his new position on Jan. 1, 2011.Jarry has worked at the College for the past seven years: two years as an investment analyst, two years as investment officer, and three years as associate chief investment officer. Prior to working at Holy Cross, he...Read More >> |
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Following an almost yearlong national search, Elizabethtown College's Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Carl J. Strikwerda as the College's 14th president. After working collaboratively for a month alongside current Elizabethtown President Theodore E. Long, Strikwerda will begin his tenure Aug. 1, 2011.Currently, Strikwerda is dean of the faculty of...Read More >> |
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Jane B. Korn, vice dean and the John D. Lyons Professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, has been hired as dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law effective July 1, Gonzaga President Thayne M. McCulloh announced today. Korn becomes the Law School’s first female dean.The announcement follows seven months of intense effort by a search...Read More >> |
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Gregg Lassen will join Lamar University’s executive team Feb. 15 as vice president for finance and operations, officials announced today. Lassen has served as executive vice president with a portfolio that includes all business affairs and student affairs functions at the University of Texas at Tyler since 2006.“Gregg brings a track record of success and a lot of...Read More >> |
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Seton Hall University named former provost A. Gabriel Esteban as its 20th president today, abandoning its search for a priest to lead the state’s largest Catholic school.Esteban, 49, was appointed the school’s interim president last summer when two priests selected as finalists for the job dropped out of the running."I feel just very humbled, privileged and...Read More >> |
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Richard Lee Colvin, a respected journalist and education leader, has been named executive director of Education Sector, an independent think tank located in Washington, D.C."Richard is the perfect person to lead Education Sector at this point in the organization's life," says Margaret (Macke) Raymond, who chairs the organization's governing board. "He has strong...Read More >> |
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It's back to the drawing board for the New Mexico State University search committee charged with selecting a newsenior vice president for administration and finance, the Las Cruces Sun-Newsreports.The initial search has concluded without selecting a candidate. A new search will be initiated during the next fiscal year.Jay Jordan,...Read More >> |
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John B. Simpson will stay on as president of the University at
Buffalo for a "limited period of time" until a permanent successor is
found.Simpson, who was set to retire Jan. 15, informed UB staff
and faculty Wednesday of his decision, which avoids the need to appoint
an interim president while the search continues for UB's next leader."Following discussions...Read More >> |
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Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford said Wednesday that he
has a theory about why such good literature comes from his native
Mississippi, where he's returning to teach graduate writing classes this
fall."I think the state, in the hands and eyes of its writers,
has a lot that needs to be explained. Writers are imaginative
explainers. There's a lot...Read More >> |
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has named two Ball State alumni as members of the university's Board of Trustees. R. Wayne Estopinal, president of The Estopinal Group, an architectural firm based in Jeffersonville, Ind., is the newest member of the board. The governor also reappointed Richard Hall, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg in the government services and finance...Read More >> |
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The presidential search at the University of Massachusetts, that has made headlines recently and been impacted by gubernatorial politics, is expected to end next week.UMass will likely name at least three finalists for its next president — and perhaps even choose the university’s new leader — next week, The Boston Globereported.“We’re...Read More >> |
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The committee charged with finding the University of Virginia's next executive vice president and chief operating officer on Monday posted the position description and announced a call for nominations and applications.Carl P. Zeithaml, search committee chair and dean of the McIntire School of Commerce, said in an e-mail to the University community that the firm of...Read More >> |
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Washington State University Vancouver has formally named Rhona Sen Hoss its assistant director of development, charged with raising $20 million locally by 2015. That’s part of a systemwide WSU $1 billion capital fund campaign launched in December.Money raised for the WSUV campaign will fund student scholarships, research and facilities at the Salmon Creek campus,...Read More >> |
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