Posts Tagged: Comings and Goings

Leave Season in Vermont … Plus

Sullivan Comings and Goings ... University of Vermont President Tom Sullivan announced he will step down in summer 2019 after leading UVM for seven years. Before joining UVM, he served eight years as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Minnesota. An attorney by training, Sullivan has published extensively on antitrust law, including a NEJHE piece on "N...

NEBHE Welcomes Stephanie Miranda Murphy as Policy Research Analyst

NEBHE is pleased to welcome Stephanie Miranda Murphy as its new policy research analyst. She joins NEBHE from the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy in Durham, N.C., where she supported research on key issues and challenges in K-12 education, higher education, educational governing structures and public policy. Murphy is pursuing a doctorate in political science at...

Levine to Step Down Next Year as Leader of Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Levine Comings and Goings ... Arthur Levine he will step down as president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in July 2019. Among other accomplishments at the foundation, he worked with MIT to create a cutting-edge graduate school of education called the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning. Levine previously served as president and professor of education at Teachers...

Boston Names Its First African-American Police Commish as Top Cop Evans Heads to BC

Gross Comings and Goings ... William Gross will become Boston's first African-American police commissioner on Aug. 5, succeeding William B. Evans, who is leaving the department after 39 years to become executive director of public safety at Boston College. The Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education named Tim DelGiudice to be its new chair, succeeding William Folks. The manager of strat...

UMaine System Fills New Workforce Post; UMass Dartmouth Names First Senior Associate VC for Talent and Diversity

Sutton Comings and Goings ... The University of Maine System named Theresa Sutton, currently a vice president at Wex Inc., to be be the founding CEO of Maine Center Ventures, which was created to foster ties with outside interests to develop curriculum and programs tailored to Maine’s workforce needs. UMass Dartmouth appointed executive coaching and business consultant Angela M. Callahan ...

RWU President Donald Farish Passes Away; Changes at NHTI, Fletcher, Babson; New Super for Boston Schools

Comings and Goings ... Roger Williams University President Donald Farish passed away after a sudden illness. University trustees chose Provost Andrew Workman to serve as interim president. Farish worked in academia for 51 years and began leading the Bristol, R.I. university in 2011. He planned to retire in 2019. He was an active member of NEBHE's Commission on Higher Education & Employabili...

BU Law Names New Dean; Lesley U Prez, UConn Foundation Chair to Exit Posts

Onwuachi-Willig Comings and Goings ... University of California, Berkeley law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a renowned expert in racial and gender inequality, was named dean of the Boston University School of Law. Lesley University President Jeff A. Weiss announced he'll step down Aug. 31 because of personal health reasons. Interim Provost Richard S. Hansen will serve as the interim preside...

NH’s Great Bay CC, Hampshire College, MassINC Think Tank Name New Leaders

Morrice Comings and Goings ... The Community College System of New Hampshire appointed Pelema I. Morrice to be president of Great Bay Community College, succeeding Wildolfo Arvelo, who left last fall to become New Hampshire’s director of economic development. Health and nutrition scientist and Tufts University scholar Miriam E. Nelson was named the seventh president of Hampshire College, e...

After Turmoil, UMass Boston Names Interim Chancellor; NH’s River Valley CC and Innovative New Grad School of Ed Tap Leaders

Newman Comings and Goings ... Katherine Newman, an expert on income inequality who has held posts at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Johns Hopkins universities, will become UMass Boston's  second interim chancellor in two years on July 1, replacing Barry Mills. Three finalists for permanent chancellor withdrew after faculty publicly criticized them as unqualified. The Community College Sy...

Endicott President Wylie Passes; Quincy College Prez Resigns After State Nixes Approval of Its Nursing Programs; Key Retirements Announced

Comings and Goings ... Endicott College President Richard E. Wylie passed away. Wylie was widely credited with spearheading the college’s transition from a small, two-year school for women to a coeducational institution with international reach offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees. Katie Barnes was named interim president. Quincy College President Peter Tsaffaras annou...