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Marlene M. Johnson announced she will retire as president and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators at the end of December 2016.
The Massachusetts Bay Community College Board of Trustees recommended David Podell, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, to be the next president of MassBay.
Nancy T...
Pulsipher
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The Western Governors University (WGU) Board of Trustees named Scott D. Pulsipher to be its new president, effective April 11. The former president of Needle Inc. and general manager for Amazon Webstore, Pulsipher succeeds Robert Mendenhall, who led the nonprofit online WGU from its beginning in 1999, into a major university today with nearly 70,000 students and ...
Williams
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Epidemiologist Michelle A. Williams, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, will become the first black person to head a faculty at Harvard and the first female dean of the school, beginning in July.
Susan D. Stuebner, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Pennsylvania's Allegheny College, was named the ninth ...
O'Rourke
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Syracuse University fundraising expert Elizabeth “Lil” Breul O’Rourke was named president of the University of Rhode Island Foundation.
Michael Gargano, former provost of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, was named president of St. Vincent's College in Bridgeport, Conn.
Colleen Fitzpatrick, an assistant vice presid...
Johnson
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Paula A. Johnson, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was named the 14th president of Wellesley College. Johnson is chief of the Division of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she founded the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gende...
McKenna
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Suffolk University President Margaret McKenna and Board of Trustees Chair Drew Meyer both announced they would resign after a season of increasing turmoil at the downtown Boston college, which has had three presidents since 2010. Meyer will step down in May, McKenna by the start of the 2017-18 academic year. McKenna wrote for NEBHE's journal of the subject of colle...
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Ball State University President Paul Ferguson resigned unexpectedly from the helm of the Indiana college. Ferguson was president of the University of Maine until he signed a five-year contract at Ball State in August 2014.Massachusetts College of Art and Design named University of North Carolina School of the Arts Provost David Nelson to be the 12th president of the B...
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The University of Maine System named University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac CEO and Dean John N. Short to be the new president of the University of Maine at Fort Kent, starting April 1. He succeeds Wilson Hess, who announced his retirement in May.
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth appointed its senior vice chancellor for strategic management, Gerry Kavanaugh,...
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Rhode Island's Council on Postsecondary Education appointed Meghan L. Hughes, former leader of Year Up Providence, to be the next president of the Community College of Rhode Island.
Tunxis Community College Dean of Academic Affairs Michael Rooke became president of Northwestern Connecticut Community College, succeeding Barbara Douglass who retired.
The Maine Center for Pub...
Carriuolo
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Rhode Island College President Nancy Carriuolo announced she will step down in May. Carriuolo has written NEJHE articles on the new role of college librarians as well as collaboration among states and between education and liberal arts.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design named music educator David P. Nelson, currently provost of the University of North...
