Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences at American University selected Dr. Peter Starr as Dean. Dr. Starr began his new role on July 1, 2009.

Dr. Starr was previously a professor of French and comparative literature in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC), where he also served as the college's interim dean, dean of undergraduate programs, and department chair. Under his leadership, USC's College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences achieved high levels of growth in the liberal arts and sciences, a notable accomplishment at a university with 17 professional schools. He also oversaw the construction of new facilities in the sciences. Dr. Starr is committed to diversity and made significant gains in student quality and faculty hiring.

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Board of Trustees has named Patrick T. McCarthy as president and chief executive officer, effective April 4, 2010. Mr. McCarthy is the senior vice president of the Casey Foundation, the nation's leading advocacy philanthropy for at-risk children and families. He succeeds Douglas W. Nelson, who announced his retirement last September after twenty years of leadership.

Mr. McCarthy joined the Casey Foundation in 1994 and has more than 25 years of experience in the field of children's well-being. In his current role as senior vice president, he has been responsible for aligning practice and system reform activities across the Foundation, as well as directing the oversight and integration of all direct services and strategic consulting. Prior to joining Casey, he was senior program officer at the Center for Assessment and Policy Development in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., where he worked with foundations, states, and cities on system planning and development of governance strategies. From 1985 to 1992, Mr. McCarthy held positions of increasing responsibility at the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families, State of Delaware, culminating in his appointment as director of the Division of Youth Rehabilitative Services. During his tenure in this position, he had oversight of a 225-person staff, as well as responsibility for the redesign of institutional treatment and creation of a range of alternatives to detention.

Founding Dean

Dr. Frederick Whitt has been selected as the Founding Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Allied Professions at Appalachian State University. He will assume his new position in January 2010.

Dr. Whitt comes to Appalachian from Georgia Southern University where he is Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences, a position he has held since 1992. In that role, Dr. Whitt has served as chief academic and administrative officer for the College, which consists of three academic schools or departments, twelve undergraduate and eight graduate programs including a doctorate degree, six centers and institutes, 2,800 student majors and more than 120 faculty and staff. He helped facilitate the reorganization of Georgia Southern's School of Health and Professional Studies to the College of Health and Human Sciences, and also organized the development of the first School of Public Health in the university system of Georgia. Under his leadership, the College received the first national ranking for Georgia Southern in U.S. News and World Report, the first grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the University's initial funding from the Georgia Research Alliance. He also developed significant partnerships and funding support with local hospitals, public health agencies, community-based human development centers, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Art Center College of Design has appointed Dr. Lorne M. Buchman as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Buchman, only the fifth president of Art Center since its founding nearly 80 years ago, took office in October 2009.

With a wealth of academic leadership experience, Dr. Buchman's presidency of Art Center marks his return to art and design education. Previously, Dr. Buchman served as Provost, then President of California College of Arts and Crafts. There he spearheaded the 1994 strategic plan that led to the creation of its renowned San Francisco campus, and he was instrumental in the success of the historic capital campaign that made the new facility possible. During his tenure at CCA, he also oversaw significant enrollment growth, launched a major public programs initiative, engaged in bold community service initiatives, and diversified the faculty with several new hires. Most recently, Dr. Buchman served as President of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center where he led the institution in a plan to transform from a graduate school to a multidisciplinary university. A trained theatre director and scholar, he has also held a number of faculty and administrative positions at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of a book on filmic adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Boston Foundation for Sight, an innovative nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to providing its vision-restoring Boston Ocular Surface Prosthesis to patients who are visually disabled from devastating corneal diseases, has selected Gary Gut as its next President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Gut currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for both the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and Conservatory Lab Charter School, as well as a Trustee for Building Impact. He began his career as a manager of a Bain and Company consulting practice and then went on to cofound Medical Management of America, Inc. and MediVision, Inc. MediVision was an innovator in the business of surgical eye-care, pioneering a national chain of specialized ambulatory surgery centers, IOL implants and local anesthesia for cataract surgery and direct response marketing for such medical services. Mr. Gut spent his undergraduate years at MIT and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School. Kristin Demong led this search with Bernard Jones.

Chief Operating Officer

Boston University has selected John Nash as Associate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).

Mr. Nash most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center, where his responsibilities included cancer program operations, oversight of the planning and construction of a new 375,000 square foot cancer hospital, planning and development of a northeast Ohio regional cancer network and strategic planning for the Ireland Cancer Center. Prior to his work at University Hospitals, He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where he had direct responsibility for Patient Care Services, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology Services, Facilities Operations, and Design and Construction, while also working closely with the Chief Medical Officer and medical staff members in delivery of patient services and program development. Mr. Nash will be returning to Boston, as he spent much of his early career as Chief of Hospital Operations at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He spent his undergraduate years at Boston College and received his Master of Healthcare Administration from Duke University. Kristin Demong and John Isaacson led this search with Bernard Jones.

Chief Executive Officer

Boys & Girls Village (BGV) has selected Stephen Joffe as its next President.

Mr. Joffe joins BGV having served as a Chief Executive Officer in two other youth-focused agencies, and spending numerous years running his own nonprofit consulting firm, The North Point Group. At the Children's Health Council, where he was the CEO, he increased the annual revenue more than 30% in three years. He expanded programming into underserved areas and re-established the parent education program. He also oversaw and completed a $15M endowment fundraising campaign. Prior to that he was the CEO at Concord Family and Youth Services for 20 years where he increased the client base from 20 to 10,000 through the growth of programs, property acquisition, creation of a diversified fund base and partnerships with various constituents. Mr. Joffe brings extensive experience in running multi-service organizations.

Executive Dean for Administration, Division of Biology and Medicine

Brown University's Division of Biology and Medicine selected Lindsay Graham as the new Executive Dean for Administration. He joined the Division on July 1, 2009.

Mr. Graham brings more than 26 years of experience serving in progressively more responsible roles in finance, IT, and departmental administration in university, hospital, and medical school settings. From 1998-2009, he served as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System. He holds a CPA and a BS in Accounting from the University of Detroit. Denise O'Grady Gaffney and Vivian Brocard conducted the search.

Executive Director

The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE) has selected Susan Hartnett to become its next Executive Director. She assumed this leadership position on August 31, 2009.

Susan Hartnett served as the Executive Director of the Boston Center for the Arts during a decade of dramatic growth in BCA's programming and cultural facilities from 1991 to 2001. Subsequently she worked for the City of Boston as Director of the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events and as the Director of Economic Development for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Early in her career, Ms. Hartnett worked for the Massachusetts State Arts agency in several capacities, including Director of Contemporary Arts. Her career also includes special consulting projects with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, ACT Roxbury, the Boston Society of Architects, and the New England Foundation for the Arts.

Jewish Chaplain

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA has named Rabbi Jason Weiner as its new Jewish Chaplain, effective July 2009.

Rabbi Weiner has been on staff at Cedars-Sinai as the acting Jewish Chaplain for nearly two years. During that time, he skillfully provided daily spiritual care for its diverse population of hospital patients, building bridges with nurses, physicians, and employees throughout the medical center. In addition to his work at Cedars-Sinai, Rabbi Weiner served as the Assistant Rabbi at Young Israel Century City, where he initiated several programs that energized the synagogue, attracting new members and broadening its support base.

Director of Government Relations and Communications

The Center for Reproductive Rights has named Laura MacCleery as the Director of Government Relations and Communications.

Ms. MacCleery is an advocate with nine years of experience in working on issue campaigns both on and off of Capitol Hill. Prior to coming to the Center, she was the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she oversaw its work on campaign finance reform and co-taught a seminar on public policy advocacy. Previously, she worked for more than eight years at Public Citizen, most recently as Director of Congress Watch. During her years at Public Citizen, she managed legislative and issues campaigns, lobbying, field and media outreach, website advocacy, and research on issues including government accountability, access to courts, campaign finance reform, lobbying and ethics reform, transportation safety, and vehicle fuel economy.

Dean, School of Technology

Davenport University has selected Michael Clancy as its new Dean of the School of Technology. He began in August 2009.

Mr. Clancy has been a leading strategist in the technology sector for many years with broad experience setting technology direction for companies across a wide range of industries, most recently as chief architect at Delphi in Troy, Michigan. After graduate school he began as a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, managed AT&T's Global Operations Support Systems, and served as CIO/CTO at Thomson Financial on Wall Street. He came to Michigan in 2003 to lead the technology effort in a startup company and after it was sold joined Hewlett Packard to develop its virtualization technology business. He is an active member of several technology research consortiums and has recently been involved in defining direction for web 2.0 collaboration and establishing guidelines for virtualization security.

Chief Nursing Officer

Durham Regional Hospital has selected Ms. Vicki Orto as its Chief Nursing Officer. She joined the Durham Regional Hospital team in mid-September 2009.

Ms. Orto brings more than 29 years of nursing experience within a variety of clinical units, and has served in nurse leadership roles over the past 22 years in a community teaching hospital within a health system setting. Most recently, she was Senior Director of Medical/Surgical Nursing for Rochester General Hospital. Vicky holds a bachelor of science from Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, NY, and a master of science, nursing administration from St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.

Director, Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN)

The Economic Policy Institute has selected Dr. Doug Hall as its new Director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN). EARN is a network of state and regional multi-issue research, policy, and advocacy organizations (currently consisting of 55 organizations in 41 states) whose mission is to improve the lives of Americans through state and local policy, and change the nature of the national policy debate—state by state. EARN seeks to advance progressive policy at the state and regional level, to deliver important national messages, and to use the collective capacity of its members to develop new ideas and strategies.

Dr. Hall joined the Economic Policy Institute after 9 years with Connecticut Voices for Children, where he served as the Acting Managing Director since April 2008. Prior to joining Connecticut Voices for Children, Dr. Hall was the Project Director for Kentucky Youth Advocates' tax and budget work. Earlier in his career he worked in the public sector for the Government of Ontario, and in academia, teaching at Ontario's McMaster University and Nipissing University, and at Kentucky's Eastern Kentucky University.

Dean of Arts & Sciences

Sister Janet Eisner, President of Emmanuel College, has appointed Dr. William Leonard as Dean of Arts & Sciences.

Dr. Leonard is a long-time faculty member at Emmanuel, currently an Associate Professor of History, and served as the Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences since the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year. Dr. Leonard received BA and BS degrees from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a PhD from Northeastern University. David A. Haley led this search with Carolyn K. Plant.

President

The Gallaudet Board of Trustees' has appointed Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz as the University's tenth President. Dr. Hurwitz will take office in January 2010.

Dr. Hurwitz currently serves as President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of eight colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and Vice President and Dean of RIT. He has worked at NTID/RIT since 1970, first as an instructor in RIT's College of Engineering and, subsequently, as an NTID professor, department Chair, Dean, and the college's President. During the course of his career, Dr. Hurwitz has been involved in a variety of professional and deafness-related organizations. He has served on the boards of several of these organizations, including the Rochester (NY) School for the Deaf, of which he was also President. He is a past member of the board of directors of the National Captioning Institute. He has been particularly active in the National Association of the Deaf, where he is a former President. He is also past President of the World Organization of Jewish Deaf. Dr. Hurwitz lectures extensively and he is an author whose works are widely published.

President

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has named Jarrett Barrios as its next President.

Mr. Barrios is a former State Senator from Massachusetts who is now the president of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts. He was the first openly gay person and the first Latino elected to the Massachusetts State Senate. As a State Senator, Barrios successfully helped lead the legislative effort to protect marriage equality in Massachusetts. In the legislature he also successfully championed anti-bullying legislation, the Gay and Lesbian Youth Commission to prevent teen suicide and make schools safe for LGBT youth, buffer zones for women's health facilities, and other progressive issues. Mr. Barrios is also active in progressive issues at the national level as a board member of Families USA, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Action Fund and was recently elected to the board of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. He was recently selected as New England's 2009 Eisenhower Fellow, which will take him to study community health in Brazil this summer. Mr. Barrios is a graduate of Harvard with a JD from Georgetown University. Tim McFeeley led this search with Natalie Leonhard.

Managing Director for Development

The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) has selected Mr. John Vasconcellos as the Managing Director of Development, effective January 19, 2010.

Mr. Vasconcellos joins GMHC from The Coalition for Buzzards Bay in New Bedford, Massachusetts where he served as the Vice President of Development and Communications since 2003. He served the San Francisco AIDS Foundation starting in 1999 as the Associate Director of Development and moved into the Director of Development role in 2000 until his move to The Coalition for Buzzards Bay. At the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Mr. Vasconcellos managed the development department which was responsible for raising $13 million annually and led the team that produced, planned, and executed the inaugural AIDS/LifeCycle event, among other things. He has been an active board member for organizations in San Francisco and Massachusetts and began his career in the finance industry. This search was led by Tim McFeeley with Natalie Leonhard.

Chief Operating Officer

The Gay Men's Health Crisis has selected Janet Weinberg as Chief Operating Officer, effective August 10, 2009.

Ms. Weinberg has been a recognized leader in the health, social justice, and fundraising fields for over 25 years. Ms. Weinberg was previously the Senior Managing Director of Development and Legislative Funding at GMHC. Her duties comprised public and private solicitation of funds. Before joining GMHC in 2005, Ms. Weinberg was the Director of Development at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Prior to her work in the AIDS and LGBT social justice movements, she practiced as an Occupational Therapist which included managing over 1,000 therapists who worked in a range of settings. This search was led by Tim McFeeley with Natalie Leonhard.

Head of School

Georgetown Day School has selected Russell Shaw as its next leader. Mr. Shaw will be the fifth Head of School in Georgetown Day School's 65-year history. Mr. Shaw is currently the Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs and the Director of the Middle School at Abington Friends, a coeducational PreK-12 Quaker school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

At Abington Friends, Mr. Shaw has pioneered an innovative professional development program for teachers, played an important role in raising funds to advance both facilities and academic program, and won a grant for work on multicultural education. A graduate of Yale University with a degree in political science, Mr. Shaw has a master's in educational leadership from Columbia and a strong connection with Washington, where he worked as a legislative assistant to Rep. Henry Waxman and as a high school social studies teacher at Thornton Friends School in Silver Spring. He also served as dean of students at a Benedictine school in California.

Chair, Department of Health Systems Administration

Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies has selected Kenneth R. White, Ph.D., FACHE, as Chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration. Dr. White will join the department on July 1, 2010.

Dr. White is a nationally renowned voice in the academic field of health systems management. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. There, he served as the first Charles P. Cardwell, Jr., Professor of Health Administration from 2006-2009. In addition, from 2001-2008, he directed the graduate program in health administration, which is ranked 4th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. In that role, he oversaw graduate education; directed recruitment, admissions, and residency placements; and developed two dual degree programs, including one in law with Washington & Lee University and the other in medicine with Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine.

Assistant Vice President for Affirmative Action

Grand Valley State University (GVSU) has selected Dwight K. Hamilton, Esq. as the new Assistant Vice President for Affirmative Action. He will join GVSU in early January 2010.

Mr. Hamilton comes to Grand Valley State University with a strong legal background, having served as the lead counsel at his own firm and as an attorney for Miller Johnson in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to this, Mr. Hamilton served as Corporate Counsel for Steelcase, Inc., and as an Associate Attorney at Smith, Haughey, Rice & Roegge, both in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Director, Research Computing Services

Harvard Business School has selected Chase Harrison as its new Director, Research Computing Services. He assumed the position on July 1.

Mr. Harrison comes to Harvard Business School with approximately 18 years of experience in survey research in both academic and corporate settings. Most recently, he has been the Assistant Director and Preceptor for Program on Survey Research at The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, located within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Previously, he worked for the University of Connecticut for 11 years, first as Research Assistant for Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and then as Chief Methodologist for the Center for Survey Research and Analysis. Mr. Harrison began his career working for Market Strategies, Inc., a market research and political polling firm in Michigan, where he held various research positions for nearly 5 years. Mr. Harrison holds a BA in mathematics and philosophy from St. John's College, and an MA and PhD in political science from the University of Connecticut. Gale Merseth led this search with Martha Brest.

Dean for Administration

Harvard College has selected Dr. D.E. Lorraine Sterritt as its new Dean for Administration. She will join the institution in mid February 2010.

Dr. Sterritt brings to this role thirteen years of experience as an administrator at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. She has consistently held positions that sit at the intersections of the academic and the financial. She returns to Harvard after having served, from 1996-2000, as an Assistant Dean of Freshmen and Associate Dean of Freshmen for Academic Affairs in the Freshmen Dean's Office, and as Lecturer on Romance Languages and Literatures.

Chief Executive Officer

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation has appointed David McKean as Chief Executive Officer, effective January, 2010. The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that provides financial support, staffing, and creative resources for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors, led by Caroline Kennedy, its President and Kenneth R. Feinberg, the Chairman. It works to promote to audiences in this country and around the world, the legacy and values of the Kennedy Administration: social and economic justice, peaceful resolution of conflict and civic engagement.

Mr. McKean has had a distinguished career in public service. He is currently the Staff Director for the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. For many years he served as Chief of Staff for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. His previous positions included staff to the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, Special Counsel for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Chief of Staff to Congressman Joseph Kennedy. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the National Archives. At the beginning of his career, before he entered public service, Mr. McKean taught at the Waterford Kamhlaba School in Swaziland.

Associate Dean of Enrollment and Career Services

Mr. William Kooser has been selected as the Associate Dean of Enrollment and Career Services at The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Mr. Kooser comes to the Carey Business School from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, where he was the Associate Dean for Executive MBA Programs. He joined Booth in 1989 as the Assistant Dean for Management and Acting Director of Full Time Admissions. In the 20 years since then, he has overseen a number of critical functions at the Graduate School of Business including Marketing, International Programs, Career Services, and Part Time MBA Programs. As Associate Dean for Executive MBA Programs, Mr. Kooser was responsible for developing and launching the School's Executive MBA Program in Singapore and also oversaw the Executive MBA Programs in Chicago and London.

Associate Dean for Finance and Administration

Ms. Shaaron Francis has been selected as the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Ms. Francis comes to the Carey Business School from New York University where she was the Senior Director for Fiscal Affairs. This position, based in the Provost's office, provided oversight and management of budgets over $500M. Previously at NYU, Ms. Francis served as HR and Finance Director, Director of Finance and Facilities for Information Technology Services and Assistant Director of Business and Administration for Academic Computing Services. She has vast experience in financial analysis, planning and budget management, operations, human resource management, and facilities and property management. This search was led by Lisa Fisher and Philip Jaeger with Natalie Leonhard.

President and Chief Executive Officer, PowerOptions, Inc.

The Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority (HEFA) selected Cynthia Arcate as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of PowerOptions, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of HEFA. She assumed the Presidency on June 1.

Cynthia Arcate comes to PowerOptions with more than 25 years of leadership experience in energy-related organizations in both the public and private sectors. Most recently, she has been the New England/New York Business Development Director for Comverge, Inc., a demand response technology company. Previously, she was Deputy Commissioner for the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources for 3 years, and before that she spent 15 years working in executive positions or as legal counsel for various organizations that were eventually acquired by National Grid, such as New England Power Company, Granite State Electric, and Massachusetts Electric. She began her career as a staff attorney with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Ms. Arcate holds a BA in government from St. Lawrence University, a JD from New York Law School, and completed the Public Utility Executive Program at the University of Michigan School of Business Administration. Gale Merseth led this search with Martha Brest.

Dean for Student Life

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology selected Costantino "Chris" Colombo as Dean for Student Life.

Mr. Colombo brings over 30 years of higher education administration experience to MIT and served in student affairs leadership roles at both Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University.

Dean of Admissions

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology selected Stuart Schmill as Dean of Admissions. Mr. Schmill had been serving as Interim Director of Admissions since April of 2007, and had been with the Office of Admissions since 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Schmill served in several capacities at MIT, including Director and Associate Director of Parent, Student and Young Alumni Programs with the Alumni Association, as well as numerous other positions with the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schmill was a Project Engineer at General Motors Corporation.

Mr. Schmill has an impressive slate of Institute-wide community-building activities at MIT, including freshman advisor from 1999 to 2004, and ten years as MIT's "Voice of the Beavers," the public address announcer for home football and basketball games.

Dean, Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management

The Eli Broad College of Business and Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University has appointed Dr. Stefanie Lenway as its new Dean. She will start August 1, 2010.

Dr. Lenway brings many years of experience as a business researcher and university administrator. Since 2005, she has served as dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration and worked to brand the business college around entrepreneurship, innovation and international partnerships. Previously, Dr. Lenway served as an administrator and faculty member at the University of Minnesota from 1984 to 2005 and as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis from1981 to 1984. Dr. Lenway began her research career with a focus on U.S. international trade policy and its impact on corporate strategy. She has served as a consultant to senior managers in international firms such as 3M Co., Nokia, Applied Materials and Honeywell.

Academic Dean, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development appointed Beth Weitzman, PhD, as its new Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, effective August 1, 2009. She also holds the title Professor of Health and Public Policy in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at Steinhardt.

Dr. Weitzman joined the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service faculty in 1987 and was promoted to Professor of Health and Public Policy in 2003. She has served as director of doctoral studies for the Wagner School and as director of the Program in Health Policy and Management, one of the most highly ranked programs of its kind.

Senior Vice President and Director of Public Health Research

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) has selected Dr. Michael Davern as the Senior Vice President and Director of the Public Health Research Division. NORC is one of the nation's largest and most highly respected social science research organizations. Dr. Davern will join NORC's executive team to lead a well-established, highly successful social science research division focused on Public Health research.

Dr. Davern was most recently a Research Director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. He also has served as Co-Director of the Research Data Center at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Davern is a leading expert on the use of population health data for research and evaluation as well as survey data quality and methods. His vision is to improve population health by providing policymakers with better information that will help them to make more informed decisions.

Senior Vice President

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) has selected Dr. Doug Himberger for a new Senior Vice President and Director role. NORC is one of the nation's largest and most highly respected social science research organizations. Dr. Himberger will help to establish a successful research department focused on homeland security issues.

Dr. Himberger devoted sixteen years of his career to Booz Allen Hamilton where he was most recently a Vice President and Partner, supporting numerous efforts in homeland security and homeland defense. At Booz Allen, he served as one of the leaders of the firm's Security team, supporting key clients including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, and federal law enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies. He led and considerably grew the firm's efforts in supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), leading a team providing a broad spectrum of preparedness and response skill sets. He also led the Global Risks Initiative Task Force and the Pandemic Task Force, supporting government and industry in preparedness, resiliency and continuity of operations.

Vice President for Research

Oregon State University has named Dr. Richard W. (Rick) Spinrad as its new Vice President for Research.

Dr. Spinrad brings extensive research experience in the public and private sectors as well as academia. He has worked in a wide range of research environments, most recently as Assistant Administrator for Research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in Washington, D.C., and previously as Technical Director for the Oceanographer of the Navy. Dr. Spinrad's public sector background is enhanced by his experience in the private sector, as former president of Sea Tech Inc., and in academia, as a professor of oceanography at George Mason University and the US Naval Academy.

Dean

Dr. Renjeng Su has been named the H. Chik M. Erzurumlu Dean Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University. Dr. Su is currently Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver. He previously served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was Director of the Colorado Center for Information Storage at the University of Colorado, funded by the data storage industry, and Director of the Center for Space Construction at the University of Colorado, a NASA University Space Engineering Research Center. Dr. Su started his career with positions at Texas Tech University and NASA Ames Research Center.

Dr. Su earned his doctorate and master's degree in systems science and mathematics at Washington University and his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. His main research interests today center on data workload analysis and data center modeling. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1995 for research in advancing the theory of feedback linearization. He held the prestigious National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award from 1985-1990.

Director of Public Safety

Princeton University has chosen Paul Ominsky as its new Director of Public Safety. He joined the University in January 2010.

Mr. Ominsky brings to Princeton a career in campus safety that spans 35 years and includes experience on five university and college campuses. The Director of Public Safety at Mount Holyoke since 1992, he assumed the director positions at Smith College and Hampshire College in 2003 and 2008, respectively, as part of a regionalized policing initiative. He was responsible for the day-to-day and strategic operations of more than 100 full- and part-time staff. During his tenure, Mr. Ominsky created and implemented a prototype community policing program, and he combined and restructured the public safety departments of the three colleges, including establishment of a centralized three-campus public safety dispatch center. He also led the accreditation of Mount Holyoke's public safety department, the first college or university public safety department in Massachusetts to become accredited.

Head of School

The Seix Residential School has appointed Dr. Robert L. Connor II as its new Head of School. Dr. Connor's tenure began on August 31, 2009.

A graduate of Morehouse College, Dr. Connor began his career working at the Center for the Study of Evaluation and Educational Policy at Boston College while pursuing his first graduate degree. There, he examined various policy issues that impact minority access and achievement in high school and university settings. His work included an in-depth analysis of the potential consequences of using high-stakes graduation tests in Massachusetts.

Executive Director

The Sierra Club has selected Michael Brune as its new leader, only the sixth Executive Director in the Sierra Club's 118-year history. You can read about the appointment at http://www.sierraclub.org/ed/.

Mr. Brune comes to the Sierra Club from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) which he joined as a campaigner in 1998 before being appointed Executive Director in 2003. At RAN, Mr. Brune built an international reputation for effective environmental advocacy. At age 26, he led a historic consumer-education campaign that ultimately persuaded Home Depot to stop selling wood from endangered forests. Time Magazine called that victory "the top environmental story of 1999." Under Mr. Brune's leadership, Rainforest Action Network went on to win more than a dozen other key commitments from America's largest corporations, including Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kinko's, Boise, and Lowe's.

President

The Board of Trustees of Saint Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) has appointed Dr. Joseph R. Urgo, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Hamilton College, as its new President. He will join SMCM on July 1, 2010. In his current role as the chief academic officer of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Dr. Urgo leads the 183-member faculty and oversees the College Library; the Registrar's Office; the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center; the Emerson Gallery; Hamilton's programs in Paris, Madrid, Beijing, Washington, D.C., and New York City; intercollegiate athletics; and several other academic support programs and centers.

Dr. Urgo previously served as professor and chair of the English department at the University of Mississippi from 2000 to 2006. At the University of Mississippi, he led a department of 40 full-time faculty members as well as the freshman composition program, the speech program, the writing center and the freshman seminar program. Prior to arriving at the University of Mississippi in 2000, Dr. Urgo was a member of the Bryant College faculty for 11 years. He held a Fulbright lectureship in Spain in 1992. He also taught as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in American studies and assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University from 1986-89, as a visiting assistant professor of English at Syracuse University from 1985-86, and as a teaching fellow while earning his PhD at Brown University from 1983-85.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs

Nationally recognized tax policy and public finance expert Dr. Leonard E. Burman has been named the first holder of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, effective August 24, 2009. Dr. Burman was previously director of the highly respected Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC) in Washington, DC, which he co-founded; he was also an institute fellow at the Urban Institute and a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

Dr. Burman brings to the Maxwell School more than 25 years of high-level experience in a range of academic, federal government, and public policy organizations. He was formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the Department of the Treasury and a senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author or co-author of scores of articles and op-eds and a book, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed, and co-editor of two other volumes. He received his AB in economics from Wesleyan University and his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota. Jon Saxton and Lisa Savereid led this search with Jamie Sands.

Chancellor

The University of California, San Francisco has named Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, as its next Chancellor. Dr. Desmond-Hellman joined UCSF from Genentech, Inc., where she was the President of Product Development. In this role, she was responsible for Genentech's Process Research & Development, Business Development, Product Portfolio Management, Alliance Management and Pipeline Planning Support functions.

Dr. Desmond-Hellmann joined Genentech in 1995 as a clinical scientist, and she was named chief medical officer in 1996. In addition to her work at Genentech, Dr. Desmond-Hellmann is an adjunct associate professor at UCSF. During her 9 years of training in internal medicine and oncology, she spent 2 years as visiting faculty studying AIDS and cancer at the Uganda Cancer Institute. She also spent 2 years in private practice before returning to clinical research. Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology, she completed her clinical training at UCSF.

Dean, School of Education and Allied Professions

The School of Education and Allied Professions at the University of Dayton has selected Dr. Kevin Kelly as their next dean. Dr. Kelly will begin his new role on May 1, 2010.

Dr. Kelly most recently served as interim dean of the College of Education at Purdue University. In this capacity, he took on the strategic challenge of improving the College of Education's U.S. News & World Report ranking. It jumped 20 points in one year when he focused the college on making improvements in three key areas: research expenditures, student selectivity and peer reputation.

Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The University of Illinois at Springfield selected Dr. James Ermatinger as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He assumed the role in July 2009.

Dr. Ermatinger brings a long career of academic administration experience within the liberal arts tradition. He previously served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

Provost

The University of Pennsylvania has named Dr. Vincent Price as its new Provost. Dr. Price, who has served as interim provost since March 1, is the Steven H. Chaffee Term Professor of Communication in Penn's Annenberg School for Communication, with a secondary appointment as professor of political science in the School of Arts and Sciences.

He is a leading global expert on public opinion, social influence and political communication. His book, Public Opinion (Sage, 1992), has been published in six languages and is taught in courses around the world. His work has been widely cited and funded by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

Chair of the University Chaplaincy

The University of Richmond has selected the Rev. Craig T. Kocher as Chaplain to the University. He also holds the University's Jessie Ball DuPont Chair of the Chaplaincy.

Rev. Kocher was previously the Associate Dean of the Chapel and Director of Religious Life at Duke University. In his dual role at Duke, Kocher developed and led a university-wide program of religious and spiritual life that has included interfaith dialogue, vocational discernment, domestic and international service trips and pilgrimages, and social justice programs. He also assisted with management of the Duke Chapel, which has a staff of 25, and served as a worship leader and preacher for the chapel's congregation of 1,000. He recently played an instrumental role in a comprehensive assessment of the placement of the Chapel and religious life at Duke. The project examined the evolution of Duke's historical religious identity and designed programming that adhered to the institution's foundation but responded to the contemporary challenges of a global community. The key outcomes of this work included the hiring of a full-time Imam at Duke and the establishment of the Duke Faith Council, which comprises representatives of the major global faiths and coordinates interfaith programming.

Chief Administrative Officer/Associate Director of Administration

The Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University has selected Ms. Donna Berrier as its Chief Administrative Officer/Associate Director for Administration. She joined the Massey team in September 2009.

Ms. Berrier brings more than 14 years of academic leadership experience in clinical departments and most recently served as the Associate Director, Finance and Administration at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. She holds a bachelor of arts in communications and a master of public administration, both from the University of Colorado Denver. Denise O'Grady Gaffney led this search with Nureen Das.

Dean, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication

The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University has selected Dr. Lawrence Pintak as its Founding Dean.

Dr. Pintak has spent the past four years as director of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American University in Cairo, where he ran the only graduate journalism degree in the Arab world and a variety of training programs for professional journalists. He also created the online publication Arab Media & Society (www.arabmediasociety.org), several internet resource sites for Arab civil society and media and the first "virtual newsroom" in Second Life. His latest book is Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas (2006), which The Middle East Journal called "an example of the best of contemporary journalism".

President

Adam F. Falk has been selected and appointed as the 17th President of Williams College. His tenure will commence April 1, 2010. Dr. Falk is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University, a position he has held since 2006. He had served in the position on an interim basis since January 2005.

A member of the Johns Hopkins physics faculty since 1994, Dr. Falk was promoted to Associate Professor after only three years at Johns Hopkins and to full Professor just three years later, in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed the Krieger School's Vice-Dean of Faculty, a title that was changed to Dean of Faculty in 2004. He was instrumental in those positions in the formulation of the school's strategic plan and in a comprehensive reform of appointment, promotion and tenure policies in the Krieger School.