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Missouri State University
Missouri State University President James Cofer has resigned after serving at the university for one year, according to the school. Cofer will return to teaching business administration in fall 2012. Clif…
University of Maryland
Brian Voss was named vice president of information technology (IT) and chief information officer (CIO) at the University of Maryland after serving as Louisiana State University’s first-ever vice chancellor for…
Savannah State University
Horace Broadnax was selected to serve as interim athletics director at Savannah State University, The Savannah Morning News reports. Broadnax has been the university’s basketball coach since 2005. …
Seton Hill University
Former Seton Hill University President Robert Sheeran has been appointed as director for mission and ministry at Marin Catholic High School in San Francisco, reports The Setonian. …
San Diego State University
Elliot Hirshman, a former administrator at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, has taken the reigns as president San Diego State University. Lonza Hardy, Jr. will leave his job as athletic…
Lawrence Technological University
Lewis Walker, president of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, will leave the school’s top post next June, according to the Observer & Eccentric. A search for a new president has…
Stanford University
Cecilia Ridgeway, the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in Stanford University’s sociology department, was elected as the next president of the American Sociological Association in July. Her term as…
Dillard University
James Lyons, former president of California State University and Bowie State University, was selected May 24 as interim president of Dillard University in New Orleans, reports The Times-Picayune. The search…
Western Governors University Washington
Bellevue College President Jean Floten announced May 24 that she is leaving the Nebraska campus to become chancellor of Western Governors University Washington, one of the nation’s largest online schools,…
National Academy of Education
Penelope L. Peterson, Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor of Education and the dean of the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, has been elected to the National Academy of…