Hiring
Michael Benson – University of Virginia -Western
Michael Benson has large shoes to fill from July when he intervenes as president of the University of Virginia-Western, replacing the veteran the university leader Gordon Gee, who heads for retreat.
An experienced full -fledged leader, Benson is the current president of Coastal Carolina University, where he obtained a gift of $ 10 million, the biggest in school history, According to a university declaration. Professor of history, Benson also taught in each school where he finally became president, which also includes the University of eastern Kentucky, the University of Southern Utah and the Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.
The next chief of the flagship of the state of Virginia-Western arrives at a crucial moment for the university. In 2023, President Gee announced Academic program mergers or cuts, falls under tuition fees and dismissal. The movements have drawn strong reactions from the community, especially teachers.
William M. Downs – Campbell University (NC)
The Board of Directors of the University of Campbell concluded a six -month presidential research, selecting William Downs as sixth President of University History.
Downs has recently been president of Gardner-Webb University, where he helped reorganize the basic program and lead several fixed assets in the main campus facilities, by university declaration. He started his new position in July.
Charles Edmonds – Lycoming College (Penn.)
Charles Edmonds was selected as next president of Lycoming College from July.
Edmonds is currently an executive vice-president of Lycoming and director of external affairs, where he oversees strategic and institutional planning, program innovation, fundraising and financial management and other tasks.
Edmonds is credited with having collected nearly $ 80 million for an economic development project that has revitalized a central campus building. His contribution to the strategic plan of the college in 2021 also led to the launch of several teams of male and female athletics, According to the university.
Mark Johnson – Louisiana Christian University
Louisiana Christian University found his next president in Mark Johnson, a third-generation Baptist Minister and the main pastor in the New Orleans region.
Johnson was recently deputy professor of evangelization and pastoral ministries and director of the doctor’s division in the ministry in New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also a director of Washington and Jefferson College. Before his career in higher education, Johnson played professional basketball in Europe and South America, Talk about the city Reports.
Elizabeth Kiss – Union College (NY)
Union College has found its next president in Elizabeth Kiss, who begins his new role on July 1 as the first woman president of the 230 years of school history.
Academic and an accomplished administrator, Kiss obtained his master’s degree and his doctorate at the Oxford College after obtaining a Rhodes scholarship. She is now CEO of Rhodes Trust and is recognized for having collected a record amount for the program through Africa, India, Pakistan and China, according to to a university declaration.
Kiss was also 12 years old president of Agnes Scott College, a college of liberal arts of all women in Atlanta.
Outgoing
Matt Wutstein – Cabrillo College (California)
After seven years of presidential leadership for the Cabrillo College and the wider community of the County of Santa Cruz, Matt Wutstein announced his retirement.
Wutstein attracted $ 14 million to federal subsidies and increased Cabrillo endowment by almost $ 30 million, Press banner Reports. He has also increased the number of full-time teachers, widened the majors in regional labor programs such as welding and nursing.
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However, Wetstein’s heritage will be based on his rapid planning and emergency coordination in 2020, when a devastating double blow of Covid and forest fires struck northern California.
The president will continue to work until the end of the year on December 31.
Resign
RHEA LAW – University of Southern Florida
The University of Southern Florida has announced that Rhea’s right will resign as president of the Southern Florida University while it is based to start its national research for a successor.
Selected as an interim president in 2021 and appointed the role permanently less than a year later, Law has completely accumulated the CV for R1 university during his four years of leadership. The USF has established new files in the reception of legislative and philanthropic support, which has resulted in new summits in the financing of research.
This wave of funds led the law to the spear of several fixed assets across the campus, including the creation of a new stadium, the Honors College, the Wellness Center and the very first student accommodation on its satellite campus in Sarasota-Manatee.
In 2023, the USF was invited to join the association of American Universities, an objective established at the university when the law was still chairman of the board of directors of the school 15 years earlier, by university declaration.
Keith Whitfield – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Keith Whitfield is president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The news is a shock for certain members of the campus community since the five -year president had signed a contract extension until 2028, 3 news Reports. Whitfield said he was planning to spend more time with his mother and grandson, who both suffered from health problems.
Whitfield, the first African-American president of the University, supervised record registrations and the construction of a new building for his school of medicine. However, the university also resisted storms under its direction. In 2023, a shooter entered the campus community and killed three teachers.
The University, its board of directors of Regents and Whitfield, are also still in the middle of a trial carried out by a Jewish student who accused them of not protecting the campus community against anti-Semitic harassment endured during pro-Palestinian demonstrations which broke out last spring, Las Vegas Journal Reports.
