Independent Institution

Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, has named Dr. Elizabeth Paul as its 10th President. She was welcomed to the Nazareth community by the outgoing president Dr. Daan Braveman. Dr. Paul has served as the 16th president of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and previously spent seven years as the senior academic officer at Stetson University in Central Florida. Dr. Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a doctorate in personality psychology, both from Boston University. She did a pre-doctoral training fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health, and earned a certificate in higher education administration from Harvard Institute for Educational Management. Read more here.

11/11/2019 - MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL, has appointed Mr. Frank Williams, B.S., as its Interim Chief Financial Officer.

10/09/2019 - McMurry University in Abilene, TX, has appointed Mr. Norm Jones, M.Ed., as Interim Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management. 

August 2019 - Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY, has appointed Mr. Richard Aks, MBA, as its Interim Chief Financial Officer.

06/18/2019 - Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, has appointed Ms. Jean Hall, MBA, as Interim Vice President for Facilities Management. 

06/06/2019 - Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana has appointed Mr. David Hawsey, MBA, as Interim Vice President for Enrollment Management. 

06/06/2019 - Radford University Carilian (RUC), in Radford, VA, has appointed Dr. Janice Harring-Hendon as Interim Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management. 

The California Western School of Law has appointed Ms. Sean Megan Scott to serve as its next president and dean, effective August 1, 2020. The appointment is the latest of Scott’s many leadership positions in the legal academy. She most recently served as associate director of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the largest and most prestigious legal academic society in the United States. In that role, she was charged with promoting AALS programs that furthered the association’s core values of improving legal education, promoting diversity, and advocating for justice. From 2008 to 2016, Scott served as senior associate dean and associate dean for faculty at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles (LLS), where she established the school’s Master of Science in Legal Studies (MLS) program. Scott currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the California Women’s Law Center. Before joining academia, Scott was an associate in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. She earned her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.  Read more here.

Grand View University has selected Christopher Lee as their new Vice President for Administration and Finance. Mr. Lee is currently the Vice President for Administration and Finance at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. Mr. Lee brings an impressive resume of skills and talents to this position having spent the last 16 years in higher education combined with ten years of public company management experience.

Ave Maria University has completed their presidential search with the appointment of Christopher Ice as the University’s third president. Mr. Ice comes to the University with a deep passion for Catholic, liberal arts education, many years of experience as an executive in the corporate and private sectors as well as Catholic non-profit organizations, with an impressive background of fundraising in Catholic higher education at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He currently serves as chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph (Missouri), a position he has held since 2017. He will begin his presidency on January 1, 2020. Read more here.