Mary Sue Coleman

President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman has been appointed to serve as president at the University of Michigan. Coleman, who is also president emerita of the Association of American Universities, served as President of the University of Michigan from 2002-2014. Prior to becoming a university president, Coleman was vice chancellor for research and graduate education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and provost at the University of New Mexico.

Dr. Christine Navia

Dr. Christine Navia, currently the chief diversity officer at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, has been named Marquette University’s vice president for inclusive excellence. Prior to her work at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Navia held leadership positions within the University of Wisconsin System Administration, including associate vice president for student success and the interim special assistant to the president for equity, diversity, and inclusion. The Chicago native earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from Carleton College and her master’s and doctoral degrees in higher education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Kate Pechenkina

Kate Pechenkina has been appointed dean of the School of Social Sciences, a position she has held on an interim basis since July 2020. As interim dean, Pechenkina was instrumental in developing the new Queens College School of Business. Pechenkina earned a BS in biology and an MS in biology/anthropology from Moscow State University in Russia. She received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Missouri–Columbia in 2002 and shortly after joined the faculty at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she currently has the rank of professor.

Jolene Koester

Former CSUN President Jolene Koester has been appointed by the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees to serve as the system’s interim chancellor.  Koester served as president of CSUN from 2000-11. Koester’s most recent work was as a senior consultant for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Prior to her appointment at CSUN, Koester served as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at California State University, Sacramento. Before that, she held other executive positions and served as a professor of communication studies at Sacramento State.

Tania Tetlow

Tania Tetlow, J.D., current president of Loyola University New Orleans, has been named the 33rd president of Fordham. She will be the first layperson and first woman to lead the University in its 181-year history. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1995, and her Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Tulane University, cum laude, in 1992. Prior to being named president of Loyola, she was senior vice president and chief of staff at Tulane University from 2015 to 2018, and served on the Tulane Law faculty since 2005.

Valerie Sheares Ashby

Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby will become next president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on August 1, 2022. Ashby, currently dean of Duke’s University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her postdoctoral research at the Universitat Mainz, Germany.

Ashby came to Duke from UNC, where she chaired the chemistry department from 2012-15 and was a faculty member since 2003.

Joy Bodin

Joy Bodin has been appointed to serve as interim president of Hennepin Technical College (HTC). Bodin is currently the vice president of academic and student affairs at Central Lakes College, a member of Minnesota State with campuses in Brainerd and Staples, Minnesota. 

Previously, she served Hennepin Technical College from 1992 to 2017 in several capacities including director of marketing and admissions, dean of industry, interim dean of students, and most recently as academic dean. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University and a master’s from Capella University.