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Presidential moves: Strong appointments and 2 headscratchers

University Business

Rhonda Phillips – Chatham University (Pa.) An academic administrator, a scholar and now president. Rhonda Phillips is an esteemed honors college dean, serving the position for the past decade at Purdue University. Previous to that she served as the associate dean for The Honors College at Arizona State University.

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At the very small liberal arts college [Swarthmore College] I attended, I unwittingly pursued a four-year internship in academic administration. My younger son studies engineering at a large public university; I’m a dean for liberal arts education at a midsize private university.