Appointment News

Philip P. DiStefano isn’t interim chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder anymore. On Tuesday, he took the job permanently, the Denver Business Journal reports.
Russell K. Osgood, president of Grinnell College, said Monday that he’ll step down from his longtime post of more than a decade on July 31, 2010. See a college press release for details.
Susan A. Kelly, president of Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, quit abruptly last Friday, “after a tumultuous three-year period in which the historically black institution lost its teaching hospital, began an ambitious recovery and expansion, and then saw its resources dry up as the state and national economies,” Katherine Mangan reports in The Chronicle. Read more.
Columbia University has named Feniosky Peña-Mora as the next dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Peña-Mora, who comes to Columbia after six years as an endowed professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will begin his new job on July 15. See a university press release for more information.