Event class: college, president, university, became, appointed, position, school, dean, professor

Events with high posterior probability

J. Don Boney	He took the position of acting General Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, in 1971, Dr. Boney had been an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois.
Jarrett Barrios	On May 22, 2007, Barrios announced that he would be resigning from the Senate to become the president of the state's largest health foundation, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
Scott Shipp	Shipp was elected president and appointed professor of mental and moral philosophy at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and served from August 12 - August 25, 1880, resigning because of a dispute over the organizational authority of the faculty for the college.
Sylvie Faucheux	In December 2002, she was named president of the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.
Frank Porter Graham	In 1930, Graham was named president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Charles Frederick Schaeffer	The uneasy equilibrium ruptured in 1864, and Schaeffer left to become professor of systematic theology of a newly established theological seminary at Philadelphia, and its president.
David Kinley	He became vice-president of the University of Illinois, then acting president, and finally, in 1920, president.
James S. Voss	After retiring from NASA in 2003, Voss became Associate Dean of Engineering for External Affairs at Auburn University, assisting with student projects and development for the College and teaching a class in Aerospace Engineering on human spacecraft design.
Robert M. O'Neil	He is the director of this center and took this position in 1990 after retiring from serving as the president of the University of Virginia.
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow	He returned to Alexandria, Virginia in 1867, enrolling at what became the Virginia Theological Seminary and marrying his high school sweetheart, Emma Green.
Zheng Xiaocang	Zheng was also the head of Graduate School, the Provost, and the acting President of Zhejiang University (from February to April 1936).
Alfred Atkinson (university president)	Atkinson was appointed President of Montana State College in 1919.
John Carey (Ohio state legislator)	He became the Chancellor of the University System of Ohio in 2013.
John Mauceri	In May 2006, the University of North Carolina named Mauceri the seventh Chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
G. Wayne Clough	In 1990, Clough became dean of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering.
Fritz E. Dreifuss	He was nominated as Vice Chair of the department in 1974 and served as interim chair in the department's transition from the leadership of T. R. Johns to G. Frederick Wooten.
David C. Knapp	He proposed changing its name to the New York State College of Human Ecology, and Knapp was the first male to hold the post, a position he held until being appointed Cornell University provost in 1974 under President Dale Corson.
Richard DeMillo	Arriving in 2002, DeMillo replaced Peter A. Freeman as Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing and led the college to a period of aggressive growth at a time when Computer Science enrollments were in decline nationally.
William English Kirwan	He left Ohio State in 2002 to become chancellor of the University System of Maryland.
Florence Wald	She became Dean of Yale School of Nursing in 1959, after being named to the position on an acting basis the previous year.
Michael F. Adams	# William Prokasy, UGA's Vice-President of Academic Affairs at the time, served as the interim UGA president for 3 months from the time of Knapp's departure in the spring of 1997 until Michael Adams's official start in the fall of that same year.
Ella Gaines Yates	Yates returned as interim director in 1998, but because of disputes with the library board she left this position on December 31.
John R. Brazil	He became president of Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1984, that title changing to chancellor when the university became part of the University of Massachusetts system as the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Robert Q. Marston	After retiring as the University of Florida president emeritus in 1984, Marston returned to the Virginia Military Institute as an eminent scholar, and later served on VMI's governing Board of Visitors during the controversy over the court-ordered admission of women.
William Porcher DuBose	In July 1871, DuBose's name was given to the Board of Trustees of the University of the South by Vice-Chancellor Charles Todd Quintard, to serve as Chaplain of the School and Professor of the School of Moral Science and the Evidences of the Christian Religion.
Charles W. Woodworth	In 1888, he was appointed entomologist and botanist at the University of Arkansas's Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Fanny Jackson Coppin	In 1869, Fanny Jackson was appointed as the principal of the Institute after the departure of Ebenezer Bassett, becoming the first African American woman to become a school principal.
David Derham	He served in this position for twelve years, and in 1963 he was approached to become Foundation Dean of the forthcoming new law school, Monash.
Franklin W. Johnson	Johnson was inaugurated at the age of 60 in 1929, 2 years after Arthur Roberts had left the college on medical leave under a faculty committee, and weeks after the death of his wife.
Jack C. K. Teng	In March 1949, Jack C. K. Teng was pointed the President of National Yingshi University (a root of current comprehensive Zhejiang University).
Thomas Messinger Drown	In 1895 he left MIT to become the fourth President of Lehigh University.
Santa J. Ono	In September 2010, he became Senior Vice President and Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Cincinnati.
Eliza Kellas	Kellas retired as Dean and President of Russell Sage College in 1928 and devoted her services entirely to Emma Willard School.
Betty Shabazz	By 1980, Shabazz was overseeing the health sciences department, and the college president decided she could be more effective in a purely administrative position than she was in the classroom.
C. P. Ramaswami Iyer	From 26 January 1955, C. P. also served as a Vice Chancellor of Annamalai University, thereby becoming the first Indian to function as Vice Chancellor of two universities at the same time.
Stylianos Harkianakis	In 1986 he became irgw naugural dean of St Andrew's Theological College where he also serves as Lecturer in Systematic Theology.
Tom Jackson (actor)	On 14 April 2009, Jackson was announced as the tenth chancellor for Trent University.
Doug Duncan	On March 22, 2007, Duncan was appointed Vice President of Administrative Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park, effective April 4.
C. Clement French	The institution was renamed Washington State University in 1959, the midpoint of his presidency.
Thomas G. Carpenter	In 1969 he was appointed by the Florida Board of Regents as the first president of a planned new state university at Jacksonville, to be named the University of North Florida.
Henry Bienen	Northwestern University President Henry S. Bienen, who led the University to increased academic prominence, financial strength, athletic success, and student satisfaction, retired from his position on August 31, 2009, a decision announced by Patrick G. Ryan, chair of the University's Board of Trustees.
Edward C. Papenfuse	He played a major role in the design of the present Archives building which was completed in 1986 and bears his name, initiated the creation of the Maryland State Archives web site, writes extensively on Maryland history, and teaches history at the University of Maryland College Park, the University of Maryland Law School, and the Johns Hopkins University.
Percival Molson	After graduation in 1901, Percival Molson was appointed to his University's Board of Governors, the youngest person ever named to that position.
Bill O'Neal	In 2003 O'Neal retired as a history professor at Panola College, a community college in Carthage, the seat of Panola County in East Texas, located southwest of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Tom Colten	In the summer of 1973, Colten resigned as a full-time mayor and converted to part-time status so that he could accept the position of chief executive of the city's private hospital, Minden Medical Center, formerly known as Minden Sanitarium.
Franklin Hooper	He was President of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Antioch College, from 1901 -- 05.
David Roselle	In 1983, Roselle was appointed Provost of Virginia Tech.
Barbara A. Babcock	Barbara Babcock was the first woman appointed in 1972 to the regular faculty, the first woman to hold an endowed chair, and the first emerita at Stanford Law School.
Henry Schultze	After resigning the college presidency due to ill health in 1951, he was appointed Professor Extraordinary at Calvin Theological Seminary.
John W. Harrelson	In 1934 Harrelson was appointed as the first'' Dean of Administration'' at N. C. State ; the school's sixth chief executive and the first alumnus to lead the school.
Rienk Kuiper	Retiring in 1952, he returned to Grand Rapids and then accepted the presidency of Calvin Theological Seminary for four years.
Edgar Tang	In June 1948 Tang was resigned from the university president position due to the student strike.
Elwood Mead	In 1911, he returned to the United States to become the professor of Rural Institutions, University of California, and chairman of the California Land Settlement Board.
Henry Sloane Coffin	He declined an offer to become president of Union Theological Seminary in 1916.
Holden Thorp	He became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2007, after a nationwide search.
Louis J. Michot	In 1997, Louis J. Michot was named an'' Outstanding Alumnus'' of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette though he never graduated from the institution.
J. H. H. Coombes	Col. Coombes thus became the first full time Principal of Cadet College Mirpurkhas on March 20, 1958.
James B. Allen (historian)	Later, some university trustees had reservations about Allen's 1981 appointment as chair of the history department.
Mike Fitzgerald (academic)	He was appointed Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of Thames Valley University (TVU) in 1991, at 41 years of age the youngest VC in Britain.
Milton McPike	In 1974, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he served as vice principal of Madison West High School for five years.
John Mercer Langston	In 1890 Langston was named as a member of the board of trustees of St Paul Normal and Industrial School, a historically black college, when it was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly.
Valerius Coucke	In 1927 he became the seminary's librarian and also bursar, responsible for the finances of the seminary.
Isaac Goodnow	Following Kansas's admission to the Union in 1861, Goodnow led a lobbying effort to have Blue Mont Central College converted to the state university.
Woodrow Wilson	The trustees promoted Professor Wilson to president of Princeton in 1902, replacing Francis Landey Patton, whom the Trustees perceived to be an inefficient administrator.
Mary Jo Kilroy	Still on the school board, she resumed her vice presidency on January 5, 1998.
Daniel L. Akin	Akin's presidency of Southeastern Seminary and the College at Southeastern began in 2004.
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs	He stayed at that University until fired in 1886 by the state Board of Regents due to disputes with the University president and faculty members.
Martin C. Jischke	On August 14, 2000, Jischke became the tenth president of Purdue University, succeeding Steven C. Beering, who stepped down after 17 years as Purdue's president.
Steve Musseau	He stayed with the university in 1968, but outside the athletic department in a fund-raising role under the university president.
Stanley King	In 1932, after traveling extensively for several years, King was appointed the 11th President of Amherst College - the first in the institution's history to have been neither a minister nor educator.
Lester Lefton	Named Kent State president in 2006, Lefton oversees one of the nation's largest university systems and the second largest university in the state of Ohio.
Thomas Van Scoy	Van Scoy resigned from Willamette in June 1891 to become dean at the new Methodist school in Portland, Portland University.
C. B. J. Snyder	At its last meeting of the school year, July 8, 1891, the New York City Board of Education elected Snyder as Superintendent of Buildings, to succeed George W. Debevoise, who had resigned.
John Lawrence Goheen	In 1944, Goheen was elected as a principal of Allahabad Agricultural Institute, one of the oldest agricultural institutes in South Asia, located in Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India.
Arthur G. Hansen	In 1982, Hansen left Purdue to become chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.
J. Wayne Reitz	In 1949, President J. Hillis Miller prompted Reitz to return to the University of Florida by appointing him the university's provost for agriculture.
John R. Ryan	He assumed his duties as the 32nd President of the State University of New York Maritime College on June 14, 2002.
Sabato Morais	When, in 1867, Maimonides College was established in Philadelphia, Morais was made professor of the Bible and of Biblical literature, and he held the chair during the six years that the college existed.
Herman Spieth	In 1956 he was appointed Provost and two years later, when UCR became a general campus, Spieth became its first Chancellor.
Glenn Poshard	The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees announced that they had selected Glenn Poshard to serve as President of the system on Friday, November 18, 2005.
John M. Darby	In 1855, he became president and professor of natural science of the Auburn Masonic Female College -- today Auburn High School -- in Auburn, Alabama.
Willis Henry Bocock	He was named Lecturer on International Relations by the University of Georgia Board of Trustees in 1931 and was a popular and prolific speaker on this subject.
Peter Enns	On March 26, 2008, the Board of Trustees at Westminster Theological Seminary voted 18 -- 9 to suspend Enns from his position effective May 23, 2008.
Les Ebdon	Ebdon was appointed Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Luton in September 2003.
John L. Anderson	He was in that position for eight years before leaving the university on 1 April 2004 to become provost, university vice president, and professor of chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve.
William P. Foster	When Foster became the director of bands in 1946, the school was known as the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes.
Ambrose Burke	He was appointed the school's president in 1940 and served for sixteen years, then the longest tenure of any St. Ambrose president.
Conor Cruise O'Brien	In 1962, in response to an invitation from the Chancellor of the University of Ghana, and the country's leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, O'Brien accepted a position as Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Bill Heller	He moved to Florida in 1992 to head University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus.
John Nathan Cobb	In 1919, Cobb was appointed the founding director of the College of Fisheries at the University of Washington (UW), the first such college established in the United States.
Rush Propst	But in June 2007, the criticism became more vocal and more formal when HHS athletic director Jerry Browning, Propst's immediate superior, resigned over numerous differences between himself and principal Richard Bishop, who was a teammate of Propst on the football team at Jacksonville State University.
James W. Holsinger	In November, 2007, the Asbury Theological Seminary board of trustees attempted to remove Holsinger from its board for a possible conflict of interest because he was also a board member of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, a division of which was investigating the accreditation status of the seminary.
Archibald Alexander Hodge	There he remained until in 1877 he was called to Princeton to be the associate of his father, Charles Hodge, in the distinguished chair of systematic theology.
J. Schuyler Long	In 1889 he became a teacher of the deaf and an athletic director at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf.
William Henry Houghton	In 1934, James M. Gray, then-president of Moody Bible Institute, visited Calvary Baptist and, impressed with Houghton, offered the evangelist the presidency of the Institute.
Laurie D. Cox	In 1915, Cox was appointed an associate professor of Landscape Engineering at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University.
S. Vithiananthan	The Jaffna Campus was elevated to university status on 1 January 1979 with the creation of the University of Jaffna and Vithiananthan was appointed the first vice-chancellor of the new university.
John Tyler Caldwell	Caldwell was named president of the University of Montevallo in Alabama in 1947.
Robert J. Birgeneau	In November 2008, former President Robert Dynes' close aide and UC Associate President Linda Morris Williams, was awarded a controversial pay out and re-hired as an Associate Chancellor at University of California, Berkeley by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau.
Billy Graham	In 1947, at age 30, he was hired as president of Northwestern Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota -- at the time, the youngest person to serve as a sitting president of any U. S. college or university.