People Watch

Jenkins is moving on from another historically black university, West Virginia State. In other news: University of Nebraska, Oregon State University, Wilkes University (Pa.) and University of West Georgia have also hired new leaders.

Susan Edwards was to have served on an interim basis, but the board of trustees appointed her to lead the Ohio school.

Blattner is becoming president of the Missouri institution next year, following a stint leading Caldwell University in New Jersey.

Ed Wingenbach (pictured) heads up Hampshire, Robert Caslen leads in South Carolina and Kevin Reynolds fills a newly created executive role in Kentucky.

Following the resignation of longtime president Lou Anna Simon, Samuel L. Stanley Jr. has been selected to lead Michigan State University.

Following his service at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid, Patterson is taking the helm at Mansfield U.

McGee becomes Quincy U’s 24th president on July 1, following work at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where he has expanded services for at-risk students and created programs for military personnel.