Michael Hill
Dr. Michael E. Hill became Randolph-Macon College´s 16th president on August 1, 2025. Hill comes to Randolph-Macon after serving as President of Chautauqua Institution, where he advanced the 150-year-old organization through new partnerships, funding sources, and a bold national vision. Hill previously led the non-profit Youth for Understanding USA and served in senior roles at United Cerebral Palsy, Washington National Cathedral, and The Washington Ballet. A first-generation graduate of St. Bonaventure University, he holds a master’s degree in arts and cultural management from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and a doctorate in education from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. 

John C. Volin
John C. Volin began his tenure as the 18th president of Gustavus Adolphus College on August 15, 2025. Volin has served as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Maine since 2020. He previously served as a full professor and director of the Environmental Sciences graduate program at Florida Atlantic University. Volin joined the University of Connecticut in 2007 to head the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, advancing to serve as Vice Provost of Academic Affairs. Volin holds a BS in botany and biology, an MS in agronomy from South Dakota State University, and a PhD in forestry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Tonya Smith-Jackson
Tonya Smith-Jackson, a human factors engineer and the current Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), started her tenure as chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark on August 1, 2025. Smith-Jackson has served at NC A&T since 2013. Her accomplishments at NC A&T include the creation of three new doctoral programs, the state’s first bachelor’s degree program in artificial intelligence, and dramatic increases in both research staff and graduate assistants at NC A&T. She holds a doctorate in psychology/ergonomics and interdisciplinary industrial engineering. 

Andrea Goldsmith
Appointed in August 2025, Andrea Goldsmith has become the seventh president of Stony Brook University, SUNY’s research flagship and the No. 1 public university in New York State. She served as dean of engineering and applied science at Princeton for five years and spent 21 years on Stanford’s engineering faculty. In 2021, she was appointed by the White House to President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to advise the president on matters related to science, technology innovation, sustainability, and public policy. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.