{"id":200578,"date":"2026-05-23T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:31:09","slug":"alvernia-university-names-provost-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200578\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvernia University names provost \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 23. 2026 06:07AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Mary Ellen Wells, JD, LLM, has been named Alvernia University\u2019s new provost and chief academic officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wells, who most recently served as associate provost, will oversee the university\u2019s academic enterprise, career development, educational technology, registrar, library and several other important administrative areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">She replaces Leamor Kahanov, Ed.D., ATC\/LAT, who will become the new president of Notre Dame de Namur University in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">An attorney and faculty member for more than 20 years, Wells has served the university in a variety of leadership roles, including president of the faculty council, chair of the business department and interim provost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Caroline Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., will assume Wells\u2019 role as associate provost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 23. 2026 06:07AM Mary Ellen Wells, JD, LLM, has been named Alvernia University\u2019s new provost and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-200578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}