Colgate selected Jeffrey Herbst as the institution’s 16th president, effective this summer. Herbst currently is the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Miami (Ohio). He will succeed Interim President Lyle Roelofs, who assumed that role after the departure of Rebecca Chopp, who is now president at Swarthmore. Before his move to Miami, Herbst was on the faculty at Princeton, where he also held a number of administrative positions. Herbst graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1983 and went on to postgraduate degrees in political science from Yale.

Other transactions

Chancellors and presidents – Lynn Pasquerella was named the 18th president of Mount Holyoke. A graduate of the college in 1980, Pasquerella went on to earn her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown in 1985. She was a member of the philosophy department at Rhode Island for 19 years before being named vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school in 2006. She joined Hartford as provost and chief academic officer two years later.

Coaches

Football – Stevenson announced the appointment of Ed Hottle as coach of its new NCAA Division III football program.

Men’s and women’s lacrosse – Mount St. Mary’s hired Sonia LaMonica as head women’s lacrosse coach. LaMonica has been an assistant coach at Towson for two years … Immaculata selected Jennifer Wong as head women’s lacrosse coach. Wong has been a graduate assistant at Temple for the last two years and previously served an assistant at Rutgers for two seasons.

Men’s and women’s volleyball – King’s (Pennsylvania) women’s volleyball coach Bernie Kachinko is retiring after 21 years at the helm of the Lady Monarch program.  He concludes his career as King’s all-time winningest coach with a 403-261 overall record.

Wrestling -- Kevin Hoogenboom has been named the first wrestling coach in school history at Lake Erie.

Deaths

Ed Czekaj, Penn State director of athletics from 1969-80, died November 16 at age of 87. A three-year letterman on the Penn State football team in the 1940s, Czekaj returned to his alma mater in 1953 and held several positions in the athletics department. He retired from Penn State in 1982.