ISU names new dean of students

AMES - Pamela Anthony, assistant dean of students at Georgia State University, Atlanta, will begin as Iowa State University's new dean of students Aug. 1, ISU officials said Friday.

Anthony succeeds Dione Somerville, who left ISU in June 2011 to become vice president for student affairs at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Anthony has been assistant dean of students at Georgia State since August 2003. Previously, she was director of student activities at Spelman College and held two positions at the University of Alaska.

Anthony earned her bachelor's degree in speech pathology from James Madison University, a master's in student personnel in higher education from the University of Georgia and her doctorate in educational policy studies from Georgia State.