Dean's Round Table
The ARHU Dean’s Round Table provides strategic guidance and engagement that advances the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and strengthens its connections beyond campus. With the launch of the ARHU Strategic Plan 2025-2030, as well as the university-wide Forward campaign, members are poised to drive timely actions that create timeless impact.
Nancy Clarvit '78 spent 15 years in New York City as a Senior Art Director in corporate design, specializing in annual reports, followed by six years as an interior designer. While raising her two children, Sam and Alison, she designed school publications, logos, and advertisements. Nancy continues to create artwork and is always exploring new techniques and media. In 2017, she discovered Procreate, and with her time split between Florida and New York, the iPad and Apple Pencil became her new best friend. The flights give her time to design without distractions. She has since created over 500 iPad designs, guided by her background in graphic and interior design.
Nancy holds a BS ('78) in Graphic Design from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a minor in Business. Currently she serves on the College Park Foundation Board of Trustees and Co-Chairs the Development Committee. Nancy and her husband, Chuck, are backers of the graphic design concentration in the Department of Art, the Clarvit Design Scholarships and the Clarvit Courtyard outside the Art/Sociology Building.
Daniel A. Cronin, '90, MBA '92, PhD '07, is the Chief Financial Officer at the National Park Foundation. He was previously the Executive Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Finance Officer at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) where he got to lean into the arts. He served as the Chief Financial and Operating Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute where he managed a $24B endowment and oversaw a comprehensive $1B operating budget, managed at $140M tax-exempt bond issuance, oversaw data management, and all operations. His tenure as Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at the Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University further exemplifies his capability to drive financial strategy and administration in service to his love of the arts and sciences. Prior to serving at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Cronin held various leadership positions for over 30 years at The George Washington University and the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Cronin holds three degrees from the University of Maryland—a bachelor’s in science and a Masters in Business Administration from the Smith School of Business. He earned a PhD in Communication from the College of Arts and Humanities. He has been an active member of the Alumni Association for thirty years serving in a variety of leadership roles.
Ashley Foxworth '06 is ARHU through and through and is excited to remain involved in shaping the future of ARHU at UMD at this pivotal time. After graduating in 2006 with a BA in English (and two ARHU minors), Ashley focused her graduate studies on education (earning a Master of Arts in Teaching English from American University in 2008 and a Master of Education in Policy and Management from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2015) and law (earning her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2011).
Most recently, inspired by her legal and education experiences, her years focused solely on her family, and her ARHU-bred passion for meeting her community's grand challenges, she has been working to launch SheRecs.com, a community for sourcing and sharing self, family, and home support recommendations. Through this new journey, she's seen most clearly how even as business and tech can help solve a lot of society's challenges, creativity, empathy, and a human lens must be at the center. She brings that perspective to her role as a member of the UMPCF Board of Trustees and as a member of the ARHU Dean's Round Table. She enjoys that these roles bring her to College Park often, which is a short drive from her hometown of Washington, DC, where she lives with her three children and husband, who is also an ARHU alum.
Rehan Staton '18 is a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York City, where he works on complex corporate transactions involving leading companies. His journey to this profession has been anything but conventional. After an injury ended his amateur boxing career, he worked as a sanitation worker while attending Bowie State University, determined to keep moving forward even when the path ahead felt uncertain. Transferring to University of Maryland, College Park became a turning point in his life. It was there that he found mentors, lifelong friendships, and a community that challenged him to think bigger than he ever had before. That journey eventually led him to Harvard Law School and the legal career he has today.
Outside of his work in law, he founded The Reciprocity Effect, a nonprofit dedicated to recognizing and uplifting essential/service workers and others whose contributions often go unseen. Whether through law, service, or storytelling, he cares deeply about opening doors for others and staying connected to the communities that helped shape him.
Harlan F. Weisman '75 is Managing Director of And-One Consulting, LLC. He is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, serves as an Operating Partner at CRG, a healthcare investment firm, Venture Advisor to the Israel Biotech Fund and is on advisory committees at Johns Hopkins University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Previous positions include President of Centocor R&D, Company Group Chairman, J&J Pharmaceutical R&D and Chief Science & Technology Officer of J&J Medical Devices. He was founder and CEO of several biotech companies and was appointed by the US Congress to the Board of Governors of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) from 2010-2016. Dr. Weisman graduated from University of Maryland, College Park (BA, Philosophy, 1975) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1979). After residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, NY, he was a fellow in cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital and then appointed Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Weisman is an author of more than 100 articles and book chapters, and is the recipient of numerous awards for contributions in clinical medicine, research and innovation.
Catherine (Kip) Young '89 graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor's in English. She has held various corporate writing and marketing roles, most recently for Inky Technology. With her husband Dave Baggett, she sponsored the Baggett Fellows program to encourage new research by undergraduate and graduate students at Maryland in Linguistics. She currently volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Montgomery County and serves on the board of the Shepherd Foundation. She looks forward to promoting ARHU and is always up for trivia nights and books clubs.