Poughkeepsie, NY â" Vassar College today announced the appointment of Jonathan Chenette, Associate Dean of the College and Blanche Johnson Professor of Music at Grinnell College, as Dean of the Faculty at Vassar College. Chenette, whose appointment will be effective July 21, also will be a Professor of Music on the Vassar faculty. He succeeds Ronald A. Sharp, who has served as Dean of the Faculty since 2003 and who is returning to his teaching and scholarship as a Professor of English at Vassa