 On April 11, 2019 Jon E. Cawthorne, dean of Detroit's Wayne State University Library System and the university's School of Information Sciences, was elected vice-president/president-elect of ACRL.In the autumn of 2019, Wayne State University provost Keith Whitfield announced that Wayne State University Press, the university's award-winning scholarly publishing arm founded in 1941, would shift from reporting to the provost to reporting to Jon Cawthorne.On February 7, 2020, Cawthorne directed that three long-time senior employees on its five-member management team be terminated.