For all deans and directors of accredited graduate programs of social work.
Archive for June, 2009
The National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)
Founded in 1956 and based in Washington, DC, the Council is an association of nearly 500 independent, liberal arts colleges and universities that work together to support college leadership, advance institutional excellence, and enhance private higher education’s contributions to society. It works with college presidents, academic vice presidents, other administrators, and faculty, to provide services that help its member institutions enhance educational programs, improve their administrative and financial performance, and increase their institutional visibility.
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)
A national association of baccalaureate degree-granting colleges of arts and sciences whose purpose is to sustain the arts and sciences as a leading influence in American higher education. Eligibility for membership extends to baccalaureate degree-granting arts and sciences units in accredited universities and colleges, both public and private. The dean of an arts and sciences unit is the voting representative in the Council.
Association for Institutional Research Professional Development Institutes
Each summer the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) offers two professional development Institutes that provide opportunities for higher education faculty, administrators, and graduate students to enhance their skills in a particular area of institutional research. The Institutes provide hands-on training, interaction with leading institutional researchers, and networking opportunities.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Five students at the College of William and Mary founded Phi Beta Kappa in 1776, during the American Revolution. For over two and a quarter centuries, the Society has embraced the principles of freedom of inquiry and liberty of thought and expression. Laptops have replaced quill pens, but these ideas, symbolized on Phi Beta Kappa’s distinctive gold key, still lay the foundations of personal freedom, scientific inquiry, liberty of conscience and creative endeavor.
Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America’s leading colleges and universities. The Society sponsors activities to advance these studies — the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences — in higher education and in society at large.
Since 2003, ACAD and The Phi Beta Kappa Society have co-sponsored three biennial conferences that reflect each organizations commitment to the ideals of the liberal arts education. Each conference attempts to go beyond the typical “nuts and bolts” of academic administration and focus on re-igniting the intellectual spark that brought people to academics in the first place. The next ACAD/PBK joint conference is expected to take place in Fall of 2011.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its members are committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career. Founded in 1915, AAC&U now comprises 1,200 member institutions—including accredited public and private colleges and universities of every type and size. The ACAD Offices are housed in the AAC&U building, and ACAD was established in 1945 as a national organization for academic deans only from institutions belonging to AAC&U. That restriction was removed in 1968, and membership was opened to all academic officers. The historic affiliation between the two organizations continues through their mutual commitment to fostering liberal education, through the co-sponsorship of meetings and other collaborative programming efforts, and through some joint membership recruitment efforts. Most ACAD members continue to come from AAC&U member institutions. For information on membership in AAC&U, contact Dennis Renner, Director of Membership at renner@aacu.org.
Bonnie D. Irwin
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Bonnie D. Irwin
Dean, College of Arts & Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Bonnie D. Irwin is Dean of Arts and Humanities at Eastern Illinois University, a position she has held since 2010. Previously, she served as Dean of the Honors College at Eastern from 2004-2010. She has been a leader on her campus in developing a first-year common reading program and in infusing integrative learning principles and practices throughout the university. She serves as Immediate Past President of the National Collegiate Honors Council and has served as liaison between the American Folklore Society and the Modern Language Association. As Professor of English, Dr. Irwin occasionally teaches courses in world literature and mythology and her research and publications focus on the 1001 Nights, most recently on its reception in American popular culture. She also has published on issues of honors administration. Dr. Irwin holds a BA, MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a HERS Bryn Mawr alumna.
Stephanie Fabritius
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Stephanie Fabritius
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Centre College
Stephanie Fabritius is a professor of biology, vice president for academic affairs, and dean of the College at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Prior to joining Centre College in 2006, she was a professor, associate provost, and director of the Paideia Program at Southwestern University, where she worked for more than 17 years. While at Southwestern University, she held the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair in the Sciences from 2000 to 2004, and in 1997 received the Exemplary Teaching Award from the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. In 2002-2003, she was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at Bowdoin College.
Fabritius’ research has focused upon mating systems and parental care patterns in grassland nesting songbirds and on sex ratio manipulation in parasitic wasps. Her areas of teaching have included introductory biology, behavioral ecology, ecology, natural history of the vertebrates, evolution, and conducting collaborative research with undergraduate students.
She holds a B.S. in biology from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Pamela Monaco
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Pamela Monaco
Vice President, Southwestern College Professional Studies
Pamela Monaco recently moved to Southwestern College Professional Studies taking a position as the Vice President. She was previously the founding Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandman University, a new university dedicated to serving working adults. In this role, she was responsible for academic programs, assessment of student learning and faculty within Arts and Sciences at 26 distributed campuses. In addition, she led the general education revision taskforce and was the academic director of the Veterans2College program. She has previously held academic leadership posts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Maryland University College. She earned her BBA from George Washington University and her Ph.D. in English and Theatre from the Catholic University of America.
Marc Roy
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Marc Roy
Provost, Goucher College
Marc Roy became Goucher’s Provost in 2007. He previously served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He began his career as a biology faculty member at Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin. Marc earned his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin.