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Katie Conboy

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Katie Conboy

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stonehill College

Katie Conboy has served as chief academic officer at Stonehill College for the last decade.  She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts (honors) in English and completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Notre Dame in 1986, specializing in history of the novel and feminist theory.  In 1987, she joined the faculty of the English Department at Stonehill, and she attained the rank of Professor in 1998.  As a faculty member, she published numerous articles and co-edited Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (Columbia UP, 1997).  She chaired the English Department briefly before accepting a full-time administrative role in January 2000, and she currently serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  In this role, she has been responsible for a complete revision of the General Education curriculum, the implementation of curricular innovations such as learning communities and interdisciplinary programs, the expansion of Stonehill’s international program participation, the extension of undergraduate research opportunities, and the development of a robust career services office.  In addition, she has overseen extraordinary growth of the faculty, improved faculty development opportunities, and enhanced grant activity in support of the curriculum and the faculty.

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M. David Rudd

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M. David Rudd

Dean of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Utah

M. David Rudd is Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Utah and scientific director for the National Center for Veterans Studies at the U. His undergraduate degree is from Princeton University. He completed his doctoral training at the University of Texas-Austin and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive therapy at the Beck Institute in Philadelphia under the direction of Aaron T. Beck. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a Fellow of three professional societies, including the American Psychological Association (Division 12 and Division 29), the International Association of Suicide Research, and the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (a founding fellow). He was recently elected a Distinguished Practitioner and Scholar of the National Academies of Practice in Psychology. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Rudd is an active researcher with over 170 publications. He is currently conducting a $1.97 million clinical trial for suicidal soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado. He has authored several books, including Treating Suicidal Behavior (2001, Guilford, 2nd printing in 2004) and Suicide Science: Expanding the Boundaries (2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers), The Assessment and Management of Suicidality: A Pocket Guide (Professional Resource Press, 2006) and the recently released The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (with Joiner, VanOrden, & Witte) from the American Psychological Association Press. His research has been recognized with awards both national and international.  He has served as a consultant to many organizations nationally and internationally, including the United States Air Force, the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense and the Beijing Suicide Prevention and Research Center. Dr. Rudd serves on a number of editorial boards, is past Chair of the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, past President of the Texas Psychological Association, past President of Division 12 Section VII of the American Psychological Association, past Past-President of the American Association of Suicidology, a previous members of the APA Council of Representatives, and currently serves as vice-president of the PDV Foundation. Dr. Rudd has testified four times before the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate, on issues related to veterans and suicide.

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Board of Directors, 2010-11

Board of Directors, 2010-11

ACAD’s 67th Year

Officers

  • Chair: Linda Cabe Halpern, Dean of University Studies, James Madison University
  • Vice Chair: Carl Moses, Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs, Lehigh University
  • Secretary/Treasurer: William Craft, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Luther College
  • Chair, Governance and Board Development Committee: Stephanie Fabritius, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Centre College
  • Past Chair: Howard S. Erlich, Former Dean, School of Humanities & Sciences, and Associate Professor, Speech Communication, Ithaca College
  • Administrative Director: Laura A. Rzepka, ACAD


Board classes “graduate” in December of their class year. New Board Members are elected at the ACAD Annual Meeting the following January.

Class of 2010

  • Beth Barnett, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ramapo College
  • Isiaah Crawford, Provost, Seattle University
  • Scott Evenbeck, Dean, University College, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
  • Marc Roy, Provost, Goucher College

Class of 2011

  • Jan Czechowski, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Washington and Jefferson College
  • Bruce Romanish, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Washington State University Vancouver
  • M.David Rudd, Dean of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Utah
  • Sara Varhus, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nazareth College

Class of 2012

  • Charlotte Borst, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Whittier College
  • Katie Conboy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stonehill College
  • Joseph Bruno, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Wesleyan University
  • Karen Erickson, Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University
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Bruce Romanish

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Bruce Romanish

Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Washington State University Vancouver

Bruce Romanish

Bruce Romanish is currently Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Washington State University Vancouver, a post he has held for the past nine years. In this role he leads the campus’s academic initiatives, directs faculty affairs, and oversees the diversity agenda. His office is responsible for Research and Graduate Education, General Education, and Honors. He served in previous faculty and administrative roles at Rutgers University and St. Cloud State University. He earned an EdD. From Penn State University in 1980.

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Sara Varhus

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Sara Varhus

Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nazareth College

Sara Varhus

Sara Varhus has been Vice President for Academic Affairs at Nazareth College since January, 2007. Prior to that, she was for ten years Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY at Oswego, where she also served as Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Studies and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. She received her B.A. at Rockford College and her PH.D., at the University of Rochester. She also participated in the HERS Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College and the Harvard Institute for Educational Management. She has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary curricular projects, one of which was sponsored FIPSE, and one of which was part of the Integrative Learning Project, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and AAC&U. She has been editor of the Forum for Honors, the refereed journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and she served on the Executive Board of that organization. For the Council for Colleges of Arts and Sciences, she chaired the Committee on Comprehensive Institutions, and twice served as a Facilitator for the New Deans Seminar. She has presented frequently at meetings of NCHC, CCAS, AAC&U, and AAHE, and she has been a consultant to honors programs and interdisciplinary projects. She has written and presented scholarly essays on Restoration and Eighteenth-century literature.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2011, Committees, Member Benefits Committee, Members

Stephanie Fabritius

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Stephanie Fabritius

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Centre College

Stephanie Fabritius

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.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Chair, Class of 2011, Committees, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Jan Czechowski

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Jan Czechowski

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Washington and Jefferson College

Jan Czechowski

Dr. Jan Czechowski is originally from Chicago (NW side) and earned his BFA and MA in Theatre from the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D in Theatre from the University of Michigan. Most recently, he serves as the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Washington & Jefferson College. He has been with the College since 2005. Prior to this, he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul MN, beginning in 1999. Additionally, he taught at Grinnell College for 23 years, beginning in 1976. During that time also served as Assistant Dean of the Faculty, Director of Off-Campus Study, Chair of the Humanities Division, Chair of the Theatre Department, Project Director for the Buxbaum Center for the Arts, among other things.

In 1998, he organized and ran a three day symposium under the auspices of the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, on Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland. The panel included a Northern Irish historian as well as members from five of the major political parties in Northern Ireland representing both sides of the conflict as well as the Women’s Coalition.

He has extensive professional design and directing experience in both academic and professional arenas, e.g., Riverside Theatre in Iowa City and as Resident Designer at the Old Creamery Theatre for 10 years, also in Iowa. His most recent creative work occurred in March 2008 when he directed The Idiots Karamazov at Washington and Jefferson.

He has been a member of ACAD since 2000 and on the Board beginning in 2007.

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Marc Roy

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Marc Roy

Provost, Goucher College

Marc Roy

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.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2010, Committees, Members, Strategic Thinking Committee

Scott Evenbeck

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Scott Evenbeck

Dean, University College, Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis

Scott Evenbeck

Scott E. Evenbeck is Professor of Psychology and Dean of University College at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He joined the faculty at IUPUI in psychology in 1972, after completing his Ph.D. degree in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Evenbeck has been involved for many years in the design and assessment of general education, including the development, ongoing implementation, and assessment of IUPUI’s outcomes for student learning. He has also played a major role in various P-16 initiatives to support student academic achievement and in retention initiatives for Indiana higher education. He has given over 100 presentations on serving entering students and many articles and chapters on enhancing student academic achievement and persistence. He represented IUPUI in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Greater Expectations project and has served as a Task Force Advisor in the Foundations of Excellence in the First College Year. Evenbeck also serves as a resource faculty member at the Summer Quality Academy and as a consultant to several campuses in the BEAMS project. He served on the Advisory Board for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Evenbeck serves on the faculty for the Summer Institute on Learning Communities with the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education and on accreditation teams for three regional associations.

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