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.

Linda Cabe Halpern

Dean of University Studies, James Madison University

Linda Cabe Halpern has been Dean of University Studies at James Madison University since 2006. Prior to that, she was Dean of General Education 1996-2006, leading JMU’s general education program through a successful reform effort and establishing it as a signature program for the university and a national leader in general education outcomes assessment. As Professor of Art History, she continues to teach undergraduate art history courses and her research and publications focus on the history of English garden design. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA and PhD in History of Art from Yale University. Dr. Halpern is an ex officio member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Board by virtue of her position as Board Chair of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD).