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Beth Barnett

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Beth Barnett

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ramapo College

Beth Barnett

Beth E. Barnett is the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs at Ramapo College, New Jersey’s Public Liberal Arts College. She assumed this position in July 2006. Prior to coming to Ramapo College, Dr. Barnett held the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs at The University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. Among her accomplishments at Scranton, Dr. Barnett expanded the Office for International Initiatives and Scholars, leading to increased study abroad participation and increased scholarly activities surrounding global issues; in consultation with a faculty advisory group and the Dean of the Library and Information Fluency, developed the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, servicing an expanded number of students with need of academic support and initiated the Faculty Advancement series featuring talks and discussions on issues related to teaching; promoted an integrated model (across Academic and Student Affairs and Ministry and Mission) for the First Year Experience through work with the CIC sponsored Foundations of Excellence; supervised the Fellowship Office and supported initiatives to increase medical school acceptance; and expanded faculty development opportunities to include grants for interdisciplinary, international, mentoring, applied learning and education for justice initiatives.

Dr. Barnett also served as dean of the Seidel School of Education and Professional Studies at Salisbury University in Maryland; dean of the School of Education and Human Service and graduate program coordinator for counseling at Manhattan College in New York City; and coordinator of the master’s program in motor development at Columbia University in New York City.

She received a doctor of education degree, a master of education degree and a master of arts from Columbia University; an MBA from Regis University; and a bachelor’s degree from the University System of Pennsylvania. Most of her published articles have been devoted to issue concerning childhood development, with an emphasis on language skills and motor development.

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

Isiaah Crawford

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Isiaah Crawford

Provost, Seattle University

Isiaah Crawford

Dr. Isiaah Crawford has worked in higher education for 20 years. He was appointed Provost of Seattle University in July 2008. Prior to his post at Seattle University, he was a tenured Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago and taught broadly in his field and served in several key leadership positions including Chairperson of the Department of Psychology (1987-2002) and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (2003-2008).

Dr. Crawford received his B.A. in Psychology from St. Louis University in 1982 and completed his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from DePaul University in 1987. He serves on the Board Directors of the American Conference of Academic Deans and is the former President of the Board of Directors of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and the Clinical Psychologists Licensing & Disciplinary Board of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. He is a well published scholar in the areas of human sexuality and health promotion and his work has been nationally recognized with several awards, including two from the American Psychological Association.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2010, Committees, Members

Karen Erickson

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Karen Erickson

Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University

Karen Erickson

Karen Erickson, Ph.D., M.A. (Harvard); B.A. (Stanford) is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University. Previously, Dr. Erickson was on the political science faculty (emerita) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she also directed Arctic Affairs in the office of the Provost and a program in Science, Education, and Public Policy at the International Arctic Research Center. She has been a policy adviser to a number of Arctic organizations, and was a founder of the University of the Arctic. Her publications cover a wide range of subjects, including environmental policy, international relations, education in rural Alaska, and Arctic politics. A winner of two Fulbright awards, Dr. Erickson has held fellowships with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the Scholar’s Roundtable of NYU School of Law, and the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education. She was recently elected a SENCER Leadership Fellow by the Fellowship Board of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Joseph Bruno

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Joseph Bruno

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Wesleyan University

Joseph Bruno

Joseph W. Bruno, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Wesleyan, is a graduate of Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, where he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his graduate work at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, earning a PhD in Chemistry in 1983, then performed postdoctoral research at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. In 1984 Bruno joined the Chemistry Department at Wesleyan University as an Assistant Professor. He was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and then Professor. He served as the Chairman of the Chemistry Department, was later named Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, then assumed his present position as chief academic officer at Wesleyan. Bruno’s research is in the area of organometallic chemistry, and he strives to synthesize and utilize transition metal compounds with catalytic applications. He has received numerous grants for research, for pedagogical development, and in support of university programs in the sciences, and he is the author of over sixty papers and patents. As Dean, and now as Provost, he has recognized the value of collaborative approaches to educating students about science, and he worked with faculty to aid their development of interdisciplinary courses such as “Science and Film; Defining Human Identity,” and “Science and Art,” and “Making the Science Documentary.”

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Members

Charlotte Borst

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Charlotte Borst

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Whittier College

Charlotte Borst

Charlotte G. Borst is a professor of history, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Faculty at Whittier College in Whittier, California. She has had a substantial administrative career at a number of liberal arts colleges—prior to joining Whittier College in 2009, she was Provost and Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee from 2006-2008, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Union College in Schenectady, New York, from 2001 to 2006. She also has had faculty and administrative experience at several research universities—she was Chair of History at Saint Louis University and a faculty member in the history department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also served as Executive Director of Historical Collections.

Borst’s research has focused upon the history of the intersection of gender and race in American health care. She has published widely on the history of midwifery and obstetrics in the United States and the history of medical school admissions in the twentieth century. Her areas of teaching have included the history of American medicine and public health, Gender and Health in American history, American women’s history, American social and intellectual history, historiography, and the American history survey. She holds the B.A. in biology from Boston University, an M.A. in history from Tufts University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Committees, Governance and Board Development Committee, Members

Howard Erlich

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Howard Erlich

Associate Professor Speech Communication, Ithaca College

Howard Erlich

Howard S. Erlich, former ACAD chair, is tenured associate professor of Speech Communication at Ithaca College, Ithaca New York. On sabbatical during AY08-09, Erlich was dean of the school of humanities and sciences for 20 years before stepping down. Erlich has served on numerous Middle States teams, specializing in general education and assessment. Erlich has published in political communication, and most recently contributed a chapter on merit pay in the Dean’s Handbook, published by ACAD. Erlich intends to return to teaching in fall, 2009.

Category: About, Annual Meeting Program Committee, Board of Directors, Committees, Officers, Past Chair

William Craft

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William Craft

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

William Craft

William Craft is the Dean of Luther College and Vice President for Academic Affairs, holding a faculty appointment as Professor of English. His scholarly work on early modern poetry and prose includes a book on Philip Sidney, and his academic leadership has focused on curriculum reform, faculty development and workload, institutional diversity, and institutional planning. A member of the ACAD Executive Board and the Wye Seminar Board, he is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at national meetings for deans and faculty. He has played an active role in devising and sustaining the Midwestern Alliance for Learning in the Liberal Arts, a group of seven colleges devoted to cross-institutional evaluation of student learning. Craft earned his doctorate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a Fellow of the Newberry Library and the American Council on Education. In the summer of 2008 he completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Committees, Governance and Board Development Committee, Officers, Secretary/Treasurer

Carl Moses

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Carl Moses

Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs, Lehigh University

Carl Moses

Carl O. Moses is a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lehigh University, where he has been since 1987. He served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies of Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences and as the interim Dean of the College. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs where his chief responsibilities are undergraduate and graduate programs, institutional accreditation, and enrollment management. He earned an AB in Chemistry from Princeton University and MS and PhD degrees in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia. His principal research interest is aqueous geochemistry, the chemical interactions of rocks and water in the natural environment. His specific interests include the mineral-solution interface, computational modeling of geochemical processes, and environmental materials science, as well as industrial ecology and environmental management. He has taught courses in aqueous geochemistry, environmental thermodynamics, water quality measurements, and general environmental science, including atmospheric science, climatology, and biogeochemistry. He has also been actively involved in the Lehigh Earth Observatory, having served on its operating board and guided the internship projects of numerous students. He has served as the principal research adviser for numerous graduate and undergraduate students, and he has served on advisory committees for many others. The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences have funded his research. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Conference of Academic Deans.

Category: About, Annual Meeting Program Committee-Chair, Board of Directors, Committees, Officers, Vice Chair

Linda Cabe Halpern

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Linda Cabe Halpern

Dean of University Studies, James Madison University

Linda Cabe Halpern

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).

Category: About, Board of Directors, Chair, Committees, Officers, Other Program Planning Committee
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