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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.

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

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

Laura Behling

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Laura Behling

Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs and Interdisciplinary Programs, Butler University

Laura Behling serves as the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Interdisciplinary Programs at Butler University.  In this role, she has primary responsibility for the University’s new general education program, faculty development, and interdisciplinary program development.  Prior to joining Butler, she was a faculty member in and chair of the English Department at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she also served for four years as the Director of the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning, the college’s faculty development center.  Behling received her undergraduate degree in English from Kalamazoo College; a master’s degree in science and medical journalism from Boston University, and her PhD in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School.  In 2003, Behling was named a Fulbright Scholar and taught at Palacky University in Olomouc, the Czech Republic.  In 2006, she participated in the Faculty Fellows program, sponsored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Institute for Experiential Learning, serving as an intern at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, D.C.  She also was selected for the NEH Summer Institute focused on “Literature, Medicine, and Culture” (2002).   She currently serves as a Consultant-Evaluator, Higher Learning Commission/North Central Association and previously was elected to the executive committee of the Modern Language Association’s Division on Teaching as a Profession and served as an MLA Delegate on Disability Issues in the Profession. Her scholarly works include two monographs: the first entitled The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 (Illinois UP 2001); and the second, Gross Anatomies: Fictions of the Physical in American Literature and Culture (Susquehanna UP 2008).  She’s also edited a Civil-War era composite memoir, entitled Hospital Transports: A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in 1863 (SUNY UP 2005/2006).  Most recently, the Council for Undergraduate Research published her edited collection of essays entitled Reading, Writing, and Research: Undergraduate Students as Scholars in Literary Studies (2010)–a volume that developed out of her own work with students on projects focused first, on Richard Wright’s 1940 novel, Native Son, and second, a museum exhibition of World War I United States propaganda posters.  Behling also has presented and published articles nationally and internationally on topics such as faculty development, undergraduate research/scholarship/creative work, administrative leadership, medical humanities, and American literature and culture.

Category: About, Annual Meeting Program Committee, Board of Directors, Class of 2013, Committees, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Thomas Meyer

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Thomas Meyer

Dean of Academic Affairs, Wolfson Campus, Miami Dade College

Thomas W. Meyer, Ph.D., Dean of Academic Affairs at the Wolfson Campus, has over 20 years of teaching and training experience, with eleven years in management or administrative roles.  Prior to becoming the Academic Dean of the Wolfson Campus, Dr. Meyer served in various roles.  Starting as a professor of English, he taught reading, writing, grammar, and speech, and garnered experience in testing, curriculum development, teacher training, educational technology, and grant writing and management.  He later became Department Chairperson of English as a Second Language and Foreign Languages where he implemented the first AS degree in Translation/Interpretation in the United States.  He was later appointed Associate Dean of Academic Affairs overseeing the Chairpersons of the academic departments and deliberating over students’ academic issues.  Also important to mention is his experience in the private sector as a management consultant in the area of organizational development and leadership training for Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) as well as in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.  This unique blending of academic and corporate experience gives Dr. Meyer keen insight into implementation of best practices, performance improvement, and quality enhancement. Currently reporting to Dr. Meyer are over 130 full-time faculty, nine academic departments with Chairpersons, two college-wide schools with Directors, and three college-wide programs with Directors.  As the chief academic officer for the campus, Dr. Meyer oversees all issues related to accreditation, grants, faculty initiatives, curriculum, enrollment management, and the academic budget.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2013, Committees, Members

Kathleen Murray

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Kathleen Murray

Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Macalester College

Kathleen Murray is Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Macalester College. She joined the Macalester administration in the Summer of 2008 after spending three years as Provost at Birmingham-Southern College and the previous nineteen years at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, first as a member of the piano faculty, then as Dean of the Conservatory of Music, and finally as Dean of the Faculty. She holds degrees in piano and piano pedagogy from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bowling Green State University, and Northwestern University, and is a frequent performer, clinician, and adjudicator both nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and served as a member of their Board of Directors from 2002-2004. An Associate Editor for Keyboard Companion magazine from 2000-2005, she has contributed articles to Keyboard Companion and to the journals of the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Dr. Murray is recorded on the CRI label.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2013, 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

Nayef Samhat

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Nayef Samhat

Provost, Kenyon College

Nayef Samhat, a native of Detroit, Michigan, holds a B.A. in international affairs from George Washington University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Nayef specializes in international relations theory and international political economy. He also studies the politics of the Middle East, particularly international relations in the Middle East. Samhat has published in Millenium: Journal of International Studies, International Politics, Global Society, and Policy Studies Journal. He also contributed to the anthology Global Society in Transition: An International Politics Reader. And he is the author of Democratizing Global Politics with Rodger Payne of the University of Louisville.

Prior to coming to Kenyon, Samhat taught at Centre College (1996- 2009) where he also served as as program chair, division chair, and associate dean.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2013, 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

William Craft

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William Craft

President, Concordia College

William Craft

William Craft was recently selected as the President of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.  Prior to his election as President, he served as 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

Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Susquehanna University

Carl O. Moses was appointed provost and dean of the faculty at Susquehanna University as of July 1, 2010. He is also a professor of earth and environmental sciences. The provost’s responsibilities include oversight of all academic programs and faculty personnel matters, as well as administrative departments including Student Life, the Blough–Weis Library, the Registrar’s Office, the Center for Academic Achievement, the Office of Cross–Cultural Programs, and the Office of Information Technology. Prior to joining Susquehanna, he was a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lehigh University since 1987. He worked in Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s office for six years, serving as the associate dean for undergraduate studies and as the interim dean of the College. For five years, he served as Lehigh’s deputy provost for academic affairs where his chief responsibilities were undergraduate and graduate programs, institutional accreditation, strategic plan implementation, and enrollment management. His duties also included liaison roles with the Student Affairs division and the Office of International Affairs and oversight of the Zoellner Arts Center and the Office of Academic Outreach.

Moses earned an AB in Chemistry from Princeton University with a Certificate from the Program in Science in Human Affairs 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 complemented his research with consulting projects in support of architectural preservation of several structures, including the Pennsylvania State Capitol. He has taught courses in aqueous geochemistry, environmental thermodynamics, water quality measurements, and general environmental science, including atmospheric science, climatology, and biogeochemistry. He was actively involved in the Lehigh Earth Observatory, serving on its operating board and guiding internship projects for 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 a member of the Franklin Institute’s Committee on Science and the Arts, chair of the Board of Directors of the American Conference of Academic Deans, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

Moses is married to the former Glyn Church, and they have two daughters. Erica attends Oberlin College, and Gillian attends the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

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