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| Faculty, Staff, and Student Activities, Awards and Appointments |
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| New Presidents Named at Mercer and Simmons; Dorsey Inaugurated at Redlands |
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| William D. Underwood |
Mercer University has announced the appointment of a new president, William D. Underwood, formerly interim president at Baylor University, to succeed R. Kirby Godsey, the longest-serving ANAC member president, on July 1. Simmons College has appointed Susan C. Scrimshaw, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois-Chicago, as president to succeed Daniel Cheever, Jr., who is stepping down this summer. Stuart Dorsey, who succeeded James Appleton as president of the University of Redlands last summer, was formally installed during inaugural ceremonies on March 18. |
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| Susan C. Scrimshaw |
Stuart Dorsey |
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| Drury President Joins Council of Europe Forum and NAICU Policy Committee |
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| President John Sellars, Drury University. |
John Sellars, president at Drury University, is one of only 80 U.S. college and university presidents invited to join a Council of Europe forum on higher education contributions to democracy. He has also been named to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) national Committee on Policy Analysis and Public Relations.
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| Belmont, Butler, Drury, Evansville, Mercer, Quinnipiac, and Valparaiso Students Recognized |
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| Drury's SIFE team celebrates. |
ANAC member students and student organizations have won competitions and received a variety of awards this year. Examples include:
The Belmont University and Drury University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) teams won their regional competitions (Southeast and Southwest U.S., respectively) and now proceed to the 2006 national championships in Kansas City, May 21-23.
The Butler University chapter of Hillel is one of only eight Hillel chapters nationally to be chosen to participate in the Soref Advancement Initiative, a one-year intensive training program including seminars, skill-building, and networking to enrich Jewish life on college campuses. A $5,000 grant came with the selection to help with program implementation.
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| Gizmo wins gold for the University of Evansville. |
A robot named “Gizmo,” designed and constructed by University of Evansville engineering students, won first place among 63 colleges and universities (Mercer University placed fourth behind Georgia Tech and Mississippi State) entered in the Federal Express robot competition. In the International Firefighting Robot Competition, featuring 41 robots from six countries (China, Israel, Canada, Malaysia, Denmark, and the U.S.) a robot built by Evansville computer engineering major Chris Miller placed second. In the Great Moonbugg Race, sponsored by NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, an Evansville team placed second among 15 teams.
Due to the hard work of sophomore students in the School of Communications, Kerry Ellington and Anastacia Tucker, Quinnipiac University has established the first New England chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. NABJ chapters are an important base for networking and scholarship opportunities to increase the small number of African Americans in professional journalism. In addition, two Quinnipiac School of Communication seniors have been selected for post-baccalaureate internships in NBC’s prestigious page program. Only 50 pages are selected nationally from hundreds of applications.
Valparaiso University students have excelled on a number of fronts in recent weeks. WVUR 95.1 FM was named Indiana’s “Radio School of the Year,” and received eight other awards in such areas as best news/sport reporting, best radio personality, best newscast, and best sports play-by-play. The School of Law moot court team won first place in the East regional in the Jessup International Law competition. Another Valparaiso team tied for second place among 24 entrants in a national business ethics competition at Loyola Marymount University.
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| Simmons, Mercer, and Valparaiso Faculty and Administrators Recognized |
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| Susan S. Gundy |
Simmons College professor of social work, Beverly Sealey, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Ghana for the 2006-07 year. Mercer University dean of the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, Susan S. Gundy, became the first Georgian ever to receive the National Student Nursing Association’s Leader of Leaders award. Mike Yohe, executive director of Valparaiso University electronic information services received the 2005 Penny Crane Award presented annually by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) for contributions to information technology in higher education and to SIGUCCS.
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| Drury and Quinnipiac Faculty Member Books |
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Oxford University Press will publish a book by Drury University associate professor of English Randall Fuller entitled, The Haunting of American Literature: Emerson and the Critical Imagination. Retired Quinnipiac University nursing professor Rita Hammer and forensic nursing colleagues Barbara Moynihan and Elaine Pagliaro have written a 879 page textbook, Forensic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, published by Jones and Bartlett of Sudbury, Massachusetts.
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| ANAC Member Administrative Appointments |
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ANAC member new administrative appointments include the following:
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| Susan Kupisch |
Susan Kupisch, former vice president for academic affairs at Lambuth University, has been appointed vice president of academic affairs at the University of Evansville.
- At Capital University interim provost Denvy Bowman has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs. James M. Geiger has moved from the position of associate vice president for development to vice president for institutional advancement.
- Parris Watts, formerly vice president for academic and student affairs at MacMurray College, has been appointed dean of the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies at Drury University.
- Jan Walbert, chief student affairs officer at Arcadia University, has been elected president-elect of NASPA.
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| Stephen Good Remembered at Drury Annual Memorial Concert |
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Drury University remembered a beloved chief academic officer and colleague to many in ANAC at its third annual Stephen Good Memorial Concert. Good, who died in February 2004, not only loved the arts and facilitated the design of Drury’s superbly integrated undergraduate curriculum, but was also a highly regarded and keenly missed leader in ANAC’s development and maturation as a national higher education consortium.
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Jerry Berberet spends time with sculpture of longtime ANAC colleague
Steve Good, Drury provost who died in 2004. |
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