The Board of Trustees, at the April 5 board meeting, approved three tenure-only appointments, 31 appointments of tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor and 10 new emeritus-status faculty.

Congratulations to Professor Cynthia Heiss, Health Professions, Ph.D; Chair and Associate Professor Karen Lollar, Ph.D., Communication Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor Mary Alice Sawaya, Ph.D., Nursing, for earning tenure.

Kudos as well to the following assistant professors who have been awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor:

1. Gregory Black, Ph.D., Marketing

2. Miri Chung, Ph.D., Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Reading & Educational Technology

3. Diane Davis, Ph.D., Mathematical and Computer Science

4. Grant Denn, Ph.D., Physics

5. Ann Diker, Ph.D., Health Professions

6. Robert Hancock, Ph.D., Biology

7. Lesley Hathorn, Ph.D., Psychology

8. Brian Hutchinson, Ph.D., Philosophy

9. George King, M.S., Aviation and Aerospace Science

10. Sandra Lane, M.F.A., Art

11. Cherise Leiter, M.M., Music

12. Cynthia Lindquist, Ed.D., Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Reading and Educational Technology

13. Hsiu-Ping Liu, Ph.D., Biology

14. Jeffrey Loats, Ph.D., Physics

15. Lunden MacDonald, Ph.D., Modern Languages

16. Christopher Meloche, Ph.D., Biology

17. Melissa Monson, Sociology, Ph.D., Anthropology & Behavioral Science

18. Gesemia Nelson, Sociology, Ph.D., Anthropology & Behavioral Science

19. Sam Ng, Ph.D., Earth and Atmospheric Science

20. Letitia Pleis, Ph.D., Accounting

21. Richard Pozzi, M.B.A., M.S. E., Engineering Technology

22. Deanne Pytlinski, Ph.D., Art

23. Steven Rissman, D.Na., Health Professions

24. Arlene Sgoutas, Ph.D., Women’s Studies

25. Ted Shin, M.F.A., Industrial Design

26. Paul Sidelko, Ph.D., History

27. Randi Smith, Ph.D., Psychology

28. Whitney Traylor, J.D., Management

29. Peter Vigil, Ph.D., Special Education, Early ChildhoodEducation, Reading and Educational Technology

30. John Wanberg, M.S.D., Industrial Design

31. Stuart Warnock, Ph.D., Management

College honors 10 with emeritus status

Ten professors have been awarded emeritus status by the Board of Trustees.

Two of the awards were posthumous:

Eldon Cunningham, M.F.A., Professor Emeritus – Art

Paul Farkas, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus – English

The other awardees are:

John Cochran, Ph.D., Administrator Emeritus – Dean, School of Business and Professor Emeritus – Economics

John Landry, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus – Computer Information Systems

Noel LeJeune, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus – Computer Science

Aileen Lucero, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus – Sociology

Charles Mawhinney, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus – Computer Information Systems

Harol “Hal” Nees, D.P.A., Professor Emeritus – Criminal Justice & Criminology

Stephanie “Robin” Quizar, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus – English

Peter Varney, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus – Geology/Environmental Science