At its February meeting the Ithaca College Board of Trustees granted tenure and/or promotion to 12 faculty members. Additionally, retired faculty John and Mary Ann Covert were both named professor emeritus of music and Aniello Massa was named professor emeritus of accounting.
John Covert
came to the School of Music in 1966 from the faculty of Memphis State University. At Ithaca he was named a Dana Teaching Fellow (1981-82), presented with the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award (1990), and inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He has extensive performing credits, as principal horn with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, as a member of the College's brass and woodwind quintets, and playing with such orchestras as the Rochester Philharmonic, Buffalo Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and Natal Philharmonic. He was a clinician at numerous state and national conferences, and recorded on the Mercury, Mark, and Crest labels.
Mary Ann Covert
joined the Ithaca faculty in 1967 and served as chair of the Department of Performance Studies from 1980 to 1983. An Ithaca College Dana Scholar (1980-81) and Dana Teaching Fellow (1986-87), she was also a Phi Kappa Phi inductee. She has given solo/chamber piano recitals throughout the United States, Europe, South Africa, Korea, and New Zealand, and has served as an accompanist for the World Saxophone Congress, International Viola Society, and Metropolitan Opera auditions, among others. Her orchestra appearances include the Tulsa Symphony, Stravinsky Festival, and Memphis Symphony. She has recorded for the Mark, Crest, and Crystal labels, and published with Cambiata Press.
Massa
worked for several accounting firms and for the Ford Motor Company-as senior internal auditor and then as auditing supervisor-before joining the faculty in 1965. He served as acting director of the School of Business (1975-77) and was a longtime accounting department chair (1982-95). He also served a three-year term (1989-92) as faculty representative on the Ithaca College Board of Trustees. He published and presented at meetings of the International Congress of the North American Economics and Finance Association and the Annual Convention of the New York State Economics Association, among others. Upon his 1995 retirement several colleagues, alumni, and friends endowed an annual scholarship in his name for outstanding accounting majors.
The board promoted Judith Kennison to the rank of professor, granted tenure to associate professor Gary English, and awarded both tenure and promotion to associate professor to Asma Barlas, John Barr, Jonathan Gil Harris, John Hrkach, Betsy Keller, Robert Klee, Debra Moree, Gordon Rowland, Bruce Smith, and Fred Wilcox.
Kennison
(recreation and leisure studies) earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Illinois State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She joined the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance in 1985 and was named a Dana Teaching Fellow for 1991-92. She has written on multicultural programming in outdoor education and recreation, wilderness programs for at-risk youth and those with ADHD, and the participation of older adults in outdoor activities in such publications as Camping Magazine, Outdoor Communicator, and Management Strategy. Her College service has included membership on the Faculty Council, President's Advisory Committee, and All-College Greivance Committee.
English
(health promotion and human movement) joined the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance in 1988, left to teach at the State University of New York College at Cortland, then returned to the Ithaca faculty in 1994. He has a bachelor's degree from Bethany College, master's from Emporia State University, and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He has written extensively on health issues and education for young people, particualrly concerning AIDS, and steroids, and he is currently a reviewer for Health Education Quarterly. He has served on the College's Alcohol Policy Committee and AIDS Working Group, and is currently a member of the Middle States Accreditation Committee.
Barlas
(politics), who joined the Ithaca faculty in 1991 after teaching at the University of Denver, was previously assistant editor of The Muslim in Pakistan and a section officer with that nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She earned a bachelor's degree from Kinnaird College and master's from the University of the Punjab, both in Pakistan, and a master's and Ph.D. degree from the University of Denver. She is the author of Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: The Colonial Legacy in South Asia, and has given presentations on such topics as international environmental issues, sexual politics in Islam, and democracy in South Asia. She has been a faculty advisor to the College's Asia Society (1994-96) and was the head delegate of the College's delegation to the Harvard Model United Nations in 1995.
Barr
(mathematics and computer science) earned his bachelor's degree from MIT, master's from Boston University, and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He joined the School of Humanities and Sciences faculty in 1991, and has served on the Advisory Committee for the Center for Educational Technology, the Curriculum Committee, and the General Education Designation Committee. He is a frequent presenter on programming languages and computer literacy at the annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, and he has been a software reviewer for Fundamentals of Computing (1994) and book reviewer for A Computer Science Tapestry: Exploring Programming and Computer Science with C++ (1993).
Harris
(English) taught at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees, before joining the Ithaca faculty in 1990. He also holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex, England. Named a Dana Teaching Fellow in 1995-96, he has written and presented papers on Shakespeare and his works and on culture and gender issues in early modern England. He is a founder and board member of the College's On the Verge Theatre Company, and his College service includes membership on the Faculty Council, Hillel board, and Diversity Awareness Committee.
Hrkach
(theater arts) holds a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University, a master's from Catholic University of America, and a Ph.D. from City University of New York. He taught at Florida Atlantic before joining the Ithaca faculty in 1990. He has written extensively on the subject of pre-Civil War popular entertainment, including theater and circuses; has directed several theater productions at the College and in the community; and has acted in such plays as Twelfth Night, The Elephant Man, and Harvey. He is associate editor of The Mid-Atlantic Almanack. At the College he serves on the Faculty Council and the Sexual Harassment Awareness Committee, and is an advisor to the Ithaca College Players drama club.
Keller
(exercise and sport sciences) has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Smith College, and Syracuse University, and served as a visiting assistant professor in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance before joining the faculty full-time in 1992. She earned her bachelor's degree from the State University College at Cortland, and her master's and Ph.D. from Massachusetts. A manuscript reviewer for Medicine, Exercise, Nutrition & Health, she has published a number of articles in Medical Science Sports Exercise and made presentations to the American College of Sports Medicine on exercise and athletes. She serves on the advisory board for the College's Center for Teacher Education and is an affiliate of the Gerontology Institute.
Klee
(philosophy and religion) is the author of Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Cutting Nature at Its Seams, published last year by Oxford University Press. He earned his bachelor's degree from Oakland University and his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. A member of the faculty since1989, he has written for such publications as Behavior and Philosphy and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He has been a manuscript reviewer for Wadsworth Publishing Company and a referee for Synthese and Behavior and Philosophy. He formerly chaired the College's Health and Safety Committee and was an advisor to the Philosophy Club.
Moree
(performance studies) has taught at Memphis State University, the University of Northern Colorado, the Meadowmount School for Strings, and Indiana University, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees. A faculty member since 1991, she performs frequently with School of Music ensembles. She has held positions as section violist with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and acting principal violist with the Binghamton Symphony Orchestra, and has made concert appearances with a number of orchestras. She has been an adjudicator for the school's annual high school and concerto competitions, and served on the College's Faculty Council.
Rowland
(corporate communication) is the author of the forthcoming A Tripartite Seed: The Future Creating Capacity of Designing, Learning, and Systems, and he has written for such publications as Educational Technology and Performance Improvement Quarterly. He was an instructional designer with the Charter Performance Group in Indianapolis and taught at Westminster Choir College and Indiana University, where he earned his Ph.D., before joining the Park School faculty in 1991. His bachelor's degree is from the University of Connecticut and his master's is from Ithaca College. He was named a Dana Research Fellow for 1995-96, and he serves on the Faculty Council and the Middle States Accreditation Committee.
Smith
(biology) holds both a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, with a master's from the University of British Columbia. His research has focused on the water mite, about which he has published in the Journal of Zoology and Experimental and Applied Acarology. He is a referee for Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Canadian Entomologist, and Journal of Parasitology, among other publications. A member of the faculty since 1990, he has served on the C. P. Snow Committee and the Environmental Studies Curriculum Planning Committee, and as an advisor to the Kayak Club.
Wilcox
(Writing Program) recently published two books -- Chasing Shadows: Memoirs of a Sixties Survivor and Fighting the Lambs' War: The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan. His other books include Uncommon Martyrs: How the Berrigans and Others Are Turning Swords into Plowshares and Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Iowa, and a D.A. from the State University of New York at Albany. A faculty member since 1987, he has written a number of feature articles, book reviews, and editorials on topics ranging from electro-shock treatment to the Persian Gulf War. He has been an adviser to the student literary magazine Stillwater and co-coordinator of the Writing Program's writing contest.Front Page -- News Home Page -- Ithaca College Home Page