Two Faculty Members Receive Promotions
	Ithaca College faculty members Bernard C. Beins and F. Wayne Blann were promoted to the rank of full professor in recent action by the College's board of trustees. Beins, who joined the Department of Psychology in 1986, earned his bachelor's degree from Miami University, Ohio, in 1972 and his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 1979. He came to Ithaca College after a term as associate professor and chair of the psychology department at Thomas More College in Kentucky. Beins has had articles published in such publications as the Study Guide to Accompany Sternberg's in Search of the Human Mind, Teaching of Psychology, and Contemporary Psychology. Book chapters have been published in Instructor's Resource Package for Weiten's Themes and Variations and Handbook for Enhancing Undergraduate Education in Psychology. He has given numerous talks and poster presentations and has served as an editor and ad hoc journal reviewer on numerous occasions. Beins's work has been reprinted in such publications as The Whole Psychology Catalog and Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology. Beins served as acting department chair in 1997. Blann joined the College's Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences in 1986 after two years at the State University College at Cortland. Now the coordinator of the College's sports management program at the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, he earned his bachelor's degree at Drury College, his master's degree at Southern Illinois University, and his doctoral degree at Boston University. Blann's publications include chapters in Sport and Fitness Management, Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Annual, and The Sport Performance Report. He has given presentations at conferences around the world on such topics as "International Issues in Athletes Career Transitions," "Educating Women to Defend and Serve: The Implications of Women in Combat and Combative Sport," "Bridging the Gap in Sport Ethics: Applying Theory in Practice," and "The Billion Dollar Battle: An Attempt to Reform the NCAA." He has traveled extensively as a workshop presenter and now serves as coordinator of the Australia Academic Exchange Program for sport management and sports information and communications majors at Griffith University's Gold Coast campus.