Board of Trustees Grants Tenure, Promotion to Faculty

Tenure and Promotion

Verna Brummett, Anthony DiRenzo, Katharyn Machan, Diane McPherson, Janice Monroe, and Marc Servetnick were granted tenure and were promoted to associate professor.

Brummett, Department of Music Education, received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She taught at Cairo American College, the University of Illinois, and Millikin University before joining the School of Music faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor. She has published in School Music News, the Troubador, and General Music Today and has made numerous presentations around the country. She is on the board of advisers for the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and serves as faculty adviser for the Mu Phi Epsilon professional music fraternity at the College.

DiRenzo, writing program, joined the College as an assistant professor in 1990. Prior to that he spent three years as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University, where he received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees. He holds a master’s degree from Villanova University. His book American Gargoyles: Flannery O’Connor and the Medieval Grotesque was published in 1993. He has presented papers and served on panels at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, International Society for Humor Studies Conference, and Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, among others. He is a member of the College’s Ad Hoc Governance Committee.

Machan, writing program, joined the faculty in 1977 as a part-time instructor and became an assistant professor in 1984. She holds a doctorate from Northwestern University, master’s degree from the University of Iowa, and bachelor’s degree from the College of Saint Rose. Her published poetry collections include Belly Words (1994), and her works have been included in numerous anthologies, textbooks, and trade books. Her awards include a first place in In Praise of Poetry magazine’s national poetry competition and an honorable mention in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She maintains an active schedule as a story/dance artist and coordinates the College’s annual WomenSpeak program.

Monroe, Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Services, came to Ithaca College in 1992 as an assistant professor. Prior to that she was an assistant professor for seven years at Old Dominion University, where she earned her doctoral degree. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Colorado and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has had articles published in Inside New York State Recreation and Park Society, Journal of Research in Education, and Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. She is on the board of directors for the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification and serves as the faculty sponsor for the College’s chapter of Rho Phi Lambda.

McPherson, writing program, received both master’s and doctoral degrees from Cornell University before coming to Ithaca College as an instructor in 1990. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1993. She has been a presenter at the C. P. Snow Lecture Series and the Women-Speak program at Ithaca College, as well as at other venues throughout the state. She has published in Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Biobibliographical Critical Sourcebook and Mother Journeys: Feminists Write about Mothering. She serves on the College’s Women’s Studies Executive Committee and is faculty adviser for Pro-fusion, the College’s feminist literary arts magazine.

Servetnick, Department of Biology, received a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a lecturer at the University of Virginia before coming to Ithaca College in 1993 as an assistant professor. He has published in the International Journal of Developmental Biology and has been a guest lecturer at Cornell University, Colgate University, and the University of Dayton. He has served as a reviewer for National Science Foundation grant proposals and a book reviewer for W. W. Norton and Company. He serves on the College’s Premedical Sciences Advisory Committee and Institutional Biosafety Committee.