Board Grants Tenure, Promotions, Emeritus Status

At its February meeting, the board of trustees awarded emeritus status to a retired biology professor and voted on tenure and promotion recommendations.

EMERITUS

John "Jack" Bernard, who retired in 2000 after more than three decades of teaching in the Department of Biology, was named professor emeritus of biology. Joining the College in 1964 as an assistant professor, he was promoted to associate professor in 1968 and professor in 1973. He served as the department chair from 1973 to 1982 and 1997 to 1999. His research focused on life history, production, and nutrient cycling in wetland plants, for which he received grants from the National Science Foundation, United States Geological Survey, and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. His last NSF grant funded a three-year project to study the effect of pollution such as acid rain on clonal plant development in the United States and the Czech Republic.

Bernard received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Rutgers University. He taught at Franklin and Marshall College, the University of Minnesota’s Itasca Biological Station, and the NSF Summer Institute in Desert Biology before joining the Ithaca College faculty. In addition to presenting invited papers at numerous international conferences and publishing articles in a variety of biology journals, he served as coeditor of a special issue of Aquatic Botany devoted to wetland ecology. A member of the Ecological Society of America, Torrey Botanical Club, Nature Conservancy, and Sigma Xi honor society, he served from 1980 to 1982 as president of the College’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He was also a member of the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame Committee and served as the College’s faculty representative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

TENURE

Peter Bardaglio, who in february was named provost and vice president for academic affairs, was granted tenure. A member of the Goucher College Department of History faculty since 1983, Bardaglio has also taught interdisciplinary courses in the honors, peace studies, and first year seminar programs. He was the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of History prior to being appointed in August 2000 as Goucher’s interim vice president and academic dean. He has held administrative positions as department chair, associate director and acting director of the honors program, and director of the first year seminar program. As a scholar, he has made significant contributions to the fields of American southern and legal history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in history from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in history and English from Brown University.

PROMOTION

Mark Fonder, Lee Goodhew, Michael McCall, and Wendy Mehne were promoted to professor; Gary Fountain was promoted to associate professor; and Elizabeth Begley was promoted to clinical assistant professor.

Fonder, Department of Music Education, came to Ithaca College from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1989 as an assistant professor. He was appointed chair of the music education department in 1993 and promoted to associate professor two years later. In 2001 he served as a visiting scholar at James Madison University. Currently the chair of the Music Educators Journal editorial board, he has written articles for the Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Teaching Music through Performance in Band, and Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, among other publications. He has presented at numerous conferences, including the Music Educators National Conference and the International Mid Europe Conference for Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles in Austria. He has also been a guest conductor for a variety of ensembles, including the Tokyo Area High School Honors Band in Japan and the New York State School Music Association Educators Band. He has served on the Ithaca College Faculty Council and Teacher Education Committee, and has been an adjudicator for School of Music competitions. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University.

Goodhew, Department of Performance Studies, came to Ithaca College from Western Michigan University in 1989 and was promoted from assistant to associate professor in 1995. She spent the summer of 1999 as a faculty member at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. The principal bassoonist for the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra since 1989, she is also a substitute bassoonist for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of the Ithaca Wind Quintet faculty ensemble and has played with the Ithaca College Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, and Chamber Orchestra. She performs frequently at music programs, including the National Flute Conference and International Double Reed Society Conference. Her College service has included membership on Faculty Council and the School of Music’s Architectural Feasibility Study Committee, and she has been a faculty sponsor for the Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority. She received her doctorate from Michigan State University and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas, respectively.

McCall, Department of Business Administration, came to Ithaca College in 1989 as an assistant professor of psychology in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Promoted to associate professor in 1995, he moved to the School of Business in 1999. Since last year he has served as director of the school’s M.B.A. degree program. He has also been a visiting associate professor at Cornell University. He has published a number of articles on marketing and consumer issues, including restaurant tipping and the purchase of alcohol by minors, in such publications as the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences and Journal of Business and Psychology. His conference presentations have included "Complaints, Compliments, and Comments: A Theoretical Approach to Customer Relationship Management" for the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences and "Physical Attractiveness, Mood, and the Decision to Card" at the Eastern Psychological Association. At Ithaca College he has served as a faculty justice and as a member of the Counseling Center Advisory Committee and M.B.A. Curriculum Committee. He received his doctoral and master’s degrees from Arizona State University and his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Mehne, Department of Performance Studies, served as a visiting professor at Michigan State University prior to joining Ithaca College as an assistant professor in 1989. She was promoted to associate professor in 1995. She is a flutist with the Ithaca Wind Quintet faculty ensemble and with Ensemble X, which is composed of musicians from Ithaca College and Cornell University. A member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra from 1989 to 1999, she has been a solo flutist for concerts and master classes at the Interlochen National Music Camp and National ACDA Convention, among others. She has performed at the National Flute Association Convention and the New York Flute Festival and served as an adjudicator for the National Flute Association High School Soloist Competition. Her articles have been published in Flute Talk and Flutist Quarterly. She has served on the College’s Tenure and Promotion Committee and Associate Provost Search Committee as well as on the School of Music’s Graduate Committee. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, master’s degree from Michigan State University, and bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Fountain, Department of English, taught at several prep schools and at St. Joseph College prior to joining Ithaca College as an assistant professor in 1996. Through the Center for Teacher Education, he is directing a multi-year project to assist teachers and administrators at the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem in developing an integrated English curriculum. In December 2000 he organized a program of lectures at the Library of Congress to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Elizabeth Bishop’s tenure as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (a position now known as the poet laureate of the United States). He has given presentations on Bishop’s poetry at international conferences from Brazil to Nova Scotia and has published articles in the Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin; War, Literature, and the Arts; and Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures. He has served on the College’s Internal Grant Review Committee and Admissions Committee and on the Teacher Education Committee for the School of Humanities and Sciences. He received his doctorate from Boston University, master’s degree from Yale University, and bachelor’s degree from Brown University.

Begley, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, worked as a speech-language pathologist at school districts in Massachusetts and California before coming to Ithaca College in 1989 as an adjunct clinical instructor in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. Also a speech-language pathologist for the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES from 1986 to 1992, she was promoted to clinical instructor in the school in 1993. She supervises undergraduate and graduate students at the College’s Sir Alexander Ewing Speech and Hearing Clinic and at off-campus placements. Her article "From Clinic to Classroom: Preparing Students for Collaborative Intervention" was published in the Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Clinical Supervision: Partnerships in Supervision: Innovative and Effective Practices. Her workshops and invited presentations have ranged from the Southern Tier Area Speech-Language-Hearing Association to the Voices for International Development and Adoption conference in Ecuador. A member of the Ithaca College Teacher Education Committee, she has also served on Faculty Council and as an affiliate of the Center for Teacher Education and the Gerontology Institute. She is coadviser of the College’s chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from California State University, Long Beach.

TENURE AND PROMOTION

Linda Heyne and Susan Swensen were granted tenure and promoted to associate professor.

Heyne, Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Services, joined the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance in 1998 as an assistant professor and has served as acting chair of the department since last year. Before coming to the College she was coordinator for the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota. She has published articles on such topics as "Teaming up with Parents to Support Inclusive Recreation," "Promoting Quality of Life through Recreation Participation," and "Can I Play, Too? Choosing a Community Recreation Program." She is a guest reviewer for the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration and has reviewed a variety of books and software programs on therapeutic recreation. An affiliate of the College’s Gerontology Institute, she is a member of the President’s Task Force on Diversity and the Conduct Review Board, and of the school’s Strategic Planning Committee. She received her doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Swensen, Department of Biology, came to Ithaca College as an instructor in 1995 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1996. Since 1999 she has served as department chair. Her research specialty is plant systematics and evolution. She has published articles in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, American Journal of Botany, and Plant and Soil and is a manuscript reviewer for Conservation Biology and Molecular Biology and Evolution, among other publications. She has collaborated with students on a number of research papers, presenting at such programs as the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Eastern Colleges Science Conference, and annual meeting of The American Institute of Biological Sciences in Quebec. She has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the Nature Conservancy. A member of the executive committee of the School of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Senate and former chair of the C. P. Snow Lecture Committee, she is the faculty coadviser of the Tri-Beta biological honor society. She received her doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College.