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Mary
Lee Seibert, associate provost and dean of graduate studies at Ithaca College,
has been named acting provost. She succeeds Thomas Longin, who is on sabbatic
leave from the College and does not plan to return (ICQ, summer 1996).
Seibert joined the College as associate provost in 1990 after nine years as professor and dean of the College of Allied Health Professions at Temple University. In 1992 she took on the responsibilities of dean of graduate studies, which includes the Office of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. Seibert has been responsible for curriculum and academic policy development for the College, has directed community college articulation agreements, and has supervised faculty development.
Certified as a medical technologist, clinical laboratory scientist, and medical assistant, Seibert has been a member of dozens of professional associations. In addition, she has served the American Medical Association in various capacities and is currently a member of the board on health care services for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
She holds a bachelor's degree in medical technology from Indiana University, Indianapolis, as well as a master's degree in education and a doctorate with a major in vocational education and a minor in higher education administration from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Assisting Seibert in the provost's office are two other College administrators: Tanya Saunders, the director of international programs since 1991, has been named assistant provost for special programs, and Garry Brodhead, chair of the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition since 1976, is the new assistant provost and dean of graduate studies.
Saunders
now supervises the Offices of First Year Programs, International Programs,
HEOP/EOP, Minority Affairs, and Academic Support Services for Students
with Disabilities. As director of international programs she had supervised
the College's London Center, advised international students, and coordinated
study-abroad opportunities.
Saunders came to Ithaca from Florida International University, where for four years she served as associate and then acting director of the Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Studies. Prior to that she served for five years as associate dean of FIU's international affairs division. She received a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University and master's and doctoral degrees from Brown University.
Brodhead moved to the provost's office in September. As assistant provost he helps implement community college articulations, works directly with faculty development, and supervises the revision of the undergraduate catalog, among other duties. His responsibilities as dean of graduate studies include approval of all applications for admission and evaluation of all graduate theses. He earned a bachelor's degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and master's and doctoral degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington.
In addition, Larry Metzger, M.S. '87, has been appointed dean of enrollment planning. Metzger, who has been with the College since 1975, was named director of institutional research in 1983 and had been director of institutional research and enrollment planning since 1992. As coordinator of the College's enrollment planning efforts for many years, he had supervised the Offices of Admission, Financial Aid, the Registrar, and Institutional Research. Along with those areas, the Office of the Bursar now reports to him. Metzger holds a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University in addition to his master's degree from Ithaca.
Amy Sonnenfeld Teel and Martha Gray were appointed to fill the positions vacated by Saunders and Metzger. Named assistant director of international programs in 1988, Teel has taken over the directorship. Gray, the new director of institutional research, joined the College as a researcher in 1988 and had been associate director of enrollment planning since 1994.
The
College recently filled vacancies in the two offices most involved with
serving students of color. Keeon Gregory is the new director of the Office
of Minority Affairs, and Ethel David has just begun as director of the
Higher Education Opportunity Program/Educational Opportunity Program.
Gregory, who joined the College on July 15, oversees programming, retention efforts, and counseling for students of color. He has also been directing initiatives among the greater campus community to build awareness of issues concerning cultural diversity.
Gregory comes to Ithaca from Wittenberg University, where as assistant to the president for minority affairs he had responsibility for all minority student campus programs. Previously he was associate dean of admission/director of minority student admission at Wittenberg. He holds a bachelor's degree in social work and counseling from Ohio State University and a master's in personnel administration from Ball State University.
David is responsible for administering the academic and operational activities of H/EOP, including the development and maintenance of counseling, tutorial, and study skills services designed to facilitate student growth and upward mobility.
Since 1989 David had served as the director of Union College's Academic Opportunity Program. She has taught at the University at Albany, Malcolm-King College, and Hudson Valley Community College. In 1982 she founded an educational-research organization, A Universal Being, whose purpose was to strengthen community and family ties and to enhance decision-making skills. She holds a bachelor's degree from Morgan State University and a master's degree from Hunter College.
"Affirmatively Act -- Now!" was the theme of Ithaca College's 11th annual Professionals Symposium, which brought alumni of color to campus to share career information with current students. According to Jill R. Holmes '89, assistant director of the Educational Opportunity Program, this year's theme was "prompted by the national debate on the continuing merits of affirmative action and the aggres-sive attempts to repeal the gains of the '60s."
Beginning with an alumni reception and concluding with a spirited church service, symposium events included a Saturday morning talk by Ithaca city schoolteacher Denise Lee, M.S. '86. In addition, alumni conducted career information panels in the fields of law, business, sports management/recreation, education, health care, the sciences, the arts, human services, and communications. Irvin Nash '72 and leadership gifts officer Debby Cobb introduced the first recipients of the African-Latino Society Alumni Memorial Scholarship, Dana Moore '97 and Edwin Robles '97. New this year was a session at which past and current executive board members of the ALS, Amani Singers, and Kuumba Repertory Theatre exchanged historical perspectives on the organizations.
At the awards banquet Saturday night, some 100 students were honored for their academic achievement, and alumni and members of the campus community were recognized for their support of EOP. Among those honored, Jermaine Cruz '97, Robles, Lenina Rodriguez '97, Rashaand Sass '97, and Tammy Tolle '98 received Montana Morton Memorial Awards for outstanding scholastic achievement. Winners of Exemplary Alumni Awards were Samantha Gordon '89 and Beverly Logan '91. The keynote speaker was a well-known figure -- Nicholas V. Wharton, M.S. '90, who served as the College's EOP director from 1987
until this March. The founder of the Professionals Symposium and other innovative programs at Ithaca, Wharton now directs EOP and special programs at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
At its fall meeting the Ithaca College Board of Trustees elected as its newest member Adelaide Park Gomer, a trustee of the Park Foundation of Ithaca. She is the daughter of foundation president Dorothy D. Park and the late Roy H. Park, who was a 20-year member of the College's board of trustees and its first chairman emeritus.
As a trustee of the Park Foundation, Gomer reviews and awards grants to educational, social, and environmental organizations. She previously taught reading and special education in school districts in the Ithaca, Rochester, and Richmond, Virginia, areas. She was an adjunct faculty member in the Learning Development Center of the Rochester Institute of Technology, and she also served as a research assistant at the New York State Institute for Occupational Education and as an assistant to the dean at the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, both at Cornell University.
Gomer holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a master's degree in education from Longwood College in Virginia. She has done postgraduate work at Cornell, Nazareth College in Rochester, and Notre Dame College in Baltimore. Her community activities have included service to such organizations as the United Way, Literacy Volunteers, Special Olympics, and the National Association of University Women.
The committee charged with helping find the next president of Ithaca College was filled out this fall. The Executive Committee of the Ithaca College Board of Trustees named Craig Bloem '97 and manager of employment services Vicki Estabrook to the student and staff seats, respectively. Chosen for faculty seats on the search committee were Dana Wilson, Charles A. Dana Professor of Music, and Frank Darrow, associate professor of chemistry.
The four new members of the committee join board of trustees chairman and vice chairman Herman E. Muller Jr. '51 and David Sass '57, as well as the previously named members: health sciences and human performance dean Richard Miller '69, M.S. '71, and trustees Irene Gomberg, Robert Joynt, Robert Kur '70, William Schwab '68, and Arlene Makransky Wolff '57.
The search committee met several times this fall and plans to bring
candidates to campus for interviews in the spring semester. In August 1995
President Whalen announced his intention to step down at the end of the
1997 spring semester (ICQ, summer 1995).
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Andrejs Ozolins, January 24, 1997