We have so much happening on campus this month – from Experience Meredith last weekend to Celebrating Student Achievement and Faculty/Staff awards. I thank everyone who is involved in making these celebratory events so successful.

In addition to all of this activity in April, we ended the month of March with the spring Board of Trustees meeting. I have generally reported on the outcomes of the Board of Trustees meeting – so that will be my focus in this note. The Board met on March 25-26 and took the following actions:

• Approved changes in the Investment Committee statement of responsibilities
• Approved the Budget Assumptions for 2011-12
• Elected Nancy Cheek chair of the Board and Maureen O'Connor vice chair of the Board for 2011-12
• Elected the chair/vice chair of each committee
• Academic & Campus Life (Deb Dove Smith, chair, Randall Lolley, vice chair)
• Board Affairs (Gary Trawick, chair, Lou Tippett, vice chair)
• Business & Finance (Carolyn Leith, chair, Hulene McLean, vice chair)
• Institutional Advancement (Alex Holmes, chair, Betty Raft, vice chair)
• Investment (Jim Taylor, chair, Gene Langley, vice chair)
• Outreach (Paula Sims, chair, Greg Bennett, vice chair)

• Approved the following promotion/tenure/sabbatical/emerita(us) recommendations
• Promotion to full professor
• Jennifer Hontz and Cammey Manning
• Promotion to associate professor
• Karthik Aghoram and Debora Maldonado-DeOliveria
• Promotion to assistant professor
• Kristin Watkins
• Tenure granted
• Karthik Aghoram, Matthew Stutz
• Multi-year contracts granted
• Laura Fine and Marge Terhaar-Yonkers
• Sabbaticals granted
• Diane Ellis and Monica McKinney
• Emerita/emeritus status granted
• Rebecca Bailey, Susan Gilbert, Ellen Graden, Rosemary Hornak, Jack Huber,
Barbara True-Weber and Betty Webb

I hope that you will congratulate our newly promoted and tenured faculty members and those going on sabbatical and retiring.

As you probably know the budget committees and the strategic planning committee have been meeting regularly and hope to have reports back to the community later in April.

 

In this Issue:

Meredith Campus to Celebrate Student Achievement April 14
Tony Award Winner Twyla Tharp to Speak at Meredith April 13
Five Simple Ways to Work Sustainably at Meredith
Own a Part of Meredith's Heritage
From the President’s Desk
Faculty/Staff Accomplishments
Upcoming Events
News Briefs

Have you presented research or attended a professional meeting recently? Has your department earned an award? Share news of these accomplishments and more with the Meredith community. Faculty and staff are invited to email items to Melyssa Allen, “Campus Connections” editor, at allenme@meredith.edu.