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June 19, 2007
CONTACT: Ron Podell
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rpodell@emich.edu
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EMU
regents approve 48 faculty promotions, grant
tenure to 30
YPSILANTI - The
Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents granted
promotions for 48 faculty members and tenure for
30 at its regular meeting June 19.
Faculty who apply for promotion are evaluated
by standards provided in the Eastern Michigan
University/Eastern Michigan University – American
Association of University Professors (AAUP) master
agreement and individual evaluation documents
established for each academic department. Evaluation
standards address instructional effectiveness,
scholarly and/or creative activity and service.
Newly-hired tenure-track faculty, who are on
probation, are evaluated annually in accordance
with the EMU/EMU AAUP’s contract. Faculty
are evaluated on instructional effectiveness,
service and scholarly and/or creative activity.
Favorable probationary evaluations and a favorable,
final full evaluation lead to a recommendation
for tenure.
Of the 30 newly-tenured faculty, 27 also were
on the list of those promoted.
Faculty who were promoted and granted tenure
are:
- Lois Mahoney, associate professor,
accounting and finance;
- Andrew Maniotes, associate
professor, art;
- Steven Francoeur, associate
professor, biology;
- Lawrence Kolopajlo, associate
professor, chemistry;
- Harriet Lindsey, associate
professor, chemistry;
- Sock Chung, associate professor,
computer information services;
- Benjamin Keller, associate
professor,, computer science;
- Krishnakumari Narayanan,
associate professor, computer science;
- Christine Tanner, associate
professor, communication and theatre arts;
- Abigail Coykendall, associate
professor, English language and literature;
- Robin Lucy, associate professor,
English language and literature;
- Christine Clark, associate
professor, geography and geology;
- Hugh Semple, associate professor,
geography and geology;
- Crissie Frye, associate professor,
management;
- Dawn Pearcy, associate professor,
marketing;
- Bingwu Wang, associate professor,
mathematics;
- Judith Kullberg, associate
professor, political science;
- Claudia Petrescu, associate
professor, political science;
- Steven Huprich, associate
professor, psychology
- Vijaykumar Mannari, associate
professor, School of Engineering Technology;
- William Moylan, associate
professor, School of Engineering Technology;
- Jianhua Wang, associate professor,
School of Engineering Technology;
- Karen Carney, associate professor,
special education;
- Sarah Ginsberg, associate
professor, special education;
- Jacquelyn McGinnis, associate
professor, special education;
- Nancy Copeland, associate
professor, teacher education;
- Ethan Lowenstein, associate
professor, teacher education.
Faculty members who received promotions and their
new titles are:
- Peter Bednekoff, professor,
biology;
- Steven Pernecky, professor,
chemistry;
- Matthew Evett, professor,
computer science;
- William Sverdlik, professor,
computer science;
- Lori Burlingame, professor,
English language and literature;
- Rebecca Sipe, professor,
English language and literature;
- Hitomi Oketani-Lobbezoo,
professor, Foreign Language and Bilingual Studies;
- Michael Bradley, professor,
geography and geology;
- Jill Dieterle, professor,
history and philosophy;
- Elizabeth Broughton, professor,
leadership and counseling;
- Suzanne Dugger, professor,
leadership and counseling;
- Ernest Behringer, professor,
physics and astronomy;
- Paul Leighton, professor,
sociology, anthropology and criminology;
- David Clifford, professor,
School of Health Sciences;
- David Thomas, professor,
School of Health Sciences;
- Mark Ragg, professor, School
of Social Work;
- Philip Rufe, assistant professor,
School of Engineering Technology;
- Anthony Adamski, professor,
School of Technology Studies.
- Lidia Lee, professor, special education.
Faculty members who received tenure appointments
only include:
- Byron Bond, professor, communication
and theatre arts;
- Anthony Aristar, professor,
English language and literature;
- Perry Francis, associate
professor, leadership and counseling.
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