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Faculty Senate officer candidate bios Spring 2014 Candidates for the office of President (vote for one) Matthew Schneirov, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology) -- I have been on the Duquesne faculty for over twenty years in the sociology department. During these years here I have published two scholarly books and articles in leading sociology journals. I have also been a founding member of CIQR (Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research) as well as currently the coordinator of CIQR’s Certificate Program. I have also been active in helping to establish the Jewish Studies minor (we are waiting on approval) and teach an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust. In terms of service I have been active on the Faculty Senate for well over a decade, serving as the McAnulty School’s representative on the executive committee for twelve years. During this period I was central in efforts to change the faculty handbook; successfully removing parts of the “insubordinate clause,” protecting student rights during election campaigns, trying to advance the cause of faculty governance in Dean search committees and trying to strengthen the Grievance Committee among other things. Over the past three plus years I have been President of Duquesne’s AAUP (American Association of University Professors) chapter, which I helped to establish. The chapter has grown to become one of the largest in the state. During this four- year period, we have had successful faculty forums (often with the Faculty Senate) on academic freedom, shared governance, removing the “insubordination clause” from the handbook and, most recently, faculty unionization. My efforts on both the Senate and the AAUP are motivated by our shared values in protecting academic freedom, shared governance and our system of tenure. I have also served as our College’s representative to the IRB for one year. Finally, I am currently chair of the Grievance Committee and have been for the past two years. I hope, if elected as Faculty Senate President, to follow in the footsteps of Paula Witt-Enderby and Nick Cafardi in ensuring that the Senate remains a strong and vigorous voice for the faculty and for our shared values. Diane Williams, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Speech- Language Pathology and Anna Rangos Rizakus Endowed Chair for Heath Science and Ethics) -- I have been a faculty member in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Duquesne University since July 2006. I teach coursework in Child Language Disorders and am the Program Director for the Child Language Clinic. I conduct research in cognitive and linguistic processing in autism spectrum disorders with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. I have been the recipient of external funding including several grants from the National Institutes of Health, serving as the managing principal investigator for most of these. I have been the Rangos School of Health Sciences Faculty Senate Executive Committee Representative since 2012; the school representative to the University Library Committee for the past 5 years; and a member of the President’s Awards Committee for the past 2 years. I have served as the faculty advisor to the Best Buddies Student Organization (the campus chapter of an international organization that promotes inclusion, respect, and awareness of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities which involves students across campus) since 2011. I have also performed ad hoc services for
the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Institutional Review Board and have served on numerous School and Departmental committees. During my career, I have worked as an instructor at Bowling Green State University, as a clinical lecturer at Indiana University at Bloomington, and as a clinical speech-language pathologist at the University of Louisville, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. This background provides me with sensitivity to the issues and concerns of members of the faculty at differing appointment levels, an aspect that is particularly important at this time in the history of the university. I seek election as the President of the Faculty Senate because I think its role as the collective voice of the faculty is an essential one for the continued growth and improvement of our university community. Shared governance is important to the academic and spiritual health of the university and must be exercised if it is to be a reality. As President, I would work to facilitate communication between the faculty and the administration so that we can continue to work toward our mutual goals of an academically strong and nationally and internationally visible university while promoting the issues and concerns that are important to the faculty. Candidates for the office of Vice-President (vote for one) Maryellen Kelly, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Marketing) Maryellen Kelly has been a full time member of the Palumbo/Donahue Schools of Business since F02. She teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate classes, both on ground and on line, within the Marketing, Sports Marketing and Entrepreneurship division. She was a founding faculty member of the Masters of Sports Leadership Program (MSSL). She has served the Palumbo Schools on a variety of committees, including her most recent work in Assurance of Learning. She is among the Sports Marketing division faculty members who will be hosting the NASSM (National Society for Sports Marketing) conference in May 2014. She is active on social media (www.twitter.com/DrMEKelly_DUQU). As Faculty Senate Vice-President, Dr. Kelly will continue the professionalism and clear communications style demonstrated by outgoing VP. She seeks to include a faculty voice in the many areas that are impacting the higher education landscape and the faculty profession. She is particularly interested in the role that accrediting bodies (e.g. Middle States and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business) play in shaping faculty workloads and faculty career paths. Dr. Kelly has served as a Business School representative to the Faculty Assembly since 2006. She was recently elected to the Faculty Senate to complete the unexpired term of her retired Palumbo/Donahue colleague, Emeriti Faculty Dr. Jan Saykiewicz. She is the Chair of the Online Education Committee, which formally begins its work the week of January 21. She has also served the Faculty as an Assembly appointee to the University Benefits Committee since 2006. She was one of two Faculty Senate Appointees to the Middle States Periodic Review Committee in 2013. Currently, she is a member of the University Magazine Advisory Board and assists the University Judicial Affairs Board as needed. She has served as a faculty judge in support of Student Services scholarship judging. She has served the University as an invited Search Committee member for several staff positions. From 2002 to
2004, she was part of the University's first Service Learning Committee and was part of the committee to host the 2003 Service Learning Conference. A graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh Year VI, Dr. Kelly's community service includes a past Board position on the Coro Center for Civic Education and a term on the St. Malachy Parish Finance Council. Her primary community partner in class projects and personal service is Bethlehem Haven, in Uptown. Dr. Kelly served as Alumnae Association President and Alumnae Trustee at Chatham College; culminating positions after 18 years of progressive positions and service to her alma mater. During those years she served on the Presidential Search Committee and the College's Strategic Planning group. She was among the co-founders of Pittsburgh's Women's Business Network and served the National Association of Women Business Owners as the Pittsburgh representative to their National Board. Dr. Kelly earned a doctorate in Management and Entrepreneurship from The Union Institute and University, where she studied with Dr. Donna Wood and Dr. Candida G. Brush. She holds an M.B.A. in Marketing from The Ohio State University and an undergraduate degree in Communications from Chatham College. She was invited as an Order of Omega member by the undergraduates of Pittsburgh college where she taught business classes from 1987 through 1994. H.M. (Skip) Kingston, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) -- Dr. H.M. (Skip) Kingston joined DU in 1991 and has been a Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department and is one of the founders of the Environmental Research and Education Center in the BSNES of Duquesne University. He received his BS degree in chemistry education and MS degree in analytical chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in analytical chemistry (Department of Chemistry) and environmental science and management (Biology Department) from the American University. Prof. Kingston is also the Director of the Center for Analytical Chemistry and Microwave Research and Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry which focuses on research at Duquesne University in mass spectrometry and bioanalytical chemistry. This is Prof. Kingston’s second career as he spent 15 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and 18 months as Congressional Science Fellow in Washington DC where he advised Congress in matters within the Science and Technology and Energy and Commerce Committees. During this period he was substantially involved in the passing of US Radon Radiation Protection Law. His research at Harvard’s School of Public Health on the US radon problem, then organizing data and scientifically supporting the Congressional Hearings resulted in the enactment of the current radon law that prevents approximately 50,000 brachial cancer deaths each year. After returning to NIST, he founded the Consortium on Automated Analytical Systems (CAAL) - the first non-profit government consortium funded by stakeholders that typically have competing or adverse positions. Among the more than a dozen members of CAAL were research universities, multi-national companies and the US national laboratories. Under Prof. Kingston’s directions, the consortium produced many ASTM and other standards that helped and promoted science and commerce in the US. While at NIST, he was an adjunct professor at The American University and the University of Maryland with graduate students and post-doctoral students from each and from the National Research Council (NRC). Professor Kingston has served on National Academy of Science (NAS) committees producing critical research reports for U.S. Government Policy. His current research is in environmental human health focused on
several childhood environmentally related non-communicable diseases such as autism, an area of research he recently finished a clinical study of children with a collaborator at the Children’s Institute. Prof. Kingston continues pursuing clinical research with several national hospitals, institutions and medical research universities, such as Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and The Children’s Institute. He also helped founded the first start-up company of Duquesne University under a license to his patents. He produced more than a dozen patents and published in excess of 150 papers and books and 20 national and international analytical methods. Prof. Kingston has been involved with intellectual property policy and management within government, universities and private industry for over 25 years. He has been serving in the Faculty Senate for the past six years including three years as a member of the executive committee. Professor Kingston Chairs the Intellectual Property Committee and provides oversight of the related policies involving intellectual property of the faculty at Duquesne University.
Magali Michael, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of English)-- I have taught at Duquesne for over twenty years (since 1992). During that time I co-founded with a colleague the Women's & Gender Studies Program at Duquesne in 1999, subsequently served as one of its Co-Directors from 2003-2007, and continue to serve on its Steering Committee. Within the English Department, I served as Director of Graduate Studies from 1997-2001 and as Chair from 2007-2013. I have served on the Faculty Senate as a College of Liberal Arts Representative from 2006-2010 and from 2012 to the present. I have also been an active member of the university-wide Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research as well as a member of the Provost's Social Justice Committee while it existed from 2002-2009. The latter included sitting on an Ad-Hoc Committee on Diversity, which set up the now permanent Advisory Committee to the President on Diversity in Spring 2005. I envision the Faculty Senate engaging in shared governance of the University by striving to be proactive rather than merely reactive. The faculty needs to think collectively about what it wants its role to be and how it wants to participate in governance and then work with the new Provost to bring that vision to fruition.
Candidate for the office of Secretary (vote for one) Anne Burrows, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy) – I have been a faculty member at Duquesne University since 2002 in the Dept. of Physical Therapy where I teach human gross anatomy. I have been serving with the Faculty Senate since 2008 when I was elected as an Assembly representative from the Rangos School of Health Sciences. In 2010 I was elected as an Executive Committee representative and chaired the Contingent Faculty sub-committee of the Faculty Senate for two years. After my term as Executive Committee representative expired, I was elected Faculty Senate Secretary During my time as Secretary I represented the Faculty Senate on the Periodic Review Report committee for Middle States. I am currently seeing re-election to this office. During my time as Secretary I have strived to increase active participation of faculty members in the Faculty Senate and to
continually improve collegial relations between university administrators and faculty members in shared governance.
Candidate for the office of Treasurer (vote for one) Nancy Trun, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Biology)
Candidates for Faculty Senate representatives to University Budget Committee (vote for two) Charles Hanna, Ph.D. (Director, Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy and Department of Sociology) Dr. Hanna has been at Duquesne University since 1984 and serves as one of the two current Faculty Senate representatives to the University Budget Committee. David Tipton, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Administration and Director of Weekend Pharm.D. Pathway Program, Pharmacy) Dr. Tipton is Director of the Post Baccalaureate Weekend Doctor of Pharmacy Program and director of the program in Health Care Supply Chain Management. This is a joint program with the Duquesne University School of Business. George Worgul, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Theology) George Worgul is a tenured professor in the Theology at Duquesne, He has been teaching at the University for 36 years. He has served as chair of Theology twice (1988-1993 and 2006-2012). He created and administered the Duquesne University Family Institute from 1996-2005. Recently, he has become the University Coordinator for African Academic Programs (2012--). He has been the Faculty Representative on the University Benefits committee for 20 years and University Budget Committee 2012-2014). He is the first faculty member to represent the faculty on both committees simultaneously. This experience has lead him to propose the establishment of a University Total Compensation Committee which would bring greater planning to salary increments and raises.
