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24-March-1997 
97137 
 
                           College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
DUBUQUE, Iowa,--Scott Brondyke has been named vice president of finance of 
the University of Dubuque. Brondyke joined the university as staff 
accountant in 1991 and was promoted to controller in 1993.  Having passed 
his CPA exam in 1994, he earned his M.B.A. from the University of Dubuque 
in May 1996. He replaces Tracy Wagner, who was named vice president for 
finance and treasurer at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. 
 
MONTREAT, N.C.--Montreat College has been awarded $42,000 from the Lettie 
Pate Whitehead Foundation to provide college scholarships for women in the 
1997-98 academic year. The Atlanta-based, private charitable foundation is 
dedicated to the support of women in nine southeastern states and provides 
scholarship grants to schools and colleges for qualified students as well 
as grants to institutions servings the needs of older women.  
 
JAMESTOWN, N.D.--Jamestown College has established a Center for Ethics and 
Character. The center will annually host  national speakers on campus, 
continuing a pattern set in September 1995 when the college hosted Michael 
Josephson of the distinguished Josephson Institute of Ethics. Dr. Gary 
Watts, professor of religion-philosophy, will serve as director of the 
center. "Mr. Josephson's address to nearly 900 students on campus generated 
overwhelmingly positive response and set the precedent for further ethics 
initiatives," said Dr. Jerry Combee, vice president and academic dean."With 
the encouragement of students, faculty, staff and the trustees, we were 
inspired to form the Center for Ethics and Character." 
 
TULSA, Okla.--The trend toward economic globalization and the resulting 
increases in multinational business operations was the focus of the sixth 
annual international conference "Multinational Business in the 21sth 
Century: Cultures and Transitions," held recently at the University of 
Tulsa. More than 20 speakers from business, higher education and government 
led the conference, which explored such themes as the task of management in 
balancing ethics and business strategies in different cultures and the 
roles and responses of higher education in preparing today's students for 
tomorrow's workforce.  Speakers included Luis Giusti, president of 
Petr"leos de Venezuela, the national oil company of Venezuela; Marshall 
Loeb, editor-at-large of  "Fortune" magazine; Isaac Hunt, a member of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission; Luis Winter, consul general of Chile to 
the United States; J.M.  Guillaume, Europe/Africa region manager with 
Phillips Petroleum Co. in Brussels; Eduardo Andere, executive director of 
the U.S.-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange; and 
Charles Griffin, president and general manager of Kodak de Mxico. 

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