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07483 August 7, 2007
College news
by Evan Silverstein Presbyterian News Service
GREENEVILLE, TN - Recently retired Hanover College president Russell L. Nichols has been named interim president of Tusculum College [http://www.tusculum.edu/] here. The hiring of Nichols, who was to start his new job August 1, was announced last month by Tusculum College Board of Trustees Chairman Kenneth Bowman. Nichols, who is a Presbyterian elder, just completed his 20th year as president of Hanover College in Hanover, IN, which like Tusculum is a Presbyterian-related institution. At the time of his retirement in June, Nichols was the 14th president in Hanover's 179-year history and only its fifth since 1879. Tusculum College had been led during the spring and summer on an alternating and cooperative basis by two board members with administrative experience in higher education. The duo temporarily replaced Dolphus E. Henry III, who officially resigned as Tusculum's president last month after being placed on a paid leave of absence for undisclosed reasons by the college trustees in May. That came after the Tusculum faculty voted no confidence in Henry in February.
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DECATUR, GA - Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College, [http://www.agnesscott.edu/] has been elected to Duke University's Board of Trustees effective July 1. Before being named president of Agnes Scott last year, Kiss (pronounced "quiche") was the founding director of Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics and an associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy. The Kenan Institute for Ethics is a university-wide initiative at Duke that supports the study and teaching of ethics and promotes moral reflection and commitment in personal, professional, community and civic life. A 1983 graduate of Presbyterian-related Davidson College in Davidson, NC, Kiss earned a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University in England in 1990.
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HASTINGS, NE - Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has appointed Hastings College [http://www.hastings.edu/] president Phillip Dudley, Jr., to the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission. Dudley will serve a three and a half-year term. The commission oversees the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications statewide public broadcasting network of radio and television stations.
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CALDWELL, ID - Albertson College [http://www.albertson.edu/] of Idaho has received a $25,000 grant from the Northwest Area Foundation Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation. The money will provide tuition assistance for low-income Hispanic students in southwest Idaho, according to a press release posted on the school's Web site. Albertson College will award 25 $1,000 scholarships to students by June 30, 2008. "This award is an important component of Albertson College of Idaho's ongoing efforts to serve Hispanic students in our area," the school's president Bob Hoover said. "Canyon County has one of the fastest growing populations of Hispanic students in Idaho. It's important that we find ways to support them and encourage their growth and success."
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BLOOMFIELD, NJ - The Westminster Arts Center at Bloomfield College [http://www.bloomfield.edu/] was host to an HBO Films casting call on July 28 for the upcoming movie starring Kevin Bacon called "Taking Chance." More than 600 people filed through the arts center that day as casting directors snapped digital photos of each of them and cast extras for several scenes in the movie being filmed in New Jersey this month. "Taking Chance" is about Lt. Col. Michael Strobl who volunteered to return the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps, killed in Iraq, to his family in a small Wyoming town. Some Bloomfield faculty and staff have friends and family that actually got cast in the movie, according to the school's Web site.
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ALMA, MI - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be the keynote speaker at the 2007 Robert D. Swanson Responsible Leadership Speaker Series at Alma College [http://www.alma.edu/] on Sept. 12. Her speech will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Hogan Physical Education Center on the Alma campus. Admission is free and open to the public. The speaker series, launched in September 2006, brings prominent leaders to campus for discussions. Nominated by President Bill Clinton on Dec. 5, 1996, Albright was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as the 64th Secretary of State on Jan. 23, 1997 - the first female secretary of state and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States government. From 1993 to 1997, she served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the president's Cabinet. Currently, Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm.
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GLENSIDE, PA - Representatives from Arcadia University [http://www.arcadia.edu/] and the East African Community (EAC) jointly opened the Nyerere Centre for Peace Research [http://www.arcadia.edu/news/default.aspx?id=4301] on July 11 in Arusha, Tanzania. The center is a research facility located at the site of the EAC headquarters that aims to build capacity for regional peace and conflict resolution with projects including refugee management and security training. The EAC is the regional intergovernmental organization of the republics of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. The EAC's goals include widening and deepening cooperation among partner states in political, economic and social fields. Students in Arcadia's International Peace and Conflict Resolution program worked for more than a year to establish the center, Arcadia president Jerry Greiner said on the university's Web site. In addition to Arcadia students and faculty being located in Arusha, students on both continents will work collaboratively via the school's new interactive technology to create "live classrooms" and share project-based research.
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