Newsline: Devorah Lieberman named University of La Verne's 18th president
From CoBNews <CoBNews@brethren.org>Date Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:32:14 -0600
Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org DEVORAH LIEBERMAN NAMED UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE'S 18th PRESIDENT (Dec. 16, 2010) Elgin, IL -- Devorah Lieberman has been selected to be the 18th president of the University of La Verne (ULV), a Church of the Brethren-related school in La Verne, Calif. She will be the first female president in ULV's 119-year history when she begins in the position on June 30, 2011, following the retirement of president Stephen C. Morgan. Lieberman has a 33-year career in higher education. Since 2004 she has served as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y. Prior to her time at Wagner, she spent more than 16 years at Portland (Ore.) State University as a faculty member in the Department of Communication Studies and an administrator. From 2002-05 she was one of 13 national scholars selected to participate in the Project on the Future of Higher Education. She has chaired the American Council on Education (ACE) International Collaborative, has been an ACE Institute Facilitator and an Institutional Representative chair for the New American Colleges and Universities, and has served on an advisory board for the National Review Board for Civic Engagement. Along with her administrative duties, she has continued to teach and one course co-taught online with a professor in Greece, "Intercultural Business Communications," earned her the American Council on Education "Bringing the World into the Classroom" award in 2010. ULV held a special event introducing Lieberman to the campus community on Dec. 8. The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to continuing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and Pietist faith traditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches. It celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts some 123,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India. ># # # >For more information contact: >Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford >Director of News Services >Church of the Brethren >1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120 >800-323-8039 ext. 260 >cobnews@brethren.org