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.

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