New and Familiar Faces

New Face

Job Description:

Professor and chair

Worked at KSU since:

June 2014

Employment Prior to Kent State University:

I have worked at several universities, the latest being the University of North Dakota

Likes Most About Kent State University:

What I like most about Kent State is the campus and the people.

Attraction to Kent State University as an Employer:

It is a great university that seems to be performing admirably in the current higher education environment.

Resides in:

Stow, Ohio

Hometown:

Paris, Kentucky

Education:

B.B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky

Hobbies:

Golf, hunting and lake activities

Familiar Face

Job Description:

Professor of international and multicultural education in the cultural foundations graduate program and undergraduate teacher education

Worked at KSU since:

August 1989

Employment Prior to Kent State University:

University of South Florida, Cleveland State University, China University for Science and Technology, local school districts, Freedom House street academy.

Likes Most About Kent State University:

Academic freedom in the curriculum, faculty governance, commitment to first-generation students of diverse backgrounds

Attraction to Kent State University as an Employer:

Tenure-track position that matches my fields of interest, AAUP and faculty governance

Resides in:

Cleveland, Ohio

Hometown:

Hamburg, Germany

Education:

Comparative Education Ph.D. and M.A., Hamburg University; B.S. Secondary Education, Foreign Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hobbies:

Founder of the Guanlan Scholarship Foundation supporting village girls’ education in remote China, skiing, hanging out with my husband and teenage daughter, caring for my 94-year old mother in my home