Curriculum Vitae
Education: |
1983 1978 1975 |
Ph.D., with honors, University of Chicago M.A., Marquette University B.A., cum laude, Augustana College (South Dakota) |
Dissertation: |
"Samuel
Johnson's Way of Salvation and the Anglican Context" |
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Employment: |
2008- 1999- 1993-99 1989-93 1984-89 1982-84 |
Associate Secretary/Program Director, American Association of University Professors Professor, Wartburg College (on leave 2008-2009 academic year) Associate Professor, Wartburg College Assistant Professor, Wartburg College Assistant Professor, Lakeland College (tenure awarded 1988) Instructor, Lakeland College |
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Wartburg College: English Composition; Intermediate Composition; Advanced Composition; Modern English Grammars; Human Expression; Views of Human Nature; Introduction to Literature; Introduction to Literary Studies; England: A Literary Tour; The Culture and Politics of Great Britain (Honors College, University of Houston); The Short Story; Major British Authors I, II, and III; The Augustan Age; The Victorian Age; The British Novel; Shakespeare; Seminar: Milton; Seminar: Jane Austen; Seminar: The Brothers Karamazov; Seminar: The Victorian Novel; Seminar: Tolstoy's War and Peace Lakeland College: Writing Workshop, Expository Writing, Persuasive Writing, Introduction to Literature, The Short Story, The Detective Story, Religious Perspectives in English Literature, Survey of English Literature I and II, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Prose Masterpieces, Rise of the Novel, The Victorian Novel, The Modern British Novel, Sophomore Honors, Athens-Rome-Paris |
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Publications: |
with Larry Gerber and Myron Henry, "The Faculty Role in Regional Accreditation: Service on Evaluation Teams." Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. March-April 2008: 92-97. with Daniel Murphy, "Academic Freedom and Tenure: Greenville College." Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. May-June 2006: 71-90. with Donald Pearson, "Academic Freedom and Tenure: Lawrence Technological University." Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. May-June 1998: 56-62. "Sola Fide? Samuel Johnson and the Augustinian Doctrine of Salvation." Philological Quarterly 72 (1993): 185-212. "Samuel Johnson on Human Nature: Natural Depravity and the Doctrine of Original Sin." Word and World 13 (Spring 1993): 136-42. Reply to Donald J. Greene's response to my "Anglicanism in the Age of Johnson." In Eighteenth-Century Studies 24 (Fall 1990): 109-11. Review of N.J. Hudson, Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought. Philological Quarterly 69 (Spring 1990): 255-58. "Anglicanism in the Age of Johnson: The Doctrine of Conditional Salvation." Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1989): 182-207. Thirteen book reviews in Choice (1985-1993). "Richard Jackson: Non-Existent Poet in the DNB." Notes and Queries 27.2 (1980): 141-43. |
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Papers and Presentations: |
"The Classic Conception of Shared Governance." Faculty forum. Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. April 17, 2008. "Faculty Handbooks." Workshop session. Annual meeting of the Ohio Conference of the AAUP. Columbus. April 5, 2008. "Developing Shared Governance." Workshop session with AAUP associate secretary Patrick Shaw. AAUP Summer Institute. University of Nevada, Reno. July 21, 2007. "The Effective Faculty Handbook." Workshop session with AAUP associate secretaries Eric Combest and Anita Levy. AAUP Summer Institute. University of Nevada, Reno. July 20, 2007. "Accreditation and Quality Assurance: The United States Experience." Presentation with Denise Tanguay (Eastern Michigan University). Meeting of the Council of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). Ottawa. April 26, 2007. "The Effective Faculty Handbook." Workshop session with AAUP associate secretaries Robert Kreiser and Eric Combest. AAUP Summer Institute. Portland State University. Portland, OR. July 27-30, 2006. "Constructing the Tenure Portfolio." Workshop for faculty. University of St. Francis. Joliet, IL. December 15, 2005. "The AAUP and Academic Freedom." Faculty Colloquium Series. South Dakota State University. Brookings, SD. October 28, 2005. "Developing Shared Governance." Workshop session with AAUP associate secretaries Robert Kreiser and Patrick Shaw. AAUP Summer Institute. University of New Hampshire. Durham, NH. July 21-23, 2005. "Committee A Issues, including Post-Tenure Review." ASC Workshop for Virginia Conference AAUP. Richmond, VA. September 17, 2005. "The Association's First Committee." ASC Workshop for Mississippi Conference AAUP. Jackson, MS. February 21, 2004. "Is Your Faculty Handbook Faculty Friendly?" Keynote address. Fall meeting of the Iowa Conference AAUP. St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA. October 25, 2003. "The Best Medicine is Preventive Medicine." Keynote address. Fall meeting of the Georgia Conference AAUP. Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA. October 18, 2003. "Assuring Fair Treatment in Tenure Decisions." Keynote address. Spring meeting of the Oklahoma Conference of the AAUP. Edmond, OK. April 5, 2003. "The AAUP Role in Protecting Academic Freedom and Tenure." ASC Workshop for Louisiana Conference AAUP. New Orleans, LA. February 22, 2003. "The Intersection between State and National Committee A Work." Winter meeting of the Minnesota Conference AAUP. University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. January 28, 2003. "Doing Committee A Work at the Chapter and State Levels." With Martin Snyder, AAUP associate secretary. Session at the ASC/CBC Spring Training Workshop. Antioch University, Seattle, Washington. March 23, 2002. "AAUP Standards for Program Discontinuance." Presentation at Graceland College Fall Faculty Workshop. Lamoni, Iowa. August 27, 1998. "Shared Governance at the Small Liberal Arts College." Presentation at the AAUP Governance Conference for Faculty Leaders. Plenary session. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. September 7, 1996. "Johnson's Alleged Augustinianism." Invited paper at the annual meeting of the Johnson Society of the Central Region. Loyola University, Chicago. April 26, 1991. |
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Honors and Awards: |
2008 Edward S. Allen Award, from the Iowa Conference of the AAUP, for "exceptional contributions to the AAUP and the profession of higher education in Iowa and beyond" 2001 Wartburg College Outstanding Advisor Award 1982 Mrs. Giles T. Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (University of Chicago) 1978 "Honors Pass" awarded on M.A. Comprehensive Examination (Marquette University) |
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Professional |
American Association of University Professors Johnson Society of the Central Region |
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Professional |
Member, External Tenure Committee, University of St. Francis (Illinois), February 25-26, 2006, and January 27, 2007 Webmaster, Wartburg College AAUP Website: http://home.mchsi.com/~wartburgaaup/ (winner of the 2007 Outstanding Chapter Website Award, presented by the AAUP Association of State Conferences), 2006- Chair AAUP Ad Hoc Investigating Committee for Greenville College (Illinois), October 2005 Chair, AAUP Nominating Committee, 2005, 2006 Vice-Chair, AAUP Assembly of State Conferences (ASC), 2005-2007 Chair, AAUP Committee on College and University Governance, 2004-2007; 2007- Chair, AAUP Ad Hoc Investigating Committee for Carroll College (Wisconsin), August 2004 Co-coordinator, Wartburg Philosophical and Literary Society, 2003- Consultant-Evaluator, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 2003- Member, Governance Group, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 2001-02 Member-at-Large/Liaison to AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, AAUP Assembly of State Conferences (ASC), 2001-03; 2003-2005; 2007- Member, Executive Committee, AAUP Association of State Conferences (ASC), 2001-03; 2003-2005 Secretary, Wartburg AAUP, 2000-03 Chair, AAUP Ad Hoc Investigating Committee for Lawrence Technological University, October 1997 President, Wartburg AAUP, 1996-2000; 2003-07 Member, AAUP Committee T on College and University Government, 1995-98; 1998-2001 Member, Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, Iowa Conference of the AAUP, 1994- (as chair, 1995-2004) Editor, Iowa Academe (winner of the 1997 Outstanding Conference Newsletter Award, presented by the AAUP Association of State Conferences), 1995- Member, AAUP Ad Hoc Investigating Committee for The College of the Ozarks, May 1995 Member, Executive Committee, Iowa AAUP, 1993-95 Secretary-Treasurer, Wartburg AAUP (winner of the 1994 Beatrice Konheim Award for Outstanding Chapter in Nation), 1992-94, 1994-96 |
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Consulting: |
Bucknell University (PA). Review of Faculty Governance, with William Tierney (USC) and Joan Girgus (Princeton). April 23-25, 2007 |
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Selected Institutional Service: |
Wartburg College: Appointment, Rank, and Tenure Committee, 2003-04 General Education Committee, 2003-2006 Chair, Honors Committee (designed honors program adopted by the faculty in January 2003), 2002-03 Chair, Joint Subcommittee on Faculty Status, 1998-99 Chair, Department of English and Modern Languages, 1997-2000 Faculty Review Committee, 1997-2003 (as chair, 1999-2003); 2006- Chair, Group C (humanities and fine arts faculty), 1996-97 Faculty Council, 1995-97 Faculty Parliamentarian, 1993-2004 Admissions and Scholarship Committee, 1992-95, 1997-2000 Search Committee for Vice President for Student Life/Dean of Students, 1992 Coordinator, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writing Fellows Program, 1991-92 Teacher Education Committee, 1991-92 McElroy Scholarship Committee, 1990-2006 Educational Policies Committee, 1990-92; secretary 1991-92 Coordinator, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program, 1989-2001 Lakeland College: Chair, Department of Language and Literature, 1986-89 Faculty Representative, Trustee-Staff-Faculty Task Force on Marketing Strategy, 1987-88 Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1984-86, 1987-88 Secretary, Faculty Assembly, 1987 Chair, Committee on the Redesign of General Studies, 1987 Chair, Curriculum Review Task Force, 1986-87 Editor, 1986-88 Lakeland College Catalog, 1986 Coordinator, External Review of General Studies program by ACT, 1985-86 |
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References:
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Available on request
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