SEC Announces 2014-15 Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows

BISEC_new_logo-copyRMINGHAM, Ala.  Forty-eight faculty members and administrators from Southeastern Conference universities have been selected as 2014-15 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program fellows.

The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program is a professional development program that seeks to identify, prepare and advance academic leaders for roles within SEC institutions and beyond. It has two components: a university-level development program designed by each institution for its own participants, and two three-day, SEC-wide workshops held on specified campuses for all program participants.

This year’s workshops will be Oct. 13-15 at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and Feb. 18-20, 2015, at Texas A&M University in College Station.

The SEC ALDP is managed locally by a liaison, who is designated by provosts to serve as the primary point of contact on each campus. Liaisons lead their fellows through the yearlong SEC ALDP and organize university development opportunities.

“The SEC ALDP, through formal workshops and on-campus activities, aims to provide future academic leaders the opportunity to learn and develop the skills needed to meet the challenges of academic leadership,” said Peter Ryan, the program liaison at Mississippi State University and chair of the SEC ALDP.

Since its inception in 2008, SEC ALDP has graduated more than 230 faculty and academic administrators, and program alumni have become deans and provosts at universities around the SEC and country, including Laurence Alexander from the University of Florida’s 2012-13 cohort who is chancellor at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program is part of SECU, the conference’s academic initiative. SECU serves as the primary mechanism through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of SEC universities are promoted and advanced.

The 2014-15 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program fellows are:

Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama, associate dean of social sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

Diane Johnson, University of Alabama, senior associate dean, Culverhouse College of Commerce

Alice March, University of Alabama, associate dean for graduate programs, College of Nursing

Joseph Phelps, University of Alabama, department chair, Communication & Information Sciences

Micah Hale, University of Arkansas, associate department head, Civil Engineering

Bart Hammig, University of Arkansas, department chair, Health, Human Performance & Recreation

Cynthia Sagers, University of Arkansas, associate vice provost for research, Biological Sciences

Kathryn Sloan, University of Arkansas, department chair, History

DeWayne Searcy, Auburn University, director, School of Accountancy

Bret Smith, Auburn University, interim associate dean for academic affairs,

College of Architecture, Design & Construction

Ana Franco-Watkins, Auburn University, undergraduate program director, Department of Psychology

Mark Law, University of Florida, director, Honors Program

Robert Ries, University of Florida, director, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction

Melissa Harshman, University of Georgia, director, First Year Odyssey Program

Stephen Miller, University of Georgia, director, Bioimaging Research Center

Judith Wasserman, University of Georgia, director, Advanced Visualization Initiative

Kimberly Ward Anderson, University of Kentucky, associate dean for administration & academic

affairs, College of Engineering

Karen Badger, University of Kentucky, associate dean of academic & student affairs, College of Social Work

Kathryn Cardarelli, University of Kentucky, associate dean for academic & student affairs, College of Public Health

Andrew Hippisley, University of Kentucky, director, Linguistics Program

Jacqueline Bach, LSU, Elena & Albert LeBlanc Professor, English Education & Curriculum Theory

Troy Blanchard, LSU, associate dean, College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Joan King, LSU, undergraduate curriculum coordinator, School of Nutrition & Food Sciences

Meghan Sanders, LSU, associate dean for sponsored research & programs, Manship School of Mass Communications

Virginia Rougon Chavis, University of Mississippi, department chair, Art

Amy Wells Dolan, University of Mississippi, associate dean, School of Education

Steven Skultety, University of Mississippi, department chair, Philosophy & Religion

Donna West-Strum, University of Mississippi, department chair, Pharmacy Administration

David Dampier, Mississippi State University, director, Distributed Analytics & Security Institute

Mark Lawrence, Mississippi State University, associate dean, College of Veterinary Medicine

Rebecca Long, Mississippi State University, interim associate dean, Graduate School, College of Business

David Morse, Mississippi State University, interim department head, Educational Psychology

Heidi Appel, University of Missouri, senior associate director, Honors College

Bryan Garton, University of Missouri, associate dean, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources

Christopher Hardin, University of Missouri, department chair, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

Matthew Martens, University of Missouri, interim division executive director, College of Education

Christy Friend, University of South Carolina, director, Center for Teaching Excellence

Augie Grant, University of South Carolina, J. Rion McKissick Professor of Journalism

Robert Ployhart, University of South Carolina, Bank of America Professor of Business Administration

Sara Wilcox, University of South Carolina, director, Prevention Research Center

William Dunne, University of Tennessee, associate dean for research, College of Engineering

Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee, Faculty Senate president

Brent Mallinckrodt, University of Tennessee, associate dean for graduate studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Lane Morris, University of Tennessee, associate dean for undergraduate programs & student affairs, College of Business Administration

Richard Kreider, Texas A&M University, department head, Health & Kinesiology

Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University, director of graduate studies, Performance Studies

David Threadgill, Texas A&M University, director, Whole Systems Genomics Initiative

Douglas Woods, Texas A&M University, department head, Department of Psychology