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New faculty and staff at Dalton State College gathered this
week for orientation, the faculty retreat, and student
registration. Pictured on the front row, from left to right,
are: April Krumnow, Kasey Sissom, John Fowler, Kathryn
Pridemore, Kerri Allen, Jeannie Parker Beard, Lizabeth
Austen-Jaggard, Jerry Drye, Kristen Wentworth, Cheryl
Larsen, Samiksha Raut
and Traci Hardeman Bramlett. On the back row are: Dean
Turner, Christian Griggs, Merry Boggs, Sara Stokes,
Ashley Burse, Robert Culp, Jason Schmurr, Paul Fonstad, Chad
Prevost, and Spencer Zeiger.
New faculty and staff members were recently welcomed to Dalton
State College during a week of faculty orientation activities on
campus.
“This fall we are particularly excited about welcoming the Bandy
Chair of History to campus as we initiate the Bandy Heritage
Center,” said Dr. John Hutcheson, Vice President for Academic
Affairs, noting that 25 new full-time teaching faculty and staff
members have been hired for fall.
“And we are pleased to welcome new faculty to fill positions to
support our four new bachelor’s degree programs that have been
added this fall – chemistry, English, history, and criminal
justice. These new instructors show every promise of sustaining
the high standards and superior achievement that we have come to
expect at Dalton State.”
The newly-created Bandy Chair in History will be filled by John
D. Fowler, who will serve as Director for the Bandy Heritage
Center and Professor of History for the College. He will be
joined by Heather Howell, who will serve as Assistant Director
for the Center.
The School of Sciences and Mathematics will see the largest
increase in faculty because of the increase in enrollment in the
College’s bachelor’s degree programs in mathematics and biology,
and because a new bachelor’s degree program in chemistry has
been added to the curriculum after being approved by the Board
of Regents earlier this year. Four new faculty members in
mathematics, two in biology, and one in chemistry will be
welcomed this fall.
Joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Mathematics is
Jason P. Schmurr. Bruce A. Davis will be a Lecturer in
Mathematics, and Paul C. Fonstad and Kathryn S. Pridemore will
be Instructors in Mathematics. April A. Krumnow and Samiksha
Raut are Assistant Professors of Biology, and Dean E. Turner is
a new Associate Professor of Chemistry.
The School of Liberal Arts will likewise see a large increase in
faculty with the addition of three new bachelor’s degrees in
English, history, and criminal justice, which were approved by
the Board of Regents in 2009. Three new faculty members in
English, two in speech, and one in history will begin teaching
this year.
Kerri L. Allen and Chad T. Prevost will be Assistant Professors
of English and Jeannie Parker Beard will serve as Temporary
Instructor of English. New communication faculty members include
Jerry W. Drye and Cheryl Larsen, Assistant Professors of Speech.
Christian A. Griggs is a new Assistant Professor of History.
Joining the School of Business Administration will be Lizabeth
A. Austen-Jaggard, Associate Professor of Accounting, and Robert
P. Culp, Assistant Professor of Economics.
In the School of Education, Dr. Merry Boggs will serve as the
Dean of the School of Education as well as Professor of
Education, and Dr. Shannon Coulter will become Assistant
Professor of Education.
The School of Nursing will welcome Traci Hardeman Bramlett as an
Assistant Professor. Joining the School of Social Work is
Professor of Social Work Spencer J. Zeiger, who will serve as
the Dean of the School. Kasey N. Sissom will be an Instructor in
Licensed Practical Nursing for the School of Technology.
New staff members from the Office of Enrollment and Student
Services are Ashley L. Burse, Admissions Recruiter, and Kristen
A. Wentworth, Director of Residence Life and Judicial Affairs.
Sara Stokes joins the staff of the Derrell C. Roberts Library as
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