At their Friday meeting, the BGSU Board of Trustees approved promotion snand tenure for 58 faculty members.
In his remarks, President Rodney Rogers said the actions recognized faculty members’ achievements in teaching, research, creativity acitivity and service.
“All they do for the university allows us to move forward,” he said.
He noted that this work continued during the two years of disruption because of the pandemic.
Actions taken were:
Promotion to Professor
College of Arts and Sciences: H Casey Cromwell, Vipaporn Phuntumart, Timothy Pogacar, Farida Selim, and Theodore Rippey
Firelands: Elsy Kizhakethalackal
College of Education and Human Development: Travis Heggie, Jonathan Bostic, and Sherri Horner.
College of Health and Human Services: Adam Watkins
Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
College of Arts and Sciences: Abby Braden, Julia Halo, Allison Hoag, Ganming Liu, Yanqin Lu, Jenjira Yahirun, and Min Yang.
Firelands: Patricia Prunty
College of Education and Human Development: Christy Galletta Horner, Elizabeth Holman, Kristina LaVenia, Thomas Roberts, and Jared Rose
College of Musical Arts: Caroline Chin, Ryan Ebright, Emily Pence Brown, Daniel Piccolo, and Brian Snow
University Libraries: David Lewis
Promotion to Teaching Professor
College of Arts and Sciences: Holly Bird, Peter Blass, Amy Cook, Bradley Felver, Ryan Gattozzi, Heather Jordan, Ethan Jordan, Amy Wagner, and Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick
Allen W. and Carol M. Schmidthorst College of Business: Katharine Sobota .
Promotion to Clinical Professor
College of Health and Human Services: Margaret Adams
Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor
College of Arts and Sciences: Philip Beskid, Jessica Birch, Daniel Current, Tiffany Knoell, Anastasiia Kryzhanivska, Ekaterina Mejiritski, Marissa Saneholtz, Siobhan Shay, Casey Stark, and Travis Worst.
Allen W. and Carol M. Schmidthorst College of Business: Alisa Suelzer.
College of Musical Arts: Christopher Witulski.
College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering: Mikhail Shilov
College of Education and Human Development: Jessica Kissand and John Zibbel.
College of Health and Human Services: Catherine Pape
Promotion to Associate Clinical Professor
College of Health and Human Services: Matthew Molnar and Sharon Schaeffer
Also at the meeting, trustees granted emeritus status to 17 retired members of the faculty.
Professor Emeriti
Savilla I. Banister, School of Teaching and Learning
Daniel J. Brahier, School of Teaching and Learning
Lewis P. Fulcher, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ruth Wallis Herndon, Department of History
Steven P. Lab, Department of Human Services
Scott O. Rogers, Department of Biological Sciences
Dennis J. Wojtkiewicz, School of Art
Jill Zeilstra-Ryalls, Department of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor Emeriti
Katharine K. Dailey, BGSU Firelands Humanities
Jean Marie Gerard, School of Family and Consumer Sciences
Todd C. Waggoner, Department of Engineering Technologies
James F. Zeigler, Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems
Teaching Professor Emeriti
Ruthy Behare Light, School of Art
Cynthia Jo Mahaffey, Department of English
John C. Moor, BGSU Firelands Humanities
Holly J. Myers, School of Earth, Environment and Society
Gordon C. Ricketts, School of Art
