Tenure, faculty promotions announced at trustees' meeting


During their Spring meeting last week, TCU Trustees voted on tenure, promotions and granting emeritus status to faculty members.

Faculty granted tenure are Jeannine A. Gailey (Sociology), Melanie L. Harris (Religion), Kiril Iliev Tochkov (Economics), John Michael Bizjak and Thomas Moeller (Finance), Qi Chen and Morgan Lee Swink (Information Systems and Supply Chain Management), Keith M. Hmieleski and Richard L. Priem (Management) and Kylo-Patrick Robert Hart (FTDM).

Also Michael Joseph Heil (Theatre), San-Ky Kim (Music), Richard Keith Lane (Art & Art History), Kathy Ann Baker and Debra A. McLachlan (Nursing), Helge Alsleben (Geology), Zygmunt Gryczinski and Yuri M. Strzhemechny (Physics & Astronomy) and Eric Simanek (Chemistry).

 
Faculty promoted to the rank of professor are Neil Easterbrook (English), Robert Frederick Garnett Jr. (Economics), Kylo-Patrick Robert Hart (FTDM), Frank N. Thomas (Education), Gerald L. Gabel (Music), Paulette Burns (Nursing), Carolyn S. Cagle (Nursing), Suzanne W. Lockwood (Nursing), Meena Shah (Kinesiology), Tracy A. Hanna (Chemistry) and Tristan J. Tayag (Engineering).

 
Those promoted to the rank of associate professor are Jeannine A. Gailey (Sociology), Melanie L. Harris (Religion), Kiril Iliev Tochkov (Economics), Qi Chen (Information Systems and Supply Chain Management), Keith M. Hmieleski (Management), Thomas Moeller (Finance), Michael Joseph Heil (Theatre), San-Ky Kim (Music), Richard Keith Lane (Art & Art History), Debra A. McLachlan (Nursing), Helge Alsleben (Geology) and Yuri M. Strzhemechny (Physics & Astronomy)
 
Beata M. Jones (Information Systems and Supply Chain Management), Susan Bardi Kleiser (Marketing) and Laura Mae Meade (Information Systems and Supply Chain Management) were promoted to the rank of professor of professional practice. Barbara K. Wood (Finance) and Diane Ackall Hawley (Nursing) were promoted to the rank of associate professor of professional practice. Those promoted to the rank of assistant professor of professional practice include Sharon B. Canclini (Nursing), Rose Lea Montgomery (Nursing) and Nancy Lee Moulton (Nursing).

 

Promoted to the rank of Instructor II were Jill Caroline Havens (English), Yumiko Keitges (Modern Language Studies), John R. Lovett (Economics), Mary R. McKinney (Spanish & Hispanic Studies) and Claire Ann Sanders (History & Geography).

 
The following faculty were recommended to emeritus status, effective upon retirement: Larry D. Adams, Kathleen M. Baldwin, Cathy Collins Block, Donald F. Dansereau, David Miller Gunn, Donald W. Jackson, Janet Kelly, Robert Michael Meckna, Donald Ray Nichols, Dennis Dwayne Simpson, Patricia Ann Sloan (posthumous) and Curtis W. Wilson.

 


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