JBHE: Latest News for 8/10/06

Appointments

• John Sibley Butler, Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, was appointed distinguished scholar and adjunct professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Butler will teach a course entitled “Creative Destruction and Technology: Bringing New Ideas to Market.” He will also develop curriculum and academic programs for an entrepreneurial incubator project between Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering.

• Nels Armstrong was named assistant to the president for special projects at Dartmouth College. Armstrong, who was serving as the college’s director of the Office of Alumni Relations, will now focus on diversity issues.

• Barbara A. McKinzie was installed as national president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the nation’s oldest and largest sorority for black women. McKinzie, a certified public accountant, is deputy director of finance and administration for the Chicago Neighborhood Housing Services.

McKinzie joined the sorority in 1973 while enrolled at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. She later earned an MBA from the prestigious Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

• Melodye Wehrung was named director of social equity at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She was director of equal opportunity programs and compliance at Harvard University.

Dr. Wehrung holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, all from Southern Illinois University. She also earned an MPA from Harvard University.

• Quincy L. Moore was appointed vice president for student services at Palm Beach Community College in Lake Worth, Florida. He was dean of undergraduate studies and student support services for West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

A native of Chicago, Moore is a graduate of Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. He holds a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and a doctorate in counselor education from the University of Iowa.