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FACULTY NEWS
Colby-Sawyer Welcomes
New Faculty Members
The college welcomed seven new faculty members this
fall in its Business Administration, Exercise and Sport
Sciences, Humanities, Nursing, and Social Sciences and
Education Departments.
“Over the past several years, we have undertaken
a concerted effort to increase the size of our full-time
faculty,” says Academic Vice President Deb Taylor.
“We’ve been very fortunate to attract talented new
members of the faculty to deepen and broaden
our curricular offerings and to help us provide our
expanding numbers of students with the personalized
educational experience that is the hallmark of the
Colby-Sawyer academic experience.”
The new faculty members include Jeffrey A. Phillips
(Business Administration); Jeremy Baker (Exercise and
Sport Sciences); Michael Jauchen (Humanities); Margie
Lim-Morison and Lisa E. Wilson (Nursing); and Kathleen
P. Farrell (Social Sciences and Education).
Faculty Members
Awarded Tenure
In May 2009, the Board of Trustees granted tenure
to Associate Professor of Humanities Hester Fuller. The
trustees also awarded tenure to Assistant Professor of
Natural Sciences Semra Kilic-Bahi and promoted her to
associate professor.
Professor Fuller teaches courses in radio and
interactive multimedia and serves as the faculty advisor
to WSCS-FM, the college’s student-run radio station.
Her areas of expertise include media, writing, radio
programming and management, statistical modeling,
multi -media development and applications of new
media technology in education. Professor Fuller holds
a master’s degree from Columbia University and a
master’s degree and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Professor Kilic-Bahi specializes in the mathematics
fields of operator theory and linear algebra. She is the
principal investigator of a National Science Foundation
grant to integrate quantitative literacy into the academic
curriculum and offers presentations and workshops on
using technology in teaching. Her other areas of expertise
include the history of mathematics and interdisciplinary
mathematics. Professor Kilic-Bahi received a B.S.
from Turkey’s Middle East Technical University, an M.S.
from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Ph.D. from
the University of New Hampshire.
8 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE
So Happy Together:
Learning Commons Unites Academic
Support Resources in One Location
The Harrington Center for Career and Academic Advising
has a new home in the Susan Colgate Cleveland Library/
Learning Center, as does the Academic Development Center.
Now under the same roof as the librarians, the Help Desk
staff and the Information Commons area, these academic
resources combine to form the Learning Commons and
enable students to have all their academic support needs
addressed under one roof.
“When the Susan Colgate Cleveland Library/Learning
Center opened in 1985, our concept was to provide students
with learning resources in one central location on campus,”
says Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculty Deborah
Taylor. “All of these years later, we have made yet another
significant step in that direction. This summer, the librarians,
with help from faculty, conducted a significant collection
management process to support the expansion of other elements
of the collection, to permit the initial implementation
of the Learning Commons concept, and to create more space
for student study and group work.”
The Harrington Center, formerly housed in Danforth Hall,
teaches career development skills and provides the resources
and support for students to secure employment, internships
and study abroad opportunities. Director Kathy Taylor reports
increased student traffic in the library with more requests for
reviewing resumes and inquiries about study abroad. She says
that walk-in sessions have proved popular in Harrington’s
convenient new location. Now in the same corridor as the
Academic Development Center, the two centers can more
easily work in tandem.
After trading its space in James House with that of
Information Resources staff in the library, the Academic
Development Center has also been busier than usual this
year, according to Interim Director Caren Baldwin-DiMeo,
and she credits this to the initiative of our students in taking
advantage of the services offered.
The physical restructuring that took place this summer
in the Information Resources/Library and Academic Support
areas has strengthened all the programs involved, creating a
Learning Commons that better serves our students.
100 percent of
Colby-Sawyer’s Class of
2009 nursing graduates
passed the National Council Licensure
Examination (NCLEX), which is a challenging
standardized exam that each state board
of nursing uses to determine whether or not a
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candidate is prepared for entry-level practical nursing.