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October 12, 2004

College News

by Evan Silverstein

GLENSIDE, PA — Jerry M. Greiner has joined Arcadia University  (formerly Beaver College) as its 19th president. The former provost of Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, is a practicing clinical psychologist. The Arcadia Board of Trustees named Greiner, 54, president in January following a national search. He replaces Bette E. Landman, who retired after 18 years as president and more than three decades of service to Arcadia. 

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BANNER ELK, NC — Lees-McRae College  recently announced that Earl J. Robinson left the presidency of the college effective Oct. 1. The school’s Board of Trustees announced that David W. Bushman, currently the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, has been appointed interim president. Bushman joined Lees-McRae College in June after serving Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, MD, the past 13 years, most recently as Dean of Academic Services. A committee will be appointed to search for a new president.

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BATESVILLE, AR — The Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie, a former chaplain of the U.S. Senate, will be keynote speaker at the annual Founders Day convocation at Lyon College on Oct. 23. The Presbyterian pastor, author and motivational speaker will also receive an honorary degree at the convocation. The next day he’ll preach the sermon at the Kirkin’ O’ the Tartans worship service. Both events are part of the LyonFest weekend of activities for alumni, students, parents, friends of the college, and the entire community. Ogilvie served eight years as the Senate’s chaplain and has authored more than 50 books. He served for 23 years as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Hollywood, CA, and had a nationally syndicated radio and television ministry for 17 years.

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SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Natasha Saje, associate professor of English at Westminster College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia during the 2004-2005 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Saje has taught English at Westminster since 1998 and directs the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks poetry series. She will study contemporary Slovenian writers, work on a book of poems, and teach a class on modernity and the arts. Saje is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program.