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March 24, 2008
College news
Ronald L. Carter CHARLOTTE, NC — Johnson C. Smith University Board of Trustees has announced that Ronald L. Carter will become the university’s 13th president on July 1. Carter will leave Coker College in Hartsville, SC, where he has served as provost and dean of faculty since 1997. He succeeds Dorothy Cowser Yancy who has led the school since 1994. Carter brings to his new position more than 30 years experience serving students and universities along with an “impressive record of community leadership, academic administration and budget management,” the school said on its Web site. Upon graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1971, Carter began his career at Boston University’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, where by 1981 he rose to become the school’s youngest dean of students. In the late 1980s, Carter helped relatives of Nelson Mandela gain admission to U.S. colleges and in doing so was compelled to work in South Africa. Prior to Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and the abolition of apartheid, Carter was named director of health services at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Within five years he became the school’s dean of students — and one of the first black administrators at the traditionally white institution.
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Bishop Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios ALMA, MI — Bishop Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios, founder and leader of the U.S.-Canada Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church of India and a much-beloved professor of religious studies at Alma College for the past 25 years, died Feb. 23, in Newcastle, England. He was 81. The Bishop was in England for his annual pastoral visit to the parishes in the United Kingdom and Ireland when he sustained serious injuries in a traffic accident on Jan. 5. He remained hospitalized until his passing. Traditional church services and burial took place in India March 2 and 3. A memorial service is planned at Alma College for April 6 at 1 p.m. in the Dunning Memorial Chapel on campus. Makarios was a teacher and advisor at the school where his flowing red robes made him a well-recognized presence on campus. He began teaching at Alma College in 1983, launching a 25-year association as professor of religious studies, committed to introducing students to differences between Eastern and Western modes of religious thinking.
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Jim Lewis SHERMAN, TX — Jim Lewis, who has served as vice president for Institutional Advancement at Austin College for the last 13 years, announced this week that he has accepted the position of vice president for development at the University of Texas at Arlington effective May 15. As vice president for Institutional Advancement, Lewis oversees the offices of Development, College Relations, and Alumni and Parent Relations. Thanks to his efforts, said Austin College President Oscar C. Page, the school has enjoyed “significant success in the fundraising area.” This includes the completion in 2004 of a $120 million campaign, the largest in the history of Austin College. Prior to his arrival at Austin College, Lewis served in a similar capacity at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS, where he was executive director of development for two years before becoming vice president.
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WAUKESHA, WI — Construction is under way on a 264-bed residence hall for Carroll College on the College Avenue site of the former Waukesha Rubber Company. The four-story, 66-unit residence hall, at 324 W. College Ave., is also at the site of the former Clysmic Spring, which operated during Waukesha’s famous Springs Era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Water from the spring was shipped to New York by tanker car, bottled and served in fine city restaurants. The construction completion date is Aug. 1. Carroll students will occupy the building beginning in fall semester 2008. |
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