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NAICU Membership Elects 2008-09 Officers, Board

NAICU Washington Update

February 8, 2008


Members of NAICU have selected 15 new board directors and four board officers for 2008-09.  

Leading the board as chair for the coming year will be Victor J. Boschini, Jr., chancellor of Texas Christian University.  His one-year term began with the ratification of his selection at the NAICU annual meeting on February 6.  Boschini succeeds Leslie Garner, president of Cornell College, Iowa, who remains on the board as past chair.  

Walter D. Broadnax, president of Clark Atlanta University, has been named vice chair.  Serving as board secretary will be Georgia Nugent, president of Kenyon College.  Joseph McGowan, president of Bellarmine University, will serve as treasurer.

Eight new members were elected to three-year terms representing NAICU’s national regions:

  • Rev. Brian J. Shanley, president, Providence College, R.I. - Region I (Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., R.I., Vt.)
  • Baird Tipson, president, Washington College, Md. - Region II (Del., D.C., Md., N.J., N.Y.)
  • Peyton R. Helm, president, Muhlenberg College, Pa. - Region III (Ky., Ohio, Pa., W.Va.)
  • William T. Greer, president, Virginia Wesleyan College, Va. - Region IV ( Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C., Va.)
  • Daniel J. Carey, president, Edgewood College, Wis. - Region V (Ill., Ind., Mich., Wis.)
  • Roger Parrott, president, Belhaven College, Miss. - Region VI (Ala., Ark., La., Miss., Okla., Tenn. Texas)
  • R. Alton Lacey, president, Missouri Baptist University, Mo. - Region VII (Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., N.D., S.D.)
  • Thomas L. Hellie, president, Linfield College, Ore. - Region VIII (Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Hawaii, Idaho, Mont., N.M., Nev., Ore., Utah, Wash., Wyo.)


Named to three-year terms as at-large members of the board are:  Pamela Jolicoeur, president, Concordia College at Moorhead, Minn.; Jennifer Braaten, president, Ferrum College, Va.; John DeGioia, president, Georgetown University, D.C.; and Larry Earvin, president, Huston-Tillotson College, Texas.

Serving a three-year term as a representative of the National Association of Independent College and University State Executives (NAICUSE) is Judith Greiman, president, Connecticut Conference on Independent Colleges.  Gary Luhr, executive director of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities, was selected to serve a three-year term representing the NAICU Secretariat, an advisory board of specialized and regional independent college and university associations.

Ellen Smith, director of government relations at Columbia University, N.Y., will serve a three-year term as a non-voting member of the board.