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NAICU Board Appointments for 2005-06; Earlham College President Is Named Chair

Earlham College President Is Named Chair

February 10, 2005

A list of the full NAICU board of directors is available online.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The membership of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) ratified the election of 13 new members of its board of directors, and the appointment of new officers and executive committee members, on February 2 at the 2005 NAICU Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Chair of the NAICU Board of Directors

Douglas C. Bennett, president of Earlham College (Ind.), has been elected chair of the NAICU Board of Directors. Vice chair of the board in 2004-05, Bennett succeeds George J. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce College (N.H.), who remains on the board as past chair.

Bennett has been president and a professor of politics at Earlham since 1997. From 1994 to 1997, he was vice president and chief operations officer of the American Council on Learned Societies in New York City. From 1989 to 1993, he was the vice president and provost at Reed College. Growing out of his work at Reed, Bennett helped to create the Portland Area Library System (PORTALS). During 1993-94, he served as the first executive director of PORTALS. Earlier, he was a political science professor at Temple University from 1973 to 1989. Bennett has a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University.

Additional New Officers of the Board

David E. Shi, president of Furman University (S.C.), has been named vice chair

Patrice Werner, president of Caldwell College (N.J.), has been named secretary

Katherine H. Will, president of Gettysburg College (Pa.) has been named treasurer.

Members of the Executive Committee

Seven other board members have been named to one-year terms as members of the board's executive committee. They work with the five officers to spearhead the development and implementation of NAICU's goals and priorities.

Daniel A. DiBiasio, President, Wilmington College (Ohio)
Chair, Student Aid Committee

Toni Larson, Executive Director, Independent Higher Education of Colorado
Chair, National Association of Independent College and University State Executives

Thomas R. Morris, President, Emory & Henry College (Va.)
Chair, Tax Policy Committee

Debra M. Murphy, President, Nichols College (Mass.)
Chair, Accountability Committee

Jon C. Strauss, President, Harvey Mudd College (Calif.)
Chair, Policy Analysis and Public Relations Committee

New NAICU Board Members

Eight new members were elected to three-year terms on the NAICU board, representing the association's national regions:

Debra M. Murphy, President, Nichols College (Mass.)
Region I (Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., R.I., Vt.)

Thomas H. Powell, President, Mount Saint Mary’s University (Md.)
Region II (Del., D.C., Md., N.J., N.Y.)

James T. Harris III, President, Widener University (Pa.)
Region III (Ky., Ohio, Pa., W.Va.)

H. Douglas Lee, President, Stetson University (Fla.)
Region IV (Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C., Va.)

James E. Bultman, President, Hope College (Mich.)
Region V (Ill., Ind., Mich., Wis.)

Loren P. Gresham, President, Southern Nazarene University (Okla.)
Region VI (Ala., Ark., La., Miss., Okla., Tenn., Texas)

Robert A. Oden, Jr., President, Carleton College (Minn.)
Region VII (Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., N.D., S.D.)

Jay A. Barber, Jr., President, Warner Pacific College (Ore.)
Region VIII (Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Hawaii, Idaho, Mont., N.M., Nev., Ore., Utah, Wash., Wyo.)

Four presidents have been named to three-year terms as at-large members of the board:

Victor J. Boschini, Jr., Chancellor, Texas Christian University

R. Judson Carlberg, President, Gordon College (Mass.)

Marianne E. Inman, President, Central Methodist University (Mo.)

Ronald K. Machtley, President, Bryant University (R.I.)

One individual joins four other ex officio members of the board, and begins a three-year term:

Deborah L. Hyatt, Director of Government Relations, University of Chicago

NAICU serves as the unified national voice of independent higher education. Since 1976, the association has represented private colleges and universities on policy issues with the federal government, such as those affecting student aid, taxation, and government regulation. NAICU members enroll 85 percent of all students attending private institutions. With nearly 1,000 member institutions and associations, NAICU reflects the diversity of private, nonprofit higher education in the United States. They include traditional liberal arts colleges, major research universities, comprehensive universities, church- and faith-related institutions, historically black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, single-sex colleges, art institutions, two-year colleges, and schools of law, medicine, engineering, business, and other professions.

Contact

• Tony Pals
  (202) 785-8866
  tony@naicu.edu