UNL News Releases 10/30/98




Contact: Richard Edwards, Sr. Vice Chancellor
Academic Affairs
(402) 472-3751
Irv Omtvedt, Vice Chancellor
IANR
(402) 472-2871

SEARCH COMMITTEE FOR HRFS DEAN ANNOUNCED

Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 30, 1998 - Fourteen people have been appointed by Richard Edwards, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Irv Omtvedt, vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, as members of a search committee to fill the deanship of the College of Human Resources and Family Sciences.

Richard Durst, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts, will chair the committee.

Other members are Richard Bischoff, assistant professor, family and consumer sciences; Roger Bruning, Velma Warren Hodder professor, educational psychology; Timothy Carr, assistant professor, nutritional science and dietetics; Sheran Cramer, associate professor, family and consumer sciences; Pat Crews, professor, textiles, clothing and design; Keith Parker, associate professor, sociology; Kathleen Prochaska-Cue, associate professor, family and consumer sciences; Brad Reynolds, undergraduate student, dietetics major; Marilyn Schnepf, associate professor and chair, nutritional sciences and dietetics; Carol Thayer, professor and extension educator, South Central Research and Extension Center; Wendy Weiss, associate professor, textiles, clothing and design; Susan N. Williams, extension educator, Southeast District; and Pauline Zeece, associate professor, family and consumer sciences.

Omtvedt and Edwards said a member of the community and an undergraduate student will be added to the committee.

The committee will recommend finalists to the two vice chancellors with the hope that an appointment is made by summer 1999. Karen Craig, current dean of the college, plans to retire at the end of the academic year.


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