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2/17/03

NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN APPOINTED AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Vice President and Dean of 
Academic Affairs Grant Cornwell has announced the appointment 
of Associate Professor of English Margaret Kent Bass as associate 
dean for faculty affairs. She will begin a three-year term in the 
position on July 1.
	Every three years, a tenured member of the University 
faculty is appointed to the associate dean position, which works 
to facilitate the professional development endeavors of the faculty 
and to support the work of the Academic Affairs office in general. 
It has been held since 1998 by Associate Professor of Psychology 
Kim Mooney, whose term was extended through this academic year.
	Announcing the appointment of Bass to the position, 
Cornwell stated, "In addition to attending to the duties regularly 
assigned the associate dean for faculty affairs, Margaret will 
focus on helping our faculty become more diverse and our 
community more welcoming of diversity. As many of you will 
recall, Margaret served for two years at St. Lawrence as the 
director of multicultural affairs and assistant professor of 
English before serving for several years on the faculty of the 
University of Iowa. This combined experience has equipped 
Margaret with unique expertise; she is an accomplished teacher 
and scholar who also knows a great deal about the complex 
workings of multicultural affairs."
	A graduate of Wilmington College, Bass holds a master's 
degree from the University of Mississippi and earned the Ph.D. 
from Louisiana State University. She was a faculty member at 
Vanderbilt University prior to coming to St. Lawrence as 
assistant professor of English and director of multicultural 
affairs in 1993. Bass left St. Lawrence in 1995 to teach at 
the University of Iowa, and returned to the faculty at 
St. Lawrence in 2000. She gave the inaugural "First Lecture," 
a talk marking the beginning of the academic year, in 2001. 
This year, Bass was co-director of the St. Lawrence University 
Festival of the Arts, which focused on the culture and 
traditions of the United States' coastal sea islands, a topic 
of her academic research.

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