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4/15/02

GRANT CORNWELL APPOINTED V.P., DEAN AT SLU

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Professor of Philosophy 
Grant H. Cornwell has been appointed vice president and dean 
of academic affairs, effective July 1, President Daniel F. 
Sullivan has announced.
	A 1979 graduate of St. Lawrence with majors in philosophy 
and biology, Cornwell earned his master's degree and Ph.D. 
from the University of Chicago, and returned to St. Lawrence 
in 1986 as a member of the philosophy department. He was named 
associate dean of the first year in 1992, a position he held 
through 1997. Cornwell has also been project co-director of the 
Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation grant in Intercultural 
Studies, from 1995-1999, and continues as project co-director 
of the Ford Foundation "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area 
Studies" grant. 
	Most recently, Cornwell worked in the development of 
the new major in Global Studies. He has been involved in nine 
grant projects, and is now, or has been, involved with the Caribbean 
and Latin American Studies Program, the study abroad program 
in Trinidad, the Academic Affairs Committee, the Professional 
Standards Committee, Faculty Council, and the Adirondack Semester, 
among others. In 1989, he received the Louis and Frances Maslow 
Award for his interest in, and understanding of, the education 
and welfare of the student body. 
	Cornwell is co-editor of two books, Global Multiculturalism: 
Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation and 
Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship 
in Higher Education, and is co-author of the monograph Globalizing 
Knowledge: Connecting International and Intercultural Studies. 
Nationally recognized for his work in defining liberal learning 
in a global environment, Cornwell is a member of the National 
Advisory Board for Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The 
Arts of Democracy, a national three-year faculty and curriculum 
development initiative of the Association of American Colleges 
and Universities. He received the Outstanding Freshman Advocate 
award from The National Resource Center for Freshman Year 
Experience in 1995.
 
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