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4/9/07

SLU FACULTY APPOINTED TO ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS

CANTON - Two faculty members at St. Lawrence University have been appointed to key administrative posts: Associate Professor of Psychology Catherine A. Crosby-Currie has been named associate dean of the first year, effective July 15, and Associate Professor of English Margaret Kent Bass has been named associate dean of the University's new Center for Diversity and Social Justice, for a three-year term beginning July 1. Both will continue to teach classes, in addition to their administrative duties.

Crosby-Currie will succeed Associate Dean of the First Year and Professor of Economics Steven G. Horwitz, who has served in the position for six years. A member of the faculty since 1996, she holds a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College and earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and the Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. The author of several articles about the relationship between psychological and constitutional issues involving families and children, Crosby-Currie has worked with Horwitz researching economics and psychology. She has also worked with the St. Lawrence Wellness Initiative to promote healthy life choices by students. In 2001, she received the Louis and Frances Maslow Award, which goes to the faculty member who has shown "the most interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the student body as a whole."

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. In 2003, Bass was named associate dean for faculty affairs. She gave the inaugural "First Lecture," a talk marking the beginning of the academic year, in 2001, and was co-director of the St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts in 2003. Bass also served as the interim dean of student life, in 2005-06, and has twice been selected by members of the graduating class as the Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award winner. She won the Maslow Award in 2006.

The mission of the Center for Diversity and Social Justice, a collaboration between the academic and student life divisions, is to foster an understanding and appreciation of diversity on campus and in the community in which the campus resides. In addition, the center will provide activities, interactions and learning experiences that encourage intellectual and practical understandings of social justice.

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