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6/20/05

MARGARET KENT BASS INTERIM STUDENT LIFE DEAN AT SLU

CANTON – St. Lawrence University President Daniel F. Sullivan has announced 
that Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs 
Margaret Kent Bass has been appointed interim vice president and dean of student 
life and co-curricular education. She will continue to oversee the University's 
Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), Collegiate Science and Technology 
Entry Program (CSTEP), and McNair, Presidential Diversity Scholar and Jeffrey 
Campbell Fellows programs.
	Vice President and Dean of Student Life and Co-curricular Education M.L. 
Petty recently began a year-long administrative sabbatical, after which she will 
leave the University. She has held the position since 1998.
	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. 

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