November 24, 2004
Search
Committee Announces Semi-Finalists For
President of Ramapo College
(Mahwah) – The Ramapo College of New Jersey Presidential Search
Committee today released the names of five semi-finalists for Ramapo
College president. They are:
Dr. Paul R. Keys, provost, vice president for academic affairs and
student affairs, Governors State University (Illinois); Dr. Alexandra
Woods Logue, provost, vice president for academic affairs, New York
Institute of Technology; Dr. Peter Philip Mercer, former dean of
the law school and vice president for administration at the University
of Western Ontario; Dr. Daniel N. Nelson, dean, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of New Haven; and Dr. Judith A. Ramaley, former
president ofPortland State University and
the University of Vermont. There were a total of 90 nominees and applicants for the position.
Each candidate has been invited to the campus for a two-day, intensive
program of meetings with various campus organizations and representatives
and an open forum.
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December
2 and 3: Alexandra Woods Logue
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December
7 and 8: Paul R. Keys
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December
9 and 10: Peter Philip Mercer
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December
13 and 14: Daniel N. Nelson
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December
20 and 21: Judith A. Ramaley
The
Ramapo College Board of Trustees will select the new president
after the final search committee recommendations have been made. Final
recommendations of the search committee are
expected on December 21.
Brief Biographies
Dr. Paul R. Keys is
provost and vice president for academic
affairs and student affairs at Governors State University (Illinois). Previously,
he was a professor and associate provost for community service and
service learning and dean of the College of Health and Human Services
at Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Keys also has served
on the faculty of Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work (New
York) and was a member of the doctoral faculty, CUNY Graduate Center. He
is a Vietnam-era veteran, holding the rank of captain in the U.S.
Air Force, where he was a missile combat crew commander. Among
other publications, he has co-authored New Management in Human
Service (National Association of Social Workers, 1988, 1995)
and School Social Workers in the Multicultural Environment – New
Roles, Responsibilities, and Educational
Enrichment (The Haworth
Press, 1994). He is a graduate of St. Louis University (B.S.,
Political Science and M.S.W.) and earned a Ph.D. in urban education/human
resources management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr.
Keys also has attended the Harvard University
Institute for Educational Management and
has been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar.
Dr. Alexandra Woods Logue is
provost/vice president for academic affairs,
and dean of the graduate school at the New York Institute of Technology. She previously served as dean, Weissman School
of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College; chair of the Department of
Psychology, SUNY Stony Brook; and visiting scholar scientist at Columbia
University. Also at Stony Brook, she held positions as associate
dean and professor. She was a National Science Foundation Graduate
Fellow at Harvard University. She is a recipient of the Hake
Award (from the American Psychological Association),
and the Science Book of the Year Award (in
Germany) for her book, Psychology of
Eating and Drinking (Freeman, 1986, 1995). In addition,
she is the author of Self Control: Waiting Until Tomorrow for
What You Want Today (Prentice Hall, 1995) as well as more than
100 book chapters, papers and articles. She earned a Ph.D.
in experimental psychology from Harvard University
and an A.B. magna cum laude in psychology,
also at Harvard.
Dr.Peter
Philip Mercer has served both as dean of
the law school and vice president for administration
and general counsel at the University
of Western Ontario, where he is a professor of law. He also has served as acting vice president for external
affairs at Western Ontario and acting director ofdevelopment. A
former visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan, he
has been a faculty member at the University of Calgary, the University
of Detroit, and the University of Windsor. Dr. Mercer has received
a Law Faculty Teacher of the Year Award at the University of Western
Ontario and a Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Association
of University Business Officers. He is the author of Products
Liability in Canada (Oceana, 1988); and co-author of An Introduction
to Business Associations in Canada (Carswell, 1984). In
addition, he has authored numerous articles, book chapters and reviews. His
recent publications have focused on the legal profession and legal
ethics. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge,
earned an L.L.M. at the University of Cambridge
and an L.L.B. at the University of Western
Ontario, where he was awarded honors in English and Philosophy. He
is currently on a study leave serving as principal consultant to
the Ontario Ministry of Finance on integrated supply chain management
in the Ontario public sector.
Dr.
Daniel N. Nelson is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at
the University of New Haven and was the founding director of graduate
programs in international studies at Old Dominion University (Virginia).
From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Nelson served in the
U.S. Department of State and Department
of Defense in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as William
Foster Fellow working on conventional arms negotiation and later,
as scholar in residence at the National Defense University’s
National Security Education Program. He also has been president/CEO
of Global Concepts, Inc.; editor-in-chief
of the scholarly quarterly International
Politics; and senior foreign policy advisor, Office of the Majority
Leader, Richard A. Gephardt, U.S. House of Representatives. He is
the author of Threats and Capacities (Palgrave, 2004), The
Balkan Imbroglio (Westview Press, 1991), Romanian Politics
in the Ceausescu Era (Gordon and Breach, 1989), Elite-Mass
Relations in Communist Systems, (Macmillan and St. Martin's,
1988), and Alliance Behavior in the Warsaw Pact (Westview
Press, 1986), among other books and articles. He holds a Ph.D.
and M.A. in political science from The Johns
Hopkins University and a B.A. in political
science and history from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Judith A. Ramaley is
currently assistant director for education
and human resources at the National Science Foundation. She
previously held positions as president and professor of biology at
two institutions: the University of Vermont and Portland State University
(Oregon), where the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution
praising her “exemplary service” to the university. Prior
to that, she was executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas,
vice president for academic affairs and acting president at the University
at Albany (SUNY). She was a member of the faculty of the University
of Kansas, the University at Albany and the University of Nebraska
Medical Center. She is the author of Covert Discrimination,
Women in the Sciences (Westview Press, 1978), Essentials of
Histology (C.V. Mosby Company, 1974), more than 60 scientific
journal articles as well as numerous journal
articles and book chapters on higher education
including a half dozen publications this past year alone. Her current writings deal with education and leadership
and science education. She earned a Ph.D. at the University
of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from
Swarthmore College.
Detailed
information about the candidates is available
on the Ramapo College Web site, www.ramapo.edu. Click
on “Presidential search.”
It is expected the new president will be appointed effective July
2005.
