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Alison Morrison-Shetlar, dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, was the keynote speaker at the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) held in Ashveille, N.C., Sept. 12-14, 2010.

Faculty members Angela Lewellyn Jones, Beth Warner and Pam Kiser have had two publications on social entrepreneurship and service-learning.

Fourteen ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumni in the Class of 2010 will re-enter the classroom this fall as educators with Teach for America, a national nonprofit that recruits recent college graduates to help erase what it describes as educational inequity found in many urban and rural low-income communities.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, recognized distinguished student and faculty achievement over the past year in a May 6 ceremony.

Job search expert and author Orville Pierson will talk about the best ways to network and search jobs during a presentation on Thursday, April 22, at 4:30 pm in LaRose Digital Theatre.

Pamela M. Kiser, Watts-Thompson Professor in the Department of Human Service Studies and interim dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s fourth Distinguished University Professor.

Alison Morrison-Shetlar, vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla., has been named dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor of biology at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ. Her appointment by Provost Steven House comes after a national search.