The university welcomed three new deans and announced several other major appointments this
spring.
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| Raymond Tymas-Jones |
Raymond Tymas-Jones, director of the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa, was
named dean of the College of Fine Arts effective July 1. He graduated magna cum laude from
Howard University in 1977 with a bachelor of music degree and earned a master's and doctorate
from Washington University. Tymas-Jones succeeds James Stewart, who has served as interim
dean since September 1995.
James Louis Heap, chair of the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education at the
Ontario In
stitute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, was named dean of the
College of Education, also effective July 1. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in social sciences at
the University of California-Santa Barbara, and master of arts and doctoral degrees in sociology at
the University of British Columbia.
James Fonseca, director of George Mason University's Prince William Campus in Manassas, Va.,
since 1992, was appointed dean of the university's Zanesville regional campus. He be
gins work in
the fall. Fonseca, who has a doctorate in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Mass.,
replaces Craig Laubenthal, who retired in December after 26 years with the university. John
Kelbley, MA '66, has served as interim dean.
In other appointments on campus:
- Carol Blum, associate vice president for research and graduate studies, will serve a second
one-year term as interim vice president of that division after an unsuccessful search for a successor.
Blum was app
ointed interim vice president after T. Lloyd Chesnut resigned to accept a position at
the University of Montana. Provost Sharon Brehm will work with Gary Small, professor of
chemistry and chair of the search committee, to develop plans to resume the search next year.
- Douglas Lawrence, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will serve
a one-year term as interim associate provost for information technology. He will oversee Computer
Services, Communication Network Serv
ices and the new Center for Innovation in Technology for
Learning. Tom Daniels, associate provost for space and planning, had served in the interim position
for eight months while a national search was conducted. But an appropriate candidate was not
found and the university will begin another national search in the fall.
- Ralph Amos, formerly assistant vice president for marketing and alumni societies for the Ohio State University Alumni Association Inc., was
named the university's executive director of alumni relations in April. Amos had worked at Ohio
State since 1990.
- Pam Vander Ark, AB '86, MA '90, previously assistant director of alumni services in the Office of
Alumni Relations, is the university's new director of purchasing. She supervises a staff of 12
responsible for procuring all goods and services used by the university.
- Patricia McSteen, BFA '89, MED '91, PHD '97, was named assistant dean of students after
serving as interim as
sistant dean for one year. She worked in the Division of Student Affairs as a
graduate associate in charge of special projects and served as a resident director at Clarion
University in Clarion, Pa., from 1991 to 1993.
