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Indiana University
Below are the results of the recent Alliance Co-Chairs and Steering Committee elections for 2009. The new Co-Chairs and Steering Committee will take office beginning October 1, 2009 for a three year term. We wish to thank everyone who participated in the 2009 election.
IUB:
Co-Chair:
Michael Grossberg
Steering Committee:
John Bodnar
Edward G. Carmines
Ellen Ketterson
Jeffrey A. Wollin
IUPUI:
Co-Chair:
John I. Nurnberger, Jr.
Steering Committee:
Victoria L. Champion
Howard J. Edenberg
Eleanor D. Kinney
William M. Tierney
Co-Chair:
I am happy to have been nominated to serve as Co-Chair of the Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors. I believe very strongly in faculty governance and have spent much of my academic career involved in faculty advocacy organizations like the AAUP. I think the Alliance has become a stronger voice in campus decision-making and I would like to help extend its influence. Such a voice is needed now more than ever because of the severe challenges facing all of us at IU. Especially in times like these the faculty must ensure that the university remains committed to excellence and to its core principles. We must champion the recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty, support for path-breaking research in all disciplines and schools, funds that enable us to attract excellent students throughout the university, and the provision of first-rate research and teaching facilities. We must also make sure that fundamental values like academic freedom are not compromised in times of increased administrative and public scrutiny. I would like to help the Alliance fight for those goals.
Steering Committee:
The Alliance is uniquely positioned to contribute to the teaching, research, and service missions of Indiana University. I am interested in contributing to discussions that will help find the resources necessary to support outstanding programs in the teaching, research, and service missions of the university. It is also important to uphold traditional academic values at a time when many interests vie for scarce university resources.
Indiana University, like all successful universities, needs an organization that encourages and promotes excellence in all spheres of its activity. This is the role that the Alliance is uniquely capable of fulfilling. With all of the external demands, expectations, and challenges that confront the modern research university from adequate funding for classrooms and labs to the need to recruit a diverse and capable student body it is necessary to have an organization that gives voice to the excellence that should be the hallmark of all of our efforts and activities. This need is even more acute today as universities face extremely difficult economic conditions that threaten their daily operations and in some cases their very survival.
Ellen Ketterson received her A.B.(1966), M.A.(1968) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees from Indiana University. She pursued post-doctoral studies at Washington State University, taught briefly at Bowling Green State University, and joined the faculty at IUB in 1984 as Associate Professor. She was promoted to Distinguished Professor of Biology in 2006. She is also affiliated with the Program in Cognitive Sciences, the Human Biology Program, and the Department of Gender Studies.
(The above paragraph was taken from Professor Ketterson's biographical information.)
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to serve on numerous College and University committees and for eight years I was Director of the School of Fine Arts. I've been a member of the Alliance since 1999 and have felt during that time that the Alliance has yet to realize its potential to initiate and lead discussions between faculty, upper administration and trustees on issues of academic excellence, research and creative activity and the role of arts and humanities in a research university. These are obviously difficult economic times with many challenges ahead for IU. Nevertheless, the Alliance can and should take a leadership role in helping to guide the university forward.
Co-Chair:
John Nurnberger Jr. is Joyce and Iver Small Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. He is the Irwin Research Scholar Awardee for 2009. Dr. Nurnberger has been a member of the Alliance since 1996 and has served on the Steering Committee for the past four years. His academic interests are in the genetics of psychiatric disorders, especially affective disorders, substance use disorders, and autism. His work in these areas has been continuously funded by NIH since 1989, and he coordinates several multisite collaborative studies on the genetics of bipolar affective disorder. He serves as Director of the Institute of Psychiatric Research and Vice Chairman for Research in the Department of Psychiatry.
I believe the Alliance can be a forceful and influential voice for Excellence at Indiana University. This is possible if we concentrate on areas of shared interest and avoid fragmentation. We should champion the agenda of bringing Indiana into the forefront of national Research Universities, and should encourage the recognition of Scholarship at all levels.
Steering Committee:
Victoria Champion, DNS, RN, FAAN, has over 20 years of experience conducting research in the area of breast cancer screening interventions. Dr. Champion's research, funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute for Nursing Research, and the American Cancer Society, has focused on testing a variety of tailored and non-tailored interventions to increase mammography screening participation and adherence. Outcomes of her research demonstrate strong tailoring intervention effects for increasing mammography utilization. Dr. Champion's work has been theoretically based in the Health Belief Model and the Transtheoretical Model, and she pioneered the development of instruments based on Health Belief Model constructs to measure benefits and barriers to breast cancer screening as well as breast cancer fear. Dr. Champion's work in breast cancer screening has influenced and been translated to the work on colorectal cancer screening. Dr. Champion is also leading a large 5 year study to identify quality of Life indicators for women diagnosed with breast cancer at 45 or younger and those diagnosed between 55 and 70. Dr. Champion received the Irwin Research Award in 2007. Nationally, she has served on many study sections and was appointed by President Bush to a 6 year appointment to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
The Alliance is a collection of scholars in many different disciplines, united by their pursuit of excellence. The diversity of expertise should enable it to be a significant resource for the University, a generator of new ideas and an advocate for policies that advance the goals of excellence in all aspects of University life. To do that, we need to provide more opportunities for Alliance members to share ideas and work on common goals. An annual meeting and dinner are not enough. We are all busy, but many would embrace the opportunity to join together to advance initiatives that cut across common University issues. I would be happy to play my part as a member of the Steering Committee.
As presumably the most distinguished professors of Indiana University, the Alliance should be actively concerned about excellence in the teaching, research, scholarship and service work of Indiana University. The Alliance should develop positions in a transparent and democratic manner on important issues that pertain to the university's research, scholarship and educational missions. The Alliance should also speak out when it perceives that the administration or trustees have gotten off tract. The Alliance should also use its annual meeting to enable alliance members to engage with the leadership of the university in a frank and forthright manner. In sum, the Alliance should serve as a resource of wise counsel and thoughtful analysis for the Indiana University.
Dr. Tierney received a B.A. degree (biological sciences) from Indiana University in 1973 and an MD from IU in 1976. After completing his residency in internal medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1979, he was Chief Resident at Wishard Memorial Hospital from 1979-1980. He joined the IUSM Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics in 1980 where he has been a clinician-investigator focusing on the application of information technology in medicine and its effects on the quality, efficiency, and costs of health care. Dr. Tierney is a Senior Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute and a practicing hospital physician at Wishard Hospital.
(The above paragraph was taken from Professor Tierney's biographical information.)