Nowak

· Paul Nowak began his duties as vice chancellor for external relations on June 27. He will direct fund-raising, communications and marketing efforts for the campus of more than 3,000 students.

With 15 years of development experience, Nowak spent the last six years as executive director of resource development for Ivy Tech State College's North Central region. He directed strategic planning and fund-raising for Ivy Tech's South Bend, Elkhart and Warsaw campuses. Previously, he worked in development, special events and marketing capacities for regional and national agencies devoted to health and the arts. He also served on an interim basis as assistant to Ken Perrin, the former chancellor of IU South Bend.

Dibie

· Robert Dibie is the new assistant dean of Kokomo's School of Public and Environmental Affairs program. Former director of the public administration program at Western Kentucky University, Dibie is the author of three books, several book chapters, and more than 25 research articles in refereed journals. He has presented more than 50 academic papers in national and international conferences, focusing on issues of sustainable development, public management and policy, and African politics and policies. His forthcoming book, titled Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, "will serve as a basis for understanding development policy and the role of NGOs in community and national economic development in that region," he said. His top priorities will be to develop "a shared governance structure that will engage all interested parties in the success of SPEA," as well as a systematic method of assessing student achievement. SPEA programs, he said, should "engage students with an understanding and respect for the normative, ethical and political environment within which American public policy and administration is conducted."

· Gregory Steel has succeeded Minda Douglas as director of the IU Kokomo Art Gallery. After four years of guiding gallery operations, Douglas will be teaching full time as a lecturer in fine arts. Steel previously directed the Work Exhibition Space for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He will also lecture in fine arts at IU Kokomo.

· The Division of Education has hired Masato Ogawa as an assistant professor of secondary education. In 2004, Ogawa received one of four Teaching 9/11 Best Practices Awards presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He was honored for a lesson plan that looked at the limits of governmental authority during wartime. In the lesson, students consider two examples--U.S. government treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the USA PATRIOT Act, enacted after terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. "Students, using various primary and secondary sources, build their own perspectives on civil liberties and issues of national security," Ogawa said.