Fresh faces in faculty

Sara Mettlen
Staff Writer
Mar. 4, 2004, Page 3

Four new professors will be on campus in August.
According to Maureen Franklin, Vice President of Academic Affairs, three full-time faculty members have been hired for next year:

• Brad Elder, who will replace the retired Robert Wikel.
• Pete Lipins, who was on a temporary basis but has now been named to the ongoing position in economics.
• Kurt Runestad, who will replace Larry Monson after his retirement as choir director.

The search has begun for the fourth position, a new secondary education professor.
Lyn Forester, Chair of the Education Division, said the department already has advertisements for the position in the Lincoln Journal-Star, the Omaha World-Herald and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Before any of this can begin however, Forester said the division had to get permission from the Cabinet to hire a new faculty member. Gaining approval is done working most closely with Franklin and President Fred Brown.
After getting the Cabinet’s consent, the chair of the department writes a job description and advertising begins.
The next step to fill the secondary education position will be Franklin appointing a search committee.
“They [the committee] usually are people in and out of the division and a student” Forester said.
Forester said that the search committee looks through every file that comes in.
“We usually pick between three and four people to bring in and make a selection from those,” Forester said.
“We are looking for a person who will work with under graduates and with our alternative certification program,” Forester said. “They will need to have a secondary teaching background.”