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Excerpts from Board of Trustees Chair Samuel Ewell, Jr.’s Remarks “There were several fundamental at tributes that the search committee sought in the person who ultimately would be selected to serve as presideiit. First and foremost is scholarship. I am delighted to report that the candidate we selected is an educator and a scholar in every sense of the word. Holder of a doctorate in English literature with an emphasis in technical and professional communication, she - and yes, the President-elect is a woman - has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level at four different universities as an assistant professor, tenured associate professor and tenured full professor of English. She has written or edited four books, with a fifth under contract, been published in dozens of scholarly journals and presented at dozens of national and international conferences. “While we were impressed with her teaching and research qualifications, we were most encouraged by her under standing of where the heart of every successful institute of higher education lies - in the classrooin. “The second requirement is leadership. Again, the President-elect has the proven experience, temperament and creden tials to serve as the leader and senior administrator of Meredith College. Over the past 25 years, she has traveled a path in higher education that has uniquely prepared her for this challenge. She has served as special assistant to the Dean and Vice Chancellor, as Assistant Dean and Interim Vice Provost. In her cur rent position as Senior Vice President, Provost and Professor of English, she has overseen academic and student affairs with responsibility for a university com prising four campuses in two states with eight colleges and schools. “She has worked with regional and na tional government and business orga nizations and established fruitful global partnerships for her institution. She possesses that rare quality of true leader ship - she sees what needs to be done ... and then does it. “The third requirement we set is less quantifiable but no less crucial. The person we selected had to be a believer - a believer in the women’s college model of achievement and excel lence; a believer in the value of faculty-student interaction and collaboration within an atmosphere that fosters those qualities; a believer in the college’s preeminent role in the local, state, national and international community; and, most importantly, a believer in Meredith College. We found that belief deeply ingrained in the President elect, and we are confident that once you have had the opportunity to get to know her, you will discover it as well. “When we found the scholar, the leader, the believer we needed to shepherd Mer edith College into the future, there was one other attribute in this candidate’s vitae that seemed to ensure she was, indeed, the ideal choice. OJ o r CUD a W O a; a; bJO q; a CO ^ a ^ s va c; nj }-i 0) O 4-* ^ W 4 O L-i C3 O PQ Ladies and gentlemen, faculty, staff, stu dents and alumnae, friends and support ers, it is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce our President-elect... and Meredith College alumna. Class of 1980, Dr. Jo Allen.”
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