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The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership
2002
Dr. Jeanie Allen, who earned a Ph. D. in Education with a specialization in Higher Education, will receive an Outstanding Faculty Advising Award during the National Academic Advising Association's annual conference in Chicago in October. Allen is an assistant professor at Drury University and has co-edited three books for Stylus Publishing’s Women in Academe series: The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives, Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy, and Women in Academic Leadership: Professional Strategies, Personal Choices.
School of Management
2007
Lorre Allen, who earned a Master of Business Administration, has become the University of North Texas' director of equal opportunity. In this position, she will manage the university's equal opportunity program, provide training on equal employment issues, manage the university's employment monitoring system to ensure equal opportunity to all job applicants, and work with the director of diversity planning to include equal opportunity in diversity strategic planning.
2007
Dr. Mario Barrett, who earned a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences, wrote a book that made a regional best seller list on Tower.com. Leading from the Inside Out: Using the Barrett Leadership Model to Achieve Sustainable Happiness by Creating and Pursuing the Fulfillment of Your Life's Vision made the Top 25 list on the site's Top 100 United States-New England-Rhode Island list in July.
1995
Dr. Mark Lewandowski, who earned a Ph.D. in Administration/Management (now Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences), has accepted the position of CEO at Curzon, Cumbey & Kunkel, a strategic business and financial planning firm in Tulsa, Okla.
1993
Richard Leonard, who earned a Ph.D. in Administration/Management (now Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences), published the second edition of his book, The Administrative Side of Coaching: Applying Business Concepts to Athletic Program Administration and Coaching (Fitness Information Technology, 2008).
School of Psychology
2003
Dr. Karl Weber, who earned a Ph.D. in Psychology, was chosen as a Distinguished Service Award recipient by the Mental Health Association of Maryland Metropolitan Baltimore Branch. The award, given for Weber's work to expand housing, outreach and treatment services for people with mental health concerns, was to be presented at the organization's annual meeting on Sept. 12.
1998
Dr. Molly Barrow, who earned a Ph.D. in Psychology, was interviewed for an article titled "Stop Nagging!" in O, The Oprah Magazine, featured on the magazine's Web site. Barrow, a radio and TV personality, is the author of Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love (ArcheBooks, 2006).
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