- Faculty members Sherri Lind Hughes and Gretchen Kreahling McKay will take on additional responsibilities in academic administration beginning July 1. Psychology Professor Hughes who has served as associate dean of Academic Affairs since 2003, will become dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, and her successor will be McKay, an assistant professor of Art History and director of the Honors Program.
Faculty members Sherri Lind Hughes and Gretchen Kreahling McKay will take on additional responsibilities in academic administration beginning July 1.
Psychology Professor Hughes who has served as associate dean of Academic Affairs since 2003, will become dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, and her successor will be McKay, an assistant professor of Art History and director of the Honors Program.
Hughes (left), a member of the faculty since 1989, has served the College in a range of administrative capacities: as chair of the Psychology Department, as coordinator of the Human Resources Development Graduate program, as assistant dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, and as associate dean of Academic Affairs.
In 2002-2003 Hughes was chosen to participate in the American Council of Education Fellows Program, a premier higher education leadership program, and worked at Marymount University (Va.) on projects ranging from student academic success to strategic planning with President James E. Bundschuh as her mentor.
She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses with a specialty in industrial psychology, organizational behavior and psychological assessment and in 1997, initiated the human resources development program using the cohort model that cycles all of the graduate students together through the two-year course of study. Hughes earned a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and both her master’s and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.
She succeeds Dr. Kenneth Pool who after 10 years of excellent service as dean of Graduate and Professional Studies will develop comprehensive recruitment and marketing strategies as executive director of Graduate Recruitment and External Relations. Pool will assume his work on January 1, 2007, following a fall 2006 administrative leave.
As associate dean, McKay (right) will assume responsibilities in a range of important areas, including curriculum, advising, assessment, faculty development and First Year Seminar and will serve as a member of the First Year Team. She will continue to serve as director of the Honors Program and continue to teaching regularly in her department where she specializes in Byzantine art history.
McKay holds a bachelor’s degree from Colby College and master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where she taught in the McIntire Department of Art and in the Summer Enrichment program. She joined McDaniel in 2001.