During the spring meeting of the TCU Board of Trustees meeting last week, the group voted on tenure, promotions and granting emeritus status to faculty members.
Tenure is defined as a “permanence of position.” It’s a multi-faceted process that may take decades for professors to achieve if achieved at all. Requirements for tenure include, but are not limited to, procuring grants, performing leading-edge research, presenting at national and international conferences, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, advising undergraduate students, serving on departmental, college and university committees, as well as professional society committees, and having one’s work published.
Faculty members granted tenure are as follows: Muriel Cormican—Modern Language Studies, Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg—Science & Engineering, Antoinette DeNapoli—Religion, Kevin Knight—Psychology, and Carmen Kynard—English.
Faculty members promoted to professor are as follows: Gary Boehm—Psychology, Matthew Chumchal—Biology, Michael Cole—Management, Johny Garner—Communication Studies, Sarah Hill—Psychology, Abbie Shipp—Management, Dean Williams—Biology, Mark Dennis—Religion, Michael Faggella-Luby—Education, Jeannine Gailey—Sociology, Cuiling Gong—Engineering, Amanda Hale—Biology, Marla McGhee—Education, Elizabeth Taylor—Education, and Kara Dixon Vuic—History.
Faculty members granted tenure and promoted to associate professor are as follows: Lisa Bashore—Nursing, Victoria Bennett—Environmental Sciences, Kendra Bowen—Criminal Justice, Kristen Carr—Communication Studies, Susan Diamond—Criminal Justice, Nada Elias-Lambert—Social Work, Emily Farris—Political Science, Zachary Hall—Marketing, Omar Harvey—Geological Sciences, Murell Horton—Theatre, Marlo Jeffries—Biology, Aesha John—Social Work, Kathleen Kyzar—Education, Endia Lindo—Education, Jaime Loke—Journalism, Emily Lund—Communication Science & Disorders, Albert Marichal—Interior Design & Fashion Merchandising, Kelly McCormick— Philosophy, Brandy Quinn—Education, Alexander Sanchez-Hidalgo—History, Monica Strickland-Cohen—Education, Sara Tauber-Weise—Psychology, Shauna Thompson—Music.
Margaret Diehl—Nurse Anesthesia, Ted Legatski—Entrepreneurship, and Mike Sadler—Nurse Anesthesia, have been promoted to professor of professional practice.
Lynette Howington—Nursing, has been promoted to associate professor of professional practice and faculty members promoted to assistant professor of professional practice are as follows: Linda Humphries—Nursing, and Laurel Lynch—Communication Science & Disorders.
Faculty members promoted to Instructor II & III are as follows: Kristi Argenbright, Instructor II, Jan Ballard, Instructor II, Regan Cruz, Instructor II, Mark Demarest, Instructor II, Julie Fry, Instructor II, Stephen Levering, Instructor II, Nathanel O’Reilley, Instructor II, Stephanie Wallace, Instructor II, David Weise, Instructor II, Douglas Ingram, Instructor III, and Allison Owen, Instructor III.
Upon retirement, emeritus status may be bestowed on tenured faculty members who served TCU with distinction for a number of years. These individuals are granted various rights and privileges for their honored role and ongoing potential for contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.
The following faculty members were awarded Emeritus status: James Comer—Computer Science, Nowell Donovan—Provost, Richard Enos—English, David Jenkins—Social Work, Nadia Lahutsky—Religion, Joseph Lipscomb—Finance, Luther Smith—Art, Kenneth Stevens—History, and Patricia Warrington—Interior Design & Fashion Merchandising.