MSU PROMOTES 18 FACULTY
MSU has promoted 18 faculty members, 13 to the rank of professor and five to associate professor.

Rising to the rank of professor: Sayel Ali and Tim Peil, mathematics; Dan Brekke and John Gaffrey, computer science and information systems; Magdalene Chalikia, psychology; Russ Colson, anthropology and earth sciences; George Davis, MSU’s Regional Science Center and elementary and early childhood education; Shawn Dunkirk, chemistry; Laura Fasick and Richard Zinober, English; Richard Peschke, business administration; Terry Shoptaugh, library; and Roberta Shreve, elementary and early childhood education.

Rising to the rank of associate professor: Barbara Headrick, political science; Jenny Lin and Takanori Mita, languages; Larry Nordick, paralegal program; and Deborah Seaburg, counseling center.

Receiving tenure this year:  Deborah Seaburg, counseling center; Barbara Headrick, political science; Margaret Klindworth, New Center for Multidisciplinary Studies; Jean Kramer, library; and Rodney Rothlisberger, music.

ZEHREN NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS,
FINANCIAL AID DIRECTOR
Carolyn Zehren has been named the new director of Scholarships and Financial Aid at Moorhead State University.

She replaces Karen Knighton, who retired last fall.

Zehren, who lives in Jamestown, N.D., has worked as the assistant director of MSU’s financial aid office for the past decade and was appointed acting director in November pending a national search.

A graduate of North Dakota State University, Zehren
began her career as an administrative assistant to the academic dean at Jamestown College, a position she held for 13 years. She then became a financial aid officer there, and three years later joined the financial aid office at MSU.

Zehren will oversee an office that employs nine professional and classified staff along with 22 student assistants. It administers more than $28 million in scholarships and financial aid annually.

She and her husband Ron live in Jamestown and have two grown children.

FINALLY, MSU’S $5.2 MILLION
BONDING REQUEST APPROVED
Governor Jesse Ventura signed the Legislature’s $583 capital improvement bill this spring and left MSU’s $5.2 million requests intact.

$3.6 million dollars will come from general appropriations to complete the five-block expansion area west of campus.  Work to demolish or remove the remaining 29 houses and prepare the site for 850 parking spaces will begin as soon as possible, with the completion of the asphalt and landscaping scheduled for completion in 2001.

State bonds will provide $1.6 million for the design of the science laboratories structure planned between Hagen and Lommen Halls. The new building will house classrooms for life sciences, chemistry and biology; along with teaching and research laboratories. The project will feature 70,941 square feet of new construction and 61,000 square feet of remodeled space.

The Governor also approved language in the bill to allow MSU to build a joint security structure in cooperation with the City of Moorhead. On top of that, the Governor gave MSU the go-ahead to work with private developers to construct new student housing and future structures within the five-block expansion area.

CONCORDIA PROF
LU VITALIS GETS
MSU NURSING AWARD
Lu Vitalis, a 45-year veteran of nursing and for the past 10 years an assistant professor at Concordia