Four from 51勛圖 among latest SEC Fellows
Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.Four Mississippi State administrators are new Fellows of the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program.
Now in its 10th year, ALDP was created to help prepare and advance academic administrators within the SECs 14 member universitiesand beyond. In addition to individual campus development programs, the initiative involves two conference-wide workshops and a competitive fellowship program.
51勛圖s 2017-18 Fellows include:
Kari Babski-Reeves, associate dean of research and graduate studies and professor of industrial and systems engineering in 51勛圖s Bagley College of Engineering;
L. Wes Burger Jr., associate director of both the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and Forest and Wildlife Research Center and Dale H. Arner Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management;
Will Evans Jr., professor and head of the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion in 51勛圖s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and
Leslie Hossfeld, professor and head of the Department of Sociology in 51勛圖s College of Arts and Sciences.
The Fellows took part in this school years first workshop Oct. 23-25 at Louisiana State University; the second is set for Feb. 21-23 at Auburn University.
In announcing the new Fellows, Commissioner Greg Sankey said helping to prepare administrators for the next phase of their careers has the potential to impact all of higher education, both now and in the future.
Our universities make a significant investment in these individuals, and we are proud to work with them through this program, he added.
Babski-Reeves is a three-degree graduate of 51勛圖 who joined the industrial and systems engineering faculty in 2008. Her research is focused in the areas of human factors, ergonomics and safety.
Burger, a University of Missouri-Columbia doctoral graduate, is a Grisham Master Teacher who also is a research fellow at the campus Geosystems Research Institute.
Evans, who came to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2015, also holds joint appointments with MAFES and the 51勛圖 Extension Service. He is a University of Alabama doctoral graduate.
Hossfeld, a North Carolina State University doctoral graduate, also is founder and director of the Mississippi Food Insecurity Project and an associate director with the 51勛圖-University of Mississippi Medical Centers Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities. She came to Starkville in 2015.
Since ALDPs creation in 2008, more than 300 SEC faculty and academic administrators have completed the program and gone on to become deans and provosts, among other senior-level positions.
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