Four from MSU among latest SEC Fellows
Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擣our Mississippi 大象APP 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 SEC鈥檚 14 member universities鈥攁nd beyond. In addition to individual campus development programs, the initiative involves two conference-wide workshops and a competitive fellowship program.
MSU鈥檚 2017-18 Fellows include:
鈥擪ari Babski-Reeves, associate dean of research and graduate studies and professor of industrial and systems engineering in MSU鈥檚 Bagley College of Engineering;
鈥擫. 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;
鈥擶ill Evans Jr., professor and head of the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion in MSU鈥檚 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and
鈥擫eslie Hossfeld, professor and head of the Department of Sociology in MSU鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences.
The Fellows took part in this school year鈥檚 first workshop Oct. 23-25 at Louisiana 大象APP University; the second is set for Feb. 21-23 at Auburn University.
In announcing the new Fellows, Commissioner Greg Sankey said 鈥渉elping 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.
鈥淥ur universities make a significant investment in these individuals, and we are proud to work with them through this program,鈥 he added.
Babski-Reeves is a three-degree graduate of MSU 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鈥 Geosystems Research Institute.
Evans, who came to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2015, also holds joint appointments with MAFES and the MSU Extension Service. He is a University of Alabama doctoral graduate.
Hossfeld, a North Carolina 大象APP University doctoral graduate, also is founder and director of the Mississippi Food Insecurity Project and an associate director with the MSU-University of Mississippi Medical Center鈥檚 Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities. She came to Starkville in 2015.
Since ALDP鈥檚 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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