The Missouri Western State University Board of Governors at their May meeting approved promotions and awarded tenure effective with the 2012-2013 academic year for the following faculty members:<\/p>\n
From Associate Professor to Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Cary Chevalier, biology; Dr. Matt Edwards, music; Dr. Jeff Poet, computer science, mathematics and physics; Geo Sipp, art<\/p>\n From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n Julie Baldwin, nursing and allied health; Dr. Deborah Ellis, nursing and allied health; Dr. John Ellis, education; Peter Hriso, art; Suzanne Kissock, criminal justice, legal studies and social work; Dr. James Okapal, history, philosophy and geography; Dr. Jonathan Rhoad, chemistry; Dr. Glenn Rice, computer science, mathematics and physics; Dr. Kristen Walton, biology; Dr. Gavin Waters, computer science, mathematics and physics.<\/p>\n From Instructor to Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n Connie Hecker, computer science, mathematics and physics<\/p>\n Faculty Awarded Tenure<\/strong><\/p>\n Julie Baldwin, nursing and allied health; Dr. Deborah Ellis, nursing and allied health; Dr. John Ellis, education; Peter Hriso, art; Suzanne Kissock, criminal justice, legal studies and social work; Dr. James Okapal, history, philosophy and geography; Dr. Glenn Rice, computer science, mathematics and physics; Dr. Kristen Walton, biology; Dr. Gavin Waters, computer science mathematics and physics.<\/p>\n Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Missouri Western State University Board of Governors at their May meeting approved promotions and awarded tenure effective with the 2012-2013 academic year for the following faculty members:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[337,356,643,738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}