{"id":9572,"date":"2013-08-29T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2013-09-12T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T19:13:59","slug":"faculty-promotions-and-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/faculty-promotions-and-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty promotions and tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Graduation2011Dec_16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-attachment-id=\"9576\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/faculty-promotions-and-tenure\/graduation2011dec_16\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Graduation2011Dec_16.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Billy 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Professor and Department Head, Occupational Therapy<\/p>\n<p>Billy Millican, Director &#8211; UTeaChattanooga<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Potts, Associate Director &#8211; Bachelor of Integrated Studies<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Ray, Professor and Interim Department Head, Theatre and Speech<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Rutledge, Dean, Education, College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies<\/p>\n<p>Christine Smith, Interim Director and Professor, Nursing<\/p>\n<p>Tim Swafford, Interim Director and Professor, SimCenter: National Center for Computational Engineering<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Stuart, Professor and Department Head, English<\/p>\n<p>Randy Walker, Interim Dean, Graduate School<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Wheatley, Professor and Department Head, Management<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Wilferth, Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences<\/p>\n<h3>New Faculty<\/h3>\n<p>Raymond Alonge, Nursing, Clinical Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Hopple, Nursing, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Candace Bishop, Nursing, Faculty Coordinator, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Bell, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Tekulve,\u00a0 Lupton Library, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Tobias, Nursing, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Smith, Engineering, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Jill Shelton, Psychology, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Brenda McDaniel, Psychology, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Runyon, Lupton Library, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Ashish Gupta, College of Business, Management, Professor<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Atkins, Assistant Professor, Music<\/p>\n<p>Jose Luis Gasta\u00f1aga, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Michael Friedman, Communication, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>John Trussel, Accounting, Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p>Danny Hollingsworth, Accounting, Department Head and Professor<\/p>\n<p>Linda Frost, Honors College, Dean and Professor<\/p>\n<p>Christina Vogel, Art, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Ruth, Art, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Gary Maynard, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Leanora Brown, Economics, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Anne Wilkins, Accounting, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Xu Lu , History, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>William Kuby, History, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>John Osterhage, Management, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Susan Barlow, Physical Therapy, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Crowe, Occupational Therapy, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Adam Miecielica, Theatre and Speech, Visiting Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Cantrell, Education, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Laura Kildare, Education, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Jean Paul Vandreuil, English, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Johnna Bell, English, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Drye, English, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Hongyu Wu, Philosophy and Religion, Visiting Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Susan Eastman, Lecturer, English<\/p>\n<p>Rik Hunter, English, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Elgin Andrews, Health and Human Performance, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Shewanee Howard, Health and Human Performance, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Volz, Nursing, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Ennis, Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p>Chantelle Swaren, Library, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Weidong Wu, Civil Engineering, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Charles Margraves, Mechanical Engineering, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Deardorff, Political Science, Professor and Department Head<\/p>\n<p>Susan Thul, Nursing, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Henderson, Theatre and Speech, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lubke, Education, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Eric O&#8217;Neill, Biology, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Jodi Caskey, Biology, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Liu, Mathematics, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Amie Haun, Accounting, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Smith, Music, Visiting Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Julie Bage, Physical Therapy, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Amy Levi, Nursing, Clinical Instructor and Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Alleene Pengenot, Nursing, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Noble Sprayberry, Communication, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Stimson, Chemistry, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Susan Thomas, Criminal Justice, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Simone McCarter, Philosophy and Religion, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Nominanda Barbosa, Biology, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Endong Wang, Engineering Management, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Mikelson, Biology, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Raga Ahmed, Electrical Engineering, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Karen Buntin, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Seth Epstein, History, Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Charlene Schmidt, Health and Human Performance, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<h3>Promotion 2013<\/h3>\n<p><b>PROFESSOR<\/b><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-condensed\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Manuel Santiago<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Chemistry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Bart Weathington<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Psychology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Christopher Brockman<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Finance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Kevin Ford<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Sin-Hsing Tsai<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Kay Cowan<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Kathleen Wheatley<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Andrea Schurr<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Michael Sherr<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Social Work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Beverly Brockman<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Marketing &amp; Entrepreneurship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Nancy Fell<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Physical Therapy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Ossama Saleh<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Mathematics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Pam Guess<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Terry Walters<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Mathematics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR<\/b><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-condensed\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Steve Ray<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Theatre &amp; Speech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Phillip Lewis<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Art<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Jisook Kim<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Chemistry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Amy Doolittle<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Social Work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Elizabeth O\u2019Brien<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Kim Wingate<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Pam Carter<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Gaye Jeffers<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Theatre &amp; Speech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Joshua Davies<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Modern &amp; Classical Languages &amp; Literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Thomas Bal\u00e1zs<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Sybil Baker<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"243\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Stylianos Chatzimanolis<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Biological &amp; Environmental Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Jose Barbosa<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Biological &amp; Environmental Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"166\">Michael Bonnal<\/td>\n<td width=\"243\">Economics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2013 Faculty Tenure<\/b><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-condensed\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Steve Angle<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">Chemistry<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Michelle Deardorff<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">Political Science<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Danny Hollingsworth<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">Accounting<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Linda Frost<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">English<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">James Newman<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">Computational Engineering<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Lafayette Taylor<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">Computational Engineering<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">David Rausch<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Keith Richards<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Marketing &amp; Entrepreneurship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Chris Cunningham<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Psychology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Phillip Lewis<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Art<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Stylianos Chatzimanolis<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Biological &amp; Environmental Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Jose Barbosa<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Biological &amp; Environmental Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Jisook Kim<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Chemistry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Kim Wingate<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Pam Carter<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Elizabeth O\u2019Brien<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"297\">Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"172\">Thomas Bal\u00e1zs<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" 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