Carol Brash of the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University will participate in the Council of Independent Colleges’ 2016 Seminar on Teaching Pre-Modern European Art in Context along with a select group of faculty members nationwide.
The seminar on “Sight and Sound in Renaissance and Baroque Europe [c. 1300–1700]” will be hosted by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from June 20–24. The seminar is designed for full-time faculty members who regularly teach art history at smaller colleges and universities and aims to strengthen the teaching of art history to undergraduates at these institutions.
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Amber Sunder of St. Joseph was named to the spring dean’s list at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn. Students must earn a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify.
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Jeff Witthuhn of St. Joseph, studying at St. Cloud State University, has been inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon, an international honor society for computing and information disciplines.
To be eligible for induction, undergraduate computer-science majors must rank in the upper 35 percent of the class and have taken at least four 300-level courses in the computer-science program. Students must also maintain an excellent GPA both within the major and overall at the university.
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Williams offered county administrator position
The Stearns County Board of Commissioners directed county staff to offer the county administrator position to Mike Williams, who is currently the St. Cloud city administrator.
Williams has 30 years of combined administration experience. He worked for the city of St. Cloud for the last 13 years; he previously held positions in the city of Brookings, S.D.; Becker County, Minn.; the City of Perry, Iowa; and in the town of Easton, Maine. Williams has a doctorate in public policy and administration and a master’s in public administration.
The board directed staff to enter into discussions with Williams to negotiate his employment terms and conditions. Those employment conditions will be going before the board at a future County board meeting.
Williams will be replacing George Rindelaub, who retired as county administrator at the end of March.
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Clarification
In the May 13 Newsleader salute to our local police, we inadvertently left out that Daniel Pfannenstein, Officer No. 7711, was a former reserve officer.