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Richard Badenhausen

Dean of the Honors College, Montana State University

Richard Badenhausen is Professor and Dean of the Honors College at Montana State University. Home to almost 2,000 undergraduates, the honors college is notable for its interdisciplinary curriculum, place-based learning experiences, and preparation of students for high-level research.

Badenhausen is a Past President of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), the largest and oldest membership organization devoted to honors education. He is also a two-time member of the NCHC Board of Directors, an editorial board member of HIP: Honors in Practice, and a member of the organization’s Publications Board. In 2022, he co-chaired the task force that rewrote the national honors education standards for the first time in thirty years, resulting in the “Shared Principles and Practices of Honors Education.”

In 2011, Badenhausen was named an NCHC Fellow; and in 2016 he received NCHC’s Sam Schuman Award for Excellence at a Four-Year Institution, which is awarded to one national honors leader annually. He has published over a dozen essays on issues related to honors education and is the editor of Honors Colleges in the 21st Century (2023), which brings together the work of 56 authors representing 45 different institutions. Badenhausen regularly visits other universities to evaluate their honors programs and honors colleges as a consultant or program reviewer.

Previous roles include Founding Dean of the Honors College at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, where he also held the Kim T. Adamson Endowed Chair and served for fourteen months as interim provost. At Westminster, he was the recipient of the Gore Excellence in Teaching award and a two-time winner of the Manford A. Shaw Publication Prize for scholarly work. Before moving to Westminster, Badenhausen ran the honors program at Marshall University.

Over the past 25 years, Badenhausen has published widely on the work of T. S. Eliot and modernist literature, including T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration (Cambridge University Press). He has a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in British Literature from University of Michigan.

Jamie Mullaney

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

Jamie L. Mullaney is Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Goucher College. Prior to serving as Associate Provost, she chaired the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for many years and was the inaugural director for the Center for People, Politics, and Markets. She joined the Goucher faculty in 2002, teaching courses in sociological theory, deviance, masculinities, and identity. She earned her doctorate in Sociology from Rutgers University in 2003. In 2013, she received the Caroline Doebler Bruckerl ‘25 Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

In her current role as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, she oversees the Center for Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching (CAST) and Goucher’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program (PBPM), and her work touches and supports almost every aspect of faculty life, including recruitment and onboarding, mentoring, professional development, as well as reappointment, promotion, and tenure processes.

Her research interests and projects largely focus on issues of time, emotion, and identity. In addition to numerous journal articles, she is the author of two books: Everyone is NOT Doing It (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales (with Janet Hinson Shope, Rutgers University Press, 2012).

Alicia Slater

Senior Associate Provost for Operations and Dean, School of Science, Marist University

Alicia Slater serves as Dean of Science and Senior Associate Provost for Operations at Marist University. Under her leadership, the Marist School of Science secured a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to support academically talented students with financial need. She has also led the development of the School of Science’s inaugural Advisory Board. She was appointed Senior Associate Provost for Academic Operations in 2024 – a leadership role that provides operational support to the Office of the Provost such as the planning and implementation of college-wide academic initiatives, policies, and procedures including budget management.

Formerly, Dr. Slater served for 16 years at Stetson University, where she held a variety of leadership roles including the University Director of Curriculum and Assessment, serving as Provost Faculty Fellow for Faculty development and was awarded the Hollis Chair for Health and Wellness in recognition of her work to promote academic success for first year students. She also received several student choice awards for her advocacy for first-year students. Her time at Stetson was marked by improved student retention and success (particularly for underrepresented students), the development of sophisticated assessment models to ensure academic quality, and support for faculty development and curricular innovation.

Dr. Slater has a B.S. in Biology from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Following her PhD program, she served as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Griffith University in Australia. Her academic research focuses on the genetic structure of freshwater invertebrates, and she has also published and presented extensively on best practices in teaching, student success, and assessment.

Sheila Adamus Liotta

Vice President for Academic Affairs, Saint Anselm College

Dr. Sheila Liotta has been the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Saint Anselm College since June of 2022. Previously, she served as the founding dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Providence College from January of 2009 through June of 2022. Prior to her time as dean, she served as chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for eight years. She joined the Providence College faculty in 1993.

As VPAA at Saint Anselm College, Dr. Liotta has engaged faculty to make recommendations on strategies for the College to maintain and promote its liberal arts component of its identity to inform academic planning. She has also overseen the launch of the Jean School of Nursing and Health Sciences, the College’s first school, and will oversee the launch of two additional schools, the Robert J. Grappone School of Business and Innovation and the School of Arts and Sciences, in 2027, completing a reorganization of the Academic Affairs division. Other major initiatives include the implementation of a revised core curriculum beginning in Fall 2026 and the expansion of graduate program offerings across the College through the creation of new programs in strategic areas. At Providence College, through the development and support of both new academic programs and the College’s robust core curriculum, a renewed appreciation for the centrality of the liberal arts across the campus was realized during Dr. Liotta’s time as Dean. This helped to facilitate Providence College’s successful application, led by Dr. Liotta, for a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the premier arts and sciences honors society, which was installed in April of 2022.

Dr. Liotta obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Rutgers University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. An organic chemist and a strong proponent of undergraduate research, Dr. Liotta supervised thirty-five student researchers in her Providence College laboratory. More recently, she primarily taught a course for non-science majors on contemporary issues in chemistry.

Bridget Keegan

Dean of Arts and Sciences, Creighton University

Bridget Keegan was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University in 2015, after serving two years as Interim Dean. Now in her twenty-third year at Creighton, she has held a variety of positions, including chairing the English department as well as the department of Modern Languages, serving a term as Associate Dean, and directing the university’s office of scholarships and fellowships. Dr. Keegan is deeply committed to the transformative power of a liberal arts education and led the team that brought a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to Creighton’s campus in 2012. More recently she was instrumental in the design and launch of Creighton’s Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions, which will support innovative, interdisciplinary research and curriculum. As a faculty member and now as dean, she is dedicated to creating a strong, institution-wide commitment for high-impact practices, most notably undergraduate research. She is equally passionate about student advising and mentoring and has recently begun a four-year comprehensive advising program for students that draws its foundation on the principles of discernment and service expressed by the founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Dr. Keegan received her A.B. in Literature from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Keegan’s areas of scholarly and teaching interests include eighteenth-century British literature, environmental literature and Catholic writers. She has written and edited numerous books and published over 40 essays, many devoted to the work of laboring-class authors. She serves as a grant reviewer for the NEH and the National Humanities Center as well as a reviewer for numerous journals and university presses.

Michelle Mattson

Provost, Carleton College

Michelle Mattson is presently the Provost at Carleton College. Prior to joining Carleton, she served as Provost at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Before that, she had filled a variety of administrative appointments at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her doctorate in German Studies and Humanities from Stanford University. After that she held faculty positions at Princeton, Columbia University, Iowa State, and Rhodes College. Dr. Mattson gradually increased her administrative responsibilities beginning at Iowa State and continuing at Rhodes College before moving finally into Academic Affairs.

As a scholar, Dr. Mattson’s research has covered such diverse topics as contemporary German drama, political representation in German television, questions of immigration and diversity in Germany today, issues of political subjectivity, and post-war women’s literature. In the summer of 2022, she stepped into her current role as Provost at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.

Brian Peterson

Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Briar Cliff University

Brian Peterson is Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Economics at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. He has a BBA in economics from University of Dayton, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University-Bloomington. Prior to his time at Briar Cliff, he spent 4 years as VPAA at LaGrange College in Georgia and 18 years as professor of economics and academic administrator at Central College in Pella, Iowa.

In his current role, Brian guides the implementation of Briar Cliff’s strategic plan in academics and student life, including the library, registrar, honors program, student success, student housing, student activities, health services and counseling, and mission and Catholic integration. He has published articles on economics education, advising, and faculty governance. He is currently a guest editor for the Journal of College Teaching. As a faculty member, Brian taught courses in economic research and quantitative methods, principles- and intermediate-level microeconomics, public finance, and environmental economics.

He has been a member of ACAD since 2017 and a member of the Board of Directors since 2022.

Feng-Ling Johnson

Dean of Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Century College

Feng-Ling currently serves as the Dean of Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences at Century College. Previously she served as Dean of University College & Associate Vice President for Student Success at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. In this role, she leads university-wide retention and student success initiatives, leveraging technology and analytics (e.g., EAB Navigate) to support student success and leading the Belonging work. She oversees academic support services in the University College which include Advising & Student Transitions, Academic Appeals and Probation, Department of Academic Support, Financial Aid, First-Year & Transfer Experiences, Honors Program, Student Accessibility Services and Testing and Scoring Services. She is a member of the Equity and Inclusion Council and of the subcommittee on Enrollment and Recruitment in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Office.

Prior to joining the team at St. Cloud State University, she had served as Professor of English as a Second Language Education & Linguistics, Program Coordinator of ESL Education, Chair of Department of World Languages, Chair of Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Senior Dean of Academic Administration at University of Northwestern-St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Feng-Ling has served as an HLC (Higher Learning Commission) Peer Reviewer since 2016, passionate about assessment, quality assurance, teaching and learning, and accreditation. Her research focuses on the education of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, language acquisition and identity, and sociolinguistics. After a 5-week Group Study Exchange in West Africa in 2003 through Rotary (an international service organization), she has been active with Rotary, serving as President of New Brighton/Mounds View Rotary Club in 2014-15, chair of various committees in the local club and in Rotary district 5960, and volunteer in many local and global Rotary service projects in the past 18 years. Feng-Ling enjoys reading, yoga and outdoor activities such as gardening, hiking, kayaking, mountain climbing, snowshoeing, and walking.

Sarah Tuskey

Dean of Faculty

Dr. Sarah Tuskey serves as Dean of Faculty at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus. With a career at Miami Dade College spanning several years, she has served across multiple positions, from Associate Dean of Academic Affairs to Department Chairperson for Business at the Kendall and Homestead Campuses. Her academic leadership has been marked by a commitment to the enhancement of academic programs, pedagogical innovation, and the elevation of student success metrics resulting in the advancement of program offerings and an improvement in student persistence and academic achievement.

In addition to her administrative roles, Dr. Tuskey has contributed to the field of management through numerous publications and conference presentations. Her research, focusing on the intersection of technology, human resource management, and organizational behavior, has garnered widespread recognition and accolades, including prestigious awards at the Academy of Management Annual Conference. Beyond her scholarly and leadership endeavors, Dr. Tuskey is invested in community and professional service, holding key positions on several local educational and professional boards.

Dr. Tuskey’s academic credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a Master of Business Administration from Florida International University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Management Information Systems from the University of Central Florida.

Pamela MacRae

Associate Provost and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine at Augusta

Pamela S.D. MacRae was appointed Associate Provost in July 2024, following her previous appointments as Assistant Provost in January 2022 and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in July 2021 at the University of Maine at Augusta. In addition to her academic dean role, she oversees UMA’s Early College Program, Prison Education Partnership, Senior College Office, and leads the Transforming Lives objectives of the strategic plan. Prior to UMA, she served for one year as the Distance Education Dean of Environmental Conservation and Research at Unity College, Maine (now Unity Environmental University). Previously she served as the Dean of the School of Biodiversity Conservation for four years, and was the Director of the Honors Program for 5 years having joined the faculty at Unity College in 2013. She earned a Ph.D. in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences from Louisiana State University, a M.S. in Zoology from the University of Toronto and B.S. in Biology from Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. She conducted her post-doctoral scholar research at Florida State University on the long-term patterns of fish population density in Florida springs, ponds and tidal marshes and she has published in scientific journals including Ecology, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Journal of Fish Biology and Copeia among others.

Pamela is a field-based fish community ecologist, and her research has focused on exploring the links between fish community structure and environmental variables in marine, freshwater and estuarine habitats. She has over a decade of teaching field-based ecology, fisheries and marine science classes. She has a record of including undergraduate students in her research and was awarded the Undergraduate Research Mentor Award just one year after beginning her faculty position at Unity College. Prior to joining the faculty at Unity College, she served as an Assistant Professor Biology and Coordinator of the Environmental Science Technology Program at Tallahassee Community College, Florida. Additionally, she has worked in the private industry serving as a Senior Environmental Scientist with the Engineering firm Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan and as a Fisheries Biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

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