GENESEO – The next of five potential future presidents of SUNY Geneseo visited campus on Monday hoping to fill the vacancy left by longtime President Christopher Dahl, who retired in June 2014. Former Provost Carol S. Long currently serves as interim President. Nancy Guiterrez, currently Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte, made two appearances before college staff and students to strut her stuff.
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Guiterrez made two appearances on Monday, was first in Doty Recital Hall from 9:45 to 10:45 p.m., and then in the Hunt Room in the College Union from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. According to Becky Glass, Executive Assistant to the President at SUNY Geneseo, Guiterrez served as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Arizona State University (ASU), where she was a Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English from 1993 to 1999, and Associate Dean for Academic Personnel from 2000 to 2003.
“Serving in these roles at ASU, Gutierrez initiated several professional development programs for faculty, including a complete overhaul of the orientation for first-faculty that included a year-long series of workshops and a university-wide mentoring program,” said Glass. “At UNC Charlotte, she has continued her work with faculty development. Other areas of emphasis during her career include the role of the scholarship of engagement in promotion and tenure decisions, advocacy for interdisciplinary research and programming, globalization in curriculum and in faculty professionalization, and advocacy for the liberal arts.”
Glass added that Gutierrez received a BA in English from Denison University, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature from the University of Chicago. A scholar of early modern English literature, Gutierrez has published on Shakespearean drama and early modern women.
Guiterrez served as President of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association and as Treasurer for the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She has been involved in several central national issues in higher education, including the inclusion of public health curricula in general education programs and, most recently, on a Delphi study examining the impact of the changing faculty on student success.
Guiterrez is also the immediate Past-President of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, a national association of over 500 baccalaureate degree-granting colleges of arts and sciences whose purpose is to sustain the arts and sciences as a leading influence in American higher education.
She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Arts and Science Council (Charlotte, NC) and of the Socrates Academy (a partial-Greek immersion charter school, Matthews, NC), and currently serves as a member of two Boards of Directors: the Charlotte Museum of History and the Women + Girls Research Alliance (a community-university alliance with the mission of improving the lives of women and girls in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region).
Gurterrez will also be at the Big Tree Inn Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. to have an exclusive breakfast with the local community members, alumni, and emeriti.
Three more candidates will introduce themselves to SUNY Geneseo over the rest of the month and into December.
PHOTO CAPTION: Photo from UNC Charlotte website.