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Straumanis
Volume 10, Issue 26
Straumanis resigns
as A&S dean
Joan Straumanis, the Herbert
and Ann Siegel Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, has resigned the
deanship effective at
the end of the
semester. After a
leave of absence, she
will return to the
university as dean
emerita and a
faculty member in
the philosophy
department, where
she has tenure.
"With regret, I'm stepping down
from-the deanship because my recent
review has persuaded me that I ought
to make way for new leadership in the
college," said Straumanis. "I leave
office sadly, but with sincere appreciation and affection for my friends and
colleagues at Lehigh. I look back
proudly on the good things we have
accomplished together."
"Joan has earned the respect and
admiration of the Lehigh community,
and we value her contributions as
dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences," said Pres. Peter Likins.
"Joan will remain a valuable player
on the Lehigh team in her new role as
dean emerita and professor of philosophy . She will continue to serve as
the point person on some of the
exciting projects that she has initiated."
"As dean, Joan has been very
supportive of the arts, interdisciplinary students and the multicultural
dimensions of the university," said
Interim Provost Patti Ota. "Everyone appreciates Joan's efforts to
promote the college and advance the
arts at Lehigh.  She will return to her
roots as a faculty member and continue her work for Lehigh."
Likins and Ota met with the
college faculty May 6 to begin the
consultative process to select the next
dean. The hope is to identify a current
faculty member who will become dean
in July and serve for at least the next
three years. The goal is to announce
the new dean by June 1.
Straumanis came to Lehigh as
dean in 1995 from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the
Improvement of Postsecondary
Education (FIPSE), where she was a
program officer. Prior to joining the
Department of Education, she was
dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Rollins College, associate
provost at Kenyon College and a
faculty member at Denison University.
— Rita Malone
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
May 7,1997
Joe Marcus
Lt. Gov. Mark Schweiker and about 800 Lehigh Valley students spent some time at Yellowstone
National Park in Wyoming as part of JASON Project VIII, hosted by the SMART Discovery Center.
The JASON Project can be seen at the center through May 9.
Princeton theologian Peter J. Paris
to give baccalaureate address May 31
Peter J. Paris, the Elmer G.
Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton
Theological
Seminary, will
' deliver the
baccalaureate
address at the
university's 129th
Commencement.
The ecumenical baccalaureate
service, open to
the public at no
charge, will be held at 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 31, in Packer
Memorial Church. Paris will
receive an honorary Doctor of
Divinity degree at Commencement, which is being held at 9 a.m.
Sunday, June 1, in Goodman
Stadium.
A native of Nova Scotia,
Canada, Paris has lectured in
North America and Africa and
Paris
written on the spiritual struggles
of Africans and African-Americans, the role of the Christian
church in race relations and other
topics.
He is the author of five books,
including The Spirituality of
African Peoples: The Search for a
Common Moral Discourse, Black
Religious Leaders: Conflict in
Unity, and The Social Teaching of
the Black Churches.
His essays discuss liberation
theologies, feminism, social
justice, Christian ethics and
theological education.
"Peter Paris is one of the
significant Christian social
ethicists of our time," said Lloyd
H. Steffen, Lehigh chaplain and
associate professor of religion
studies. "He is an authoritative
interpreter of the American black
church experience and a leader in
the African-American church
effort to integrate spirituality into
the quest for wholeness and liberation. As a theologian, he affirms a
God who wills that people be free
from oppression. This message
should be important to all of us."
Paris earned his B.A. and B.D.
from Acadia University in Nova
Scotia, and his M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago. He
taught at the divinity schools of
Howard and Vanderbilt universities before joining Princeton. He
has received honorary Doctor of
Divinity degrees from Acadia
University and McGill University
of Montreal.
He was named Alumnus of the
Year by the University of Chicago
Divinity School in 1995, and was
elected president of the American
Academy of Religion that same
year. Paris is also president of-the
The Society of Christian Ethics.
-Kurt Pfitzer
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