LehighNow Volume 01, Issue 13

              LEHIGHNOW
May 9, 2001
Volume 1, Issue 13
LU to streamline
global efforts
IN BRIEF
ACADEMICS
Frosh class
comes in
strong
Lehigh has received the
strongest pool of
applicants for the
freshman class in recent
memory, says Lorna
Hunter, dean of
admissions and financial
aid.
"I am very pleased
with the quality of
applicants this year,"
Hunter said.
"Lehigh is becoming
increasingly attractive to
the brightest young
minds both in the United
States and abroad."
The admissions office
received more than 8,000
applications for the
Class of 2005, and
recently mailed offers to
3,700 students.
The fall freshman class
is expected to be about
1,120 students. Last
year's class was
approximately 1,130
students.
The Colleges of Arts
and Sciences and
Business and Economics,
and the P.C. Rossin
College of Engineering
and Applied Science,
held a variety of
programs and tours
during Candidates'
Days held in recent
weeks.
The Office of Admissions also conducted an
online chat room for
students accepted into
the Class of 2005.
The Seven Goals for Lehigh
and the Plan for Academic
Excellence call for Lehigh
to become more globally
conscious in all its pursuits
- educational, scientific,
and cultural.
To achieve this vision, a
task force appointed by
Provost Ron Yoshida has
developed an integrated
international strategy.
The team consists of Bill
Hunter, director of
international education;
Sandi Smith, associate
director of international
education; Ray Bell,
interim dean of the College
of Education; Rick
Weisman, associate dean
of the P.C. Rossin College
of Engineering and Applied
Science; and Rich
Aronson, Clayton
professor of economics.
The team reviewed the
operating and funding
models of institutions with
international programs
similar to Lehigh's,
including Carnegie Mellon,
Pittsburgh, Delaware,
Emory, Georgetown,
Harvard, MIT, Princeton,
Stanford and UCLA.
The team's report made it
clear to Yoshida that
Lehigh needed to organize
all its international efforts
in one area to provide the
leadership and focus
necessary for a high-
performing organization.
Accordingly, Yoshida has
decided to expand the
responsibilities of Stacy
Stainbrook to include
international affairs. As a
result, and with strong
support from President
Gregory Farrington,
Stainbrook has been
promoted to assistant to
the provost and director of
international affairs,
effective July 1.
As part of this reorganization, Lehigh will create
an international policy task
force consisting of Bonnie
Devlin, vice president for
advancement; Art King,
associate dean of the College
of Business and Economics;
Henri Barkey, the Cohen
professor of international
relations; Lorna Hunter, dean
of admissions and financial
aid; Dave Williams, vice
provost for research; Daphne
Hobson, director of international programs in the
College of Education; Mark
Erickson, vice president for
administrative and government affairs; Stainbrook and
Yoshida.
As a result of the reorganization, Hunter, Smith, Judith
Rance-Roney (director of
English as a Second Language), and the new
international policy task force
will report to Stainbrook.
Richard Brandt, director of
the Iacocca Institute; Eric
Weinhold, director of
international student
admissions; and Hobson will
have dotted-line accountability to Stainbrook.
Staffing will be increased in
the study abroad program,
with the addition of an
associate director to advise
students, and in the office of
international students and
scholars (formerly the office
of international education),
with the addition of a foreign
student advisor to assist
students with immigration
issues.
Yoshida said the two new
positions would "allow
Lehigh to better address the
current level of activity in
these offices and to accommodate anticipated increases
in our number of international students and program
offerings."
White named
new COE dean
Sally White, senior e-
Solutions consultant with
RWD Technologies and
former dean of graduate
education and associate vice
president for research at
Towson University, has been
named dean of the College of
Education, effective Aug. 1.
White will provide strategic
direction for the college,
enabling it to continue to
achieve excellence in research,
maintain quality graduate
programs, and enhance its
national and international
reputation.
Since 2000, White has worked
with engineers, designers and
business analysts to seek
innovative solutions for Fortune
100 and pre-IPO companies in
business process needs analysis
ande-Leaming.
"Sally has a dynamic vision
for the college and a keen
understanding of technology
applications for learning,"
said Provost Ron Yoshida.
At Towson, White added
the university's first-ever
doctoral programs, and set
records for enrollment and
external funding. At Illinois
State University, she
developed a faculty
mentoring program, and at
the University of New
Hampshire, she started a
program in teacher education
using the Holmes Group
model that Lehigh uses.
White has received national
awards in research, and has
worked with the U.S.
volleyball team and the U.S.
Olympic Committee.
She holds a bachelor's in
European history from
Greenwich University, England,
a master's in physical education
from the University of Texas
and a doctorate in social
psychology from the
University of New Mexico.