Timothy Brooks, EdD
Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students, University of Delaware

Dr. Timothy Brooks is assistant vice president and dean of students at the University of Delaware. He has served in a variety of administrative positions in higher education for over 24 years. He also serves on the faculty of the School of Education at the University of Delaware. He is a past president of the Association of Student Judicial Affairs and has served on its board for six years. He has also been on the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators Region II Board of Directors for over 12 years. He has made over ninety national and regional presentations on a variety of topics including parental notification, alcohol and drug abuse, sexual assault, disciplinary issues, town gown relations, Greek affairs, institutional liability and crisis management.

"New Structures for First-Year Learning and Relationships: Alternatives to Animal House"
Student Retention Specialist, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

"New Structures for First-Year Learning and Relationships: Alternatives to Animal House"

John Gardner is an educator, university professor and administrator, author, editor, public speaker, consultant, change agent, student retention specialist, freshman advocate, initiator and scholar of the American freshman and senior year reform movement.
In the January 1998 issue of Change, Gardner was cited in the article naming approximately 80 people as the "past, present, and future leaders of higher education." The authors of this study drew on the results of 11,000 questionnaires to name the leaders whom The Chronicle of Higher Education dubbed "the movers and shakers." Gardner was included in a special category of 11 "agenda-setters."
Also in 1998, Gardner was named as one of the "top ten professionals who have most influenced student affairs practitioners." This is based on a random sample of practitioners throughout the country as part of a study entitled "The Professional Influence Project" sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Foundation and conducted by the University of Georgia.
In his new capacity with the National Resource Center (NRC), John Gardner will continue to provide advice, counsel, and intellectual leadership and vision as called upon by his colleagues in the NRC. He will be actively involved in hosting and presenting at NRC conferences, seminars, workshops, and teleconferences. He will also be actively involved, as always, in the NRC's scholarship and research activities and in its monograph series and new national survey research on the status of senior capstone courses.

Dr. Donald D. Gehring is program director of the Higher Education Doctoral Program at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Gehring obtained his MEd and EdD at the University of Georgia. His research interest is administration and law in higher education, and he is founder and first president of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs. His teaching interests include law in higher education, leadership and administration, and governance and organization of higher education and he has several campus-related publications in press.

"Campus Violence Prevention: Into the Next Millennium"

Luoluo Hong received a BA in psychology from Amherst College in 1990, a master's in public health from Yale University in 1992, and a PhD in educational leadership and research from LSU in 1998. As director of Wellness Education and Outreach Services at LSU, she oversees the Office for Disability Services, Wellness Education Department, and Women's Center. Luoluo also serves as a faculty member in the Department of Kinesiology at LSU and travels to campuses across the country as an educational consultant for the Denver-based agency, CAMPUSPEAK.
Dr. Hong was a keynote speaker at the 1996 Southeastern Panhellenic Conference in Atlanta and at the 1998 Kappa Alpha Theta Grand Convention in Dallas. She is a featured keynote presenter at the upcoming BACCHUS/GAMMA 1999 General Assembly in Orlando.
Luoluo sits on the Board of Directors for the American College Health Association and is past-chair of ACHA's Campus Violence Task Force and of its Health Education Section. In her field, she is best known for her innovative work with the campus peer education organization, Men Against Violence - the first group of its kind and scope in the country. The author of an essay in the upcoming book Sex, Violence and Campus Activism: The Civil Rights Movement of the Nineties and of a peer education handbook, Concepts and Content in Peer Health Education: A Guide for College Students, Luoluo has also published her doctoral dissertation entitled Rethinking Babes, Booze and Brawls: Towards a New Masculinity - Men Against Violence. 

Lloyd Horwich is a program specialist with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance. He is responsible for analyzing legislative, regulatory, and administrative issues to recommend improvements to federal postsecondary education student financial assistance programs. Lloyd also worked as a legislative assistant with the U.S. Senate's Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Lloyd represents the U.S. Department of Education on panels at various higher education conferences.

Karen Williams Morse, PhD
President, Western Washington University

Karen Williams Morse is the 12th president of Western Washington University. Washington Governor Gary Locke selected Morse as one of six state representatives to an April 1997 national summit on volunteer programs that benefit children.
Before coming to Western, President Morse was at Utah State University from 1968, serving as professor of chemistry, head of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, and dean of the College of Science before being named Provost in 1989. A native of Monroe, Michigan, she earned her doctorate and master's degree in chemistry at the University of Michigan and her bachelor's degree at Denison University in Ohio.
Karen Morse is married to Western chemistry professor and director of science education Joseph Morse whom she met while both were pursuing their doctorates at Michigan. The couple has two adult sons, Rob, an attorney in Washington, DC, and Geoff, a graduate student in biology at Harvard University.

William A. Sederburg, PhD
President, Ferris State University

President William A. Sederburg, a former state senator, became the University's 16th president on August 1, 1995 after serving a year as interim president. He had been vice president of Public Sector Consultants, Inc. of Lansing. Dr. Sederburg was instrumental in gaining capital outlay funds for an ambitious campus expansion and renovation campaign, including a new National Elastomer Center, a state-of-the-art Student Recreation Center, and capital outlay monies to build a $50 million library that will open its doors in Spring 2001. 
Sederburg also led the merger of Ferris and Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, provided more instructional technology for campus classrooms, restored funding to the intercollegiate athletic program, instituted an academic scholarship for students living in residence halls, and championed a "customer-friendly" approach for FSU employees.
Sederburg served from 1978-91 as 24th district state senator (Ingham County), chairing the Senate Health Policy Committee and Senate Appropriation Subcommittees on General Government and Higher Education, and Senate Select Committees on the Future of Higher Education and Tuition and Affordability. He also chaired the Midwest Council of State Government's Task Force on Higher Education. 

Jamienne S. Studley, JD
President, Skidmore College

Skidmore's sixth president, Jamienne S. Studley, took office in June 1999. A graduate of Barnard College and Harvard Law School, she was associate dean of Yale Law School for five years. She came to the College from the U.S. Department of Education where, as deputy and then general counsel from 1993 - 1999, she was involved in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary policy and legal issues (including student financial aid and access to college and civil rights) and initiatives to enhance public participation and departmental management.
Among her community and professional activities, President Studley is a member of the Jacob Javits Fellowship Board of the U.S. Department of Education, the Harvard Law School Visiting Committee, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities' Committee on Accountability.