Faculty promotions, awards announced during spring SPCS faculty meeting
SPCS Faculty Update
Faculty in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies celebrated promotion announcements and service awards during the annual awards ceremony held during the spring faculty meeting on January 8, 2026.
Associate Dean Kate Cassada and Dean Jamelle Wilson presided over the announcement of service awards for five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and thirty years.
Wilson announced two special service recognitions. First, she recognized Andrew Schoeneman, outgoing Nonprofit Studies program chair, for his service to the School and the Nonprofit Studies program, and announced he would be pursuing an opportunity at another institution. Second, she recognized Dean Emeritus Jim Narduzzi for thirty years of service to SPCS.
Wilson also recognized adjunct faculty members who earned promotions, then announced the winners of the SPCS Innovations in Teaching Award: Adjunct Instructors of Information Systems and Data Analytics (and brothers) Terry Turner and Scott Turner. Following brief recorded remarks from Scott and in-person remarks from Terry, Wilson closed the recognition portion of the event by announcing two updated faculty roles: Grant Rissler, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies, has been appointed the incoming Nonprofit Studies program chair; and Bruce McKechnie, Adjunct Associate Professor of Paralegal Studies, has been hired as program coordinator for the Paralegal Studies program.
The annual awards ceremony is traditionally held during the spring faculty meeting. Promotions in SPCS along with service awards in five-year increments are announced and celebrated during the ceremony. Promotions and awards are listed below.
SPCS Faculty Promotions
- Abbi Haggerty was promoted to Adjunct Associate Professor, Nonprofit Studies
- George Fohl, GC’18, was promoted to Adjunct Associate Professor, Education
- Joe Douglas was promoted to Adjunct Professor, Education
SPCS Faculty Service Awards
5 years of service
- Beverly Allen-Hardy
- Stephen Armstrong
- Ma’asehyahu Isra-Ul
- Tracy Nicholson
- Joseph Sattelmaier
- Arch Turner
10 years of service
- Lyle Evans
- April Greenan
- Teresa Lee
- William Meeks
- Dionne Ward
15 years of service
- Mark Allan
- Kate Cassada
- Harold Fitrer
- Angela Leeper
- Michelle McQueen-Williams
- Tammy Milby
- Gretchen Flynn Morris
- David Myers
- Jamelle Wilson
20 years of service
- Marcus Forbes
- Tom Shields
25 years of service
- Kelley Lane
30 years of service
- Jim Narduzzi
Newly Hired Adjunct Faculty Members
In addition to announcing awards and promotions, the following newly hired adjunct faculty members were announced: