James A. Kilmurray will continue as Fellow this semester.

Katherine M. Houghton has worked in student life both on land and sea, serving as the senior Student Affairs officer on a Semester at Sea voyage around the world with the University of Pittsburgh and the Institute for Shipboard Education as well as the vice president and dean of students at Wilson College in Pennsylvania. Throughout her career she has amassed considerable expertise in student affairs at a variety of liberal arts colleges in the northeast. Kathy has been featured as a keynote speaker and presenter on topics including managing and planning in higher education, multicultural programming, students with invisible handicaps, and international women and children. Kathy's most recent scholarly pursuits take up the issue of single mothers and higher education. At NERCHE she will continue her work on access to higher education for single mothers.

Jacqueline Mintz began her professional career as a faculty member in comparative literature. Since 1989 she has founded and directed centers for teaching and learning at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Princeton University. She has taught, published, and presented nationally and internationally. Her focus within the field of teaching and learning has been mentoring, faculty development, conflict, and values and ethics in higher education. In addition to serving on its board for five years, she chaired the Professional Development Committee of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education and was a member of the subcommittee that drafted the organization's first ethical guidelines for the practice of educational development. While at NERCHE she will explore some of the roles faculty members play, including becoming department chair, and the impact of reflection and participation in think tanks on those roles.

Leila V. Moore served most recently as Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of New Hampshire. She has been a faculty member in Student Affairs preparation programs at Penn State University, Bowling Green State University, and the University at Albany. A former president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), Leila led ACPA's outreach program to Student Affairs practitioners on the topic of strategic planning and institutional assessment, most recently establishing, in collaboration with Penn State's Center for the Study of Higher Education, a curriculum for a summer institute. She will serve as a member of the faculty of this institute, beginning in the summer of 2003. Leila's service on accreditation teams for both NEASC and Middle States, as well as a variety of consultations with other institutions, has informed her understanding of institutional accountability. At UNH she successfully established a Student Affairs research and assessment unit that serves the interests of the Division while at the same time contributing significantly to the assessment activities of the University. A former Student Affairs Think Tank member, Leila will focus on issues of strategic planning and assessment.

An educator who has gained administrative and teaching experience with both higher and K-12 education, Charmian Sperling has held a range of administrative positions within community colleges for the past twenty-six years and currently holds a number of leadership positions in higher education associations. Charmian led a college-wide program review  which resulted in revised curricula and student outcomes for more than forty-five academic programs at Middlesex Community College, where she held the position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs until her retirement this past summer. Throughout her eighteen-year tenure there, she promoted and supported professional and instructional development, building it directly into the institutional infrastructure. She initiated and sustained an active Carnegie Teaching Academy, fostering the scholarship of teaching and learning through theoretical and classroom-based research and scholarly publication. Her recent consulting work has focused on outcomes assessment, professional development, program evaluation, and institutional planning and effectiveness.

Judith Sturnick has served as the president of the Union Institute and University, Keene State College, and the University of Maine at Farmington. She is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in leadership, organizational change, stress management and balancing life and work, and board development. Prior to accepting her third presidency, she served as vice president for the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council on Education, and she ran her own consulting and coaching business for several years, focusing on corporate and higher education CEOs and their leadership teams. In June of 2001, she was one of 15 international leaders invited to spend a week as the guest of the Dalai Lama at the Synthesis Dialogues in Trent, Italy. She will devote her time at NERCHE to working on a book dealing with "the courage to lead," which will focus on both the principles for effective leadership in the twenty-first century and on the spiritual resources required of courageous leaders.