I am pleased to announce the appointment of three Mizzou faculty members as Faculty Fellows in the Provost’s Office: Drs. Anna Ball, Matthew P. Martens, and Mitchell McKinney.
- Dr. Anna L. Ball will serve as Faculty Fellow for Faculty Development. Her 12 month appointment will be .80 time in the Provost’s office. Her duties will include faculty development and leadership development programs, Chairs Council, faculty awards, and the promotion and tenure process. Ball is currently a professor in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, where she is former department chair and current Director of Graduate Studies for Agricultural Education and Leadership. She is CAFNR’s former director of faculty development and former chair of the Learning Improvement Committee, is founding director of the Center for the Collaboration and Design of Educational Innovations, and has served on the executive team of the University of Missouri Faculty Council.
- Dr. Matthew P. Martens will serve as Faculty Fellow for Academic Programs. His 12 month appointment will be .50 time in the Provost’s Office. His duties will include program and center assessment, accreditation, and new degree proposals. In his 7 years at MU, Martens has served on nearly twenty committees, panels, and councils, many as Chair. Currently he serves as Associate Dean for Administration and Faculty Affairs in the College of Education, and he also has an appointment as Professor in the Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology. He has provided oversight to several academic and administrative departments.
- Dr. Mitchell S. McKinney will serve as Faculty Fellow for Academic Personnel. His 12 month appointment will be full time in the Provost’s Office. His duties will include monitoring the processes regarding faculty hiring, grievance petitions, academic integrity, and equity resolution. McKinney, who won the 2009 Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2014 Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies Award, currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Science. Additionally, he is past director of Academic Affairs for the National Communication Association and founder and current director of the Political Communication Institute.
The appointments are effective September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017.
The individual and collective expertise of these faculty members is truly impressive, and I anticipate their leadership will be important in moving MU forward collectively in maintaining excellence teaching, discovery, and outreach. The three fellows will work closely with me and with Christine Holt, who joined the Provost’s Office on August 15 as Associate Provost. Christine’s legal education and extensive experience in higher education administration is already paying dividends in my office. Please join me in congratulating our new Faculty Fellows and welcoming them to the Mizzou leadership team.
Garnett Stokes