Smeal College of Business Administration selects dean
Judy D. Olian, senior associate dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, and professor of management and organization, has been selected to be dean of The Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business Administration, effective July 1. The appointment is subject to approval by the University's Board of Trustees.
Since 1995, Olian has led the development of the Smith School's initiatives to enhance academic excellence and national rankings, and to advance partnerships and build support for the school from businesses, alumni and international constituencies. She oversees the academic, administrative and information technology strategies of the school, is closely involved in fund-raising efforts, and is a central liaison with the university administration and other colleges at the University of Maryland. She joined the faculty at Maryland in 1979.
In 1991, Olian was an American Council on Education Fellow to the president of the University of Maryland, and the next year, was special assistant to the president and initiated the university's continuous improvement activities. She also was founder and director of the IBM-Total Quality Project at the University of Maryland. She led an interdisciplinary team in developing an innovative and award-winning, business-engineering undergraduate curriculum and research program, based on total quality concepts.
Olian has published widely in journals and books on human resource strategies, management in the information economy and total quality systems, and has frequently been called upon to give keynote speeches and academic presentations. She has been an active consultant to major corporations and a participant in many executive development programs.
Olian is currently principal investigator of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project, "Accelerating the Diffusion of Netcentricity," a multi-year project investigating the technical, organizational, behavioral and economic aspects of the netcentric revolution, and has ongoing partnerships with such companies as Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle and EDS.
She is a member of a number of professional organizations and has been a member of editorial boards including Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Quality Management. Olian has received several teaching awards including an Outstanding Teacher Award of the University of Maryland and the Maryland Higher Education Award for Curriculum Innovation.
Born and reared in Australia, Olian received a B.A. in psychology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in industrial relations and human resource management from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Four are named to posts within the University Libraries
Four individuals have been named to positions within the University Libraries.
Joseph Fennewald has been named head librarian at Penn State Hazleton where he oversees all aspects of the campus's library; Daniel Mack was named University Libraries' humanities librarian where he will work with collections in classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, Jewish studies, religious studies and philosophy; Lesley Moyo has been named the University Libraries' new gateway librarian and is involved in instructive reference work and user education aimed at teaching library users how to access and use electronic resources; and Henry Pisciotta is the new arts and architecture librarian and assistant head of the Arts and Humanities Library.
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Fennewald, who brings more than eight years of experience in academic
librarianship to the position, was librarian, evening coordinator and
assistant professor at the University of Scranton's Weinberg Memorial
Library since 1992. He also was the subject bibliographer for occupational
and physical therapy, psychology and sociology. Before becoming a librarian,
Fennewald spent six years as a social worker at Park Lane Medical Center
in Kansas City, Mo.
Fennewald's research has been published in the Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory and Computers in Libraries, among other publications, and he has presented at several state and regional conferences.
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Before coming to Penn State, Mack spent four years as the library specialist
for the Dauphin County Prison, where he directed library services for
the law library and general lending library. He also had served as a part-time
reference librarian at Penn State Harrisburg since 1997.
From 1990 through 1996, Mack worked in the University of Akron Libraries. From 1988 to 1989, he was a research assistant in Kent State University's School of Library and Information Science.
He has completed several bibliography reviews for RQ (now Reference and User Services Quarterly), a publication of the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association.
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Moyo brings 17 years of experience as a librarian and library studies
instructor to her new position. She gained the majority of her library
experience at the University of Botswana and the University of Zimbabwe.
From January 1993 through May 1999, she was a lecturer in the University
of Botswana's Department of Library and Information Studies. While at
the University of Zimbabwe from 1987 through 1992, Moyo served as science
and technology subject librarian, circulation librarian, reference/user
education librarian and head of the reader services department. Previously,
she spent three years as an instructor in the University of Zambia's Department
of Library Studies.
Immediately before coming to Penn State, Moyo was an instructor at Delaware Technical Community College, where she taught various computer application courses.
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With more than 20 years of experience in arts librarianship, Pisciotta
spent the past 13 years as head of fine arts and special collections in
the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. He will be working in both the
Architecture and Arts & Humanities libraries at University Park.
As head of fine arts and special collections at Carnegie Mellon, Pisciotta managed the library units with collections in architecture, art, drama, design, music and other areas, in addition to overseeing fine and rare books, the regional architecture archives and the slide collection. Until 1998, he also managed the university archives. From 1982 to 1987, Pisciotta served as fine arts librarian at Carnegie Mellon. His other professional experience at that university included serving as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art and serving on the libraries' interim management team.
While at Carnegie Mellon, Pisciotta conducted beta-site research and negotiated licensing terms for the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Library of digital images. In addition, he co-authored the initial proposal for the Sen. John Heinz III Archives and digitization project and planned and established the university's architecture archives. Pisciotta also has worked in the University of Minnesota Libraries.
Director named in Health and Human Development
Sara
C. Parks has been named director of the School of Hotel, Restaurant and
Recreation Management in the College of Health and Human Development.
She will assume her new responsibilities on July 1.
Parks holds a faculty appointment in the school with more than 25 years of experience offering technology-based degrees and educational programs. The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management is home to two nationally recognized programs in recreation and park management, and hotel, restaurant and institutional management.
Parks, a national leader in dietetics, is a past president of the American Dietetic Association, where she represented more than 70,000 food and nutrition experts around the world.
A Penn State faculty member since 1971, Parks teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on marketing and strategic planning within the hotel, restaurant and dietetic fields.
During her career, she was honored with University-wide awards for outstanding teaching and for administrative excellence in distance and continuing education, and the College of Health and Human Development's Evelyn R. Saubel Award for outstanding advising and service to students.
Senior director of OAS takes position at Hershey
Kenneth C. Blythe has been named chief information officer for The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. In this position, he is responsible for all aspects of information technology for the medical center and the College of Medicine.
From 1985 until he accepted this position, Blythe was senior director of the Penn State Office of Administrative Systems where he implemented electronic systems for student services, financial services, alumni relations, development, continuing education, electronic commerce and all the University's business functions.
In addition, he managed a computer center serving 23 independent Penn State campuses. From 1978 to 1985, Blythe was senior adviser for statistics and computing for the state of Bahrain. During this time, he led an international team that built the government's first computer center.
Blythe earned his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and master's degree in public administration from American University, Washington, D.C.