The College has hired two senior administrators for the 2006-07 academic year, effective July 1.
Christopher Ames, the Provost and Senior Vice President at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, will join President Baird Tipson's senior staff as Provost and Dean of the College. A graduate of the University of Texas-Austin with a Ph.D. in English literature from Stanford, Ames has had a long academic career distinguished by numerous awards and fellowships and by the publication of two books and many articles on 20th-century literature and film. At Oglethorpe he worked to achieve gender and racial diversity within the faculty while elevating scholarly expectations and opportunities for development and collaborative research. He also served as a policy-maker, participating in campus master planning, marketing and campaign strategy, board development and residential life issues.
Prior to his arrival at Oglethorpe in 2001, Ames was the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. In addition to a 15-year teaching career there, Dr. Ames ran the Agnes Scott Writers' Festival, bringing authors such as John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid and Joyce Carol Oates to campus.
Ames succeeds Joachim Scholz, who is returning to teaching after a 12-year stint as provost and dean.
Mela Dutka, Dean of Students for Smith College, will join the College as Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs. Dutka brings 20 years of experience in the management of student residential life and activities. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dutka holds a master's degree in student personnel services from the University of Vermont and a Ph.D. in curriculum, instruction and administration from Boston College. She succeeds Bryan Matthews '75, the Interim Vice President for Student Affairs since Maureen Kelley McIntire's retirement in 2004.
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