WELCOME
Dr. John Burney
Vice President for Academic Affairs
FACULTY & ACADEMIC
PROMOTIONS
Promotion
Dr. Kate Marley
Dr. Danelle DeBoer
Dr. Mark Meysenburg
Associate Vice President
for Academic Affairs
Professor of Biology
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Information
Science & Technology
Tenure & Promotion
Dr. Dan Clanton
Associate Professor
of Religion & Philosophy
FACULTY PROMOTIONS
Jayne Germer
Associate Professor of
Practice in Library Science
David Swartzlander
Associate Professor of
Practice in Journalism
Valerie Knobel
J.L. Vertin
Assistant Professor of
Practice in Art
Assistant Professor of
Practice in Mathematics
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS
Occurring from August 13, 2013 – August 12, 2014
Promotion:
Don Belau
Rhea Gill
Emily Griesch
Associate Dean and Director of the MAC Program
Director of Arts are Basic, Instructor of Dance
Lecturer in Education
Faculty Appointments:
Kathie Court
Scott Dworak
Meghan Gaul
Kari Gentzler
Terry Haverkost
Visiting Professor of Business
Visiting Instructor of Biology
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Visiting Professor of Biology
Staff Appointments:
Lillian Dudley
Colleen Haack
April Paschall
International Student Local Activities Coordinator
Director of the Omaha Campus
Coordinator of Operations and Academic Advisor (Omaha)
Staff Updates: Promotions & Appointments
Occurring from August 13, 2013 – August 12, 2014
Sarah Begay
Michael Foster
Sean Griffin
Carrie Petr
Abby Vollmer
John Weimer
Assistant Director/Internship Coordinator for the
College to Career Center
Safety Administrator
Associate Director of Residence Life
Assistant Dean of Student Leadership
Assistant Director of the Hansen Leadership Program
Residence Director
Michael Dixon
Matthew Gonzalez
Dean Henson
Bailey Hirsch
Admissions Counselor
Admissions Counselor and Diversity Outreach
Admissions Counselor
Temporary Admissions Counselor
Staff Updates (continued)
Occurring from August 13, 2013 – August 12, 2014
Ryan Baumgartner
Micaela Kelso
Josh Littrell
Jill McCartney
Andrew Moore
Jordan Olson
Greg Seier
Hannah Vadakin
Katrina Worley
Nathan Wahle
Graduate Assistant Men’s Basketball
Athletic Trainer
Offensive Coordinator (Football)
Athletic Director
Graduate Assistant Women’s Basketball
Graduate Assistant Softball
Director of Sports Medicine/Head Athletic Trainer
Graduate Assistant Volleyball
Athletic Trainer
Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach
Eileen Chalupa
Lucas Fahrer
Senior Graphic Designer
Communications Specialist
Staff Updates (continued)
Occurring from August 13, 2013 – August 12, 2014
Steve Jerina
Amy Jurgens
Development Officer
Director of Annual Fund and Advancement Operations
Michael Hatfield
Harvey McDonald
AJ Novak
Carol Oetting
Aaron Thiessen
Manager of Grounds and Fleet Services
Grounds and Landscape Associate
Grounds and Landscape Associate
Executive Assistant for Financial Affairs/HR Assistant
Grounds and Landscape Associate
Corey Becker
Mark Urbach
Maridza Vasquez
Director of Network Support
Network Administrator
Bookstore Assistant
President’s College Community Address
Fall 2014
To be Nationally recognized for
academic excellence and student
engagement and achievement by 2023.
“Latent talents are
brought to light and
obscure genius rises to
distinction…”
Reverend David Brainerd Perry, 1872
Founding President, Doane College
“Hold Fast to Dreams…”
Langston Hughes ,
American Poet and Novelist
“Challenges make life interesting, however
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”
Mark Twain
Engagement
Community
Growth
Strategic
Plan
Environment
Identity
Doane Students, Past, circa 1920s
Crete Campus, 2013
Doane Students Present
Done Students Future
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we
borrow it from our children”
Academic Affairs
New programs developed for the Doctorate of
education, Health and Society (A&S) and Health
Sciences (GPS) and minors in entrepreneurship and
computational thinking
Rollout ready for the new general education
curriculum– Doane Core Connections – and its
sequence of liberal arts seminars in SAS and GPS
The School of Graduate and Professional Studies
opened its new location in Omaha in January.
Academic Affairs Cont.
Gentry Doane, majoring in German and Spanish with a minor in
Communication Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship in Germany in 2014-15.
Doane team to the City of Knowledge in Panama in July 2013
has led to faculty-led service and learning trips for students in
May 2015
Doane Choir of 40 sang concerts in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
and Poland, attended a performance of The Barber of Seville at
the Lithuanian national Opera, and toured the birthplace of
Frederic Chopin.
Academic Affairs Cont.
Doane students studied abroad in 15 countries on six continents including
sites in Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, England,
France, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Taipei.
Jan Willems, Dir. of International Programs led faculty on exploratory trips to
Panama, the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the Czech republic
President Carter signed Doane’s first international agreement with a Chinese
University, the Agricultural University of Hebei, to bring students to Doane in
2+2 and 3+1
President Carter signed Presidents’ Climate Commitment to accelerate
progress towards sustainability by empowering students, faculty and staff to
create solutions, and provide leadership-by-example for the rest of society.
Faculty Accomplishments
Deryl Merritt, A.R. Kinney Endowed Chair in Business, formed
four “student consulting teams” in his Small Business
Management course that were employed by four Crete area
businesses during the fall semester of 2013.
Evelyn Haller, Professor of English and Chair of the Fine
Arts/Humanities Division, presented a paper at the Willa Cather
in Rome Symposium in Italy June 9-12. Her paper is entitled
“Willa Victrix: Cather’s Triumphal Use of the Matter of Rome.”
Andrea Holmes, Assoc. Professor of Chemistry and Tessa Durham
Brooks Assistant Professor of Biology have been selected as new
investigators for the next NSF-EPSCoR Big Data program.
Faculty Accomplishments
Kim Jarvis, Associate Professor of History held the Ardis Butler
James Endowed Chair for the Advancement of the Liberal and
Fine Arts for the 2013-2014. Jarvis’ project is an environmental
history of the state of New Hampshire between World War II and
the 1970s.
Heather Lambert, Associate Professor of Psychology, was the
Keynote speaker at the "Justice for All Conference" hosted by
the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Lambert’s sabbatical
research and work resulted in the development of the Heartland
Campus Safety Summit for colleges and universities preventing
and responding to gender-based violence (held at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City in the fall of 2013).
Faculty Accomplishments
Susan Rocker, director of Career Development, launched the Doane
College Mentoring Project. The project provides short term
mentoring to current students and recent graduates of the Doane
Lincoln campus by College alumni who have established
themselves in their careers.
Dr. Kate Marley has been appointed as Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs
We hired new full-time positions in graphic design (Meghan Gaul)
and sociology (Kari Gentzler) for this fall.
Athletics 2013-2014
2nd in All-Sports Standings for the 3rd straight year
9 of 19 athletic teams competed NAIA National
Championships last year
15 of 19 athletic teams received the NAIA Scholar Team
Award (minimum average GPA 3.0)
Athletics 2013-2014 continued
Student-athletes posted a cumulative GPA of 3.15 in
2013-14
2014 Baseball team was the 1st team in GPAC history to
go undefeated in conference play
Hosted the NAIA Women's Golf National
Championships for the 2nd consecutive year
Enrollment Management
New Admission Counselor for Recruitment and Diversity
Outreach - Community BBQ was a direct result of this position
Established New Partnership with a Chinese University and
Admitted First Chinese Students for this Fall Semester
Created New 3-year Programs Embraced by: Journalism &
Media, Biology, Chemistry, History, Computer Science, Math
New Communications Flow and Printed Materials for
Admissions that Utilizes The College of Branding Campaign
Information Technology
THE LEARNING COMMONS
The Learning Commons is open for student use this fall.
ONLINE DEGREE PROGRAMS
The Learning House has identified online degree programs we
could offer based on market research and current strengths.
All Programs Under Further Review
MOBILE LEARNING INITIATIVE
A Faculty committee has been evaluating the potential
educational impact and devices for a proposed student/faculty
mobile initiative for next fall.
Strategic Communications and
Marketing
Website renovations that make this a much better tool in recruitment of
students
New advertising campaigns that include TV commercials, billboards,
print, social media, radio, movie theater ads and wrapping of city buses
Marketing partnerships with community events that range from
Children's Hospital in Omaha to building basketball courts in Rosalie
NE to Girls on the Run which helps develop positive life skills for local
youth
Seeking to Hire a New Digital Marketing Specialist to incorporate
more video content into our communications channels of recruitment
allowing us to tell stories of Doane College in a much more compelling
way
Office of Advancement &
Alumni Relations
Restructured Advancement re-directing additional staff time to
personal contact with alumni and potential donors
Increased unrestricted giving to the Doane Fund by 13.3.%
Completed a feasibility study to help identify fundraising
priorities and projects having the greatest potential to impact
campus in the next 1-2 years
Student Leadership
Established College to Career Center and hired
a full-time Internship Coordinator.
Initiated a Leadership Studies minor
Established theme communities living option in the residence
halls
Established Advocacy Response Team. Safe Space training
provided by Residence Life staff to employees.
Financial Health & Performance
Benchmarking tools used to help us provide effective
financial modeling and decision making
Standard and Poor’s continues to rank Doane as an ‘A’
stable!
Endowment stands at $117,416,175 as of 6/30
Composite Financial Index (CFI)
DEFINITION: The Composite Financial Index (CFI) is a measure of the institution's overall financial health based
on the sufficiency and flexibility of resources, the management of debt, the performance of assets, and the
results of operations. A score of 3.0 is considered the threshold for financial health.
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National Median
2013-14
DOANE
Fuhrer Fieldhouse
College to Career Center
College to Career Center
Cafeteria Renovations
Cafeteria Renovations
Cafeteria Renovations
The Learning Commons
The Learning Commons
The Learning Commons
Rall Gallery
Miller Pond Before Restoration
Miller Pond After Restoration
‘Goethe’
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Re-examining the Strategic Plan
Strengthening the core mission and values
Responding more quickly to needs of the marketplace
Identifying new sources of funding through growth, revenue
diversification, and/or reallocation of resources where appropriate
Reducing the college’s tuition dependence to support operations
Prioritizing support for our most important resource, each of you,
our,
faculty and our staff
GREAT
EXPECTATIONS
THE FUND-RAISING PLAN FOR DOANE COLLEGE
“Cause I Am Everyday People”
Sly & the Family Stone, 1968