  {"id":23462,"date":"2016-04-08T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:56:29","slug":"faculty-staff-news-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/08\/faculty-staff-news-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty &amp; Staff News \u2013 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">&bull;&nbsp;<strong>Travis Bartels<\/strong> will join&nbsp;the Physical Plant as a general maintenance worker effective April 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull; <strong>Dr. Joann Fredrickson<\/strong>, professor of business administration, has earned Quality Matters certification for her BUAD 3520 course, Business Ethics. It is Fredrickson&rsquo;s second course to earn certification, joining her BUAD 3771 Financial Management course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull;&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Debbie Guelda<\/strong>, professor of biology, will direct Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ&rsquo;s Center for Professional Development beginning in the fall of 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull; <strong>Scott Guidry<\/strong>, assistant professor of music and director of bands, will present &ldquo;Music Diplomacy&rdquo; as part of the&nbsp;local&nbsp;Adventures in Lifelong Learning series on April 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull; <strong>Loralyn Kuechle<\/strong> has been named interim director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ&rsquo;s Hobson Memorial Union. She had been with Housing and Residence Life as hall director for Oak Hall and coordinator of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ&rsquo;s First-Year Resident Experience (FYRE) program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&bull; <strong>George McConnell<\/strong>&nbsp;has been named&nbsp;assistant director of graduate education, effective April 6. McConnell has been at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ as the assistant to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for the last two and a half years, and also teaches in the humanities program.&nbsp;Before<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> coming to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, he&nbsp;worked in the Washington, DC area, and has&nbsp;many years of experience in direct marketing, as well student and administrative support for the Episcopal Diocese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull; <strong>Megan McLaughlin<\/strong> has joined the International Program Center as an international recruiter, effective April 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull;&nbsp;<strong>Cory Renbarger<\/strong>, assistant professor of music, is&nbsp;<span class=\"s1\">performing the title role in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmopera.org\/web\/page.aspx?title=2015-16+Season+Artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Gianni Schicchi with the Fargo-Moorhead Opera<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> on April 8&nbsp;and 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&bull; <strong>Kevin Ulmer<\/strong> has joined Beaver Athletics as the university&rsquo;s new head volleyball coach. He was introduced at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsubeavers.com\/volleyball\/news\/2016\/8958\/ulmer-introduced-as-head-coach-of-bemidji-state-volleyball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">press conference on April 5<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&bull;&nbsp;Travis Bartels will join&nbsp;the Physical Plant as a general maintenance worker effective April 20. &bull; Dr. Joann Fredrickson, professor of business administration, has earned Quality Matters certification for her BUAD 3520 course, Business Ethics. It is Fredrickson&rsquo;s second course to earn certification, joining her BUAD 3771 Financial Management course. &bull;&nbsp;Dr. Debbie Guelda, professor of biology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23463,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions\/23463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}