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May 9, 2000
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| Dr. Charles Glassick |
ROCKY MOUNT, NC-Robert R. Mauldin, chairman of the Board of Trustees at North Carolina Wesleyan College, today announced the appointment of Dr. Charles E. Glassick as interim president of the Rocky Mount-based independent, four-year college, effective August 2000. Although he officially takes the position the first week of August, Glassick will be visiting the College and acting in an advisory capacity in the preceding months. "We are very excited that Dr. Glassick has accepted the interim presidency," said Mauldin. "He comes to Rocky Mount with significant experience in higher education and in running small colleges. Having a person of Dr. Glassick's experience eliminates the need for a hurried search and allows the trustees to search thoroughly for the next chief executive and to choose wisely," Maudlin continued. Glassick replaces Dr. John B. White who resigned effective May 31, citing personal reasons for his resignation.
Glassick was reached at his home in Spartanburg, S.C. "Both my wife Mary and I are looking forward to coming to Rocky Mount and joining the team at North Carolina Wesleyan College. My experience as president of one small college and interim president of another will be useful in helping to address the challenges that NCWC faces now. I'm confident that we can turn those challenges into real opportunities."
Glassick, 69, is currently a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, having also served the foundation as its interim president and senior fellow and vice president for administration. The Carnegie Foundation is a policy center devoted to strengthening America's schools and colleges. While a senior fellow, Glassick assisted Ernest L. Boyer in the preparation of major Carnegie reports including "Campus Life: In Search of Community" and "Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate."
Glassick was president of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Centers in Atlanta, Ga., from 1991 to 1995. The center includes four fine arts companies: the Alliance Theater, the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the High Museum of Art.
Glassick has considerable administrative experience with colleges. Recently he served as interim president at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., from January to June 1999. He was the eleventh president of Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Pa., a position he held from 1977 to 1989. During his tenure at Gettysburg, he was named in a national survey as one of the 100 "most effective college presidents' in the country. (The survey is "The Effective College President," by James L. Fisher, funded by the Exxon Education Foundation).
Additionally, Glassick has been vice president and provost for the University of Richmond, in Virginia; dean for academic affairs at Albion College, in Albion, Mich.; vice president for the Great Lakes College Association in Ann Arbor, Mich.; and a professor of chemistry at Adrian College, Adrian, Mich. He worked for five years as a research chemist for the Rohm and Haas Company in Philadelphia after receiving his doctorate. He also served for six months as interim director of the Scholars Press at Emory University, in Atlanta.
Glassick received his bachelor's degree from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., where he graduated with honors. He earned both his master and doctorate in chemistry degrees from Princeton University, in Princeton, N.J.
Glassick has received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including five honorary doctorates as well as election to Phi Beta Kappa and other academic honorary societies. He has been an active member of a number of professional and civic organizations and has served on a variety of boards, commissions, and task forces throughout his career. He has published numerous articles on higher education.
Glassick is married to the former Mary Williams of York, Pa. They have five children and fifteen grandchildren. He is a native of Wrightsville, Pa.
North Carolina Wesleyan is an independent, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The College offers bachelor's degrees in 22 majors to traditional-aged students on the Rocky Mount campus. NC Wesleyan also offers an Adult Degree Program geared to help working adults finish their bachelor's degrees in several disciplines, with classes in Rocky Mount, and at additional teaching sites in Raleigh, Goldsboro, and Durham. The College is also planning to introduce a new accelerated degree in computer information systems and also an accelerated master of business administration program in the fall 2000 to the adult students in the Triangle area.
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