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The nominees for Special Election for Research Consortium Directors are:

Frederick C. Monson
Eleanor F. Shevlin

Nominations close Apr 23, 2006.
All Regular Faculty may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • Membership in the Research Consortium.
    • No member will hold more than one office.
    • The officers of the organization will be a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and three Directors.

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Frederick C. Monson


Department: LEXCPIAC

I will be happy to serve as a director. My qualifications are few beyond my interest in such endeavors. In every employment situation, I have done whatever has been requested as well a whatever I was able to further research among faculty as well as students. My role in the resurrection of the Sigma Xi Chapter at St. Joseph’s University in the mid-1970’s (when I was young and bristling with energy!) has left its mark in a strong and very active Chapter (due to those who have kept it alive!). I have not been associated with any Sigma Xi Chapter since I left the University of Pennsylvania. Finally, I have a singular role in my Imaging Center (LEXSPIAC) at West Chester. This role makes me subject to reservations, that can be made at almost any time, for my time as well as for access to one of the instruments in my care. This means that I can almost never perform duties that obligate me to set aside work-day time consistently – I need to be free as I am the only one who is available to monitor activity in my Center. On the other hand, as many members know, I am most willing to attend to duties that require short bursts of activity that are often called by me, ‘scut work’ that others can hand off for spare time execution. For example, I assembled the abstracts for this past research day in a form that hopefully abbreviated the time required by teaching faculty to perform layout, etc.

I would like to make clear that I do not believe that the work I am able to do for the Research Consortium requires that I be a director of it. My own preference is that leadership roles by taken/accepted by faculty who are engaged with student research and education. However, if there is a vacancy after all faculty have considered their time and availability, I will be happy to serve.


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Eleanor F. Shevlin


Department: English

Having been involved with the Research Consortium since its formation in the Spring of 2002, I am now seeking to increase my role in the organization by serving as a director. The past two year’s I have served on the University Research Day committee, an annual event of the Consortium. I believe strongly that faculty research activities are crucial to ensuring the health and strength of a university. These activities contribute significantly to the intellectual vibrancy of the institution, to the development of new course content and often actual courses, to fostering the scholar-teacher model, to a university’s reputation, and to the professional scholarly development of its faculty. Thus, I would continue to work hard to promote institutional support for faculty research across all disciplines and to raise awareness of the research activities in which WCU faculty are engaged.


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