Calvin Board Concludes Fall Meetings

The Calvin College Board of Trustees wrapped up its fall meetings on Oct. 20, concluding two-plus days of business that included both plenary sessions and committee meetings and reports.

This was the first meeting of the Calvin Board for the 2007-08 school year. The Board meets annually in October, February and May.

Among the business conducted at the meeting were a number of personnel matters, including faculty appointments and reappointments. The Board ratified promotions to full professor for Marjorie Gunnoe, psychology; Donald Tellinghuisen, psychology; and John Witvliet, music. It also endorsed tenure track faculty appointments for Adejoke Ayoola, nursing; David Noe, classical languages; and Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim, German.

The Board also ratified seven administrative reappointments: Janel Curry as dean for research and scholarship; Kathi Groenendyk as co-director of the writing program; William Katerberg as director of the Mellema Program in Western Studies; Lissa Schwander as coordinator of the Cross Cultural Engagement program; David Smith as director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning; Keith VanderLinden as coordinator of the Foundations in Technology program; and Uko Zylstra as academic dean for the contextual disciplines and for natural sciences and mathematics.

The Board also approved the 2007-08 budget, heard about preliminary plans for a possible residence hall addition, discussed the strategic plan for the college and looked at its own Board self-evaluation process.