UCCS celebrates faculty promotions

Eleven University of Colorado at Colorado Springs faculty members recently were honored with a reception at the home of Provost Peg Bacon. For the 2010-2011 academic year, two were promoted to professor and nine were promoted to associate professor and recommended for the granting of tenure.

The tenure recommendations are scheduled for review by the CU Board of Regents on June 24.
Those receiving promotions and recommendations for tenure and their department or college are:

Promotion to professor:

• Jacqueline Berning, biology
• Robert (Rex) Welshon, philosophy

Promotion to associate professor and recommended for tenure:

• Radu Cascaval, math
• Michele Companion, sociology
• Anatoliy Glushchenko, physics
• Christi Kasa-Hendrickson, education
• Sherwyn Morreale, communication
• Emily Skop, geography and environmental studies
• Steven Tragesser, engineering and applied science
• Rhonda Williams, education
• Tom Wolkow, biology