Out and About; Alumni News; Faculty/Staff News

Left: Julee Breehne, PEL admission counselor, attended a Transfer Fair for students who have earned their A.A. and are considering their next-step options. Pictured with Julee is Steve Ford, St. Petersburg College's Workforce Internship Program coordinator who also was working the fair, which was held on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College. Julee and Kathy McDonald, PEL's director of admission and recruitment, attend similar education and career events on an almost weekly basis.

Right: Eckerd PEL's display at the GROW Financial Federal Credit Union Education Fair sponsored by the Tampa Bay Higher Education Alliance, of which Eckerd College PEL is a member.

Kathy McDonald, PEL's director of admission and recruitment, attended the fair, which was held in Tampa on May 4.

Alumni News

 

Forest Balderson '13 (Creative Writing) was honored recently when his poem "Dancing to Death" was selected for inclusion in plain china, the national literary review of undergraduate creative expression. The poem was first published in the 2015 Eckerd Review. Balderson currently is pursuing a master's degree in non-profit management and philanthropy at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. 

Ed Mahon '86 (Business Management), who subsequently earned a doctorate in management (DM) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and an MBA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has written a new book, Transitioning the Enterprise to the Cloud: A Business Approach. More formally, Dr. Edward G. Mahon is the Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer for Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

Teresa Mast '15 (Business Management) has filed for the District 2 seat on the Sarasota County School Board. Mast was the 2015 PEL Commencement speaker.

Note: An alumni class includes all students who graduated between June of one year and May of the next year. For example, students who graduated in August 2015 are considered part of the Class of 2016.

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Faculty/Staff News

Professor James Welch earned, this past month, a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction through the College of Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Welch's dissertation was titled "Developing Ethical Leadership in the Post-Enron World: An Analysis of Business Ethics Education in National Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States" Welch holds advanced degrees in business management, business administration, theology and law. Welch, a Command Chaplain with the Army Reserve, also recently was promoted to the rank of colonel.