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PITT'S DEAN OF COLLEGE OF GENERAL STUDIESTO
SPEAK AT UPT GRADUATION
TITUSVILLE,
April 13
-- The
University of Pittsburgh at Titusville (UPT)
will hold its fifth graduation ceremony on
Saturday, April 28, 2001, at 2:00 p.m. in Henne
Auditorium, Broadhurst Science Center.
Twenty-seven students will be awarded
degrees in Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts,
and Associate of Science degrees in Applied
Communications, Natural Science, Business,
Accounting, Business Information Systems and in
the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. Susan R. Kinsey, Dean of the College of
General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh,
will be the featured speaker at graduation.
Kinsey has served as Dean since August
1999. Prior
to her arrival at Pittsburgh, she held the
position of Dean of Continuing Education and
Special Programs at American University in
Washington, D.C. Dean Kinsey holds a M.A. and Ph.D. from
Columbia University and was both a Columbia
President’s Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Fellow
during her years at Columbia.
She has worked in the field of adult and
nontraditional education for over 20 years, both
in the U.S. and in Europe, where she spent eight
years developing continuing education programs
for an European audience and serving on the
national standards and practices committee for
workforce training in France. Dean Kinsey began her academic career on
the faculty of Baruch College, City University
of New York in the Romance Languages Department.
She later served as Assistant Dean of the
New School in New York with responsibility for
the adult degree program and professional
development certificates.
While living in England in 1980, she
obtained a teaching certificate from the Royal
Society of Arts. Dean Kinsey has been an active member of
the University Continuing Education Association
since 1988, serving on two national conference
planning committees and the UCEA International
Relations Committee.
She has also served on the editorial
board of the Journal of Continuing Education.
Over the years, she has presented papers
on comparative European-American workforce
development issues at various conferences, and
has been a member of the European University
Continuing Education Network. In the course of her career, Dean Kinsey
has received project funding from the New York
Council for the Humanities and the U.S.
Department of Education. Prior
to her arrival in Pittsburgh, she served as
Co-Principal Investigator for a USIA Fulbright
Teacher Exchange Program grant.
Dean Kinsey is currently a member of the
executive committee of the newly-established
Allegheny County Regional Learning Network in
Pittsburgh. At the graduation ceremony, students will
be inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honors
fraternity, and other honorees also will be
recognized.
A
reception will be held for graduates, honorees,
family, faculty, staff and friends in the lobby
of the Broadhurst Science Center.
The public is invited to attend both
graduation and the reception.
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