Ithaca College

Two candidates will be interviewing for the position of director of first year academic programs and advising during the week of April 25. Each will make an open public presenation, "Vision for a Comprehensive First Year Program," to which the campus community is invited.

Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., director and associate professor of Africana studies and English and coordinator of the multicultural student achievement program at Western Michigan University, will interview on Wednesday, April 27.

Michael John T. Gilbert, associate professor and chair of foreign languages and faculty of the first year humanities program and interdisciplinary studies faculty at Coastal Carolina University, will interview on Thursday, April 28.

Both candidates will meet with various campus constituencies related to first-year programming and make an open public presentation, at noon. Potter will give his presentation in Emerson Suite C, Wednesday, April 27, and Gilbert will present in Klingenstein Lounge, Thursday, April 28.

Their letters of application and curricula vitae may be read at Office of the Provost Links . Their academic credentials are summarized below.

Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., director and associate professor of Africana studies and English, coordinator of the multicultural student achievement program, Western Michigan University, 2003-present

• Post-doctoral fellow, certificate of completion, Purdue University, 2002
• Ph.D., English (with distinction), University of Missouri-Columbia, MO.
  Field areas: African American and American literature, black intellectual traditions, black studies, 1999
• M.A., English (with highest honors), University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
  Field areas: 20th century American literature, rhetoric/composition and pedagogy, race and gender studies, 1996
• B.A., magna cum laude, Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1995
  Majors: English, philosophy, and religion

Michael John T. Gilbert, associate professor and chair of foreign languages, faculty of first year humanities program and interdisciplinary studies faculty, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, 1993-present

• Ph.D., German studies (with distinction and departmental honors), University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1985
• M.M., music history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1982
• M.A., German (with distinction and departmental honors), music history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1977
• M.A., German, music history, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, FRG, 1975-76
• B.A., summa cum laude, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1975. Major: German