Faculty Excellence Celebration 2023

On the afternoon of Monday, April 3, “A Celebration of Faculty Excellence” was held in the Waetjen Auditorium and Lobby of the Music and Communication Building at Cleveland State University. 

The annual celebration of naming the Distinguished Professor, honoring Distinguished faculty and recognizing faculty and librarian promotions was anchored by remarks from Cheryl Bracken, Ph.D., Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs and Development; Nigamanth Sridhar, Ph.D., Provost and Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs, and CSU President Laura J. Bloomberg, Ph.D..

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Distinguished professor

Milena Sterio, the Charles R. Emrick Jr. - Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law

Distinguished Faculty

Distinguished Faculty Award – Research 

• Valentin Boerner, Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences 
• J. Mark Souther, History 

Distinguished Faculty Award – Service 

• Judith Ausherman, Health Science and Human Performance 
• Beth Ekelman, Occupational Therapy 

Distinguished Faculty Award – Teaching

• Karen Keptner, Occupational Therapy 
• Karen McIntyre, Physical Therapy  

Provost’s Service Award 

• Linda Quinn, Mathematics & Statistics  

Provost’s Teaching Award  

• Sandra Chincholkar, Mathematics & Statistics

Promotion and Tenure

Promotion to Associate College Lecturer 

• Laurie Brown, Nursing 
• Steven Gubkin, Mathematics & Statistics  
• Marcus Schultz-Bergin, Philosophy & Comparative Religion  
• Candice Vander Weerdt, Management  

Promotion to Associate Professor of Practice  

• Anita Gabrosek, Film & Media Arts  
• Michael Gallagher, Mechanical Engineering 
• Bogdan Kozul, Mechanical Engineering 

Promotion to Senior College Lecturer  

• Brian Bailey, Music 
• Lydia Grebenyova, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 

Promotion to Senior Clinical Professor 

• Pamela Daiker-Middaugh, Law 
• Carole Heyward, Law 
• Doron Kalir, Law 

Promotion to Librarian 

• Amanda Goodsett, Michael Schwartz Library  

Tenured 

• Sathish Kumar, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 
• John Van Stan, Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure 

• Umut Celiker, Finance 
• Katherine Clonan-Roy, Curriculum & Foundations 
• Federico Galetto, Mathematics & Statistics 
• Benjamin Hoffman, Accounting 
• Weishi Jia, Accounting 
• Fengxia Zhu, Marketing 

Promotion to Professor 

• Michael Baumgartner, Music 
• Kathy Curnow, Art & Design 
• Mark Holtzblatt, Accounting 
• Jane Keehan, Physical Therapy 
• Eddie Lam, Management 
• Julia Phillips, Counseling, Administration, Supervision, and Adult Learning 
• Andrew Resnick, Physics 
• Mamadou Seck, Social Work 
• Andrew Slifkin, Psychology 
• Karen Sotiropoulos, History 
• Parthasarathy Srinivasan, Mathematics & Statistics 
• Rongjun Sun, Criminology & Sociology 
• Stephanie Webster, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs