Dotterer Chair of Board of Governors for NCUR

SALISBURY, MD -- Dr. Ron Dotterer, dean of the Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury State University, has been elected chair of the Board of Governors for the National Council on Undergraduate Research.

NCUR is the largest U.S. professional organization devoted to advancing undergraduate research and the only professional organization devoted to undergraduate research in all disciplines. In his fourth year as a member of the 24-member board, he is the first non-scientist to serve as chair and the first chair from a public university. He succeeds Dr. William Whitney of the Jet Propulsion laboratory, California Institute of Technology/NASA.

"For many years Ron has been an active and vigorous advocate for undergraduate research, and he will be an able and effective spokesman for this important enterprise," said Whitney "As outgoing chair, and on behalf of the other members of the Board of Governors, I welcome Ron to his new position and look forward to working with him."

Dotterer was conference host of the 1998 National Conference on Undergraduate Research held at Salisbury State, one of the most successful in NCUR history. An ACE (American Council on Education) Fellow and an active member of the National Collegiate Honors Council since 1982, he has been Fulton School dean for seven years.

Prior to coming to Salisbury, he was editor of the Susquehanna University Studies, an interdisciplinary journal published annually by Susquehanna University Press, where he was director of the Honors Program and professor of English at the university. He has also taught at University College, Oxford.

Dotterer has written and edited books on Shakespeare, women’s studies and Jewish settlement patterns. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in English and comparative literature.