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NEW DEANS NAMED FOR TWO UNCG SCHOOLS
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GREENSBORO—New deans have been appointed for the School of Music and School of Health and Human Performance at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. John J. Deal, the assistant dean of the School of Music at Florida State University (FSU), has been appointed dean of the School of Music. Dr. David H. Perrin, chair of the Department of Human Services at the University of Virginia (UVA), has been named dean of the School of Health and Human Performance. Both appointments are effective Aug. 1.
Both were selected following national searches. The appointments were approved by the UNC Board of Governors at their May meeting and were announced by UNCG Provost Edward Uprichard. Perrin succeeds Dr. Robert Christina, who has been dean since 1992. Deal succeeds Dr. Arthur Tollefson, who has served as dean since 1984.
“It is always a little stressful when a university has to replace a successful dean or deans,” said Uprichard. “But it is an opportunity to bring in academic leaders with different strengths and experiences and new ideas. I feel very good about the new deans we have hired. Both have strong academic and administrative records and have demonstrated unusual abilities to work collaboratively with faculty, staff, and students. I look forward to working with them.”
In the School of Music, Deal will be taking charge of a school which is a leader in music education in the state and nation. The school moved into its new home in 1999, a $25.7 million building with state-of-the-art facilities for teaching music performance and music education that is considered to be one of the finest facilities in the country. The school has approximately 55 faculty members and 575 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The school was the first institution in the South to offer a music education degree in 1912. Through the school, UNCG currently offers the only comprehensive slate of performance and music education degrees from the baccalaureate through the doctorate in North Carolina.
At FSU, Deal has been assistant dean for academic affairs and director of graduate studies with the School of Music since 1994. For the 2000-2001 year, he served as interim dean of the FSU School of Theatre. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Bowling Green State University and his Ph.D. degree in music education from the University of Iowa. He studied orchestral conducting with Paul Vermel at the Aspen Music Festival and completed Harvard University’s management development program.
The FSU School of Music is the largest in the Southeast and the third largest university-based in the nation, offering degrees through the doctorate. In addition to administrative duties, Deal was a professor of music education. He has performed with the Tallahassee Bach Parley Choir and the FSU Cantores Musicae Antique. Earlier, he held appointments with the College of Fine Arts at the University of North Dakota from 1981-94. He also was conductor and music director of the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra from 1983-94.
In the School of Health and Human Performance, Perrin will be at the helm of 1,081 students and 63 faculty members. The school has five academic departments—dance, exercise and sport science, communication sciences and disorders, public health education, and recreation, parks and tourism. Degrees are offered through the Ph.D. level and the school’s Ph.D. program in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science is recognized as one of the country’s best programs. For financial aid, a total of 27 student scholarship/awards and program funds have been established. The teacher education programs in dance, physical education and health education departments were recently re-accredited by the National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education and the North Carolina State Department of Public Health.
At UVA, Perrin has been a professor of kinesiology in the Department of Human Services, where he holds the Gieck Professorship in sports medicine. He also was director of health and physical education and curriculum director of graduate athletic training and sports medicine in the Curry School of Education. He graduated from Castleton State College, and received his M.Ed. degree from Indiana State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Perrin is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Athletic Training and was founding editor of the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation. He is author of “Isokinetic Exercise and Assessment and Athletic Taping and Bracing,” and editor of the third edition of “The Injured Athlete.”
His research interests include muscle performance, knee arthrometry, joint proprioception and postural stability. Perrin was awarded the Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished Educator Award from the National Athletic Trainers Association in 1996 and the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award in 1998. At UVA, he received an All-University Outstanding Teaching Award in 1997 and in 1998 received the Curry School Foundation's Outstanding Professor Award.
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