Posts Tagged ‘Faculty/Staff’

2018 has turned into a year of major changes for the A&E department. We have known for over a year that our offices and classrooms would be moving from the Hardin Administration building to the newly renovated and remodeled Onstead Science building. We’re now packing up for the move scheduled at the end of June. What we didn’t know a year ago was how much the faces of faculty and staff would change. First, Veronica Schaeffer, our farm manager, got married and moved away in early January. Our new farm manager is Riley Morrow. He’s a 2016 graduate of the department. We’ll feature him in a blog post soon. Then the university offered a number faculty a retirement incentive, and Drs. Ed Brokaw and Jim Cooke decided to take it. They both officially retired this May, but plan to stay connected to the department, even doing some adjunct teaching. Later in the spring, Alex Wann announced that he was leaving ACU. He took a very good position with Samaritan’s Purse, his former employer, and in May he and his wife Carola moved to Boone, NC. Finally, in a cost-cutting move, the university terminated our Administrative Coordinator position, so this week we say good bye to Charlotte Marion. Gaye May, the Administrative Coordinator for Math, will now split her time between Math and A&E. We will greatly miss all these people who have done so much for the department. In the midst of all this, we are adding two new faculty. Adam McGee is a newly minted PhD in Animal Nutrition from Oklahoma State, and Kendra Jernigan received her PhD in Crop Science from Washington State University. They will both be featured in future blog posts as well. So as this department goes through these dramatic changes ,we ask for your prayers so we will be a better, stronger department more committed to God’s service. More »