2004-2009: University of Dallas, Irving, Texas: President
1996-2004: University of San Diego: Vice President and Provost
1988-1996: Marquette University: Vice President for Academic Affairs
1980-1988: University of Dayton (Ohio): Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
1979-1980: Salem College (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Associate Academic Dean.
1978-1979: Academic Council on Education: Fellow in Academic
Administration: Special Assistant to the President and Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Memphis State University.
1973-1978: Salem College (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Assistant
Professor of Classics tenured 1977). Chairman of Classics (1975-1978),
and Director of the Honors Program (1977-1978).
1970-1973: United States Military Academy (West Point, N.Y.): Instructor and Assistant Professor (1972-1973) of English.
Degrees and Education
Ph.D
in Classics, Cornell University. Ph.D., 1972. Concentration in Latin
Literature; minors in Greek and Greek Archaeology. Dissertation:
Fortuna in Selected Republican Authors.
M.A. in Classics, Cornell University, 1968. Concentration in
Greek and Latin. Thesis: "Chance and Friendship in Menander and
Terence".
Certificate in the monuments and typography of ancient Rome, The American Academy in Rome, July 1967
A.B., Canisius College, 1966. Summa cum laude. Concentration in Classical Languages.
Archaeology, Excavations:
Staff Associate, University of California Expedition to Nemea, Greece, 1977.
Excavator, Tel Aviv University and University of North Carolina Joint Expedition to Tel Beer Sheeba, Israel, 1972.
Selected Publications:
"On the Meaning of Fors Fortuna: A Hint from Terence" in American Journal of Philology. 106, 3, (1985), pp. 359-367.
"Community Expectations of the Foreign Language Program" in The Modern Language Journal. 63, 4, (1979), pp. 182-187.
"Fortuna and Rhetorical Structure in Livy" in The Classical Journal, 74, 2, (1978), pp. 128-131.
"Style and Culture: The Pantheon and Imperial Rome" in Nuntius, XIV, 3, (1968).
"Darryl W. Amundsen, Medicine, Society, and Faith in the
Ancient and Medieval Worlds, " Book Review in The American Scientist,
85, Jan- Feb 1997, pp. 89-90
Scholarly Presentations:
"New Faculty as Learning Community: Discerning Institutional Character
in Extended Education," with Donnellan, A. and Drinan, P., Annual
Meeting of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, 2003
"A Postmodern View of Academic Freedom at Church Related
Colleges and Universities," Rhodes Colloquium on Church Related
Institutions, 1998
"Double Angle Contraction: A Mathematical Perspective," Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS)-Southern
Section, 1984.
"Tyche in Menander," CAMWS, 1983.
"On the Meaning of Fors Fortuna: A Hint from Terence" CAMWS-Southern Section, 1980.
"Fortuna and Dramatic Structure in Roman Comedy," CAMWS, 1978.
"Community Expectations of the Foreign Language Program," Foreign Language Associations of North and South Carolina, 1978.
"The Latin Lab: An approach to Individualized Instruction," Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, 1977.
"King Latinus and Republican Rome," CAMWS, 1976.
"The Originality of Greek Architecture," Salem College, Library Lecture Series, Inaugural Lecture, 1974.
"Fortuna and Rhetorical Structure in Livy," CAMWS, 1974.
