Seven Faculty Members Earn Promotions
Seven Medaille College faculty members have received tenure or promotions. All promotions are effective as of August 15, 2008, and tenure is effective as of August 15, 2009.
Dr. Terri Borchers has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and granted tenure. Borchers earned graduate degrees from the Northwestern School of Law, Cleveland State University, Ohio State University, and the University of Utah, and has taught in the Humanities Department at Medaille since 2002.
Dr. Craig Centrie has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and granted tenure. Centrie teaches in the School of Education and directs the Curriculum and Instruction Graduate Program. As a specialist in ethnographic data collection, he is the department’s resident anthropologist, whose work explores schools as a site for identity and culture construction.
Dr. Gerald Erion has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and granted tenure in the Humanities Department. Erion began teaching at Medaille in 2002, and his current research includes topics in ethics, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of the mind.
Ethan Paquin has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and granted tenure in the Humanities Department. Paquin earned an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has published several books of poetry, including My Thieves (Salt, 2007). He is the founder and editor of the online literary journal Slope and the small poetry press, Slope Editions.
Louis Pozantides has been promoted to the rank of Clinical Associate Professor in the Communication Department. Pozantides began teaching at Medaille in 2002 following a long career in the local radio industry as a news director, programming director and on-air broadcaster.
Dr. Robert Tian has been granted tenure in the Business Department. Tian earned a Ph.D. from York University with a specialization in social anthropology, with a post-doctoral M.B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University in Marketing and Management.
Dr. Stephanie Westerman has been granted tenure. Westerman is the Program Director for the Associate of Science in Veterinary Technology degree program. Westerman earned her DVM from the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, and she is past president of the Western New York Veterinary Medical Association, and a board member of the Buffalo Academy of Veterinary Continuing Education.
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