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GROVE CITY COLLEGE WELCOMES NEW FACULTY MEMBERS |
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September 02, 2010
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College has welcomed five new faculty members to the ranks this fall.
Michelle Bruns, assistant professor of physical education and head women’s basketball coach, graduated from Southwest Minnesota State University with a degree in wellness and human performance with a concentration of exercise science and a minor in coaching. Upon graduating in 2005, she spent a season as a graduate assistant basketball coach at Eastern Washington University, while studying sport psychology and leadership. She completed her master’s degree in human performance and physical education with a concentration in exercise science from ASC in December 2008.
Bruns has also coached at Adams State College, in Alamosa, Colo., served as a CHAMPS/Life Skills instructor, supervisor of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, worked with the U.S. Army as a performance enhancement specialist and assistant master trainer with the Army Center for Enhancement Performance (ACEP) headquarters in West Point, N.Y. She also developed and updated the ACEP curriculum provided to Army units at the nine ACEP sites across the country.
Lisa Cantini-Seguin, associate professor of communication studies, is now a full-time faculty member this fall after working as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies for the past five years. Cantini-Seguin has taught courses in video and audio production, digital citizenship and social networking and documentary film history at the College.
Cantini-Seguin has extensive experience in video and film production spanning more than 30 years of work for public television, advertising and public relations companies, corporate communications and independent films. She won an Emmy for a documentary produced for WQED TV in Pittsburgh and several Addy awards for commercials produced for Pittsburgh-based advertising companies. She has an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and an MFA in film and TV production from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Lorie Johnson-Osho, director of multicultural recruiting and retention and assistant professor of education, comes to Grove City College from the University of Pittsburgh where she served for the past 10 years as assistant dean in the School of Arts and Science. There, she was responsible for managing recruitment and retention activities designed to improve the quality and diversity of the institution.
Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, Johnson-Osho served at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Chatham College in Pittsburgh, the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. In her new role, she will be responsible for coordinating the College’s multicultural recruiting initiative specifically in western Pennsylvania with a broader but limited national focus. She has bachelor of arts and master of education degrees from Duquesne University and her doctor of education from Roosevelt University.
Todd Gibson ’02, assistant professor of physical education, assistant football coach and head men’s and women’s track coach, joins the Department of Physical Education and Athletics as a full-time assistant professor of physical education and exercise science. The 2010-11 academic year will be Gibson’s first season as Grove City College head men’s and women’s track coach. He will also enter his seventh season as an assistant football coach, working specifically with outside linebackers and as the team’s strength and conditioning coordinator.
Gibson earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Grove City College and a bachelor’s degree in integrated social studies/secondary education from Youngstown State. In 2006, he completed his master’s degree in exercise science from California University of Pennsylvania. Gibson has completed his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist credential through the National Strength and Conditioning Association and earned his Performance Enhancement Specialist credential through the National Association of Sports Medicine.
Timothy Sweet ’85, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, graduated from Grove City College with a bachelor of music degree. He spent two years at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and completed his Master of Divinity degree at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1988. For 13 years, Sweet served as an associate pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Bakerstown, Pa., where he focused on preaching, exegetical teaching and the development of small groups and a contemporary worship ministry.
During the last decade, Sweet worked in the corporate web development industry as a sales manager and web services manager for Nauticom Internet Services and Consolidated Communications. For the last five years, Sweet served as an adjunct professor in Grove City’s Department of Entrepreneurship, teaching courses on e-commerce and Internet entrepreneurship. He joins the faculty in a full-time capacity this year, expanding his role to teach additional courses in entrepreneurship, including Internet Content Marketing and Search Engine Optimization.
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