Elizabeth Meade
President | Cedar Crest College
Allentown, PA, UNITED STATES
Provost with twenty years experience in teaching and administration at a small liberal arts college
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Elizabeth M. Meade, Ph.D., is serving as provost at Cedar Crest College. In this role, Meade is responsible for academic life at the college including hiring new faculty; providing development opportunities for faculty; overseeing the curriculum in conjunction with relevant faculty committees; the First-Year Experience; the honors program; oversight of academic services; and student success and retention.
She previously served as associate provost, where she helped to develop and implement the First-Year Experience, a program designed to prepare first-year students for successful college careers. Before that, she served as a full professor and department chair in the humanities department. She joined Cedar Crest in 1993 as an assistant professor of philosophy.
Meade has published articles on a host of issues including moral judgment, service-learning, civic engagement, ethics pedagogy, and reproductive technology in many national professional journals. She earned her bachelor’s degree in German languages and literature from Bryn Mawr College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College.
She serves as acquisitions librarian for St. Philip Neri Elementary School in East Greenville and as an assistant leader for a Brownie troop.
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Development Opportunities for Faculty
Implementing New Curricular Initiatives
Overseeing Essential Departments
The First-Year Experience
Ethics Pedagogy
Civic Engagement
Reproductive Technology
Service-Learning
Education (2)
Boston College: Ph.D. , Philosophy 1993
Bryn Mawr College: A.B., German Language and Literature 1984
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Cedar Crest College in Allentown offering more health care majors
Lehigh Valley Live online
2014-05-21
As the health care field continues to grow in the Lehigh Valley, one Allentown college is expanding the number of health care majors it offers. Cedar Crest College is offering four new nonclinical health care majors this fall for students who want to work in the field but not practice medicine.
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