{"id":3935,"date":"2012-03-16T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2021-09-28T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:48:37","slug":"umes-dean-elected-leader-of-national-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/umes-dean-elected-leader-of-national-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES dean elected leader of national organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday, March 16, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/09\/KeaneDawes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3936\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PRINCESS ANNE, MD. &#8211; (March 16, 2012) &#8211; Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the UMES, has been elected by her peers to be president of the national Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools for 2012-2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keane-Dawes, who was the Council&#8217;s vice president in 2010-2011, will also serve on the Executive Board of the Council of Graduate Schools in the south for a three-year term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UMES is the only Maryland institution represented on the executive board. The elections took place at the annual conferences of both organizations held recently in Jacksonville, Fla. Keane-Dawes has been UMES&#8217; graduate school dean since August 2008 and was appointed by the president of the Council of Graduate Schools to serve on its advisory committee for master&#8217;s focused institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under her leadership, UMES&#8217; Graduate School has awarded a minimum of 20 doctoral research degrees consecutively for two years, a criterion for the university to meet re-classification standards and move from a masters&#8217; comprehensive institution to a doctoral research university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keane-Dawes is also leading an initiative to establish an animal welfare facility to support faculty and students research in UMES&#8217; schools of Pharmacy and Health Professions, and in Agricultural and Natural Sciences. The facility would assist the pharmacy school&#8217;s accreditation efforts as well as upgrade the university&#8217;s bio-safety level to a classification required to be a doctoral research universities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later this spring, Keane-Dawes has been invited to be a guest speaker at a graduate school program at Princeton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:wrobinson3@umes.edu.\"><strong>Bill Robinson,<\/strong><\/a><em>director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-621-2355.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 16, 2012 PRINCESS ANNE, MD. &#8211; (March 16, 2012) &#8211; Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the UMES, has been elected by her peers to be president of the national Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools for 2012-2014. Keane-Dawes, who was the Council&#8217;s vice president in 2010-2011, will&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/umes-dean-elected-leader-of-national-organization\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">UMES dean elected leader of national organization<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}