GLENVILLE STATE HAS NEW PRESIDENT

(12/04/2003)

Glenville State College has a new president,according to the college's board of governors. Robert Freeman, a Tennessee native, will take over January 1 at a salary of $135,000. Freeman has served as interim president since July, when President Thomas Powell left to become president of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland. He was a former dean at Augusta State University's college of education in Georgia. Freeman also has held faculty and administrative jobs at Georgia Southern University, Bowling Green State University in Ohio and the University of Tennessee. He earned his doctoral degree in special education from UT. The board interviewed two other candidates — Curtis Smith, provost at California University of Pennsylvania, and Kenneth Zirkle, president of the University of Findlay in Ohio — before selecting Freeman.

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