MURFREESBORO — Veteran
English professor Philip Phillips recently accepted MTSU’s offer to become the
permanent associate dean in the University Honors College.
“I can think of no place on this campus I would rather be
than the Honors College,” Phillips said. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to
be able to serve as associate dean and to work with such fantastic students,
faculty and staff. It’s a wonderful community of learning.”
Honors Dean John Vile said Phillips has “done an
extraordinary job for three successive years” and that “he’s perfect” for the
job. “He’s a good teacher, good scholar and he already knows the job.”
Phillips, the lone on-campus applicant, was among 19
candidates for the job. He had served as interim associate dean for more than
two years.
To view a video about Phillips “delighted” to be named
permanent associate dean, go to http://youtu.be/j0gl6TwRxnw.
“We had five that we interviewed by phone,” Vile said of the
hiring committee, “and when we got done, everyone said we got at least four out
of the five who would be great associate deans, but we have someone here who’s
now in his third year of doing it as a one-year position, why don’t we offer it
to him? That sounded wise to me and to the people above me, and so that’s what
we did.”
Vile added Phillips had “done an extraordinary job” in
coordinating the fall and spring Honors Lecture Series, he provided innovative
ideas for the new Honors College transfer scholarship and a number of other
things.
MTSU alumnus and current graduate student Matthew Hibdon
said he was pleased to learn Phillips would be the permanent associate dean.
“I’m so thrilled he has the permanent position now because
since I’ve known him, he’s always been so student-centered,” Hibdon said. “By
working with him in Omicron Delta Kappa (student honors organization), he has
such a passion for helping our student leaders become better leaders in the
future.”
In fall 2011, Phillips became interim associate dean when
Scott Carnicom accepted an administrative fellow role in the Office of
University Provost. In January, Carnicom left MTSU to become dean of the
College of Natural, Behavioral and Health Sciences at Lock Haven University in
Pennsylvania.
Phillips, who joined the English faculty in 1999, earned his
bachelor’s degree from Belmont University and both his master’s degree and
doctorate from Vanderbilt University. For more about his teaching and research
areas, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/english/Profiles/phillips.php.
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