Betsy Boze

Betsy Vogel Boze (pronounced Bōz), is an American academic and university administrator. [ [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0333922654 "International Handbook of Universities, 17th edition" (Amazon.com link)] ] She is the Chief Executive Officer, Dean and Professor of Marketing at Kent State University Stark [ [http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2005/06/29/News/New-Stark.Dean.Lives.For.College.Culture-1517340.shtml "Lives for College Culture"] ] in North Canton (Stark County) Ohio. [ [http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Kent-State-University-Stark-Campus-to-Confer-First-Class-of-Nursing-Students-16661-2/] ] [ [http://einside.kent.edu/?type=art&id=81195 Ohio College Access Network Grant Awarded to Kent StateStark] ] [ [http://www.sbnonline.com/Local/Article/13284/65/146/For_the_asking.aspx] ] [ [http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?style=newstyles.css&Section=&ID=293615&Category=8 Aultman Nursing Lab Dedication] ]

Kent State Stark, a public liberal arts university, serves over 10,000 students a year in academic and executive programs and is part of the University System of Ohio.

Dr. Boze was born and grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. She is the daughter of the late Dr. Leroy Vogel, Cultural Attache to post-war Germany and Dean of Centenary College of Louisiana and Betty Garrett Vogel McDonald, a travel writer and broadcaster. She is the granddaughter of U.S. Congressman (Alabama) Oscar Lee Gray and stepdaughter of the late Paul Cranford McDonald, President of Murphy Oil Company, Canada.

Boze is a Lifetime Girl Scout and Gold Award recipient (equivalent to "Eagle Scout"). [ [http://www.scouts.com.au/main.asp?iStoryID=10028869 Famous Scouts] ] She is a member of the Junior Leagues of Shreveport, Louisiana and Canton, Ohio, Brookside Country Club (Ohio), First United Methodist Church (Shreveport, LA). She was a 2004 NISOD Award Winner(National Organization for Staff and Organizational Excellence) for Excellence in Higher Education Administration. [ [http://www.nisod.org/downloads/2004ea_listing.pdf 2004 NISOD Award Winners] ]

Education

Formal Education

Boze attended Southfield School and graduated from C. E. Byrd High School where she was active in social and environmental causes, including the first Earth Day [ [http://www.11thhouraction.com/node/819 Earth Day Flag] ] She earned her Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Master in Business Administration degrees from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She went on to study international management at Thunderbird, Spanish at ITESM, Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico, and Japanese at International Christian University (ICU) in Mitaka, Japan. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration majoring in marketing with minors in economics and sociology from the University of Arkansas.

Post-Doctoral studies

Dr. Boze's post-doctoral studies include The University of Hawaii Pan Asian Institute, HERS Bryn Mawr Higher Education Resource Symposium, Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, American Association of State Colleges and Universities Millennial Leadership Institute, [ [http://www.aascu.org/mli/pdf_06/career_advancements.pdf MLI Career Advancements(PDF) MLI] ] American Council on Education Fellowship, the Harvard University Seminar for New Presidents and the Center for Creative Leadership, "Leadership at the Peak" program for CEOs. Dr. Boze is a graduate of Leadership Texas, Leadership America [ [http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/womens_museum/leadership/LDR_main.asp The Women's Museum:] Leadership America] and Leadership Stark County. [ [http://www.leadershipstarkcounty.org/programs/advantage.asp Leadership Stark County: Progams] ]

University Experience

Faculty, Teaching, and Administrative Appointments

She has held full time faculty and administrative appointments at St. Bonaventure University, University of Maryland University College (Japan, Germany and Italy), Centenary College of Louisiana and The University of Alaska Anchorage where she was Business Administration Department Chair and elected President of the Faculty Senate. [ [https://www.alaska.edu/bor/minutes/1992/4-24-92minutes.html Board of Regents: April 24 1992 Official Minutes] ]

Dr. Boze was selected as the inaugural Dean of the College of Business at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College and served as Assistant to the President and American Council on Education Fellow at Tulane University. [ [http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=13872&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm 38 Named to ACE Fellows Program] ] . She received the 2004 National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Award Dr. Boze served as the Chief Academic Officer of The University of Texas System "UT TeleCampus" MBAO, [http://www.telecampus.utsystem.edu/index.cfm/4,503,c,html/masterplan.pdf University of Texas: UT TeleCampus Master Plan] ] and held a Research Faculty appointment as Co-Director of the Texas Ports & Waterways at Texas A&M University. [http://www.imt.mx/Espanol/CID/buscar.php?pageNum_buscar=1614&totalRows_buscar=24479 Extending Intracoastal Waterway] [ [http://tti.tamu.edu/groups/program.htm?p_org_code=RPW Texas Ports and Waterways] ] She was a Visiting Faculty for Portland State University in Khabarovsk [Хаба́ровск] in the former Soviet Union and Graduate Assistant for The University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas).

Academic Partnerships, Mergers and other Collaborations

MERGED INSTITUTIONS

Boze has twenty years experience in various one-of-a-kind academic collaborations. Immediately prior to her arrival, the Alaska Legislature merged the Anchorage Community College (ACC) System into the University of Alaska Anchorage. During this time she was the President of the Faculty Senate and helped work through the changes in faculty benefits as well as the reinstatement of the former ACC collective bargaining unit.

ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP

In 2004, The University of Texas at Brownsville (at that time an upper division and graduate university) and Texas Southmost College (a 75 year old community and technical college) entered into a unique academic partnership that was later expanded into a 99 year agreement. The two institutions maintained their own boards and academic autonomy while merging their adminstrators and administrative services. They later became jointly accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Boze was the inagural Dean of the College of Business for both the univerisity and the community college.

CO-LOCATED CAMPUSES

Under a twenty year lease, Kent State University Stark, a comprehensive regional university leases 34 acres to neighboring Stark State Technical College. As "Co-Located" institutions, Kent State Stark provides library, wellness and other student and professional services to Stark State College of Technology and has developed a comprehensive list of articulated programs and courses.

Scholarly record

Dr. Boze has published over 100 peer-refereed research articles and book chapters on marketing and business administration. [ [http://www.dofonline.co.uk/management/why-global-brands-are-not-always-cost-effective.html Publication: Global Branding] ] [ [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560243244 "Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms" (Amazon.com link) Book: Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms] ] [ [http://www.apmforum.com/emerald/asian-consumer-marketing.htm Publication: Asian Consumer Marketing] ] [ [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=16798 Journal of Consumer Marketing] ] She writes and speaks publicly on higher education administration, distance education, technology and women's issues. [ [http://www.utsystem.edu/wmc/Liaisons.htm University of Texas: Resources for Minorities and Women] ] [ [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076231253X "Lessons in Leadership, Volume 5: Executive Leadership Programs for Advancing Diversity in Higher Education" (Amazon.com link)] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ajAKapRR2hcC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=betsy+boze&source=web&ots=apS5QlhB9q&sig=sPHhmCA_Ze3PsTBAGsTd_QKoafA&hl=en] ] [ [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2737.2000.00149.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=ijc.1] ] Boze was one of the master planners and creators of the University of Texas TeleCampus, the University of Texas System web-based, virtual university. She is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Finance and Business, Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in the World.

Current Professional and Community Leadership

Dr. Boze is a Commissioner on the City of Canton Sustainability Commission and Vice Chair of the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce. She serves as trustee on the boards of: the Stark County Port Authority, [ [http://www.portfolio.com/resources/company-profiles/Stark-County-Port-Authority-7595868 Conde Nast Portfolio] ] American Cancer Society (Ohio), Canton Museum of Art, [ [http://www.cantonart.org/AboutUs/Trustees.html Canton Museum of Art: Board of Trustees] ] Greater Canton Chamber of Commerce, Mayor's Literacy Commission (Canton, OH), Ohio Area Health Education Centers, Ohio Citizens for the Arts, [ [http://www.ohiocitizensforthearts.org/board.html Ohio Citizens for the Arts and Foundation Board Members] ] Paul and Betty McDonald Foundation, Stark Development Board, [ [http://www.starkcoohio.com/content/trustees.html SDB Trustees list] ] and the Stark Education Partnership P-16. [ [http://www.edpartner.org/p16compact.html Stark County P-16 Compact] Boze served on Rep. William Healy's mayoral Transition Team and Inaugural Committee and the Ohio Board of Regents task force to revise the Operating Manual for Two Year Campus Programs. She is President of the Ohio Association of Regional Campuses, the Jackson-Belden Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee of the Stark Development Board, the Strategic Planning Committee of the Stark County YMCA, Lake Local Schools and the Greater Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.

Professional Service to Higher Education

National appointments include the Finance Committee of the American Council on Education Council of Fellows, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Women Presidents and Chancellors affinity group, the AASCU Policies and Practices Committee and is a sponsor, mentor and faculty of the AASCU Millennial Leadership Initiative. [ [http://www.aascu.org/mli/participants.htm 2008 AASCU MLI Sponsors] ]

Boze is a Higher Learning Commission [ [http://www.ncahlc.org/index.php?option=com_directory&Itemid=192&Action=ShowBasic&instid=H060 (HLC)] ] (North Central Association of Colleges and Universities) [ [http://www.ncahlc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=218 PEAQ] ] Consultant/Evaluatorand [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Betsy_Boze&action=submit AQIP] ] Peer Reviewer.

Dr. Boze is on the faculties of the American Council on Education Department Chairs Workshop, 2007 ACE National and Regional Leadership Forusm, 2006 American Association of State Colleges and Universities Millinnial Leadership Institute and 2007 HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration.

Boze was also a Team Leader [http://chronicle.com/news/article/4700/how-12-colleges-help-hispanic-students-succeed Chronicle of Higher Education ] for the 2007 AASCU Hispanic Student Success Report. [ [http://aascu.org/documents/student_success.htm American Association of State Colleges and Universities:] "Hispanic Student Success Study"] [ [http://aascu.org/media/public_purpose/feb_mar08.pdf] "Public Purpose"] and is a 2008 delegate to the Mid-West Higher Education Consortium.

Dr. Boze serves on the Editorial Boards of the international journal "Teaching & Learning in Higher and Continuing Education"and the American Council on Education "Network News". [ [http://www.ace.prov.vt.edu/Newsletters/OWHENewsFeb07.pdf American Council on Education: Office of Women in Higher Education] Network News Winter 2007]

Recent Service

Dr. Boze has successfully completed terms as:

*President, Southwest Business Deans President, Texas Council of Collegiate Education in Business (Texas College and University Business Deans)
*President, Junior Achievement (Texas)
*President, Delta Delta Delta Alumnae Chapter (Rio Grande Valley)
*President, Girl Scouts Susitna Council (Alaska)
*President, Delta Delta Delta Alumni Chapter (Alaska)Dr. Boze served from 1996-2005 as the State Coordinator of the American Council on Education Women's Network for Texas, [ [http://www.ribghe.org/acehandbook.doc ACE Network:] "Identifying, Developing, Encouraging, Advancing, Linking, and Supporting Women in Higher Education" (MicroSoft Word .doc file)] and continues to serve on the editorial board of ACE "Network News". From 1997-2005 she chaired the Women Administrators in Management Education (the women's affinity group) of the Association for the Advancement of Colleges and Schools of Business. [ [http://www.aacsb.edu/members/communities/interestgrps/womendeans.asp AASCB Women Administrators] "Women Business School Deans at Member Schools"] [ [http://www.aacsb.edu/publications/printnewsline/NL2001/spgender.asp Closing the Gender Gap] ] [ [http://www.aacsb.edu/members/communities/affinitygroups/wame-history01-05.asp AASCB Meeting History] ] Dr. Boze was Co-Director of the Texas Ports and Waterways Commission of the Texas Transportation Institute, [ [http://tti.tamu.edu/search/?q=boze Texas Transportation Institute] ] on the boards of Success by Six in Brownsville, TX, [ [http://www.successby6brownsville.org/ Official Website for "Success By 6"] ] Girl Scouts of the USA (Texas).

Delta Delta Delta

Boze is a third generation Tri Delta (Theta Kappa, Southern Methodist University) [ 1972 SMU "Rotunda", p. 262] [ 1973 SMU "Rotunda", p. 216] [ 1974 SMU "Rotunda", p. 87] . She has served the sorority in various capacities, inclduing President of Delta Delta Delta Alumnae Chapter, Alaska, President, Rio Grande Valley Alumnae Chapter (Texas), State Reference Chairman (Alaska), Alumnae Advisor, University of Arkansas collegiate chapter, Panhellenic Advisor at Louisiana State University Shreveport collegiate chapter, President of Wish Upon a Star, the Shreveport, Louisiana alumnae chapter philanthropy.

Environmental Work

Boze has been active in the environmental movement [ [http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/summit/registered.html College and University Presidents Climate Commitment] ] since the first Earth Day. [ [http://www.11thhouraction.com/node/819 Story of Earth Day Flag] ] when she sewed an Ecology Flag (American) that flew in front of her high school. [ [http://www.indeonline.com/local_news/x170772889 Massillon Independent Story about Earth Day at Kent State Stark] ] Under her leadership, Kent State University Stark signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment [ [http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/html/signatories.php] Presidents Climate Commitment ] and is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. [ [http://www.aashe.org/membership/members.php#four] AASHE Membership ]

She marched in the Millennial Earth Day celebration from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York City. Under her leadership, Kent State Stark has become one of the largest recyclers in Stark County (Ohio). The campus is the site of Stark County's Earth Day and dedicated a protected wetland/pond [ [http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=9&ID=408671&r=20&subCategoryID= Pond Dedication] ] in 2007. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS194302+08-Apr-2008+PRN20080408] ] [ [http://www.wickedlocal.com/oh-massillon/news/x170772889] ] [ [http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=9&ID=408377&r=13&subCategoryID= One Water] ] Beginning with the 2008 graduating class, she has encouraged students to take the "Graduation Pledge" of social and environmental responsibility. [ [http://www.examiner.com/p-162556~Kent_State_University_Stark_Campus_Grads_Pledge_to_Consider_Socially_Responsible_Jobs.html Graduation Pledge] ] [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS288744+08-May-2008+PRN20080508] ] [ [http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1525268/ Kent State University Stark Grads Pledge to Consider Social Responsibility] ] 2008 freshmen participated in the similar "1st year pledge."

Personal

Dr. Boze has studied seven languages, lived in the U.S., Mexico, Switzerland, Japan, East and West Germany and Italy and taught in several other countries.

She is the mother of three children. Her oldest son lives in Anchorage, Alaska and works as a fishing guide. Her daughter Broox Garrett Vogel Boze is in a doctoral program in Zoology at Colorado State University and is currently researching Japanese Macaques (Snow Monkeys) on an NSF grant in Japan. Her youngest son, Lee-Gray Boze is President of American Petroleum (a Colorado-based petroleum geology company specializing in karst).

In her personal time she prefers swimming and skiing, adventure and water sports (caving, paddling, sky diving, scuba and most recently kite boarding). In more reflective moments she enjoys reading, flying kites in almost 100 countries, suduko and backgammon. [ [http://www.stark.kent.edu/CampusInfo/DeansBio.cfm Kent State Stark Biography] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.stark.kent.edu/CampusInfo/MeetOurDeans.cfm Kent State Stark- Meet Our Dean]
* [http://www.stark.kent.edu/CampusInfo/DeansBio.cfm Kent State Stark Biography]
* [http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=750&ID=141856&bhcp=1 Educause: Peer Directory - Profile: Betsy Boze]