HIGH POINT, N.C., Jan. 9, 2017 – High Point University faculty, staff and alumni recently received the following academic and professional awards and recognitions.
Provost Elected to UMC University Senate
Dr. Dennis Carroll, HPU provost, was elected to the University Senate by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. He will serve as a senate member through 2020. The senate, composed of 27 voting members, determines which pre-collegiate schools, colleges, universities and theological schools meet the criteria for affiliation with the United Methodist Church. Carroll also serves as a lay member of the Western North Carolina Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.
“Given High Point University’s historical connection with the United Methodist Church, I am honored to have been elected to the University Senate, “ says Carroll. “The Global Board of Higher Education and Ministry recognizes HPU as a leader in private, church-related higher education. The impact of our students, alumni, staff and faculty is truly being felt worldwide. To have a seat in the University Senate is humbling.”
Pharmacy Dean Joins Local Boards
Dr. Ronald Ragan, dean of the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy at HPU, was recently appointed to the American Heart Association Triad Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Piedmont Triad American Red Cross.
Alumnus Wins His Fourth Emmy Award
Greg Fox, a 1983 HPU graduate and reporter at WESH TV 2 (NBC), won a 2016 Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Suncoast Chapter). Fox’s series of investigative reports covered transportation challenges in the greater Orlando metropolitan area. This is his fourth Emmy Award. May 4 will mark his 30th year with the television station.
Sermon from Minister to the University Featured in Campus Ministry Publication
Last year’s Baccalaureate message by the Rev. Preston Davis, minister to the university, is featured in the spring 2017 edition of The Term, a collaboration of the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The Upper Room, and Discipleship Ministries.
“The message for graduating students was about recognizing now and in years to come the rich beauty of what the Apostle Paul meant when he wrote, ‘Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?’ It’s about the realization that life at its best is when we see that God, that mysterious love pulsing through the universe and seen in Jesus of Nazareth, seeks to live through us still,” says Davis. “It’s this awakening that leads toward a different kind of life and different kind of world.”