INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Presidents Council has a new chair and vice-chair and the division’s Management Council welcomes a new vice chair to the group.
Ivory V. Nelson, president of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), is chair of the presidents council while John A. Fry, president of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, begins his tenure as vice chair.
Michael Miranda, faculty athletics representative at Plattsburgh State University of New York, remains chair of the membership council; while Valerie Cushman, athletics director and chair of the physical education department at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, serves as vice-chair.
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| Ivory V. Nelson | John A. Fry | Michael Miranda | Valerie Cushman |
Nelson succeeds Phillip Stone, president of Bridgewater College (Viriginia). He is the 12th president at Lincoln, and had served as the president of Central Washington University for more than seven years. A trained chemist, Nelson has achieved a national reputation for his distinguished leadership in higher education and is listed among the world’s top scientists.
Nelson graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University, in Louisiana, in 1959, with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education, chemistry. He immediately entered the University of Kansas, Lawrence, where he graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy degree in analytical chemistry with high departmental honors.
Fry succeeds Nelson as vice chair of the Presidents Council. He became the 14th president of Franklin & Marshall College on July 1, 2002. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he studied American Civilization at Lafayette College and received the George Wharton Pepper Prize, the highest honor awarded to a graduating senior. In 1986, he earned a master’s in business administration from the New York University Stern School of Business.
In 1995 he became the executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Fry helped develop and implement the university’s “Agenda for Excellence,” a comprehensive plan that guided the university’s strategic initiatives from 1996 to 2001.
Miranda is librarian at the Feinberg Library at Plattsburgh State. He earned a Master of Library Science degree in 1981 at the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor or Arts in English in 1979 at North Adams State College. He has served as librarian at Plattsburgh State since 1983 and was assistant librarian at South Vermont College from 1982-1983. Miranda begins his second term as chair of the Management Council.
His NCAA service includes chair of the Division III Strategic Planning Committee; Administrative Committee; Budget Committee; Future of Division III Oversight Committee and Convention Planning Subcommittee. Service on association-wide committees includes chair of the Research Committee; Data Analysis Research Network; Research Review Board; and Strategic Planning Task Force. Additional NCAA service concurrent with term as Division III Management Council chair includes Executive Committee; Marketing Committee; Championships Committee and Playing and Practice Subcommittee.
Miranda recently received the David Knight Award from the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association.
Cushman has served as athletic director and chair of physical education at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College for nine years. She obtained a bachelor of science degree from SUNY Cortland (New York) in physical education, a master of science in sport management from East Stroudsburg University (Pennsylvania) and a Ph.D. in higher education from Syracuse University. Her dissertation, entitled “Playing Beneath the Rim: A Case Study of an NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Team,” focused on the intersection of sport and gender. She succeeds Sandra Slabik, faculty athletics representative at Neumann College (Pennsylvania).
She is past president of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and a member of the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics. She also serves on the Division III Strategic Planning, Budget, Administrative Review and Playing and Practice Seasons subcommittees and recently served on a selection committee for the NCAA’s new position of vice president for diversity and inclusion.
In addition to the above appointments, new members of the Presidents Council are: Joseph Bascuas of Medaille College (New York); Pamela Brook Gann of Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges (California); and Paul S. Trible Jr. of Christopher Newport University (Virginia).
New members of the Management Council are: Larry Glover, director of athletics/head men’s basketball coach, Fisk University (Tennessee); Kristen Hall, director of athletics, Bard College (New York); Del Malloy, director of athletics, Salve Regina University (Rhode Island); Jack Ohle, president, Wartburg College (Iowa); Rudy Keeling, director of athletics, Emerson College; and Michael Unwin, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative, Lasell College. Malloy, Keeling and Unwin joined the Council in October.
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