Chris Roush has been appointed dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University.
Roush most recently was the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in Business Journalism at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill.
At UNC Roush was also director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, which provides training for professional journalists and UNC students. He is the author of two books about business journalism and also wrote Thinking Things Over: Vermont Royster’s Legacy at The Wall Street Journal, a biography of the UNC graduate who won two Pulitzer Prizes and was editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1958-71.
“Journalism is more relevant than ever before,” said Roush in QU’s announcement. “We’re seeing major changes in the way journalism delivers content as it shifts from print to online, and digital and mobile platforms. But the influence journalists have on politics, business and other areas of society has never been more important.”
Roush hold a master’s degree in mass communication from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s in history and journalism from Auburn University. Roush also taught business journalism at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and the University of Richmond.
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Also at Quinnipiac, academic nurse educator and administrator Lisa Rebeschi of Northford has been appointed associate dean and professor in the QU School of Nursing. Most recently Rebeschi chaired the department of nursing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she managed more than 60 full- and part-time adjunct faculty. Rebeschi earned a doctorate from Capella University in Minneapolis, and both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from SCSU.
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Michael Alfano, dean of Sacred Heart University’s Farrington College of Education, has been named to the Council of Directors of the National Center for Clinical Practice in Educator Preparation (NCCPEP). Rene Roselle, director of teacher preparation at Sacred Heart, has also joined the Council. NCCPEP recently held its inaugural meeting of the Council at SHU’s West Campus.
