March 1, 2001

RICHARD H. PASSON

Professional Experience:

2000 - Present
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON, Scranton, Pennsylvania
University Professor
Professor of English

1984 - 2000
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs (Professor of English). Major responsibilities included supervising the work of five college deans, an associate provost for enrollment management, an associate provost for information resources; directing academic planning, budgeting, and evaluation; coordinating planning for the university; directing relations with the faculty union; chairing the Administrator's Conference and acting on the President's behalf in his absence.

1977 - 1984
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vice President for Academic Affairs (Professor of English). Major responsibilities included supervising the work of the major academic administrators; directing program and budget planning for the colleges and academic departments; directly handling faculty salary and personnel matters; chairing the University Council and heading the University governance structure; acting on the President's behalf in his absence.

1973 - 1977
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY, Omaha, Nebraska Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (Professor of English). Major responsibilities included directing the work of the chairpersons of over fifteen academic departments and programs; supervising a staff of three professionals and six clerical and administrative employees; implementing the college's planning and budgeting processes; initiating the college's faculty development system; directing the evaluation and revision of the college's curricula; directing college advising programs.

1964 - 1973
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON, Scranton, Pennsylvania Chairperson, Department of English (1970-1973). Major responsibilities included direct supervision of department faculty; course scheduling, curriculum planning; implementing faculty evaluation and development systems; directing the graduate program; supervising student advising; monitoring the departmental budget.
- Professor of English (1972-1973)
- Associate Professor of English (1968-1972)
- Assistant Professor of English (1965-1968)
- Instructor in English (1964-1965)

Education:

1961 - 1964
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Notre Dame, Indiana
- Ph.D., English, 1965. Major concentration in Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature; secondary concentration in Chaucer and Medieval English Literature. Dissertation: "The Satiric Art of Dr. John Arbuthnot."
- M.A., English, 1963.

1957 - 1961
KING'S COLLEGE, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - A.B., maxima cum laude, 1961. Major concentration in English; minor in Philosophy. Graduation medals in English and Philosophy.

Representative Fellowships, Scholarships and Educational Support:

American Council on Education "Visiting Executive Internship" in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, January - April, 1981.
Danforth Foundation Grant for Summer Workshop on Liberal Arts Education, June 1974.
American Council on Education Institute for Academic Deans, 1973.
National Defense Education Act Doctoral Fellowship at University of Notre Dame, 1961-64.

Representative Research and Program Support:

Danforth Foundation Planning Grant to initiate "Program 101" at Creighton University, 1975. (National grant; competitive; reviewed by Danforth Committee; success based in part on participation with a Creighton team at the Danforth Workshop on Liberal Arts Education the previous summer.)
Gulf Oil Foundation Grant for video tape Feedback Program in Oral Communication at University of Scranton, 1971.
University of Scranton faculty research and development grant, 1967.

Representative Honors and Listings:

Listed in Who's Who in America, International Who's Who.
Honorary Membership in Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, 1985.
First Annual Presidential Citation, University of Scranton, for work on curriculum revision, 1970.
University of Scranton nominee for Danforth Foundation's E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching, 1970.
Honorary Membership in Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society, 1969.
Honorary Membership in Delta Sigma Rho, Debate Honors Society, 1961.

Representative Professional Memberships:

Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English (also PA council)
American Association of Higher Education

Representative Professional Activities:

Consultant and Grant Evaluator on Faculty Development, Wilkes College, 1985-1990. (Pew Foundation Grant.)
Active with the Conference of Academic Vice Presidents of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, 1977 - 2000; Chair, 1988-89.
Active with Executive Committee and Annual Program Committee of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English, 1970-73.
Evaluator for the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Last visit: Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, April, 1999.

Representative Civic Activities:

Instructor for Gifted Children Program, Scranton Schools: Writing Workshop, Modern Communications, the Modern Short Novel, Modern Literature, and Social Themes. 1970-73.
Consultant and speaker for Teachers' Institutes, Hazleton School District, Scranton School District, Taylor-Moosic School District. 1971-73.
Director of Graduate Institutes on Communications in Secondary English for Northeastern Intermediate Unit, Pennsylvania, 1971-73.
Chair of Self-Study Group at Scranton Preparatory School, 1995.

Publications:

BOOK:

The Satiric Art of Dr. John Arbuthnot, Doctoral Dissertation, accepted by Mouton Publishers, but not published because of discontinuation of series, 1972.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES: LITERATURE

"Macbeth: Sympathy for the Villain-Hero," Notre Dame English Journal, 2 No. 2 (1963), p. 33-39. (Regional journal; editorial panel review.)
"Gay to Swift on Political Satires," American Notes and Queries, III (1965) p. 87. (National; editor's review.)
"Legal Satire in Gulliver from John Bull," AN&Q, IV (1967), pp. 99-100. (National; editor's review.)
"Entente in Chaucer's Friar's Tale," Chaucer Review, II (1968), p. 165-71. (Refereed national journal.)
"Goldsmith's Vicar: Another Look," Modern Language Studies, Fall, 1973. (Refereed national journal; based on a refereed presentation at a regional MLA meeting.)
"Twain and 18th Century Satire: The Ingenu Narrator in Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain Journal, Fa11 1983, pp.33-36. (Refereed national journal.)

OTHER SCHOLARLY PROJECTS:

"A Critical Edition of Arbuthnot's History of John Bull," project partially completed, preempted by the edition of the same work done by Professor Erickson, published by Cambridge University Press.
"An Annotated Bibliography of John Arbuthnot," project completed in 1973; some negotiations with journals for publication; not published.

OTHER ARTICLES:

"The Catholic University, A Contradiction in Terms?," ESPRIT (University of Scranton Magazine), 1968.
"The Role of Undergraduate Education--An End In Itself," The Scalpel (publication of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the Premedical Honor Society), Spring 1983, p. 3-7. (A national magazine; article was invited after it was presented as the keynote at the association's national conference in 1983.)
"Focusing on the Student As a Means of Closing the Dichotomy," Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Number 11, Spring 1996. (National publication; invited article.)
"Hiring for Mission: An Overview," Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Number 12, Fall 1997, pp. 5-13. (National publication; invited article.)
"What We're Doing: A Survey of the Core Curriculum in Jesuit Colleges and Universities," Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Number 15, Spring 1999, pp. 14-17. (National publication; invited article.)

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:

"The Preparation of the College Teacher of English," Annual Meeting of the PA Council of Teachers of English, October, 1969. (Refereed by Council panel preparing agenda.)
"Goldsmith and Satire," Annual Meeting of Northeast Modern Language Association, April, 1970. (Refereed by 18th. C. section panel for meeting.)
Presentation on "Creighton's Freshman Seminar Program," February, 1976, and on "Program 101: Creighton's Alternative Freshman Year," March, 1977, Liberal Arts Deans Conferences, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. (Invited by chairs of conference.)
Presentation on Saint Joseph's University Faith/Justice Institute, October, 1979, Academic Vice President's Conference, Association of Jesuit College and Universities. (Invited by chair of conference.)
"The Role of Departmental Chairpersons in Faculty Development," Pennsylvania Conference of Academic Deans, Wilkes College, November, 1990. (Invited by chair of conference.)

OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS:

Facilitator for a Session on HEMI and the Dynamics of Economic Change for the National Conference of the American Association of Education's Higher Education Management Institute, 1982.
"Satire or Sense, Alas!" A Presentation to the Honors Convocation at King's College, April 10, 1994. (Invited by academic vp.)

Representative Professional Reports - Author:

"The Scranton Plan," a report on a revised curriculum presented to and accepted by the University Senate, University of Scranton, 1970, 40 pp.
"Creighton's College of Arts and Sciences, Goals and Program 101," a report for the Danforth Foundation Summer, 1974, 35 pp.
"Self-Evaluation, College of Arts and Sciences, Creighton University," a report prepared for the North Central Association, Spring, 1977, 40 pp.
"Minority Recruiting in The College at Saint Joseph's," a report to the President, December, 1977, 20 pp.

Representative Professional Reports - Co-Author or Major Contributor:

Scranton:
University Task Force (reorganization), 1967; University Five Year, 1972 (with Academy for Educational Development). Middle States Self-Study (1987). Revised Part-time Faculty Handbook (1987). Revised Faculty Handbook (1988). New Chairs' Handbook on Faculty Evaluation (1989).
Creighton:
Freshman Seminar Program (1973), Freshman Seminar Advisor's Handbook (1974-75), Program 101 Proposal (1974), Report of Curriculum Sub-committee on New Liberal Arts Curriculum (1975-76).
Saint Joseph's:
Revision of Faculty Handbook (1980), Middle States Self-Evaluation Study (1983).

Short Reports and Grant Proposals (selected list):

Scranton:
Revised English Major Curriculum; English Department recruiting publication; communication competency Handbook; NEH, Exxon and Gulf Proposals on Communication Project; Certification Proposals to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for program in Communication Arts. Academic Mission and Structure at the University of Scranton (1985); Proposal to the Trustees for a New General Education Curriculum (1994).
Creighton:
Faculty Evaluation Model; Faculty Development Model; Chairman's Development Model; Unit Faculty Workload Plan; Grant Proposals to Danforth, NEH, NSF on Curriculum; to Lilly, Danforth, Kellogg on Faculty Development; to Kresge on Communication Arts Space from Old Law School; State of Nebraska on Foreign MD Retraining.
Saint Joseph's:
Articulation Task Force Report on Future of Evening College (1977); co-author of Report on new Institutional Planning Committee and new role of Planning at SJU (1978); Five Year Periodic Review Report for Middle States Association (1979-80); adapted versions of Faculty Development and Faculty Evaluation Models (1980-81).