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Mount Mercy College Faculty Members Receive Tenure, Promotion
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (February 19, 2008) – Two Mount Mercy
College faculty members, Dr. Carol A. Tyx and David J. Doerge,
have received tenure beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year.
Dr. John D. Robeson has also been promoted to Associate Professor
of Mathematics.
Tyx, associate professor of English, began teaching
at Mount Mercy in 2000. She received her Ph.D. in English, with
concentrations in American Literature and Nonfiction Writing from
the University of Iowa. Tyx has served the past two summers with
Christian Peacemaker Teams in Columbia, South America, doing human
rights monitoring and violence reduction work. She has had several
articles and poems published, and her poem, “Prayer of the
Iris,” will appear in Sojourners Magazine in the March 2008
edition.
Doerge, associate professor of Political Science,
began teaching at Mount Mercy in 2001. He received his Master’s
degree in Political Science from Arizona State University and
has completed work toward his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii.
Doerge brings over 25 years of professional experience in politics
and global affairs to Mount Mercy, having worked for the United
States Congress as a defense and arms control specialist. He has
also worked with the highest level of United Nations officials
and government diplomats on a range of international issues. Doerge
is a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in
New York and is widely published on issues ranging from arms control,
to the United Nations, to the changing domestic base of American
foreign policy. Each summer Doerge guest lectures a the University
of Southern California Law School.
Robeson began
teaching at Mount Mercy College in 2002. He received his Ph.D.
in Mathematics from the University of Iowa where he received the
Outstanding Teacher Award. Robeson also holds four U.S. patents,
and has had an article, “Bases for Modules,” published
in Expositiones Mathematicae 2004.
Located in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Mount Mercy College is a Catholic College providing
student-focused baccalaureate education in the spirit of the Sisters
of Mercy.
Contacts:
Stacey Jones, Assistant Director of Marketing
(319) 368-6475, sjones@mtmercy.edu
Molly Altorfer, Director of Communications and Marketing
(319) 368-6475, maltorfer@mtmercy.edu
