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Goucher College Announces Jose Antonio Bowen as Incoming President

BALTIMORE, March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Board of

Trustees of Goucher College is pleased to announce that José Antonio

Bowen-a nationally award-winning educator and author of Teaching

Naked-will become the liberal arts college's 11th president, effective

July 1, 2014.

Bowen will come to Goucher from Southern Methodist University's (SMU)

Meadows School of the Arts, where he is serving as the dean, professor

of music, and the Algur H. Meadows Chair. During his long tenure as an

educator, Bowen has demonstrated strong leadership in instruction,

entrepreneurship, diversity, global citizenship, and community

engagement-all complements to Goucher's core values. His professional

experience and commitment to higher education, particularly the

liberal arts, will help reinforce the college's outstanding academic

program, its ties to the community, and its excellent national and

international reputation.

Bowen will succeed Sanford J. Ungar, who became Goucher's 10th

president in July 2001 and will step down on June 30.

"On behalf of the Board of Trustees, the Presidential Search

Committee, and, indeed, all members of the Goucher community, we

believe Dr. Bowen is the right candidate who has come along at the

exact right time to build on Sandy's legacy and lead our college into

its next phase of excellence," said Norma Lynn Fox '76, chair of the

Board of Trustees.

"Goucher College is a paragon of the liberal arts and sciences

tradition, but it also is a place that has boldly embraced big, new

ideas in education, such as its comprehensive study abroad

requirement. Goucher truly is in a strong position, thanks to Sandy

Ungar's vision and leadership." Bowen said. "I have been an outspoken

advocate for innovation in higher education, and I am excited about

using the framework of interdisciplinary education not only to

transform individual students' lives, but to help change the way

people think about value and uses of the liberal arts."

"I am delighted and honored to be succeeded by José Bowen, an eminent

educator, brilliant jazz performer, and deep thinker on the value of

the liberal arts," said Ungar. "I believe that he and the magnificent,

successful place that is Goucher are an excellent match for each

other, and I know that this community looks forward to his arrival

with great enthusiasm."

Bowen began his teaching career at Stanford University in 1982 as the

director of jazz ensembles. In 1994, he became the founding director

of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at the

University of Southampton, England. He returned to the United States

in 1999 as the first holder of the endowed Caestecker Chair of Music

at Georgetown University, where he created and directed the Department

of Performing Arts. He was dean of fine arts at Miami University

before moving to SMU in Dallas.

Bowen has been a pioneer in educational technology and active

learning, encouraging professors to devote class time to increasing

the complexity of student mental models through discussion and debate,

rather than only providing content through lectures. He has asserted

that technology is better used outside the classroom to provide

students with first contact to material, through podcasts, games, or

other online material; opportunities to connect on social media; and

diagnostic online exams that can improve preparation for class and

provide immediate feedback to both students and faculty. This approach

makes more time for active "naked" high-impact, face-to-face contact

between faculty and students.

His book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College

Classroom Will Improve Student Learning recently won the Ness Award

from the American Association of Colleges and Universities as the

"book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary

liberal education." It has been featured in The Wall Street Journal,

Newsweek, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and on NPR.

Bowen also has spent 35 years as a jazz musician and has appeared in

Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States with

performers such as Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave

Brubeck, and Liberace. He has written a symphony, which was nominated

for the Pulitzer Prize in Music; a film score; and music for Hubert

Laws, Jerry Garcia, and many others. He has served on the editorial

boards for Jazz Research Journal, the Journal of the Society for

American Music, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and Per Musi:

Revista Acadêmica de Música.

Bowen has written more than 100 scholarly articles, edited the

Cambridge Companion to Conducting, received a National Endowment for

the Humanities Fellowship, and contributed to Discover Jazz. He was an

editor of the six-CD set Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology.

He is a founding board member of the National Recording Preservation

Board for the Library of Congress and a Fellow of the Royal Society of

Arts in England.

Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University: a Bachelor of

Science in chemistry, a Master of Arts in music composition, a Master

of Arts in humanities, and a joint doctorate in musicology and

humanities. Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar in

2010.

Bowen will be living on Goucher's campus with his wife, Kimberly, and

their dogs, Chloe, Molly, and Daisy, and their 18-year-old cat Latte.

Their daughter Naomi is 21, and she will graduate from SMU in May.

The path leading to Bowen's presidency began when the college

established a search committee, headed by Trustee Florence Beck Kurdle

'61, and composed of members of the Board of Trustees, faculty, staff,

student body, and alumnae/i. The firm Witt/Kieffer was hired to help

the search committee throughout this important process. Input from

community members and other key constituencies was solicited and

valued during the search process.

The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve Bowen as the

college's next leader.

"Goucher has benefitted from Sandy Ungar's extraordinary leadership

during his 13-year tenure as our president," said Fox. "As Sandy

passes the torch to Dr. Bowen, Goucher is in a very strong position to

confront the conflux of challenges U.S. colleges and universities are

facing. The entire Goucher community appreciates Sandy for his

important contributions to the college, and we look forward to an

ever-bright future under Bowen's innovative leadership."

For photos and more information about Dr. Bowen, and to send him a

welcome message, please click here. To join the conversation, follow

Goucher College on Facebook and Twitter and use the hashtags

GoucherNextPrez and #WelcomeDrBowen.

Goucher College is a selective independent, coeducational institution

dedicated to the interdisciplinary traditions of the liberal arts and

a broad international perspective on education. With its 100 percent

undergraduate participation in study abroad, Goucher believes in

complementing its strong majors and rigorous curriculum with abundant

opportunities for hands-on experience in the world. Through

internships, community service and study abroad-and a first-rate arts

and sciences program-Goucher teaches its students to engage the world

as true global citizens.

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