Northampton Community College

Welsh named commencement speaker

Marcia Welsh, Ph.D., president of East Stroudsburg University, will be the speaker at Northampton Community College's spring commencement at 6:30 p.m. May 21at the Arthur L. Spartan Center, Main Campus, 3835 Green Pond Road.

She is on the NCC Monroe Campus advisory board; and is active with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities and the Buck Hill-Skytop Musical Festival Board. She is a member of the Marine Science Consortium board of directors, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the Greater Pocono Chamber of Commerce.

She earned an undergraduate degree in physical sciences and a master's degree in anatomy from Colorado State University; and a doctoral degree in anatomy from the University of Texas-Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.

Northampton Community College's main campus is located at 3835 Green Pond Road. The Fowler Family Southside Center is located at 511 E. Third St. For more information, contact NCC at 610-861-5300 or 1-877-543-0998 or visit www.northampton.edu.

Moravian College

Dean selected for leadership program

Carol Traupman-Carr, dean of Moravian's curriculum and academic programs, was selected by the Council of Independent Colleges to participate in a year-long senior leadership academy. The program is designed to prepare prospective leaders to assume positions as the chief officers in any division in independent higher education.

She will participate in two seminars, one in Baltimore, Md. and one in Washington, D.C.; undertake a mentoring program; work with experts; participate in webinars; and engage in a series of readings and case studies during the 2015– 2016 academic year.

A Lehigh Valley native, the Moravian College summa cum laude graduate earned two bachelor's degrees, one in social studies and one in music; and a master's and a doctorate in musicology from Cornell University. At Moravian, she was a music faculty member, received tenure and was department chair of the music department. She was, for the past 14 years, a dean in the Academic Affairs Office.

She is a volunteer at St. Ann School, Emmaus, and was a parent teacher organization president, chair of the school's annual walkathon, and is a member of their governing board. She was, for 23 years, the choir director of St. Ann R. C. Church, Emmaus. The staff arranger for the Mainstreet Brass Quintet has published numerous arrangements for brass ensemble. Her new choral arrangement was published by CanticaNova.

Tieperman named Fulbright Scholar

Robin Tieperman, Moravian College Class of 2015, an education and Spanish major, has been selected for an english teaching assistantship as a Fulbright Scholarship in Mexico.

She has completed recently a student teaching assignment at Liberty High School, where she taught Spanish III and IV to students in grades nine through 12. She had been previously at East Hills Middle School where she taught Spanish 1 and exploratory Spanish.

Moravian College is located at 1200 Main St. For more information, call 610-861-1300 or visit www.moravian.edu.