Tuesday, January 09, 2007
STATE CHANCELLORS - IAEWP
Charles Mercieca has established chancellors and vice chancellors in many American states. The complete list of them can be found here. They are primarily college and university professors or lawyers. For the most part the names were unfamiliar to me. Saul Mendlovitz was the exception--he is a member of Lindisfarne Associates.
I've located a few of them online.
The University of New Mexico Public Affairs Department reported that Jennifer Moore, New Mexico chancellor and associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr., Collegium of Scholars of Morehouse College on April 1, 2004, at the first National Assembly of the International Association of Educators for World Peace. I have not yet researched the connection between the two organizations, if there is one.
Would Jennifer Moore be any relation to Michael Moore? I wonder because Michael Moore's website is linked on one of Charles Mercieca's webpages.
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Momentum, a publication of Idaho State University, announced Dr. Beverly Klug's selection as chancellor for Idaho, and her responsibility for recruiting Idaho educators to join. Klug is Associate Professor of Education.
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Nebraska chancellor Dr. Robert K. Hitchcock, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Coordinator of African Studies, and Coordinator of Conflict and Conflict Resolution Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is also a member of the Kalahari Peoples Fund (Co-President and Board Member); Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative Committee, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln; Co-Founder Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association; and Member of the Board of Directors, the American Civil Liberties Union, Nebraska Chapter.
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Kentucky chancellor Jeffrey B. Freyman, Professor of Political Science at Transylvania University, specializes in Globalization, Comparative Democratization, Comparative Political Economy, and Marxism.
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Bill Wickersham, Missouri state chancellor, was a 1970 war protester.
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Florida state chancellor Brian J. Foley is professor at Florida Costal School of Law. He presented a speech at the San Francisco Conference of the War Resisters League titled "Looting By Any Other Name: The Profit-Driven War" which can be read at the "Stop the Merchants of Death" website.
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Anthony B. Pinn, co-vice-chancellor of Texas, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has written a book about Voodoo.
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Georgia state chancellor Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr., is Dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel and tenured Professor of Religion, College Archivist, and Curator of Morehouse College. Given that Jennifer Moore, New Mexico chancellor, was inducated into the Collegium of Scholars of Morehouse College at one of the IAEWP events (see above), I'm inclined to believe there is some sort of working relationship between IAEWP and the school.
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Last, but certainly most curious of all, is Anthony G. Payne.
Mercieca's website lists the Texas state chancellor as Professor John Mason Hart, University of Houston. However, Anthony G. Payne claims to be the Texas state chancellor. He makes some other claims that Susan E. Gallagher, Associate Professor, Political Science Dept., Library Fellow, University of Massachusetts Lowell Electronic Libraries, believes to be false. If you want a little amusement, check out Payne's "The Wizard" website and Gallagher's "Resume Deflation: An Exercise in Internet Investigation and Information Literacy."
The Akamai University website lists Payne among the faculty and cites his appointment as Texas state chancellor of the International Association of Educators for World Peace.
This Akamai website, too, lists Payne as Texas state chancellor. It also gives his education, indicating that he
...holds earned degrees in physical anthropology (S.B., M.A. with honors, Columbia Pacific University), and doctorates in nutritional medicine (N.M.D., Aksem Oriental Medical School) and pastoral psychology Ph.D., Romano Byzantine Catholic College).
Certainly a colorful person.
The Romano Byzantine Catholic College lists the International Association of Educators for World Peace as an accrediting body on its website. Faculty at the college are listed here. Anyone recognize any of the faculty? There must be more to this story.
