Dr. Kent Farnsworth

Dr. Kent Farnsworth is President-in-Residence and Mary Ann Lee Endowed Professor for Community College Leadership Studies in the College of Education at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Prior to joining the university faculty, he served for nineteen years as President of Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University, Master's Degrees in International Relations from California State University, Sacramento, and in Guidance and Counseling from Truman State University, Missouri. His Doctorate in Mass Communication is from the University of Iowa. He has served previously as Dean of Students at Eastern Iowa Community College and Director of Admissions at Truman State University. His teaching responsibilities include courses in community college leadership and higher education organization and administration.

Dr. Farnsworth recently completed a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Colleges, and is past Chairman of the Missouri State Humanities Council. He has received the National CEO Leadership Award from the American Association of Community College Trustees and in 1989 was named one of “America’s Transformational Leaders in Higher Education” by the League for Innovation.
Dr. Farnsworth was the 2002 recipient of the Werner Kubsch Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Education, awarded by Community Colleges for International Development. For the past four years he has been actively involved in consulting with the Ministry of Education in Thailand where they are developing a new community college system.

Jamie Dake

Jamie Dake is the State of Missouri Citizen Corps Coordinator. The Citizen Corps program facilitates the formation of community collaborative citizen councils. The citizen councils help communities and citizens
prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. Jamie provides program guidance and grants management/administration.

Jamie served as leader of the AmeriCorps St. Louis Emergency Response Team. In this role he helped lead the formation of community long-term recovery committees after the 2004 Hurricanes in the
Southeastern U.S., lead a city wide public health campaign to control the spread of the west-nile virus in St. Louis, conducted community disaster education in the St. Louis Public Schools, and many other volunteer projects.

He also led team building initiatives with Outward Bound Thailand, YMCA Teamworks, St. Louis Regional Experiential Adventure Movement, Four Trails Adventure Program, Forest Park Forever, and the St. Louis Public
Schools.

Eric Aplyn

Eric Aplyn is currently the Assistant Director of the E. Desmond Lee
Technology and Learning Center at the College of Education of UM-St.
Louis. He has worked extensively with adults and youth in experiential
and outdoor education settings, and has held several leadership
positions in service organizations. Currently, most of his expeditionary
energies are focused on his two sons, ages 8 and 5.

Dr. Kelly McKerrow

Dr. McKerrow is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is Cross appointed in the Women’s Studies program. She received her Ph.D from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1986, her masters in school leadership from Southeast Missouri State University in 1980 and her bachelors degree from the University of Missouri, St. Louis in 1975. She also has a degree from Jewish Hospital School of Nursing. Dr. McKerrow worked as a nurse and teacher prior to moving into administration. She spent eight years in K-12 administration and served as assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies -School of Education at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Dr. McKerrow has published on the topic of leadership in book chapters and over 30 articles in national, refereed journals. Since being at SIUC she has chaired or served on over 50 doctoral committees and 30 masters committees. Her research and teaching are in the areas of leadership theory, cultural foundations of education, school community relations, and elementary administration. She currently serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of Women in Educational Leadership. She is a reviewer for Educational Administration Quarterly (EAQ), the National Council for Professors of Educational Administration Proceedings, the International Journal of Health Education, and the U. S. Department of Education Federal Grant for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Programs.

Dr. McKerrow has received a Multimedia Instructional Technology Competitive Fellowship. She has been recognized in the national journal Women in Higher Education for her contributions to women in educational administration. She also received the Leadership Academy Award from the Missouri State Department of Education for her work as co-founder/co-editor of the statewide publication Networker for the Missouri Leadership Academy. In addition she was recognized by the St. Louis Network of Educational Administrators for outstanding efforts to mentor individuals aspiring to K-12 administrative positions.

James Tatum

James Tatum has been a trustee of Crowder (MO) College since 1963 and serves as the president of the Board of Trustees. Tatum served as president of the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) and was elected by community college presidents to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (Tatum has the honor of being the only trustee elected to the AACJC board by community college presidents). He also has served as the president of the Trustees Division of the Missouri Associations of Community Colleges.

Tatum has served as an ACCT CEO Search Consultant for more than 80 community colleges in their search for a new CEO. He also serves as an ACCT Board Retreat Facilitator and has conducted retreats for over 150 community colleges. As a retreat facilitator, Tatum's special focuses are ethical decision making (Tatum has attended both the Josephson Institute for Ethics in California and the Global Ethics Workshop by Rushworth Kidder in Maine), and Servant Leadership in all its aspects including consensus making, receptive listening and resolution of conflict.

Tatum is an alumnus of Wentworth (MO) Junior College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was wounded in combat (Korean War). Tatum served as a member of the Greenleaf Center Board (The Servant Leadership Concept and from 1987-1994 as chairman).

Tatum has received many honors including the ACCJC's Trustee Leadership Award, AGB's Distinguished Service Award (the only community college trustee ever to recieve the award), and the ACCT M. Dale Ensign Leadership Award as the outstanding community college trustee in America (1979), and the North Central Association of Community College's Outstanding Service Award. He has been recognized as one three transformational leaders by ACCT. He has also been recognized as citizen of the year for McDonald County MO (2000).

Dr. Paul Paese

Dr. Paese received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he teaches organizational psychology, negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership. He recently completed his second term as Director of the I/O doctoral program. His current research topics include action learning, conflict resolution, negotiation, and leadership. His articles have appeared in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Group Decision and Negotiation, International Journal of Conflict Management, Social Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, and Journal of Applied Social Psychology, among other outlets. He serves as a regular reviewer for several top I/O journals. Dr. Paese has formal mediation training from the University of Missouri - Columbia, School of Law, and he consults actively in the areas of negotiation and conflict resolution.

Dr. Malaika Horne

Malaika Horne is director of the Executive Leadership Institute – College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Previously she served as a professor at Webster University – School of Communications and Journalism. Before that she was Managing Director of Narcotics Service Council and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Washington University School of Medicine – Department of Psychiatry. She is also a journalist and academic writer.

Dr. Horne is Curator Emeritus of the University of Missouri System, serving as president in 1997. She has served in many other board capacities such as vice chair of ARCHS, co-chair of its Sustainable Neighborhoods. She currently serves as a member of the Scholarship Foundation board and chairs its board development committee. A longtime advocate of character education for children, she serves on the national advisory council of Sri Sathya Sai Baba Education in Human Values, a worldwide organization. She is recipient of the 2001 Women of Achievement Award.

Dayna Stock

Dayna Stock is manager of the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life and director of the 21st Century Leadership Academy, Missouri's premier public policy leadership development program for college women. Over 250 "Shear Fellows" have participated in the Academy and have gone on to do amazing work in public policy fields. In addition to her work at the Institute, Dayna is a lecturer in political science at Washington University and UMSL. She has also worked on federal, state and local political campaigns.

Dayna holds a B.S. in communications from Southwest Missouri State Univesrity, and a master's degree in public policy administration from UM-St Louis. She practices leadership as a member of the Housing Council for the City of Clayton and was appointed by Governor Holden to be the public member on the the State Board of Optometry, where she currently serves as vice president. She also chairs an allocations panel for the United Way of St. Louis.