Three new Division I Management Council members and two new members of the Division I Board of Directors have been appointed to serve either full or interim terms.

All five appointments were approved by the Board of Directors during its August 10 meeting in Indianapolis.

The three new Management Council members, who attended the Council's July 24-25 meeting in Boston, are Dan Beebe, commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference; Teresa Kuehn, associate commissioner of the West Coast Conference; and John McCutcheon, director of athletics at California Polytechnic State University.

Francis Lawrence, president at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick; and University of Cincinnati President Joseph A. Steger are the two new members appointed to the Board.

Beebe

Beebe's term on the Management Council extends through January 2004. He became the youngest leader of a football-playing Division I conference when he was selected as the fifth commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference in 1989. He has overseen the expansion of the conference from seven to 10 teams and has increased the league's television exposure with a multiyear package in football and basketball.

Beebe came to the OVC from the NCAA staff, where he served as director of enforcement. He began working with the NCAA in 1982 as an enforcement representative after receiving his law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and remained on the staff at the Association for four years. In February 1986, Beebe was named as an assistant director of athletics at Wichita State University. He returned to the NCAA in 1986 and was selected as an assistant director of enforcement in 1987 before becoming director a year later.

Kuehn

Kuehn, who replaces Lynda Tealer of Santa Clara University and will serve on the Management Council until January 2001, enters her seventh season with the West Coast Conference, with her primary focus being the development of the league's marketing, television and corporate sponsorships and licensing efforts. She works with the WCC's senior woman administrators, is the liaison for women's basketball and volleyball and serves on a number of NCAA committees. Kuehn was promoted to associate commissioner in June 2000.

She joined the league in December 1994 from ESPN Regional Television in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she assisted in managing the company's college properties. Before her stint there, Kuehn served as the director of media relations and championships for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference in Indianapolis. Kuehn is a graduate of Iowa State University.

McCutcheon

McCutcheon replaces Angie Taylor of the University of Nevada and will serve on the Management Council through January 2003. He took over as athletics director at Cal Poly in 1992 after serving on the athletics staff at Boston College for 11 years. He guided Cal Poly's transition from Division II in 1994 and now oversees 18 varsity sports.

In July 1993, McCutcheon helped create the America West Conference, a multisport Division I league. Cal Poly is now a member of the Big West Conference, where 15 of its 18 sports compete.

At Boston College, McCutcheon was instrumental in the creation and design of the Silvio J. Conte Forum, which includes the athletics department offices and a new basketball and ice hockey arena.

Lawrence

Lawrence comes onto the Board replacing Kenneth Shaw of Syracuse University and will serve through January 2003. He is Rutgers' 18th president, coming to the school in 1990 from Tulane University, where he was the chief academic officer. At Rutgers, he has overseen an endowment that has almost tripled during his tenure. Admissions also have increased by almost 20 percent during Lawrence's years of service.

Statewide, Lawrence has chaired the New Jersey Presidents Council and served on the Quality Education Commission, the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and the Governor's Panel to Restructure Higher Education, among others. On the national level, Lawrence has been the president of the Association of Graduate Schools of the Association of American Universities and a member of the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He currently is a board member of the American Council on Education.

Steger

Steger is replacing V. Lane Rawlins, formerly of the University of Memphis and now CEO at Washington State University. Steger assumes a two-year term but is eligible for reappointment in January 2002.

He began his presidency at Cincinnati in 1984 and has overseen the revitalization of the school's undergraduate curriculum, and supported innovative programs in teacher education and university-wide honors classes.

He has served as chair and was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences, a cooperative technology transfer program involving state and local governments and industry in addition to the university. He also was involved in bringing the Drake Center, the regional rehabilitation hospital, into the University Medical Center and serves as chair of the Drake board.

Steger is a 1960 graduate of Gettysburg College and was given the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1987.