Emporia State University Kay Schallenkamp has been elected chair of the Division II Presidents Council and Tony Capon, faculty athletics representative at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, has been selected to chair the Division II Management Council.

Schallenkamp

Schallenkamp was elected at the October 31 meeting of the Presidents Council and will replace Longwood University President Patricia Cormier. Cormier's term will expire at the end of the 2003 Convention.

Schallenkamp became the 14th president of Emporia State in 1997. During her tenure, the athletics program has won 10 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association championships, earned eight national top-10 finishes, had four national player of the year honorees and been recognized with four NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients and an NCAA Today's Top VIII winner. In addition, Emporia State has hosted five NCAA postseason events.

Schallenkamp also has served as president of the MIAA Chief Executive Officer Council.

"Athletics is a key part of the educational experience at Emporia State," Schallenkamp said. "We try to foster a positive environment of sportsmanship and integrity for our student-athletes."

Schallenkamp began her career in higher education in 1973 as a professor of communication disorders at Northern State University. She served as department chair from 1982 to 1984 and was named dean of graduate studies and research in 1984. In 1988, she was named provost of Chadron State College.

From 1992 to 1997, she served as provost at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.

Schallenkamp served on the board of trustees of the North Central Association (NCA) from 1992 to 1997 and chaired its Task Force on Organizational Effectiveness and Future Directions. She also served on the assessment committee for NCA and assisted in drafting the guidelines related to student outcomes of learning. She has served on more than 25 NCA accreditation teams.

She earned her Ph.D. in communication disorders from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1982. She also received a master's degree from the University of South Dakota and a bachelor's degree from Northern State.

Capon

Capon was elected Division II Management Council chair at the October 21-22 meeting of that group. His election was ratified at the October 31 Presidents Council meeting.

Capon will be the first faculty athletics representative to serve as Division II Management Council chair since the Association's system of governance was restructured in 1997. He also will be the first representative from an independent institution to chair the Management Council.

He has been a member of the sociology faculty at Pittsburgh-Johnstown since 1977. From 1986 to 1991, he chaired the division of social science and from 1991 to 1993, he served as associate academic dean. He was interim academic dean in 1993-94.

Capon also has been active in NCAA affairs for the last decade. He has been Pittsburgh-Johnstown's faculty athletics representative since 1991 and also has been a member of the Division II Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee since 1997 and chair since 1999. He was a member of Division II's Amateurism Project Team and has served as the Division II liaison to the Amateurism and Agents Subcommittee of the Division I Academics/Eligibility/
Compliance Cabinet.

He also has chaired the Division II Administrative Review Subcommittee and the Division II Graduation-Rates Project Team.

Capon graduated from College of the Holy Cross with a B.A. in economics. He also has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia.