Three chief executive officers from Division II institutions have been elected as new members of the Division II Presidents Council.

Their terms will begin at the end of the 2004 NCAA Convention in Nashville.

The new members are Charles (Chuck) Ambrose of Pfeiffer University, Daniel Bradley of Fairmont State College and Robert Brown of Arkansas Tech University.

Ambrose

Ambrose became Pfeiffer's eighth president in 1998.

Before that, he was director of the Paladin Club at Furman University (the institution's athletics fund-raising organization), executive assistant to the president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and vice-president for advancement at Carson-Newman College.

Ambrose was president of the Carolinas-Virginia Conference from 2000 to 2002, and he currently serves on the board of directors for Wachovia Bank, the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce, the Cabarrus Soccer Association, the Village of Misenheimer and the North Carolina Zoological Society.

He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Furman, where he was captain of the soccer team. He also earned a master's degree in higher education administration from the University of Louisville (where he was a volunteer assistant coach for the men's soccer team) and a doctorate in the same academic field from the University of Georgia.

Bradley

Bradley came to Fairmont State as president in February 2001.

He previously served at Montana Tech, beginning in 1979 as an assistant professor of chemistry. While teaching, he became interested in petroleum engineering and went on to obtain his B.S. in that field from Montana Tech in 1982, followed by an M.S. from the University of Tulsa in 1983. Returning to Montana Tech, he held a number of administrative and teaching positions (interim dean of students, director of international programs, department head, dean), culminating with his appointment as vice-chancellor for academic affairs and research in 1998.

Bradley's research interests center on flow in porous media and the thermodynamics of high-temperature salt solutions. His studies have resulted in a number of publications in scientific and engineering journals.

He attended undergraduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the Army. He eventually earned his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Michigan State University. During his graduate studies, Bradley spent two years performing research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Brown

Brown has been president of Arkansas Tech since 1993.

As president, he has developed 25 new programs of study at the baccalaureate, master's, associate and specialists levels. He also reformed the university's general education core curriculum, and established a modern system for faculty evaluation, promotion and tenure.

Under Brown's leadership, the university in 1999 opened the Pendergraft Library and Technology Center, the most advanced center for teaching and learning in the region. A $2.5 million endowment ensures that equipment in the center is fully replaced at least every three years.

Arkansas Tech has achieved record enrollment each of the last five years. For the last eight years, freshman class test scores have been above the Arkansas, Southern and national averages.

Before joining Arkansas State, Brown was vice-president for academic affairs at Missouri Southern State University from 1990 to 1993 and dean of the school of business administration at the same institution from 1987 to 1990. He also has served on the faculty at Hardin-Simmons University, McMurry University, Wingate University, Louisiana State University and Northwestern State University.

He is a graduate of Northwestern State and holds master's and doctorates from LSU.