One new member has been named to the Division III Presidents Council, while five new members have been appointed to serve terms on the Division III Management Council.

Deborah F. Stanley, president of the State University of New York at Oswego, will serve a term on the Division III Presidents Council that extends through January 2007. The new members of the Management Council are Jennifer L. Braaten, president of Ferrum College; Kary Couchman, a former student-athlete at Albion College; Josh Espinosa, a senior student-athlete at Buena Vista University; Michael Miranda, faculty athletics representative at Plattsburgh State University of New York; and Richard L. Strockbine, athletics director at the University of Dallas.

Following are biographical sketches of the new members.

Stanley

Stanley has been president of Oswego State since 1997. She served as interim president from 1995 to 1997. Stanley also was vice-president for academic affairs and provost, and before that she was executive assistant to the president. Stanley first joined the faculty at Oswego State in 1977.

She has overseen an ambitious capital improvement campaign at Oswego State, and she also has overseen the institution's strategic plan, "Engagement 2000." Stanley was responsible for a massive technological upgrade at the institution, beginning with the installation of a fiber optic network loop for campus, first begun when she was vice president.

Stanley also is a board member of the Central New York Consortium of Education. She has been a consultant and a mentor for the American Council on Education and now serves as a commissioner for ACE. Stanley also has served as chair of the policies and purposes committee of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Stanley earned a bachelor's degree with honors in English and a juris doctorate, both from Syracuse University.

Braaten

Braaten has been president of Ferrum since 2002. Before that, she was president of Midland Lutheran College. Before that appointment, she was provost and vice-president for academic affairs at Lynn University, where she also had served as academic dean. Braaten also has been a professor of sociology and U.S. history at the College of Boca Raton.

She is a board member of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Foundation; the Lutheran Educational Conference of North America; Immanuel Health Systems in Omaha, Nebraska; and the Boy Scouts of American, Mid-America Council, among others.

Braaten earned a bachelor of science, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She earned a master's in education, with highest honors, from Florida Atlantic University, where she also earned a doctorate in education with high distinction.

Her term on the Management Council expires in January 2007.

Couchman

Couchman will serve on the Management Council as a representative of the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Couchman, who majored in speech communication and minored in English, also earned a secondary education certification before graduating cum laude from Albion in May 2002. She currently teaches 11th- and 12th- grade English at Brown City High School in Brown City, Michigan.

Couchman was a softball pitcher and second baseman at Albion. She also was softball team captain and chair of Albion's campus student-athlete advisory committee. Couchman also was active in community service at Albion, where she volunteered with Special Olympics, the Albion Open School mentoring program and Starr Commonwealth.

Her term expires in January 2004.

Espinosa

Espinosa will serve on the Management Council as a representative of the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Espinosa, a receiver on the Buena Vista football team, is a double major in international business and Spanish. Espinosa is captain of the football team and an all-Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection. He was named Buena Vista football's most valuable player on offense. He also is a member of the Spanish club at Buena Vista and has been a member of his campus SAAC for two years.

Espinosa has been active in community service at Buena Vista, where he has volunteered with his campus SAAC as well as with Adopt-A-Highway, Rockin' readers and "Buenification" Day.

His term will expire in January 2005.

Miranda

Miranda carries the rank of librarian, equivalent to full professor, at Plattsburgh State's Fienberg Library. He will celebrate his 20th year at the institution this September.

He was granted tenure in 1989, he became faculty athletics representative in 1993 and he was promoted to librarian in 1996. Before coming to Plattsburgh State, Miranda was a reference librarian at Southern Vermont College.

Miranda first joined the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association (FARA) as the Division III representative from 1997 to 1999. He was Division III FARA vice-president from 1999 to 2000 and has been FARA secretary/treasurer since 2000. Miranda has been a member of the NCAA Research Committee since 2001, and for the last two years he has been the liaison from FARA working with NCAA staff to administer the annual initiatives grant to enhance educational opportunities for Division III faculty athletics representatives.

He also serves on campus as the academic coordinator responsible for oversight of student-athletes academic progress, and he also is head track and field coach at Seton Catholic High School.

Miranda earned a bachelor's degree in English from North Adams State College (now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts) and earned a master's degree in library science from the University of Rhode Island.

His term expires in January 2007.

Strockbine

Strockbine has been director of athletics and sports and recreation at Dallas since 1995. Before that, he was athletics director at the University of Maine, Fort Kent.

Before that, he was men's and women's soccer coach at St. Mary's University (Texas).

While at Dallas, Strockbine has overseen the school's transition from the NAIA to Division III and also overseen the addition of women's soccer, baseball, softball, and men's and women's cross country and track.

The school will add women's lacrosse this fall. Strockbine added a student-athlete advisory committee at the school and also has overseen the upgrading of numerous facilities.

Strockbine has served on the NCAA Olympic Sports Liaison Committee, and he has been instrumental in organizing independent institutions in Division III.

Strockbine also had a 22-year career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam war.

He graduated with a bachelor of arts in history from Bethany College (West Virginia) and earned a master of arts in international relations from Webster University.

His term will expire in January 2007.