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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Cleary succeeds Struthers as Sinclair dean
Sinclair Community College has named Kathleen Cleary its new dean of the Liberal Arts, Communicatons and Social Sciences Division, effective Jan. 1, 2009. She succeeds longtime dean Sally Struthers, who has stepped down to return to teaching art.
Cleary has been chair of Sinclair’s Theatre and Dance Department. Theater faculty member Gina Neuerer has been appointed interim chair of Theatre and Dance.
Struthers began teaching at Sinclair in 1987, became chair of art in 1996, interim dean of the Division of FIne and Performing Arts in 2002 and was appointed dean in 2003. Four years later, her duties increased exponentially during a reorganization that combined Liberal Arts, Communications and Social Sciences, a division that incorporates Academic Foundations, Art, Child and Family Education, Communication Arts, Dance, Design, English, Humanities, Geography, Government, Modern Languages, Music, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and Theatre.
Cleary received her Ph.D. in Theatre from Ohio State University and her M.A. in Theatre from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where she was an actor with the Cider Mill Playhouse.
She came to Sinclair with ten years’ experience building the performing arts programs at Clark State Community College, where she also hosted state theater conferences and regional professional auditions. She has been active as a director and actor in professional, college and community theaters, recently wrote the Instructors’ “Manual for Living Theatre,” which is published by McGraw-Hill Co., and is a pioneer in designing and teaching online theater courses.
Neuerer, an award-winning lighting designer, is an associate professor at Sinclair, teaching classes in lighting design, stage management, theater appreciation and script analysis. She received her MFA in technical design and production from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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