Challenge - Spring/Summer 2012 - Tiffin University

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32 | SPRING / SUMMER 2012 | CHALLENGE
Thailand, Cambodia &
Vietnam in 2013
TU is sponsoring an 11-day tour of
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in
May of 2013.
The tour is being coordinated by
Dr. Jonathan Appel, Associate Professor
of Psychology and Criminal Justice. It
is open to students, faculty, staff, family
and members of the general community
and can be used for college credit.
Among the tour highlights are
visits to Bangkok, where participants
will enjoy a boat tour along the Chao
Phraya River and Thonburi Klongs and
visit the Grand Palace; an excursion
to Ayutthaya, including the summer
palace of King Rama IV; a visit to Siem
Reap with special stops at Tonle Sap
Lake and Ta Prohm and Preak Khan
temples, as well as Angkor Wat and
Angkor Thom; Ho Chi Minh City and
the Reunification Palace and War
Remnants Museum; the Cu Chi region;
and Cai Be, where tour participants will
experience a floating market.
The cost (between $4,000 and
$4,300) includes three meals daily,
hotels with private bathrooms, tours,
round-trip and internal flights, and land
transportation. Payment plans are
available through Education First (EF)
College Study Tours.
More information is available
through Education First College Study
Tours at its website, http://www.efcollegestudytours.com/preview-tour.
aspxgt=1063348, or by contacting
Dr. Appel at TU at 419.448.3285 or via
email at appelj@tiffin.edu.
Hisrich Elected to TU
Board of Trustees
Dr. Robert Hisrich, the Garvin Professor
of Global Entrepreneurship and Director
of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship
at the
Thunderbird
School of
Global Management
was elected
to Tiffin
University’s
Dr. Robert Hisrich
Board of
Trustees in
May.
Hisrich is a world-renowned expert
and author on entrepreneurship, as
well as a global entrepreneur who has
been involved in the founding of more
than a dozen companies including H&B
Associates, a marketing and management
consulting firm. He has authored
or co-authored 26 books. He has
also written more than 350 articles on
entrepreneurship, international business
management and venture capital,
which have appeared in such journals
as The Academy of Management Review,
California Management Review,
Columbia Journal of World Business,
Journal of Business Venturing, Sloan
Management Review and Small Business
Economics.
Grandillo Named President
of Lakeland College
Michael Grandillo, TU’s Vice President
for Development and Public Affairs,
was named the 15th president of Lakeland
College in Wisconsin.
His career in higher education
has included working in admissions at
Ohio Northern University, leadership
roles in admissions and development
at Heidelberg University, and the past
17 years as Vice President for Development
and Public Affairs and as an
adjunct
instructor at
TU.
He
earned a
Doctor of
Philosophy
in Higher
Education
Mike Grandillo
and Italian
Renaissance
History from The University of Toledo,
a Master of Science in Education from
The University of Dayton, and a Bachelor
of Arts in Political Science from
Ohio Northern University.
He spent 17 years on Tiffin City
Council, including a year and a half as
its president.
Grandillo led the funding and
development of Tiffin’s campus,
including the completion of real estate
acquisitions that added 110 acres and
the construction of 11 new buildings, a
nature preserve, an athletic complex, a
retirement village and the expansion of
three existing buildings.
A published historian, Grandillo
has special academic interest in the denominational
movement in higher education,
the Italian Renaissance and the
American Presidency. He has authored
numerous articles and presentations
related primarily to student success,
admissions
policies and
development.
In
2010, he
published
the definitive
institutional
history of
Tiffin
University,
“Onward to
the Dawn.”
President Paul Marion
presents Mike and Nancy
Grandillo with TU’s official
chair at a reception in their
honor in June.