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Dr. Gwen Ladd Hackler

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 Gwen Ladd Hackler, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Academic Administration, Southern Nazarene University
Current assignment


The Vice Provost for Academic Administration position focuses on evaluating and continuously improving educational effectiveness, resourcing the faculty and academic support staff, and orchestrating processes that support quality academic work. Day-to-day, the job involves working closely with key academic areas across campus that support teaching and learning.

My academic background is in English. My Ph.D. is from the University of Kansas (1983) in English literature, with an emphasis on Renaissance and seventeenth century authors. I returned to Oklahoma City to teach at SNU in 1983, serving as SNU’s General Education Director for more than 10 years and more recently as academic grantwriter. It has been my privilege to be actively involved with the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) with the CCCU's Programmes in Oxford, the CCCU Commission on Technology, and the CCCU Faith, Learning, Living Commission.

I am an Oklahoma native, born and raised in Oklahoma City. I graduated from Putnam City High School and completed my undergraduate work in 1978 at SNU. I am a life-long member of Bethany First Church of the Nazarene.



Major projects

NCA/HLC Self-Study  SNU Institutional Accreditation
SNU Assessment SNU Institutional Accreditation
Current Academic Grants SNU Grantwriting

 
Academic interests


Medieval wall paintings 

Shakespeare studies

English medieval domestic architecture

 Off-Campus Study

Honours Programme - CMRS, Oxford affiliated to Keble College

Pew Younger Scholars Univ. of Notre Dame

Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program seminars with scholars

SNU Literary Field Studies 

SNU QERC Costa Rica Quetzal Center

Au Sable Environmental Institute Michigan

American Studies Washington, DC

Los Angeles Film Studies Los Angeles, CA

Middle East Studies Cairo, Egypt

Russian Studies Nizhni Novgorod

Latin America Studies Costa Rica

China Studies Xiamen University

Contemporary Music Center Martha's Vineyard

 
Thinking Christians

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities 

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship 

Wesleyan Center 

C. S. Lewis Foundation 

More Christian Study Centers and Academic Projects 

Christian Professional Societies 

Christian Classics Ethereal Library 
Christian Quotation of the Day 

Book of Common Prayer 

Mars Hill Review 

First Things 

Christianity Today 

Christian Scholar's Review 
 
 UK Travels & Links


Travel resources essential links

UK Slide Index under construction

Castles 

Gardens garden history links

British Curiosities (Pythonesque!)

Field View, Witney Oxfordshire B & B

Oxford university town & environs

Haddon Hall medieval house

Filmed on Location in the UK IMDB
 
 
 Current Interests


Architecture period styles

Historic design furniture & more

Leafy seadragons Australian wonders

St. Pete Beach 

Venice 

International webcams cheap travel

Historical re-enactments 

Encaustic tiles 
 
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Amazon.com 

Blackwell's online British bookshops

Web timer buzzing reminder

RGB Color Charts 

OKC Metropolitan Library System 

Hotbot advanced search

Today in History 

Libraries worldwide 

Webster dictionary hypertext gateway
 
 
 Favorites

USA Air Quality EPA
Oklahoma Air Quality 

Pollen.com pollen counts

Book & Library Links 

Quotations 

eBay online auctions buy anything worldwide

Genealogy my [in]famous relatives

Friends online 

Hounds 
 
 
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late update 21 August 2007
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