AAUP names Wheaton professor as editor of its faculty magazine

NORTON, Mass.-The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has named Paula Krebs, chair of the Wheaton College English Department, as the next editor of Academe, the organization's bimonthly magazine of issues in higher education. Her tenure will begin in March 2005.

Krebs, a Victorianist who is completing her second term as English Department chair, says she plans to continue Academe's focus on the work life of faculty as well as on the economic, political, and cultural climate in higher education today.

''Academe is the place that AAUP members and others interested in postsecondary education in the United States turn to take the pulse of the professoriate on key issues of the day, from minority hiring and retention to faculty-staff relations to faculty compensation,'' Krebs said. ''Not a journal, not a newsletter, Academe is a magazine, one that can link faculty members as a community and push us to think about the cutting-edge issues in our profession. I'm excited about the possibilities.''

Krebs is a member of the Executive Committee of the Wheaton College AAUP chapter and has served as chapter president. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English, the Modern Language Association's organization for departmental administrators. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University and a B.A. from LaSalle College. Krebs is a founding editor of the journal Feminist Teacher and has worked as an editor for the National Science Teachers Association. She has written and published on many topics, including Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, and athletics in higher education. She is also the author of Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War, and the recipient of several fellowships, including the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

''Paula Krebs has been an outstanding department chair at Wheaton and a vigorous advocate for the faculty in roles both in an out of the AAUP leadership,'' Wheaton Provost Susanne Woods said. ''Her inclusive vision and leadership skills will make her a wonderful editor of Academe, and Wheaton is honored to have her take on that responsibility.''

Wheaton College is a highly selective liberal arts institution of 1,500 undergraduates. Wheaton students have won a number of prestigious academic awards in recent years, including two Rhodes Scholarships, the British Marshall, the Watson, Goldwater, Beinecke, 3 Trumans, 21 Fulbrights, 5 Rotary Ambassadorial scholarships, 2 Udalls, 2 James Madison Fellowships and an American Council for International Education scholarship. The Institute for International Education recently recognized Wheaton as one of the top 20 liberal arts colleges producing Fulbright scholars.