SPC News Release

Provosts named at Health Center, SP/G

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 2, 2008) -- Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Anne Cooper today recommended the naming of provosts for the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus and the Caruth Health Education Center.

The new appointments, Karen Kaufman White and Phil Nicotera, have been serving in acting roles since May.

“We were so fortunate to have two strong candidates who were here and had done an outstanding job in an acting role,” Cooper said.

White was one of two finalists to interview for the SP/G job, which she has held since replacing Lars Hafner when he left in May to become the president of Manatee Community College.

White started at the college in 1984. She served as special assistant to president for nearly seven years from 2000 to 2007. Her other roles have included project coordinator for Project Eagle I and dean of Open Campus (1984-87). She supervised the launch of SPC’s Applied Ethics program and has taught ethics, co-edited “Ethics Applied” (first edition), and authored the supplement, “Making choices,” workbook for “Ethics Applied.”

She has an associate of arts degree from Central Florida Community College, a bachelor of arts in secondary English education from the University of North Florida and a juris doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law.

Nicotera was one of two finalists for the HEC position. He joined the college full-time in 2003 and taught biological science in the Natural Science Department at the Clearwater Campus. Before that, he taught eight years part-time at SPC.

In May 2007 he became Associate Provost at HEC and served in that role until May of this year, when he replaced Sandra Wise as Acting Provost.

Nicotera is a graduate of Daemen College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he majored in psychology. He earned a master’s degree in education from State University College at Buffalo (N.Y.) in 1979 and graduated from the University of Bologna in Italy with a medical degree in 1991.

September 02, 2008