SOUTH BOSTON, Va., Aug. 17, 2007 – Founders College will be welcoming three additional professors to its current faculty for the college’s first fall semester that starts September 10, 2007. Scott J. Adams, Ph.D., Jena Trammell, Ph.D., and Kim Allen Kluge, maestro of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, will be joining the six other Founders professors as the college opens it doors for full-time students.
Dr. Adams, who earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Michigan State University, and both his master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from Indiana State University, will be teaching psychology at Founders. He has taught undergraduate psychology courses and special topics in psychological treatments to students, mental health clinicians, primary care physicians, and nurses in more than 20 states over the past 10 years. Some of the courses he taught were psychology, personality theory, clinical behavioral observation, and therapeutic interviewing and assessment.
With 15 years experience teaching both composition and literature, Dr. Trammell will be teaching literature at Founders College. She received her bachelor’s degree in English composition and rhetoric from the University of North Texas, a master’s degree in English literature from Middle Tennessee State University, and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Tennessee.
Dr. Trammell’s wide range of teaching topics include freshman composition; sophomore surveys in British, American, and world literature; Shakespeare; independent studies in Shakespeare; honors seminar in history of western economic development; literary criticism; and literary romanticism. She has also published work in Medieval Perspectives, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and the Literary Encyclopedia.
Kim Allen Kluge is the maestro of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and will be Founder’s visiting artist in residence for the 2007-2008 school year. Maestro Kluge was the valedictorian of Oberlin Conservatory of Music and received the Arthur Dann Award for Outstanding Pianist and the Pi Kappa Lambda Scholarship for Musical Excellence. He also pursued doctorates in piano and conducting from the University of Maryland and received his
conducting diploma from the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He has participated in the prestigious Tanglewood Conducting Program where he studies with Seiji Ozawa, Roger Norrington, and Simon Rattle.
Maestro Kluge has worked as concertmaster for the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, as well as an orchestral keyboardist, wind player, organist, singer, chamber musician, recitalist, concerto
soloist, chorus director, vocal coach, composer, and arranger. A popular guest conductor, he has appeared with the Sinfonietta de Paris, Les Solistes Parisiens, the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Baltimore Lyric Opera.
“The list of highly accomplished individuals who recognize Founders' integrated education as the ideal way to teach is growing and growing. I am excited about the unparalleled teaching excellence across a range of subjects that we can now offer our students this fall,” says Tamara K. Fuller, Founders’ chairman and chief executive officer.
Fuller will be the first to welcome the incoming faculty as they attend a rigorous training program that takes place the week of August 20, 2007. The program will prepare the professors
for the integrated-content core curriculum that Founders offers, as well as ensure that all faculty provide the same standard quality of education to each incoming student.
Founded in 2006, Founders College sits on the 1,000-acre Berry Hill Estate in South Boston, Virginia. The college’s historic campus is landscaped with rolling hills, lakes, and forests. The landmark building, Berry Hill Mansion, is a National Historic Register site and represents one of the finest examples of Greek revival architecture in the world.
This four-year liberal arts and business college opens to the first freshman class in September and offers course work in business, economics, education, fine arts, philosophy, psychology, and much more. Its unique and structured core curriculum will be taught by a powerful and accountable faculty that truly values the teaching process.
For more information, please visit www.founderscollege.com or call (800) 973-1136.