Gov. Mitch Daniels appointed three new members to the Ball State University Board of Trustees on Monday.
New board members include Marianne Glick, president and founder of Glick Training Associates; Barbara Phillips, chief learning officer of Gaylor, Inc. and Frank Hancock, founder and chief executive officer of Sports Graphics, Inc.
Trustees serve four-year terms on the nine-member board and can be reappointed an unlimited number of times.
"I'm delighted by the governor's choices and believe they will make wonderful additions to our Board of Trustees," President Jo Ann Gora said. "They bring a wide range of strengths and perspectives to the trustees, and in individual ways, each has demonstrated a strong commitment to Ball State. Their service as trustees provides another avenue by which they can help the university achieve its aspirations."
Board of Trustees President Tom DeWeese said he didn't think the new members would significantly change the board.
"I don't think it will affect the board in any material way," DeWeese said. "They are well qualified people, and we're losing three well qualified people."
The new members will be replacing board members Ceola Digby-Berry, Kimberly Hood Jacobs and Gregory Schenkel.
"I'll miss working with them and I think we all work really well together," DeWeese said. "After several years together, you develop friendships."
Schenkel, who served on the board for 16 years, said he appreciated the opportunity to serve Ball State.
"I don't have any regrets at all," Schenkel said. "I hope I made some small contribution in those 16 years."
Fresh faces will be good for the university, he said.
"They'll continue to move the university forward and be very committed to the university," he said. "They'll do a wonderful job."
Of the new appointees, Hancock and Phillips are Ball State graduates, while Glick is a Butler University graduate. Frank Bracken is the only other member of the board who is not a Ball State graduate, besides the student board member, DeWeese said.
He hopes to meet with the new members before the next board meeting in April, he said.
"That gives folks plenty of time to get on board," he said, "and I'm sure we'll have an orientation of sorts where they will come and talk to several university officers, and I expect they will get up to speed very quickly."
Hancock said he was honored to be appointed and accepted the position immediately.
"I think anytime you have an opportunity to get outside of your own profession - especially in education - you do find it's different," Hancock said, "and you find the culture of the people and staff you're working with is different."
Hancock served on the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township School Board, which he said would help him in his new position.
"I think the job of any board of trustees is to bring ideas, bring feedback, work with the other board members, and trustees in this case, to make it a better university," Hancock said.
His goal is to raise the bar of excellence and what is expected from students, which will in turn reflect back on the university, he said.
"Historically, I'm not certain Ball State was ever given the credit it should have been," Hancock said. "I think the PR campaign over the past few years has raised its awareness."
Ball State graduates are everywhere, and in Indianapolis especially, many of them are in high-profile positions in the community, he said.
"If I had one goal, it would be to help the president and other members of the board get the positives out there and continue to hammer home that it's a great school," Hancock said.
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