NEWS RELEASE

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Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

7/2/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES-Dr. Anthony Scheffler has been named associate provost at Northwestern State University. He will work with Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Thomas A. Burns in carrying out the university's academic mission.

Scheffler will oversee Northwestern's graduate school along with the Offices of Information Systems and Research and Sponsored Programs and eNSU.

Since 2000, Scheffler has been dean of graduate studies, research and information systems. In that position, Scheffler has overseen an overall growth in graduate population at NSU. He has also worked to automate a number of services provided to graduate students. Scheffler has also increased the number of graduate assistantships as well as the number of applicants for those positions.

Scheffler has supervised the development of a system to allow students to pay account balances online using a credit card and a new purchasing module.

He has also been instrumental in helping increase the number of online course offerings at NSU which has more exclusively electronic classes than any other institution in Louisiana. Scheffler also helped implement eNSU, which allows students taking electronic classes to access a variety of services online.

Scheffler has been at Northwestern since 1992. He has held the rank of associate professor in the College of Education since 1997. From 1998 until 2000, he was director of information systems. In that position, he had administrative oversight of university technology functions including distance learning, faculty and student technology training, data processing, network administration, systems administration, Web services, telecommunications, student technology facilities and approval of all technology related expenditures.

From 1993 to 1998, he was assistant dean of graduate studies and research. Scheffler was also director of academic computing and distance education in 1997-98, and coordinator of the educational technology doctoral program in 1995-96. He was director of the Intensive Summer Graduate Program and an assistant professor in the College of Education from 1992 until 1997. In 1991, he was on the faculty at the University of Alabama. He has also taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and William Carey College.

Scheffler was also a teacher at J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary School in Pineville from 1985-89 and at Edward H. Phillips Elementary School in New Orleans from 1979-83.

At Northwestern, Scheffler has taught graduate and upper level courses in research, instructional design, evaluation and reporting and statistics.

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