Linda Mills Woolsey Named Associate
Academic Dean at Houghton College

HOUGHTON, N.Y. —Houghton College President Shirley Mullen announced the appointment of Linda Mills Woolsey, professor of English at Houghton, as the associate academic dean.

“Mills Woolsey brings to this position a strong record of teaching and service on the faculty, as well as experience at several institutions of higher education,” said Mullen. “We are grateful she has consented to serve the faculty and the institution in this way.”

Mills Woolsey will assume this position in July 2008. “It is both an honor and a challenge to be asked to serve the college as associate academic dean in this time of transition. I am conscious of the responsibility being entrusted to me, and excited by the prospect of working with Ron Mahurin, who brings strong experience to his role as academic vice president and dean of the college," said Mills Woolsey.

“I see my new role as focused on serving the faculty, the dean, and the president by fostering constructive communication, engaging in creative problem-solving, and maybe even helping to renew our sense of the great adventure of educating students to play a meaningful role in 21st century society,” said Mills Woolsey.   

Since 1999 Mills Woolsey has taught in the English department at Houghton College. She is also a poet with poems published in places like The Cresset, The Sow’s Ear, and The Midwest Quarterly. Mills Woolsey has several published essays, short stories and encyclopedia articles. Two of her essays on the ballad novels of Sharyn McCrumb are included in Kim Holloway’s “From A Race of Storytellers.”

Mills Woolsey is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her bachelor’s from Houghton College in 1974. She holds a master’s from SUNY Binghamton and a doctorate from Drew University.