U of M's Sandy Schaeffer Named Frye Institute Scholar
For release: Feb. 4, 2003
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S.J. "Sandy" Schaeffer III, associate director of the Advanced Learning Center at The University of Memphis' FedEx Technology Institute, has been accepted to the Frye Leadership Institute.

The Frye Institute serves as a training ground for future information technology leaders in higher education. It is supported by a grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation and is sponsored by the Council of Library and Information Resources, EDUCAUSE and Emory University. Those selected must be nominated by a leader in the higher education community and must design a project that is consistent with the purposes of the Institute and which benefits the participant's campus.

"I'm extremely excited about the opportunity and am flattered to have been accepted into the program," said Schaeffer. "My efforts in launching the Advanced Learning Center and assisting the development of the FedEx Institute will most certainly benefit from this opportunity."

Some forty individuals from higher education - including faculty members, librarians, technology professionals and administrators - who aspire to a more significant leadership role are selected each year. They spend two weeks during the summer working on their projects at Emory and participate in other exercises during the year.

"It's an honor to be accepted," said Dr. Jim Penrod, U of M vice president for Information Systems. "Sandy's project should further the development of the Advanced Learning Center and the information fluency efforts for faculty and staff."

Dr. John Ellis, associate director of the FedEx Institute, was The U of M's first Frye Institute scholar.

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