{"id":1457,"date":"2012-11-17T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2012-11-17T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T23:19:19","slug":"doug-livermore-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/2012\/11\/17\/doug-livermore-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Livermore retires"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Doug Livermore<\/strong>, professor of business administration and economics, retired at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Livermore taught at Morningside for 32 years, and served as chair of business administration and economics from 1984 to 2005. He served terms as faculty senate president and curriculum committee chair, and he was on search committees that hired several key administrators and faculty members.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But he said his favorite part of the job was always the students. He made it a point to get to know them. If one of his students were going to be in a theatre production, for example, he would try to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cStudents notice that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Livermore encouraged students to be innovative, especially for the marketing class project he graded in part on creative presentation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPeople did things like parachute projects in, kidnap me,\u201d he said. \u201cI always went along, no matter what it was. One time the project was in the middle of the slide at the South Sioux City pool. And so I went down the slide fully dressed, got it out of the middle and went into the pool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For another class, students interviewed hundreds of people to complete marketing research projects for local nonprofit organizations. His students also learned to write their own business plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “One semester Norm Waitt 1986<\/strong> does that assignment,\u201d he said. \u201cThe next semester he is a senior. He comes in and he’s got another business plan for me to look at. He likes to tease me because I said I thought he ought to get a job. Instead, he went ahead and started this little business while he was a student called Gateway 2000.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During his time at Morningside, students named him Faculty Person of the Year, faculty members selected him to receive the Lucille and Charles Wert Faculty Excellence Award, and outside evaluators selected him to be one of the inaugural recipients of a Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Award.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDoug Livermore is a great example of an outstanding faculty member at a small private college,\u201d said Dr. William Deeds, vice president for academic affairs and dean at Morningside. \u201cHe took a sincere and personal interest in his students and beamed at their successes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Doug Livermore, professor of business administration and economics, retired at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Livermore taught at Morningside for 32 years, and served as chair of business administration and economics from 1984 to 2005. He served terms as faculty senate president and curriculum committee chair, and he was on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}