Faculty & Staff Spotlight

What have Dr. Fevzi Akinci and April Barton been up to?

Dr. Fevzi Akinci, dean of the John G. Rangos School of Health Sciences, has been elected to the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions’ (ASAHP) board of directors. His appointment is effective Thursday, Oct. 21.

ASAHP is a non-profit organization of more than 115 academic institutions dedicated to advancing health through interprofessional collaboration and offers programs to support allied health professionals in a wide variety of fields.

April Barton, dean and professor of law, recently had her article Teaching Lawyers to Think Like Leaders: The Next Big Shift in Legal Education published in the Baylor Law Review.

The article outlines what Barton sees as a developing and increasingly important facet of legal education, provides detailed research and includes her experience teaching leadership principles.