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Lindenwood University President Michael D. Shonrock has selected Dan Grigg as Vice President for Development. Grigg starts his new position on Feb. 1.

After an extensive national search, Lindenwood University System President Michael D. Shonrock has selected Dr. Marilyn Abbott to serve as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lindenwood’s flagship campus in St. Charles, Mo. Abbott had been serving as interim provost since spring 2015, and previously served as associate provost.

Lindenwood University has been named a Best of Western St. Charles County Award winner by the Western St. Charles Chamber of Commerce and Community News. Lindenwood representatives accepted the honor during the Chamber’s December membership meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10.

For the fifth time in six years, a team from Lindenwood University has won the Chevy Marketing Challenge, in which students from area colleges compete to produce promotional campaigns for St. Louis Chevy dealers.

Lindenwood University President Michael D. Shonrock has announced the appointment of a leadership committee charged with preparing the institution for its Higher Learning Commission accreditation site visit in 2017.

Lindenwood University today announced that the Charles Koch Foundation has awarded $2 million in grant funding support for the John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise in the University’s Robert W. Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship.

The Lindenwood University School of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences has received a five-year national accreditation for its post-licensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program.

Julie Turner, associate professor in the Plaster School of Business and department chair of nonprofit administration, was recognized by the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Awards program on Nov. 22 at the Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. The Excellence in Teaching Awards annually recognize more than 100 educators in the St. Louis metropolitan area – from kindergarten teachers to college professors – who are examples of excellence in their field.

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Smith, adjunct instructor in Lindenwood University’s School of Accelerated Degree Programs, on receiving his doctoral degree. Dr. Smith also recently presented at the ARMA International conference on information governance.

Dimon Paige, an advertising, public relations: corporate communication major at Lindenwood University, is one of 50 college students in the United States recently named to the American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) Most Promising Multicultural Student Class of 2016. She was the only student from Missouri to receive that honor.