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clearer—helping to manage the planning and execution
of the real estate acquisitions and construction that
would create the future Stevenson University.
From building a residential campus and collegiate
stadium and athletic complex on what was the former
site of the Colts and Ravens NFL training facility
to renovating a former pharmaceutical company
site for state-of-the-art academic facilities for the
sciences, nursing, and design—these are just some
of the accomplishments for which Campbell will be
known. Not to forget negotiating the acquisition of the
Rosewood site for future use by Stevenson.
Campbell’s connections to Stevenson run deep. Two
of his children, Erin and Tim, graduated from Stevenson,
and in 2012 he was honored with the President’s Medal
for his tireless dedication to the university. His work to
grow Mustang athletics earned him an induction into
the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2018.
Tim Campbell
Now, with two campuses, 290 acres, and 1.4 million
square feet of buildings under his belt, Campbell is still
awed by the progress. “Absolutely, I never thought we
would get so far so fast.” Campbell says “just being part
The spring 2019 semester saw the arrival of new leaders as well of it” has been the highlight of his career. The former
as the retirement of several university and academic administra- college football player in him clearly comes through—it’s
tors at Stevenson. not about him, it’s about all the players. “I am proud of
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Tim
Campbell will retire in August after serving Stevenson for the
being part of a team; everybody has pulled together to
create this university.”
past 21 years. The Philadelphia native—known for his late-90s
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flip-phone and love of football—joined Villa Julie College in May Alan Carswell, Ph.D., has been named the Interim
1998 after serving as Vice President at UNC Aviation Services in Dean of the Brown School of Business and Leadership
California and Annapolis, Md. effective July 1, succeeding Aris Melissaratos, who has
He recalls being interviewed by President Carolyn Manuszak, lead the Brown School since 2014. Carswell has served
Dean Rose Dawson, and dog Cora. Soon afterward, President as the Geckle Professor and Chair of the Information
Manuszak offered him the job and asked him to show up Systems Department at Stevenson since 2015. He earned
the next day. “I was afraid not to take the job,” he said. He his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Northwest-
recalls reporting for work on May 18, one day before Spring ern, an MBA from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Information
Commencement, with the expectation that he would walk in the Systems from the University of Maryland College Park,
procession, something far from his experience at that time. Even and previously served as the Vice Dean of the Cyber-
then, he notes, Villa Julie was beginning to imagine its future security and Information Assurance Department in the
as a larger residential college, and with the arrival of President Graduate School of Management and Technology at the
Kevin Manning, the trajectory of Campbell’s career became University of Maryland University College.
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