NEW PRINCIPAL AT NEWBOLD COLLEGE APPOINTED...[TED Staff/TED News]

St Albans, England - On 11 May the Newbold Board voted to appoint
Professor Jane Sabes to serve as Principal at Newbold College. The
decision was endorsed by the Trans-European Division Executive
Committee the following day. It is the intention that Dr Sabes will
assume her duties at the College in August.

Dr Jane Sabes is currently a political science professor at Andrews
University, Berrien Springs, MI. She joined the faculty in 1999. Dr
Sabes received her Bachelor of Science from Columbia Union College in
Takoma Park, MD, her Master's in Public Health from Loma Linda
University, CA, and a Master's in Public Administration from the
University of Wyoming. In 1999 she earned her doctorate in political
science with emphasis in international public policy and public
administration. The title of her dissertation was, "A Comparative
Analysis of China's Four Movements of Political Change in the
Twentieth Century."

Dr Sabes served as director of health services for the Seward
Peninsula in Alaska, covering fifteen Eskimo villages and the city of
Nome. She also has international work experience in Libya, China and
Indonesia. Before assuming her current position, Dr Sabes worked as
policy advisor for the governor of Wyoming and then was appointed to
the governor's cabinet as Director of the Wyoming Department of
Health, having a staff of 2,000 and managing a biennial budget of
$600 million.

Dr Sabes specializes in teaching international public policy and
public administration, issues surrounding religion and politics, and
genocide and human rights.

She also organizes annual study tours for her students to places such
as Cuba, considering the effects of the US forty-year trade embargo;
Australia and Fiji, looking at first nations' peoples' issues; the
People's Republic of China, pondering how a dynamic economy can
coexist with a rigid national government; and Greece, creator of the
first city-states.

She has a broad experience of teaching and educational
administration, and has worked in this field and curriculum planning
at Kettering Medical Centre, Kettering, Ohio, and Clinical Faculty at
Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.

Dr Jane Sabes is a devoted Seventh-day Adventist educator, deeply
involved in the life and witness of the Church. She has authored a
Sabbath School Bible study Guide on 'God and Government' which will
soon be studied by Sabbath School members across the world.