By Anne K. Galito, assistant director of university communications

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Dr. Susan Howell, of Campbellsville, Ky., has been approved by Campbellsville University's Board of Trustees to be promoted to professor of psychology.

Howell had been serving as associate professor of psychology at CU.

She received her bachelor of science degree in psychology from Campbellsville College in 1982 and both her master of education degree from in 1988 and her doctorate in education in 1995 from the University of Louisville.

She has had papers published in The Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and The Journal for Specialists in Group Work.

Howell is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Christian Association for Psychological Studies and Christians for Biblical Equality.

She has also served as an assistant professor of psychology at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn.

Howell has been employed at CU since 1994.

She is married to Dr. Dwayne Howell, associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at CU. They have two children, Patrick and Katelyn. She is the daughter or Lowell and Carolyn Harris of Campbellsville.

Campbellsville University, founded in 1906, is a private, comprehensive institution located in South Central Kentucky. Affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, Campbellsville has an enrollment of 2,197 students who represent 100 Kentucky counties, 32 states and 28 foreign nations. Listed in U.S. News & World Report's “America's Best Colleges” 13 consecutive years as one of the leading Southern master's colleges and universities, Campbellsville University is located 82 miles southwest of Lexington, Ky., and 80 miles southeast of Louisville, Ky. Dr. Michael V. Carter is in his seventh year as president.