James B. McDonald and Neal W. Kramer have been named associate and assistant deans, respectively, of honors and general education at Brigham Young University.
They join current associate deans Juliana Boerio-Goates and Stephen D. Ricks, who will continue in their positions.A professor of economics, McDonald is one of BYU's most honored faculty members. He joined the BYU faculty in 1972 and has been a visiting professor at MIT and Zhongshan University in the People's Republic of China.
McDonald was the 1984 Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, BYU's highest faculty honor, and has received many other teaching honors from the university, including a 1986 Professor of the Year Award and a 1992 Cougar Groomer Excellence in Teaching Award from the Alumni Association.
Kramer is a graduate of BYU and a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Chicago, where he received his master's degree in English language and literature.
He was an assistant dean of students in the graduate division of social sciences at the University of Chicago, and has been an English and humanities instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Bakersfield Community College and Ricks College.