The Tusculum College Board of Trustees approved Dr. Jane Lovvorn Morse as its newest board member in a meeting on Saturday, Feb. 20.
“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Morse and anticipate her experience and expertise, as well as her affinity for Tusculum will benefit the entire Tusculum community through her service,” said Dr. Kenneth A. Bowman, chair of the Board of Trustees and 1970 graduate of the college.
Dr. Morse graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in natural science/biology from Tusculum College in 1977. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in physical therapy from the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, which she earned in 1979 with honors, and a doctorate degree in physical therapy from A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, awarded in 2006 with a perfect grade point average.
Dr. Jane Morse
She joins the Board of Trustees after serving Tusculum College in multiple positions. She has served as president, vice-president and secretary of the Tusculum College Alumni Executive Board during her membership since 1987, with a small break in service from 1995 to 1997. During those two years, she was a member of the Tusculum College Bicentennial Planning Board.
Dr. Morse is also a committee member for the South College Physical Therapy Assistant Advisory Board, a position she has held since 2006, and served as a member/treasurer for the Scholarship and Loan Committee of the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association from 2011-2013. She served as committee members for four other professional organizations throughout her career, including the Hamilton County Continuing Education Committee from 1983-1985.
She edited a chapter in the book “Pathology for the Physical Therapist Assistant” by Catherine Goodman, Kendra S. Fuller, and Robbie O’Shea, which was published in 2010; in addition, she is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (member since 1978) and the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association (member since 1984).
Currently, Dr. Morse is an adjunct faculty member at South College in Asheville, a position she has held for nearly 10 years. She has been a physical therapist for 36 years, with the last 27 in Asheville. She volunteers at the Manna Food Bank and serves Groce United Methodist Church as a children’s Sunday school teacher in her spare time.