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pups paperwork and process confusion and conflict regarding Service and assistance Animals
Social Science Research Network, 2019Co-Authors: Rebecca J HussAbstract:This Article begins by providing the current status of the definition of Service animal and inquiries that can be made under Title II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and delves into the rationale utilized by the Department of Justice when it developed these regulations. It then contrasts how the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has handled the issue of the accommodation of employees and their Service Animals under Title I of the ADA. The Article analyzes guidance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and recent case law relating to assistance Animals and the Fair Housing Act. A considerable portion of the Article is devoted to the turmoil surrounding the Air Carrier Access Act and recent rulemaking process. The Article then utilizes recent legislation to illustrate how some states have attempted to address the issue of fraud and misrepresentation in this area of the law. It concludes by providing recommendations to reduce the likelihood of confusion and conflict in the future.
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hounds at the hospital cats at the clinic challenges associated with Service Animals and animal assisted interventions in healthcare facilities
Social Science Research Network, 2018Co-Authors: Rebecca J HussAbstract:Service and companion Animals are an important part of many people’s lives. These Animals can continue to play a role when individuals are undergoing medical treatment. An increasing number of people are partnering with Service Animals to assist with their disabilities. It is also common to have animal-assisted interventions as part of hospital programs. This Article considers various issues that can arise when Animals are allowed in healthcare facilities. The Article sets forth the current Americans with Disabilities Act regulations, analyzes issues relating to the definition of public accommodation, and discusses other issues relating to Service Animals. Because of the growing number of veterans utilizing Service Animals, issues governing the use of Service Animals in medical facilities operated by the Department of Defense and Department of Veteran’s Affairs are also scrutinized. The Article continues by exploring other uses of Animals by these entities, including pet visitation programs. It highlights some of the risks associated with having Animals on these types of premises, including injuries or the transmission of pathogens, and the mitigation of these risks. The Article concludes with recommendations on how healthcare facilities should address these situations.
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canines at the company felines at the factory the risks and rewards of incorporating Service Animals and companion Animals into the workplace
Social Science Research Network, 2018Co-Authors: Rebecca J HussAbstract:With unemployment rates at historically low levels, the ability of an employer to attract and retain productive employees is key to a company’s success. Simultaneously, the percentage of persons in the United States with disabilities is increasing. Additionally, many persons without disabilities consider allowing companion Animals at work a valuable employee benefit. This Article focuses on the legal and workplace implications of incorporating Service Animals and companion Animals at work. This Article begins by analyzing when an employer must accommodate a request by an employee with a disability to be accompanied by a Service animal at work under the Americans with Disabilities Act. It then reviews recent research on the impact of incorporating companion Animals into the workplace on the health and well-being of humans. The Article continues by setting forth concerns raised by employers and then providing ways to mitigate those concerns. It concludes by contemplating options available to employers to assist them in structuring policies that meet employers’ legal requirements and ensuring a productive working environment for all employees.
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canines in the classroom issues relating to Service Animals in primary and secondary educational institutions after fry v napoleon community schools
Social Science Research Network, 2018Co-Authors: Rebecca J HussAbstract:The Supreme Court’s decision in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools in February 2017 provides important guidance for advocates for students with disabilities partnered with Service Animals and school districts; however, areas of potential conflict remain. This Article reviews that Supreme Court decision and analyzes other recent cases to illustrate some of the complicated issues that may arise when students with disabilities want to be accompanied by their Service Animals in schools.
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canines in the classroom revisited recent developments relating to students utilization of Service Animals at primary and secondary educational institutions
Albany Government Law Review, 2016Co-Authors: Rebecca J HussAbstract:In April 2010 the author presented an article on the topic of the use of Service Animals by juveniles in a specific environment — primary and secondary educational institutions at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Animal Law Symposium. Since that time there have been important legislative and case law developments in this field. This Article focuses on those recent developments. After setting forth a basic overview of the issue, the Article analyzes the amendments to the regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) relating to Service Animals that became effective in March 2011. The Article then considers recent case law and other indications of how agencies of the federal government interpret the issue. The Article continues by examining state laws enacted to allow for a right for students with disabilities to be accompanied by Service Animals in schools. The Article concludes by providing guidance for student advocates and school administrators dealing with this issue.
Amanda Foster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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inclusion of emotional support Animals as Service Animals under the ada creating the right to use dogs to assist people living with mental health issues
Social Science Research Network, 2020Co-Authors: Amanda FosterAbstract:This article asserts that Congress should amend the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) to recognize emotional support Animals as Service Animals. The article analyzes laws and policies from other arenas such as transportation and higher education to demonstrate the need for and potential structure of such change. Indeed, the article proposes specific amendment language based upon this analysis. Providing clarity for all Americans, this expanded, clear language will benefit our society and its goals for inclusion and breaking the stigma of mental illness. The use of emotional support Animals to alleviate or mitigate symptoms associated with mental health issues has been a topic of debate since its inception. On one hand, there is the community of people who have expressed a need to use support Animals to help them to participate in society, including while traveling by airplane. On the other hand, the Department of Transportation has had to assess whether allowing support Animals on airplanes would pose a direct threat to the safety or health of others. In the air travel context, support Animals have been treated as Service Animals and special rules have been created to manage the situation. Nonetheless, in most other contexts, support Animals are not treated as Service Animals, so therein lies the confusion. Between the ongoing debate, the need for clarification under the laws, and people’s desire to use emotional support Animals to facilitate their participation in society on a daily basis, the law in this area is in a state of flux. Section II of this article provides the legal background on this issue and describes the current controversy over how to treat Service Animals and emotional support Animals under federal law. Section III is an overview of the alternative approaches to defining Service animal. Specifically, this section looks at the broader definitions of Service animal in the contexts of transportation, higher education, and cities and states. Section IV of this article proposes language that can be used to redraft the ADA’s definition of Service animal through the lens of the alternative approaches discussed in this article. This new definition includes the foundational pieces of the current definition regarding traditional Service Animals plus the inclusion of emotional support Animals to provide parity among people with physical disabilities and people with mental health issues. Section V provides predictions for the future and how the inclusion of emotional support Animals as Service Animals under the ADA may affect society at large. Broadening the ADA’s definition of Service animal to include emotional support animal will have both positive and negative consequences. Nonetheless, the risk that comes with positive change will be worth it in the end. The biggest issue will most likely be how to ensure that users of emotional support Animals are legitimate, meaning there needs to be a mechanism in place to handle issues of fraudulent behavior. With the carefully crafted definition of emotional support animal and the robust fraud mechanisms outlined in this article in place, people with mental health disabilities can have the promise of the ADA fulfilled and be fully integrated into society while still protecting the interests of businesses and others.
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don t be distracted by the peacock trying to board an airplane why emotional support Animals are Service Animals and should be regulated in the same manner
Social Science Research Network, 2018Co-Authors: Amanda FosterAbstract:Although fifty percent of all Americans are diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime, including one in ten women, and mental illnesses are the third most common cause of hospitalization for adults under forty-four, the ADA’s narrow approach to defining Service Animals only protects a certain group of people with disabilities using a certain type of animal — dogs who perform tasks associated with the person’s disability. This narrow approach does not consider the thousands of people who use emotional support Animals to alleviate or mitigate the symptoms associated with their mental health issues. To provide parity, it is necessary to include emotional support Animals within that definition. Despite the prevalence of mental illness, there is a societal backlash against emotional support Animals who provide companionship, relieve loneliness, and sometimes help with depression, anxiety, and certain phobias, but do not meet the ADA definition of Service animal due to their lack of specialized training. The FHA and ACAA have provided protection and accommodations for people using emotional support Animals, but that protection is in jeopardy. In response to uncertainty over the definition of emotional support Animals, on April 24, 2018, Senator Burr (R-NC) introduced a bill to amend title 49 of the United States Code, which would make changes to the ACAA such as only allowing Service Animals as defined by the ADA to be uncaged onboard aircraft's, requiring Service animal behavior training for air carrier passengers, and creating a criminal penalty for fraudulently claiming that an animal is a Service animal used for disability needs. If Senator Burr’s bill is passed and the ACAA is restrained from allowing emotional support Animals to be Service Animals under the ACAA, then people with mental health issues will once again be stigmatized and treated as second class citizens. Emotional support Animals are also on trial in the regulatory realm. The DOT is currently seeking comments on ways to improve the ACAA regulation to ensure nondiscriminatory access for individuals with disabilities to use their Service Animals onboard airlines while attempting to deter “fraudulent use of other Animals not qualified as Service Animals” and prevent use of “Animals that are not trained to behave properly in the public.” Clear regulation is needed to ensure that all people with disabilities can use a Service animal, including emotional support Animals, if that animal will assist him or her with alleviating or mitigating the symptoms associated with his or her disability. Do not let the peacock trying to board the airplane distract from the real issue at hand. Mental health matters and people who experience mental health issues and need emotional support Animals in public places, including on mass transit, to participate in society, should not be denied this accommodation based on fear that some people may fraudulently claim that their pets are emotional support Animals. If we legitimize the process of bringing an emotional support animal in public, including on mass transit, then we make steps in continuing to take away the stigma of mental health issues. Parity is essential to accomplishing that goal.
Susan L Duncan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Service Animals and their roles in enhancing independence quality of life and employment for people with disabilities
Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy (Second Edition)#R##N#Theoretical foundations and guidelines for practice, 2006Co-Authors: Susan L Duncan, Karen AllenAbstract:Publisher Summary Service Animals for people with disabilities have become increasingly visible in communities. Although guide dogs are commonly recognized as helpers for people who have visual impairments, many individuals are still unaware that selected Animals, especially dogs, can be trained to help people who have other types of disabilities. This chapter explores what such Animals actually do, how necessary they are, their influence on quality of life, and opportunities for increased independence and employment. It provides an overview of legal and historical issues related to Service Animals, followed by a discussion of the demographics of disability in the United States. To highlight the advantages of having a Service animal, this chapter presents case study reports about the lives of three people and their Service dogs. It also includes comments about areas of consideration for employers and employees. It even considers research evidence about the potential psychosocial and economic value of Service dogs. To influence social policy and health insurance reimbursement practices, many additional topics about Service Animals need to be addressed in scientifically rigorous research. Community integration needs to be examined in a design that compares the social acceptance of a person with a dog versus a person with a personal assistant. Issues surrounding supply and demand of Service dogs, as well as questions about need for certification are also topics to be addressed. In addition, several interesting studies could be designed with a focus on qualities, selection, and training of Service Animals.
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apic state of the art report the implications of Service Animals in health care settings
American Journal of Infection Control, 2000Co-Authors: Susan L DuncanAbstract:The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc (APIC), is a multidisciplinary organization of more than 12,000 health care professionals who practice infection control and epidemiology within a variety of health care settings. Delta Society is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1977 that promotes the benefits of Animals to human health through research, education, and programs. The National Service Dog Center (NSDC) is a Delta Society program that focuses on the health benefits of Service Animals for persons with disabilities. The NSDC provides Service animal‐related education and consultation to researchers, health care providers, persons with disabilities, trainers, policy makers and enforcers, and the general public. Interest in Service Animals as viable health care interventions has risen dramatically, as evidenced by the increase in requests to the NSDC for information—from a few thousand requests per year in 1995 to more than 34,000 per year in 1999. During the last 2 decades, Service Animals that are trained to help persons with disabilities have been making more frequent appearances in health care settings. After a long history of banning Animals from these environments, many health care providers now endorse the presence of these Animals in clinical and public settings. This APIC State of the Art Report (SOAR) examines the prevailing laws, scientific literature, and anecdotal data about Service Animals. The document gives an overview of the roles of Service Animals and their implications for health care providers. This SOAR will also suggest ways to develop prudent policies and practices for infection control and risk management. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is a federal civil rights law that protects persons with disabilities from discrimination in the areas of employment, public Services, public accommodations, Services operated by private entities, and telecommunications. The ADA specifies who is protected by this law and identifies the relationship of the ADA to other federal, state, and local laws (ie, which law prevails when other laws conflict with the ADA). The purpose of the ADA is to ensure that persons with disabilities have equal opportunity to access employment, goods, and Services that are available to the general public. 1
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The Reporter, August 2014
Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017Co-Authors: Western Carolina UniversityAbstract:The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 20, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Area film lovers find much to love in first annual Best of Controlled Chaos Film Festival A full house of 150 film lovers laughed, cried and cheered student-created films in the Best of Controlled Chaos Film Festival held Sunday, Aug. 17, at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley on the Cashiers-Highlands Plateau. The event showcased the best of Western Carolina University student films from its Film and Television Production Program’s annual, campus-based Controlled Chaos Film Festival. The movie lineup included almost 90 minutes of film, including two 20-minute senior project films – “Jerry,” a comedy about a homeless man who returns to haunt the politician who killed him, which won the 2013 Asheville Cinema Festival Best Student Film Award, and “Strigoii,” a horror film that was screened in the 2009 Sitges Film Festival, one of the world’s top-tier festivals for horror and fantasy. Student filmmakers were on hand to share with the audience the types of films they make and the challenges pertaining to each one. A number of the documentaries – “Face Jugs,” “Sheep to Shawl” and “The Moving Wall” – were filmed locally with interviews from area residents. Students in WCU’s School of Stage and Screen write, direct, act, film, edit and produce the films as well as incorporate musical compositions created by students in the Commercial and Electronic Music Program and title sequences developed in the School of Art and Design. Marcia Shawler, director of Mountain Youth Charities and honorary chair of the festival, cited her positive experience with the WCU Film and Television Production Program in making “A Mountain Challenge,” a promotional film for her organization, as her reason for wanting to bring the student films to the area and draw attention to the WCU program. “The reasons we are here tonight are simple. We want to introduce you to the WCU film program, we want to share the great work the students are doing and we want to have a bunch of fun doing what we love to do – watch movies!” she said. WCU Chancellor David Belcher, on hand to address the audience, cited WCU’s Film and Television Production Program as an emerging program attracting national attention. In 2013, Sony awarded the film program a $100,000 state-of-the-art, high-definition camera. WCU’s film program was one of only 11 across the nation to receive the special honor and the only one in the Southeast. Proceeds and funds raised during the evening will support “wish list” essential equipment needs or senior project films, which are 20- minute, fully-produced features that simulate a professional experience for the students and serves as the capstone experience of their WCU training. Films take a year to write, produce, film and edit, include all FTP students with project crews sometimes numbering 50 to 60 people and cost an average of $5,000 to produce. As part of their education in the film business, students have to raise the funds to finance these films. “That’s a chunk of change, and as a college student, the stereotypes are true – we’re all broke!” said Andrew Dyson, recent graduate of the FTP program and producer of the film “Jerry.” “But we believe in these films so much that we just make it happen.” Wesley Wofford, local resident, sculptor and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated special effects makeup artist who most recently applied prosthetic makeup for Robert DeNiro in “Grudge Match,” called the WCU films “impressive” and “exciting.” “What these kids can do with $5,000 is amazing – $5,000 wouldn’t get you a call in Hollywood,” said Wofford. Kasey Summers, a WCU film student slated to produce a senior project film this academic year, spoke on behalf of her fellow film students. “You have no idea how much this means to us,” said Summers. “We are so happy you love our films, and to have your support in helping to make them? That is beyond words. Thank you.” For more information about the WCU Film and Television Production Program, contact Jack Sholder, program director, at 828-227-2324 or jsholder@wcu.edu. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 20, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Gary Kachadourian, Forest/City (mock-up), 2014, courtesy of the artist TOP STORIES Artist Gary Kachadourian’s “Forest/City” to fill gallery at WCU Fine Art Museum An installation by artist Gary Kachadourian that “re-manufactures” the great outdoors overtaking an urban environment will inhabit the entire main gallery and part of the lobby of the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University starting Thursday, Aug. 21. Kachadourian’s “Forest/City,” designed specifically for the FAM, will open that day in conjunction with a reception and ArtTalk by the Baltimore-based artist. The artist talk will begin at 5 p.m. in Room 130 of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center next to the lobby of the museum. The reception, artist talk and admission to the FAM to see the installation, which will be open through Friday, Oct. 17, are free and open to the public. Kachadourian offers a home-brewed batch of “absurd realism,” blurring the boundary between maker/creator and machine, said David J. Brown, FAM director and organizer of the exhibit. “In one sense, he’s like a factory worker,” said Brown. “He ‘manufactures’ objects – familiar ones that exist in his mostly urban world of Baltimore, where he lives and works. In another sense, he operates quite differently from many in the art world by being fully engaged in the documentation and a democratic distribution of most of his works, making them available to almost everyone. He sells small unfolding works and scaled-down versions of his pieces for roughly twice the cost of printing.” For installations such as his upcoming work at the FAM, he starts with a series of detail-oriented pencil drawings and a gallery mock-up. He then prints the various components to create full-size proportioned elements that are installed section-by-section on the museum’s walls and floor. “Visitors will enter the work and be fully surrounded by the environment,” said Brown. Prior to the exhibition at WCU, Kachadourian produced an entire McDonald’s façade, trash dumpsters, traffic barriers, portable toilets, his old Volvo station wagon, the interior of his house and a vacant lot; installed in both interior and exterior spaces. He also recently completed an installation for the Arkansas Art Center’s “12th National Drawing Invitational: Outside the Lines,” a biennial event that seeks to feature some of the most outstanding and innovative artists drawing in America today. Kachadourian also will be discussing his work and critiquing the work of WCU graduate students in the School of Art and Design while on campus. Also opening Aug. 21 at the FAM is “Abstract Autobiography for a Fractured Narrative,” an exhibition of work by Brooklyn’s Rebecca Ringquist. Using found fabric as her grounding base, Ringquist refers to much of her work as “stitched drawings,” the direct hands-on realization of the medium using thread as the lead of the mark-making tool. Occasionally, she incorporates collaged elements or smaller works that find their way into a composition. “These are bulky drawings,” said Brown. “They hold weight lightly and the narrative feels like many distant echos converging, CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Rebecca Ringquist, Valentine (2012), courtesy of the artist dreamy and song-like.” Ringquist said she loves to “tell love stories and create veiled fractured narratives full of double entendre.” “My work has been inspired of late by the fictional relocation story of the Swiss Family Robinson and my own cross-country move to Brooklyn,” she said “My work is at times careful, contrasted with moments of fast machine-stitched frenzy, expressing implicit and explicit intensities, and alternating between innocence and recklessness.” Brown said Ringquist has a mash-up approach to her compositions. “Image, text, line, color all compete for our attention yet somehow fuse together, offering a rich experience that is closer to reading a mandala than a painting or drawing, suggesting that life is in all of its absurd complexities is rewarding and full,” he said. The exhibit will be available through Friday, Nov. 7. The FAM is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, with extended hours to 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Museum admission and parking, available on both sides of the Bardo Arts Center, are free. For more information about the installation, ArtTalk and reception, contact Brown at djbrown@wcu.edu or 828-227-2553. For general information about the FAM, visit www.wcu.edu/museum online or call 828-227-3591. © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 27, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Hannah Dansie, Odditorium mural, photo by Zen Sutherland. TOP STORIES Artists to create on-site murals at WCU Fine Art Museum The Fine Art Museum invited four artists to visit WCU to create live-action, on-site murals on four of the museum’s movable, free-standing walls for an exhibit titled “Teetering on the Edge of the Uncanny” that opens Thursday, Sept. 4. The exhibition of work by artists Gus Cutty, Hannah Dansie, Alli Good and Ian Wilkinson opens with a reception honoring them in the FAM on Sept. 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. The event and admission to the museum to see the exhibit, which runs through Friday, Nov. 7, is free and open to the public. David J. Brown, FAM director, said it is nearly impossible “to visit any urban area anywhere in the world without finding examples of street art, both sanctioned and illegal.” “Websites such as the long-standing Wooster Collective and the recent Google Street Art Project serve as roadmaps for accessing some of the more noted examples globally,” said Brown. “The questions that we asked ourselves were: Why not here? How can our students benefit from the artists’ presence? Is there a way that we can also challenge the artists to create something that they have never done before?” The FAM’s four-sided free-standing walls are typically used as additional wall space or as partitions in exhibition design. After the artists complete their work for the “Teetering” exhibit, the wall works will serve as the sole focus of the exhibition, said Brown. “Visitors will circulate around them as one would with sculpture,” he said. Brown also said he envisions the exhibit will be dynamic. “The works will begin a conversation with each other and with our visitors,” he said. Cutty is a designer and muralist who painted rooftops and walls in the South before moving to San Francisco in 2006. Known for his large-scale spray-painted portraits in Asheville, he has devoted himself to the evolution of portrait and the craft of freehand aerosol work. Dansie, an Asheville artist originally from northern California, studied fine art at Central Saint Martins University in London, where she graduated with an honors degree in 2004. She works with a variety of mediums and describes herself as a “painter at heart.” Good has painted pieces for the private collection of members of George Clinton and the P-Funk and designed a tour shirt for the band. Her work has been shown in Asheville, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. She also creates medical illustration, book and magazine illustration, and advertisements. Wilkinson, director of the Asheville Mural Project, graduated from Governor’s School for the Arts, attended Virginia Commonwealth University and was the lead mural artist for the Holocaust Museum of Virginia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in painting from Adams State University in Colorado. He has been the recipient of state and national grants, and currently teaches in the Asheville City Schools system. For more information, visit www.wcu.edu/museum or call 828-227-3591. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 13, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | The Arts Alive @ 125 event will be held Tuesday, Sept. 2. TOP STORIES Arts Alive @ 125 event on Sept. 2 to benefit arts group Western Carolina University’s first couple will host a show celebrating 125 years of the arts at WCU called “Arts Alive @ 125” in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Chancellor David O. Belcher, a classically trained concert pianist, and wife Susan Brummell Belcher, a professional opera singer and vocal teacher, will host the event and make special appearances. Performers will include students from the School of Music and School of Stage and Screen, the Catamount Singers and Electric Soul, and the WCU dancers. In addition, there will be a special surprise performance. Musical selections will encompass a variety of composers including George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim and many more, said Brenda Lilly, director of the show and an assistant professor of stage and screen. “With songs, dance and stories, we will celebrate the 125-year history of the fine and performing arts, including music, dance, theater, film and fine art,” said Lilly. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a reception sponsored by Fusions Spa and Wellness. The benefit concert launches the 2014-15 membership drive for the WCU Friends of the Arts, an organization that helps support the activities of the Bardo Arts Center and all of the university’s academic programs in the arts. Individuals who join or renew membership in the Friends of the Arts for the 2014-15 season at the $50 level or higher by Friday, Aug. 22, may request tickets for two premium reserved seats. Tickets remaining after Aug. 22 will be made available to the public free of charge. Tickets are required for admission to the show. Others assisting with the production include interstitial writer Terry Curtis Fox, associate professor of stage and screen; choreographer Karyn Tomczak, director of WCU’s dance program; and lighting director David Bortle, technical director at Bardo Arts Center. Musical directors are Bruce Frazier, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Commercial and Electronic Music; Jon Henson, assistant director of the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band; and Katya Stanislavskaya, assistant professor of musical theatre. For more information about WCU’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebration, visit celebrate125.wcu.edu. To become a member of Friends of the Arts, call the Bardo Arts Center box office at 828-227-2479 or visit the website FriendsOfTheArts.wcu.edu. To request tickets, call the box office. By Teresa Killian Tate CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 13, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Bailey presents at institute and symposium Herb Bailey, director of gift planning in the Office of Development, recently presented “Increasing Your ROI: The 3-Part Ask” at the Western North Carolina Association of Fundraising Professionals 2014 Philanthropy Institute held in Flat Rock. He also presented as part of a panel discussing planned giving and major giving partnerships at the University of North Carolina System Advancement Symposium held in Charlotte. In addition, Bailey was recently re-certified as a Certified Fund Raising Executive by CFRE International. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 6, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | TOP STORIES ‘Big Birthday Bash’ to celebrate WCU’s 125th year set for Aug. 26 Western Carolina University is opening the academic year by throwing itself a party in honor of the 125th anniversary of its founding, and all alumni, friends, students, faculty, staff and members of the surrounding community are invited to take part in the festivities. Christened the Big Birthday Bash, the free event is scheduled from 4 until 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn and the adjoining Central Plaza. The afternoon will include a picnic on the lawn featuring barbecue, hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, watermelon, funnel cakes, deep-fried goodies, lemonade, tea and – of course – birthday cake. Also on tap will be a variety of old-fashioned games and photo opportunities with props representative of 125 years of WCU history. The tentative schedule includes musical entertainment provided by the Dirty Guv’nahs, and party-goers will be eligible to win a variety of door prizes. Student hosts will be giving guided tours of a walking trail featuring university landmarks and points of historical interest as part of a project by a WCU history class. The university’s Cat-Tran shuttle Service will be available to assist in transporting o-campus guests from designated parking areas to the site of the Big Birthday Bash. No pets are allowed, although Service Animals are welcome. “We want to invite everyone to come out and join us for what we hope will be a very enjoyable afternoon with good food, good music, interesting activities and a time to relax and socialize with other members of the Western Carolina University family,” said Zeta Smith, WCU director of special events who is co-chair of the events committee planning the bash. “It should be fun for everyone of all ages.” The yearlong observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the institution began back in January as hundreds of people crowded into the Grandroom of the University Center for a kicko event highlighted by a fashion show of clothing from throughout the university’s history, modeled by students, faculty, staff and community members. The majority of the year’s celebration is designed around traditional highlights of WCU’s annual calendar, such as spring commencement ceremonies, Mountain Heritage Day, the Spring Literary Festival, Homecoming, alumni receptions across the state and the Southeast, and a variety of events in communities across Western North Carolina. The nal quasquicentennial event is set for Friday, Dec. 5, in the Ramsey Center, with music from the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band (which will have just returned from its appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade), refreshments, remarks from the chancellor and special recognition for those who will graduate during the December 2014 commencement (the last graduating class of WCU’s 125th year). For more information about the Aug. 26 Big Birthday Bash, call 828-227-3033. For more information about other 125th anniversary events, visit the website celebrate125.wcu.edu. By Bill Studenc CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 27, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Bruce wins best paper award Richard Bruce, professor emeritus of biology, was bestowed the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists’ 2013 Copeia Best Paper award in herpetology for his article “Size-mediated Tradeoffs in Life-history Traits in Dusky Salamanders.” The article appeared in the society’s scientific journal, Copeia. Among those Bruce acknowledged in the paper for supporting his research were WCU, Highlands Biological Station and Krista Schmidt, associate professor, research and instruction librarian, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics liaison at Hunter Library. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 13, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Chancellor David O. Belcher shares remarks at the 2014 Opening Assembly. TOP STORIES Budget cuts, enrollment growth among topics tackled at WCU Opening Assembly The collective
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The Reporter, September 2011
Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017Co-Authors: Western Carolina UniversityAbstract:The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 20, 2011 Email This Post Print This Post Share | The Western Carolina University community presents the 37th annual Mountain Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 24. Mountain Heritage Day showcases the authentic folk arts and skills of the mountain region. TOP STORIES Mountain Heritage Day set for Sept. 24 The traditional folkways of the Southern Appalachian Mountains will once again take center stage as the Western Carolina University community presents the 37th annual Mountain Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 24. WCU’s fall festival features a variety of arts and crafts, music, clogging, folk arts, contests and activities that is hard to nd in a one-day event, said festival coordinator Trina Royar of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center. All Mountain Heritage Day activities, including stage performances, will take place between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., with the exception of registration for the woodcutting contest, which starts at 9 a.m. This year’s festival will be held on elds behind the Cordelia Camp Building, in parking lots and grassy areas around the Camp Building, and in the nearby Mountain Heritage Center, which is located on the ground oor of H.F. Robinson Administration Building. ARTS, CRAFTS AND FOOD Visitors at this year’s Mountain Heritage Day will nd nearly 100 booths of juried arts and crafts, providing a perfect opportunity for local residents to get in some early holiday shopping, Royar said. Items for sale will include basketry, ceramics, fiber work, glasswork, jewelry, metalwork, paintings, pottery and woodwork. About 25 food vendors also are signed up to participate in the festival, oering products ranging from barbecue, hamburgers and chicken-on-a-stick to fried pickles, chocolate-dipped cheesecake and Cherokee frybread. STICKBALL AND OTHER CHEROKEE GAMES The traditional Cherokee game of stickball has been a favorite attraction for festival visitors in recent years, and the Snowbird Stickball Team from Graham County will make its second appearance at Mountain Heritage Day to demonstrate that ancient sport at 11 a.m. Another Native American tradition will be featured at 1 p.m., when team members will join with their female associates in playing the courtship game of “Fish.” The team also will demonstrate the use of Cherokee blowguns at 3 p.m. TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND THREE CLOGGING GROUPS For fans of traditional music and clogging, life doesn’t get much better than the two main stages of Mountain Heritage Day, which will oer continuous free entertainment from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The newly renamed Balsam and Blue Ridge stages will present many types of traditional music ranging from traditional and contemporary bluegrass to old-time, gospel and folk music. Clogging fans will want to check out performances by the Blue Ridge Hi-Steppers, Fines Creek Flatfooters and Dixie Darlins, plus this year’s festival will present an audience participation clogging demonstration led by well-known clogging instructor Bill Nichols and his daughter, Simone Nichols Pace, at 2:45 p.m. on the Blue Ridge Stage. Festival music won’t be limited to the two stages. Visitors will have an opportunity to see some rapid-re picking up close and personal at the Circle Tent, which will provide a music workshop type of experience. An 11 a.m. Fiddle Circle will feature John Duncan and Summer McMahan, and a 1:30 p.m. Banjo Circle will show off the picking talents of Annie Fain Liden, Steve Sutton and Charles Wood. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT A family enjoys food at Mountain Heritage Day. About 25 food vendors are signed up to participate in the festival, oering products ranging from barbecue, hamburgers and chicken-on-a-stick to fried pickles, chocolate-dipped cheesecake and Cherokee frybread. Area residents who own vintage automobiles will be driving them to Mountain Heritage Day to show them off in the festival auto show, which will begin at 10 a.m. Other Circle Tent activities include a 10 a.m. presentation on “Jackson County People and Places” by the Jackson County Historical Society, a 12:30 p.m. Poetry Circle featuring local writers Thomas Rain Crowe, Barbara Duncan and Brent Martin, and a 3 p.m. Ballad Circle with the Deitz Family, Gaye Johnson and Jeanette Queen Schrock. Other musical performances that have been a part of every Mountain Heritage Day will take place at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., when singers from around the region will gather to demonstrate the sacred mountain tradition of shaped-note singing. The singing will take place in the gymnasium adjacent to the Camp Building, with participants singing from the “Sacred Harp” and “Christian Harmony” hymnals. “LIARS BENCH” SHOW WCU’s museum of Appalachian culture, the Mountain Heritage Center, will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mountain Heritage Day to allow festival visitors to view its exhibits and displays. The museum also will host a free performance of “The Liars Bench” Southern Appalachian variety show from 1:30 to 3 p.m. “The Liars Bench” was founded by Sylva writer and storyteller Gary Carden in June 2010. The inspiration for the show came from Carden’s own childhood in Sylva, when he was one of many children who were entertained by listening to the town elders’ tall tales and jokes at the local “liars bench.” “I started ‘The Liars Bench’ because I saw the culture and tradition that I’d grown up with slipping away,” Carden said. “It bothered me because I thought that a lot of the things were disappearing that contained the most signicant facts about who we were as a people, and so I decided that I could at least showcase it, maybe keep it alive a little bit, maybe develop an appreciation for it from people who’d never experienced it.” For its rst year, the shows were presented in Sylva, but recently the cast has moved “The Liars Bench” to the Mountain Heritage Center auditorium for its monthly presentations. The Mountain Heritage Day show will include Carden telling stories and reading excerpts from his plays, Cherokee gospel singer Gareld Long and three Liars Bench regulars – claw-hammer guitarist Paul Iarussi, singer-songwriter Barbara Duncan and singer-humorist Dave Waldrop. “‘The Liars Bench’ is a unique blend of culturally accurate mountain Americana with traditional Southern Appalachian entertainment for everyone,” Carden said. “We attempt to treat Appalachian culture with integrity and authenticity, and to be an accurate reection of the southern highlanders and their ways.” CHILDREN’S TENT Mountain Heritage Day organizers continue their emphasis on providing activities for children, and the festival Children’s Tent will provide fun and educational sessions all day. Youngsters can learn to make old-fashioned toys and take part in other heritage activities beginning at 10 a.m., and then at 11:40 a.m., Franklin bagpiper Jean Hayes will present an introduction to bagpipe playing, then lead a procession to the Blue Ridge Stage for a 12:10 p.m. awards ceremony. Musical activities geared toward children will be held through the afternoon and will feature the Whitewater Bluegrass Co., the Deitz Family, Phil and Gaye Johnson, Ellie Grace and Carol Rifkin. FOLK ARTS DEMONSTRATIONS Throughout its history, Mountain Heritage Day always has been a showcase for the authentic folk arts and skills of the mountain region. This year will be no exception, with demonstrations ranging from Cherokee doll-making to sorghum molasses-making from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. As part of festival activities, Peter Koch, educational associate at the Mountain Heritage Center, will demonstrate the loading and ring of a black powder intlock rie at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. A folk arts demonstration of draft horses and mules at work will be presented by Curtis Allison of Webster and Dwayne Franks of the Little Canada community in Jackson County. Peter Koch, educational associate at the Mountain Heritage Center, will demonstrate the loading and firing of a black powder flintlock rifle at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. As part of that demonstration, Allison and Franks will be oering wagon rides to children attending the festival. AUTO SHOW, FUN CONTESTS AND AWARDS Area residents who own vintage automobiles will be driving them to Mountain Heritage Day to show them o in the festival auto show, which will begin at 10 a.m. Some festival attendees will arrive on the WCU campus dressed in their best traditional mountain outts with plans to enter traditional attire contests held for both children and adults, while some of the male visitors who have been dodging the razor for a while will want to enter the beard and moustache competition. Those contests will begin about 12:20 p.m. on the Blue Ridge Stage. Always a spectator favorite at Mountain Heritage Day, the woodcutting contest, with chain saws and crosscut saws, will begin at 10 a.m. in a grassy area at the corner of Centennial Drive and University Way. Entries from the festival traditional foods contest will be on display all day, with the winners recognized at 11:30 a.m. on the Balsam Stage, along with the winning vendors from the festival arts and crafts competition. Also, as is the custom at every Mountain Heritage Day, WCU will present its Mountain Heritage Awards for 2011 to one individual and one organization in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the preservation or interpretation of the history and culture of Southern Appalachia. That presentation will take place at 12:10 p.m. on the Blue Ridge Stage. FREE ADMISSION AND PARKING Mountain Heritage Day goes on, rain or shine, and admission and parking are free. Pets are not allowed on festival grounds, but Service Animals are welcome. Festival attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for comfortable seating. Shuttles operate throughout the day, with stops at designated locations. For more information about Mountain Heritage Day, go to MountainHeritageDay.com on the Web or call 828-227-7129. By Randall Holcombe © 2011 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 13, 2011 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Articles by Jeffrey Lawson published in journal and book about modern mathematical tools Two articles by Jeffrey Lawson, professor of mathematics, were recently published. The first, “Euler-Poincaré Reduction for Systems with Configuration Space Isotropy,” co-authored with T. Schmah of the University of Toronto and C. Stoica of the Wilfred Laurier University in Canadae, was published by the Journal of Geometric Mechanics. The second, “Invariant Lagrangians on the Vertically Adapted Linear Frame Bundle,” with M.E. Rosado María of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain, was published in the Springer-Verlag collection “Modern Mathematical Tools and Techniques in Capturing Complexity.” CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2011 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 27, 2011 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Axelle Faughn to lead group at international meeting in Korea, speak at national events Axelle Faughn, assistant professor of mathematics, was accepted to lead a discussion group on mathematics teacher retention at the 12th International Congress on Mathematics Education to be held in Seoul, Korea, in July. Faughn also was invited to be a lead strand speaker to speak on the research perspective at the Mathematics Teacher Retention Symposium be held in Los Angeles in March. In addition, Faughn has been leading working groups on mathematics teacher retention for the past three years at the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference, with the next event to be held in Reno, Nevada, in October. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2011 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 13, 2011 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Hugh Evans, co-founder and CEO of the Global Poverty Project, presented "1.4 Billion Reasons," a presentation designed to engage participants to help the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty, at Western Carolina University. TOP STORIES Back-to-back Global Poverty Project presentations draw crowds Faculty, staff and community members filled the performance hall of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center during back-to- back presentations Sept. 7 by Hugh Evans, co-founder and CEO of the Global Poverty Project. “It was a full house both times, which puts attendance around 1,900 for the night,” said Jennifer Cooper, interim director of Service learning and co-chair of the WCU Poverty Project. During the presentation, Evans, a 28-year-old from Australia, described his personal experience spending the night as a 14-year-old on an exchange trip through World Vision with the family of another teen in a slum in the Philippines, and the realization that it was mere chance that he was born into his comfortable living conditions and the teen from the Philippines was born into poverty. Evans talked about extreme poverty and shared examples of what it means to live on less than $1.25 a day. He asked attendees at the WCU presentations to consider taking actions such as signing a petition for The End of Polio, a campaign in which every signature on the petition will be matched with funding for one vaccine to help end polio. He also invited them to consider taking part in the Live Below the Line awareness and fundraising campaign in which they commit to live on less than $1.50 a day for five days. Evans contended that it is possible to see an end to extreme poverty in a lifetime, and gave examples of extraordinary development in South Korea where cities with skyscrapers have replaced poor, undeveloped areas. He challenged attendees to join him in leaving a legacy of bringing an end to extreme poverty. WCU students said they left inspired, and the event sparked some critical discussion about extreme poverty and the best ways to address it, and that was the goal, said John Whitmire, co-chair of the WCU Poverty Project steering committee. “What we really hoped this presentation would do is get a conversation started this year in which we look seriously at the causes and consequences of poverty and related issues, and what we might be able to do about them,” said Whitmire. Zac Wallace, a freshman Honors College student from Mount Airy majoring in mathematics secondary education, said he already signed the petition Evans mentioned to end polio and talked with four friends about participating in the Live Below the Line campaign in October. “We decided we could live off of Ramen noodles if we had to,” said Wallace. For Wallace, one of the most surprising statistics Evans shared was the illustration that for half of what is spent on bottled water, clean water could be provided for everyone in the world. “I left thinking about how anybody can make a difference when it comes to poverty,” said Wallace. “Simply raising your voice to actually spread the word that it’s out there and calling upon world leaders can help.” Katie Hopkins, a freshman Honors College student from Boone majoring in nursing, said it was the personal stories of real people living in poverty that touched her the most. Evans shared videos such as a man describing the hard work of digging up roots to sell to support his family, and a woman who felt that her life was saved because of increased measures to care for women preparing for childbirth. Fatal hemorrhaging during childbirth is one of the most common causes of maternal mortality for anemic or undernourished pregnant women, and 99 percent of the 500,000 women who die in childbirth every year live in developing countries, according to information posted by the Global Poverty Project. Statistically, that means one girl or woman in developing countries dies giving birth every minute. Hopkins said the maternal health portion of the presentation left her thinking about the possibility of pursuing a specialty within nurse anesthesia that would enable her to work with expectant mothers. “For a long time, I’ve wanted to do mission work, and now I definitely know I’d like to do more with women and childbirth,” said Hopkins. Aaron Marshall, the Student Government Association senator for Service learning, said he connected with Evans on Facebook after the presentation, and they have communicated about some ways WCU students could take action this year. “I was absolutely blown away by the presentation,” said Marshall, a sophomore from Gastonia majoring in athletic training and minoring in race, gender and ethnic relations. “You could see that he loves his job, loves every second of every minute of what he’s doing to help people. WCU students were moved by the emotion that he carried in his message. We think we are poor college students, but we have North Face book bags and MacBook computers and a dining hall, which is far different from someone who literally lives on ounces of rice CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Hugh Evans, CEO of the Global Poverty Project, said people living in extreme poverty live on less than $1.25 a day. or ounces of food a day and has to work themselves as hard as they can just to get that. It is a reality check and humbles you.” Faculty members such as Ted Coyle, head of the anthropology and sociology department and director of the ethnography laboratory, said he also hoped the event would open the door to critical discussion on the topic of extreme poverty. Coyle had concerns, for instance, about an assumption during the presentation that increasing free trade and global industrialization will help eradicate extreme poverty. “This is uncomfortably close to the ‘market fundamentalism’ that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz saw as underlying the so-called Washington Consensus of the 1980s,” said Coyle. “We now see, of course, that this approach to international development led to the growth of vast megacities and sprawling border industrial zones characterized by a new and very depressing kind of urban poverty. People may make slightly more cash now, but what about the subsistence land and rural community that they’ve lost? That was not cash, so they would be considered extremely poor by the World Bank, but they had their own food to eat. Now they must eat empty calories in urban slums.” Coyle noted the example Evans gave of South Korea and pointed out that specific historical circumstances were tied to the country’s economic growth. “Shall we also station 50,000 U.S. troops in every other impoverished country in the world for half a century after partitioning those countries in halves?” asked Coyle. “I hope that students take away from this yearlong experience that they should think critically but deeply about global issues today,” said Coyle, who offered his students extra credit for attending Evans’ presentation and writing about it in terms of a series of articles they are reading related to globalization and poverty. “I was thrilled by the huge turnout to the presentation and commend the organizers for putting it at the beginning of the year so that we can continue to think about these issues all year and into the future.” Whitmire said he doesn’t think Evans himself actually supports a radically deregulatory neoliberal position, but noted that Evans’ or the Global Poverty Project’s positions are not the fundamental issue for the initiative at WCU. “We as an academic community now have a great opportunity to think carefully about the causes and debate the potential solutions to poverty-related issues this year, and then take some real action in both our local and global communities” he said. WCU Poverty Project events scheduled to take place within the next month include: Constitution Day: Western Carolina University’s Public Policy Institute will sponsor a series of events Thursday, Sept. 15, to Tuesday, Sept. 20, in honor of Constitution Day. A panel and participants in an essay contest will explore the question “Is there or should there be a constitutional right to a minimum level of subsistence?” The panel discussion will be held in the Blue Ridge Hall Conference Room A from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 15. Contest essays, which are due Sept. 20, may explore such questions as whether the Constitution guarantees a right to food, water, shelter and other necessities by way of food stamps, public housing or homeless shelters. In addition, a voter registration drive on Friday, Sept. 16, will be held on the lawn of A.K. Hinds
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The Reporter, September 2014
Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017Co-Authors: Western Carolina UniversityAbstract:The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 10, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Daniel Meyer NOTEWORTHY NEWS Asheville Symphony string musicians, WCU students to give concert Sept. 23 String musicians from the Asheville Symphony Orchestra will join students and faculty members from the Western Carolina University School of Music in a performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center on campus. The program will include “St. Paul’s Suite” by Gustav Holst, “Military” Symphony No. 100 by Joseph Haydn and the “Barber of Seville” overture by Gioachino Rossini. P. Bradley Ulrich, WCU professor of trumpet, will be the concert soloist, performing a trumpet concerto by Georg Telemann. The performance marks the start of the third season of a partnership between the School of Music and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra to provide opportunities for the symphony’s musicians and WCU students and faculty members to perform together. Known as the Artist-in-Residence Orchestra, the partnership provides important educational experiences for music students and more employment opportunities for orchestra musicians, said Will Peebles, director of the School of Music. The program is supported by proceeds from performances. Artist-in-Residence Orchestra concerts include masterworks of the orchestral repertoire conducted by the Asheville Symphony’s Daniel Meyer. “He is a young conductor who is building a reputation for his work with younger orchestras. He is uniquely positioned to bring together the string players with whom he works regularly with the wind and percussion students from Western Carolina,” said Peebles. Tickets for the Sept. 23 performance are $10 for adults and $5 for students and children. For information, contact the WCU School of Music at 828-227-7242. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 17, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Award-winning California teacher-author to speak Sept. 29 Dave Burgess, an award-winning educator and author from San Diego, California, will give a presentation about his innovative teaching techniques at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Burgess is a high school history teacher who uses energetic and entertaining classroom methods and specializes in reaching students who are difficult to motivate. He is the author of “Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity and Transform Your Life as an Educator,” which is on the New York Times’ list of 100 top-selling education books this year. In his presentations, Burgess demonstrates practical techniques that incorporate showmanship and creativity to help teachers make classes interesting and renew their passion for the teaching profession. Burgess has won “teacher of the year” honors at West Hills High School in San Diego, where he has taught for 17 years. His students have twice voted him to receive “Golden Apple” awards from his school district. He is currently on leave from the classroom for speaking engagements. His talk, titled “Teach Like a Pirate,” is sponsored by WCU’s College of Education and Allied Professions. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Sandy Ballinger in the Teacher Recruitment, Advising and Career Support unit at 828-227-3317. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 17, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Binkley and Luke co-author journal article Russell Binkley, associate professor of social studies education, and Nancy Luke, assistant professor of elementary education and digital literacy, co-authored “Our North Carolina Digital Stories: Weaving Common Core Standards into a Fourth-Grade History Project,” which was recently published in the National Council for the Social Studies’ journal, Social Studies and the Young Learner. Binkley and Luke worked with elementary classroom teachers Naomi Marotta and Melissa Pirkl, also co-authors on the article, on the project. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 24, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Carter wins chapbook contest Catherine Carter, associate professor of English, won the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest in July with her work, “Marks of the Witch,” which is scheduled for release by early 2015. Joseph Millar, contest judge, said Carter has “good diction and tone, a real subject and a great eye for the image, for the things of this world.” Jacar Press is an independent North Carolina press, and Richard Krawiec is the publisher. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 3, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS ‘Cash Mob’ to support Sylva merchants after downtown fire Participants in a “Cash Mob” will meet at the steps of the historic downtown courthouse building in Sylva at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, and then disperse to spend $20 each downtown to support merchants whose sales suffered after a recent fire. Venture Local Franklin partnered with the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center to organize the event after an Aug. 16 downtown fire slowed customer traffic. For more information or to sign up to take part, visit the Venture Local Franklin Sylva’s Cash Mob Facebook page at www.facebook.com/events/926884770660277/. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 24, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Hayrides will be offered at Mountain Heritage Day. Musical groups to perform at Mountain Heritage Day include the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers. TOP STORIES Committee puts final touches on Mountain Heritage Day A committee of WCU sta members and community volunteers has been putting the nishing touches on the 40th annual Mountain Heritage Day, a celebration of the region’s rich history and culture, taking place on the campus Saturday, Sept. 27. This year, two Cherokee stickball teams, the Hummingbirds team from Cherokee at 2 p.m. and – for the rst time at the festival – the age 11-and-younger Big Cove youth team at 11 a.m., will demonstrate the traditional competition that is older than written history. Zeta Smith, director of special events, recently made contacts to secure this favorite of festival attendees. Robin Oliver, director of marketing, has overseen the creation of a new festival website at its old address, http://mountainheritageday.com, as well as a series of new logo designs for the festival, posters, handbills, a television commercial and the expanded advertising tabloid for area newspapers. She also wrote a feature for the tabloid titled “White Lightnin;” a few others were penned by Keith Brenton, communication specialist, who created and sent news releases to regional and national media about the festival. Visitors also will see new directional signage at the festival, some of it featuring the Cherokee language in honor of this integral part of the area’s history, thanks to Tom Belt, coordinator of WCU’s Cherokee Language Program. The annual Mountain Heritage Day 5K has been planned just since the beginning of the school year by class members of new WCU instructor Charlie Parrish’s upper level sport management course centered on event management. They remain ready to accept online registrations with a newly redesigned website at http://claws.wcu.edu/sma/5K/, complementing the university’s redesign of the Mountain Heritage Day site itself. Students in dierent groups planned the marketing of the event; amount of entry fees; cooperation with local law enforcement on the route; acquisition and distribution of supplies like runners’ bibs, T-shirts, awards and refreshments – all of the details of the race. Entry fees support an endowed scholarship fund created by the Sport Management Association, a student organization which reached its goal last year to make an award to its rst recipient, Liberty Cozart. The race begins at 8 a.m., and should be nished in an hour so that the route may be opened for festival traffic. Lane Perry and Jennifer Cooper of WCU’s Center for Service Learning are coordinating as many as 150 volunteers – many of them students – to assist with on-site activities during the festival, ranging from manning an information booth to helping direct traffic. A revised parking plan devised by Tammy Ammons-Hagberg and Fred Bauknecht of the WCU Police Department should make it easier for demonstrators and vendors to have access to the festival grounds separately from attendees, diverting their usually-larger vehicles from the trac ow. Working with WCU photographer Mark Haskett, they have certied all the personnel needed for crowd direction and emergency contingencies. Haskett also provided hundreds of photo options for advertising and secured many of the musical performing groups, along with community volunteer Will Putman of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. A new site plan for the festival grounds, created by Kevin Cope, Roger Turk and Bonnie Ross, all of Facilities Management, also puts more distance between the performing stages, giving listeners a clearer hearing of performers like Grammy Award-winning David Holt and partner Will McIntyre, old favorite groups like Mountain Faith, Je Little Trio, Whitewater Bluegrass Company, the Deitz Family, Roan Mountain Hilltoppers and the Queen Family, as well as newcomers the Buckstankle Boys, the Foxre Boys and Woody Pines. A dance oor will be available again for audience dancing or clogging teams, including the Blue Ridge Heritage Cloggers, the Dixie Darlin’ Cloggers and the J Creek Cloggers. Trina Royar, festival coordinator, pulled together all of the applications and negotiations for booths oering handmade arts and crafts in juried competition on the festival grounds, as well as those of the vendors of festival foods. Royar wrote many articles for the advertising tabloid as well. Peter Koch, education specialist with the center, not only CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Two Cherokee stickball teams will demonstrate the traditional competition at Mountain Heritage Day. Peter Koch, education specialist at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center, will demonstrate black powder shooting at Mountain Heritage Day. demonstrates black powder shooting, but also arranged living history and craft demonstrations as well as cooking, canning and baking contests. Community volunteer Norman Parris recruited accomplished contestants for the chainsaw competition; Mike Nichols, another area volunteer, arranged shape-note singing groups. Visitors also will enjoy beard-and-mustache and period costume contests, antique autos on display, tractor and horse- or mule-drawn wagon rides, plus a tent featuring children’s activities all day. Two recent exhibits in the free-admission Mountain Heritage Center, located in the nearby H.F. Robinson Building, celebrate 125 years of university history and 40 years of Mountain Heritage Day. The sta of the center created displays of artifacts ranging from photographs and commencement programs to cheerleader outts, sports team uniforms and mascot costumes that tell the school’s story as it grew. The festival’s exhibit commemorates long-gone events like candidate stump speeches, pet shows, moonshine sning and tobacco spitting. Several heritage presentations and two showings of “Bells in the Valley,” the 1989 lm updated by Arledge Armenaki, associate professor of cinematography, will take place in the center’s auditorium. Scott Philyaw, former director of the center and past chair of the committee, was instrumental in planning and overseeing all of these activities at the festival and acquiring sponsors for it before returning to his career in teaching history this fall. Carol Burton stepped into the vacancy as interim chair, and has worked to keep activities on track for the festival. She penned the introductory article to the tabloid. Anne Lane, on staff with the Mountain Heritage Center, kept track of many vendor contracts, committee meetings and minutes. All of the eorts culminate in a festival opening at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, under skies forecast to be mostly sunny. Visitors are encouraged to bring a blanket or chair, and an umbrella to shed unwanted sunshine or rain, just in case the forecast changes. Free admission and free parking remain the tradition at Mountain Heritage Day. Service Animals are welcome, but guests are asked to leave pets at home. By Keith Brenton © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 3, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | TOP STORIES Company’s coming: UNC system Board of Governors to visit Sept. 10-12 Western Carolina University leaders are urging faculty, sta and students to keep “four P’s” in mind when the University of North Carolina Board of Governors holds its September meeting on campus – parking, patience, purple and Catamount pride. The Board of Governors, the policy-making body for the multi-campus UNC system, is coming to campus in celebration of the 125th anniversary of WCU’s founding. Board meetings and activities will take place Wednesday, Sept. 10, through Friday, Sept. 12, and will be spread across several building on campus during the three-day period. “Be forewarned that parking will be at a premium during these days, and many spaces will be reserved for our guests,” Chancellor David O. Belcher said. “I encourage you to be patient, be proud, and wear purple! Greet Board of Governors members whom you encounter with courtesy and smiles, and help them find their way across campus if they appear lost.” In addition to the members of the Board of Governors, the meeting will be attended by UNC system President Tom Ross and his senior sta, almost all of the other UNC system chancellors and many of their senior staff members, a number of state and federal elected officials, and the news media. Board members who were appointed in 2013 will meet for their WCU orientation program on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 10, including a tour of campus. The heaviest day of activity will be Thursday, Sept. 11, with a full schedule of board committee meetings and policy discussions. The ocial Board of Governors meeting will take place on the morning of Friday, Sept. 12. Unless a committee or the board as a whole goes into closed session, the meetings are open to the public. The meeting agenda will not be available until later this week. All meetings will be held in either A.K. Hinds University Center or the conference space in Blue Ridge Hall. Other activities will occur at the Health and Human Sciences Building and the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. “I encourage you to take the opportunity to greet our guests and welcome them to Western Carolina University,” Belcher said. “We have an incredible university, one that through its faculty, staff, and students is doing amazing things. This is an opportunity for us to share that story.” Information that WCU is providing to the Board of Governors regarding its meeting on campus can be found at the website bog.wcu.edu. By Bill Studenc CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 3, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Construction management program earns renewal of accreditation The American Council for Construction Education has awarded renewal of accreditation to Western Carolina University’s undergraduate program in construction management. The renewal of accreditation by the ACCE signies that WCU’s construction management program is meeting the rigorous standards established by the agency, said Michael Smith, head of the department and the Joe W. Kimmel Distinguished Professor of Construction Management. “We are pleased that the ACCE continues to recognize the high quality of our program in construction management,” said Smith. “Students in our program and the businesses and industries that hire them when they leave will know that our graduates are well-qualied with the technical and managerial skills necessary for successful careers in construction management.” The mission of the ACCE is to be a leading global advocate of quality construction education programs and to promote, support and accredit quality construction education programs. Through promotion and continued improvement of postsecondary construction education, ACCE accredits construction education programs in colleges and universities that request its evaluation and meet its standards and criteria. ACCE is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the accrediting agency for baccalaureate and associate degree programs in construction, construction science, construction management and construction technology located in North America and Australia. For more information about the construction management program at WCU, visit the website cm.wcu.edu or call 828-227-2201. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 10, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Costa to present at City Lights Bookstore James Costa, biology professor and Highlands Biological Station director, will present his new books celebrating naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva on Friday, Sept. 12, at 6:30 p.m. Costa’s books are titled “Wallace, Darwin and the Origin of Species” and “On the Organic Law of Change.” Wallace, who co-discovered the principle of natural selection in 1858, was one of the most famous scientists in the world, lauded by British royalty and U.S. presidents, at the time of his death in 1913. Yet today, Darwin’s name is universally recognized while Wallace is all but unknown, said Costa, who has described Wallace as an “amazing naturalist who persevered against all odds and made great discoveries.” CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS ServiceS CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home September 2, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | TOP STORIES DENR’s Sept. 12 public hearing at WCU moved to Ramsey Center A N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources public hearing on Friday, Sept. 12, devoted to North Carolina’s oil and gas rules is being moved to another spot on the Western Carolina University campus – the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center. University ocials suggested the hearing be moved to the larger building from its original loca
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altering the time of the second gonadotropin releasing hormone injection and artificial insemination ai during ovsynch affects pregnancies per ai in lactating dairy cows
Journal of Dairy Science, 2008Co-Authors: D J Brusveen, A P Cunha, C D Silva, P M Cunha, R A Sterry, E Silva, J N Guenther, M C WiltbankAbstract:Abstract Based on previous research, we hypothesized that Cosynch at 72h [GnRH−7 d−PGF 2α; −72h−GnRH+artificial insemination (AI)] would result in a greater number of pregnancies per AI (P/AI) than Cosynch at 48h. Further, we hypothesized that P/AI would be improved to a greater extent when GnRH was administered at 56h after PGF 2α; before AI at 72h due to a more optimal interval between the LH surge and AI. Nine hundred twenty-seven lactating dairy cows (n=1,507 AI) were blocked by pen, and pens rotated through treatments. All cows received GnRH followed 7 d later by PGF 2α; and then received one of the following: 1) GnRH+timed AI 48h after PGF 2α; (Cosynch-48); 2) GnRH 56h after PGF 2α; +timed AI 72h after PGF 2α; (Ovsynch-56); or 3) GnRH+timed AI 72h after PGF 2α; (Cosynch-72). Pregnancy diagnoses were performed by ultrasound at 31 to 33 d post-AI and again at 52 to 54 d post-AI. Overall P/AI were similar for the Cosynch-48 (29.2%) and Cosynch-72 (25.4%) groups. The Ovsynch-56 group had a greater P/AI (38.6%) than Cosynch-48 or Cosynch-72. Presynchronized first-Service Animals had greater P/AI than cows at later Services in Cosynch-48 (36.2 vs. 23.0%) and Ovsynch-56 (44.8 vs. 32.7%) but not in Cosynch-72 (24.6 vs. 26.2%). Similarly, primiparous cows had greater P/AI than multiparous cows in Cosynch-48 (34.1 vs. 22.9%) and Ovsynch-56 (41.3 vs. 32.6%), but not Cosynch-72 (29.8 vs. 25.3%). In conclusion, we found no advantage to Cosynch at 72h vs. 48h. In contrast, we found a clear advantage to treating with GnRH at 56h, 16h before a 72h AI, probably because of more-optimal timing of AI before ovulation.
