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  • The Reporter, January 1999
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2018
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
    Abstract:

    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.Reporter JBL News for th e Faculty c January 11, 1999 Douglas Covington, president of Radford University in Virginia, will deliver the keynote address as the Western community honors the memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. January 13-19. Campus Events to Honor King's Legacy Covington will speak on King's life and legacy at an evening program Thursday, January 14, sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and featuring music by the WCU Inspirational Choir. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Grandroom of the Hinds University Center. A Winston-Salem native, Covington is the first African American to lead a predominantly white University in Virginia. He became president of Radford University in June 1995, following terms as chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, president of Alabama A&M University, and president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Check the WCU Calendar for other activities. For additional information, call Jane Adams-Dunford, director of multicultural affairs and special student populations, at 227-7234. the and Staff of Western Carolina University WCU Biologists Inventorying Hemlock Groves in Park Western Carolina University biologists are inventorying eastern hemlock stands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in an attempt to predict what will happen if a deadly parasite invades the park and destroys these ancient giant evergreens. The inventory, begun last May by biology professor Dan Pittillo and several graduate students, is concentrated on hemlock groves in the Cataloochee Valley on the North Carolina side of the park. Plots chosen for Pittillo's study were first inventoried between 1933-34 by Frank Miller, a biologist hired by the National Park Service to develop a vegetation map for the park. Pittillo and his students found forty of Miller's original 200 plus plots and have surveyed twenty. The study is particularly urgent because the hemlock woolly adelgid, if not stopped, could obliterate eastern hemlock stands throughout the park in a matter of years. A similar pest, the balsam woolly adelgid, already has destroyed 90 percent of the park's Fraser firs. Both insects are the result of accidental introductions from Europe and Japan. If both firs and hemlocks are destroyed by the adelgids, entire ecosystems in the park could be drastically altered. Hemlock stands provide important food and cover for a variety of wildlife: white-tailed deer, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, rabbit, and numerous songbirds. Plant species such as rattlesnake plantain, mayflower, blue cohosh, wood sorrel, and a variety of herbs and shrubs flourish in hemlock habitats. Brook trout are found more frequently in streams bordered by hemlocks because of the cooling effect of the canopy. By studying the composition of the hemlock plots, Pittillo said he and his students hope to be able to predict what species will take the hemlock's place and how the loss of the hemlocks will affect other species, including plants and wildlife. To make reasonable predictions, the biologists are studying the plots in minute detail, laying out 20x50-meter grids, which are divided into 10x10 meter subplots. All trees, shrubs, and plants, including mosses, are recorded and given a value according to its presence, Pittillo said. The biologists also collect soil samples and tree bores. "Our studies are much more intensive than Miller's were," Pittillo said. "We record whatever is growing at the time, not plants that have died out, such as spring wildflowers." Some of the grids have yielded more than eighty different types of plants, shrubs, and trees. Pittillo first became interested in the Miller study two years ago while working on another research project. "I had a couple of graduate students who were looking for projects, so I made a continued on page 2 WCU Biology Professor Da n Pittillo Inventory, continued proposal to the Park Service to conduct a new inventory of the Miller plots, and it was accepted," Pittillo said. From Miller's extensive inventory, Pittillo selected likely sites for his study. "It turned out to be a pretty big chal­lenge," Pittillo said, because the plots were scattered over the park. Pittillo chose the Cataloochee Valley because of its remoteness and its high density of hemlock growth. Some sites were rejected because of too few trees, Pittillo said, but many plots were still intact and in good shape. "We were able to see many of the alter­nate species in the Miller plots." Conclusions based on the new hemlock stand study will be made as part of the students' graduate theses. Those results, Pittillo said, should be available by early spring. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park contains 4,000 acres of hemlock forest, and these groves harbor unique plant and animal life, including insects, fungi, and two species of sala­manders that are found no place else in the world. A 169-foot-high hemlock on Andrews Bald in the park is the biggest of its kind in the world. Will Blozan, a former forest ecologist for the National Park Service, said the park's hemlocks and attendant species are the "closest thing we have to what was here 400 or 500 years ago. Every other ecosystem has something missing." The hemlock woolly adelgid arrived in the United States in the 1950s on ornamental hemlocks imported from Japan, where the adelgid is most preva­lent. Without the natural predators that kept the insect in check in its home range, and quickly spread by wind, birds, and animals, adelgids soon infested hemlock forests up and down the East Coast. To date, significant adelgid infestations have been found in eleven eastern states. Regardless of the outcome of adelgid control measures already under way, the WCU study should provide future researchers with valuable data involving hemlock stands in the Southern Appala­chians— with or without the hemlocks. —Bob Satterwhite • The Coulter Faculty Center reports that WCU faculty and staff have been busy sharing computer implementation experiences with others through presentations at state and national conferences. Comments and questions received by t he presenters have been positive and indicate that Western is in th e forefront of technology efforts nationally. Beth Leftwich, media specialist, and Bob Orr, associate director (Coulter Faculty Center), delivered presentations on faculty support and prepara­tion for the computer implementation at two national conferences: The Association for General and Liberal Studies, October 14-17, in St. Louis, Missouri, and at Computers on Campus, held November 8-11, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Also presenting at both conferences was Elizabeth Addison, assistant professor (English), on the English department's use of Daedalus integrated writing software. Frank Prochaska, associate vice-chancellor (Academic Affairs), Deborah Justice, client services manager, Scott Swartzentruber, computer network coordinator (Computer Center), and Bob On-presented an overview of Western's implemen­tation strategies at the North Carolina CAUSE Conference, October 21-23, in Wilmington. Orr and Addison presented an overview of implementation strategies at the Computers on Campus Conference. Orr also was a guest of Apple Computer, November 12-14, in Cupertino, California. Orr discussed ways that experiences gained with the computer implementation could be used nationwide at other educational institutions. In addition, the faculty center has received numerous requests for information on Western's computer implementation and has shared materials developed for use by faculty, staff, and students during the implementation with educational institutions and businesses nationwide. • Kathryn Stripling Byer, formerly WCU's poet-in-residence, was awarded the 1998 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award from the NC Literary and Historical Association. Byer was honored for her recent collection Black Shawl, published by Louisiana State University Press. The award honors the best book of poetry in a given year by a North Carolina poet. • Wendy Cagle, business counselor (Small Business and Technology Development Center), recently won the 1998 annual client case award. The SBTDC offers this annual cash award ($2,500) for the best client case. Cases may be submitted by a business counse­lor or a regional center director and are voted on by the state executive director and a review committee. Client consultations are docu­mented, with outcomes based upon assistance. Cases submitted for the award are required to contain a case summary, a description of the counselor-client relationship, and client accomplishments/outcomes. Cagle's case was a Macon County manufacturing business with high growth and national marketing potential. She shared the award with a co-winner located in the SBTDC's Charlotte office. The Western Region SBTDC is located in the Mountain Resource Center. • James Costa, assistant professor (Biology), was chosen the Hunter Scholar for 1999. The award, established in 1987, supports traditional scholarship and carries with it release time as well as a full-time graduate assistant, $400 in library support, and the use of a faculty study carrel in Hunter Library. The award is sponsored jointly by the Division of Academic Affairs, Research and Graduate Studies, and Hunter Library. • Gloria Houston, author-in-residence (Elementary and Middle Grades Education), spoke at an author's luncheon and presented at the International Whole Language Conference in Charlotte this past summer. The conference was co-chaired by Barbara Bell and Lester Lamanick of the department. She also spoke at the western North Carolina regional Kappa Delta Pi meeting in September and conducted a workshop on teaching writing across the curriculum to faculty of schools in the Christian Schools Association in St. Peters­burg, Florida in October. Houston presented keynote addresses at the Clemson Reading Conference at Clemson University and at the West Virginia Reads Aloud Conference for volunteer readers, both in October. • Jane W. Minor has been appointed director of the Developmental Evaluation Center. She has spent more than twenty-five years working with young children with developmental disabilities, and has served in several capacities with the center, including assistant director. She also worked as nursing supervisor for a short-term residential training program for young children with mental retardation at the University Affiliated Program of the Univer­sity of Tennessee Child Development Center in Memphis. The DEC was established on the WCU campus in 1963 to develop and dispense quality services and support for young children with disabilities and their families in seven western counties. J a n u a r y I I , 1 9 9 9 • T h e R e p or t e r ft BLUJ Calendar 118 ml Wood-fired clay by George January 11-24, 1999 Xfcjp Rector at Chelsea Gallery Look for regular updates on the University's web site at www.wcu.edu/cal.html Monday, January 11 Spring Semester Registration in Asheville, 3-6 p.m. (227-7423 or 828-251-6642) Spring Semester Registration in Cherokee, 1-5 p.m. (828-497- 7920) Spring Semester Orientation for new freshmen and transfer students. (227-7147) Meeting/Discussion—Western North Carolina Civil War Roundtable. WCU History Assistant Professor Peter Carmichael speaks on Confederate General John Bankhead Magruder. Free. 6:30 p.m., Jackson County Justice Center. (227-7243) Lecture—"Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?" presented by Jean W. LeLoup of SUNY-Cortland. Free. 7 p.m., Room 180, McKee Building. (227-7241) Tuesday, January 12 Spring Semester Registration in Cullowhee. RRAC. (227-7216) Brown Bag Luncheon—with Jean W. LeLoup, SUNY-Cortland. Sponsored by Coulter Faculty Center. Noon-1 p.m. Second floor conference room, Hunter Library. (227-7196) Spring Semester Registration in Cherokee, 1-5 p.m. (828-497-7920) Basketball—Lady Catamounts vs. Chattanooga. Southern Confer­ence Game. 7 p.m., RRAC. (227-7338) Wednesday, January 13 MLK Celebration—University and Community Prayer Breakfast. $5 per person. Prior reservations required. 8 a.m., West Room, Dodson Cafeteria. (227-7234) Spring Semester—ail classes begin, 8 a.m. MLK Celebration—Roundtable Discussion: "Remember! Cel­ebrate! Act! A Day On, Not a Day Off!" Free. 4 p.m., Grandroom, UC. (227-7234) MLK Celebration—Candlelight Vigil. 6 p.m., Alumni Tower. (227-7234) Basketball—Catamounts vs. Tusculum. 7 p.m., RRAC. (227-7338) Thursday, January 14 MLK Celebration—Oratorical Contest. Sponsored by the Student Government Association. Free. 2:30 p.m., Grandroom, UC. (227-7299) MLK Celebration—Douglas Covington, president of Radford University, speaks on "The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." Performance by the WCU Inspirational Choir. 7 p.m., Grandroom, UC. (227-7234) Friday, January 15 CAFETERIA Faculty Evalua­tion— Files prepared for the Office of University Planning to run reports. (227-7239) Monday, January 18 Martin Luther King Jr. birthday holiday. University offices will be closed. (227-7216) Tuesday, January 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebra­tion— Theatre: The Meeting. Playwright Jeff Stetson imagines a clandestine meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Free. 8 p.m., RH. (227-7234) Wednesday, January 20 Exhibition Reception—Affinities with Architecture. 5-6 p.m. Belk Gallery, BB. (227-3591) Exhibition Reception—Wood-fired Clay. With artist George Rector. 7:30 p.m. Chelsea Gallery, UC. (227-7206) Concert—Singer-songwriter Del Suggs. Sponsored by Last Minute Productions. $2 students, $3 others. 8 p.m., Cherokee Room, UC. (227-7206) Friday, January 22 CAFETERIA Faculty Evalua­tion— Forms and computer evaluation summaries will be available in the Office of University Planning. (227-7239) Laff Factory—with Steven Kent, a.k.a. Spanky. Sponsored by Last Minute Productions. $1 students, $3 others. 9 p.m., Cherokee Room, UC. (227-7206) Submissions: Send news items and calendar notices to WCU Calendar, 1601 Ramsey Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 or e-mail to calendar® wpoff. wcu.edu Submit items for the electronic bulletin board on campus (cable channel 39) and for the University's calendar on the World Wide Web at least one week ! prior to the event. *** Now Showing *** Exhibitions: Migration of the Scotch-Irish People and African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South, (permanent and rotating exhibitions). Also slideshow spotlight programs available for viewing. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays, MHC. (227-7129) Wood-fired Clay. Pottery by George Rector. Through February 5. Chelsea Gallery, UC. (227-7206) Affinities with Architecture. Featuring the works of twelve artists who use architecture as a source for formal, cultural, and social inspiration. January 13 through February 18. 9 a.m.-5p.m., weekdays, Belk Gallery, BB. (227-3591) Key: HA - Hoey Auditorium; HFR - H.F. Robinson Administration Building; HS/CF - Hennon Stadium/Childress Field; MHC - Mountain Heritage Center; NSA - Natural Sciences Auditorium; RRAC - Ramsey Regional Activity Center; RH - Recital Hall, Coulter Building; BB - Belk Building; UC - A.K. Hinds University Center; UOC - University Outreach Center; WS/BW - Whitmire Stadium/ Bob Waters Field. J a n u a r y I I , 1 9 9 9 • T h e Re p o r t e r • Campus visits for the four candidates under consider­ation for the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences have been scheduled. Complete curricula vitae for the candidates are available in the college's offices and on reserve in Hunter Library. February 2—Bernard Cook, Department of History, Loyola University. Open Presentation: 3:30 p.m., Coulter recital hall. February 4—Ronald Tool, chair, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Wesleyan College. Open Presentation: 2 p .m., Coulter recital hall. February 8—Robert Vartabedian, Department of Speech Communication, West Texas A&M University. Open Presentation: 4 p.m., Coulter recital hall. February 11—Roy Moore, College of Communications and Information Studies, University of Kentucky at Lexington. Open Presentation: 3:30 p.m., Coulter recital hall. • The six finalists for 1998-99 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award were announced recently by the Coulter Faculty Center. The finalists are Debashish Banerjee, assistant professor, business computer information systems; Jim Bryant, associate professor, health and human performance; Julie Johnson-Busbin, assistant professor, marketing; Shan Manickam, professor, mathemat­ics and computer science; Kathy Starr, assistant professor, physical therapy; and Charles Wallis, assistant professor, mathematics and computer science. Finalists are identified by calculating the number of student nominations that are matched by a faculty nomination. Each of the finalists received three or more matching nominations and a combined total of at least seven nominations. Ballots were received from 201 students and 49 faculty. The selection process will take place over spring semester and will be based on class observations and materials submitted by the six finalists. • Weather-related announce­ments affecting the University are available twenty-four hours a day through WCU's Internet site and on Jackson CountyLine. Announcements posted on the University's Internet site are available at http://www.wcu.edu/ winter.html or by calling up WCU's homepage (http:// www.wcu.edu) and clicking on the button for "Weather-related schedule changes." Weather announcements posted on Jackson CountyLine are available at 631- 5463, extension 2000. Normal University Policy is to hold classes in Cullowhee during periods of inclement weather. Faculty and staff should use discretion when deciding whether to drive during hazardous conditions. • Nominations for the annual Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service Awards are being accepted through Friday, February 19. Winners of the award receive a $1,000 honorarium and an engraved plaque, which will be presented in May. Nominations may be made by members of the faculty, administration, staff, student body, board of t rustees, and by alumni. Selection committee members are Terry Kinnear, chair; Paul Brandt, Tom Connelly, Dianne Cook, Patrick Hays, and Bill Ogletree from faculty and staff; Tom Apodaca, Louis Bissette, and Philip Walker of the board of trustees. Eligibility requirements and instructions for submitting nominations will be distributed to all University personnel within the week. For additional informa­tion, contact Terry Kinnear at 227-3587. The Reporter is published by the Office of Public Information, Rebecca Caldwell, editor; M ark Haskett, photographer. Mail faculty /staff notes, events, notices, and changes of address to Rebecca Caldwell, The Reporter, 1601 Ramsey Center, o r send them via e-mail to REPORTER@WPOFF.wcu.EDU 1,800 copies of this public documen t were printed at a cost of $299.15, or $0.14 per copy. Western Carolina University is an Eq ual Opportunity Institutio n. %porter Office of Public Information Publications Unit 1601 Ramsey Center Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID CULLOWHEE, N.C. PERMIT NO. 1 J a n u a r y I I , 1 9 9 9 • T h e R e p o r t e r Reporter JL th e c January 26, 1999 News for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University WCU's Spanish Immersion Program Living and The pyramids of Cholula (above) provide an ancient backdrop for study at the modem campus of the Universidad de las Americas (right). "AAev iorfcf is a AooA anA/Aose wAo s/uAy y'us//Ae/r own soc/ reaAon/y a s/nyfe joaye. v —CAnony/nous yT a rticipants in WCU's summer Spanish immersion course have a unique opportunity to "live in" the language they're learning. The six-week program, offered through the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, is taught in Mexico primarily in the classrooms of the Universidad de las Americas (UDLA). But students venture well beyond the beautiful Spanish colonial-style campus to immerse themselves in a culture completely unlike their own. Classes in Mexican civilization are combined with intensive language study, taught by native speakers. Placed according to their level of ability, students are matched with conversation partners from among the Mexican students participating in the program and living with them in the residence halls. They take classes four days during the week, reserving Fridays and weekends for guided day-trips and longer excursions to visit museums, explore archaeological sites, and sample the cultural diversity of Mexican cities and countryside. Ideally situated, UDLA is only two hours southeast of Mexico City, near the metropolitan city of Puebla, which was founded in 1531. Puebla was the site of many important events in Mexican history and boasts a downtown area that has been designated a cultural heritage site by UNESCO because of its brilliantly ornate colonial architecture. The University was founded in 1940 and moved in 1970 to its present location at the foot of the pyramids of Cholula. Cholula, referred to as the Sacred City, has a history dating back to before 1400 B.C. Its magnificent ruined pyramids bear the weight of the Spanish Conquest with a church and a convent still standing atop the remains. The modern campus pays compliment to its ancient surroundings and plays host to some 6,000 students annually who come for undergraduate and graduate studies from every Mexican state and more than thirty

  • The Reporter, October 2001
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2018
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
    Abstract:

    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.' Reporter News for the Faculty c October 8, 2001 l Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Council Seeks To Resolve Shared Issues After a year of establishing its direction and addressing problems from various campus constituencies, the University Advisory Council is looking ahead. As the youngest of WCU's governance bodies, the council supports the four campus stakeholder groups— students, faculty, staff, and administration. Each group has an equal voice in making Policy recommendations that affect the campus as a whole or that substantially affect two or more groups. It is designed to coordinate University-wide ini­tiates, facilitate discus­sion of campus-wide issues, foster effective campus leadership, consult with and support constituent organizations, foster a sense of community, and make recommendations to the chancellor and other appropri­ate decision-making bodies. uWe are learning new ways to mutually support the other governance bodies and working to improve dia­logue, " said Bob Orr, Web manager in the Office of Public Information and chairman of the council. Last year, the UAC addressed the issue of twenty-four- hour visitation in the residence halls and its impact on multiple constituencies. "The council was able to discuss the issue, make recommendations and move forward," said Orr. Currently, chairmen of the other governance groups are members of the UAC, and UAC representatives are members of each of the other groups. "This reciprocal membership gives us a good sense of the information flow throughout all of the constituencies," said Orr. With the council's first anniversary in September, one on-going project is to refine the internal process of the council. The goal is to streamline the election process of UAC officers with a resolution to be presented at the December meeting. The council functions with two major committees— leadership and communications. The leadership commit­tee continues its efforts from last spring, working with the Office of Human Resources in finding ways to promote leadership on campus, including guest speakers and special events. One of the major projects of this committee is the WCU Leadership Institute, which involves forty-five supervisors and five management-level staff from all divisions in activities over the next two years. The communications committee is working to bring everyone on campus into the communications loop by making sure information is efficiently and effectively distributed. This year's leadership for the council, in addition to Orr, includes David Whitaker, student, vice chairman; Tori Ellison, director of annual giving, secretary; Jan Gilbert, associate registrar for operations, leadership committee chairman; and Debie Connelly, information and communciations specialist, Office of Public Information; communications committee chairman. The council is open to recommendations for issues of concern. These concerns may be submitted online. See www.wcu.edu/uac. Minutes of the council meetings, as well as Staff Forum and Faculty Senate meetings, are linked from the University governance Web site at www.wcu.edu/ UnivGov/. The Student Government Association will be able to provide this information in the near future. Teacher Education Program Receives Recognition Western Carolina University's teacher education program has moved to the head of the class, according to a report card issued September 12, by the North Carolina State Board of Education. Western earned a score of 136 out of a possible 150 in the Performance Report on Teacher Education Programs for 2000-01, placing WCU among the top four programs of the forty-seven institutions of higher education in North Carolina that offer teacher education programs. The report represents North Carolina's primary effort to hold colleges and universities accountable for their role in preparing classroom teachers to work in the state's schools. Each prpgram is evaluated in a variety of categories, including graduate and employer surveys, test Continued on page 2 Homecoming *01 Festivities Announced Western Carolina University students past and present will turn the Cullowhee Valley purple and gold as the University community celebrates Homecoming '01, with activities on campus and in the town of Sylva. Wednesday, October 17 •Student balloting will take place for Homecoming court, with elections to set the five-man, five-woman court. Election of the king and queen is set for Wednesday, Wednesday, October 24 • Inaugural "Power Puff' football tournament, with teams composed of both men and women, will begin at 7 p.m. in Whitmire Stadium and continue until a champion is crowned. Thursday, October 25 • Motivational speaker Johnnie Tuitel speaks on "I'd Rather Be Dancing," discussing his experiences dealing with a physical disability, to inspire listeners to think about their dreams and potentials. The free program will begin at 7:30 p.m., in the Grandroom of the University Center. • Float building and banner making party, with music and food, will kick off at 9 p.m., Ramsey Center, in preparation for the parade and banner contest. Friday, October 26 • Annual Alumni Golf Tournament gets under way at 1 p.m., at Laurel Ridge Country Club, Waynesville (reservations are required). • Women's soccer team hosts East Tennessee State University at 4 p.m. • Sixth annual Homecoming parade starts at 6:15 p.m., downtown Sylva. Floats and marchers representing University and Jackson County organizations will take part. Participants will include the Homecoming Court, WCU athletic teams and cheerleaders, and the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band. • Women's volleyball vs. Georgia Southern at 7 p.m. • Spirit Night celebration, including a pep rally, bonfire, music, food, fireworks and other activities, gets under way at 8 p.m. on the intramural fields adjacent to Reid Gymnasium. Teacher Education, continued from page I scores of prospective teachers and teacher education graduates, and the percentage of teachers employed. "It is quite an honor to be selected as an exemplary teacher education University," said A. Michael Dougherty, dean of Western's College of Education and Allied Professions. Western's latest marks on the "state report card" show a six-point improvement over last year's score. Dougherty attributed the increase to a growing number of partnerships with public school systems, and to widespread institutional support for teacher preparation programs at a University founded in 1889 as a teacher education school. Saturday, October 27 • African-American alumni breakfast begins at 9:30 a.m., University Outreach Center. • Reunion of t he Decades Luncheon, for alumni whose graduation year ends with a one ('41, '51 and so on), starts at 11 a.m., Ramsey Center, followed by the presentation of alumnus and service awards. Other special reunions and tailgate parties will continue into the early afternoon. • Catamounts take on Southern Conference foe Virginia Military Institute in a 2 p.m. showdown at Whitmire Stadium. • The post-game goings-on include Stompfest '01, a step show competition among African-American fraternity and sorority groups from several Southeastern colleges, at 7 p.m. in the Ramsey Center. • The fiftieth reunion for the class of 1951 will begin at 7 p.m., University Outreach Center. Sunday, Oct. 28 •Lady Catamounts will be back in action on the soccer field to take on rival Appalachian State at 2 p.m. and on the volleyball court against the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga at 6 p.m. For more information or reservations to the golf tournament or alumni events, call the Office of Alumni Affairs, 227-7335. For information on other activities, call the University Center offices at 227-7206. Each year, Western's Mountain Heritage Day Committee honors an individual or organization with the Eva Adcock Award in recognition of longtime and significant service to the festival. WCU's department of facilities management was named the 2001 recipient of the award during Mountain Heritage Day activities September 29. Receiving the award from committee member John Newman (far right) on behalf of the department of facilities management are (left to right) Roger Turk, grounds superintendent; Rick Stough, housekeeping superintendent; and Andy Degrove, maintenance superintendent. Not pictured is Andy Comrie, director of the department of facilities management. O c t o b e r 8 , 2 0 0 1 • T h e Re p o r t e r Tuesday, October 9 Training Tuesdays—"Diversity for Managers," 1-3 p.m., Room 404, BB. Registration required. (227-7218 or www.wcu.edu/hr/training) Wednesday, October 10 Meeting—Diabetes Support Group, 4-5 p.m., Rogers Room, UC. (227-2088) Thursday, October I I Class—for operators of 15-passenger vans; fulfills new University Policy requiring all drivers of these vans to attend safety training program conducted by Office of Safety and Risk Management. Limited to 25 participants, 2:30—4:30 p.m., Room 378, BB. (227-7218 or www. wcu.edu/hr/tra ining) Friday, October 12 Class—for operators of 15- passenger vans. Limited to 25 participants, 9-11 a.m., Hospitality Room, RRAC. (227-7218 or www.wcu.edu/hr/ training) Lady Catamount soccer—vs. UNC-Greensboro, Southern Conference game, 4 p.m., SSF. (227-7338) •JLB Calendar October 8-21 2001 Look for regular updates on the University's Web site at www.wcu.edu/cal.html Saturday, October 13 Catamount football—vs. Wofford, Southern Confer­ence game, 6 p.m., WF/WS. (227-7338) Sunday, October 14 Lady Catamount soccer—vs. Davidson, Southern Confer­ence game, 1 p.m., SSF. (227-7338) Arti-Facts!—cultural arts program for children that links old-time traditions of the past to contemporary life presents "Going Nuts: Natural Dyes," reservations required, 2:30-3:30 p.m., MHC. (227-7129) Reading—"A Room of Our Own: A Night of Women's Poetry and Performance," 8 p.m., Cyber Cafe, Dodson Cafeteria. (227-3982) Blood Drive October 15,16,17 12:30-6 p.m. Grandroom, UC No appointment needed. Sponsored by the Honors College, Kappa Kappa Psi band fraternity, and Phi Mu sorority. Tuesday, October 16 Training Tuesdays— "Customer Service 1— Advanced Connections," 8:30-11:30 a.m., Room 404, BB. Registration required. (227-7218 or www.wcu.edu/hr/ training) Wednesday, October 17 Lady Catamount volleyball— vs. UNC-Asheville, 7 p.m., Reid Gymnasium. (227-7338) Exhibitions: •** Now Showing*** Louis Finkelstein Paintings. An overview of noted lyrical abstractionist Louis Finkelstein. Through October 26. BB. (227-3591) Born of intimate Light Recent paintings by Betty Clarke. Through October 20. Chelsea Gallery, UC. (227-7206) Finely Crafted. Woodworking hand tools and furniture. Through December. MHC. (227-7129) Working the Land. Display showing the importance of agriculture in North Carolina's past, present, and future. Through December 18. MHC. (227-7129) The Old Barn: By the Creek and In the Cove, a year-long display of Jackson County barns photographed by Lloyd Cowan, featuring barns from particular sections of the county exhibited for a three-month period; fifth and final group showcases photos of more than 150 barns throughout the county. Through December 21. MHC. (227-7129) Migration of the Scotch-Irish People. (permanent exhibition). Information, illustrations, artifacts, and murals. MHC. (227-7129) Key: $ - Admission fee; HA - Hoey Auditorium ; HFR - H.F. Robinson Administration Build ing; HS/CF - Hennon Stadium/Childress Field; MHC - Mountain Heritage Center; NSA - Natural Sciences Auditorium; RRAC - Ramsey Regional Activity Center; RH - Recit al Hall, Coulter Building; BB - Belk Bu ilding; UC - A.K. Hinds University Cente r; UOC - University Outreach Center; WS/BW - Whitmire Stadium/Bob Waters Field; SSF - Shrader Soccer Field. Thursday, October 18 Circus—Royal Hanneford Circus, 7 p.m., RRAC. $ (227-7677) Saturday, October 20 Open House—for prospective students and their families. Registration begins 9 a.m., RRAC. (227-7317) Lady Catamount volleyball— vs. UNC-Greensboro, South­ern Conference match, 2 p.m., RRAC. (227-7338) Sunday, October 21 Lady Catamount volleyball— vs. Davidson, Southern Conference match, 2 p.m., RRAC. (227-7338) Concert—Artist-in-Residence, 4 p.m., HA. Call for ticket information. $ (227-7242) Submissions: Send news items and calendar notices to WCU Calendar, 1601 Ramsey Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 or e-mail to Reporter@email.wcu.edu. Submit items for the University's calendar on the Internet at least one week prior to the event. O c t o b e r 8 , 2 0 0 1 • T h e R e p o r t e r Western Advances in Yahoo! Listing For the second consecutive year, Western Carolina University has been named one of the 100 "most wired" colleges in the nation by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, a national publication and guide to the World Wide Web. Western moved up three places in the rankings, to No, 65, from last year's position at No. 68. WCU scored higher than such major universities as Maryland, Texas, Yale, Syracuse, Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Michigan State. Other North Carolina universities ranked in the top 100 are Wake Forest (ranked No. 20), N.C. State (21), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (56), Duke University (63), Elon (79), and East Carolina (95). The rankings are part of the fifth annual "most wired colleges" survey results, published in the October edition of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. WesternTo Host Hunger Discussion Local, regional, and worldwide hunger will be the focus as Western Carolina University hosts the eighteenth annual World Food Day Conference, Tuesday, October 16, in Killian 104. Highlighting the day's discussions will be a t eleconference from noon to 3 p.m. originating from George Washington University with Wenche Bath Edie. Edie will speak on the topic "World Food System: Serving All or Serving Some." She is the author of the book Food As a Human Right. Representatives of local, regional, and statewide organizations dedicated to ending hunger in North Carolina communities will present the morning sessions. Starting the morning, from 9-9:30 a.m., will be Shirley Williams-McClain, executive director of the North Carolina Hunger Network, based in Raleigh. She will address the issue of hunger and food insecurity in North Carolina and the importance of linking emergency food providers, church hunger groups, community action agencies, social change organizations, community-based organizations, and individuals in order to address the problem of hunger. Leigh Dudasik, director of programs and communications for MANNA Food Bank in Asheville, will present the next session, 9:35-10:05 a.m. She will discuss the problem of hunger from a Western North Carolina perspective, highlighting the importance of food banks as a response. Jimmi Buell, a member of the board of directors of Sylva's Community Table, will speak, 10:15-10:45 a.m., on the work that this local organization does to address the issue of hunger in Jackson County. Discussion and planning will follow the afternoon teleconference. All activities are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Nilofer Couture, nutritionist, at 586-2454 or Ted Coyle, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology, at 227-3900. 7 Tie Reporter is publish ed by the Office of P ublic Information. Debie Connelly, editor. Mail faculty/staff notes, ev ents, notices, and changes of address to lire r\v)/Vf vCf, I vv I r\4iuacjr , vl awliU wtvlll Vt

  • The Reporter, February 2009
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
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    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 February 2, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Patrick Frazier as Paws NOTEWORTHY NEWS Admission staffer takes Paws to gubernatorial inauguration Patrick T. Frazier, assistant director of admission and WCU alumnus, seized the chance to represent Western Carolina and stand in for Paws, the mascot, at a parade held to celebrate the inauguration of Gov. Beverly Perdue on Saturday, Jan. 10, in Raleigh. “You mix the mindsets of being a clown and a big kid together, and then just entertain and have fun,” said Frazier. “I had an absolute blast. However, after being in the suit for about four hours with no break, I was worn out.” Two weeks later, the real Paws arrived at a WCU basketball game with a new look. Click here to check Paws out. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 9, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Application period opens for Integration of Learning Award The Committee on Student Learning is accepting applications now through Friday, March 13, for the 2009 Integration of Learning Award. The winning proposal, which will receive $2,000 in funding in July, will represent a true collaboration between a member of the faculty and a member of the student affairs division to create an integrative learning experience for students that is in line with the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan. Additional information on the award, including examples of winning projects and proposal requirements, can be found on the committee’s Web site. Completed proposals should be submitted via email to Shawna Young, director of outreach and assessment for student affairs. For more information, e-mail Young at scyoung@wcu.edu or David Kinner, assistant professor of geology, at dkinner@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 LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 2, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Bob Buckner, Matt Henley and Jon Henson Bob Buckner, director of athletic bands; Matt Henley, assistant director of athletic bands; and Jon Henson, assistant director of athletic bands, have been invited to introduce a video of WCU’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band to be shown at a performance session of the College Band Directors National Association’s conference Friday, March 27, in Austin, Texas. The band was one of five selected nationwide to be featured at the session. Compiled by WCU student intern Suzanne Barkley 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 15, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Budget updates for students and their families posted to Web Western Carolina faculty and staff members are encouraged to direct students and their families to two Web sites recently launched by the Division of Student Affairs to help answer questions about how state budget cuts could affect WCU. For students, budget updates and information will be posted at http://familyassociation.wcu.edu/. For their families, information is published at http://familyassociation.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: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 15, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Campus community can help increase critical blood supply The American Red Cross will hold three upcoming campus blood drives. All donors will receive a T-shirt and a chance to win one of three pairs of airline tickets. The drives are scheduled for the following times and places: 12-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, and Thursday, Feb. 19, in the Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, in the Multipurpose Room of A.K. Hinds University Center. Walk-ins at the drives are welcome, but donors also are invited to go online to www.membersforlife.org/cbsr/schedule to schedule an appointment. Donors planning to attend the Wednesday and Thursday drives should use the sponsor code 14848 to make an online appointment; Friday’s donors should use the sponsor code 7836. Blood bank supplies typically dwindle in the winter months, with harsh weather preventing blood drives or making traveling dicult for donors, according to Carolyn Deal, donor recruitment representative of Carolina Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross. The Carolina Blood Services Region serves 103 hospitals in 83 counties in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. At present, the Carolina Blood Services Region has less than a 12-hour supply of some blood types, Deal said. For more information, contact Deal at (828) 231-5012 or DealCB@usa.redcross.org. By Jill Ingram 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 2, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Catherine Carter A poem by Catherine Carter, director of Western Carolina University’s English education program, was recently selected to be published in “The Best American Poetry 2009.” Initially published in Asheville Poetry Review, Carter’s poem “Adam and Steve” will now be included in an anthologized compilation of poems that have been reviewed during the past 12 months. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 23, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Aaron Ball Jeanne Dulworth TOP STORIES Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award finalists to be introduced at reception A reception will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in Club Illusions at A.K. Hinds University Center to honor the ve faculty nominees for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the highest teaching honors bestowed by WCU. Finalists are chosen through a two-stage process that includes nominations by students and faculty members. The winner, who receives $2,000, will be announced at the Spring Awards Convocation at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the performance hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center. A 3 p.m. reception precedes the event. Meet the finalists: Aaron Ball Professor of engineering and technology HOMETOWN: Mars Hill EDUCATION: B.S. and M.A., Appalachian State University; Ed.D. with a concentration in industrial/manufacturing engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University JOINED WCU FACULTY: 1977 EXTRA CREDIT: As part of Ball’s eorts to create experiential-learning opportunities for students, he recently developed an environmental test chamber, a unit the size of a walk-in cooler where temperature and humidity can be controlled for tests conducted by engineering students. Students can test, for instance, the moisture inltration of a package or how humidity aects a viola’s bow. In addition, his students gained experience with cost-cutting engineering projects for regional companies including Caterpillar and Volvo. He is currently working with graduate students on analyzing the capabilities of a rapid prototype machine at WCU and exploring applications of quality enhancement vision systems. A third project involves research of organic-based polymers, which could under some circumstances biodegrade in as little as six weeks. In contrast, plastic drink bottles could last hundreds of years in a landfill, said Ball. “These have provided exceptional opportunities for students to gain engineering experience,” said Ball. “As adviser for all of the Asheville-based engineering technology students, I am fortunate to be able to work with students on live projects that provide learning in and out of the classroom.” Jeanne Dulworth Assistant professor of social work HOMETOWN: Brevard EDUCATION: B.S.W., Western Carolina University; M.S.W., University of South Carolina JOINED WCU FACULTY: 2000 EXTRA CREDIT: Dulworth has developed social work courses on mental health and working with children and families. She also teaches a course called “Direct Practice with Individuals and Families.” As faculty liaison to service learning for the College of Health and Human Sciences, Dulworth has incorporated service learning into all of her classes and 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 Jill Manners Wes Stone helps others add service learning to their courses. Projects have included developing a workout room for sta and clients at a mental health facility, collecting professional clothing and oering certicates for haircuts, manicures and pedicures for mothers in the Work First family assistance program, and working with the local soup kitchen. In addition, Dulworth has led students abroad to help them learn about dierent cultures and social service systems. “Social work students love service learning because it aords them a chance to practice the concepts they are learning in the community,” said Dulworth. “I treasure these experiences with students and hope to have many more.” Jill Manners Associate professor and coordinator of clinical education for athletic training HOMETOWN: Palatine Bridge, N.Y. EDUCATION: B.S. in athletic training /exercise science, Ithaca College, N.Y.; M.S. in athletic training, West Virginia University JOINED WCU FACULTY: 2004 EXTRA CREDIT: Manners has created more than 40 clinical education sites for students in eight states that oer clinical experiences from working with professional athletics to working in physician offices. Her students have participated in service-learning activities at the Kentucky Bluegrass State Games and a 175-mile run from Boone to Cullowhee that raised money for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Research and Education Foundation. “These students voluntarily trained four mornings a week at 6 a.m., and most had never run more than 1 mile,” said Manners. “During the run, weather conditions caused us to change our route, which potentially would have signicantly shortened the run. The students unanimously voted to add the extra 35 miles to the course in order to meet the pledge of running 175 miles.” “It is exciting to watch how the students grow professionally and learn from these experiences.” Wes Stone Assistant professor of engineering and technology HOMETOWN: Millersville, Md. EDUCATION: B.S. in mechanical engineering, University of Texas at Austin; M.S. in mechanical engineering, Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a minor in industrial engineering and a concentration in manufacturing, Georgia Institute of Technology JOINED WCU FACULTY: 2004 EXTRA CREDIT: Stone has guided seniors working on capstone projects from designing hydraulic pumps to meeting engineering needs in the health care fields. Two project teams recently presented devices they developed to MARC, Marketing Association for Rehabilitation Centers that employ disadvantaged workers. Stone’s students presented a simple device for cutting o a portion of an IV bag to recover a highly recyclable portion of the bag, and a method for reducing the plastic shavings introduced in a cutting process of plastic surgical drapes. “Our project teams were solving problems that were creating additional jobs, and the students saw the people who were beneting,” said Stone. “This hit a home run, showing students the impact that they can have.” Laura Wright Assistant professor and director of graduate studies for the English department HOMETOWN: Greensboro, N.C. EDUCATION: B.A., English with a minor in philosophy, Appalachian State University; M.A., English with concentrations in multicultural and West African literature, East Carolina University; Ph.D., English, with specializations in postcolonial literature and theory, contemporary world literature, South African Laura Wright literature, ecocriticism and animal rights theory, University of Massachusetts at Amherst JOINED WCU FACULTY: 2005 EXTRA CREDIT: Wright designed classes such as “Stories Retold,” a course in which students read postcolonial and postmodern retellings of British canonical works from the perspective of characters who are marginalized or even nonexistent in the original works. “In this course, students learned about the concept of ‘metaction’ and the importance of being able to see perspectives – racial, global and gendered – other than those with which they are familiar and comfortable,” said Wright. She regularly invites speakers on international topics to her classes as a way to promote study abroad opportunities and has worked to increase international pedagogical oerings at WCU, including advocating to add a non-Western world literature survey course. “As we are increasingly involved in a global economy and as national and international borders shift and are renegotiated, I feel deeply committed to exposing my students to aspects of the world with which they may not be familiar and to challenge their previously held perceptions about people and cultures that exist beyond the United States,” said Wright. Compiled by Teresa Killian © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 2, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Cheryl Johnston and John Williams Cheryl Johnston, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology, will present “Forensic Osteology Research Station: The First Donation” at the 61st annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to be held Feb. 16-21 in Denver. Also at the meeting, John Williams, professor of anthropology and sociology and director of the forensic anthropology program, will present “Anthropology for Breakfast: A Semi-Cautionary Tale.” Compiled by WCU student intern Suzanne Barkley 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 2, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Chris Cooper and Gibbs Knotts The North Carolina Civic Education Consortium awarded $6,000 to Chris Cooper, associate professor of political science, director of the master’s degree program in public aairs and director of the Public Policy Institute; and Gibbs Knotts, head of the political science and public aairs department, to support the ninth American Youth Congress. Approximately 200 North Carolina middle school and high school students will work with college students to create and debate simulated legislation. Compiled by WCU student intern Suzanne Barkley 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 15, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Chris Mueller named executive director of resource development Chris Mueller was recently named executive director of resource development at Western Carolina. Mueller, who was previously serving in the role on an interim basis, will continue to coordinate campus fundraising and provide counsel to colleges and schools with respect to the University’s overall fundraising activities. Before coming to WCU, Mueller was a consultant for Stamats, a company that worked with WCU on the recent branding initiative, and was vice president for institutional advancement at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 9, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Comments on centers and institutes Policy due Feb. 19 Comments and concerns about a Western Carolina University Policy related to centers and institutes may be e-mailed to Policy@email.wcu.edu until Thursday, Feb. 19. The Policy is intended, in part, to prevent the creation of centers and institutes that unnecessarily duplicate the mission and programs of existing units at WCU and to give WCU administrators responsibility in their management. The Policy has been posted for review on the “Announcements” Web site at http://announcements.wcu.edu for faculty and staff, which can be accessed only from computers linked to the campus network. Faculty and sta may log on to the Web site from a computer linked to the campus network by using their Outlook usernames (wcu\username) and password. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home February 15, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Consultants to lead workshops centered on promoting undergraduate research during Feb. 17-19 visit A high grade-point average is not enough to ensure a successful transition from college to advanced study or a career, said David J. Butcher, professor of chemistry and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Students who have practical experiences such as working with a faculty member on a research project are better prepared to make that transition. To help WCU promote and expand undergraduate research opportunities, two consultants will attend meetings and host workshops on campus Tuesday-Thursday, Feb. 17- 19. The consultants who will share ideas that could help expand undergraduate research opportunities at WCU are Patrick Lucas, associate professor of interior architecture at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and John Mateja, director of undergraduate research and scholarly activity office at Murray State University. Lucas directs graduate and undergraduate student research related to visual, material and textual analysis. Mateja has been responsible for providing thousands of undergraduates the opportunity to participate in mentored research and scholarly experiences in their disciplinary area of interest. The office that he directs aims to grow undergraduate research and scholarly activity across the entire Murray State University campus. In addition to meetings on campus, the consultants will host two workshops: A presentation for students titled “So You Think a Diploma and Good Grades Are All You Need” will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center. A faculty workshop titled “Making the Campus Argument for Undergraduate Research and Strategies for Moving Your Institution, Departments, and Faculty Forward” will be held from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in the multipurpose room of the University Center. After an overview session, participants will break into groups. To register, e-mail Melody Huitt, administrative support associate in the provost’s office, at mdhuitt@email.wcu.edu. The consultants’ visit was planned after members of WCU’s undergraduate r

  • The Reporter, January 2009
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University, Western Carolina University
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    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 January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Bruce Yarrington The Internal Revenue Service of the U.S. Department of the Treasury awarded $4,281 to Bruce Yarrington, manager of Qualla Financial Freedom, a nonprofit program offered at WCU’s Cherokee Center, for a voluntary income tax assistance program that assists elder Cherokee tribal members with free income tax e-filing service. The program was one of 111 chosen from 375 applicants nationwide, and one of only two to be funded in North Carolina. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 22, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Comments on Space Management Policy Due Feb. 4 Comments and concerns about a revision to a Western Carolina University Policy related to space management may be e-mailed to Policy@email.wcu.edu until Wednesday, Feb. 4. The revised Policy, which includes a description of how to request space, how space is assigned, how it becomes available for reassignment and how to request modest renovations to space, has been posted for review on the “Announcements” Web site for faculty and sta , which can be accessed only from computers linked to the campus network. Faculty and sta may log on to the Web site from a computer linked to the campus network by using their Outlook usernames (wcu\username) and password. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Dr. Claire DeCristofaro Dr. Claire DeCristofaro, associate professor of nursing, recently gave a continuing education presentation titled “Pain Diagnosis and Management and Controlled Substance Prescribing” at an annual regional conference for physician assistants. The conference was hosted by the South Carolina Association of Physician Assistants in Kiawah Island, S.C. Tags: Claire DeCristofaro 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 21, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Trevor Jones TOP STORIES Inside the Staff Breakroom with Trevor Jones Trevor Jones, who has worked as a museum curator and as coordinator for a historical digitization institute, recently joined the sta of the Mountain Heritage Center. In his role as curator, Jones will write, design and build exhibits; oversee the museum’s collection of artifacts; and assist visitors as they learn about the region. He holds bachelor’s degrees in history and German from Grinnell College, and a master’s degree in history and a certicate in museum studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also is the rst American recipient of the Global Curator Fellowship, a recently announced honor that comes with an invitation to present at the Museums Australia conference in May. Jones and his wife, Kate, have two daughters – 10-year-old Medora and 8-year-old Cordelia. The Reporter: What do you enjoy most about being part of a museum staff? Jones: You really never know exactly what you are going to be doing from day to day. Sometimes you are doing serious historical research, such as looking at historical letters. Other times you are painting walls or building frames because you have an exhibit to put up. You might help someone from the community who comes in with a tool and wants help identifying it. The Reporter: What were some of the exhibits you most enjoyed coordinating when you were curator of history for Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wis.? Jones: The exhibit I am most interested in is always the one I am working on at the time. One I’m proud of is on World War I in Wisconsin. During that time, if you objected to the war and how it was being fought, you could basically be thrown in prison without a trial or be ned for even the most innocuous statement. If I had told you maybe we could be ghting this war a little bit better, under the Sedition Act, the sheri could have ned me the equivalent of about $5,000. That was a really fun exhibit in part because it allowed me to connect what happened in 1917 and 1918 to the present. We are still having debates about civil liberties and the Patriot Act. If you object to a war, what are the limits of that objection? What can you expect in terms of privacy and freedom of speech? What is your role as a citizen of the United States? What does it mean to be patriotic? The Reporter: You also researched American Indians in the Civil War. What led you to the topic? Jones: In graduate school, I was assigned an artifact from a museum collection to research and write a paper about. Mine was a buckskin coat with a tree embroidered in silk on the back that was made by two Western Cherokee women for a white Union ocer in Indian Territory. I was asking why they would make this coat for a Union ocer, and their personal story led to my interest in the topic. The coat is now in the Milwaukee Public Museum. An almost identical coat made by the same family is in Minnesota. The Reporter: What did you find compelling in your research? Jones: A lot of people know about the Western Cherokee who fought for the Confederacy, but there were more Cherokee who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The Western Cherokee had their own civil war inside the Civil War that was incredibly brutal and bloody. I wanted to know what causes that kind of strife between people with a shared culture. The Reporter: If you could sit next to anyone from any time period on a plane, whom would you choose and why? Jones: One person I want to know more about is Sir Richard Francis Burton. He was a 19th-century explorer who spoke about three dozen languages and was one of the discoverers of the source of the Nile. He was a fascinating, mysterious and probably slightly crazy Victorian. When he died, his wife burned all his papers because she didn’t want people to know how weird he really was. I would like to ask him questions that would solve some of the historical mysteries about him. The Reporter: What kind of opportunities for faculty, staff and students do you see at the Mountain Heritage Center? Jones: We oer a variety of research opportunities. We have very interesting artifacts and collections, and we continue to gather oral and written materials about the history and culture of this area. There also are opportunities to assist in multimedia projects or community outreach eorts, which connect us with the wider community in really interesting ways. There are a lot of different ways to learn here. Interview by Teresa Killian Tags: Mountain Heritage Center, Q&A, Trevor Jones 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS John Habel and Thomas Ford The North Carolina General Assembly awarded $73,457 to John Habel, associate professor of psychology, and Thomas Ford, professor of psychology. Habel, an educational psychologist, and Ford, a social psychologist, will help educators at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville learn to create educational environments sensitive to the unique experiences of students who might otherwise be subjected to unintentional racism and the subtle eects of stereotype threat. Habel and Ford also will help educators learn to promote the general goals of greater student learning, achievement and retention. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Louis E. Buck Jr. The Small Business Technology and Development Center awarded $3,500 to Louis E. Buck Jr., director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to facilitate and promote involvement of faculty members and students in the work of the SBTDC, and sponsor research and instruction activities on small business issues. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Malcolm Abel Malcolm Abel, associate professor of business law, recently made a presentation to the Asheville Area Paralegal Association centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Abel discussed the emergence of Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote on the court and the range of decisions in 2007-08 that culminated in the landmark decision about the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Michael Hubble The North Carolina Oce of Emergency Medical Services awarded $91,510 to Michael Hubble, director of the emergency medical care program within the College of Health and Human Sciences, to conduct an assessment and analysis of the North Carolina EMS work force and provide recommendations to address recruitment and retention issues. This assessment will allow the NCOEMS to begin formulating a plan for how to respond when the need for EMS surpasses the resources available and an evidence-based recruitment and retention strategy. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 21, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | TOP STORIES WCU faculty panel to discuss how to help students make a difference in their world Reviews show Western Carolina University students highly value their engaged-learning experiences, from learning the art of lmmaking while creating short documentaries about community organizations, to learning engineering skills while helping design a new engine part for an auto-racing company. Five representatives from recipients of this year’s Chancellor’s Engaged Teaching Award will discuss how they developed engaged-learning activities, and the challenges and the benets of doing so, as part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Committee on Student Learning. “WCU Faculty: Helping Students Make A Dierence in Their World” will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center. The panelists will be Arledge Armenaki, Patricia Bricker, Lisa Briggs, Jamie Davis and Bill McDaniel. “The purpose of this event is to showcase examples of teaching designed to foster student engagement,” said Anna McFadden, the panel moderator and director of the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. “These faculty represent a group of outstanding faculty who have been recognized for their eorts to focus on signicant student learning. We feel their work relates to WCU’s promise of helping students make a dierence in their world.” Event co-facilitators are McFadden and Michelle Cooper, assistant director of the Counseling and Psychological Services Center. For more information, call (828) 227-7196. The panel discussion will be recorded and posted on the Coulter Faculty Center Web site. Read samples of some of the engaged-learning activities that panelists have helped facilitate for their students: ARLEDGE ARMENAKI Arledge Armenaki, associate professor of cinematography, led students in an introductory lmmaking production class to learn how to adjust lighting and sound as they recorded eld interviews to accompany some Digital Heritage Moments, features about Appalachian traditions, history, and culture published at http://www.digitalheritage.org. In Armenaki’s documentary course, students record pieces about campus organizations, ranging from the karate club to parking services. They also work with the Center for Service Learning to highlight community organizations, their services and their challenges. Topics have included REACH of Jackson County, and a center which serves autistic children. They also captured footage for a short movie about Mountain Heritage Day. “As a lmmaker, you have to have your tentacles out, be listening and engaged with your community,” said Armenaki, associate professor of cinematography. “When I hear of something that has a lot of visual potential to tell a story and has depth and emotional connection, then to me it’s a natural for production.” PATRICIA BRICKER Patricia Bricker, assistant professor of elementary and middle grades education, invites students to participate in eld experiences at Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center as well as ongoing hands-on activities in class in order to experience inquiry-, community- and research-based education. The students then apply their experience as they plan and teach a lesson at a partner school. In other activities, students team up with elementary and middle grades students and respond to their online blog posts about science, prepare publication-quality articles and model integrated inquiry-based science activities. “Engaged teaching is at the heart of my professional work,” said Bricker. “I continually strive to create learning environments in which students actively inquire, integrate ideas, use information in real-world settings and share knowledge.” LISA BRIGGS Lisa Briggs, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice, credited her students for taking the time to participate in engaged learning experiences. Many in her victimology class spend 10 hours assisting victim-based organizations and related causes. Students have given their time with animal rescue, preventing child abuse or assisting victims of domestic violence. Students also have researched victim issues and legislation, and then written letters to Congress. In addition, students have participated in campus awareness activities such as painting faces of hundreds of students gray on a day to honor the victims of drinking and driving. “The impact is powerful to see ‘dead bodies’ walking around campus, sitting in classrooms and in the cafeteria. I think it makes people think 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 about unnecessary risks,” said Briggs. “Each student who participates is given related statistics to share on the dangers of drinking and driving. All of these students who have given their time to make a dierence in their world should be commended.” JAMIE DAVIS Jamie Davis, assistant professor of French and Spanish, established the Spanish House living /learning experience on campus in which students are encouraged to speak Spanish with each other in the residence hall. Davis also worked with Lori Oxford, a Spanish lecturer, to develop a program in which WCU students tutor Cullowhee Valley School students who do not speak English as their rst language. Part of the goal of the project is to help WCU students become aware of their roles as world citizens. His students also are helping teach “workplace Spanish” to Western North Carolina deputies and health department employees. In addition, Davis is developing a “living classroom” for learning foreign language. Davis said he believes students benet from having “authentic interfaces and authentic bridges with one’s own world in the target language. For example, if I’m walking along, and I see something and realize I don’t know how to say it in Spanish, if I pick it up, hold it, touch it, hear it – interface with it – and I ask what it is and then use the word, then it becomes not a word in a list, but something real, something with actual meaning in context.” BILL McDANIEL Bill McDaniel, assistant professor and coordinator of the engineering and technology distance learning program, develops engaged-learning activities for students that give them hands-on experience solving industry problems. Students recently helped design, test and manufacture a new rocker arm that would enhance performance in a Dodge engine for a racing company, and helped design a system to mechanically recycle and reuse brake uid for an automotive test lab. Other projects have stemmed from partnerships with Baldor-Dodge Reliance, Tyco Electronics, Honeywell Corporation, Eaton Electrical and Molded Fiberglass. “Student projects are designed to benet businesses and industries, some saving as much as $250,000 per year,” said McDaniel. Related: WCU announces engaged teaching award recipients Carnegie Foundation recognizes WCU for community engagement By Teresa Killian © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Rob Young Rob Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, has been appointed to the North Carolina Oshore Energy Exploration Study Committee. The committee will study the implications from nancial to environmental of leasing federal waters o North Carolina’s coast to energy companies for oil and natural gas exploration. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 24, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Roseanna Belt The Cherokee Preservation Foundation awarded $15,000 to Roseanna Belt, director of the Cherokee Center, to promote awareness of Cherokee culture and support for WCU student organization Di-Ga-Li-I and student residential community Judaculla House, which are both centered on Cherokee and Native American culture. 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 © 2009 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home January 21, 2009 Email This Post Print This Post Share | The Jan. 12, 2009, issue of The Reporter comes off the press. (WCU photo by Jarrett Frazier) TOP STORIES The Reporter goes live in new online format With the Monday, Jan. 26, issue of The Reporter, what was a printed campuswide newsletter has transformed into The Reporter online news site for the faculty and sta of Western Carolina University. Published by the Oce of News Services, which is part of the public relati

  • The Reporter, December 1986
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
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    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.w H Reporter December 5, 1986 A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University / Cullowhee, North Carolina PORTRAITS UNVEILED SATURDAY A Western Carolina University "presidential portraits" project begun more than four decades ago—and renewed in 1981—will reach a milestone Saturday (Dec. 6). At 11 a.m., in ceremonies open to the faculty, staff, and public, the University will unveil and dedicate four new portraits and rededicate five older ones. The dedica­tion program will be held in Hunter Library, where the portraits will hang in a gallery formed by the main stairwell. The ceremonies will be held in Classroom A on the main floor, behind the Media Center. Dr. Wallace N. Hyde, chairman of the board of trustees, will preside. Chancellor Myron Coulter and Vice Chancellor for Development and Special Services James E. Dooley will make remarks. Light refreshments will be served. Expected to attend the ceremony are members of the various former "first families" of the University. Mrs. Lilian B. Buchanan of Lake Jackson, Tex., formerly of Sylva and Cullowhee, WCU head librarian from 1932 until 1967, origi­nated the portraits project in the 1940s. Fearing that President Emeritus Robert Lee Madison, then seriously ill, might die, she took on the task of raising money to have a portrait done of Madison who twice (1889- 1912 and 1920-23) was head of the institu­tion. After identifying Wilford Conrow, a Princeton graduate, as the artist, she expanded the project to include two other presidents, Alonzo Carlton Reynolds, presi­dent from 1912 until 1920 and Hiram Tyram Hunter, president from 1923 until his death in 1947. The portraits became a part of the library collection and were placed in the library in Joyner Building. Later, when Hunter Library was completed, they were moved to that building and were joined by portraits of President William Ernest Bird (1956-1957) and Paul Apperson Reid (1949-1956; 1957-1968). An interruption in the practice of having a portrait commissioned on each incoming in­stitutional head continued from 1968 until 1981 when, under urging from Mrs. Buchanan, Chancellor H. F. Robinson named a new por­traits committee. (cont. page 3) PROFESSOR ALICE MATHEWS DIES Alice Elaine Mathews, 47, professor of history at Western, died early Thursday morning, November 27, at C.J. Harris Community Hospital in Sylva. A native of Nampa, Idaho, Mathews joined the WCU faculty in 1968. She graduated summa cum laude from the College of Idaho in Caldwell and received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of California at Berkeley. Her special area of his­torical interest and research was colonial and revolutionary America. Her book, Society in Revolutionary North Carolina, was published in 1976. From her interest in women and religion in the early years of America, she developed a specialty in women's studies and in the early 1970s helped to establish a women's studies program at Western, which she then coordinated. In 1976, she prepared a report on the status of women's studies programs in Appalachia for the Appalachian Consortium. Dr. Mathews was the author of numerous articles and book chapters, including biographical sketches included in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Two weeks ago, she sent off corrected page proofs of "Tall Women and Mountain Belles: Fact and Fiction in Appalachia," which will become part of Perspectives on the American South from the University of Mississippi Press. In 1985, as one of the senior scholars in a statewide effort to bring the Bicentennial of the Constitution to the people of North Carolina, she gave numerous lectures across the state on women and their attitudes toward the Constitution at the time of its writing. She looked particularly at Helen Blair Tredwell, who had one uncle in the U.S. Senate and another on the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time of her death, she was writing a book on Appalachian women of the past and present with another WCU professor, Nancy Carol Joyner. With the help of a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the humanities, the two have been collecting unpublished letters and other papers and have been recording oral histories from women all over the southern mountains. Dr. Mathews received other grants for her research and special projects over the years and served a six-year term as a Danforth Associate. She served on many University bodies and committees, including the Faculty Senate and the Graduate Council. Last year she served on the steering committee for the University's Self-Study for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. She was a member of the Commission on the Status and Role of Women in the United Methodist Church for the Western Carolina Conference, the Culiowhee United Methodist Church, the American Historical Associa­tion, the Southern Historical Association, the N.C. Literary and Historical Associa­tion, and the Southern Association of Women Historians. She was an active member of the Culiowhee Branch of the American Association of University Women and was its president when the group received a national grant to initiate the Hawthorne Heights project in Jackson County. She is survived by her brother, Donald Mathews, a history professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and her parents, Leo and Ruth Mathews of Culiowhee, formerly of Idaho. Services were held Monday, Dec. 1, and burial was in the Culiowhee Methodist Church cemetery. Two funds have been established in the WCU Development Foundation in memory of Dr. Mathews. The family has established an endowed scholarship fund for scholarly students in the arts and sciences; Phi Alpha Theta, a student history honorary, has established, with an initial gift of $300, a memorial award for an outstanding history student, with preference given to women. Checks to the WCU Development Foundation should specify either the endowed scholarship fund or the Phi Alpha Theta memorial award in Dr. Mathews's name. RICHARD TREVARTHEN (Music) and JANINA SHOEMAKER (Speech and Theatre Arts) are collaborating on a 1940's musical revue for Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre to be pre­sented Dec. 5-7. They have been writing, arranging, and directing the production for several months, including creating several original pieces. Professor Trevarthen is music director of the Smoky Mountain British Brass Band. Ms. Shoemaker has just completed production of an original chil­dren's play, The Doll Who Came to Life. JANE B. SCHULZ (Human Services) and WILLIAM R. SCHULZ (Hunter Library) were keynote speakers at the National Association for Down Syndrome in Chicago Nov. 15. Their topic was "Growing Together." GORDON MERCER (head), CHARLES STEVENS, and DON LIVINGSTON (Political Science and Public Affairs) recently attended the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association and the 17th annual leadership conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency in Atlanta, Ga. Two graduate teaching assis­tants in the department, Barbara Walls and Lee Cheek, and two undergraduate political science majors, Frances Harvey and Mickey Duvall, also attended both events. DOTTIE TATUM (Elementary Education and Reading) gave a two-hour program, "Sup­porting Children in Crisis: Breaking Down Barriers to Learning," for the N.C. Council for the Social Studies at Haywood Tech Oct. 27. She spoke Oct. 23 on "Effect of Self-Concept on Learning" at a reading conference held in Asheville. On Nov. 13, she spoke on "Surviving in a Stressful World: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" at the Alexander County Home Extension Award Dinner in Taylorsville, N.C. Dr. Tatum also recently served on the five-year review of Nantahala School in Macon County as part of a committee for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. JEFF NEFF (Geography) has won a state­wide election to serve a two-year term as state representative from North Carolina to the Association of American Geographers (Southeastern Division). His term of office began Nov. 25 at the annual meeting of SE-AAG in Lexington, Ky. ZOA ROCKENSTEIN (Human Services) has been appointed to the six-member advisory committee for the Carolinas Future Problem Solving Program, part of a national program for academically gifted students. The state director is Dr. John P. Daughtrey of St. Andrews Presbyterian College. MICHAEL NAYLOR (Cooperative Education) was elected 1987 treasurer for the N.C. Cooperative Education Association at its annual conference in Wrightsville Beach Oct. 29-31. The conference theme was "Cooperative Education: Interfacing with a Changing Economy." HAL FARWELL (English) is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant for 1986-87 and is lecturing at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City through March. This is the 40th year of the program, which is designed "to increase mutual understand­ing between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." DON MAYER (Business Law) presented a paper, "Sovereign Liability for Trans- Frontier Pollution," at the Southeast Regional Business Law Association meeting in Atlanta. MARIO GAETANO (Music) attended the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Washington Nov. 5-9 as a division representative from the North Carolina chapter. He also attended the N.C. Music Educators Association convention in Winston-Salem Nov. 17-18. JON RINNANDER (NCCAT) has been a guest lecturer this fall in Bill Anderson's 20th-century history course, Mil Clark's graduate course on education and super­vision, and Eleanor Lofquist's course on communication. PORTRAITS (cont. from page 1) After considering the works of about 15 artists, the committee recommended that William W. S. Wilson of Birmingham, Ala., a graduate of Yale University and highly regarded as a portraitist, be engaged to do a portrait of Alexander Simpson Pow of Tuscaloosa, Ala., president from 1968 until 1972. After completion of the Pow portrait in 1983, Wilson was retained, in succeeding contracts, to do the portraits of Jack Kenneth Carlton, the first chancellor, who served from 1972 to 1973; Harold Frank Robinson, who was chancellor from 1974 to 1984, and Myron Lee Coulter, the incumbent, who became the chancellor in 1984. The final work on the portrait of Dr. Coulter was completed last spring. Not long afterward, the University learned of Wilson's death. (That many an unsuspected story might lie behind the portraits was verified at one point when the 1981 portraits committee discovered an extensive genealogy of the Reynolds family, prepared by Mr. Reynolds, in a miniature frame hidden on the back of the Reynolds portrait.) The custom of having portraits prepared of the chief executive officer now has become University Policy. NEWS BRIEFS Management Skills Workshop - The Local Government Training Program at CIML will host a workshop on management skills for working with others Tuesday, Dec. 9, in the Ramsey Center Hospitality Suite. Registra­tion begins at 8:30 and the session ends at 4:30, with a one-hour lunch break. Univer­sity faculty and staff are invited to attend on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no registration fee. To register, call Nell C. Cooper or the CIML recep­tionist at ext. 7492. Hunter Library will be open until mid­night Dec. 6 and continuously from noon Sunday, Dec. 7, until 5 p.m. Dec. 17. Staff will be limited, so change will be availa­ble only from the change machine in the photocopy room. The library will be open 8-5 weekdays Dec. 18-23 and Jan. 5-12. For library hours anytime, call ext. 7306. Media Center hours for the holiday break will be 8-5 Dec. 17-23 and Jan. 5-12, other­wise closed. Production services will be limited. All work orders to be completed by Dec. 23 must be submitted by Dec. 5. Normal hours resume Jan. 13. Faculty studies in the library are ready for spring semester assignment. Get an application from your department head and send it to William Kirwan before Dec. 19. Visiting Scholar - Jerry Legge, director of the Master of Public Affairs program at the University of Georgia, spoke here Wednesday, Nov. 5. He spoke to a class on Soviet politics on "The Role of Bureaucracy in Modern Society" and to an American government class on "Policy Analysis in American Government." Students chosen - Four WCU students were selected as semifinalists for 1987 intern­ships in the N.C. legislature. One WCU student, Lynn Dixon, was chosen to work with the legislature and attend a legisla­tive seminar during spring semester. Gordon Mercer, head of the WCU Depart­ment of Political Science and Public Affairs, interviewed the 20 semifinalists Nov. 15 in Raleigh with Speaker of the House Liston B. Ramsey, Lieutenant Gover­nor Bob Jordan, and Abe Holtzman, professor of political science at N.C. State. The other WCU semifinalists were Daniel Batten, Michael Duvall, and Rosalind Newman. Position opening - Hunter Library needs a part-time Library Skills Assistant. Re­quires B.S. degree, prefer previous library experience; 30 hours per week, limited-time appointment. No f ringe benefits. Works closely with and is trained by professional librarian. Apply to Sharon Kimble, Hunter Library, by Dec. 12. SEE THE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER ON PM MAGAZINE MONDAY, DECEMBER 8. Teacher Swap - If you plan to spend part of the summer in another academic com­munity, you may want to save money by exchanging homes with another teacher. You can list your data and receive a directory of other listings by subscribing to Teacher Swap, Inc. ($30), Box 4130, Rocky Point, N.Y. 11778, (516) 744-6403, by Dec. 15. Chinese invitation - Dr. and Mrs. Gwang S. Han invited the Chinese students at Western to their home in Sylva for Thanksgiving dinner. The Hans are originally from Korea. PURCHASING HAS A NEW AGENT Cindy Freuler is a new purchasing agent for Western. She joins David Jones, Roy Shuler, and Jay Penny in the Purchasing Office. A native of Raleigh, she previously worked as purchasing agent on a $55 million boiler project for BE&K Construction at Champion International. Here at Western she is handling purchases of printing and publications, advertise­ments, subscriptions and professional mem­berships, office equipment, calculators, file cabinets, appliances, awards and plaques, typewriters, adding machines, dictaphones, and copiers. Ms. Freuler is a 1983 graduate of Atlantic Christian College, where she took a BSBA degree in marketing. She worked with an apartment complex in Wilmington moved to BE&K to replace someone in payroll on a six-week maternity leave. She went into purchasing and stayed two years until the project was phasing out earlier this fall. "That's where I fell in love with purchas­ing because it means dealing with people, and I am a people person," she says. Ms. Freuler grew up in Roanoke Rapids in Halifax County but also lived in Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, and Connecticut as her family followed her father's job with Champion. He is now pulp mill and produc­tion manager with the Canton plant

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  • academic mobility in the anthropocene era a comparative study of University Policy at three new zealand institutions
    Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2016
    Co-Authors: Debbie Hopkins, James Higham, Sarah Tapp, Tara Duncan
    Abstract:

    Anthropogenic climate change is a wicked problem, requiring fundamental behavioural and technological responses now, in the Anthropocene, a term denoting the current era of human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth. Travel and transport policies are key to effective responses, confronting both leisure and business travellers, including academics. This paper explores in detail the factors that promote or suppress academic travel, examining institutional policies which frame academic mobility practices at three New Zealand universities; University of Otago, University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. It finds evidence of little congruence between sustainability statements, with their wide discourses on environmental sustainability, and the institutional policies governing academic mobility. Three overriding themes emerging from the analysis are presented: hollow words (describing a lack of meaningful commitment to sustainability, with disconnections between ...

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  • academic mobility in the anthropocene era a comparative study of University Policy at three new zealand institutions
    Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2016
    Co-Authors: Debbie Hopkins, James Higham, Sarah Tapp, Tara Duncan
    Abstract:

    Anthropogenic climate change is a wicked problem, requiring fundamental behavioural and technological responses now, in the Anthropocene, a term denoting the current era of human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth. Travel and transport policies are key to effective responses, confronting both leisure and business travellers, including academics. This paper explores in detail the factors that promote or suppress academic travel, examining institutional policies which frame academic mobility practices at three New Zealand universities; University of Otago, University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. It finds evidence of little congruence between sustainability statements, with their wide discourses on environmental sustainability, and the institutional policies governing academic mobility. Three overriding themes emerging from the analysis are presented: hollow words (describing a lack of meaningful commitment to sustainability, with disconnections between ...

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  • Desenho de um plano de ação para a empregabilidade de estudantes universitários
    'Education Policy Analysis Archives', 2020
    Co-Authors: González-morales Olga, Santana Vega, Lidia E.
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    Competency-based learning allows students to acquire knowledge, learn procedures and develop attitudes necessary for their employability. The aim of this article is to reflect on the current role of the University and its relations with its environment (government, business and society) and present an action plan to promote the employability of University students as an essential instrument of University Policy. A qualitative methodology is used to explore, investigate and analyze the structure of the University and obtain information about the perception of the heads of the different units of government in terms of employability. Based on the information collected, the employability plan is drawn up, grouped into four programs that involve teaching, research, management and public administration, with their respective instruments of action; these programs must be managed by the different actors and their respective areas of government.El aprendizaje basado en competencias permite al alumnado adquirir conocimientos, aprender procedimientos y desarrollar actitudes necesarias para su empleabilidad. El objetivo del artículo es reflexionar sobre el papel actual de la Universidad y sus relaciones con el entorno (gobierno, empresa y sociedad), y presentar un plan de acción para fomentar la empleabilidad de los estudiantes universitarios como instrumento esencial de la política universitaria. Se utiliza una metodología cualitativa para explorar, indagar y analizar la estructura de la universidad y obtener información sobre la percepción de los responsables de las diferentes unidades de gobierno en materia de empleabilidad. Partiendo de la información recogida, se elabora el plan de empleabilidad agrupado en cuatro programas que involucran a la docencia, la investigación, la gestión y la administración universitaria, con sus respectivos instrumentos de actuación; estos programas han de ser gestionados por los diferentes actores y sus respectivas áreas de gobierno.A aprendizagem baseada em competências permite que os alunos adquiram conhecimento, aprendam procedimentos e desenvolvam atitudes necessárias para sua empregabilidade. O objetivo do artigo é refletir sobre o papel atual da Universidade e suas relações com o meio ambiente (governo, empresas e sociedade) e apresentar um plano de ação para promover a empregabilidade de estudantes universitários como instrumento essencial da política universitária. Uma metodologia qualitativa é usada para explorar, investigar e analisar a estrutura da universidade e obter informações sobre a percepção dos responsáveis pelas diferentes unidades governamentais em relação à empregabilidade. Com base nas informações coletadas, o plano de empregabilidade é preparado, agrupado em quatro programas que envolvem ensino, pesquisa, gestão e administração universitária, com seus respectivos instrumentos de ação; Esses programas devem ser gerenciados pelos diferentes atores e suas respectivas áreas de governo

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  • benchmarking australian and new zealand University meta Policy in an increasingly regulated tertiary environment
    Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
    Co-Authors: Brigid Freeman
    Abstract:

    The agencies responsible for tertiary education quality assurance in Australia and New Zealand have established regulatory regimes that increasingly intersect with tertiary institution Policy management. An examination of University meta-policies identified good practices guiding University Policy and Policy management. Most Australian and half of New Zealand universities have developed meta-Policy, or Policy on Policy, with the most comprehensive articulating Policy definitions, range and application of Policy instruments, categorisation, approval authorities and Policy cycle stages. Sound meta-Policy provides an essential framework for good Policy-making, and is the key to the development of positive Policy outcomes. Increasing tertiary sector regulation provides a contemporary imperative to embrace University meta-Policy as one mechanism to embed good practice Policy process to facilitate these improved Policy outcomes.

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