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The wooden Shawnee State University Bear, located in the lobby of the Rhodes Athletic Center, had split down the middle in recent years and was repaired recently. “Bob Staker of Portsmouth so graciously offered to pay for the repairs,” said Susan Warsaw, director of development at SSU. Chuck Derby from Pennsylvania carved the original bear. “It was a gift from Clive and Jean Veri, on Dr. Veri’s inauguration as president of SSU in 1989. We had cut down this huge Oak Tree, one of the largest and oldest in Portsmouth, in order to build the Clark Memorial Library. And that’s why we wanted to do that. We hated the fact that we had to cut it down. But it would have been right in the middle of the library. So we kept it and made the Shawnee State Bear.” The repaired bear is pictured with Mike Hopkins (the individual who repaired it at left) and Staker (right) of Stakers Sales and Service. # # # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Contact: SSU Board of Trustees Meet At its June 14 meeting, the Shawnee State University Board of Trustees: Appointed the following faculty members to the academic rank listed with each effective at the start of the 2002-03 academic year: ·To the Rank of Professor: ·Xiaodan
(Dandan) Huang ·To the Rank of Associate Professor: ·Philip
Blau ·To the Rank of Assistant Professor: ·Paul Yost; · Empowered the Interim President to award certificates or degrees at Commencement on June 15, 2002, to all candidates whose final completion and graduation from the university is confirmed by the Office of the Registrar; · Granted special recognition to Shawnee State University athletes who have been named NAIA All-Scholar Athletes, American Mid-East Scholar Athletes, and All-American Mid-East Conference Athletes; and the Shawnee State University Men’s Baseball Team that qualified for regional tournament play and the Men’s Golf Team that qualified for regional play, placing fifth in the regional tournament. The Board commended the following individuals: Baseball All-American Mid-East Conference: Keenan Perry, Alan Smith, Trevor Vaught, Ryan Wells All-American Mid-East Conference Scholar Athletes and NAIA All-Scholar Athletes: Eric Brooks, Ryan Jones Softball All-American Mid-East Conference: Carrie Kyne, Megan Felts, Kristi Coleman Tennis All-American Mideast Conference: Becky Holden, Amanda Holbrook Golf All-American Mideast Conferenc: Brandon Caniff Members of the Men’s Baseball Team: Brian Bachman, Evan Brashear, Eric Brooks, Doug Cox, Jon Estep, Dereck Heming, Brian Hines, A.J. Hurst, Tom Janis, Ryan Jones, Pat Looney, Matt Lyons, Nathan Palmer, Pat Pannell, Keenan Perry, Nate Pool, Jon Roy, Alan Smith, Tom Spille, Jason Spiro, Ted Tom, Trevor Vaught, Ryan Wells, Dan Wysong, Head Coach: Tom Bergan, Asst. Coach: Nate Burcham Members of the Men’s Golf Team: Brandon Caniff, Heath Chamberlain, Matt DeHart, Nick Jody, Justin Perry, Josh Skeans, Mike Springs, Eric Welch, Jason Van Deusen, Coach: Roger Merb; · Approved the recommended instructional and general fees increases, effective beginning fall quarter 2002; · Approved the per credit lab fee and course fee schedule, including the per credit course fee for all health sciences programs effective beginning fall quarter 2002; · Adopted the proposed General Fund Budget for fiscal year 2003; · Adopted the proposed Auxiliary and Agency Fund Budget for fiscal year 2003; · Adopted an employee cost sharing model for health care benefits for administrators and administrative technical support staff members, and approved the implementation of the proposed group insurance changes; · Approved a 3 percent increase on FY 2002 salaries for eligible administrators and ATSS staff on an across-the-board basis; · Approved two Development Foundation policies; · Approved Policy 1.05, University Investments; · Approved Policy 4.76, Motor Vehicle Procedures; · Authorized personnel actions; and · Approved the recommended room and board fee schedule for 1308 and 1310 Third Street beginning the academic year 2002-2003. After hearing about the need to begin offering a master’s degree in occupational therapy (the university currently offers a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy), due to regulations mandated nationally by the occupational therapy profession, the motion was made to authorize the chair of the Board of Trustees to draft a letter to the university’s interim president to take a look at the university’s mission statement, and see what revisions need to be made to it to enable the university to offer graduate programs. The next meeting of the Shawnee State University Board of Trustees will be August 9, 2002, at 1:15 p.m., in the Selby Board Room of the Clark Memorial Library on the campus of Shawnee State University. The next meeting of the executive committee of the SSU Board of Trustees will be July 8, 2002, at 4 p.m. in the Founders’ Room located in the University Center on the SSU campus. # # # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Contact: SSU Choir to Perform Saturday
Crothers, founder of the choir, said the musical organization has performed at least three concerts during each academic year for the past 30 years. “We don’t simply sing; we perform an artistic event,” Crothers said. “Anyone who enjoys choral music done artistically will enjoy our choir’s concert on Saturday.” For more information, call (740) 351-3212. # # # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Contact: Over 500 To Graduate
Over 500 SSU students will walk across the stage to receive
their diplomas, according to SSU registrar Steve Midkiff, Ph.D.,
during the Saturday, June 15 ceremony that begins at 10 a.m. on the
University’s Alumni Green.
“This ceremony will definitely be a change,” Midkiff
said. “For the past 20 years, SSU’s commencement ceremony has
been held on Friday evenings. Hopefully
the change to Saturday morning will be a welcome one.”
David Todt, Ph.D., chair of the department of teacher
education at SSU and a faculty member at the institution since 1978,
will serve as commencement speaker.
He was nominated by the SSU Student Government Association (SGA),
who sent their recommendation to the University Faculty Senate (UFS).
That group considered several nominations, and Todt was
selected by both the UFS and SSU’s interim president Michael
Field, Ph.D., to serve as this year’s speaker.
Todt’s presentation is titled “Making a Living in the 21st
Century.”
Because the ceremony takes place outdoors, everyone hopes the
weather will be “on our side,” Midkiff said.
“If it rains, we get wet,” he said with a laugh.
“We have had to delay graduation in the past for
thunderstorms, and that is what we plan to do if it happens to storm
this year.”
SSU has the two largest buildings in Scioto County on its
campus, but neither can hold the 4,500 people the university
anticipates will be on campus for the event.
Midkiff said the most significantly different aspect of this
year’s commencement, as opposed to previous years, is the fact
that the university has its youngest baccalaureate graduate ever in
John B. Kizer, 17, of Portsmouth.
“John has attended SSU since he was 9-years-old, and just
graduated from Portsmouth High School,” Midkiff said.
He was a Postsecondary Enrollment Option Program student
earning both high school and college credit by completing courses
here. It is not often
you hear of an individual graduating from high school and college,
with a four-year degree, at the same time.”
For more information about Commencement 2002, contact the SSU
Office of the Registrar at (740) 351-3181. #
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Department of Nursing
“The nurse, in all professional relationships, practices
with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and
uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of
social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of
health problems.” This
is one of nine points of the American Nurse’s Association (ANA)
Code of Ethics for Nurses. Over
40 Shawnee State University (SSU) nursing students who will soon
apply the code of ethics in health care facilities all across this
region will receive their nursing pins at the SSU Department of
Nursing 2002 Pinning Ceremony on June 13.
“I am very proud of these students,” said Cheryl Boyd,
Ph.D., chair of the Department of Nursing and interim dean of the
College of Professional Studies at SSU.
“They have successfully navigated through their nursing
curriculum, and have been very successful in clinicals.
We have many positive comments from the clinical agencies
where they have practiced. Our
nursing faculty members tell me that these students are very
competent.”
Boyd said the pinning ceremony is a capstone event for
nursing students to review the Code of Ethics for Nurses, and to
receive their nursing pins.
The nursing pin is a public symbol of work well done.
It originated from the time when the Crusaders marched to
Jerusalem to recover the Holy Land.
Among those Crusaders were the Hospitallers in black robes
with a white Maltese cross sewn on the front of the robe.
That cross became the symbol of groups who cared for the
sick.
The pin itself relates to customs from the 16th
century. It was a
symbol of noblemen who served kings with distinction.
Later, the privilege was extended to schools, and Florence
Nightingale chose the Maltese cross for the badge worn by the
graduates of her school of nursing.
In modern times, each school has a unique pin that is
symbolic of the program.
“This is really a ceremonial event, and one that some
nursing schools have abandoned,” Boyd said.
“We feel that it’s very important for our students to
understand the role of nursing as a helping profession.”
Students who will graduate with a bachelor of science degree
in nursing (BSN) are:
Ryan Carpenter, RN, Lucasville
Cheryl Collins, RN, Portsmouth
Suzanne Hutchinson, RN, Portsmouth
Debra King, RN, Lucasville
Karen Rickey, RN, Lucasville
Richard Tudor, RN, Mt. Orab
Teresa VanHoose, RN, West Union
Elizabeth Welch, RN, Wheelersburg
Students who will graduate with an associate of applied
science degree in nursing (ADN) are:
The event will take place on June 13 at 7 p.m. in the Vern
Riffe Center for the Arts (VRCFA) on the campus of SSU.
A reception will follow the ceremony in the Selby Grand Lobby
located in the VRCFA.
For more information about the event or about the nursing
programs at SSU, contact the Department of Nursing at (740)
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RELEASE Contact: (Article by Jennifer Moorhead, Communications Specialist-SSU Office of Communications) Registration Taking
Place The Office of University Outreach Services at Shawnee State University will offer once again the Substitute Teacher Workshop in August. Created by Barbara Trube, Ed.D., associate professor of teacher education at SSU, this six-day seminar-style workshop, taught by faculty in the SSU Department of Teacher Education, was designed to better prepare substitute teachers to effectively teach a broader range of subjects for almost any age group. Although the workshop is not a requirement to be hired as a substitute teacher, it gives substitute teachers entering the profession a solid foundation of realistic expectations and valuable tools to utilize in the classroom. “Substitute teaching is not a ‘warm body’ in the classroom or ‘an act of desperation’ while looking for the perfect job,” said Trube. “Rather, substitute teaching is an important component of the teaching and learning process.” Current research shows, said Trube, that students will spend the equivalent of one full school year during their educational career from kindergarten to 12th grade with a substitute teacher. Those qualified to take the workshop must have completed a bachelor’s degree. Topics covered in the course are professionalism, the school district, communications, lesson plans, teaching strategies and best practice, legal and ethical issues, classroom management, and resources. The course will also include micro-lessons, role-playing, and case study analysis. Sometimes taking the workshop can mean more money, as well. Portsmouth City Schools pays substitute teachers who have successfully completed the 30-hour workshop $10 more a day than those who have not taken the course. A certificate of participation will be issued upon completion of the training series, which was also made possible by the collaboration of Portsmouth City School District and Enterprise Ohio Network. Participants may also purchase three hours of course credit for the class EDUC495 from SSU. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on August 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, and 24. The fee is $225. A handbook for the course will be provided. The Outreach Services office will take registrations through June. However, seating is limited. For more information, call (740) 351-3281 or (886) 872-8778. # # # FOR IMMEDIATE
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Teacher Education High quality degree programs. Solid relationships with other academic departments and area school systems. These are factors that students, university faculty and staff, and residents of the region have known for quite some time about the Shawnee State University (SSU) Department of Teacher Education. Now these factors will be known throughout the United States. SSU’s Department of Teacher Education received official word that it is now fully accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), for a period of five years. David Todt, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Teacher Education at SSU, said this gives his department the national recognition that it has high quality programs. “We will now be listed in all NCATE publications and on their web site,” Todt said. “If someone looks for teacher preparation programs, Shawnee State University will be one of the high quality programs that is listed. It gives us that national connection.” Paul Madden, director of pre-professional services in the Department of Teacher Education, said the department celebrated this spring its 10th anniversary of being an approved teacher preparation institution in the state of Ohio. “Ten years after our original approval from Ohio to prepare teachers, we received national accreditation for our programs,” Madden said. “It’s a very nice way to celebrate a 10-year anniversary.” Education students who have an eye towards quality are going to want to enroll and complete a program at an NCATE accredited institution, Todt said. “It’s kind of like nursing, in that if you don’t go to an accredited institution, you wonder if you are actually going to get a license,” he said. “It doesn’t have quite that high of stakes in teacher education, but I think we are moving in that direction. Future teachers will look more and more towards an accredited program as being an important measure of whether or not it’s a quality program.” The time from the department’s initial application until its accreditation has been two years. Todt said the department submitted its preliminary materials 18 months prior to the visit, in the spring of 2000, and then submitted an institutional report three months before the visit, after the preliminary material had been approved. “The visit came in the fall, and now we are fully accredited,” he said. The awarding of full accreditation is a demonstration of the quality of the programs here, Todt said “You don’t receive accreditation without having a quality program,” he said. “That’s the one thing I am absolutely convinced of. After having served on a couple of NCATE teams myself, I know the rigor of the process, and you have to have a good program to receive accreditation. We knew we had a good program all along. This just validates it.” The team of reviewers was particularly impressed with the relationship that the department has with the arts and sciences departments, which is a major accreditation issue nationally. "It
is important for teachers to be well prepared in their content
area," Todt said. "Many
of them are getting a degree in education that's not directly
connected to their content. So
that link between arts and sciences, the content they will be
teaching, and the education degree is something that is problematic
in some institutions, but not at SSU." In addition, the Department’s school partners were a big part of the success. "The team went out and saw excellent cooperation in the schools," Todt said. "They saw schools that were eager to have us participate, that understood our program, that are a part in the design of the program, so school partnership was a real strength that they cited." Jan Broughton, superintendent of Portsmouth City Schools, said SSU's Department of Teacher Education has great programs that prepare well-rounded teachers. "Shawnee State's teacher education department truly prepares excellent teachers who have experienced solid professional development that jumpstarts them for a career with Portsmouth City Schools," Broughton said. "We are very pleased with the quality of SSU teacher education graduates we hire." Todt said the accreditation is of the teacher preparation program at SSU, and not an approval of every single license that the department offers. "That's what happened the 18 months before the visit," he said. "We had to get national recognition for all of our programs before they even brought the team to campus. So we not only have the NCATE accreditation, we have also been recognized by the National Teachers Association, the National Council on Teachers of Mathematics, and the National Council for Social Studies. All of these organizations have approved our programs." Michael Field, Ph.D., interim president of SSU, said the accreditation is further evidence of the high quality teacher education programs available at the university. "Congratulations to Dr. Todt and all teacher education faculty and staff members for their great work," he said. "The entire campus community are to be commended for their interest and support throughout the accreditation process." ### |
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