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SOPAA and SSU
Announce 2005-2006 Season
Vern
Riffe Center to Celebrate 10th Anniversary
The first chance the public had to witness the amazing acoustics of
Shawnee State University’s (SSU) Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (VRCFA)
was a November 1995 performance by the popular a cappella group,
Rockapella, who performed their unique style of popular music for
the then presenting group Community Concerts.
Ten years later the successor group to Community
Concerts, Southern Ohio Performing Arts Association (SOPPA),
celebrates a decade of presenting concerts under the auspices of
Shawnee State University at the VRCFA by bringing back Rockapella on
Tuesday, Sept. 20, as the opening concert in their 2005-2006
Performing Arts Series.
“It is hard to believe we’ve had a decade of great
concerts, Broadway musicals, dance, and drama in this theater,” said
Carl Daehler, executive director of the VRCFA. “We wanted to
commemorate this important milestone in the cultural history of our
region by bringing back the still popular and amazing vocal talents
of Rockapella.”
Rockapella kicks off a season of nine events presented by
SSU and SOPAA in the main theater of the VRCFA at SSU.
“We have an especially strong season this coming year.
This year’s schedule features many national acts including the
region’s only appearance of Michael Flatley’s ‘The Lord of the
Dance’ on March 28, 2006. This is the final touring year for the
show,” Daehler said. “Flatley is to debut a new production in Europe
and ‘Lord of the Dance’ closes forever in 2006. We are very lucky to
have this show. They do not do many one night shows and rarely in
smaller theaters such as ours. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event
and surely it is the last of a lifetime event.”
The Boys Choir of Harlem also returns to the VRCFA for
their second appearance with a special holiday event on Friday,
December 9. The choir performs a holiday-themed program of European
and American favorites sure to captivate their audience as they did
before.
“This has been one of the most requested return
performances,” Daehler said. “Both by people who saw them before and
especially those that missed it and only heard about this dynamic
group of young people who are world-renowned for their artistry.”
Other events scheduled for the series is the highly
respected Opera Verdi Europa, back for a third visit, this time with
the classic, “The Barber of Seville” on Saturday, October 15. The
production, sung in Italian with projected super titles, features
lavish sets, costumes and a full orchestra. It is the classic farce
complete with the infamous Figaro, the beautiful Rosina, the
unsavory Bartolo and the love-stricken Count Almaviva with enough
plot twists to keep the audience guessing until the very end.
The original production of ‘BLAST!’ is Tuesday, Oct. 25
and Wednesday, Oct. 26. The national tour of this Tony Award winning
Broadway theatrical event has toured all over the world and bursts
onto the main theater stage with high energy performances of brass
instruments, lights, movement, and amazing choreography. Daehler
says this takes the concept of Drum and Bugle Corps to a new level
of artistic beauty.
The season includes the return of the Moscow Festival
Ballet presenting the classic Russian ballet “Giselle” on Tuesday,
January 10, 2006. In the style of the old-time vaudeville follies,
the life, humor, and wisdom of the great Will Rogers is celebrated
through song, dance and a well-timed joke or two.
The Columbus Symphony Orchestra ends the season as it
always does on Thursday, May 25, 2006. This year the concerts will
be of lighter fare with an exciting program of “Hits from
Hollywood.”
Full season subscriptions are now on sale for both
renewing and new subscribers. A full season subscription is the only
way to guarantee the same seats for all events and to be sure to get
a seat for “The Lord of the Dance.”
Mini-series packages are also available including the
popular Broadway Series featuring “BLAST,” “Will Rogers Follies,”
and “The Lord of the Dance.” The Family Pop Series includes
Rockapella, Harlem Boys Choir, and “Sing! Sing! Sing!” The Fine Arts
Series includes the opera, “The Barber of Seville,” the ballet
“Giselle,” and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra concert.
According to Daehler, there are excellent savings by
purchasing both the full and mini series packages instead of
individual events.
For more information on the 2005-2006 Southern Ohio
Performing Arts Association season, call the McKinley Box Office at
(740) 351-3600 or visit
www.vrcfa.org.
The Broadway Series is sponsored by the Southern Ohio
Medical Center and the Family Pops Series is sponsored by Capital
City Petroleum LLC. Other event sponsors include AEP, OSCO
Industries, and National City Bank. Additional funding for the
concerts is made possible by grants from the Ohio Arts Council, a
state agency that supports public programs in the arts, the Scioto
Foundation, and by gifts made to the SOPAA and SSU Development
Foundation. For more information, call the VRCFA at (740) 3513622.
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Distinguished Lecturer Russell Hittinger to Speak at SSU
Russell Hittinger, the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies, Department
of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tulsa, will speak at
Shawnee State University (SSU) on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in
the Flohr Lecture Hall, located in the Clark Memorial Library on the
SSU campus.
Hittinger’s lecture “The Supreme Court and the Separation
of Church and State: Looking Back and Looking Forward” will address
the question as to whether the history of the interpretation of the
First Amendment by the U.S. Supreme Court is fundamentally flawed,
to what degree, and whether anything can or should be done to
correct this.
“Given the significance of the Supreme Court in American
public life, and the recent nomination by President Bush of John
Roberts to the Supreme Court, I believe both the SSU community and
the tri-state region will be quite interested in what Dr. Hittinger,
an expert on the constitution and the Supreme Court, will have to
say about the issue of the separation of church and state, which
likely will be a factor in Roberts’ hearing,” said Nicholas
Meriwether, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy at SSU.
An internationally recognized contributor to major
contemporary debates in jurisprudence, law and ethics, Hittinger has
held professorships at the Catholic University of America, Princeton
University, Fordham University, and New York University.
A current member of the Ethics Task Force of the St.
Francis Health Care System in Tulsa, Hittinger has served on the
Virginia Governor’s Council for Self Determination and State
Sovereignty.
He is the author of “The First Grace” and his books and
articles have been published by Oxford University Press, the
University of Notre Dame, the Review of Metaphysics, the Review of
Politics, and the International Philosophical Quarterly, as well as
in several law journals. He is also on the editorial boards of the
American Journal of Jurisprudence and First Things.
For more information call (740) 3513447.
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Psychology Professor Establishes Scholarship at SSU
A
Shawnee State University (SSU) psychology professor who benefited
during his college days from scholarships he received has set up a
scholarship at SSU that does the same thing for future generations
of college seniors at the university.
Hagop S. Pambookian, Ph.D., professor of psychology at
Shawnee State University, established the “Dr. Hagop S. Pambookian
Scholarship” early in 2004. Graduating seniors in psychology and/or
those from other countries who have come to SSU to study can benefit
from this scholarship, Pambookian said.
“I have been helped in this country and overseas,” he
said. “I thought this would be a good way of encouraging psychology
and international students to pursue their education following
graduation from SSU. And hopefully my scholarship will excite other
SSU faculty members so that they look into establishing similar
scholarships to help SSU students.”
Pambookian joined the SSU faculty in 1987, a year after
it had become a four-year university, to develop the psychology unit
within the social sciences department and help internationalize the
university programs. According to Jerry Holt, Ph.D., dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at SSU, Pambookian met the SSU
challenge by designing new psychology courses and writing the
initial proposal for the psychology degree program. Later he
established a psychology club for students, and arranged for Dr.
Wilbert J. McKeachie, professor emeritus of psychology at the
University of Michigan and former president of the American
Psychological Association meet the psychology club members.
McKeachie was at SSU to receive an honorary doctorate and address
the 1994 graduates at commencement. Pambookian also organized
international activities and established a global dimension at SSU,
Holt said.
“As a psychologist and international scholar, Pambookian
continued his professional involvement and had developed several
projects that were firsts for Shawnee State University,” Holt said.
In 1987, Pambookian began the annual “International
Awareness Week” celebration at SSU and for the area communities
–involving the students, faculty, and civic organizations. Valuing
Pambookian’s “hard work and fine leadership,” former SSU President
Clive C. Veri wrote, following the successful celebration of the
1990 “International Awareness Week,” “It is an honor to have
[Pambookian] as part of the Shawnee family.”
Pambookian developed and designed a program proposal,
and received SSU’s first major grant from the Ohio Humanities
Council (OHC) for his yearlong “Perestroika, Changes and
Developments in the U.S.S.R.: What Next?” project. Following this
1991 project, he played a key role in establishing SSU’s first
“Student/Faculty Exchange Program” with Nizhny Novgorod State
University in Nizhny Novgorod (known as “Gorky” during Soviet era),
Russia.
As president of the University Faculty Assembly (UFA)
for two years in the early 1990s, Pambookian began new traditions at
SSU by sending monthly newsletters to faculty informing them of
faculty and university-related events–emphasizing positive attitude,
encouraging involvement and participating in shared objectives, and
by initiating annual fall and spring banquets–inviting university
administrators and Board of Trustees members to attend as the UFA’s
guests.
To further develop and encourage cooperation in the area
of international dimension of curricula and projects among the state
universities in Ohio, Pambookian got involved and participated in
the establishment of the statewide Ohio International Consortium.
From its inception in early 1990s, he served on the OIC board of
directors, participated in its quarterly meetings, and became OIC
treasurer for several years.
Besides SSU, Pambookian has been active professionally
as well as in community affairs –as Portsmouth Kiwanis Club member,
serving on its board of directors and chairperson of the
International Relations Committee; and as speaker at school, civic,
and other organizations’ events. He has held offices nationally and
internationally, and has made numerous scholarly presentations
around the world –at the conventions of the American Psychological
Association, of the International Council of Psychologists, of the
National Association for the Education of Young Children, at the
Inter-American Congress of Psychology, at the European Congress of
Psychology, and at the International Congress of Applied Psychology.
For Pambookian’s personal commitment and extended
contribution and for his community service, Shawnee State
University’s Board of Trustees awarded him in 1991 a “Commendation.”
And in 1994, the SSU Student Senate honored him with a “Resolution”
for his campus involvement and contributions to student life and
enrichment. He has also been recognized by his peers, professional
organizations, and psychology academies.
The American Psychological Association elected
Pambookian a “Fellow” in 1999. At that time, then SSU President
James P. Chapman was aware of SSU being known internationally thanks
to Pambookian, and wrote, in part, referring to his many
accomplishments, “your contributions, to the field of psychology and
higher education, are known worldwide” and added, “You are to be
commended for your promotion of international understanding.” In
fact, for his contributions to international understanding and
peace, the Ohio Education Association (OEA) honored Pambookian with
its “Paul Swaddling Award” in 1997. President Veri considered the
Award “truly an outstanding achievement for which you and Shawnee
State University are justifiably proud.”
Earlier, in 1994 while in Russia as guest of the
Institute of Psychology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pambookian
was elected an “Honorary Member” of the International Academy of
Psychological Sciences in Yaroslavl, Russia, and later, in 2003, a
“Foreign Member” of the Armenian Philosophical Academy in Yerevan,
Armenia. And in fall 2004, when in Armenia as the guest of the
National Academy of Sciences and the Armenian State Pedagogical
University, he was honored by being elected as “Honorary Member” of
the Academy of Pedagogical/Psychological Sciences, in Yerevan,
Armenia.
“It is fitting that Dr. Pambookian would think of
psychology and international students in establishing the
‘Pambookian Scholarship,’” said Rita Rice Morris, president of SSU.
“He cares for SSU students and their personal and intellectual
development.”
As an undergraduate and graduate student at the American
University in Beirut, Lebanon; at the Columbia University Teachers
College in New York; and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,
Pambookian received assistance and scholarships from Armenian and
American organizations and institutions.
“I wanted to encourage and help support deserving
students financially in their academic/scholarly pursuits and
endeavors,” Pambookian said.
Holt said Pambookian has made a wonderful gesture
through establishing this scholarship.
“Dr. Pambookian has offered qualified students yet
another path to completing their educational experience,” Holt
said. “For years Dr. Pambookian’s dedication to SSU has been
well-known among his colleagues. And here is further proof.”
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Conrad Rinto, Jennifer Krierhoff, Joshua Ramsey
Sister University
Program Underway In Morocco
Three Shawnee State University (SSU) students, Joshua
Ramsey, Conrad Rinto, and Jennifer Kreierhoff, are part of the first
group of students to take part in the sister university agreement
between SSU and Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
“We signed a sister university agreement in January of
this year,” said John Lorentz, Ph.D., history professor and
director, Center for International Programs and Activities at SSU.
“I accompanied SSU President Rita Rice Morris, Ph.D., to Morocco;
she signed a protocol for an agreement of cooperation between the
two universities. We also developed an exchange agreement for both
faculty and student exchange.”
Lorentz said since the university offers a number of
courses on the Middle East and courses on Islamic cultures, there
was an interest in doing something more relative with the Middle
East. He said it was a logical extension to see if SSU could connect
with a university there.
“I spent some time exploring and looking into this and
found this particular university which I thought would be a good
match for us,” Lorentz said.
He met several Al Akhawayn University officials at a
conference and was invited to come to the university to take a more
detailed look. After meeting with university officials and touring
the facilities, Lorentz said he drafted a tentative exchange
agreement. He said after several exchanges to fine tune the draft,
an acceptable agreement was reached between all parties involved.
“We feel there is an excellent match here between the two
universities in terms of programs, philosophies, and the nature of
the student bodies,” Lorentz said.
He said SSU students will spend the fall semester at Al
Akhawayn University and their students will spend the spring
semester here.
“It will be a great thing for the university as well as a
wonderful experience for the students. It will transform their lives
in ways I’m not sure that they’re aware of yet as all overseas study
experiences really do,” Lorentz said.
Seven students applied to take part in the sister
university exchange program in Morocco and Lorentz said there were a
number of things they were looking for from the students who
submitted applications.
“We were looking at things like adaptability, some
evidence of seriousness and purpose as well as being good students,
although their grade point average was not really the deciding
factor,” Lorentz added.
One of the students participating in the program is Joshua
Ramsey of Sciotoville, Ohio, who postponed graduation so that he
could attend Al Akhawayn University. A history major at SSU, as well
as one of the executive members of the International Forum, Ramsey
wanted to participate in the program because he is planning to go to
graduate school and major in Middle Eastern studies. He is also
planning to get his Ph.D. so he can teach and do research.
“My whole conception of their culture is based on academic
learning. I haven’t had first-hand experience with their culture and
I’m looking forward to it very much. I’m looking at it as a process
of enlightenment,” Ramsey said.
Another student participating in the Morocco student
exchange program is Conrad Rinto of Winona, Ohio, who graduated from
SSU in the spring with a degree in social science. Rinto is no
stranger to travel abroad. Earlier this year he went to Great
Britain, Scotland, and England, and he previously traveled to
England with Stylianos Hadjiyannis, Ph.D., professor of history at
SSU.
“I saw this as an opportunity and I figured it would be
life changing so I wanted to go,” Rinto said. “It’s such a different
culture. It will help me to try to change any stereotypes I have
about Arabs.”
The third student participating in the program, Jennifer
Kreierhoff of Minerva, Ohio, is very excited about attending school
in Morocco. Biology major Kreierhoff said she has always wanted to
study abroad but said the only programs the university had involved
going to Spain and she doesn’t speak Spanish. She said she was never
able to go until now. Kreierhoff said there are two things she would
like to do while attending school at Al Akhawayn University besides
going to class.
“I’ve always wanted to ride a camel because you see them
in the movies and I’m very interested in the Sahara Desert. I love
environmental biology and it will be a completely different
environment,” Kreierhoff said. “I’ve never been to a desert. I’ve
never really left Ohio so I want to see different areas.”
Registration for fall semester at Al Akhawayn is August
27-30. The students drove to New York City before catching a flight
to Casablanca and then on to the university.
For further information regarding international programs
at SSU, call the Center for International Programs at (740) 351-3127
or 351-3223.
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(Article by Shanna Mustard,
communications specialist--Office of Communications)
One
Hundred Percent of SSU Teacher Education
Graduates Pass Praxis III
All of the Shawnee State University
(SSU) teacher education graduates who recently completed the Praxis
III evaluations passed this critical teaching licensure requirement.
According to Paul Madden, interim associate dean of
teacher education at SSU, students must pass the Praxis I, a basic
competency exam, tests reading, writing, and mathematics prior to
admission into the teacher education program. After completing their
studies, students must pass the Praxis II to become teachers and
earn a two-year provisional license.
“The Praxis II is actually a series of written tests
with both multiple choice questions and a constructed response
essay. Students are required to pass a principles of learning and
teaching (PLT) exam that corresponds to their licensure area and a
test that is specific to their concentration,” said Madden.
During the first two years of teaching, teachers work
with a mentor at the school where they work. The mentor evaluates
their teaching and provides insight into teaching style and methods.
After working with the mentor, the teacher must pass the Praxis III.
The Praxis III requires the teacher’s classroom teaching
be evaluated by an objective evaluator. The evaluator observes the
teacher in their classroom environment and scores him or her based
on 19 criteria.
“Each of the domains on the evaluation has its own cut
score and is an overall score teachers have to meet the cut score
for each domain as well as the overall score to pass,” said Madden.
“If candidates don’t pass, they have the opportunity to go through
the Praxis III evaluation again at a later date. Candidates who fail
the second evaluation must return to a college or university for
remediation.”
The Praxis III allows teacher education programs to
determine the effectiveness of the program.
“The passage rate is wonderful news for us,” said
Madden. “We use it as one piece of performance-based data for
national accreditation of our program. It is a measure of how our
teacher education program prepares teachers to do their jobs well.
The Praxis III is a measure of the individual teacher’s ability and
of our ability to prepare them.”
Madden attributes the successful completion of Praxis
III requirements to the alignment of SSU teacher education program
standards to national and state standards.
“Our program has a strong performance-based element,”
said Madden. “We require students to develop a professional
portfolio in which they collect evidence of how they meet our
standards and national standards for their specific licensure. We
begin field evaluation in the first teacher education course. Our
faculty observes the student and provides feedback throughout their
education courses, so they become very comfortable with being
evaluated.”
SSU has had a 100 percent passage rate since the Ohio
Department of Education began reporting Praxis III passage rates of
graduates to universities three years ago.
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Wireless Laptops
Now Available in SSU Library
Thanks to a grant from the Shawnee State University
Development Foundation and a $22,000 grant from the Clyde and Maycel
Clark Foundation, the Clark Memorial Library at SSU now has 16
wireless laptop computers for students to use.
“We knew that the wireless network was going to be
available soon. We always had more students than we had available
computers. The thought was if we could get a significant number of
laptops the students could access the network and they could work
and use them, not just individually but in a group,” said Tess
Midkiff, Clark Memorial Library Director.” They could go anywhere in
the building and take the laptop with them and access all of the
library resources. They would have Microsoft Word and all of the
office products that they need to do their papers and they can
access the Internet.”
According to Janet Stewart, systems librarian, each laptop
cost approximately $1,400. She said two were purchased over the last
two years with funds from the SSUDF.
“The Foundation loves to help students learn--that’s what
we’re here for.” said Susan Warsaw, executive director of the SSUDF.
We’re here to support and augment university funds when they may not
be available to help provide the extras that might not be
necessities for education but certainly help students do a better
job.”
Stewart said the rest of the laptops were purchased with
funds through the Clark Foundation.
“The laptops will primarily circulate to the students.
They can use them anywhere in the library and they can especially
use them in the meeting rooms because the group work the students do
tends to be noisier than when they are working by themselves,”
Stewart said. “Our librarians will also use them when they do their
classes. Instead of it being a class where they show everyone how to
research and use library sources, the librarians will actually have
the students doing hands-on activities.”
The laptops will remain in the library and will not be
available for faculty members to use in their classrooms.
“The major focus for me when we wrote the grant was trying
to get more laptops into individual student’s hands rather than
making them available primarily for classroom instruction,” Midkiff
said.
“It’s a good thing the laptops are now available,” Stewart
said. Computer usage at the library was up during fall, winter, and
spring quarters and many times there were more students needing
computers than there were actual computers.
“We can now direct them to the laptops so they won’t have
to leave the building to go elsewhere on campus to find a computer,”
she said.
Although printing is not available on the wireless network
at this time Stewart said the new wireless laptops do have more RAM
memory than some of the library’s desktop computers.
“That is particularly good for some of the student
presentations that require a great deal of RAM memory,” Stewart
added.
The Clark Memorial Library is not the only facility on
campus that has access to the wireless network. Chuck Warner,
director of university information services (UIS) said in addition
to the library, there is currently wireless connection in the Vern
Riffe Center for the Arts, Massie Hall, Administration, the
University Center and Kricker Hall.
“Work in process is the Advanced Technology Center and
Allied Health has limited access but will expand in the planned
renovation. Campus green spaces will be completed as well,” Warner
said.
He said UIS is currently working on a wireless map which
will show the wireless network coverage area and will be published
on the UIS web page in the near future.
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QuickBooks Training to be Offered at SSU
The Shawnee State University
(SSU) Outreach Services is sponsoring “QuickBooks: Premier Training
for Beginners” on Tuesday, September 13 in the Business and Industry
Computer Lab, Room 030 , located in the Administration Building
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“The training is for businesses that are currently using
QuickBooks, but not in its entirety,” said Brenda Covert, manager of
business and industry training. “Also, it will be excellent for any
businesses that are looking for new accounting software for their
business.”
The most widely used accounting software for businesses,
Covert said QuickBooks can be used to create invoices, track
accounts receivable, process bills, process payroll, track
inventory, and many other accounting needs.
“Trainees will receive hands-on training while working on
the QuickBooks software in our computer lab,” Covert added.
The training according to Covert will be provided by
Timothy Chamberlain who has been a QuickBooks Pro Advisor for the
past 15 years.
Covert said participants will gain a better understanding
of the entire QuickBooks accounting software and how it can benefit
their company.
The cost for the session is $179. For more information on
the course or to register call, University Outreach Services at
(740)351-3171 or (800) 354-4482.
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Play
Auditions Next Week at SSU
Shawnee State University (SSU) Theater will hold auditions Monday
and Tuesday, September 12 and 13 for “The Long Christmas Dinner,” a
one act play by Thornton Wilder. Auditions will be in the Vern
Riffe Center for the Arts, Kahl Studio Theater from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Parts are available for seven females and five males, who
will play a variety of characters throughout 90 years of the Bayard
family’s Christmas dinners.
The play will be presented with David Sedaria’s one man
play, “Santaland Diaries” November 3-6 in the Kahl Studio Theater.
Shaun Umland will direct.
All Shawnee State students, faculty, and staff are invited
to audition. For more information, contact Vivian Robson, associate
theater professor at (740) 353-6937.
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SSU
Choir Rehearsal Next Week
The Shawnee State University (SSU) Choir will hold its first
rehearsal of the fall quarter on Tuesday, September 13 at 7 p.m. in
room 130 of the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts.
New choir members are encouraged to come a few minutes
early for a get acquainted interview. Returning choir members are
asked to turn in all previously used music.
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Rio
Grande
to hold Master of Education informational meeting
The University of Rio Grande is
offering a master of education in classroom teaching informational
meeting on Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Advanced Technology Center,
Room 132 at Shawnee State University (SSU).
The meeting will explain all current and pending master of education
concentrations, including fine arts, intervention specialist (mild,
moderate, or early childhood), mathematics, athletic coaching
leadership, and education technology.
For further information please contact the University
of Rio Grande at (800)-282-7201, ext. 7167 or
http://mi.rio.edu.
For
information on other graduate opportunities available on the SSU
campus, please contact SSU graduate center at (740) 351-3177 or
email graduate_center@shawnee.edu.
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Constitution Day
Program at SSU This Month
In celebration of Constitution Day on September 17, the
Office of the Provost at Shawnee State University (SSU) is
sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Christopher Rossi of the University of
Iowa College of Law on Thursday, September 22 in the Flohr Lecture
Hall, Clark Memorial Library, located on the SSU campus from 7:30 to
9:30 p.m. Rossi’s lecture is entitled “Human Rights: The Bedeviling
Angel in the Whirlwind.”
“My lecture will focus on the problems of gaps and how our
21st century American constitutional mindset is shaped by
an 18th century document not specifically crafted in
contemplation of a war against terror, the Taliban or enemies
without uniforms and country-based support,” Rossi said.
A former director of Democracy, Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council under former
President Bill Clinton, Rossi’s specialty areas include human
rights, national security, international courts and tribunals,
religious persecution, and the law of war. He is the current
executive director of Humanities Iowa, the state humanities council.
“The Bush Administration’s war on terrorism has raised
some interesting issues about the US Constitution’s protections of
human rights,” said Andrew Feight, Ph.D assistant professor of
history at SSU. “The Constitution Day public lecture of Dr. Rossi,
an expert on human rights law, will give SSU students and the larger
community of Portsmouth an opportunity to learn more about these
important issues.”
During his career, Rossi has worked on non-proliferation
issues at the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency and
on the psychology of deterrence project with the Arms Control
Association, a division of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.
Dr. Rossi is the author of “Equity and International Law:
A Legal Realist Approach to International Decisionmaking” and
“Broken Chain of Being: James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern
International Law.” Rossi has also co-edited works on national
security and US-Latin American relations.
In conjunction with Constitution Day, Tiffany Weaver,
coordinator of student activities at SSU, said the students will be
surveying students about the Constitution during the Parade of Clubs
and Organizations on Wednesday, September 14 from 9:30 a.m. to noon
p.m.
“The survey will include questions about the Constitution
and questions about pop culture to find out what the students know
more about,” Weaver said.
For more information call, (740) 351-3472 or 351-3217.
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SSU Losing
International Ambassador
Shawnee State University stands to lose a valuable
international ambassador who strives to give SSU a global
perspective—Hagop S. Pambookian, Ph.D. retired.
Pambookian has taught psychology at SSU since 1987. SSU
was barely a year old and most of this year’s incoming freshmen were
born that year.
“Being a new university, I thought it would be good to
be involved in the development of programs,” said Pambookian, “I
thought that my diverse experiences, especially in psychology, could
help the university develop a good psychology as well as
international programs, so I came to Shawnee State University.”
Pambookian graduated from Melkonian Educational
Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1953. In 1957, he received his B.A.
in psychology from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and
began working full-time as a teacher at the Armenian Evangelical
College in Beirut and, then, at the Melkonian Educational Institute.
In 1961, Pambookian moved to the United States to begin
his postgraduate studies. He graduated from Columbia University
Teachers College, New York, NY in 1963 with a M.A. and earned his
Ph.D. in educational psychology in 1972 from The University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Pambookian traveled to the U.S.S.R. in 1978 as the first
U.S. scholar to receive a 9-month-long Senior Fulbright Fellowship
to the U.S.S.R. and the first in the Armenian S.S.R., where he
taught psychology at the Yerevan State University.
When he arrived at SSU as an associate professor, while
developing and strengthening the psychology program, Pambookian
quickly began working on increasing SSU’s international
perspective. He organized “International Awareness Week” as an
annual celebration of international culture in his first year at
SSU. He organized and hosted Visiting Fulbright Scholars from
Hungary, Romania, Russia, South Korea, China, and Armenia.
Two years later, he led the first Shawnee State Study
Tour to the U.S.S.R. Participants visited Moscow, Tbilisi, Yerevan,
Kharkov, and Leningrad.
Then Pambookian received SSU’s first major grant from
the Ohio Humanities Council in 1990. With the money, he organized a
year-long project entitled “Perestroika, Changes, and Developments
in the U.S.S.R.: What Next?” that highlighted Steven Miner, Ph.D.,
Dennis J. Dunn, Ph.D., Oleg A. Kolobov, Ph.D., and Pambookian along
with a panel discussion and movies.
Following the “Perestroika” project, Pambookian’s next
effort was to develop an international exchange program with a
Russian university. In 1992, he and then SSU president, Clive C.
Veri, spent a week at the Nizhny Novgorod State University to
finalize SSU’s first “Student/Faculty Exchange” program. Three
students and a faculty member from SSU traveled to Russia to study
and teach while students and an educator from Russia came to SSU to
study and teach one quarter at SSU. The program ended, but
Pambookian feels that it enriched SSU by widening the social
perspective of students and that it should have continued.
Pambookian did all of this while teaching and presenting
at national and international psychology conferences in the U.S. and
around the world. Besides his U.S. papers (e.g., in Boston, Chicago,
San Francisco, Washington, D.C.), he has presented in the
Netherlands; Great Britain; Austria; the Philippines; Thailand;
Singapore; Indonesia; China; Yerevan, Republic of Armenia; Russia;
Japan; Ecuador; Venezuela, Costa Rica; Chile; Taiwan; Ireland;
Australia; and many other places.
Many praise Pambookian for his outstanding achievements
and contributions also to international psychology. The
International Academy of Psychological Sciences, Yaroslavl, Russia
elected him an “Honorary Member” in 1994, and in 2004, he was also
elected as a “Foreign Member” to the Academy of
Pedagogical/Psychological Sciences in Yerevan, Armenia. He received
the “Paul Swaddling Award” from the Ohio Education Association for
his contributions to international understanding and peace in 1997.
The American Psychological Association (APA) elected him as a Fellow
in 1999, and in 2001, he received the “Distinguished Achievement
Award” from the Armenian Behavioral Science Association (ABSA).
While an undergraduate and graduate student in Lebanon
and in the U.S., Pambookian received assistance in the form of
grants and scholarships from both Armenian and American
organizations that helped finance his education. So for the support
he received and caring for students, he started a scholarship at SSU
in early 2004 to assist students with their senior year of studies.
“The Dr. Hagop S. Pambookian Scholarship” is awarded to a student
who is entering his/her senior year with at least a 3.0 GPA. The
student must be either a psychology major or an international
student of any major who came to the U.S. specifically to study.
Pambookian said that the scholarship currently assists one student,
but he would like to be able to help two or three students in the
future. Anyone who would like to contribute to the scholarship can
donate to the SSU Development Foundation and specify that funds
benefit “Pambookian Scholarship.”
Pambookian plans to continue focusing on his
professional activities, research and writing, after his retirement
from SSU.
“I plan to use the time to continue with my research and
scholarly activities,” said Pambookian, “I am working on the first
phase of a manuscript about the work of Jean Piaget, the Swiss
developmental psychologist.”
He will also continue to make presentations at
conferences in the U.S. and around the globe. Already, Pambookian
made two presentations at the 113th APA convention in
Washington, D.C. Aug. 18-21, 2005. His presentations highlighted his
research on Binet and Simon, the centennial of their Binet-Simon
Intelligence Scale, and its legacy worldwide.
Pambookian says he will miss teaching and interacting
with students. He hopes to stay involved in SSU activities.
“I will hopefully be around (campus). I will miss
teaching psychology, bringing international perspective into the
classroom, and helping my students grow,” said Pambookian, “I hope
that the university will utilize my experiences in psychology and in
the international arena.”
Pambookian’s dedication to international perspective and
knowledge of psychology will be missed.
“An era truly ends with Dr. Pambookian’s retirement,”
said Jerry Holt, Ph.D., Dean of Arts and Sciences at SSU. “For two
decades, Dr. Pambookian has traveled the world as an ambassador for
Shawnee State. He has made us known in more countries than I can
count,” said Holt, “What a friend our university has in Hagop
Pambookian!”
SSU honored Pambookian on Aug. 12 when the Board of
Trustees (BOT) granted him professor emeritus status for his many
years of dedication to the University.
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SSU welcomes new
geology professor
Shawnee
State University (SSU) has a new faculty member to go along with its
new geology concentration. Beginning this year, students can pursue
a geology concentration and get the perspectives of two
geologists—Jeff Bauer, Ph.D., and Kurt Shoemaker, Ph.D.
According to Bauer, SSU hired Shoemaker to make the
geology concentration stronger.
“The approval of the geology concentration was
contingent on the hiring of a new geology professor,” said Bauer,
“Offering a concentration with only one faculty member wouldn’t be a
healthy situation from an educational standpoint. When the funds
became available to hire a new faculty member, we began the search
for someone to fill the position.”
Bauer said that Shoemaker is a “hard rocker” meaning
that he specializes in igneous and metamorphic rock while Bauer is a
“soft rocker” specializing in sedimentary rock. Bauer focuses on
fossils while Shoemaker concentrates on mineralogy.
“Shoemaker expands the specializations that we offer,”
said Bauer, “He can pick up teaching in areas that I am unfamiliar
with, and he has some administrative experience that will help with
the development of the geology program.”
Shoemaker grew up in Canton, Ohio and earned his B.S. in
geology from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio and his Ph.D.
from Miami University of Ohio.
“I studied the tectonic and magmatic origin of the
Owyhee Plateau, a small but long-lived volcanic plateau in the
Oregon-Nevada-Idaho tri-state region, at the origin of the Snake
River Plain-Yellowstone hotspot track for my dissertation,” said
Shoemaker.
Shoemaker has taught at Saint Joseph’s College in
Rensselaer, Indiana since 2000.
“My wife (Beth) and I are very happy to be getting back
to the wooded hills of southern Ohio after spending the last five
years on the flat wind-blasted prairie of northwest Indiana,” said
Shoemaker.
Shoemaker also has a three-and-a-half year-old son, Gus.
Bauer has been the lone geologist for all of his 19
years at SSU. Shoemaker also served as the only geologist at Saint
Joseph’s, so they both look forward to conversing about geology with
a colleague.
“I was the first permanent full-time geologist hired.
Although we’ve had a few classes taught by adjuncts over the years,
this is the first time there has been two full-time geology faculty
members,” said Bauer.
“I’m psyched to be working alongside another geologist
on a daily basis again,” said Shoemaker, “and I’m looking forward to
helping build up the geology program at SSU.”
For more information on the geology courses offered at
SSU, contact the Department of Natural Sciences at (740) 351-3456.
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McElhaney Honors Scholarships awarded
The Shawnee State University (SSU) Development Foundation has
awarded four $1,000 McElhaney Honors Scholarships for the 2005-2006
academic year. Recipients are David Abfall
of Milford Center, Ohio; Ashley Becknell of Bolivar, Ohio;
Keith Conn of Russellville, Ohio; and Sarah Downing of Decatur,
Ohio.
Recipients of this award must be a recent high school
graduate with a 3.0 GPA and ACT score of 25 or higher. Recipients
must also be degree-seeking and complete a minimum of 15 credit
hours each quarter
Abfall, a 2005 graduate of Fairbanks High school,
plans to major in game and simulation development at SSU. He is the
son of Thomas and Mary Abfall Cooper.
Becknell, daughter of Doug and Kathy Becknell, is a 2005
graduate of Tuscarawas Valley High School. She plans to major in
dental hygiene at SSU.
Conn, a 2005 graduate of Eastern Brown High School, is
the son of Danny and Candy Conn. He plans to major in psychology at
SSU.
Downing, daughter of Michael and Lisa Downing, is a 2005 graduate of
Eastern Brown High School. She plans to major in nursing at SSU.
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Plastic bottles ready for recycling
A collection bin for plastic bottles in the plastics lab.
sits in the ATC.
SSU’s recycling
program under construction
Shawnee
State University’s (SSU) recycling program began when the Plastics
Engineering Technology program at SSU decided to do something to
help reduce the amount of plastic waste that the campus produced.
The plastics department now collects bottles at various
locations on the SSU campus.
“We contacted the local Pepsi bottling plant in Hanging
Rock and they kindly donated recycling bins,” said David Finlow,
Ph.D., associate professor, Plastics Engineering Technology at SSU.
The recycling
bins were placed in the Advanced Technology Center and the Library.
Finlow and some of his students volunteer their time to
work on the effort. Before recycling, they must remove the caps,
empty the contents of the bottles, wash them, remove the rings and
labels, and sort them according to color.
Then, the bottles are put into a granulator that turns
the bottles into small flakes of plastic before the flakes are dried
and reprocessed.
The program hasn’t produced any finished products yet,
but they would like to make plant stakes to distribute to the
community. According to Finley, they are currently working on the
difficult stage of drying the flakes. Once dry, the reprocessing
efforts can begin.
“The stakes could be made of recycled plastic and
packaged from the SSU Plastics Engineering Technology program,” said
Finlow. “The stakes could be passed out to the local population and
hopefully that would raise awareness of what can be done through
recycling.”
The recycling program has applied for a grant from the
Lindberg Foundation.
Finlow said that Cathy Mullins, M.B.A., academic grants
officer at SSU, helped write a grant proposal that would provide
$10,580 to expand the efforts of the program. According to
www.lindberghfoundation.org, the Lindberg Grants provide money
for “research and educational projects that will improve the quality
of life through a balance between technology and nature.” The
foundation provides that amount of money, because the “Spirit of St.
Louis” (Lindbergh’s plane) cost $10,580.
The grant would allow the recycling program to purchase
a robotic arm to automate some of the work, said Finlow, but the
recipients of the grant will not be announced until June 2006.
Finlow said anyone who wishes to help with the recycling
efforts can volunteer their time. He said the recycling program
could use people with no plastics expertise to help wash bottles and
remove the labels, as well as plastics engineering students to help
continue the reprocessing efforts. The program will also accept
donations of plastic bottles.
To help with the recycling program, contact Finlow at
(740) 351-3686.
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Founders’ Day Activities Planned At SSU
The anniversary of the founding of Shawnee State
University (SSU) will be celebrated Tuesday, September 27, with a
cook-out, music, a campus-wide salad contest, and, of course cake.
“Founders’ Day gives Shawnee State students, faculty and
friends in the community, a sense of history of the university
because it is the celebration of our founding,” said Susan Warsaw,
executive director of development. “We became a university in the
summer, but since most students and faculty are not on campus in
July, we celebrate it in the fall instead.”
Activities will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of
the Clark Memorial Library and Massie Hall. Hamburgers and hotdogs
will be served as well as birthday cake. The event will also
feature a special salad contest with various kinds of salads
including tossed, potato and fruit salads.
“Different individuals or offices on campus will be making
salads for judging but also for eating,” Warsaw said.
The Founders’ Day event is open to students, faculty and
staff as well as the entire community.
“It is the start of a tradition for us. Being a young
school, our traditions are going to come a little more slowly than
some other schools but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t start them,”
Warsaw said. “Fifty years from now, it will always be known that in
the fall, we celebrate the founding of our university.”
As part of the Founders’ Day activities, the SSU Women’s
Forum is sponsoring a lecture by Liz Murray in the Vern Riffe Center
for the Arts at 7 p.m.
Murray’s story “Homeless to Harvard” was made into a
television movie for the Lifetime network. Her lecture is free and
open to the public.
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SSU teams up with the University of Cincinnati to
offer Addictions Studies Counseling Certificate Program in
Portsmouth
Shawnee State University (SSU) and the University of Cincinnati (UC)
will begin its Addictions Studies Counseling Certificate Program via
videoconferencing on Wednesday, September 21 in room 110 of the
Clark Memorial Library, located on the SSU campus.
Ginnie Moore, director of the Office of University
Outreach Services at SSU, said the Addictions Studies Certificate is
a 10-course (30 credit hours) program that is comprised of UC
classes. She said the courses will count as electives in the social
sciences degree program at SSU.
Moore said with a bachelor’s degree in Addictions Studies,
a student has all of the academic and clock hour requirements for a
LCDC II (Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor II or III).
“Once a master’s degree is completed, a graduate can
become a LCDC. These individuals can diagnose, treat independently,
and be eligible for third-party reimbursement,” Moore said.
The UC
program will run through December 11. The classes are “Assessment
and Diagnosis in Addictions,” held on Fridays from 6:30 p.m. to 9:10
p.m.; “Ethics CD Counseling,” on Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:10
p.m.; and “Dual Diagnosis,” on Saturdays from 1:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.
The certificate program is geared towards certified
professionals and licensed professional counselors who may want to
enhance their career opportunities.
For more information about the program, contact Penny
Merritt, University Outreach Services representative, at (740)
351-3171 or (866) 672-8778.
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Sexual harassment in the workplace program at SSU
On Friday, September 23, the Shawnee State University
(SSU) Office of University Outreach Services is sponsoring “Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace” from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Business
and Industry Department computer lab, room 030 in the Administration
Building, on the SSU Campus.
“Many businesses face their own set of problems in trying
to find their way through the maze of state and federal employment
laws,” said Brenda Covert, manager of business and industry
training, Outreach Services. “In fact, until now businesses could
not afford high quality sexual harassment training.”
The seminar will be taught by Tammy Moore, who has over 11
years in the human resources field and is also a certified master of
labor relations. The seminar will look at exactly what sexual
harassment is, how to define the types of harassment, the sources of
law prohibiting harassment, and how to investigate and write up an
allegation.
“The participants will also work through a live simulation
of a workplace scenario of sexual harassment, from observing the
incident to compiling the final written investigative report,”
Covert added.
She said during the training, Moore will pose three
questions for companies:
“If you do not know the answers to these questions, this
four-hour seminar is for you,” Covert said. “In attending this short
seminar, you will not only learn how to prevent harassment, but you
will also be prepared to defend your organization against harassment
allegations. Attend this seminar and safeguard your organization
against future sexual harassment claims.”
The sexual harassment training is important, according to
Covert, because companies must be able to prepare themselves and
their employees for future state and federal requirements. States
are beginning to mandate that employers offer employees sexual
harassment training. Beginning in January of this year, all
employers in California and Louisiana are legally mandated to
provide employees with at least two hours of sexual harassment
training every two years.
The cost for the workshop is $69. Covert said on-site
training is also available for employers with 15 or more employees.
For more information, contact Covert at (740) 351-3304.
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Friends of Shawnee State University Scholarships
awarded
The Shawnee State University (SSU) Development
Foundation has awarded two $500 Friends of SSU Scholarships to Kevin
McGuire of Minford and Danielle Stone of Lucasville for the
2005-2006 academic year.
Recipients of this award must be high school seniors or
college students with a GPA of 2.5.
McGuire, son of Lonnie and Loretta McGuire, is a 2005
graduate of Minford High School.
Stone, a 2005 graduate of Valley High School, is the
daughter of Timothy and Kimberly Stone.
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Spriggs Family Scholarship awarded
The Shawnee State University (SSU) Development Foundation has
awarded a $1,000 Spriggs Family Scholarship to Joshua Duncan of
Wheelersburg for the 2005-2006 academic year. He is the son of
Randy and Merilee Duncan.
Recipients
must be a full-time student in good academic standing, and the child
of a Scioto County firefighter or law enforcement employee, who has
been employed full-time in that position for at least one year.
Duncan, a 2004 graduate of Wheelersburg High School, is
enrolled in the emergency medical technology program at SSU.
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Elbert and Evelyn M. Elliott Memorial Scholarships
awarded
The Shawnee State University (SSU) Development Foundation has
awarded two $1,000 Elbert and Evelyn M. Memorial Scholarships to
Jennifer Campbell of Lucasville and Bethany Jones of Portsmouth, for
the 2005-2006 academic year.
Recipients of this award must be full-time students at
SSU and remain in good academic standing.
Campbell, a 2003 graduate of Valley High School, is
majoring in early childhood education at SSU. She is the daughter
of Paula Bramblette.
Jones, the daughter of Estel and Connie Gayhart, is a
2003 graduate of Portsmouth High School. She is majoring in early
childhood education at SSU.
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Glockner Community Service Scholarship awarded
The Shawnee State University (SSU) Development
Foundation has awarded a $500 Glockner Community Service Scholarship
to Allison Morrison of Greenup for the 2005-2006 academic year. She
is the daughter of Jackie and Donald Morrison.
Recipients of
this award must be a graduating senior of a Scioto County, Ohio;
Greenup County or Lewis County, KY high school. Recipients must
also have a 2.0 GPA and demonstrate community involvement through
service.
Morrison is a 2005 graduate of Greenup County High
School.
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“Homeless to Harvard” to be shown at
SSU
In
conjunction with Liz Murray’s appearance on the campus of Shawnee
State University (SSU) on Tuesday, September 27, there will be three
showings of her movie “Homeless to Harvard.”
The movie which follows the story of Murray, a homeless
teenager who graduated from high school and was accepted to Harvard,
was featured on the Lifetime Television Network. It will be shown on
Wednesday, September 21 at noon in the Flohr Lecture Hall of the
Clark Memorial Library, Thursday, September 22 at 6 p.m. in the
Micklethwaite Banquet Hall in the University Center and Tuesday,
September 27 at 10 a.m. in room 207 of the Clark Memorial Library.
Murray’s visit to SSU is part of the sixth annual Leslie
Williams Symposium for the Advancement of Women. It is co-sponsored
by the Portsmouth City Schools and by the Jane M.G. Foster
Distinguished Lecture Series.
Murray’s lecture will be at 7 p.m. in the Vern Riffe
Center for the Arts on September 27 and is free and open to the
public.
For more information call (740) 351-3267.
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Life
after College presentations by Andy Masters
Two presentations will be delivered
by Andy Masters, author of “Life after College: What to expect and
how to succeed in Your Career,” on Wednesday, September 21 at 2:30
and 4 p.m., room 207 in the Clark Memorial Library located on the
Shawnee State University campus.
Masters achieved Distinguished Graduate honors from
Webster University, earning an M.A. in Human Resources development
and M.A. in marketing. He served as a SGA President at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, and earned Green Man of the Year
honors, representing Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity. Masters is a
featured speaker in the Student Success Initiative Series, sponsored
by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA.)
Masters visit to campus is being co-sponsored by the Office of
Career Services and the Office of Student Activities.
The Life
After College programs will cover important topics such as
networking, personal development, strategic career planning, and
critical career mistakes to avoid.
The 2:30 p.m.
presentation will focus on college development for career success.
Topics to be discussed are how to get the most out of your college
experience, academics, priorities, time management, gaining social
and leadership skills, networking, and making career path decisions.
The 4 p.m. presentation will focus more on Greek issues,
discussing different reasons to help recruit and develop quality
fraternity and sorority members, leadership and responsibility,
development of social and networking skills, and preparing for life
after college.
Students are welcome to attend one or both sessions.
Refreshments will be served, and the first 25 to attend each session
will receive a copy of Master’s book.
For more information call (740) 351-3608.
# # # FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 21, 2005
Contact:
Mistie Spicer, Coordinator, Office of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3810; Fax: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 352-5566
E-mail:
mspicer@shawnee.edu
(Article by Shanna Mustard,
communications specialist--Office of Communications)
More Students Preparing Themselves for SSU
An increasing number
of incoming freshman attended orientation at Shawnee State
University (SSU) this year to familiarize themselves with the place
where they will spend the next four years.
“The students
got an opportunity to meet other students who will be attending in
the fall, a tour of the campus, and a packet of valuable information
about the university,” said Michelle Patrick, counselor, Title III
Academic Assessment Services.
“Orientation
provides information about the programs that SSU offers to assist
students so they know what to expect when they arrive on campus,”
said Kim Gleim, Student Success Center representative.
During
orientation, students met with their orientation leader, an SSU
student, who showed them how to register for classes, where to pay
bills, and how to generate degree audits among other things.
The Success Center organized nine orientation dates this
year to serve the record number of incoming students.
Gleim and Patrick estimate that about 80 percent of
incoming students attended one of the orientation sessions. All
first year students at SSU receive invitations to attend, including
transfer students.
She said that all of the details require an immense
amount of time and effort from the staff of the Success Center.
“Students who attend orientation build camaraderie with
the orientation leader and with the people in their group,” said
Gleim, “It eases them into college from high school.”
Cassie Graff and Cindy Smith, recent high school
graduates, agree that orientation helped ease their transition from
high school to college.
The wealth of information available impressed the girls.
“We’ve
learned a lot,” said Graff.
In addition to the information that students received,
they also registered for their first classes, got student
identifications, parking permits, and SSU t-shirts.
Parents of incoming students also attended a separate
orientation on the same day. SSU staff answered questions and
addressed concerns of the participating parents.
This year 980 students and 519 parents attended one of
the orientation dates.
# # # FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 21, 2005
Contact:
Mistie Spicer, Coordinator, Office of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3810; Fax: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 352-5566
E-mail:
mspicer@shawnee.edu
(Article by Shanna Mustard,
communications specialist--Office of Communications)
Angela McKain, a junior English education major and president of
the SSU Liberals Association (standing); Shaina Rieske (left) a
sophomore game design major; and Marissa Hatfield (right), a
freshman animiation major discuss the Fantanime club on Wednesday,
Sept. 14 during the Parade of Clubs and Organizations, part of
Welcome Week activities sponsored by the Student Government
Association (SGA) to welcome new students to SSU. The Parade of
Clubs and Organizations provided an opportunity for students to meet
with representatives of SSU clubs to find out more about campus
life.
# # # FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 21, 2005
Contact:
Mistie Spicer, Coordinator, Office of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3810; Fax: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 352-5566
E-mail:
mspicer@shawnee.edu
(Article by Shanna Mustard,
communications specialist--Office of Communications)
The Dr. Sol Asch
Scholarship Awarded
The Shawnee State University
Development Foundation has awarded the $750 Dr. Sol Asch Scholarship
to Megan Skaggs of Chillicothe, daughter of Mark and Carrie Skaggs,
for the 2005-2006 academic year.
The Dr. Sol Asch Scholarship was established in 1986 as
the first scholarship to be created following the passage of the
bill to change the community college into a university. Recipients
must have a 3.5 GPA or better.
Skaggs, a 2004 graduate of Southeastern High School,
majors in occupational ther |
