NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID TOPEKA, KS PERMIT NO. 689 THE ICHABOD WASHBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FEBRUARY 2011 Alumni director Susie Hoffmann, bba ’87 Contributors Dena Anson, ba ’01 director, university relations Katy Browne, aa ’07 secretary, Alumni Association Gene Cassell sports information director Peggy Clark university photographer Amanda Hughes, ba ’00 assistant director, university relations Martha Imparato special collections librarian, Mabee Library Robin Moser, ba ’99 assistant director, Alumni Association Emily Rishel communications and annual giving officer Washburn University Foundation Megan Smith director, communications and annual giving FEATURES Washburn University Foundation Joy Thompson 5 publications specialist Washburn School of Nursing: DEPARTMENTS Vickie Waters The Next Decade of Progress office assistant, university relations 3 From the President jones huyett Partners, Topeka, Kan. 7 9 Calendar of Events design and layout Nursing in Transition 2012 and Beyond 16 Alumni News The ICHABOD alumni magazine is published three times a year by the 20 Foundation Washburn Alumni Association for alumni, 13 faculty, staff and friends of the university. Third-class postage paid at Topeka, Kan. Washburn Institute of Technology: 21 Sports Schedule Looking Into the Future 27 Campus News CONTACT US! 19 31 Class Notes Your news, thoughts and questions are Athletics Hall of Fame important to us. Please write, telephone or send us an e-mail. Letters to the editor and news of jobs, honors, weddings, 25 anniversaries and births are always welcome. Impacting Students Through Please include your name, class year, address and daytime phone number. Letters to the Their Words ON THE COVER editor may be edited for length and clarity. Address: 1700 SW College Ave., Please drop us a letter or e-mail Topeka, Kan., 66621 43 Telephone: (785) 670-1641 Bringing Alumni Together telling us what you like or don’t like E-mail: [email protected] about your Ichabod magazine. We Website: Washburn.edu/alumni want to hear from you. FROM the PRESIDENT Universities provide many benefits to their communities. Borne out of a necessity to create an educated citizenry, universities and other post- secondary institutions seek to provide individuals with opportunities to match their natural gifts with societal needs. It is our privilege to provide a gateway to this preferred future for Kansans and others from around the world. This mission is highlighted in Washburn’s strategic plans. We are working closely with our community leadership to identify needs and then create new educational programs. Examples include the School of Law Centers for Excellence, our allied health programs in occupational health assistant and sonography, the master of science in nursing degree, the School of Business’ certificate in entrepreneurship, bioscience initiatives in the College of Arts and Sciences and the industrial maintenance program at Washburn Tech. This issue highlights the School of Nursing, which has nearly doubled its undergraduate student enrollment during the past decade and has more than 100 students enrolled in the master’s program to become nurse practitioners or clinical nurse leaders. Recently, the School was awarded a federal grant to begin the Transatlantic Dual Degree in Nursing Program, one of only two U.S. nursing schools to receive the award in seven years. I hope you enjoy reading more about TADD and the upcoming proposal for a doctorate in nursing practice degree. Connections with the community also occur through our Washburn Alumni Association and the Washburn University Foundation. These highly successful organizations provide alumni and their families with financial support, social connections and great ongoing communication about Washburn. Always busy, the Alumni Association hosted more than 50 events in 2010. Since Washburn was founded in 1985, the value of teaching basic and advanced knowledge in the sciences and humanities has persevered. At Washburn, we will continue to provide high quality general education while emphasizing our relevancy and value by producing graduates who meet the needs of a changing work force. 3 From the President 3 From the President 4 WASHBURN School of NURSING: the neXT decade of progress new initiative in international education debuted at Washburn A with the fall 2010 semester. Three nursing students attended classes at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Five European nursing students – one from Queen’s University, two from Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences in Finland and two from Szeged University in Hungary – began a year of study at Washburn. The student exchanges are being funded by a hard-won $420,000 Transatlantic universities was an unexpected benefit. Double Degree in Nursing Project grant, which takes a giant step beyond Even after the grant ended, Queen's traditional student exchange programs by providing nursing students the University and Mikkeli University of opportunity to receive two degrees in a streamlined process. Applied Sciences continued to exchange Washburn students in the exchange program will receive baccalaureate students with Washburn. nursing of health and science degrees from one of the three participating In 2006, Cynthia Hornberger, then European Union universities, and EU students will receive nursing or health dean of Washburn’s School of Nursing, science degrees from Washburn. The graduates will begin their careers with two received a telephone call from the nursing degrees, one international and one from their home country, enabling dean of Mikkeli University of Applied them to work almost anywhere in the world. Sciences. Monica Scheibmeir, dean of Washburn’s School of Nursing, calls this the forefront of understanding global education. “Early in their professional careers, Students from European Union graduates from this program will be distinguished in their understanding of countries participating in the Transatlantic Double Degree Project global health and broad social issues,” she said. (L to R) Minna Masalin, Finland; The foundation of this opportunity was laid in the late 1990s when Washburn’s Caoimhe Clifford, Northern Ireland; School of Nursing received a grant for a four- to six-week student exchange program Anita Lakatos, Hungary; Dezsö with a consortium of universities in Europe and the United States. The friendly Seteny, Hungary; and Moona relations formed among the professors, deans and administrators of the respective Ylikoski, Finland. 5 Washburn School of Nursing “She said they would like us to as a registered nurse in the United 24 Washburn nursing students will get consider applying for a grant through States, contains only multiple choice an opportunity to study in Europe, the U.S. Department of Education, questions. Even the standard American with a similar number of Europeans and they would apply for an equivalent research paper posed issues. studying at Washburn. grant through the EU. It was the Debbie Isaacson, assistant professor, same funding source as our previous nursing, teaches one of the classes in School of Nursing staff and faculty grant (Fund for the Improvement which the five EU students enrolled. who assist students in the TADD of Postsecondary Education), but a Isaacson requires students to write program include (L to R) Louisa larger initiative,” Hornberger said. a research paper. The EU students Schurig, student adviser; Mary Ellen (Hornberger currently serves as special received a slightly different assignment McBride, assistant professor; and assistant to President Farley.) – to compare and contrast the way an Cynthia Hornberger, professor and special assistant to the president. Applying for the grant was a ethical issue in nursing is handled in major challenge and required many their home country with the way it is Bottom: Currently studying in Northern Ireland are (L to R) Adriana hours of work. Beginning in 2006, handled in the United States. Isaacson Rollins, Topeka; Samantha Grief, nursing professors Ellen Carson and requires her American students to Manhattan, Kan.; and Rosemaria Hornberger worked on the grant follow the American Psychological Magallanez, Emporia, Kan. application for the U.S. Department Association format, but the EU of Education while deans and students were allowed to use other international coordinators in Finland, formats. “We decided to allow this Northern Ireland and Hungary difference since APA is not mandated applied for the European Union for State boards,” Isaacson said. grant. They submitted applications in In addition to one-year student 2007 and again in 2008, but were not exchanges, the TADD grant includes selected. Finally, after submitting for funding for faculty exchanges. the third time, the grant was awarded Between 2011 and 2013, nine in 2009. Washburn faculty members are slated As soon as news of the grant was to teach for two weeks at one of the received, members of Washburn’s three participating EU universities, nursing faculty and the deans and and nine EU faculty members will international coordinators in Europe teach for two weeks at Washburn. began a series of meetings to plan a Isaacson hopes to be among the first common curriculum for four core faculty participants. courses. They faced many content and Washburn students will have the methods issues, including discussions opportunity to study at a combination about how to handle differences in of two of the three participating EU student evaluation and testing. universities, and the EU students