Division of Outreach and Engagement University of Southern Indiana

Winter 2011 • Issue One Volume Two Service Learning: Enhancing student learning with community projects

In 2007, the Division of Outreach and matching requests, and general support Engagement at the University of Southern for project execution. Staff members Sarah Indiana launched a formal Service Learning Munjas, graduate assistant, and Lauren Van Program designed to support faculty and Hook, undergraduate student coordinator, staff who incorporate community projects also are available to assist faculty and into courses or activities for USI students. The staff with projects to help ensure successful goal of the program is to enhance student outcomes. learning while providing valuable services to the community. Past service learning projects have included: a study on the efficiency of the Students who participate in the Service Metropolitan Evansville Transit System (METS); Learning Program have an opportunity trips to Jamaican orphanages for social work to better understand course material and students; web site development for local can apply their knowledge to “real world” nonprofits and small businesses; workshops experiences. and learning activities for the local Boys and Girls Club Chapter; public relations plans for USI offers three types of service learning: nonprofit and governmental groups; monthly academic, curricular, and co-curricular. home builds with Habitat for Humanity; The Academic activities are credit-based Big Read, a community literacy/reading courses that integrate community service, program funded by the National Endowment faculty instruction, and structured reflection. for the Arts; a College Mentors for Kids Curricular projects are noncredit-based program coordinated by the USI Multicultural activities sponsored by a specific academic Center; various activities and trips focusing major or program and occur outside a on homelessness and poverty coordinated traditional classroom setting. Co-curricular by USI Housing and Residence Life; and projects, which are also noncredit-based, much more. are community service activities that are often completed by student clubs or organizations This spring, with grants from the State and are comprised of learning objectives and Farm Foundation, North Carolina Campus opportunities for reflection. Compact, and Indiana Campus Compact, the The Service Learning Program staff includes: Front, USI Service Learning Program will spearhead Dr. Anne Statham, director. Back row, left to right: a major co-curricular project with the Evansville Sarah Munjas, graduate assistant and Lauren Van Area Trails Coalition. USI students, along with Hook, undergraduate student coordinator. Service learning projects as a learning local at-risk K-12 youth, will refurbish and build process in my courses have helped campus and community trails. Participants students experience ‘entrepreneurship,’ will also identify trail projects that will help using creative ways to bring resources Evansville become a healthier community and opportunities together; ‘engagement,’ through the development of hiking and biking using acquired knowledge to help people trails. The project will end with a series of I really enjoy service learning courses in need; and ‘excitement,’ balancing events during Global Youth Service Days, because I am able to apply the challenges and capability.” April 15-17. knowledge I’ve learned in the classroom —Dr. Andy Yu to help people in the community. The Assistant Professor of Since its inception, the Service Learning Service Learning Program offers a different Management Program and participating faculty and staff, learning experience as opposed to sitting University of Southern Indiana have engaged more than 5,300 students in class and learning through lectures. and 120 community partners through service Every USI student should enroll in a service learning courses and co-curricular activities. learning course.” —Chris Seibert Directed by Dr. Anne Statham, who For more information, or to find out how you Student developed and implemented service learning can get involved with USI’s Service Learning University of Southern Indiana programs at the University of Wisconsin- Program, visit www.usi.edu/servicelearning Parkside, the USI Service Learning Program or contact Statham at 812/465-1203 offers faculty and staff training, project or [email protected].

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Letter from the Dean

The only certainty is We bid Ed Jones a fond farewell with a change . . . little Bon Voyage reception on December 17. Although Ed will continue his work with GAGE Division of Outreach As I write this, and outreach programs in New Harmony, we are still awaiting we hope he’ll also have time for some well- and Engagement confirmation of our deserved rest and recreation. moving date to the Office 812/464-1989 newly-renovated Fa x 812/4 6 5 -70 61 University Center East. We have had Interim Dean of Outreach and Engagement several preview tours and Director of Continuing Education Linda Cleek 812/464-1863 Cleek and are anxious to move and settle in. Grant Writer/Coordinator In preparation, we’ve Jane Friona 812/455-7946 been cleaning the files, getting rid of obsolete items (3.5” floppy disks, anyone?), and USI-Crane Partnership Manager digitizing records to streamline both searching Josh Mischler 812/461-5325 and storing them. Please come see us in our Academic Programs Coordinator/Advisor new digs . . . but call first (812/464-1863) to make sure we’re there! Lee Ann Wambach 812/464-1879 There are some things we are sure of, and Departments I’d like to point out a few of them to you: Center for Applied Research The New Harmony Gallery of Dr. Susan Ellspermann 812/461-5407 Dr. Edward Jones, senior advisor to the Contemporary Art and Historic New Harmony president for Outreach and Engagement, Center for Education Services and Partnerships are co-hosting a “Bicentennial House” celebrates his upcoming retirement during a Ginger Ramsden 812/464-1989 competition open to artists and architects of Bon Voyage reception on December 17. any level. Information about how to apply Center for Human Resource Development is available from Erika Myers-Bromwell at Charmaine McDowell 812/464-1816 812/682-3156 or [email protected]. And some things don’t change . . . Center for Continuing Education Linda Cleek 812/464-1863 Historic New Harmony’s first interfaith Our mission has been and will continue to dialogue retreat, “A New Harmony for Peace” be outreach. We complement the University’s Historic Southern Indiana will take place March 15-20 at the Macleod traditional role by providing and facilitating Leslie Townsend 812/465-7013 Barn Abbey in New Harmony. International quality educational, research, and technical Historic New Harmony scholar and author John Philip Newell, services for people, groups, and organizations acclaimed for his work in the field of Celtic in Indiana and the Tri-State. These activities Connie Weinzapfel 812/682-4488 spirituality, will lead the retreat. Joining him support and promote individual well-being, USI @ Innovation Pointe will be Rabbi Nahm Ward-Lev and Mydea social and cultural enrichment, economic Gene Recker 812/492-4394 Hussain, a leader in the Islamic Center of opportunity, and regional development. Evansville. More information can be found on Instructional Technology Services page three in this issue of engage. If you have questions about any of these Dana Willett 812/465-7182 changes we’d love to hear from you. Call Service Learning We have opened our Innovation Lab and 812/464-1863 or email [email protected]. Idea Lab at Innovation Pointe. These exciting Dr. Anne Statham 812/465-1203 spaces will be used for facilitated events Southern Indiana Japanese School including problem solving, strategic planning, and more. We’ll host an open house to Keietsu Nishimura 812/471-1210 introduce the possibilities later this spring. U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) More information is available from Julie Major Nathaniel Skelly 812/461-5303 Brauser, 812/461-5425 or [email protected]. engage Editor The search committee for our next leader, Brandi Schwartz 812/464-1854 the Associate Provost for Outreach and Linda Cleek Engagement, continues its work. By the time Interim Dean of Outreach you read this, we should know who the and Engagement finalists are and when they will make visits to campus.

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SIJS receives School Award in Writing fifth year in a row The Japan Overseas Educational Services, awarded the Japan Broadcasting Association other selected disciplines on Saturdays and a subsidiary of the Japanese government’s Award and fourth grade student Shunnya after the regular school day. Ministry of Education and Science, has Asami won the Nippan IPS Award. This is the awarded the School Award in Writing to the first year SIJS students have won these specific The SIJS is a USI Division of Outreach and Southern Indiana Japanese School (SIJS) for awards. Engagement program. the fifth consecutive year. SIJS opened in 1997 at the request of and Additional information about SIJS can Over 300 Japanese schools worldwide with the financial support of Tri-state regional be found online at www.usi.edu/extserv/ were eligible for the annual award; only 20 companies to help prepare students for a outreach/japaneseschool.asp. were selected to receive it. smooth transition into Japanese school life when they return home. Currently, the school In addition to the School Award in Writing, has 55 students and 11 teachers who provide second grade student Emiri Okada was instruction in Japanese language, culture, and

Interfaith retreat coming to Historic New Harmony Historic New Harmony’s first interfaith retreat in March will bring Harmony, and in many ways, to the region. Gaining an understanding together a theologian, a Jewish rabbi, and an Islamic teacher to discuss of other cultures and faiths engenders a greater global perspective for with participants the topic of interfaith dialogue. The retreat will be people. Participants at this retreat will have an intimate experience with based on Abrahamic traditions. other traditions.”

International scholar and author John Philip Newell will lead the The retreat will be limited to 50 participants. It will include a week spiritual retreat called A New Harmony for Peace. The retreat will take of prayer and meditation and morning teaching sessions followed by place at the Barn Abbey in New Harmony, Indiana, from Tuesday, a time of silence and then shared reflections. Evening sessions will be March 15, to Sunday, March 20. more experiential with song, dance, movement, and discussion.

Newell is companion theologian for the The Sisters of St. Benedict in Ferdinand, Indiana will American Spirituality Centre of Casa del serve as co-sponsors of the retreat. Sister Kathryn Sol in the high desert of New Mexico. He Huber, OSB, a trained spiritual director who has is acclaimed for his work in the field of served her community in leadership roles for Celtic spirituality, a spiritual practice earth- many years, said, “Benedictine women and centered and inclusive. He is described men have been involved for years in dialogue as a Church of Scotland minister with a that engages conversation with other people passion for peace in the world and a searching for God, including searchers in fresh vision for harmony between the great other Christian denominations as well as in spiritual traditions of humanity. He plays other faith traditions.” a leading role in the re-birthing of a creation spirituality. His best-known titles “In this retreat the focus will be on the are Listening for the Heartbeat of God, spiritual richness that God has poured out Christ of the Celts, and a poetic book of upon the human race. The New Harmony prayer Sounds of the Eternal, which he for Peace retreat will focus on the spiritual dedicated to Jane Blaffer Owen for her richness that unites the traditions of Judaism, vision of a new harmony. Islam, and Christianity.”

Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev, active in Rabbis without Borders, also will Public panel discussion on March 16 participate. As one of 22 rabbis in Rabbis without Borders, he works to make Jewish wisdom more accessible to the wider American public. A panel of the retreat teachers will be held the evening of Wednesday, March 16, to explore the common ground of the three faith traditions. The third retreat leader is Myeda Hussain, an Islamic teacher The panel is free-of-charge, and open to the public. It will be held at the who serves as director of the Congregations Acting for Justice and Atheneum/Visitor Center in New Harmony at 7 p.m. Empowerment, an interdenominational coalition of Evansville houses of worship to achieve a greater degree of justice in Evansville. The retreat is presented by Historic New Harmony, a unified program of the University of Southern Indiana and the Indiana State Museum “We are very pleased to present this retreat, as it carries on decades and Historic Sites and sponsored by the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation of work by Jane Owen,” said Connie Weinzapfel, director of Historic and the Sisters of St. Benedict in Ferdinand, Indiana. The deadline to New Harmony. “She introduced the idea of interfaith dialogue to New register is February 15.

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Connect with Southern Indiana announces 2011 class Connect with Southern Indiana, a program, University of Southern Indiana; Rina military education, Vincennes University; and regionally based leadership program offered Harris, conservation analyst, ; Darin Tiffani Weatherford, administrative director, through USI’s Center for Human Resource Lander, community outreach branch executive Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana, Development, has selected 26 participants director, YMCA of , Inc.; Posey County office. for its 2011 class. Connect with Southern Indiana is open The 2011 includes Manuel Apodaca- to Indiana residents living in Dubois, Valdez, assistant professor of Spanish, Gibson, Knox, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, University of Southern Indiana; Daniel Vanderburgh, or Warrick counties who would Applegate, welding engineer, Babcock & like to improve the quality of life in their Wilcox, Nuclear EquipmentOne Division; Color Stephen communities. The annual program is intended Burger, vice president of radio and Internet to boost Indiana’s retention of intellectual director, WNIN Tri-State Public Media; capital by helping participants strengthen Brad Burkhart, technical services supervisor, their skills and opportunities for involvement ; Mark Caskey, facility in community and regional projects, meet manager, Consolidated Grain and Barge business and civic leaders, and gain greater Company, Inc.; Jami Coffman, individual and awareness of community and regional needs. corporate coach, Imajine Unlimited, LCC; Julie Marie Ko, manager of business services, Program participants will attend ten full- Tonia Cowan, inventory control, OFS Brands; Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana; day sessions over a six-month period and Jan Dougan, extension educator for consumer Stephanie Lancaster, associate director of will develop a collaborative project to be and family sciences, Purdue University, Purdue global environment in Health and Safety, presented at the end of the program in June. Extension Dubois County; Melissa Eckert, Mead Johnson Nutrition; Jeanne McAlister, sales specialist, Kimball Office; Jay Fischer, Topics for this year’s class include research coordinator, University of Southern principal business analyst, MasterBrand community overviews, critical thinking, Indiana; Amie McKibban, assistant professor Cabinets, Inc.; Robin Good, project manager, personality profiles, opportunity identification, of psychology, University of Southern Indiana; Carver Community Organization; Elizabeth project management, public skills, Brian Meyer, president and owner, Meyer Gutgsell, concierge extraordinaire/owner, presentation planning, and government Creative Landscapes; Bill Nadeau II, general The Pickled Cricket, LLC; Matt Hanka, relations. USI faculty and staff and Southern manager of Swonder Ice Arena, City of assistant professor of political science and Indiana community leaders will facilitate each Evansville; Matthew Schwartz, director of director of Master of Public Administration program. Two Color

Ellspermann joins cast of presenters at Department of Defense conference

USI’s Sue Ellspermann, director of the discuss problems solved in the project and promising technologies being developed at Center for Applied Research (CAR), Les commercial applications of new inventions, Crane,” said Ellspermann. “Demonstrating Nunn, chair of Accounting and Business and identify potential patentable innovations. this process to the Department of Defense Daniela Vidal Law; , program coordinator The conference included a process as a ‘best practice’ was an honor and for Advanced Manufacturing; and a team demonstration utilizing a project from the accomplishment for USI.” from the Naval Surface Warfare Center US Air Force. Ellspermann facilitated the IP USI has conducted four IP Mining events (NSWC Crane); attended the Department Mining Process using a panel that included since 2008, which has identified nearly 100 of Defense Technology Transfer TTIPT Nunn, Vidal, technology transfer experts, potential disclosures and 200 commercial Conference in Philadelphia in November. The and entrepreneurship faculty from Ball State opportunities. NSWC Crane has more than team delivered a presentation on identifying University. The demonstration netted five doubled their patent production by using the Intellectual Property (IP) and demonstrated IP potential disclosures and over 20 commercial IP Mining Process. Mining as a best practice. opportunities. Approximately 100 participants NSWC Crane entered a Partnership representing technology transfer offices Developed by USI, IP Mining is an Intermediary Agreement (PIA) with USI in 2010 from all Department of Defense research innovative discovery processfull Color that was to help accelerate the USI STEM (science, laboratories observed the demonstration for created for NSWC Crane. The process technology, engineering, and mathematics) possible use in their own organizations. received the 2009 Partnership Award from program. The joint partnership also helps the Midwest Region Federal Laboratory “Developing the IP mining process for Crane NSWC Crane with continued improvement on Research Consortium and identifies IP by has allowed the Center for Applied Research their innovative path to create new businesses engaging lead NSWC Crane engineers and to engage almost a dozen faculty and staff, and jobs using NSWC Crane patents. technologists who share completed projects, as well as other regional IP experts, in the

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Owensboro resident meets four-year degree goal A Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) “I would take a week at a time when the “Lee Ann helped me enroll in the classes at degree for Angela R. Young means career course work of reading, writing, and studying the correct course levels in order to meet BGS advancement opportunities and meeting a for a test would weigh on me. The hardest program requirements. She also insured that I personal goal to be marketable in healthcare part was having class work to complete received credit for the certification courses I informatics. The Owensboro resident received following a day of healthcare work.” had taken over the years. The BGS program the degree from the University of Southern She learned of the USI program at work was exactly what I wanted.” Indiana in December. during a department presentation by Lee Ann “I didn’t have a desire to pursue a four- Young works for the Owensboro Medical Wambach, academic programs manager in year nursing degree. The BGS allowed me Health System in Owensboro, Kentucky, as the Division of Outreach and Engagement at to be more selective in the classes I took. I a member of the Epic Implementation Team. USI. Young earned her associate degree in was able to take several courses related to The baccalaureate degree is necessary for nursing after high school and went to work nutrition, which I am interested in personally. advancement to a system analyst level in the as a surgical nurse at Owensboro Medical It also allowed me to choose classes directly Information Systems Department. Health System. She married, and she and her related to the job I currently hold and I was husband began their family. She wanted to able to apply some of the certifications I had The BGS degree program has options that spend quality time with the children when they to the degree.” fit Young’s life, and in fall 2006 she enrolled were young and had planned to complete a at USI in Evansville. She was able to complete The BGS degree program at USI is for bachelor’s degree once her daughters were her classes online except for an algebra class working adults with significant educational older. she took at Owensboro Community College. experience and a strong desire to complete Because she lives about an hour from USI, it Young said, “When the youngest started college course work and earn a four-year was too time consuming to take classes on driving, I realized I had more time to take degree. More details about the program are campus. classes and work toward my goal.” online at www.usi.edu/extserv/academic/bgs.asp.

Corydon resident Karen Schwartz receives the 2010 O’Bannon Award

Karen Schwartz, president of the Historical “Historic Corydon, Indiana from A-Z” has Society of Harrison County in Corydon, been placed in every fourth grade classroom Indiana, received the 2010 Frank and Judy in this district and the response from the O’Bannon Heritage Engagement Award teachers and students has been very positive,” at the annual meeting of Historic Southern said Neyland Clark, superintendent of South Indiana in October in Cannelton, Indiana. Harrison Community School Corporation. Presented by Historic Southern Indiana, the “The layout and organization of the book award recognizes an individual who is an makes the information easy for everyone to exemplary model of community education use, especially fourth grade students.” activities. “Flags Over Corydon,” an interpretive “Karen Schwartz has reorganized project also developed by Schwartz, identifies and revitalized the Historical Society of 35 flags that have flown over downtown Harrison County,” said Vi Eckart, director Corydon throughout the town’s history. “There of the Harrison County Public Library, who was no signage to document each flag’s nominated Schwartz for the award. “She has name and historical significance,” said Eckart. been particularly vigilant in passing on the rich “Karen designed interpretive plaques and history of Harrison County to young people Leslie Townsend, director of Historic Southern bolted them to each pole, making the Flags by producing literature and programming Indiana, left, presents Karen Schwartz with the over Corydon site self-interpreting for students specifically targeted to bring history alive for 2010 Frank and Judy O’Bannon Heritage and other visitors to the site.” Engagement Award. students.” Schwartz is currently working on two Schwartz has coordinated several historical additional projects. “Nine Historic Buildings books on Harrison County, including Harrison Community Foundation of Southern Indiana that Were in Corydon During the Capital County History and Families, Harrison County through the Harrison County Youth Philanthropy Period and are Still Here!” will document the Pictorial, and The Harrison County Fair Council, Schwartz has developed a variety antiquity of buildings that remain in Corydon Sesquicentennial Booklet. She has produced of materials about Harrison County. These from 1816-1825 and “Journey Along Blue calendars on Harrison County buildings, materials include an informational brochure River” will identify historic points of interest townships, barns, and the Harrison County Fair. called “Who Put the Harrison in Harrison along the Blue River. With the help of grants from the Harrison County?” and a booklet called “Historic County Community Foundation and the Corydon, Indiana from A-Z.”

5 en•gage (en’gaj) verb 1. to establish a meaningful contact or connection 2. to occupy, attract, or involve 3. to actively commit Division of Outreach and Engagement • University of Southern Indiana Notes Amanda Wheaton-Collins joins USI as Children’s CAR holds listening sessions on government reorganization Learning Center manager A m a n d a oversee the functions of day-to-day programs, The Center for Applied Research (CAR) hosted Wheaton-Collins including compliance with the State of Indiana two facilitated community listening sessions for licensing requirements and accreditation the City-County Government Reorganization has been named guidelines with the National Association for Committee. Held in November and December, manager of the Children’s Learning the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). the sessions provided community feedback Center on a proposed comprehensive reorganization at the “Amanda has extensive experience plan to merge the City of Evansville and University of Southern working in a NAEYC accredited center Vanderburgh County. Sessions were open to Indiana. The Center and has worked in a university setting,” said the public and met at the offers child care Ginger Ramsden, director of the USI Center and USI. Participants provided feedback on the to children of USI for Education Services and Partnerships. “She consolidation plan, including concerns and Wheaton-Collins students, faculty, has a solid understanding of best practices benefits. and staff ages two and her philosophy is a great match for our to six years old on a Center.” CAR is available to provide neutral and full-day, half-day, or objective facilitation and conduct applied hourly basis. The USI Children’s Learning Center is research projects to help your business or a constituent of the Indiana Department organization prosper and solve issues. For more Wheaton-Collins was employed at of Environmental Management’s Five Star information, call the CAR office at 812/461-5442. Northwest Arkansas Head Start as the lead Environmental Recognition Program, is teacher where she planned and implemented accredited by the NAEYC, and is a Level 4 weekly curriculum. She holds a Bachelor of on 4C’s Paths to Quality rating system. It is HSI featured in Cultural Science degree in human environmental licensed for up to 77 enrollments and offers Heritage Tourism Survival sciences and a Master of Science degree an environment that encourages children to in human development and family studies develop their capabilities and interests at their Toolkit from the University of Arkansas where she own pace and on an individual needs basis. served as a graduate assistant in the Infant Historic Southern Indiana (HSI) is featured Development Center. Wheaton-Collins replaces Pam Buschkill in a new online resource intended to help who retired from the University in December communities across the nation promote Wheaton-Collins will supervise eight after 20 years of service. their unique historic and cultural attractions. teachers and several student workers. She will Produced by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the online toolkit includes profiles of more than 80 communities achieving success despite the challenges posed by today’s economy. Web site visitors can search for stories by region, type of attraction or organization, or by one of eleven key survival strategies. The toolkit also includes links to other online resources to help cultural and heritage tourism attractions and organizations stay afloat during tough times. The toolkit can be found online at www.preservationnation.org/issues/heritage- tourism/survival-toolkit/.

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Festo Didactic and USI’s Pott College of Science and Engineering and Division of Outreach Read engage online and Engagement sponsored an Interactive Lean Manufacturing Workshop at USI in November. If you would prefer to receive engage by Participants were introduced to techniques such as 5S’s, Value Stream Analysis, Single Minute email instead of postal mail, please send your Exchange of Die (SMED), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Overall Equipment Effectiveness name and email address to Brandi Schwartz, (OEE), KANBAN, One Piece Flow, and the Continuous Improvement Process. USI will host a engage editor, at [email protected], or second Interactive Lean Manufacturing Workshop April 19-20. For more information, or to register online at www.usi.edu/engage/. register, call 812/464-1989.

A Carnegie Foundation Engaged University 6 7 Winter 2011 • Issue One Volume Two Notes Monthly emails from the Office of Continuing Education The Office of Continuing Education will distribute a monthly email announcing upcoming noncredit continuing education opportunities. To receive these monthly messages, email Brandi Schwartz, marketing coordinator in the Division of Outreach and Engagement, at blschwartz@ usi.edu, or use the sign up box at www.usi.edu/ extserv/continuingeducation.asp.

CAP announces fall 2010 enrollment numbers A temporary labyrinth created out of pumpkins was on display at the Labyrinth Society’s Inter- During the 2010 fall semester, the College national Gathering held in November in New Harmony, Indiana. The annual gathering sup- Achievement Program (CAP) enrolled 1,606 ports those who create, maintain, and use labyrinths and was co-sponsored by the University students and generated 4,763 credit hours. of Southern Indiana and Historic New Harmony. CAP is a cooperative program between USI and 22 participating high schools that gives motivated juniors and seniors an opportunity to earn college credit through their high school. Azteca Milling: Long-term partner with the The courses follow the same curriculum and Center for HRD academic standards as USI courses and are taught by high school faculty who participate Center for Human Over the years, the to the participants in an effort to meet their in ongoing, discipline-specific professional Resource Development (Center for HRD) particular training needs. It’s a wonderful tool development with USI faculty members. More has built several long-term partnerships to help identify developmental opportunities information about CAP can be found online at with regional businesses through on-site and to establish an action plan for those www.usi.edu/extserv/academic/cap.asp or by contracts and public programs. One of those individuals who desire to further develop their calling 812/228-5022. partnerships includes Azteca Milling, the career opportunities.” world leader in the corn masa flour industry. The Center for HRD has offered Located in Evansville, Indiana, Azteca organizational and professional development Spring RopeWalk Reading Milling began utilizing the services of the services for over 30 years. The Center’s Series announced Center for HRD 14 years ago for on-sight and core values are to assist organizations in off-sight developmental training programs for professional development of employees, The spring RopeWalk Reading Series supervisors. The Center for HRD staff identified identify unmet workforce development will include free readings at USI by poetry specific areas for further development of needs, and to work collaboratively to form authors Todd Boss on Thursday, February 17 supervisory skills and designed specific partnerships between USI and regional in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center training programs to meet the needs of the organizations. and Adrian Matejka on Thursday, April 7 in company. Carter Hall in the University Center and fiction/ “USI’s Center for Human Resource nonfiction author Heather Sellers on Thursday, Supervisors from Azteca Milling also Development provides an important service March 3 also in Carter Hall. All readings will start participate in the USI’s award-winning in Evansville’s business community,” said Huff. at 5 p.m. and will be followed by a reception Management Diagnostic Center (MDC), “The training consultants are well informed and book signing. Publications by these authors which uses a well-recognized and accepted and have a broad exposure, which allow are available for purchase in the USI Bookstore assessment center methodology to develop them the opportunity to offer clients ideas and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. comprehensive training needs profiles for or best practices to further enhance their supervisors, managers, and those aspiring to competitive advantage. Azteca Milling management positions. will continue to work with USI’s Center for University Center Expansion Human Resource Development as we offer “Azteca has actively participated in our employees the opportunity for growth Dedication/Open House USI’s Management Diagnostic Center to and career development in addition to the help identify candidates who will fill open The University of Southern Indiana will tangible performance results any company supervisory positions and to identify skills hold a dedication/open house for the newly would recognize when investing in their key a candidate may need to further succeed expanded University Center from 2:30 to 4:30 asset.” in their current position as well as future p.m. on Thursday, March 3. A ribbon cutting growth opportunities,” said Kelly Huff, For more information on services available will take place and USI students will offer tours logistics manager at Azteca Milling. “Once from the Center for HRD, call 812/465- of the 60,000-square foot space. The new development opportunities are identified, the 1629 or visit www.usi.edu/extserv/business/ space will house the Division of Outreach and MDC suggests a wide range of materials consulting.asp. Engagement, student organizations, new dining and meeting space, and more.

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Arts and Leisure Languages February 1, 10, or March 2 February 22–April 5 Social Security Planning for Boomers, this seminar covers the basics of Social Beginning Conversational Russian, learn basic conversational Russian. Security and reveals strategies for maximizing your benefits. Three offerings are Russian culture and customs will also be discussed. Meets six Tuesdays, no class available. March 8. February 2–March 24 February 24–April 7 Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar, learn basic acoustic guitar-playing Beginning Conversational Japanese, learn basic conversational Japanese techniques, including simple strumming, finger-picking, tuning, chording, and and Japanese customs, traditions, and protocols. Meets six Thursdays, no class reading skills. Bring your guitar to the first class. Meets eight Wednesdays. March 10. College Readiness Kids, Parents, and Teachers Saturday, February 26 or Saturday, April 23 April 9 and 16 Verbal Skills for SAT, emphasis will be on vocabulary development, written Saturday Art Workshop (ages 6-14), participants will join USI art students English, and critical reading. and faculty to create two- and three-dimensional artwork including collages, paintings, printmaking, sculptures, and more. Meets two Saturdays. Saturday, March 5 or Saturday, April 30 Math Skills for the SAT, skill development in problem solving, working Fitness/Aquatics/Recreation mathematical equations, and the rules pertaining to calculators. Students should bring a calculator. March 28–May 2 Beginning Golf, Professional instruction on golf equipment, terminology, rules, Computers and Information Management and etiquette. Bring a five- or seven-iron to the first class session. Two class sections are available, enrollment is limited to eight per section. Meets six Mondays. Thursday, February 10 Getting Started with Access, a quick start on the Microsoft Access database April 4, 11, and 16 system. Emphasis will be on table design and Access capabilities and Bicycle Basics, Safety, and Touring, learn the fundamentals of choosing a functions. Participants should be familiar with Microsoft® Windows. bike, basic maintenance and bike safety, and planning a bike trip. A group ride will conclude the course. Monday, March 8 Getting Started with PowerPoint 2007, start-up basics for the popular April 5–28 presentation graphics package: how to design and develop text presentations Stroke Mechanics for Competitive Swimmers, for those who swim from content outlines, adding clip art and scanned graphics, and editing the competitively, or who hope to, can improve their times through this analytical presentation master. approach to stroke mechanics. Meets four Tuesdays and four Thursdays. Visit usi.edu/extserv for more information and additional courses. Registration information: 812/464-1989 or 800/467-8600