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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Records WKU Archives 11-16-1994 UA11/1 On Campus, Vol. 4, No. 15 WKU University Relations Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records Part of the Higher Education Administration Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Public Relations and Advertising Commons, and the Social Influence and Political Communication Commons Recommended Citation WKU University Relations, "UA11/1 On Campus, Vol. 4, No. 15" (1994). WKU Archives Records. Paper 4353. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/4353 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 4 No. 15 • 1'1IblKdtion For WKU LKlIity dnd St,lft • NOH'IllI1l'r 16, IY94 .... ill WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Major gifts will involve campus partnership The Western Kentucky Univer· These funds are clearly identi College Heights Foundation, nor from the 1993-94 fund balance. sity Board of Regents at its regu fied in the annual financial state does it in any way affect the funds Projects funded include larly quarterly meeting Oct. 28 ments and audit report of the which have been entrusted to the $350,000 fo r a major gift cam endorsed a conceptual plan for a College Heights CHF by supportive paign and marketing plan, major gift fund raising campaign. Foundation :::::::=:::;. alumni and friends $300,000 for instructional equip The plan will be a partnership (CHF) as ~ who have shared ment, $150,000 for equipment with faculty, staff and administra custodial their resources to for Facilities Management, tors and businesses, alumni and funds, and benefit and encourage $100,000 in matching funds for the Western Kentucky University the arrange deser:ving students. He interactive television and Foundation, said Robert M. ment under the also stressed that the two $75,000 to remodel the Journal Rutledge fi, vice president for agreement was foundations were separate ism Department. The Univer Institutional Advancement. made to be of entities. Sity will still maintain a fund The campaign will augment an service to the reserve of about $4 million; already healthy annual fund University, • Approved a set of priori ties raising campaign by challenging said Dr. Dero "We intend to make to the building of the 1995-96 alumni and friends to actively Downing, absolutely certain budget. They include increas participate in a major fund-raising CHF presi that every penny ing funding for instruction, campaign, Rutledge said. dent. within the Col~ research and libraries; enhanc "This plan will significantly It was lege Heights ing faculty and staff salaries; increase private support. for the under Foundation enhancing student retention; University over the next five to 10 stood which has been enhancing minority student years," he said, adding that as the from the placed there by recruitment; funding for Presi plan matures, the cost of raising outset supportive dent Thomas C. Meredith's money will decrease. that friends, and all "Moving to a New Level While A more detailed plan will be these funds future gifts, will be Keeping Old Traditions" initia brought to the regents in January. remain subject to protected and administered tive; and campus maintenance Regents also approved the call by the University where they by the College Heights Foundation and transfer of about $3.9 million in will be administered by the in compliance with the donor's • Approved creating the posi endowment and development Western Kentucky University expressed wishes at the time the tions of staff assistant in the assets to the Western Kentucky Foundation. gifts are made," Dr. Downing said. Office of International Pro University Foundation. Dr. Downing said this action In other business, the Board: grams, trust accountant in does not adversely affect the • Approved allocating $1.6 million Institutional Advancement and Louisville bank to provide fire safety coordinator in Facili WKU Foundation custodial ties Management. & investment services WKU Public Radio wins 10 AP awards, Bingham award; surpasses $94,000 Trustees of the Western Kentucky Happy Thanksgiving . University Foundation at its .b fund-raising, membership goal r regularly scheduled Board meet to all' WKU Faculty ing last month interviewed 12 The public radio service of WKU has won 10 awards in its class from the candidates for custodial and Associated Press of Kentucky at the fall meeting of the Kentucky Broad and Staff! investment management services casters Association in Lexington. and selected PNC Bank of Louis~ ville to provide these services for In addition to the winning contest entries, which ranged from best the WKU Foundation. newscast and best breaking spot news storY, WKU's station was recog~ In other business, the Board nized with an award for the number of contributions it makes to the received a report by the nominat Associated Press news desk as well as the KBA's Meritorious Service ing committee as it moves to Award. establish a profile for potential The Public Radio Service also recently won the 1994 Barry Bingham trustees and finalize the process Media Award, presented by the Kentucky Psychiatric Association for for trustee appointment. outstanding reporting on topics related to mental illness. "We are pleased to provide Reporter Kevin Ingram and News Director Dan Modlin produced the these services for the benefit of winning series, Silence and Signals. The three-day broadcast addressed Western Kentucky University," a number of concerns relating to youth suicide in Kentucky. said Steve Catron, chair of the Foundation Board. "Our Board Western's Public Radio Service includes WKYU-FM in Bowling Green, members have spent countless WKPB-FM in Henderson/Owensboro, WDCL-FM in Somerset and WKUE hours to assist the movement of in Elizabethtown. Western as it continues its quest The station ended its faU membership drive Nov. 5 after raising a total and strives for excellence." of $94,323 in pledges. The goal for the drive was $94,000. On Campus Western Kentucky University November 16, 1994 Regents appoint Family Holiday Pops, Deborah Tomes Friday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m.! Wilkins University The Bowling Green Western Council, Executive Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Assistant Norton, Associate Professor of Music at WKU, will present Family to the President Holiday Pops, a diverse program on Deborah Tomes Wilkins began Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. in Van duties Nov. 10 as University Meter Auditorium. Counsel for Western Kentucky Sponsored by Southern Welding The Department of Music University. Supply Company, the program will Presents The University's Board of greet the holiday season and treat Regents approved the appoint the family to nutcrackers and The Bowling Green ment at its regular quarterly carolers, "fiddlin' and dancio,'" old meeting Oct. 28. Wilkins will Western Choral Society and men in red and kids on stage (from 01'chestra also serve as executive assistant St. Joseph School in Bowling to President Thomas C. Meredith. Green) storytelling and merry Under the direction of The1982 WKU graduate has music, something everybody will D,·. Gal)' McKercher been a partner in the Bowling Dtborah Tomes Wilkins like. Green law firm of Campbell, Photo by Bob Skipper Joel Whittinghill, a WKU senior Kerrick & Grise since 1993. She from Fordsville, Ky., eight-time Saturday, Nov. 19, 1994 has also been an instructor in Warren County and Kentucky bar state champ on mandolin, fiddle 8:00 p.m. WKU's paralegal program and a associations, the Bowling Green and guitar will perform with New Van Meter Auditorium domestic relations commissioner. Noon Lions Club and Leadership Generation, a group which in Wilkins is a member of the Bowling Green. cludes Whittinghill, his brother, Jeff Cantata Academica and sister, Anita and Byron by Benjamin Britten Mass in G Sowders, also winners of bluegrass Campus Forum Today Private Fund-Raising by Franz Schubert band championships in Kentucky, £Xu/tate jubilate November 16, 1994 Indiana and Tennessee. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3 p.m. For ticket information, call 782- ARTS. Admission is $8; 53 for Grise Hall Auditorium featured soloists students. Jerrold Pope A special reminder: shuttle Athletics Patricia Schlicht service will be provided to Van Ray Boling Finance and Administration Meter Hall starting at 7 p.m. from Institutional Advancement the parking lot at 14th and Chest For ticket information caU 745-5915 Student Affairs nut St l Internal Auditor See you there! Education Commissioner Boysen chats on campus about KERA Kentucky's Education Com "Robert Frost said that a good the importance also of knowledge tan£." Boysen said within the next missioner, Dr. Thomas Boysen, poem begins in delight and ends of basic math skills and how to six months, there will be "very visited WKU on Oct. 26, and in wisdom, and that's what a apply them, also in groups. solid research" reported indepen during a breakfast meeting on really good education should do "Early indications are that dently on the technical validity campus told his audience of too," said Boysen, adding that "We students are doing better in math, and reliability of testing," and WKU students and faculty that need to be sending the message better than in the other areas, results will be "very high," he the top challenge among Ameri from the very earliest days that the except perhaps for reading," predicted. can High School Educators today education you get is the education Boysen said. "I think if students come out of is motivating their students. you create." Complimenting WKU's technol secondary school and hit a very Speaking on The K£RA Gradu He emphasized also that active ogy program in preparing teachers different environment, it won't be ate, Boysen told the group learning is important.