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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 41, June 20, 2005 Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU 2004-2005, Volume 29 Grand Valley Forum, 1976- 6-20-2005 Grand Valley Forum, volume 029, number 41, June 20, 2005 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum29 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Grand Valley Forum, volume 029, number 41, June 20, 2005" (2005). 2004-2005, Volume 29. 41. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum29/41 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2004-2005, Volume 29 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~ 0 :::, a. DI ':c... C :::, ID N ? N 0 0 UI A NEWSLETTER FOR THE GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY ••• Chinese hospital partnership now includes St. Mary's Students and health care workers will learn more about acupuncture and other traditional Chinese medical treatments through an international partnership among Grand Valley, St. Mary's Health Care and a hospital in China. Medical officials from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing visited Grand Rapids June 14-18 to sign partnership papers and tour Kent and Ottawa county hospitals and Grand Valley's campuses. Jane Toot, dean of the College of Health Professions, said GVSU and the Beijing hospital have had an exchange agreement since 2003. Adding St. Mary's, and specifically the Peter M. Wege Center for Health and Learning, adds a clinical site for learning more about acupuncture and other treatments. "In China, doctors see acupuncture as a part of their health care provision," she said. "They see it as a preven­ tative component of treatment." The China-Japan Friendship Hospital is the teaching hospital of Beijing Medical University. It serves more than 20,000 patients annually, including 3,000 outpatients daily. The Chinese delegation toured St. Mary's and Spectrum hospitals in Photo by Courtney Newbauer Grand Rapids and North Ottawa Community Hospital in Grand Haven. A delegation from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital tours the They also visited the Cook-De Vos Center for Health Sciences. Rick imaging labs at the Cook-De Vos Center for Health Sciences on June 16. Carlton, director of the medical imaging/radiological sciences program, They were in Grand Rapids to sign partnership papers with Grand Valley and St. Mary's Health Care. led a tour of the imaging labs. ···--------------------------- Endowment supports service learning projects For years, Grand Valley engineering students Previous projects have included: have taken what they learn in the classroom into the community to work on projects that • Bikes for Kids, in which engineering students teach both engineering principles and the refurbish old bicycles for needy children; value of service. Now, with a new endowment from Rockford Construction, that work will • A long-standing partnership with Sibley get a boost. Elementary, in which students spend time working on projects with university students; A donation from Rockford Construction will establish the West Side Service Projects • Working on a new floor for Loaves and Endowment. The endowment will enable engi­ Fishes, a local food-bank associated with The neering students and faculty in the Padnos Other Way Ministries; College of Engineering and Computing to Photo by Courtney Newbauer carry out projects that will benefit the neigh­ • Building a sandbox and playroom for the President Mark A. Murray and John Wheeler, borhood that borders the university's Pew Women and Children's Center of Mel Trotter of Rockford Construction, sign papers estab­ Grand Rapids Campus. Those projects are Ministries. lishing an endowment that will enable engi­ aimed at building a sense of responsible citi­ neering students to work on service learning projects in Grand Rapids neighborhoods. zenship and leadership in engineering stu­ "In engineering we teach the language of dents. design using the precision of mathematics as students the language of the heart and of the well as concepts from many areas of engineer­ soul in order to complete their preparation to Professor Shirley Fleischmann has led the ing and applied science," Fleischmann said. enter the engineering profession as responsible charge toward encouraging service learning. "With community service, we hope to teach citizens and accomplished engineers." GRANDVALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY 2 Forum I June 20, 2005 Across Campus Patterson said. "But it will also make a huge difference when it comes to preparing students for the kind of writing they will do beyond school." Winerip also asked students about the pressure to write to formulas. The article is scheduled to appear in the New York Times in mid-July. Faculty, staff can get sneak peek at new YMCA Faculty and staff members can tour the David D. Hunting YMCA, 475 Lake Michigan Drive NW, before a public open house. The special tour is scheduled from 3-5 p.m. on Thursday, June 23. Refreshments will be served. RSVPs are not necessary; parking is avai l­ able in the lot behind the YMCA. The YMCA will host an open house on June 24 from noon-6 p.m. Faculty and staff can also attend this event. Photo by Courtney Newbauer New York Times columnist Mike Winerip interviews Nancy Patterson for Grand Valley has a partnership with the YMCA, which lowers member­ an article about standardized testing and writing. ship rates for faculty and staff members. Information about membership and payroll deduction information is online at www.gvsu.edu/hro. The Grand Valley graduate course first 500 faculty and staff members to enroll will receive a GVSU/YMCA to be featured in New York Times gym bag. Nancy Patterson, assistant professor of education, was interviewed by FOBI announces research scholars New York Times columnist Mike Winerip about the adverse effect stan­ dardized testing plays in K-12 writing instruction. The Family Owned Business Institute at Grand Valley recently named five recipients of its 2005 Research Scholars Program. Winerip, an education columnist and 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner, will fea­ ture Patterson in an article about how the culture of standardized testing is The Scholars Program encourages faculty to conduct new research with an forcing teachers to teach writing in ways that do not help students become emphasis on family business issues. Each proposal receives a $5,000 better writers. stipend. More than 30 applications were received, including several from Europe. Faculty members and their projects are li sted: Formulaic writing, though common in West Michigan schools, actually hinders students' development as writers, Patterson said. She added that it • Henrik Cronqvist, Ohio State University, and Mattias Nilsson, is very difficult for students to break away from writing formulas once Stockholm Institute for Financial Research: Family Ownership and they have learned them. Worker Compensation. "Many schools in West Michigan believe that teaching to a writing formu­ • James H. Davis and H. David Hayes, University of Notre Dame, Steven la helps students score better on the MEAP, but even the MEAP office has McClure, the Family Business Consulting Group Inc.: Commitment as a urged teachers to abandon this approach to writing," said Patterson, chair Competitive Advantage in Family Business. of the reading/language arts program. "We see so many schools use Power Writing and the five-paragraph essay. These do far more harm than good." • Sabine B. Klein, European Business School, Germany: The Impact of Organizational Culture onto the Board Size of Family Businesses. Winerip recently traveled to Grand Valley to watch Patterson and her stu­ dents to see the other methods of teaching writing that do not rely on for­ • Nancy M. Levenburg, Grand Valley assistant professor of management: mulas but can also result in high test scores. "We know that good writing instruction shows up in test scores," continues on page 3 ···-------------------------- FORUM Reconnecting with retirees Volume 29, Number 41 The GVSU Forum is published by the News and Information Services Office every Monday when classes are in session and biweekly during the summer. The submission deadline is Tuesday noon. Send publication items to Michele Coffill, editor, c/o [email protected]. Telephone: 616-331-222 1. Fax: 616-331-2250. Faculty and staff members can find an on line "Sketches" submission form on the Web at www.gvsu.edu/online/forum/form.html. Grand Valley State University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution. Visit GVNow, Grand Valley's daily online pub­ lication, on the Web at: www.gvnow.gvsu.edu/ Photo by Dianne Carroll-Burdick President Emeritus Don Lubbers, left, greets Art Hills and Don Williams at a reception for past retirees (faculty and staff who f:ave_been retired for at least six months). The reception, sponsored by University Development, was held June 13 at Seidman House. More than 70 people attended the GVNOW event, which was followed by a tour of Lake Ontario Hall. 3 Forum I June 20, 2005 What's Ahead Attorney will discuss 'Chicken Soup' author Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, a noted concert pianist, planned the summer series. She has planning for wills, trusts makes local appearance served as Grand Valley's principal carillonneur since 1994. Attorney Chris Brown will detail the legal and WGVU is sponsoring an evening with Jack financial issues surrounding wills, trusts and gift Canfield, author and creator of the Chicken Cook Carillon Concert Summer Series, planning during two presentations sponsored by Soup books. Sundays at 8 p.m. Grand Valley's Work Life Connections office. Canfield will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June June 26: Julianne Vanden Wyngaard Brown is a 1995 Grand Valley graduate and 23, at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids. July 3: Todd Fair, University of Denver car­ attorney at Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Tickets for the event are $35 each, or $75 each illonneur with admittance to a reception with the author Howlett in Grand Rapids.
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