Notre Dame Report 25:09 (1996-01-19)
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OT E E EP I I 4t THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY NoTES 245 Scholarship Aid to Increase 247 Honors 245 Falco Wins Sullivan Prize 247 Activities 245 Allen Supports Irish Studies 251 Deaths 245 Alliance for Catholic Education Receives Award 246 Self-study ofAthletics Begins 246 Strategic Planning for Information Technologies DocuMENTATION Announced 253 Board of Trustees Executive Summary AoMINISTR.ATOR.s' NoTES October 20, 1995 254 262nd Graduate Council Minutes September 13, 1995 252 Honors 256 Faculty Senate Journal 252 Activities November 8, 1995 252 Publications 269 Faculty/Student Committee on Women October 27, 1995 THE GRADUATE ScHooL 270 Current Publications and Other Scholarly Works 274 Awards Received and Proposals Submitted 275 Awards Received 276 Proposals Submitted THE UNIVER_SITY ~Scholarship Aid to Increase Allen Supports Irish Studies Notre Dame will increase expendable funds for student Herbert Allen, chief executive officer of the investment scholarship aid by $5 million over the next four academic banking firm Allen & Company, has made two gifts total years. ing $700,000 to the Keough Center for Irish Studies in honor of the center's founder, Donald R. Keough. A projected 425 undergraduate students will be recipients Keough, chairman of the board of Allen & Company, is a of the new scholarship money over the four-year period. member and former chair of the Board of Trustees. Scholarship awards will be made to first-year students in each of the four entering classes beginning in the fall of One $350,000 gift will be used to support lecturers in 1996. In accordance with University policy, awards will Irish studies at Notre Dame, while, with the other be based on students' academic and personal qualities as $350,000 gift, the University will purchase a microfilm well as demonstrated financial need. The awards will collection of some 200,000 18th-century books, broad carry over from year to year with adjustments for in sides and other printed materials including all editions of creased University costs and any changes in students' the works of Edmund Burke, Henry Fielding, Benjamin need. Franklin, Thomas Paine, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, among others. Acquisition of the collection will The sources of the $5 million in new expendable money substantially enhance the Notre Dame library's holdings will include proceeds from bowl appearances by the foot in Irish literature, religion, history, government, culture ball team, revenues from the television contract with and other topics. NBC and income from its product licensing program. These same sources already have generated more than $30 million in increased financial aid endowment in the Alliance for Catholic Education past three years alone. Receives Award Under the new plan, $5 million that would have gone into financial aid endowment instead will be made im Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) has r1t mediately available for scholarship awards. received the Exemplary Program Award from the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (W ASSA). Falco Wins Sullivan Prize Participants in the two-year program take part in two teacher training sessions conducted during the summer at Notre Dame by staff from the University of Portland's Acid, a collection of short stories by Edward Falco, has SchoolofEducation. been selected as the first winner of the Sullivan Prize for short fiction. The WASSA award is the second such honor to be given to ACE, which earlier this year was named recipient of The prize, which will be awarded biennially by the Cre the National Education Association's C. Albert Koob ative Writing Program to authors of short stories, honors a distinguished member of Notre Dame's English faculty, Merit Award for significant contributions to Catholic education. the late novelist and short story writer Richard Sullivan. The Sullivan Prize includes a $500 cash award and publi Under the direction of Sister Lourdes Sheehan, R.S.M., cation of the winning work by the University of Notre ACE this year has sent 80 teachers to disadvantaged paro Dame Press. chial schools in urban and rural communities throughout the southeastern United States. Falco, whose short stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, TriQuarterly, The Southem Review and the Virginia ACE was founded in 1994 by Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C., Quarterly Review, is the author of an earlier collection, vice president and associate provost, to provide commit Plato at Scratch Daniels, and a novel, Winter in Florida. He ted Catholic teachers for understaffed parochial schools also has a collection of hypertext poetry on the Internet. and to provide recent college graduates with intensive His short story, "The Artist," has been selected by Pulitzer teacher training and opportunities for Christian commu prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley for inclusion in Best nity and personal growth. After two years in the ACE American Short Stories 1995. program, participants receive a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from the University of Portland. 245 THE UNIVER-SITY cialized tools have been developed to access them. Simi- e\ Self-study of Athletics Begins larly, the gap between communication via computers and telephone communication is narrowing. This evolution Notre Dame has formed a committee of faculty, staff and led to the recent name change of the Office of University students to conduct a yearlong self-study of its athletic Computing to the Office of Information Technologies, department as the first step in complying with the . and creates new opportunities and challenges for infor NCAA's new Division I certification program. All DIVI mation technologies on campus. sion I colleges and universities are required to complete a self-study of athletics by 1998. The Office of Information Technologies, in partnership with the University Libraries and the Office of Telecom The 47-member committee will examine all aspects of the munications, is embarking on a strategic planning effort. athletic program, with emphasis on governance and com The goal of this joint activity is to develop a program for mitment to rules compliance, academic integrity, fiscal the use of information technology in supporting the ob integrity and commitment to equity. Upon completion jectives of the Colloquy for the Year 2000, and additional of the self-study, the committee will submit a report to a needs of the University community. peer-review panel made up of members from ?ther Divi sion I colleges and universities. That panel will evaluate Understanding the information technology needs of an the self-study and make a recommendation to the individual or a specialized unit is most effectively done NCAA's Committee on Athletics Certification, which will with a thorough interview. Since technology touches determine whether to certify the University's athletic pro nearly every function on campus the scope of this planning gram. A decision is expected by early 1997. process is formidable. To accomplish the task in a timely fashion the Office of Information Technologies has con Notre Dame's committee is chaired by Nathan 0. Hatch, tracted the services of ED UTECH, International, a company vice president for graduate studies and research and pro with 10 years of experience in higher education consulting. fessor of history. Subcommittees on governance, aca demic integrity, fiscal integrity and equity are chaired, re The executive committee of the University Committee on spectively, by Patricia O'Hara, vice president for student Computing and Information Services, whose membership affairs and professor of law; A. james McAdams, associate is listed below, will schedule interviews between professor of government and international studies, Will EDUTECH consultants and small groups of information lliifJ:... iam Nichols, associate dean for M.B.A. programs and pro technology users. Specialized task forces, with memb~rs W' fessor of accountancy; and Carol Kaesebier, vice president from units across campus, will be formed as the plannmg and general counsel. process evolves. This planning effort is scheduled for completion by June Strategic Planning for Information 30, 1996. Additional information (to be updated regu Technologies Announced larly) is available on-line at http:/ /www.nd.edu/-nditsp/. The primary concern is that this planning proces_s is . In a letter dated November 29, 1995, Steven Buechler, associ driven by the needs of the Notre Dame commumty. It lS ate provost and professor of mathematics, announced com through your participation that the outcome will be the mencement of a strategic planning effort for information tech University's plan for information technology. Your in nologies. This letter was sent to some 1500 faculty and staff. volvement will be appreciated. Its text follows: Executive Committee of UCCIS In 1987 the Task Force on Computing at the University of Co-chairs: Steven Buechler, associate provost and professor of Notre Dame issued its full report. The ensuing develop mathematics; Nazareno L. Rapagnani, assistant provost for infor ment of computing at the University was guided by the mation technologies recommendations of this report. To fully utilize present Members: james]. Lyphout, associate vice president for business and future resources a continuing plan for information affairs; Robert C. Miller, director of University Libraries; Roger F. technologies must be developed. jacobs, director of the Law Library, professor and assoc~ate dean of law; Bill D. McDonald, professor of finance and busmess eco Today audio and video materials are often stored and ed nomics; Kathie E. Newman, professor of physics and associate ited on computers, and computer output can be projected dean of science; Roger B. Skurski, professor of economics and as onto a screen in the classroom. This growing interdepen sociate dean of arts and letters; joannes Westerink, associate pro dence of audio-visual media and computing tools resulted fessor of civil engineering and geological sciences; Edward F. in the move of Educational Media into the Office of Uni Hums, director of special projects, vice president for business af fairs; Harold L.