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This Other 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. 9, NO.2' MARCH 1999 iii WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION FOR FACU LTY, STAFF AND FRIENDS OF WKU raking the Classroom Across the Commonwealth \ Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky.-Kentucky plans to take a hig step into the world of online education this fall to take the classroom to more people. The stale's Commonwealt h Vir tual Un iversity, an $18 million under taking that involves half the state's public and pri vate colleges, is on a fasl track to opening for business. Online education is a largely un tested world that barely existed five years ago. Its main goal is delivering a college education to people whose .. . work and lifestyles keep them from enrolling at a traditional campus. Stale officials are banking on the • • • virtual university as a big part of hav • , ing a more educated population. •
H It is dear that too many Kentuck· ians have too little education beyond hig h school," said Gordon Davies, lot programs. ter fo r Higher Education Management president of the Kentucky Coundl on "I don't think we have ever seen Systems. Postsecondary Education. colleges working so well togeth er," Ed uca tion leaders say Kentucky is Todd sa id . entering the market at a good time. Most virtual or online universities "We ha ve spent a lot of ti me look are expansions of colleges' existi ng ing at what other organizations are Vir.tu.al re.al.i.ty n Computer Sci. distance-learning programs--in which doing," Todd sa id. "We have the A computer simulation of a real or imagi students may take classes via video chance to learn fro m their mista kes." tapes or sa tellite feeds, but occasion Davies said the deta ils will deter nary system that enables a user to perform ally go to campus to ta ke a class or two. mine the CVU's success. Most Kentucky public insti tutions He recalled a former g raduate operations on the simulated system and already offer some courses through student's paper on virtual universities. shows the effect in real time. interacti ve television or the Internet. The student had to navigate through UK already offers some grad uate de a dozen Web sites at one online uni Webster's New Collegiate Dictionanj grees entirely through interac ti ve tele versity to enro ll in a single class. vision. "It's critica l that Ke ntucky avoid But, by most accounts, virtual uni such pitfa lls," Da vies sa id . versities are an untested way of edu "This has the potentia l to do great This fa ll, the CVU will offer a lim associate degrees electronical ly. cating students. thi ngs fo r access to post-secondary ited number of classes from the state's And in December, the counciJ ap "Most of the virtual universities education," Daviessaid . "But if it's not public and pri vate colleges and uni proved the fi rst CVU budget- nearly are so new that it's hard to determi ne student-fri endly and easy to naviga te, versities, using the In ternet and inter· $18 million for the next two years. how successfu l they are," said Dennis no one will use it." active television. In some cases, stu· The budget includes money for Jones, president of the Na tional Ce n- dents will not even ha ve to go to a col· support sta ff to help students, for tech lege campus to obtain a degree. nology upgrades and for the training "The virtu al university begins to of professors who redesign classes to make education accessible to all who work with the technology. wa nt it," Da vies sa id . The fi rst CVU programs include a WKU President Gary Ransdell serves as a mem The CVU was part of Gov. PauJ firefighting-certi fica te p rogram, ber of the Distance Learning Advisory CommiHee of Patlan's 1997 higher·education·reform courses fo r fut ure li brarians, and the Council on Postsecondary Education. act, which restructu.red the state'ssys. master's programs in special educa A report to the WKU Board of Regents from Pro- tem of post-secondary education. Lost tion and speech pathology. vost and Vice President for Academic AHairs Barbara in the debate of removing the state's Ed ucation officials lout the CVU community college system fro m the as an example of how higher educa Burch said, "At the first system-wide Faculty Develop Uni versity of Kentucky, the idea of a tion should work in Kentucky. ment Conference in Lexington, Ky., in November, virtual university drew li llI e comment "There is a remarkable level of Western had more faculty invited to present than or criticism. collabora tion and cooperation among any other university in the state (nine out of 3S par For the last year and a half, the the state's colleges and universities, ticipants), and these faculty received many acco- council has been moving at breakneck both public and private," sa id Lexing lades. speed to get the CVU off the ground. ton businessman Lee Todd, a council Mary Beth Susma n recently was member who has guided the CVU's "It is obvious that the (VU and the potential of hired as the CVU chief executive. She early stages. distance learning has profound implications for was president of the Colorado Elec Nearl y half of Ihe state's more Western, U she said. tronic Community College in Denver, than 50 public and pri vate co lleges are which offers all the required classes for contributing to at least one of ni ne pi- ON CAMPUS WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY MARCH 1999
Board of Regents Meeting: Sprinklers a High Priority OnCampus The Western Kentucky University erate. Even with the increase, he said reate degree programs in interdis Board of Regents at its quarterly meet he expected Western to retain the sec ciplinary early childhood educa On Campus is a publication for ing Jan. 29 approved a plan to install ond-lowest residence hall fee rate tion. The programs will be sub sprinklers in several high-priority resi among Kentucky's public universities. mitted to the Council on the Western community, dence halls over the next seven years. In other business, the board: Postsecondary Education. Under the plan, the University produced by Ihe offices of * Administered the oath of office to * Approved the purchase of 30 acres would fund the installation of sprin adjacent to Barren County High klers in nine halls, along with bonds new faculty regent Mary Ellen Communications and Miller. School in Glasgow to become the to fund a $3.5 million renovation of site of the South Regional Publicalions . another hall, with an $85 per semester * Approved a $15 increase in man Postsecondary Education Center. increase in residence hall fees begin datory student fees for full-time The land, appraised at $300,000, .~ , ning in the fall 1999 semester. The five students, including a $10 increase will be purchased for $150,000. .. for student centers. halls that remain without sprinklers The project, approved by the 1998 Office of Communicatians will be replaced or renovated, WKU * Approved a post-tenure review Kentucky General Assembly, will President Gary Ransdell said. policy that calls for a comprehen house the WKU-Glasgow campus Sheila Conway Eison, Editor Dr. Ransdell said it was necessary sive review of tenured faculty ev and will be a joint venture be to increase the fees because the con ery five years. tween WKU and the Kentucky struction and operation of residence * Approved associate and baccalau- Community and Technical Col halls depends on the income they gen- lege System. Office of Publications Jennifer Asbury, Designer Tom Meacham, Director AMessage from Your Staff Regent 'i Send items to On Campus, The followi ng is the f irst of regular ship to request that the auditing of columns to appear in OnCa mpus, written classes be reinstated to the Faculty / Van Meter Hall, Room 204 or by the W KU faculty and staff represen ta Sta ff scholarship policy. I hope that e·mail [email protected] tives on the university Board of Regen ts. these two groups can work together in the fu ture on other issues. Some the I'd like to thank On Campus for giv Council has taken up are: raises for ing me this opportunity to touch base part-time employees, employee ser with the campus community on a regu vice awards and electing new mem la r basis. I want to be sure that every bers in the spring. I can tell you that one knows how to reach me if you are the Council members work hard to so inclined. I am no longer working for represent the staH well and that the been mentioned as a possible outcome. Facilities Management. Since the end Council has come a long way from I fi nd it hard to believe that we ca n in of May I have been a technician in where it first began as a small advi vite a private corporation to come to WKU's Environme ntal Health and sory committee to the President. I also our campus, build a new building. pro Safety Department. Our office is lo continue to meet with another com vide more services, stay open lo nger cated in the Parking Structure next to mittee of staff members from aU over pours, still make a profit and not be the WKU Police Annex. We just re campus. if anyone out there is inter anything but expensive fo r our stu ce ntly got a new phone number, ested in giving up your lunch hour to dents. I am in favor of improving ser meet with us every three months, let vices. Ma ny b u sinesses succe ed 745-7095. I share this line with the Joy Gramling, WKU Staff Regent other technicians and w e do have me know. l'd like to thank those who through continuous improvement of voice ma il. Please feel free to call have done so over the years; your their goods and services. But w hy can't Board at that meeting was an inflation me at the office, at ho me in Allen counsel has been invaluable. The gov we look at improving our "in house" ary increase in student fees along with County at (502) 622-6856, or e-mail me ernor holds an annual conference of operations? Our in house operati ons an increase for the student centers. My at [email protected]. Let me hear members of university governing create a home away from home, a fa m no vote w as cast in part because we from you! boards from across the state in the fall. ily atmosphere that makes Western I have learned a lot and continue have many students who come from This is usually the only time I get to uniq ue and contribute to an environ lower income fa milies and we need to to learn as I serve in my fifth year on meet with other staff regents. One is ment that is cond ucive to learning. We remember that. One way to make edu the Board of Regents. This year I have sue that we talked about this year was are in the business of educating stu cation accessible is to keep it afford been assigned to the Finance and Bud the fact that there is not a staff repre dents, helping them grow as human able. Other actions were: get Com m!ltee. At the full Board meet sentative o n the Council on beings and encouraging them to reach ing Jan. 29 we looked at the 1999-2000 * the swearing in of a new faculty Postsecondary Ed uca tion (although their full potential. No one can do that institutional budget priorities that are regent: Mary Ellen Miller of the there are faculty and student represen better than a loyal, dedicated work being followed to build the next bud English Department, tatives). Through the miracles of e force that is here for the students - not mail and fax mal hines we drafted a for profit. I do not intend to vote for get. They are: passage of a post-te nure review * letter asking the e PE to support our privatization of any services at West to implement the Strategic Plan, policy, approval of two new pro * efforts to get a si'aft representative on ern. A most important task that the grams in Interdisciplinary Early to recruit and retain quali ty faculty the CPE. Some of us have been talk Board will be undertaking in the next * Childhood Education, and and staff, ing to legislators to ask for their sup month or so is the evaluation of the approval of an increase of $85.00 * to improve our physical resources, * port in the next legislative session. We President. Dr. Ransde!l has brought and to the Housing fee to help pay fo r hope we can sched ule a meeting of many strengths with him. He seems to sprinkling the residence halls and staff regents next fall (either before or have the best interests of the institution to identify permanent funding for * the renovation of McLean HalL aft er the Conference on Trusteeship) at heart. ! have enjoyed working with needs which have been met rou As you probably know, I am a to discuss other common issues. This Dr. Ransdell and will continue to meet tinely by non-recurring allocations non-voting member of the Staff Coun yea r the University of Ke ntucky with him from time to time to discuss such as fund balances. cil and attend most meetings. I have added the first staff regent to its Board ongoing issues. i wish him nothing but It is my intention to work toward been trying to develop a closer work of Trustees. UK had been exempted success as he leads our university into keeping faculty and staff salaries a high ing relationship with the Counci l and until legislation was passed last year the 21st centucy. ~ priority in fu ture budget cycles. After improve communication by gi ving a to add a staff representative. I have all, the fa culty and sta ff are the life report on our quarterly Board meet been watching with great interest as a blood of this institution. ings. Recently the Council worked to committee ponders the fa te of the St u Another issue that came before the gether with the Faculty Senate leader- dent Health Service. Privatization has • ON CAMPUS WESTERN KENIUCKY UNIVERSITY MARCH 1999
Tuesday, March 23 * 8 p.m. through in thought. His challenging Van Meter Auditorium presentations cover a broad range of A brillia nt interpreter of sci ence controversial subject maller, from the and its complex social consequences, scientific arguments for racial equal Stephen Jay Gould is one of the few ity to theories on the nature of excel distinguished intellect uals whose lcc lence to mankind's amazing-but not tmes draw pop-sta r size audiences. mi raculous-origins to Darwin's revo His challenging present.1tions cover a lutionary breakthrough in thought. broad ra nge of controversial subject The author of more than 200 essays for matter, from the scientific arg uments his Na/llrnl His/ory Magaz ille column for racial equality to theories on the "Th is View of Li fe," Professor Gould nature of excellence; from mankind's is also a contributor to Discover Maga amazin g-but-nol-miracu] ous origins zine. He won th e National Magazin e to Darwin's revolutionary brea k- Award for Essays .1 nd Criticism in , 1980 and in 1981 received an Ameri can Book Aw,ud for rile Pallda's TJl!lm /1 and the National Book Critic's Circle Awa rd for Th e MismteasureoJ Mall. Dis cover Magazill e also named him their Scientist of the Year in 1982. A pro fessor of Geology and Zoolog}~ Gould has taught at Harvard University since 1967.
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A $500,000 gift from an anony tral programs in the Commonwealth, Western's campus .... entire development program," Hiles mous donor will be matched with state offering participating students profes Tom I-liles, Western's vice presi said. funds to create a music professorship sional involvement by both Western dent for Development and Alumni "This gift will support excellence at Western Kentucky University. faculty and members of the Louisville Relations, said the gift is important to in our music program fo r genera ti ons The gift is the larges t the WKU and Nashville orchestras." more than just the music program. to come. We are so grateful to our Music Department has received from David Lee, Dean of the Potter Col "This gift is a marvelous example benefactor who ha s once again a single donor. It will be matched with lege of Arts, Humanities and Social of how the generosity of one indi stepped forward to support Western fund s from Kentucky's Regional Uni Sciences, said the gift will have a dra vidual can impact an entire commu and the arts community," I-liles added. ve rsity Excellence Tru st Fund to cre matic impact on Western's music pro nity and will be a major boost to our ate a $1 mill ion endowed professor gram. ship and will be used to attract and The de partme nt now provides support a quality fa culty member to string instruction to 10 music students work 'Nith students in Western's mu - the highest number since the mid- sic program. 1980s. "With the further success of this The professor will primarily serve orchestra and the leadership this pro as the music director and cond uctor fe ssorship will bri ng, this number is of the Bowling Gree n-Western Sym expected to increase," Dr. Lee said. phony Orchestra, which is celebrating "This gift will enrich the experi its 90th season. The professor w ill also ences of our students, and it will open recru it and teach string students on new opport unities fo r us to work be c,1 mpus while coordi nati ng with com yond the ca mpus with young musi munity and public and priva te schools cians in el ementary and seconda ry to hel p continue development of an schools," he said. "The educational area strings program. and cultural life of our community will NThis marvelous gift will have a be richer because of the donor's gen monumental impact on th e qualit y of erosity. " cult ural life at Western and through John A. Duff, head of Western's out the Bowling Green communit y,N Mu sic Departme nt, said the gift is said WKU President Gary Ransdell. "very exciting for Western's music fac "The new professorship will be the ulty and students, the members of the cornerstone of our music program a nd Bow li ng Green - Western Symphony a centr,11 figure in the Bowling Green Orchestra and the BGWSO Board of Women's Studies Center stoH welcome you any time to visit the new location for the Western Symphony. Everyone who Directors. 11 will ensure the develop Women's Studies Program at 1532 State St. (Between the International Studies appreciates classical music shares our ment of strings at the university level Center ond Environmentol Sciences and Technology Building (EST ). Left to right: Dr. gratitude for this gift." as well as in the community, a nd will Jone Olmsted, director of Women's Studies, Brondy Felty, oHice ossociote, Jennifer Dr. Ransdell said Weste rn "has further strengthen a n already out Blythe, student worlcer and Melanie Zoheer, groduote assistant. one of the strongest universit y orches- standing mus ic de partment o n • - ON CAMPUS WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY MARCH 1999
After 13 years, Miller's hack as faculty Regent
"Every day I get two or three phone calls fro m fac ulty, or two or three items in the mail or e-mailed, with information and concerns. "And updates fro m the President's offi ce are always so helpful," she said, referring to an update on enrollment she just received thai includes compari sons with last year. "I like to be informed," she says. "I like to know what's going o n, and I like to have some influence on what's going on." And that's why the fa culty elected her. Mary Ellen - and you'll just have to forgive me-Professor Miller or Regent Miller just doesn't work in my context. I'm writ ing about a woman who on.::e fo und a spot fo r me at a two-day writi ng workshop over at Rough River State Park because I was grieving over my dog r d just lost, and she thought I need ed to get away and get my head working again to help the pain. It worked. It was a greal workshop, and I was grateful for her concern. It's that kind of concern that expands into her workplace and is the impe tus behind her ru nning again fo r the board a nd succeeding in getting the job. Plain and simple, she'll work at it. "T still have that old feeling," she says with a laugh. Looking at the early eighties, Mary Ellen says, "Maybe 50 percen t of the fa culty today were here then. I'm not sure of thai, but I think that's a pretty reasonable estimate. Most people remember when I served as regent. I hope they remember me kindly, and as someone who worked very hard, but I also know there arc a lot of younger, newer people here who don't much under stand what the Board of Regents does. "I had a student ask me, after the election, 'Just what isa regent?' and I find that some facu lty don't know either that the regents are the governing body of the University, and that they pretty much have the final say-so on what hap pens on campus. "And if the partkular board at any time has a popular president, then they're going to be sympathetic, most of the time, with most of the items proposed. But if the president is unpopular, they're going to question just about everything. "I've seen it both ways. The board hires the president and monitors the president's job, and they involve themselves in all kinds of issues that affect everyone on this campus. "[t really behooves everyone to know the function of the board, and I think as many as possible should go to board meetings. Several faculty who came to my swearing-in said, 'So this is where the board meets! I didn't know what they did!' So I hope, in this term, also to acquaint faculty with the role of the board of regents, and not just the faculty regent's role as well. What's changed si nce she was on the board 16 years ago? Professor Mary Ellen Miller " I see fewer changes than you mig ht th ink. Things are still pretty much as they were then. Maybe the faculty has gotten .a tiny liU le bit more political. [ don't reall y think so. "Maybe the Faculty Senate is a bit more active. I don't rea ll y thin k so," she By Sheila Eisoll sa id. I don't remember the first li me I met Mary Ellen Miller; it seems like I've "One enormous change, though, is the makeup of the Boa rd of Regents. In always known her. We're friends. Nollhe ya-ya sisterhood type - heller. What the eig hties, I was one of three women, and the others were men: seven. Now ever our conversations, there's always substance, an u nderstood awareness that there are seven women and four men. That is d ifferent. wasted words a re wasted lime. "Now I have a fema le boss," she said, referring to Provost and Vice Presi The fact thai she's back as the faculty's representative on the Boa rd of Re dent for Academic Affairs Barbara Burch." And I had a female department head," gents, after serving in the 19805 isn't surprising to me at all. In fact, that' s Ma ry she said, referring to Dr. Mary Ellen Pitts, w ho was English Department head Ellen, w hose radar st ays aimed to ward what's ha ppeni ng. until last year. In "1983, after her election as Faculty Regent for the firsllime, she lold me "In the eighties we d idn't have a Women's Studies Program, so I think we've she couldn't imagine anyone not want ing the job. She served her term then, grown up some," she said. She's a member of the program's steering commit three years plus six months of a term vacated by her predecessor, a nd now tee. "I think we've tried to solve some of the problems about the low nu mbers she's back, with the sa me response: o f minorities on campus, but we still have to work on that. " I can't imagine a nyone not waiting it you have the time; of course you can "International Programs have expanded and I am excited about that," she make the time, if you pace yourself, because the job is pretty time-consuming. I said. She's still a member of the Canadian Studies Committee. thi nk it's one of the most t"xciting th ings you can do, because it means you're "A major change has been in my personallffe," she said, referring to the informed abou t what's going o n all over campus," said the professor of English death of her husband, noted author and poet, Jim Wayne Miller, who died two who's in her 361h year at Western, with no intention of quitting anytime soon. and a half years ago. And why should she? The faculty just voiced their vote of confidence in "I'm a w idow now, alone fo r the first time since I was in college, and that her to represent them on the University's governing board, and that's q uite a has been a major adjustment for me," she says. "My work life is pretty stable, feat in itself in an organization with as many diverse philosophies as a u niver and that has helped me to hold on, she says, adding another stable force in her sity campus can accom modate. li fe is her own poetry writing. And represent them she will. She already has an IS-member task fo rce in She meets monthly with a long-ti me intimate group of fellow poets who place, made up of junior and senior, men and women members fro m all of the su pport each other's writings "and nag each other about sending thi ngs out," colleges. She'll seek their in put in her decision-making, she says, because "There she says. really a re some issues, some o f them very importa nt, and some of them I need Most of her w riting lately, she says, " have been about Jim." more info rmation about, but I'm ju mping right in, fee t first. She's also qui te invo lved as Coord inator o f the Robert Pen n Wa rren Center, ''I've already learned there are just all kinds of task forces at work here. I having been a fo under of the Center along with natio na l Robert Penn Warren was so absorbed myself in the Task Force on the Status of Women last year, and Schola rs, ind uding Kentucky Poet LaureateJoy Bale Boone, who served as chair now I discover there are q ui te a few, with some pretty im portanl lhings going for several years. on too. If you want to know someo ne, fi nd out what he/she reads. Mary Ellen Miller's favorite authors defi nitely are reflective of her d ignified, sagacious, yet
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poetic mien. " I leach Emerson a nd Thoreau and Whitman. They' .... e always been almost Professional AdiYities a Bible to me. I admire Thoreau's approach to life, not everything aboul lI;/II, but about his courage, and his absolute conviction that li fe can be sublime if you go at it the right way. , really believe thai. EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP dents of Morehead State University March 2S on Science and Religion: Not "I hate most pop psychology, those thousand and one watered-down vcr Drs . Christopher Wagne r and sions of whallhese th ree greats were talking about. Most of the self-help books Ye t on All-Fours. She will discuss and Aaron W. Hughey were featured criticize current efforts to argue that you see out there are silly, shallow. I just want to say to people who buy those, speakers at the 1999annual conference "Why don't you go read somebody rea ll y real, w ho could rea ll y think and writ,c, the evidence for scientific beliefs and of the Kentucky Association of Profes for religious beliefs is of equal weig ht, and who is saying we oughl 10 examine our lives and know ourselves, as sional Surveyors (KAPS), Feb. 3-6 in Emerson says is the real purpose of life? and thus provides no reason to prefer Bowling Green. Dr. Wagner's topiC a scientific cxplanation to a religious "Thoreau and Emerson were as close 10 mentors as 1 could name, she said, was Leadersllip Secrets; Dr. Hughey adding: And my mother.... o ne for the same phenomenon. Dr. spoke on Implementing Total Quality Pinnick considers what she describes Mary Ellen was presented with the Catherine Coogan Ward Feminist Ac Mallagemellt. tion Award in 1997 fo r service to improving conditions for women. as fla wed public policy recommenda When she received the award, she attributed much of her successes to her tions (such as in educa tion or in sci ence, she says) that Illay follow from a mother, Carrie Yates, who "was a femin ist before that was even a word,~ she ENGLISH said. fai lure to carefully consider these ar She describes her mother as "politically minded," a characteristic not seen Dr. Karen Schneider has a book guments. A panel discussion w ill fol a great deal in women in Grayson, the county seal of Carter County, Ky. review forthcoming in Albion, a Brit low her lecture. " My mother was a very liberal democrat and my father was a very staunch ish h is tory journal, a review of Dr. Pinnick's paper, Wlrat's Wrong republica n. Womell S Fiction behucc1J tile Wars: Moth witll the SI ro llg Programme's Case Siudy " I can remember when George McGovern ra n for president my mother ers, Daughters and Writil/g, by Heather of the 'Hobbt.'S-Boyle Dispule'?, o rigi covered the hills for George McGovern, telling everyone he wasn't a Commu Ingman, and British Womell Writers of nally published in A House Built on nist. She was a very spunky lady.H World War II: Battlegrounds of tlreir Dum, Sand: Di ssecting postmodernist ac The s..,me could be said fo r Carrie's daughter who could have long ago by Phyllis Lassner. counts of science. 1998, Oxford Uni retired her letters, so to speak. But not Mary Ellen Miller. Forthcoming in The Jo urnal of versity Press, N. Kocrtgc,editor, is to The day of the faculty regent election, Jan. 21, was her birt hday, and friends Popular Fil m and Television, Wilh Via- be the subject of a peer review sym and colleagues gathered to present her with roses and a ca ke at an Open House felice If Necessary: Reco II strrlcting tire posium in the Apri11999 issue of the at the Women's Studies Center which has relocated to 1532 State SI. Traditional Family in tire Conlemporary Iournal of Social Studies of Science. Another present came later when President Gary Ransdell called her to tell Actioll-TI,rif/cr. her she'd won the election. WKU POLICE This is who Mary Ellen Miller is, and faculty who don't know her w ill disover very soon what she is about. MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION The WKU Police department was A yellowed copy of words of Thoreau on my fridge could almost describe SYSTEMS re-accredited by the Executive Board Mary Ellen's mission, which is why the great American writer is so universal: Zubair Mohamed had All II/te of the Kentucky Association of Chiefs , weill 10 the UJOO(/s OC'CUlISC 1 wished to live lldibcrately, 10 fron l ollly the grated I'roduct ioll-Distri/mtioll Model for of Police (KAC P) in January. I.:ssclltial facts of life, and to see if / could learn whal ilhad 10 leach, al1d 1101, w/rel1 Ilwd More than 200 standards are re colli e to die, discover that I had nol/ived... all MNC Ullder Varying Exclrallgc Raks published in the International Iournal viewed during the assessment, which has the purpose of enhancing depart Notc: Watch for Regent Miller's regular column featuring infonna of Production Economics. vol. 58, pp. 81-92, 1999. ments' operational effectiveness and tion for faculty in future issues of On Campus. efficienty. WKU Police was accredited in PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 1993 and was the fourth police depart ment in Kentucky to do so. Currently Dr. Cassandra Pinnick ha s been there are 37 police departments meet invited to speak to the facu lty and stu- ing accreditation standards . ... ~W WESTERN KENTUCKY UNNERSITY Department of Philosophy and Religion
Dr. Kent Staley Dr. Wlliam J. McKinney Dept. of Eng rlSh and Philosophy As.saome Prafes.sar and Chairperson Mansas Slate University Department of Phila.saphy and Religion Southeast Missouri State University Muberty and Anarchy in Science: Jahn Stuart Mill and Poul K. Feyerabend onllle logic and "The Science Wars, Academic Att of Scientific Reasoning' fnvironmenlalism and Postmooemism'
Dr. Staley received his a.A. in physics from Dr. McKinney earned his Ph.D. in the Phi Grinnell College. and interned during sum losophy of Science from JndiorKl University. men at Fermi Notional Accelerator Labo His research and teaching examines the ratory. He re<;eived a Ph.D. from Johns links between science and e thics in environ Hopkins, with a dissertation titled ~o...er the mental phil osophy, the philolOphy of experi Top: Experiment and the Testing of Hypoth ment, and pedagogical issues in computer· eses in the Search for the Top Quark ~. He i, currently rewriting this dissertation for on a ssisted inslruclio ... . He hal published or pre upcoming book on the lOme topic, and has ~nted over 60 scholarly papers. a forthcoming critique of Peter Galison's Wednesday March 24, 3:30 p.m. book. {mage and Logic. in Perspedives on Cherry HolI, Room 302 Science. fo r more information contoc! Wednesdoy March 24. 2:30 p.m. Cassandra Pinnick, Deportment 01 I'fIoIo by She;1a Eison . Room 302, Cherry Hall Philosophy and Religion On her birthday Jan. 21, 36-year veteran English Professor Mary Ellen Miller was For more in formation contac! presented with roses and a coke for her service to Women's Studies at on Open House Canandro Pinnick, Dept. 01 PhiloJOphyond celebrating their relocation to 1532 State St. later that day, WKU President Gory Religion Ransdell called to to say she'd been elected as WKU's faculty representative on the University's loard of Regents. She was a regent from 1983-1986 also.
o ON CAMPUS WE5T!RN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY MARCH 1999
Grants and Update on New System lor Student In'ormation Contracts Dr. Cheryl Chambless, Banner 2000 Projed Director
Dea r Colleagues: Barnaby, Jerry. Educational Television and Pub the software is modeled. You may have heard that the Unive rsity has A Web site has been created to inform the Uni lic Radio Services. $44,523 (rom the Corporation purchased new computer software for processing versity community about the Banner 2000 software for Public Bro.1dcasting for Television Special As sistance Grant. student information. This is an exciting develop and about the implement'alion p roject. As the project ment which will affect virtually everyone at the Un i p rogresses addit ional info rmation will be added to versity-students, faculty and staff. Since ou r cu r· the Web site: Barnaby,Jeny. Educational Television and Pub lic Radio Services. $12,065 from the Corporation fo r rent student information system is not year 2000 http:/ / w ww.wku.edu / l3anner2000 Public Broadcasting for Televisio n Interconnection compliant, this is an oppo rt une time to move to new The Financial Aid component of Banner will be Grant. software operating in a cl ient / server environment in place fo r the fa ll of 1999. Other facets of the soft w hich offe rs numerous fu nctional ad vantages. ware will be acti vated beginning in early 2000 fo r Bind er, Michael. Li brary. $1 ,013 from Warren Client / server technology is analternati ve to the the fall 2000 term. Everyone who uses the student County Bar Association for Wa rren Count y Bar As large mainframe system to which we areaccuslomed info rmation system will be trained to use Banner; socia tion: Library Books. andallows more flcxibility in collecting and sharin g however, traini ng wi ll not commence u ntil nearer information. In addition to the student informatio n the ti me Banner w ill be accessible across campus. Bou lware, Beverly. Teacher Education. SI 26,{)OO system, we have acquired Web for Students and Web An y project of this mag nitude is not without from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Edu for Faculty. Facult y and staff will be able 10 access some inconveniences. Over the next 18 mo nths, cation for Collaborative Center for Literacy Devel· and query the database through the Web interface members of the Steering Committee and Admi nis opment. using the same hardware they p resently use to ac trative Comp uti ng staff w il l be temporarily less ac cess the Web. When Web for Students is fully imple cessible for other p rojects. Dunn, David. Public Healt h. $2,515 from the mented, students will be able to check their fi nan The Web site includes a listing of the members KcnluckyCanccr Program for Kc ntuckyCanccr Pro- cial aid status, search for open sections, register for of Ihe Ba n ner work tea ms and an e-mail link to gram Grilduale Assistants. classes and view their bil li ng account. which you may d irect questi ons. Your ideas, pa An ad ded bonus of thc implementation p rocess tience and support for th is project will be appreci Handy, Rod. ET. $2,880 from DESA Intern a is the opportunity to question current p ractices. Soft ated. tional, Inc. for Ind ustria l Hygienc Assessment. ware vendo rs typically crea te software to perform tasks in the most logical a nd efficient way to obtain Fo r fu rllrcr illfor matioll, colltad Dr. Chambless, Jones, Susan. Nu rsing. $2 1,000 from the Cen valued results for the customer. This is referred to Ell rollmClI1 Ma ll ast:1I 11'lIt Dntnimsc Administra tor, at ters for Disease Control for Ag ricultural Research, as "best business practices." Throughout the imple· 502/745-5440. Education and Disease & Injury Prevention. mentation process the work teams will be com par ingcurre nt practices to the best practices upon which Priest, Nancy. Center for Training and Devel o pment. $3,314 from Bluegrass State Skills Corpo SEITING rHE PACE! ration fo r Barton Bmnds Ltd. Supervisory Training. Stanley C. Pace, son of th e legendary Cumberland County civic and politica l leader Pearl Priest, Nancy. Center for Training and Devel Carter Pace, recently donated $4,000 to the Li b ra ry opment. $15,698 from Bluegrass State Skills Corpo Spt.'Cial Collections department's Manuscripts Unit. ration fo r Techno Trim Computer Training. This gift, which is in addition 10 Pace's o ri gi nal SIO,OOO donation in 1997, enables the Manu Priest, Nancy. Center for Training and Devel scripts staff to com plete p rocessing of the Pea rl opment. $79,764 from Blu egrass State Skills Corpo Carter Pace Collection. ration for Dollar General Corporation In-ho use I)at Hodges, Manuscripts and Archi ves Super Training. visor, said, "It is only through Pace's generosity that this outstanding collection soon will be easily ac Priest, Nancy. Center for Training and Devel sourHERN KENrUCICY cessible for researchers." opment. $2,996 from the Ci ty of Bowling Green for City of Bowli ng Green Cash 11. FESFIVAL OF BOOKS The Kentucky Museum Rice, Paul. Center for Training and Develo p "BOOKS AND AUTHORS AND fAMilY fUN" ment. $ 17,284 from l3luegra ss State Skills Corpora Bo wli ng Green / Warren County tio n for Logan Aluminu m 3 Supervi sory Training. Convention Center 9 am- 5 pm- Saturday, Apri l 17 Sahi, Shive ndra. Biology. S44,968 from the Noon- 5 p.m.- Sunday, April 18 United States Department o f Agriculture for Trans fo rmation of Corn Using D IMBOA-Resis tant Organized by: Agrobacterium. Western Kentucky Uni versity Libra ries Bowling Green Public Library Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Fred lucas, a Western Kentucky Uni ~ C o ntri b utin g Sponsors: WI3K O-TV, Daily News versity senior from London, Ky., recently Event Sponsor: Greenwood Mall Patrons: Target, and Hilliard & Lyons, and Evelyn placed seventh in the editorial/columns Thurman Child ren's Aut hor Fu nd/ WKU Co llege of opinion writing competition of the ' Ieights Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Journalism Media Sponsors: WBVR, WKC r, I03.7 "The Poi nt", Awards Program. Cou ntry 95 Patrons: Jim Johnson Pontiac NisS o , , ON CAMPUS WISTERN KINIUCKY UNIVIRSIIY MARCH 1999 9:00a.m.-2:30p.m.GarretConference 18 24 Center and Downing University WKU Baseball vs. Southern Illinois WKU Baseball vs. Vanderbilt Marcil Center 3 p.m. Bowling Green KY 5 p.m. Bowling Green KY David Coffey, (502) 745-3151 Sports Information (502) 745-4298 Sports Information (502) 745-4298 I Spring '99 Graduation Fair Jeff Campbell, Faculty Recital Sf. High Debate Tournament 25 10 a.m.-1 p .m. daily through 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Ivan Wilson TBA; tomorrow also Women's Lecture History Month March 5 Center for Fine Arts, Van Meter Auditorium/ Garrett Lecture featuring Rosemary Jill Blythe or Alumni Affairs, Department of Music, (502) 745-3751 Conf. Center Radford Ruether (502) 745-6555 David Almand (502) 745-6340) Can a Male Savior Save Women? 10 7:30 p.m. 2 WKU Baseball vs. Louisville 20 Women's Studies, (502) 745-6477 Hardin Planetarium presents 3 p.m. Bowling Green WKU Baseball vs. Arkansas State Tour of the Solar System Sports Information (502) 745-4298 2 p .m. Bowling Green KY Choir & Middle School Band Sundays 2:30 p.m.; Tuesdays and Sports Information (502) 745-4298 Festival Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Astronomy Public Nights All Day; through March 27 Show runs through March 11 . 7 p.m. Thompson Complex Central West KY Horse Sale Va n Meter Hall, Garrett Conference Hardin Planetarium, (502) 745-4044 Wing L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center; tomor Center, Fine Arts Department of Physics and As- row also Joe Stites, (502) 745-4388 WKU Concert Band tronomy, (502) 745-4357 L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center (502) 7:30 p.m. Due Auditorium 843-3542 27 The concert band is made up of stu 12 KY Derby Beefmaster Sale dents throughout the community. Jr. High Speech Tournament 21 L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center Works will include Sousa, Verdi, TBA; tomorrow also WKU Baseball vs. Arkansas State L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center Copland and more. Van Meter Auditorium/Garrett 2 p.m. Bowling Green KY (502) 843-3542 Conf. Center Sports Information (502) 745-4298 3 David Almand (502) 745-6340 28 Women's Alliance Spring Workshop 23 Voice Faculty Recital Women's Health in the New 13 Intramural Complex Ribbon-Cutting 3p.m. Recital Hall, Ivan Wilson Cen Millenium Bluegrass Reining Horse Show 3-5 p.m. Intramural Complex (In - ter for Fine Arts l.D. Brown Ag Expo Center; tomor d ustrial Drive) Department of Music, (502) 745-3751 11:45 a.m . ~3:30 p.m. row also Debbie Cherwak (502) 745-6060 4 L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center (502) 29 Imitation of Life 843-3542 WKU Baseball vs. Belmont OA R-Scholars Luncheon Gender Images Film Series 5 p.m. Bowling Green KY All Day 7 p.m., Garrett Auditorium 15 Sports Information (502) 745-4298 Various Campus Locations Women's Studies, (502) 745-6477 Spring Break. ThroughMarch 19. No C,eg Pu'pus, (502) 745-4242 classes. Offices are open. Cultural Enhancement Series Pro- Bowling Green Western Symphony Sharon Dyrsen (502) 745-4242 gram 30 Orchestra Stephen Gould Lecture WKU Baseball vs. Murray State 7:30 p.m. Capitol Arts Theatre 17 8 p.m. Van Meter Auditorium 5:00 p.m. Bowling Green KY Departloent of Music, (502) 745-3751 American Theatre, Alllle Frank Special Events (502) 745-2497 Sports Information (502) 745-4298 Jeff Younglove, (502) 745-2497 5 31 Second Bi-Term Begins Arts Education Showcase Sharon Dyrsen, (502) 745-4242 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. (all day) Downing University Center 6 Laura McDonald, (502) 782-2787 University Choir Concert 7 p.m. First Baptist Church Department of Music, (502) 745-3751 ROTC Military Ball TBA Garrett Conference Center Ball room Scott Kiefe" (502) 745-6045 SKPTA Team Penning; tomorrow al so L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center Happy l.D. 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