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*v - i \ *•* • • FEATURES Mrturst I McAuley Opend ltd Doors Vol. 10, No. 1 J Fall 1991 -*• Even in the land of opportunity, few doors open easily without some education. But the portals of the McAuley Career Division are open wide to address the skills gaps that are occurring in many professional, technical and secretarial fields. Chairman of the Board of Trustees F. William Hirt k Mercyhurst Archaeologist President/Publisher n Uncovers Ice-age House Dr. William P. Garvey While working on a site in the southern Ukraine, Vice President of External Affairs Mercyhurst archaeologist Dr. James Adovasio, who is Mary Daly '66 recognized as a pioneer in excavation methodology, Contributors discovered a 15,000-year-old home made of Ed Bernick mammoth bones. Gary Bukowski 73 Lou Caravaglia Robin Cunco Dorothy DiSanti h Hockey Scored New Arena Rich Forsgren '84 Jack Grazier 71 The Lakers scored their biggest victory after Sarah Harding the hockey season ended. On June 20, Mercyhurst Lake Shore Visitor College's Board of Trustees endorsed a plan to build a Pat Liebel '53 $1.4 million hockey arena on the Mercyhurst campus. Mercyhurst Archives Rob Ruby William Smith'86 Times Publishing Co. 1A Mercyburdt Received Editor \\j Four-Star Rating for Hodpltallty Kimberly Dillon This year, the presidents of the Association of Designer Mercy Colleges met at Mercyhurst for their annual TypoGraphic Systems, Erie, PA conference. It wasn't what they expected. Printing Seneca Printing, Oil City, PA About the Cover The Canterbury Clock: Students, faculty and adminis trators have nicknamed it "Big Bill," as it stands smack dab in the middle of Garvey Park, but the park's newest addition came from another classic Mercyhurst tradi tion - The Canterbury Feast. The profits from this highly acclaimed, highly successful Canterbury Feast were utilized to purchase the $20,000 clock, which was installed in early May. "The clock is the feast's gift to the college community to say thanks to everyone who helps bring it together," said Igor Stalsky, director of the Canterbury Feast. The clock stands about 15 feet tall and 36 inches square, and is mounted on a cast iron lamppost in the center of the park. Its Victorian four- sided face has Roman numerals, chimes in conjunction with the chapel and has a lighted face. It is the focal point of the college "quad" that has impressively developed in the back campus. ( Shown in the photo are communications majors Karen McGuire '92, editor- Mercyhurst Magazine is published three in-chief of The Merciad, and Glen Ondick '92. times a year by Mercyhurst College. The magazine is published by the Office of External Affairs, Mercyhurst College, Cover photo by Ed Bernick. Glenwood Hills, Erie, PA 16546. CboiceJo/c Challenged: The McAuley Career Division Difference by Kimberly Dillon ven in the land of opportunity, few doors open easily without some education, so Mercyhurst has created the McAuley Career Division and designed it to be a junior college approach to opportunity education. The programs of study offered at this new division focus on one-year certificates and two- year associate degrees in the fields of business, hospitality management, computers, religious education, police science and human services. "In this era of global competition, an educated workforce is essential because it will be the worker who is empowered to make deci sions," said Dr. Robert Cisek, associate dean. "Students who increase their knowledge through programs such as these will be better qualified to enter and advance in the workplace." A survey by the Hudson Institute, an Indianapolis research group, and Towers Perrin, a New York benefits consulting firm, found that qualified workers are in short supply at more than half of the companies they surveyed. The McAuley programs, which focus on areas already a source of strength on the Mercyhurst campus, will help address this chasm. In addition, each of the three centers, which comprise the McAuley Career Division, will have its own academic thrust and its own unique identity. Because the Corry area is generally indus trial, the Corry Center will have a manufacturing orientation to it. Many of these manufacturing programs will be offered in cooperation with the new Erie County Technical Institute when it begins in January 1992. "Corry will focus on a more skilled workforce," said Dr. David Palmer, director of the Corry Center. "We're offering people in industry-related jobs who never thought they could do college-level work a chance to improve their job skills and prepare for the more competitive global marketplace," said Palmer. There are currently 84 students enrolled at the McAuley Career Division at the Corry Center. The new location is in the old Corrian Hotel, which will be renamed the Bruce & Arlene Smith Education Center. The newly renovated facility will have seven classrooms and four administrative offices, a student union, a browsing library and faculty offices are planned Top to bottom: Erie Center, North East Center and Corry Center. 1 for the near future. Corry students will be education is the best investment a person can able to obtain a one-year certificate in nine make in him- or herself. It's just that some skills areas, including the exciting new people are afraid they cannot do college-level program in manufacturing technology. work. Our foundations program is designed The manufacturing technology certificate to make a believer out of them," Lanahan program provides students with a basic added. understanding of production methodologies Besides the foundations program, the focusing on transforming raw materials into North East site provides one-year certificates usable parts or finished products. in six skills areas and an associate degree "The Corry Center is a challenging program in four specialized areas. assignment," said Palmer. "I'd like to see the Because of the foundations students, the local community get geared up to support it. North East Center will be the only one in the To help get them involved, we'll be calling on McAuley Career Division to have residence them to support our recruiting efforts, and we halls. Also, included on the beautiful 84-acre will be offering local activities." For example, campus (formerly operated by the Mercyhurst's music and dance departments Redemptorist Fathers for 105 years as St. have plans to perform in Corry this year. Mary's Seminary) is a gymnasium, observa "With hard work," Palmer adds, "we'll be tory, cafeteria, a magnificent Gothic chapel successful. We have 10 years invested here." and a three-story academic building. "The newest part of the McAuley Career Mercyhurst spent approximately $600,000 Division is the North East Center, which will this summer renovating the physical plant specialize in foundations students, a public with $500,000 of that total coming from safety academy and a culinary school," said money raised by the North East Chamber of James Lanahan, director of the North East Commerce. Center. Foundations students are those who North East enrollment this fall is 125 are interested in a four-year course of study, students, half of which come from the but who are not adequately prepared for the foundations program. rigors of such a program. The Erie Center (formerly the Mercyhurst "We intend to make sure a student College Career Institute), will continue obtains competency in reading, writing and programs for adults and traditional age mathematics, as well as teaching them college students who seek additional training in the survival skills," said Lanahan. "Knowledge business or human services fields," says v empowers people so an investment in higher Catherine Anderson, director of the Erie - *«« **-** ^n - .A\«' •-.>* » V<- s )• "We intend to make AM sure a student obtains competency V & ".;' never thought they M could do college- •***" f 3k fokr*m mathematics, as Well as teaching r improve their job skills and prepare skills.' 41 i* •• •'' for the more con • Jim Lanahartf* petitive 4 . ' r- .marketplace :?v • .* ' " ^Catherine Anderso The Erie Campus will continue programs for -adults and traditional m -V> f additional training in * (th s e business or human V «* ;v t t > * '*. r- '•*.'•»• • • :••• ,• ' •• : > •V . : MERC YHURS T MA GAZINE Center. This includes medical secretaries, travel-tourism aides, computer technicians and office managers. Anderson, formerly director of the Adult College, also spent two years as program coordi nator for MCCI. "No matter what my title has been, my job at Mercyhurst has been to open possibilities," said Anderson. "This new assign ment will make the best use of that experience." The Erie Center offers one-year certificates in 12 skill areas and an associate degree in eight specialized areas. The new location for the Erie Center is in McAuley Hall on the main Mercyhurst campus, where the bottom floor has been renovated to include a new office technologies center, com puter room, administrative/faculty offices and classrooms. The Erie Center offers a state-of-the- art office environment including the latest typing and word processing equipment to augment the secretarial and word processing training. This makes McAuley-Erie the most modern and deluxe office technology labs in the region for preparing office personnel in the business, medical and legal professions. Another big program for development on the Erie Center is travel tourism, which trains students for careers with travel agencies, airlines, hotels, corporate travel departments and other travel-related businesses. Being conveniently located on the main campus, McAuley-Erie students have easy access to Mercyhurst's library and recreational facilities. The old MCCI program had been housed at St. Mark's Center for the past eight years, enrolling 210 students at its peak. The Erie Center is expected to have about 165 students, which would boost the total McAuley Career Division enrollment to a projected total of 366 students.