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Lawrence Today, Volume 81, Number 2, Winter 2000 Lawrence University Lawrence University Lux Alumni Magazines Communications Winter 2000 Lawrence Today, Volume 81, Number 2, Winter 2000 Lawrence University Follow this and additional works at: http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Liberal Studies Commons © Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Recommended Citation Lawrence University, "Lawrence Today, Volume 81, Number 2, Winter 2000" (2000). Alumni Magazines. Book 17. http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. n T 0 D A y Winter 2000 The Magazine of Lawrence 'Gnivcrsity Vol. 81, No. 2 President's Report 1999-2000 Lawrence f()l)A): Gordon E. Brown 920-832-6593 gordon.c. brown(a!lawrcncc.cdu Marsha Tuch~chl·rer Steven Blodgett Rtck Peterson Address correspondence to: i.AII'Tt'IW! 'fi1cfay La ...vrence University P.O. Box 599 Appleton. WI 54912-0599 920-832-6586 fax: 920-832-6783 Office of Alumni Rclatiom (address as above) 920-832-6549 Fax: 920 832·6784 Alumni@Jawrence .edu http:/ /www.lawrence.cdu Special thank~ to Image Studios for provtding photograph} for tim i~~uc and to Fox Rtver Paper Company for conrnbutmg the ~rock on which it ts printed. LAII'TI!IICI! 'J'odcty (U~P\ 0 12-683) is published quarterl} 10 March, June, September, and December by Lawrence Univemty, Office of Publtc Affam, Appleton, Wt\COn~m 54911. Penod1cal postage patd at Appleton, Wiscomin, and addmonal mailing offices. POSI MAS1l:.R: Send address changes to LAwrl'llCI' Today, Lawrence University, 115 South Drew Street, Appleton, WI 5491 1-5798. Articles arc expressly the opinions of the authors and do not nl·ccssarily represent official uruverstty poltcy. We reserve the right to edtt correspondence for length and accuracy I a"' renee Untversity promoce~ equal opportunity for all. Winter 2000 Vol. 81 No. 2 Contents 2 President' s Message "The Campus Business" Richard Warch, President 9 Financial Report William Hodgkiss, Vice-President for Business Affairs and Administration 13 Development Report Gregory A. Volk, Vice-President for Development and Extemal Affairs 16 Faculty Creative and Scholarly Achievements 34 Highlights of the Year On the cover From its "topping out" ceremony in August 1999 (page 34) to its dedication in October 2000, Lawrence's newest building, Science Hall, under construction south of Main Hall, was a prominent feature of 1999-2000 at the college. Photo by Image Studios. President's Message The • us1ness am pleased to have this opportunity to share with you my president's report for 2000. Earlier versions of this n1essage were delivered at the Reunion and Matricula­ tion Convocations this past June and Septen1ber, but given what I take to be the titneliness of the topic, I would like to offer this iteration to the wider Lawrence fan1ily. As I trust you know, Lawrence enjoyed many accotnplish­ tnents in the past year and into this one - a number of which are featured in other parts of this issue of Lawrence Today - including the completion, opening, and dedication of Science Hall. Richard Warch, 14th president of Lawrence Univemty. t'i summer plans and director of the Ytsttmg f.1culty program at a member of the executive committee of the Annapolts Yale. A graduate ofWilliams College, J>remient Warch holds Group, an a-;sociation of America's finest liberal arts college\. the B.Div. from the Yale Divinity School (having studied I le became president of Lawrence Univer-;ity in 1979, .tfter also at the University ofEdinburgh), and the Ph.D. in Amer­ serving the college for two years as vice-president for academic ican studies from Yale University. Co-edttor of the volume affitir-; and professor of history. Named one of the top 100 jol111 BrofiJI1 in the Great Lives Observed Series and author of college presidents in a national study of effective presidents, Srhool (~{the Prophets: Yale College 1701-1740, he has written his 21-ycar tenure is the second longest Lawrence presi­ widely on topics in American rcligiom history, liberal edu­ dency, exceeded only by that of Samuel Plantz, president cation, and history; served as a consultant (()r colleges and from 1894 to 1924. Prior to coming to Lawrence, he was an universities, public schools, and the National Endowment for assoctatc professor of history and American studies at Yale the Humanities; and chaired a Wisconsin Governor's Task Universtty. associate dean of Yale College, and din:ctor of ForcL' on Student Debt. 2 lflillll'r 2000 Richard Warch Lawmzce Today 3 That facility is the latest in a series of investments the college ROMS, online courses, distance learning, the whole kit and has made in its acadenuc infrastructure, and we are follow­ caboodJe of digital innovations and enhancements are not ing the constmction of this state-of-the-art science facility things we can ignore. And we haven't. We've got fiber optics with the renovation of Y oungchild H all, which should be connecting the campus, e-mail accounts for everybody, con­ completed next sununer. nections to the Internet galore, and a campus website, and we Together, the two buiJdings- which are connected by a are in the process of installing a new administrative infonna­ three-story atrium- wiiJ provide a first-rate complex for our tion system, and more. programs in the natural sciences. In addition, we have under­ Information technology is a growing presence in the aca­ taken extensive renovations of Main Hall, including the instal­ denuc program; two years ago we established the position of lation of a humanities computing laboratory, and work also director of instructional technology in order to provide greater continues on restoration of the Chapel. coherence and impetus for this important aspect of teaching That recitation provides an apt segue to the topic of this and learning at Lawrence. Last j une, Dean of the Faculty Brian report. Several months ago, Arthur Levine, president of Rosenberg was one of 125 academic leaders who met at Mid­ Teacher's College in New York, wrote an op-ed piece in The dJebury College at a Summit on Technology in Liberal Arts Ne111 York Times titled "The Soul of a New University.'' His Colleges to deliberate on questions of future developments and basic point, one that I, for one, find excessively fanlliiar if not colJabora.tions in this arena. Here at home, members of the fitc­ fi·iendly, is that "the rise of online education and other new ulty have created web pages for courses in mathematics, gov­ technologies has enonnous implications" for higher education, ernment, English, and psychology. They h.:we developed few of them encouraging. Levine spoke with what he styled online exercises in French, biology, philosophy, and computer the "new breed" of students and asked them 'what relationship science. Nearly every department utilizes instntetional tech­ they wanted witl1 their colleges. They professed to want the nology in some way, from classics using the Perseus Project to relationship to be like the one they have '\vith a utility com­ explore the ancient world, to theatre using computer-assisted pany, supennarket, or bank; they wanted convenience, service, design (CAD) programs to design sets. If you log on to the quality, and affordability. Lawrence website, you can see underwater photographs from Levine goes on to bolster his argument with this illustra­ our Marine Biology Term, read hist01ical legal cases, quiz tion. "It is possible right now for a professor to give a lecture yourself in French, improve your knowledge of logic, visual­ in Cairo, for me to attend that lecture [in New York], and for ize algorithms, and listen to Freshman Studies lectures. another student to attend it in Tokyo. It is possible for all of Students, of course, are the prime users of these many us to feel we're sitting in the same classroom. It is possible for resources. They create web sites for term projects and use me to nudge (via e-mail) the student from Tokyo and say 'I PowerPoint for in-class presentations. Students in the conser­ missed the professor's last comment. What was it?'; have my vatory use computers for a variety of purposes, which include question translated into Japanese; and have the answer back in composing and arranging music, utilizing sequencing and English in seconds. It is possible for the professor to point to notation programs, and learning the techniques of basic film me and my Japanese colleague and say '1 want you to prepare scoting and multi-media production, as well as digital audio a project for next week's class.' If we can do all that, why do recording, editing, and mastering. Undergraduates make use of we need the physical place called the college?" resources on the Web to conduct research - and faculty have Let's leave aside the obvious rut-picking problem of hav­ access to a nifty service called plagiatism.com to be sure their ing Levine communicate in English to a student in Japan who students are respecting the Honor Code when they cite web­ needs the question translated into Japanese. What language do based sources in their papers. We have access, through the we suppose the professor in Cairo is using? The more signifi­ library, to more than 1 ,500 electronic books, more than 200 cant question is Levine's last: "Why do we need the physical electronic journals, and over 100 online databases, many in place called the college?" Later in his essay, he puts it this way: full-text.
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