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Like HBU, Universities Across the Country Are Dealing With F ROM THE PRESIDENT ike HBU, universities across the country are dealing with the issues of the three R’s. If you are of my generation, you may be reminiscing about the good ole days of “reading, writing and arithmetic.” But that was a few years ago and applied to the elementary curriculum. LToday, we are dealing with 21st century issues in higher education and the three R’s represent Recruiting, Retention and Resources. The topics are shared by two-year community colleges, by large and small public institutions and Christian universities like HBU. Recruitment ... exciting opportunities to tell our story to prospective students – graduate and undergraduate – to invite them to the campus for special events and receptions, for tours and classroom experiences. It’s beginning a relationship! Retention ... affirmation of the vision and mission of the University; it’s the challenge of meeting the needs of our students until they graduate. It’s continuing a relationship! Resources ... providing the financial needs to support the University’s academic programs, student needs and master plan; and most importantly to properly acknowledge the efforts of our outstanding faculty and staff. It’s supporting a relationship! However, at HBU we believe we are unique and therefore we have a fourth R ... Relationships! Relationships permeate everything we’re about. In this issue of the News, you’ll read about students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends who share special relationships with each other and with the University. I recently visited with a student who epitomizes this spirit. He wanted to tell me how much HBU means to him. His story is unique, just like all of our students’ stories, but his is a little longer. You see he came back this fall to finish his degree. In 1980, he enrolled as a freshman. Since then he has raised a family and had a career, but he never gave up his calling as a musician or his love for the church and for HBU. So, he’s back now, a little older than some students and perhaps even older than some of his professors. But he returned because of the relationships that were forged more than 20 years ago. It is relationships that truly define our lives. As you read about the ones in this NEWS, you’ll know that when we count our blessings at HBU, we are thankful for our Christian witness, our academic excellence and our outstanding faculty and staff. And we are unique as we share such special relationships with our students and alumni. We are Houston’s Blessed University! E.D. Hodo VOL. 42, No. 3 December 2004 Contents EDITOR Martha Morrow MANAGING EDITOR features Candace Bush BA ’04 DIRECTOR, DESIGN & GRAPHICS 2 From the President Nan Donahoe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT 4 Defining Relationships ... Kristy Wright - From an Academic Perspective - An Evolving Relationship Brings New Opportunities ... CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Diane Williams BA ’93 Gigi Arendt ’08, Jacque Cottrell - Making Learning a Family Affair ... The Jesudason Family PHOTOGRAPHERS - Distinguished Alumnus Award ... Ray Denson BA ’74 Gigi Arendt ’08, Bruce Bennett, - Meritorious Service Alumnus Award ... Monica Hodges BA ’94, MEd ’00 Candace Bush BA ’04, Rochelle Ferrada ’05, Tim Fields, Martha Morrow, Founders’ Day Janet Roberts for Gittings, Mike Malone, 14 Nesossi Photography 16 The Guild Celebrates Christmas SPECIAL THANKS Patricia Bailey, Linda Hammack, 18 President’s Development Council Donna Payne Covenant Society VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING Sharon Saunders 19 On Campus 21 The Paw Print LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: HBU NEWS welcomes letters to the editor. Mail should 22 Campus Updates be addressed to: HBU NEWS, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX 77074-3298 or you can e-mail us at 24 Sports [email protected], and should include the writer’s full name, address and daytime telephone number. Letters 27 Leading the Pack ... Dr. Laura Savage BS ’83 may be published based on available space and may be edited for purposes of clarity. 28 Alum-A-Gram HBU NEWS (USPS 252-660) is published quarterly by the Office of Marketing, Houston Baptist University and printed by SOUTHWEST on the cover PRECISION. Periodicals postage paid at Houston, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The cover art was created by Gigi Arendt ’08. HBU News, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, Texas 77074-3298. Founded in 1960, Houston Baptist University, a Texas Baptist institution, is a coeducational, independent university with a growing national reputation for offering academic excellence through more than 40 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs. HBU has been ranked in the top tier among the “Best Universities” offering master's degrees in the Western region by U.S.News & World Report in its America's Best Colleges for 2005 edition. CONTACT US: Marketing & Communications... 281-649-3470 HBU complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws, and does not engage in prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, nationality or ethnic origin, Admissions ................................... 281-649-3211 gender, age, or disability in either employment or the provision of services. Inquiries www.hbu.edu concerning this notice or the application of the laws referenced herein should be referred to the vice president for financial affairs. Defining lives ALEXIS KNAPP MS ’00 Instructor in Management Undergraduate Coordinator College of Business and Economics “In an environment like HBU, advising is something we have to be great at; it is part of who we are. It is another component of developing the entire student – not just registration, but planning and designing course options to meet student strengths, mentoring, career counseling and beyond.” While most colleges and universities have many traits in common, when talking with HBU students and alumni we found that the most unique aspects of their college education are based in the relationships formed during their time here. With that in mind, this new series of publications began to take shape, featuring HBU students, faculty, alumni and parents, in their own words, ADRIENNE PARSON ’06 describing the relationships that have formed their time on campus. While every issue of the NEWS is, in essence, about relationships, in the Nursing Major following pages you will meet several men and women whose unique “I was looking for an relationships with HBU have defined their lives — a mother who led her children education that would not only to HBU through her own educational experience; an alumna who today serves as broaden my mind but also help chair of the Board of Trustees; two alumni who have made a significant me become more complete as a person; a school where I could difference in the world and in the life of the University; and finally, faculty and grow both academically and staff members who have been honored for their years of service and dedication to spiritually. This is exactly what an students and to Christian education. Every relationship is as unique as the person HBU education is about; not just who shares it. about the material and concepts you learn, but about discovering If you have a relationship with HBU that has helped to define your life, we what your real strengths are and hope you’ll share it with us. Just send it to [email protected]. We’ll be sharing developing the confidence to special stories throughout the coming year. apply what you’ve learned to real life.” hbu 4 news December 2004 Relationships From an Academic Perspective D.R. (Randy) Wilson, PhD Professor College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Students in college develop all kinds of new relationships. In regard to relationships, life at the university is a lot like it is in the rest of the world. But there’s someone else that students meet (we hope and pray) while they are testing their academic wings at college. This new person is found in the hearts and minds of all who value learning and thinking. I believe that freshmen should be challenged by all kinds of new ANIVAL ALEMAN ’05 relationships to discover within themselves a new person, an intellectual person, someone who has been trained and inspired to think. Music & Spanish Major An early social thinker in America, Charles Horton Cooley, wrote that we were “Looking Glass Selves.” He meant that as we relate to one another and “Professors here are not only willing to teach you, but also to begin to see ourselves as we imagine others see us, we develop a sense of who invest in your life. Be it the small we really are. Our very sense of self is produced out of the assortment of community that helped make my relationships in our lives. When students experience college life it’s important to transition to college life so much mirror back the expectations we all have for educated people. Coming to the easier, or the remarkably personal university is probably the first time most students have ever been around so environment where I’m not just much thinking in their lives. another face in the crowd, it’s When I relate with students in my classes I often challenge them to begin to been everything I had hoped my think differently about themselves, to start thinking of themselves as lifelong university experience would be. learners. Every day I learn more about who I am and what I want out of life.” ✥ This new self identity is rare in the world. Only seven percent of the world’s population has a college degree. ✥ Most students are beginning to shape this new self before they even get to college. Studies show that students who are still in high school but have been accepted to college begin to think and act differently than their non- college bound peers.
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