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RICH MCKENZIE COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & DEAF EDUCATION CLASS OF 2012 350+ 4,900+ ONLINE CLASSES ONLINE STUDENTS ONLINE DEGREES & 22PROGRAMS online.usu.edu THE POWER TO CONTENTS MANAGING EDITOR CHANGE FOR GOOD Jared Thayne ART DIRECTOR TAH TATE Vol. 19, No.4 l WINTER 2014 Holly Broome-Hyer U S www.utahstate.usu.edu USU PRESIDENT WHAT I LIKED ABOUT Stan L. Albrecht USU FOUNDATION BOARD Stan L. Albrecht, Richard W. Anderson Gail Bedke, Robert T. Behunin USU-ONLINE Jeannine Bennett Michael C. Bingham Brian R. Broadbent, David T. Cowley WAS THAT I COULD DO IT ON Marshall Crawford James F. Davenport, Clark P. Giles MY OWN TIME. Patricia A. Halaufia M. Scott Harries, Jason B. Keller 2 8 20 Blake R. Kirby, Larry W. Miller David G. Moore, Steve C. Mothersell Suzanne Pierce-Moore 2 NEWS@USU W. Brent Robinson Time with USU’s Joyce Kinkead has Randall J. Stockham RICH MCKENZIE T. Peter Thomas, Craig Thorley always been a more-than-class experi- George D. Tribble, Scott C. Ulbrich ence. The professor, administrator, TURNING WATER INTO FOOD 16 COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS researcher and every other influential With all the talk about our carbon footprint, USU’s Bruce noun extraordinaire listens to, hears Bugbee thinks it’s high time we start thinking about our & DEAF EDUCATION USU BOARD OF CLASS OF 2012 TRUSTEES and nourishes students and souls water footprint and our global food print, too. Discover Jody K. Burnett, Douglas K. Fiefia and the nation has noticed. Joyce what additional “ideas worth sharing” Bugbee and other Linda Clark Gillmor Kinkead: USU’s latest Carnegie presenters floated at this year’s TEDxUSU event, sponsored Mark K. Holland Ronald W. Jibson Professor of the Year for Utah. by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies. Susan D. Johnson J. Scott Nixon, Stephen F. Noel 26 A TEAM Frank Peczuh, Jr. Jim Laub is, by far, the most Suzanne Pierce-Moore Scott R. Watterson generous and enduring supporter of Aggie Athletics. 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ON THE COVER Utah State University is committed 16 to equal opportunity in student The story of us as seen in a few admissions, financial assistance, and freshmen faces. faculty and staff employment. Donna Barry, University Photographer. online.usu.edu WINTER 2014 I UTAHSTATE 1 NEWS@USU CARNEGIE PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR Carnegie Professor of the Year Joyce Kinkead. Donna Barry University Photographer Nation Notices Joyce Kinkead, USU’s Perennial Everything College 101 is English 101. Maybe coming-of-age-college is Math 101 too, but who’s honoring her commitment to under- counting when Mailer and Maya Angelou are your own models, and the only Newton graduate research; the Kinkead Honors you care for is fig, definitely not Isaac. Study Area upstairs, a tribute to her focus My first English class in college, and I’m older than my teacher. It’s 1982 and on undergraduate education; plaques English 101 with Dr. Joyce Kinkead — Don Porter and I in the back (“me,” not I, in lining another floor showing USU’s the back way back then). We think we can write. We have beards, after all. We own prestigious Rhodes, Goldwater, Truman The Utah Statesman. We are with this new teacher, her first quarter on the job, where and Marshall award winners, the results students enroll to learn about writing. And they do. We do. Been writing ever since. in-part of Kinkead’s unwavering devotion But Kinkead 101 in totality, even back then, is a more-than-class experience. The to helping students set those trajectories phenomenon that is Joyce Kinkead at your university is a place where students learn early. There is the annual “Joyce Kinkead subject matter, yes, but in the perennially optimistic and challenging land of Kinkeadia, Outstanding Honors Scholar Award.” she also feeds them things that take them up their mountains. After 30-plus years as You get the point. teacher/mentor extraordinaire, as pedagogic innovator and undergrad research champi- President Stan Albrecht calls her a on, as selfless leader and lifelong learner herself, someone at the national level took note. “servant-leader,” someone always self- Joyce Kinkead is USU’s latest Carnegie Professor of the Year for Utah. less in her commitment to students, the Kinkead’s mark is evident at Utah State, and her mark is not just figurative. There university and to her faculty colleagues, are rooms at the library dedicated to her. Plural. Rooms: A “wall of fame” at the entrance all of whom she has championed. Yet 2 UTAHSTATE I WINTER 2014 NEWS@USU CARNEGIE PROFESSOR OF THE YEARFOR UTAH it is not overreaching to say Kinkead is roles, she continued to teach in the class- AND SHE LISTENS TO Carnegie Professor of USU Carnegie room each year. Awards on campus piled Professors. Ask them. She began the up: “Top Prof,” Humanist of the Year, STUDENTS — LISTENS, push to get USU’s best professors into Diversity Award and the ASUSU Faculty the Carnegie fray, and there are 12 others Service award. Perhaps most rewarding, AND RESPONDS. AS now from USU. They are a Who’s Who in 2011, Honors students selected her to of star professors, poster-prof mentors, deliver the coveted annual “Last Lecture” VICE PROVOST FOR diligent over-worker bees honored with to campus. Her title: Standing on Boo Carnegies and, in every case, honored Radley’s Porch: The Importance of Story, UNDERGRADUATE more significantly by their students. (Dr. presented to a packed auditorium of, J is Lucky 13 in 2013, as she puts it, luck what else, students and colleagues there to EDUCATION, SHE MET having nothing to do with it, of course.) learn, of course, but also to honor some- It is wrong to say she established one whose stamp on USU is profound. WITH STUDENTS AND USU’s undergraduate research program. Almost as an afterthought to all Ask her and she’ll again put on her the Carnegie “teaching” accolades, great ASKED “WHAT WORKS champion-for-others hat and say USU’s teacher and student mentor that she is, program began in 1975 — the second Kinkead also is her college’s Researcher AND WHAT NEEDS oldest undergraduate research program in of the Year in 2013, with three books the country. But it is safe and fair to say published in the past three years and 11 WORK” AS PART OF she enhanced the program — consider- books and 51 articles and chapters to ably, dramatically, meteorically — when her name. She is a pioneer in the world HER ASSESSMENT she became director. Another Carnegie of writing centers and writing programs, Professor calls her USU undergraduate re- and her subject matter is diverse and OF UNDERGRADUATE search’s “coordinator, spokesperson, fun- alive: Utah women in literature, farm draiser and godmother.” She inaugurated women in literature, email as a pedagogic EDUCATION. THE RESULT? the Utah Conference on Undergraduate tool, computers (barely alive back in Research, as well as Utah’s annual “Posters 1982) as a writing tool. She is the digital CHANGES IN CURRICULUM on the Hill” event at the state capitol, English teacher, a “glogging” English which highlights best student research at teacher (graphics+blogs), a Facebook MANAGEMENT, IMPROVED universities from around the state. teacher these days — always the technol- She creates opportunities for stu- ogy of the now. The stuff that works, RETENTION RATES AND dents to jump into academia as under- anyway, and she’ll figure that part out. grads. She started the Writing Fellows To know Joyce Kinkead is to know EVEN THE CREATION OF Program, the Undergraduate Teaching USU’s strengths. In fact, Public Relations Fellows Program, the Undergradu- 101 at USU — to add a more personal AGGIE BLUE BIKES, ate Research Fellows Program, and her homage — is Kinkead 101 too. Need undergraduate students have published in a compelling student tale to highlight A PROGRAM THAT refereed journals and co-authored chap- for media? Email Joyce. Need a specific ters of books with her.