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WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY 2002/2003 ANNUAL REPORT
Table of Contents
2 Letter from the President
4 Academic Prominence/Student Success
7 Campus Construction and Renovation
8 Faculty/ Staff Accolades
10 Economic Development/Sponsored Resea rch and Public Service
13 Private Fundraising
14 Athletic Accomplishments
16 Leadership
COVER PHOTO BV SHERYL HAGAN ·BOOTH WKU· PR INTING PAID FROM STATE rUNOS. KRS $7.375 Letter from the President
population to fund the costs associated with growth , but student tuition alone does not cover the cost of educa t ing students. According to the CPE funding formula, public universities should expec t tu ition to account for approximately 37 perce nt of total revenue, with the remaining 63 percent to come from the state. Currently, state appropriations account for on ly 4 I percen t of our funding. Tuition revenue at Western is nearing to the point where it is equal to state appropriated revenue.
Academic Quality In an effort to address the pressures our faculty face from unfunded enrollment growth, the Board of Regents recently took a first step by authorizing a major aca demic quality/student success initiative. This initiative will create new full-time faculty positions, reduce the number of part-time faculty positions, strengthen academic operating and professional development budgets, improve classrooms and instructional technol ogy, increase need and merit-based student aid, in crease graduate student stipend s, create student success Dr. Gary A. Ransdell cen ters and expand the instructional and student service space in the Community College. On behalf of the Board of Regents, it is with great In spi te of the challenges, many academ ic programs pleasure that I present Western Kentucky Unive rsity's at Western continued to garner national recognition. 200212003 Annual Report. This document renects upon The School of Journalism and Broadcasting, a Program the significa nt accomplishments of the past academic of Distinction in Kentucky, achieved national promi year, and looks toward to the challenges th at lie ahead. nence by placing in th e top three of the Wi lliam Randolph Hearst Foundation national academic rankings in each of the past fi ve years; the William E. Enrollment Growth Western Kentucky University continues to be the Bivin Forensic Society completed an unprecedented fastest growing university in Kentucky. Si nce Higher sweep of th e four major national and international Education Reform legislation passed in 1987, we have debate titles in 200212003; the College Heights Herald nearly doubled our appl ica nt pool to over I 1,000 and received its 10th national Pace maker award, top prize grown our enrollment by 3,700 students. Enrollment for for college newspapers; and our civil engineering this fa ll reached an all-time high of 18,39 I. Clearly, students finished sixth in the national concrete ca noe Western Kentucky Universi ty has become a university of design competi tion. In 2003, Western added two initiatives - the choice in Ke ntucky. However, Western has not received the state Ameri ca n Democracy Project and the American funding needed to cover the cost of educating our Humanics Program - to improve the Western experi additional students. According to the most recent data ence and increase civic engagement among stud ents. available from the Council for Postsecondary Education benchmark-funding model, Western is underfunded Investing in the Spirit:The Campaign for Western from the state by $42.9 million. To compound the Another tangible sign of our success is the generous matter, three of the last four years have meant actual financial support by alumni and friends for the Univer reductions in appropriations. Western has re lied on si ty. Five years ago, we announced an ambitious goa l of additional tuition generated by the growing student - 3 -
$78 million for peopl e, places, and programs through ce nters in the life and physical sciences is lead ing the our Investing in the Spirit Campaign. We have met and way in the identification and solving of problems in our surpassed that goal. At the conclusion of the ca mpaign region. Our Center for Research and Development has the remarka ble total of $ 102 million was announced. also been developed to serve as a business incubator, From this effort, $29 million fo r new endowed sc holar and rec ruit New Economy businesses. ships was raised, 27 new endowed professorships were funded, and our endowment more than doubled to $56 Athletics million. Athletics experienced perhaps its greatest overall Wh ile the ca mpaign has been a great success, there level of accomplishments in 200212003. For the second is sti ll work to be done to address remaining unmet straight year, Western won the Sun Bel t Conference's needs in endowed faculty support, instructi onal technol Vic Bubas Cup, representati ve of overall excellence in ogy, cultural enhancement, unive rsity libraries, and the athleti cs. The football team won the 2002 NCAA Divi Kentucky Museum. sion I-AA National Championship. The men and women's ba sketball tea ms and the volleyball team each Capital Improvements won their Sun Be lt Conference to urnaments and Despite the lack of state money for capital projec ts, represented Western proudly in their respective NCAA the physica l campu s tournaments. The continues to be women's swim transformed. Of Ihe ming and diving approximately $ 165 team and the men's million in const ruction outdoor track and projects that have field squad also been recently com won Sun Belt pleted or are curren tly Conference underway, only the championshi ps. As Mass Media and outstanding as our Tec hnology Hall ($ 18.5 stu dent -athletes million) which opened were on the courts this fall, the Complex and fields, they for Engineering and were also success Biological Sciences ful in the cl ass ($20 million) which is rooms. Forty now under const ruc percent earn ed a ti on, plu s so me 3.0 or better GPA deferred maintenance Downing University Center and 26 had a projects totaling about $3 million, were fun ded by the perfect 4.0 in th e spring 2003 semester. state. Other projects, such as the renovation of Diddle This is an extremely exciting and encouragi ng time Arena ($29 million), residence halls ($45 million), for Western Kentucky University. Si nce launching the campus dining fac ilities ($3.5 million), and parking Challenging the Spirit strategic plan in 1998, the Unive r improvements ($ 15 millionl were funded by good sity has made great strides toward our goal of becoming bu siness practices and student support. the best comprehensive public inst itution in Ke ntucky, and among th e best in the nation. For those of you who ha ve had a hand in Ollr Sllccess, YOll have my sincere Economic Development Western Ke ntucky u nive rsity is at the forefront in gratitude. For those of you w ho ha ve not experi enced the "Spirit of Western" I encourage you to join us. nurturing an entrepreneurial sp irit in Sou th Central Kentucky and beyond. We have worked diligently to establ ish partnerships w ith chambers of commerce, the Si lCerely, Cabinet for Economic Development and other economic development organizations, along with our faculty, students and industry to produce a trained workforce, facili tate tec hnology transfer, and encourage commer Gary A. Rans ell cialization opportunities. A se ri es of applied research Pres id ent - 4 -
Academic Prominence/Student Success
Western KentuckY University is making a transformation from a univer Western's pass rate and rank I raling sity traditionally characterized as regional to a university ofn ational promi on the Praxis II exam for 200 1-02 nence. helped earn the University an Western's vision is to be the best comprehensive public institution in excellent raling on the Quality Kentucky and among the best in the natioll. Performance Index. In the other two The fastest growing university in KentUCky, Western has become a components, Western had a 99 university ofchoice for students. perce nt pass rate on the 2000-03 Western has experienced a 24 percent increase in enrollment over jive Ken tucky Teacher Internship yeats, including a record 18,391 in the fall of2003. Program and a high score on the High -achieving students led by 2002-03 New Teacher Survey. quality and dedicated faCUlty mem Western is the only public institution bers are building a national and to achieve an excellent rating. international reputation for academic programs at Western. Western's civil engineering concrete canoe team remains among the best in the nation with a The Talisman yearbook received sixth-place finish in nalional second place in Best in Show for competition in Phi ladelphia. "illu yearbooks with fewer than 300 sion," built by students, won the pages. The 2003 Ta lisman was Ohio Va lley regiona l competition in Western 's fi rst yearbook in six years. the spring and advanced to the 2003 National Concrete Ca noe Competi With a 99 percent pass rate, tion at Drexel unive rsity. The canoe Western's education majors had won best-finished product and was the highest score of Kentucky's selected by the competition sponsor, public colleges and universilies on a Master Builders Inc., for display at statewide exam for new teachers. its world head quarters in Cleveland.
The College Heights Herald, Western Kentucky Un ive rsity's student newspaper, received its 10th nalional Pacemaker. The Herald, also received Pacemakers in 198 1, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1998,1999, 2000 and 2002. Th e Pacemaker awards, co-sponsored by the Associated collegiate Press and the Newspaper Associalion of Ameri ca Foundalion, are considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. Editors for the fall 2002 and spring 2003 se mesters were Caroline Lynch an d Erica Wa lsh. Th e Herald also took fourth place in Best in Show for non-daily broadsheet papers.
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The School of Journalism and Broadcasting won the William Randolph Hearst National Journal ism Awa rds Program in 2000 and 200 I and has fi nished in the top th ree for the past fi ve years, includ ing third in 2003. No other Ke ntucky institution boasts a No. I national ranking for an academic program.
Western had a 20 percent growth in enrollment from 1998 to 2002, making it the fastest-growing public institution in Ken tucky. Undergradu ate enrollment in fa ll 2002 was 15,234, well ahead of the target of 14, I 00 set by the Council on Western agriculture students fi nished second in the 2003 North America n Postsecondary Edu ca tion. The one Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge. The WKU team of Chad Bishop, Brandon year retention rate of first-time Da vis, Brent Mays and Andy Pike, placed second beh ind vermont Tech. The fres hmen has rise n from 74.1 team coach is Jenks Britt, head of WKU's Agriculture Department. TWenty percent in 1998 to 78.5 perce nt in four teams from top dairy sc hools in the United States competed in the Dairy 2002, ahead of CPE 's target of 77.5 Challenge at East Lansing, Mich. perce nt.
The Gordon Ford College of A poster and sticker design Business is emerging on th e project by art undergraduate nationa l level. Already among the 25 studen ts Pat Jones and Ben Nunery percent of schools accredited by the was launched in Sco tland, London American Association of College and Wa les. "Engage" also toured Schools of Business, more than $20 several U.S. ci ti es, including Chi million in gills and pledges have cago, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Nashville, been ra ised for the business sc hool Louisville, Memphis and washing to enhance its position and crea te a ton, D.C. Ce nter for Bu siness Leadership & Ethics and a Ce nter for Entrepre The WKU American Chemical neurship. The Ford college hos ted Society student affiliate chapter Fortune Magazine's 2003 "Most received an honorable mention from Powerful Man in Business ," Warren the ACS Committee on Education Bu ffett, fo r an allernoon session based on their programs and with its students and faculty. Warren Buffett activities in 2002 -03.
A 2003 art graduate, Tiffany Melcher, won the "Wolf Trap" 2002/2003 First-year Student Profile Student Poster Competition while undergraduate students Jennifer Schaaf, Laura Hickman and Brittany • Two out of five first-year students graduated in the top Schleicher were national finalists. quarter oftheir high school class and 16 percent graduated in the top 10 percent. Three psychology graduates were honored at the 2003 Kentucky • The average high school GPA was 3.12 while 61 percent had a Association for Psychology in the high school GPA of at least 3.0. Schools con ference. Lorie Mullins won the Region 7/ 8 Best Practices • The average ACT score was 21 while 24 percent scored a 24 Award . Jason Simpson and Emily or above. Wright Seeger were co-winners of th e Best Practices in Consultation award. - 7 -
Campus Construction and Renovation
Through approximately $1 65 million in public/private constnlclion Of the approximately $ 165 million projects, Western has ttansformed the campus and the quality of life for in construction projects that were sWdents, faculty, staffand the community by adding new academic completed or begun in 200212003, buildings, improving ath/elic f acilities, renovaling residence halls and only three were funded by the state: enhancing diningfacilities.
• Mass Media and Technology Hall $18,5 million
• Complex for Engineering and Biological Sciences $20 million
• Deferred maintenance $3 million
Other ca mpus constructi on/ renova ti on projec ts th at were Center for Engineering and Biological Sciences - architect's rendering completed or begun in 200212003, that did not include state funding:
Diddle Arena renovation • $29 million
Residence halls • renovation $45 million
Campus dining halls • renovation $3,5 million Moss Media & Technology Half • Downing University Western received the 2002 Governor's Environmental Excellence Award Center renovation for Energy Efficiency for its Energy Saving Performance Contract program $10 million from the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet. It Parking improvements recognizes outstanding individuals, organiza ti ons and companies that have • contributed to the enhancement of Kentucky's environment. Western was $15 million th e first state agency to implement an ESPC, a contrac t with an energy WKU-funded deferred service company to use energy cost savings to pay for energy-related • maintenance improvements. LG&E Enertech Inc. (now Ameresco Enertech) completed $4.5 million almost $1 .6 million in improvements resulting in an annual savings of more than $252,000, or 8 perce nt of th e UniverSity's electric bill. - 8 -
Faculty/Staff Accolades
In tlleir classrooms, tlleir communities, tlleir researcll projeclS and their professional organizations, Western faCUlty and SlGJJ continue to bring Ilonor and dislinclion to tile UniverSity.
English faculty member Joe Survant was named Kentucky's poet laureate for 2003.
Chemistry faculty Rob Holman received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support "Acquisi tion of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer. "
Psychology fa culty Sharon Mutter and Steve Haggbloom, with undergraduate student Amy Schirmer, presented "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Aging and the Fea ture Positive Effect" at the 2003 annual meeting of the Midwestern Psycho logical Association.
Ron Milliman in Marketing was appointed by the governor to the Business and Industry sea t on the Sta te Rehabilitation Council, which oversees the Department of the Blind and other rehabilitation departments and agencies.
Mitzi Groom, head of the Music Department, is the 2003-05 national president of the Ameri ca n Choral Direc tors Association.
Randy Wilson , director of th e Veterans Upward Bound program, was honored by the Kentucky Association of Educa tional Opportu nity Program Personnel. Wilson received the Paul Lu xmore Ou t standing Service Award for Profes English faculty Jane Olmsted and Elizabeth Oakes received the 2003 Sallie sional Excellence, which is the Bingham Award from the Kentucky Foundation for Women for th e Kentucky group's most prestigious honor. Feminist W riters Se ri es. Julia Roberts, the director of Th e Music faculty john Cipolla was Ce nter fo r Gifted Studies and the awarded first pri ze in the Interna Mahurin Professor of Gifted Studies tional Clarinet Associa ti on's Re at Weste rn , was reappointed by th e search Presentation Competition for govenor to the Ken tucky Advisory "Linear Aspects of Harmony in the Council for Gifted and Talented Counter Melodies of Sidney Beche!." Education. Dr. Roberts se rves as representative of Kentucky's public universities. She is a member of th e exec uti ve co mmittee of the board of directors of the Nat ional Association for Gifted Children and a member of the board of direc tors of the Kentucky Association for Gifted Educa tion. Saundra Ardrey, head of the Politica l Science Department, was appointed Andrew Wulff of the to the washington Congressional Department of Geography Leaders Program Academ ic Advisory and Geology participated in a Boa rd , which establishes policy and field project in Cen tral Java, guidelines fo r the newly fo rm ed indonesia, as part of a multi insti tute for Congressional intern disc iplinary team investiga ting ships. when early humans first reached Asia. Th e team focused 1 Terry Likes, an associate professor in on th e foss il-ri ch sediments of Western's School of Journalism and th e Solo Basin in ce ntral Java, 1 Broadcasting, won national honors and th e nature of the phys ica l for his radio documentary on "The environment at th e tim e of Med ia Coverage of 9/ i i ." Likes human arrival, estim ated to be rece ived "Best Of Festival" deSigna about i .5 million years ago. tion from the Broadcast Educa tion Associat ion. A Western librarian's websi te on i 9th cen tury naturalist Alfred Wa llace received Chris Groves, director of Western 'S one of Scientific Ame ri can's 2003 Sci/Tech Web Awa rd s. The magazine chose Hoffman Environmental Resea rch Charles Smith's work on Wa llace, an En gl ish evolutionist and social cri tic, as tnstitute, traveled to Alaska's one of the 50 best science-technical subjects-related websites of the year. Tongass National Forest to address about 40 u.s. Forest Service hydrolo gists and fisheries managers about protecting kars t water resources in southeastern Alaska. He was asked J' to attend th e conference to help th e federal managers better understand 1 karst hydrology in general, and how these concepts re late to protecting the ecology of Tongass, America's largest national forest at i 9 million ac res.
Judy Woodring, director of Western's award-win ning speech and debate program, was named the 2003 Kentucky Forensics Coach of the Year.
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Economic Development/Sponsored Research and Public Service
Western has become f'nore foc Lised on economic development initiatives to provide se/vice jar business and indusliy, enilance opportunities jorjaculty and students, and se/ve as an economic engine for soulhcenlral Kenlllcky. 2002/2003 Sponsored Since 1997, sponsored researciljunding ilasgrownji'Om $11.5 mil/ion to near!y $30 million main!y due to an empilasis on applied research. Tile Program funding university also is developing a jacility jar New Economy initiatives and iligil tech businesses. Sponsored program funding In 2003, Western added t\'vo initiatives - tile American Democracy Project reached a record of nearly and the American Hurnonics Program - to improve the Western experience $30 million in 2002/2003 and increase civic engagement among students. , mainly due to an emphasis • on applied research. Some examples include: Western received a $2 million grant from the u.s. • $500,000 from the Environ Department of mental Protection Agency Energy for a for the Technical Assistance projec t to help Center for Water Quality reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants. • $1.99 million from the The grant was National Science Foundation awarded to We i for the Kentucky Urban Ping Pan, Kunlei Rural Alliance for Math and Liu and John T. Science Ril ey for their project "Establish ment of an • $385,000 from the U.S. Environmental Control Technology involve the expansion and re nam Department of Health and Laboratory with a Circulating ing of the Combustion Laboratory. Human Services for the Fluidized Bed Combustion System." Design and construction planning Institute for Rural Health The award is th e largest competitive of the ECTL and the circulating Development grant ever rece ived in the Ogden nuidized bed (CFBC) system is College of Science and Engineering. under way. Renovation of the WKU has purchased and will laboratory at Western 's Ce nter for • $2.3 million from the U.S. renovate 10,000 square feet of Resea rch and Development is Department of Education for laboratory space to house the expected by the summer of 2004 improving teacher quality Environmental Control Technology wi th completion of the CF BC Laboratory (ECTL), which w ill system by the summer of 2005. - 12 -
Collaboration with the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville led to the crea tion of new WKU & the New Economy joint degrees in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Whi le WKU graduates will be Western Kentucky University is helping the region and prepared to be competitive in any the state meet the needs of a changing economy through market, the primary focus is to several projects_ prepare graduates to begin produc live ca reers as practitioners in • WKU is working closely with New Economy legislation and regional industries. Industries in th is region ca me to Western to develop implementation ofthe Kentucky Innovation Act to create an programs so that they could employ Innovation and Commercialization Center serving central our graduates to achieve or main Kentucky_ The ICC and the Center for Research and Develop tain th eir own competitive edge. ment are home to New Economy businesses including Hitcents_com and Perot Systems Healthcare_ The facility also The Bowling Green Community will house WKU's Materials Characterization Center and College, under the direction of Dr. Dawn Bolton, is offering an online Applied Physics Institute_ associate degree in Business Technology with emphasis in • Faculty in the Gordon Ford College of Business developed Manufac turing Management to the Center for Information Technology Enterprise to im Weye rh aeuser employees across the prove Kentucky's competitiveness in the New Economy_One country and in Ca nada and Mexico. of CITE's projects is connectkentucky, a public-private Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi partnership that is evaluating Kentucky's status in the fraternities received notable chapter networked world and its preparedness to participate in awards for overall chapter excel global electronic commerce_ lence. Th e Kentucky Eta chapter of Phi Del ta Theta won the Founders • At the Carroll Knicely Institute for Economic Development, Trophy from the Phi Delta Theta WKU provides continuing education programs, assistance International Fraternity. The WKU chap ter also won the award in 2000 for new businesses, training for employees, and support for and was honorable mention in 2002 . community leaders in meeting the changing needs of the The Ze ta Mu chapter of Sigma Chi state's economy. won the Pe terson Significant Chapter Award from the Sigma Chi International Fraternity.
Western 's student radio station was ~ -- - ' - a finalist in the 2003 Collegiate Broadcasters Inc_National Student ~ - '-!liL.... • Production Awards. WWHR-FM was one of four finalists in the category of Best Promo For Station :~I "'~ J '~ ' :~ / or Studen t Media Oullet.
WKYU-PBS, Western 's public television service, launched the first 0/ /.. i . =-.~. digital public television service to originate in southcen tral Kentucky. On May I , WKYU-DT signed on. The program schedule duplicates th e 1, -- WKYU-PBS analog se rvice that has ,! been on since Jan. 17, I 989. ~ - 13 -
Private Fundraising
In 2003, Western Kentllcky university annollnced the giving total of more than $102 million for its Investing in the Spirit capital campaign. The Investing in the Spirit campaign has been abollt more than jllst dollars raisea. Thanks to the hard work ofollr vollinteers, the campaign will have a lasting legacy on the people, places, and programs of Western.
INVESTING IN THE SPIRIT Campaign Highlights
• Funded 27 new endowed \1",\ 10\~\ professorships in a number of '\\\' \t,1 ~,~ important academic disci plines, ranging from engineer ing, to business, to music;
• Matched all $12 million of available funding through the Commonwealth of Kentucky's Regional University Excellence Trust Fund, or "Bucks for Brains" money;
• Raised $29 million for 81 new endowed scholarships as well as fellowships and awards in the WKU Foundation and the College Heights Foundation;
• More than doubled the overall endowment from $24 million to $S6 million, WKU 's endowment growth has been ranked 17th best in the nation the last two years;
t Increased membership in the President's Circle by 282 percent, from 376 members in 1998 to 1,438 in 2003, The President's Circle recognizes donors who annually contrib ute $1 ,000 or more to the University; and
• Increased annual cash deposits WKU's alumni giving percentage Bolh WKU 's Alumni and Development from $3 million to more than is in the top 10 in the nation for (fund raising) Programs were voted best in $12 million, master's leve l inslitulions, far Kentucky and the best in the Southeastern outpacing any other public u .s. in 200212003 by the Council for Ad Kentucky uni ve rsity. vancement and Support of Education (CASE) .
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Athletic Accomplishments
With a national title in football and conference championships in volleyball, men's and women's basketball, women 's swimming and diving and men's outdoor track and field, Western student-mhletes continue a tradition of excellence peiformance on the field ofplay. Student-athletes also continue to excel in the classroom as 40 percent have a GPA of 3.0 or better
WKU fi nished 99th in the final National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Sears Cup standings, th e school's best-ever ranking. With a school-record 175 points, Western fi nished ahead of fellow Ga teway Football Conference members, second among Sun Belt Conference schools, second among Kentucky universities and sixth among all I-AA football scholarship programs.
Of Western 's 20 teams, seven squads posted a 3.0 grade-point average or higher in th e 2002-03 academic yea r.
Forty percent of WKU 's student athletes carry a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and 26 student athletes had a perfect 4.0 GPA is the spring 2003 semester.
For the second straight year, Western won the Sun Belt Conference's Vic Bubas Cup, give n annually to the league school with th e best overall performance. Western claimed fi ve Sun Belt titles-volleyball, men's and women's basketball, women's swimming and diving and men's Hilltopper football team was the 2002 I-AA National Champion after The outdoor track and field - while both winning the Ga teway Conference title. The Hilltoppers defea ted McNeese the men's and women's cross country State on national television to w in the crown. Four players earned All teams and the women's outdoor track America honors - Buster Ashley, Sherrod Coa tes, jeremi johnson and Chris and field squad finished second. Price. Brian Lowder, WKU 's Scholar Athlete of th e Yea r, was named flrst team Ve rizon Academic All-America . He was joined by jason Michael on the The women's swimming team won its I-AA Athletic Directors Academic All Star Team. Thirteen Toppers were third straight Sun Belt champion honored on all-Ga teway Confe rence teams, and two Toppers, Sherrod ship. Trisha Nailor was named Sun Coates and j eremi j ohnson, were drafted by NFL teams. Belt Di ve r of the Yea r. - 15 -
In Women's Cross Country, sen ior Olga Cronin was one of 38 individu als across the country to qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Champi onships. She's the second Lady Topper to qualify for the November championship.
Th e Lady Topper indoor track and field team swept all-conference honors in the 3,000 meters as Olga Cronin, Boni ta Paul and Ca ra Nichols finished first, second and third respective ly.
Robby Shaw shot a school-record 62 in the final round of the Penn State Rutherford Intercollegiate golf tournament. The 1O -under round is believed to be the lowest score ever The Lady Toppers won the 2003 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball by a Kentucky collegian. title and a 15th 1rip to the NCAA Tournament. Sha la Reese was league Player of the Year and Tiffany Porter-Talbert was named Freshman of the Year. The Hilltopper men's basketball Three players were named all-conference while three Lady Toppers ea rn ed team is three-time defending Sun SBC All -Tournamen t Team honors. Belt Conference regular season and tournament champions, earning a spot in the NCAA tourna In Hilltopper baseball, Matt Wilhite Volleyball Head Coach Travis ment for th e 19th time. Three was named Sun Belt Conference Hudson was named SBC and South Toppers ea rn ed all -conference Pitcher of the Year. Central Region coach of the year. honors - Patrick Sparks, David Boyden and Mike Wells. Wells was Shelly Floyd was the first WKU the first guard to win the league softball player to be named first Defensive Player of the Yea r award team all-South Region . Ril ey Garcia and Anthony Winchester was th e was named first-team all-Sun Belt, second Topper to be named SBC making her the first Hilltopper to be Freshman of the Year. named all-conference lhree times.
The men's outdoor track and field squad won the sc hool's first Sun Belt championship. Ra igo Toompuu was the Most Outstanding Field Pe rformer and top scorer while Enda Granfield was Most Ou tstanding Track Pe r form er.
Dr. Curtiss Long was named SBC Women's Coach of the Year in indoor track and fi eld and men's Riley Garcia outdoor track and fi eld. The volleyball program won its fi rst Women's Swimming Head Coach Bill Sun Belt Conference title and Powell earned Sun Belt Conference participated in the NCAA tourna Coach of the Year honors. ment, tra veling to Hawaii. Sara Noe was se lected league MVP and flrst Mary Taylor Cowles was named Sun team AII -South-Central Region. Belt Women's Basketball Coach of Tracy May was the SBC Defensive the Year following her first season as Player of the Year and an honorable head coach of th e Lady Toppers. mention All-South-Central pick.
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FEDERAL & STATE OFFICIALS Dr. Sam Evans, College of Education Will ia m Kummer, Bowling Green, KY REPRESENTING BOWLING GREEN & Behavioral Scie nces James Layne, Glasgow, KY 2002-03 Dr. Blaine Ferrell, Ogden College Nancy Luther, Ve ro Beach, FL Mitch McConnell , United States Senator of Science and Engineering Michael Lynch, Hilton Head Island, SC Jim Bunning, United States Senator Ms. Sherry Reid , Interim Dean , and Fairfax, VA Ron Lewis, Representative, Bowling Green Community College C. Peter Mahurin, Bowlin g Green , KY 2nd Congressional District of Western Kentucky University Myra Mattingly, Charlotte, NC Paul E. Patton, Governor Dr. Elmer Gray, Graduate Studies William M. McCormack, Apopka, FL Jody Richards, Spea ker of the House of & Research Bruce Merric k, Loui svill e, KY Represe ntatives, KY 20 Mr. Howard Bailey, Associate Vice Jam es G. Meyer, Bowling Green, KY Brett Guthrie, Senator, KY 32 Preside nt for Student Affairs & Dean Billy Joe Miles , Owensboro, KY Roger Thomas, Representative, KY 2 1 of Student Life Elliott R. Miles, Jr. , Hopkinsville, KY Reta Morgan, Wi nter Park, FL BOARD OF REGENTS 2002-2003 BOARD OF ADVISORS Bradford E. Mutchler, Paducah, KY Ms. Lois Gray, Chair, Vine Grove Andy Anderson, Owensboro, KY George Nichols, III, New York, NY Mrs. Kristen T. Bale, Glasgow Jerry Baker, Bowling Green, KY Sarah Smith Nicholson, Anchorage, KY Mr. Howard Bailey, Bowling Green (stam Ellen Bale, Glasgow, KY Mary Nixon, Louisville, KY Dr. Robert Di etle, Bowling Green Eddy Barber, Louisville, KY Jo T. Orendorf, Bowing Green, KY (facultyl Loui s M. Berman, Bowling Green , KY (deceasedl Mr. Robert Earl Fischer, Dallas, TX Vince Berta , Bowling Green , KY Leon Page, Franklin, KY Mr. Cornelius A. Martin , Bowling Green Bill Bewley, Oakton, VA James A. Parrish, Jr., Memphis, TN Ms. LaDonna G. Rogers, Glasgow Jerry T. Blacketer, Louisville, KY Daniel S. Pelino, Hinsdale, IL Ms. Jamie Sears, Melber (studentl Joy Bale Boone, Glasgow, KY (deceasedl John F. Pettus, Winchester, KY Mr. Ronald G. Sheffer, Louisville Harold Brantley, Bowling Green, KY Bea Preston, Destin , FL Mr. James B. Tennill, Jr., Louisville J. Michael Brown, Louisv ille, KY Raymond B. Preston, Henderson, KY Mrs. Beverly H. Wathen, Owensboro Michael O. Bu chanon, Bowling Green, KY Willard Price, Louisville, KY Joe B. Campbell, Bowling Green, KY Frederick L. Rather, Scottsville, KY AOMINI STRATIVE COUNCIL 2002- 03 Stephen Catron, Bowling Green, KY Jody Richards, Bowling Green, KY Dr. Gary A. Ran sdell, President E. Daniel Cherry, Bow ling Green, KY John W. Ridley, Bowling Green, KY Dr. Barbara Burch, Provost and VP John David Cole, Bow ling Green, KY J Russe ll Ross, Owensboro, KY for Academic Affairs Kay Connally, Bowling Green, KY Ann Sala mone, Boca Raton , FL Mr. Bob Edwards, Assistant VP Thomas A. Donnelly, Bowling Green, KY Va l Scott, Oakland, CA for Uni ve rsity Relations Charlie Ea rles, Destin, FL walter Scott, New York, NY Mr. Tom Hiles , Vice President Ge rald G. Edds, Owensboro, KY Anne C. Sheffer, Louisville, KY for Institutional Advancement Gordon Ford , Louisville, KY Ronald G. ShelTer, Louisville, KY Dr. Richard Kirchmeyer, Vice President Richard Frockt, Las Vegas, NV Larry B. Shelton, Nashville, TN for Informati on Technology Ve rnon Gary, Bowling Gree n, KY W. Charl es Shuffield, Orlando, FL Ms. Ann Mead, Chief Financial Officer Thomas A. George, Englewood, NJ Billy Ray Smith, Frankfort, KY and Assistant to the President Larry B. Gildersleeve, Redmond, WA Cooper R. Smith, Jr., Bowling Green, KY for Economi c Development Julian Goodman, Jupiter, FL Herbert j. Smith, Bowling Green, KY Mr. John Osborn e, Associate VP Thomas H. Gorin, Alpharetta, GA James W. Smith, Bowling Green, KY for Campus Services and Facilities Lois H. Gray, Lexington, KY Zuheir Sofia, Columbus, OH Dr. Wood Selig, Director of Athletics R.K . Guillaume, Louisville, KY John D. Stewart, Chicago, IL Ms. Robb in Taylor, Director Thomas E. Gumm, Glasgow, KY Ri chard P. Thomas, Covington, KY of Gove rnmental Relations Brett Guthrie, Bowling Gree n, KY Roger Thomas, Smiths Grove, KY Dr. Ge ne lice, Vice President for Lowe ll Guthrie, Bowling Green, KY James R. Thompson, Vero Beach, FL Studen t Affai rs and Ca mpus Services Ken neth E. Hall, Charlotte, NC Don S. Vitale, Bowling Green, KY Ms. Deborah Wil kin s, General Counsel Henry N. Hardin, Bowling Green, KY Leon H. Volkert, Ft . Lauderdale, FL James E. Hargrove, Lex ington, KY Alex Waldrop, Louisville, KY DEANS 2002- 03 Donna Harmon, Bowling Green , KY Tommy Lee Wa llace, Pasadena, CA Dr. David Lee, Potter College of Arts, Larnell e Harris, Loui svill e, KY Catherine C. Wa rd , Bowling Green, KY Mike Harris, Russellville, KY George E. Wa rren, Sebree, KY Humanities & Socia l Sciences Dr. Robert Jefferson, Gordon Ford Euge ne Haskett, Mooresville, NC Hays T. Watkins, Richmond, VA College of Busi ness Stephen L. Henry, Frankfort, KY Johnny D. Webb, Bowling Green, KY Dr. Michae l Bin de r, Uni versity Libraries Richard D. Holton, Nashville, TN Paul D. wedge, Bowling Green, KY Dr. David Dunn, College of Health Sa ra L. Hulse, Owensboro, KY Terry W. Wilcutt, Houston, TX & Human Se rvices Micha el J. Jarvis, Owensboro, KY Laurence J. Zi elke, LOui sv ill e, KY Wi lliam J. Jones, Paduca h, KY