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| With Dr. Moffett at the opening reception are the members
of the Annual Fine Arts Showcase committee, from left, Donna
Gay Anderson, Dale Newkirk, Marjorie Morrison and Gail Hood. |
Vice President Stephen Smith and Alumni President Noelle
Vaughan view a painting by Mia Marshall, one of 21 artists whose
works are on exhibit in the President's Residence. |
Louisiana artists showcased at President's Residence
At a reception on June 28, Southeastern debuted the Annual Fine
Art Showcase, a new program is designed to call attention to the growing
body of Louisiana art.
President Randy Moffett said the exhibit
in the President's Residence is a celebration and recognition of many
of Louisiana's local artists. The exhibit, which features 21 artists
living and working in Hammond and on the north shore, will also demonstrate
Southeastern's mission to help lead the educational, cultural and
economic development of our region.
The exhibit includes paintings, sculpture,
and photography displayed in the public areas of the residence.
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conference participants from Southeastern were, from left, education
faculty Willie Ennis, Jason Hancock and John Fulwiler.
Hancock cited for 'best paper' at national convention
Robert Jason Hancock, assistant professor in the College of Education
and Human Development, was recognized for presenting the best research
paper at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
conference held recently in Atlanta.
Hancock was the lead author with two
colleagues from the University of North Texas on a paper that examined
the current methods used to assess the impact of technology on student
performance. Selection of the paper for the research award is considered
a major honor in the field of educational technology. More than 17,000
leading educational authorities attended the international conference.
"Various methods are used to evaluate
federally and state-funded technology initiatives in the classroom,
so it's important to determine if the measurements are compatible,"
said Hancock. "It was encouraging to see that the three main
instruments used are measuring the same underlying construct of technology
in the classroom, which we refer to as technology integration. These
measurements are important to help determine if the money we are spending
- or not spending - on educational technology is a wise investment."
Hancock said the U.S. Department of
Education has requested permission to use the study as part of the
foundation for a new site designed to assist educational leaders in
making technology decisions.
The paper was based on a three-year
ongoing national study of technology's relationship to student achievement
involving a pool of 20,000 teachers across the country. Funding for
the project was provided by the HotChalk Corporation, a leading provider
of free K-12 course management software that assists teachers in lesson
planning, assignment distribution, and collection and grading. The
company is also using faculty in Southeastern's Department of Educational
Technology to spearhead research in a number of areas of virtual learning.
"Measuring the impact of technology
on student results is critical," said HotChalk Chief Executive
Officer Edward Fields. "Schools have to make every dollar count
and every educational technology investment should be driven by a
rigorous Return-On-Investment analysis. Dr. Hancock's work is making
it possible for educators to conduct meaningful ROI analysis to insure
that every technology dollar invested produces measurable education
results."
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Retirement reception honors Dr. Kurtz
Michael Kurtz, dean of the Graduate School and a distinguished member
of the Department of History and Political Science faculty, was honored
at a retirement reception on June 29.
Dr. Kurtz has been a member of the faculty
for four decades. He is a double winner of the President's Award for
Excellence -- in research and teaching -- and is internationally known
as an expert on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Since
1975, Kurtz taught a course on the assassination that remains one
of the department's most popular electives.
He is the author a several books, including
Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian's
Perspective, Louisiana: A History, Earl K. Long: The
Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, and his new book, The
JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy.
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faculty who will oversee students as they develop their own non-profit
corporation to work interactively with area businesses and industry
include, from left, biochemist Michael Doughty, chemist Debra Dolliver,
physicist Sanichiro Yoshida, and principal investigator David Norwood,
physicist. With a $425,000 grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents,
Southeastern will create SEAL, which stands for Student Entrepreneurs
as Active Leaders. The program is designed to engage students in scientific
and engineering projects supported by local industries.
Science students to learn entrepreneurship
Southeastern science students will have the opportunity to learn important
business and technology entrepreneurship skills through a new program
that puts them in charge of their own non-profit business.
Funded initially by a five-year, $425,000
Post-Katrina Support Fund Initiative (PKSFI) grant from the Louisiana
Board of Regents, the program will engage students in scientific and
engineering projects supported by area industries.
"In the process, they will gain
the research, problem-solving and communication skills they will need
to be successful in the workplace," explained David Norwood,
associate professor physics and the principal investigator for the
grant.
The project will create a program called
SEAL, which stands for "Student Entrepreneurs as Active Leaders."
It is organized as a part of the state's Applied Polymer Technology
Extension Consortium (APTEC), which was established by the Louisiana
Legislature in 2003 to make university resources more accessible to
industry in the state.
SEAL is based on a highly successful
and innovative program called "ChemEngine" at Virginia Commonwealth
University, which gives engineering students valuable industrial experience,
Norwood said. The Southeastern program will create a student-managed,
faculty-supervised non-profit corporation that will provide scientific
services to area industrial clients. The fund will support the faculty
supervision and student participation through research assistantships
and will cover supplies and travel with a goal of making the corporation
self-sufficient in three to five years. Any "profits" that
remain after expenses are paid are contributed to other student activities
or organizations or used to cover travel expenses for conferences
or other programs.
"Typically, in an industrial setting,
scientists or engineers working on a specific project or problem may
come across an interesting question or opportunity," he said.
"These scientists are usually on tight deadlines, and this prevents
them from pursuing questions that arise in their work. With SEAL in
place, an industrial firm can pose the question or problem to students
who will further evaluate the issue and determine if it is something
of value the company may want to pursue further. Under this arrangement,
the company gets a solid, relatively inexpensive answer to the question
they posed, while the students gain the experience of real-world research
that has value simply beyond the learning experience.
"I've observed no reluctance among
the businesses I have talked to about this project," Norwood
added. "In fact, the industries are really excited about this
opportunity to build better relationships with the university. In
addition to getting answers to some of their questions, they get to
see students at work, some of whom may be potential future employees.
The students, meanwhile, get the work experience to add to their resume."
Norwood said the students learn the
important skills of planning and the necessity of meeting deadlines.
They develop oral and written reports that are presented to the clients
who are helping to fund the research.
"And as a side benefit, students
involved in projects like this typically improve their course grades
as well," he said.
"They learn pretty quickly that
business is all about accountability," he said. "So, in
addition to the problem-solving, critical thinking and scientific
research they perform, they work diligently on their grammar, spelling,
communication, and presentations that they make to industry. They
learn the necessity of effective teamwork. Those are all important
skills in any business."
Although part of the APTEC program,
Southeastern has expanded it beyond polymer applications to include
other scientific and industrial areas. "We're not a one-trick
pony," Norwood explained, saying the plan is to work cooperatively
with other universities to add students studying in disciplines that
Southeastern may not offer.
In addition to Norwood, the SEAL faculty
team includes Debra Dolliver, a synthetic organic chemist; biochemist
Michael Doughty; and Sanichiro Yoshida, a physicist specializing in
laser optics.
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Orientation sessions 'above capacity'
Three Summer Orientation Programs have been completed -- and there
are two more to go July 11-12 and July 18-19. Attendance at the
first three sessions has been "above capacity," the Office
of Admissions reports, with incoming freshman getting thoroughly
fun and informative introductions to Southeastern. Above left, Orientation
Leaders pretend to be "ferocious as a lion" as part of
icebreaker activities staged by PlayFair on June 28. Right, inspirational
speaker Freddy James from California addresses the participants
at the Pennington Student Activity Center.
Wyld documents blogging revolution
Using the Internet, specifically the process of blogging, is becoming
an increasingly common method for elected officials and public agencies
to communicate with constituencies. That is the subject of a new report
by David C. Wyld, Southeastern's Maurin Professor of Management and
director of the university's Strategic e-Commerce/e-Government Initiative,
issued by IBM's Washington, DC-based Center for the Business of Government.
"As a whole, blogging is still
in its infancy, but it is starting to take hold among public officials
across the American landscape," said Wyld. He said blogging is
increasingly moving from the fringes to the mainstream, with intense
interest in both corporate American and public offices in joining
the trend of user-generated media. There are more than 60 million
blogs in existence today, with more than 50,000 being created daily.
Wyld's report, "The Blogging Revolution:
Government in the Age of Web 2.0," chronicles blogging activities
at all levels of government, including members of Congress, governors,
mayors, police and fire departments, and provides insights into how
blogging is used within agencies to improve internal communications
and speed the flow of information. "Web 2.0" refers to the
second generation Internet, where interactivity among users is the
key. The report also assesses blogging in corporate America, with
a first of its kind survey of top executives who blog and the potential
benefits and challenges associated with blogging.
The report includes tables detailing
Wyld's research, which is baseline data identifying blogs initiated
by members of Congress, Congressional committees, governors and lieutenant
governors, state legislators and other officials throughout the nation
and in places as far away as Scotland and India.
Wyld - who devoted over a year to this
project since having his proposal funded through IBM's research grant
competition -- offers a case study in organizational blogging on the
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), citing it one of the best examples
of governmental blogging.
In addition to providing a guide for
public sector bloggers, Wyld also reports on blogging as a part of
the larger general social phenomenon of Web 2.0, encompassing not
just blogging, but social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace
and all forms of user-generated video and audio media.
"There is a sea of change occurring
wherein the web has become a truly participatory media," Wyld
added. "The rise of what has been alternately referred to as
consumer- or user-generated media or content has been hailed as being
truly revolutionary in nature."
"We hope this report both informs
and inspires public managers across government to consider ways of
engaging in the new world of Web 2.0 to improve citizen access to
public services, as well as to enhance democracy in our society,"
said Todd Ramsey, general manager of IBM Global Government Industry.
"Blogging is no longer a fad. It is becoming a key tool in industry
for communicating and collaborating both internally with employees
as well as externally with customers."
Copies of the report can be downloaded
for free at www.businessofgovernment.org/main/publications/grant_reports/details/index.asp?gid=291.
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Send in your best recipes for alumni cookbook
The Alumni Association is inviting alumni and friends to submit
recipes for a cookbook to be published in honor of the association's
80th anniversary.
Recipes may be sent by July 15 to the
Alumni Association, 500 West University Avenue, Hammond, LA 70401
or via e-mail to slualumni@selu.edu.
"Please include all the necessary
ingredients, instructions, baking temperatures and cooking tips,"
said Alumni Association Director Kathy Pittman. "With football
season right around the corner, barbecue and tailgating recipes are
a plus!"
Submissions should include name, telephone
number and mail or e-mail address.
For additional information, contact
the Alumni Association at 1-800-SLU-ALUM.
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 President
Randy Moffett, Tangipahoa Parish Superintendent Mark Kolwe and other
dignitaries visited the Teaching American History grant program summer
institute June 25 to celebrate the awarding of a second three years
of funding for the successful program. From left, are Tammy Bourg,
dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Tommy
Bellavia, assistant superintendent; Gerald Guidroz, dean of Continuing
Education; Michael Kurtz, dean of Graduate Studies; Moffett; Ann Trappey,
TAH project director; Kolwe; William Robison, head of the Department
of History and Political Science and TAH academic coordinator; and
TAH summer institute faculty Ronald Traylor and Charles Elliott, both
members of the Department of History and Political Science faculty.
Southeastern, Tangi schools receive second phase of funding for
'Teaching American History'
The Tangipahoa Parish School System and its partner Southeastern
have been awarded a second phase of funding by the U.S. Department
of Education for a successful program designed to improve student
achievement and teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation
of American history.
The three-year $899,425 Teaching American
History (TAH) grant will fund phase two of "Louisiana's Role
in Traditional American History," originally funded in 2004 through
at $999,000 DOE grant. The TAH grant serves elementary, middle, and
high school social studies teachers in the parishes of East Baton
Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena,
St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana,
and the cities of Bogalusa, Baker, and Zachary.
Through the TAH grant, teachers can
earn graduate credit and continuous learning units (CLUs) by participating
in summer institutes, Saturday workshops and field trips, "travel"
courses to sites such as Civil War battlefields, and special telecourses.
"Our first TAH program received
high praise from the Department of Education and served hundreds of
teachers," said William Robison, head of Southeastern's Department
of History and Political Science. "We are thrilled to be able
to continue this work for three more years." Robison, as academic
coordinator, and Tangipahoa Parish teacher Ann Trappey as project
director will again serve as the grant's administrators.
Visiting a TAH summer institute on June
25, Southeastern President Randy Moffett told participating teachers
from Livingston, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, and East and West Baton
Rouge parishes that the grant typifies Southeastern's commitment to
"providing a good undergraduate education to future teachers
and to working with teachers such as you to enhance what goes on in
your classrooms."
"You are preparing our future students,"
he said. "Programs such as this provide us with a way of working
with you, and that makes a very nice circle."
Tangipahoa Superintendent Mark Kolwe
also praised the partnership. "The TAH program has provided additional
resources for not only our social studies and history teachers; it
has helped prepare teachers across the curriculum. I wish we could
have more of these opportunities for teachers in other subject areas,"
he said.
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July Academic Adventure summer camps underway
Right, youngsters enjoy the activities of the Academic Adventures
Summer Camp's "Go Wild" camp, held at the Southeastern Lab
School last week. A number of camp sessions are still available in
July on campus and at the Livingston Literacy and Technology Center.
Camps at the Livingston Center include
Space and Rockets '07, July 9-13, and Spanish, July 23-27.
On campus camps are International Languages,
July 9-13; Exploring Nature with Numbers, July 9-13; Microsoft Publisher
2003 - Basic, seniors and adults session, July 9-13, ages 9-14 session
July 16-20; Children's Art Workshop, July 9-19 (Monday-Thursday);
Southeastern Music Festival, weekdays July 9-20; Microsoft FrontPage
2003 - Basic (for high school juniors and seniors and adults), July
16-20; Programming with ALICE, July 23-27; Young Writers Camp, July
23-27; Mystery of the Pharaoh's Treasure, July 30- Aug. 3; and Practical
Robotics, July 30-Aug. 3.
For more information and registration
forms, visit www.selu.edu/summercamps.
The Division of Continuing Education
also sponsors summer camps, including the Children's Summer Day Camp.
The university is also the site of a variety of sports, dance team
and cheerleader camps, also coordinated by Continuing Education. For
information on Continuing Education camps, visit www.selu.edu/continuinged
or call 985-549-2301.
NETT Conference offers discounts, big grant
prize
Members of area Chambers of Commerce will receive a $15 registration
discount for the July 19-20 Northshore Excellence in Teaching with
Technology Conference being sponsored by Southeastern and Delgado
Community College.
Educators and business leaders can see,
hear and learn how to integrate technology into their classrooms,
businesses and every day lives at the fourth annual conference. NETT
2007 will feature dozens of pre-conference workshops on July 19 in
Mandeville, Hammond, Covington and Walker as well as the main conference
on July 20 at Southeastern's main campus in Hammond.
Sign up for NETT is $100 for both days
or $45 for the conference alone. Participants can register on-line
at www.nettconference.org. The web site also includes complete listings
of concurrent session topics, speakers, workshops and locations.
In cooperation with the Tangipahoa,
St. Tammany, Washington, Livingston and St. Helena parish school boards,
NETT 2007 encompasses nationally known industry expert speakers, vendor
exhibits, interactive presentations, a free lunch, door prizes and
a $1,795 Promethean ACTIV board as the grand prize.
For additional information, contact
the Southeastern St. Tammany Center, sttammanycenter@selu.edu, or
(985) 893-6251.
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Maritime Museum director to speak on De
Soto expedition
The newly appointed executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain
Maritime Museum will present a public presentation examining the
Louisiana-Florida expedition of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto
at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, at the museum.
Jay Martin, who was appointed to the
post in April and who also teaches in Southeastern's public history
concentration, will discuss "Fight or Flight: The Louisiana-Florida
Expedition of Hernando de Soto, 1539-1543." The museum will
be open free to the public beginning at 4 p.m. that day.
Martin explained that the conquistador
de Soto landed in Florida in 1539 with an army of 700 men searching
for riches in North America. In a four-year odyssey that covered
what is now 10 southeastern states - and which ultimately cost de
Soto his life - the army fled down the Mississippi River through
Louisiana while being closely pursued by Native American tribes
bent on revenge.
The National Park Service is considering
the development of a national trail that commemorates the route
of the expedition and the story of the Native Americans encounters
with the Spanish army. Martin, who served as lead ranger at De Soto
National Memorial in Bradenton, Fla., for three years, was involved
in developing the first leg of the trail in Florida.
For more information, contact the
museum at 985-845-9200.
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Delgado, Southeastern share funding to
upgrade computer curricula, develop coordinated programming
A $965,000 grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents to Delgado
Community College in a partnership with Southeastern will fund workforce-related
upgrades in computer technology curricula and equipment at both
institutions.
The four-year grant - part of the
board's Post-Katrina Support Fund Initiative (PKSFI) - will also
support the formation of a joint "2+2" articulation program
that allows Delgado students to easily transition from the institution's
two-year associate degree program to a four-year degree program
at Southeastern.
Officials at both institutions said
the grant aims to develop Delgado's information technology (IT)
infrastructure and to further update, refocus and modernize the
IT-related curricula at Delgado and Southeastern to meet the needs
and challenges of the region's workforce.
Warren E. Duclos Jr., chair of Delgado's
Computer Information Technology, Business and Technology Division,
is the principal investigator in the grant. Cris Koutsougeras, professor
and chair of the Southeastern Department of Computer Science and
Industrial Technology, and Troy Kammerdiener, assistant professor
of computer science, are co-principal investigators.
"The new curriculum will be developed
with the current market's needs and opportunities in mind,"
explained Duclos. "We are focusing on high-growth professions
that are not being outsourced offshore, as well as those that will
be in highest demand during the region's rebuilding process and
beyond."
"The grant will build on the
strengths of both institutions," added Koutsougeras, "and
allow us to pursue a new coordinated degree program in which Delgado
students who successfully complete the associate program there will
be able to seamlessly pursue a four-year bachelor's degree at Southeastern."
Delgado will focus on adding new concentrations
in the critical employment-focused areas of web design and information
technology services, areas considered crucial for business infrastructure
in the region. Delgado will also develop new multi-disciplinary
concentrations in the strategic areas of information security, e-commerce
and electronic/digital media.
Duclos said the grant gives Delgado's
program the resources to partner with other academic units at the
institution to enhance the students' educational experience for
specific career paths.
"For example, we can build a
comprehensive e-commerce program by blending business studies with
IT or an excellent media technologies program by joining media arts
with IT," he explained.
In the coordinated degree program,
Delgado's Computer Information Technology Department and Southeastern's
Department of Computer Science and Industrial Technology will develop
the appropriate coordination and articulation of the 2+2 program.
The curriculum option at the two institutions will be developed
in such a way that advanced electives at Southeastern can complement
and provide continuity with related courses taken by Delgado graduates.
Using grant funds, Delgado will develop
new labs necessary to support the modernization of programs as well
as the development of the new curriculum. At Southeastern, a Networked
Systems Administration Laboratory (NetSal) computer lab will be
developed to provide server support for web development instruction
at Delgado while enhancing systems administration and web technology
instruction at Southeastern.
NetSal will be a state-of-the-art
web server lab with 32 server machines to support web design, administration
and other courses at Delgado and will also support many courses
in Southeastern's IT program, including Internet programming, information
systems, software engineering and database systems.
"What is unique about this project
is that NetSal will be supported by students who are taking courses
at Southeastern in systems administration, computer networking,
principles of information assurance, and web systems and technologies,"
Koutsougeras said. "These students will form network/system
administration teams that will offer real services to other classes
at Delgado and Southeastern, thus enhancing their education with
real world training that is second to none."
In addition, Southeastern will develop
and run a Transitional Student Mentoring and Tutoring program -
called TransMAT -- that uses the NetSal lab to provide support to
students transitioning from Delgado's associate program to Southeastern's
four-year bachelor's program.
"Southeastern students taking
a specific system administration course will provide the support
to Delgado students who need web services for their projects,"
explained Kammerdiener. "This will provide a uniquely realistic
educational experience for our students while putting valuable resources
at the disposal of Delgado's IT classes."
Program funding extends over four
years and will proceed in several cycles, all involving research,
planning, building and implementation. The first year of the program
will emphasize building and implementing the Web design concentration,
planning the "2+2" program with Southeastern, and conducting
research and planning for Delgado's e-commerce and IT support concentrations.
The implementation phase will involve acquiring assets, adding a
fully-funded faculty position, and providing training and faculty
support.
Second, third and fourth years will
provide for the same four-step methodology across new and different
concentrations that represent workforce development in the areas
of greatest opportunity for students and greatest impact on post-Katrina
rebuilding.
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Alumni Association planning 2008 Mexican
Riviera cruise
Alumni and friends can register now for a week-long Mexican
Riviera cruise in January 2008.
Participants in the Jan. 6-13 cruise, sponsored by the Southeastern
Alumni Association, will leave from Los Angeles on Royal Caribbean's
"Vision of the Seas" cruise ship and visit Cabo San Lucas,
Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
"We are looking forward to an
exciting trip," said Alumni Director Kathy Pittman. "We
will spend seven nights on a cruise ship that offers a variety of
fun and relaxing entertainment -- a great casino, themed bars and
lounges, musicals and Las Vegas-style floor shows, a rock climbing
wall, mini-golf course, a fitness center and day spa."
She said prices include airfare, port
charges, transfers and gratuities. Large outside cabins are available
from $1,399 per person.
For reservations and additional information,
contact Jo Ann Spangler Bowman at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, 1-800-264-4044.
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Coming up at the Small Business Development
Center
For more information or to register contact Southeastern's SBDC
at 985-549-3831 or sbdc@selu.edu.
Tuesday, July 10, Slidell, 11:30 a.m.-1
p.m. -- Marketing on a Shoestring Budget: Proven principles to squeeze
the most from your marketing budget. Preregistration is preferred.
July 10- August 16 (Tuesdays and Thursdays
only), 6-8 p.m., Hammond -- Louisiana Contractors Accreditation
Institute: LCAI is a management training course designed to support
the state's growing construction industry. Sessions will include
bid processes, contract management, estimating, equipment and business
management, scheduling, occupational safety, risk management, financial
management, bonding/access to capital, certifications, entrepreneurship
training, Louisiana Contractor Licensing Exam Review.
Previous participants of this program
were able to obtain a contractor's license and pass the business
and law sections of the exam. Others with a license were able to
access bonding and construction opportunities.
Cost is $100. Space is available on
a first-come, first-served basis. Application: www.louisianaforward.com/uploads/docs/LCAI_Application.doc.
Applications may be e-mailed or faxed to Ruth Bolstridge, rbolstridge@la.gov
or 225-342-6820.
July 19, 9 a.m.-noon, Hammond -- Starting
a Business. The free seminar will prepare attendees for the intensive
business planning process, identify major steps crucial to starting
a business, discuss common pitfalls and address key issues that
affect your business success.
July 25, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mandeville
-- QuickBooks Pro. Topics include creating invoices and tracking
receivables, generating reports and graphs, entering and paying
bills, and tracking and paying sales tax. Cost is $150 Preregistration
and prepayment is required.
August 2, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. -- Louisiana
Forestry Association Forestry Ethics/Hazards in the Workplace. The
class will discuss the importance of protecting and promoting safety,
social, economic, and environmental interests. Also covered, an
examination of the direct causes and underlying causes of hazards
and the "ABC" system of hazard prevention. Cost is $40.
For more information or to register contact Debra at 318-443-2558
or www.laforestry.com.
August 8, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mandeville
-- MS Publisher - Intro. Participants will examine how to create
a publication from scratch or use one of the hundreds of business
and personal designs available in Publisher. Cost is $60.
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 SLWP
hosts conference, writing marathon
The Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project directed by Richard
Louth (English) hosted a conference on "Teaching and Writing
Creative Nonfiction" for National Writing Project teachers and
directors across the state on June 11 at the Alumni Center. Author
Kim Stafford (The Muses Among Us) was the keynote speaker and
workshop leader for 60 Writing Project Teacher Consultants attending
from the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project, the National Writing
Project of Acadiana (ULL), and the LSU Writing Project. After the
conference, Stafford, along with New York City Writing Project co-founder
Sondra Perl (Felt Sense) joined the SLWP's Advanced Institute
for a Writing Marathon in New Orleans attended by 30 National Writing
Project teachers from across the state as well as from as far away
as Oregon and Kansas. Southeastern authors Dayne Sherman (Sims
Memorial Library) and Bev Marshall (English) participated in
the Writing Marathon, along with KSLU's Todd Delaney (pictured
recording Dayne Sherman), who recorded writers reading their work
for an upcoming radio program on the event.
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 Southeastern
students study in Italy
From left, Professor Katy Provenzale, Chris Paul, Toni Luke, Sara
Cochran, Amanda Mariano, Tiffany Thomas, Sonthia Coleman, Jeremy Sadden,
Alicia Regan, Michelle Badeaux, John Cavalier, and Margaret Hawkins.
A group of 11 Southeastern students
traveled to Italy to study Italian language and culture. The group
experienced daily life in Tarquinia, an important Etruscan site on
the coast north of Rome where the old culture and traditions mix with
modern conveniences. In visits to Rome, Pisa, Venice, and Florence,
the students learned about the historical, religious, and cultural
aspects of Italy from ancient to modern times. For information about
future programs contact the office of International Initiatives at
studyabroad@selu.edu.
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Professional activities
Angela Dunnington and Beth Stahr (Sims Memorial
Library) recently spoke at the Mississippi Library2.0 Summit at Mississippi
State University. They presented "Net Generation Reference: SMS
to the Rescue," a program describing the innovative text-message
reference service offered by Sims Library.
A study by Samuel Hyde (Center
for Southeast Louisiana Studies) entitled "Feuding Is Our Means
of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern Louisiana's
Piney Woods, 1877-1910" has been published as the lead article
in the current edition of Louisiana History.
Dr. Barbara Forrest's (History
and Political Science) book, Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge
of Intelligent Design, was released in paperback in April. The
book has a new chapter that includes Dr. Forrest's role in Kitzmiller
et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005), the first legal case
involving intelligent design creationism, in which she was an expert
witness for the plaintiffs. The case was decided in favor of the plaintiffs
in December 2005. Creationism's Trojan Horse was first published
in hardcover in January 2004.
 Dr.
Aristides Baraya (General Business), Dr. Michael Budden (Marketing
and Finance), and Dr. Rusty Juban (Management) accompanied
36 business students to Costa Rica as part of the university's study
abroad program. The students included John Amorello, Rachel Bailey,
Andrea Baraya, Jamie Chapman, Adanma Chew, Marie Chifici, Stacey Clancy,
Justin Crossie, Mathew Englade, Nathan Evans, Nathan Folse, Jason
Fontenot, Nicole Garcia, Ben Gerave, Jr., Lacey Gonzales, Erica Henton,
Michelle Johnson, Allison Laughlin, Anna Lavergne, Jenee' LeBlanc,
Erin Lemons, Dustin Merrill, Chance Millet, Jeffrey Reda, Raymond
Rodriguez, Maria Sanchez, Cindy Savedra, Joshua Smith, Larisa Stewart,
Wendy Tumblin, Nathan Vaughn, Jennifer VeZain, Christopher Wilkes,
Jacob Wolff, Brandon Woodfork, and Yen-Ju Yang.
An article by Mrs. Lara Kessler,
Ms. Anna Bass, and Dr. John Yeargain (Management) has
been published in the 2007 issue of the Journal of Legal, Ethical
and Regulatory Issues. The article was titled "You Belong
to Me: Employer Attempts to Keep Employees from Quitting to Work for
Competitors."
An article by Ms. Connie Budden (Center
for Student Excellence), Ms. Janet Anthony, Dr. Michael
Budden, and Dr. Michael Jones (Marketing and Finance) titled
"Managing the Evolution of a Revolution: Marketing Implications
of Internet Media Usage Among College Students" won a best paper
award at the annual meeting of the International Applied Business
Research Conference in February.
Maurice Badon (Social Work Program),
was recently informed his short story, "Antinomy," was accepted
by The Dead Mule, an online publication of fiction, poems,
essays, and other writing. His short story will appear in the summer
2007 online publication which comes out in mid-July. If interested,
Google "Dead Mule" or visit www.deadmule.com.
Dr. Marc Riedel (Sociology and
Criminal Justice) presented a paper titled, "Trends and Patterns
in Homicide Clearances: A Study of Houston" at a meeting of the
Homicide Research Working Group in Minneapolis in June. He also chaired
a panel discussion on homicide clearances.
Dr. Kenneth H. Bolton Jr. (Sociology
and Criminal Justice) authored an entry entitled "Police"
which has been accepted for the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity,
and Society (2007).
Dr. William F. Font (Biological
Sciences) was invited by the president of the Mexican Society of Parasitology
to present a plenary talk entitled "Colonization of Freshwater
Fishes by Introduced Parasites" at the First North American Congress
of Parasitology held in Merida, Mexico, June 21-25.
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