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| Dr. Sanrda Harmon | Dr. Sandra Harmon, Emeritus Professor of History and former Interim Director of Women’s Studies, worked with the McLean County Museum of History to assemble an exhibit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Depression. Journey through the Great Depression takes visitors on a “road trip” the through the 1930s and illustrates what it was like to live during a period of uncertainty and hardship. During the 3-year project, Harmon worked with Curator of Collections and Exhibits Susan Hartzold to research and develop the project, identify over 370 artifacts and 200 images from the period, and interview 25 local residents who survived the Depression. “This was a fascinating project for me,” Harmon said. “I learned so much about the people of McLean County during the Depression and I learned how to do history with a minimum amount of text, letting artifacts and images carry the story.”
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| Strategic Plan Document | The Strategic Planning Steering Committee is asking all stakeholders in the College to review and comment on a draft of the College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan, 2005-2010. The draft is being made available to all faculty and staff, to all College Community Advisory Board and Emeritus Faculty Advisory Board members, as well as to a wider constituency through CAS News, where it will be accessible to many College alumni. The draft is available at http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/faculty/planning/. Please send input to casplan@ilstu.edu. Responses are requested by 4:00 p.m. on March 21, 2005.
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PAW Winners from left:
John Binning, Tom Gerschick,
Jon Friesen, Jim Cottrill,
Deb Lesser, David Marx,
Gina Bessa, and Julia Palmer | Deb Lesser, Director of the College’s student-run radio station WZND, has been named the 2005 Outstanding Professor by the Student Education Association (SEA). Other College faculty won 15 of the 25 Distinguished Professor Awards as part of the SEA’s second annual Professor Appreciation Week (PAW).During PAW, students nominate professors on campus for their excellence in teaching. This year, the PAW committee reviewed over 130 nominations and selected 25 Distinguished Professors and the Outstanding Professor based on the number of student nominations and the quality of those nominations. Winners will receive a special award during one of their classes and will also be honored at a reception on March 2. "A professor is only as great as her students, and mine are the best!" said Lesser.
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Dr. Ansher demonstrates how
waves travel | The Department of Physics has developed a partnership with the Children’s Discovery Museum in downtown Normal to provide a “Physics Day” demonstration on the last Thursday of each month this semester. The demonstrations, put on by the Physics Club under the direction of Dr. Jay Ansher (Postdoctoral Associate in Physics) and Dr. Dan Holland (Professor of Physics) are intended to illustrate physics theories and experiments in a way that is both fun and educational for children. The Physics Club was also awarded one of only sixteen $10,000 grants from the American Physical Society to take these demonstrations out into rural communities in an effort to expose more students to physics at a young age. “The partnership with the Children’s Discovery Museum provides a great opportunity for our students—particularly our physics teacher education students—to create exhibits and demonstrations from concepts they have learned in a way that is engaging to children,” said Ansher.
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Dr. Jeanne A. Howard and
Dr. Susan Livingston Smith | On February 17, the Board of Trustees granted the Center for Adoption Studies permanent status as a center at ISU. The Center for Adoption Studies, housed in the School of Social Work, was established in 1998 as a result of a cooperative agreement between the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and ISU. The research center’s co-directors—Jeanne A. Howard, Associate Professor of Social Work, and Susan Livingston Smith, Professor Emerita of Social Work—were honored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the Adoption Excellence Award in the category of Applied Scholarship and Research in 2000. Permanence will allow for the composition of an annual research report, assistance to child welfare workers nationally in developing adoption policy and practice, and development of national and state funding sources.
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Administrative Professionals
have lunch at the
second AP Forum | On Tuesday, February 22, the College hosted its second Administrative-Professionals forum. The forum was created last semester to open lines of communication between APs and the College administration as a means to draw on their collective wisdom to discover ways to help the College operate more effectively and efficiently. Dean Olson updated the group on such happenings as the Strategic Plan, the Hall of Fame, and accreditation. Administrative-professionals voiced concerns over summer-school funding and the Governor’s recent announcement on education funding.
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