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At the Spring Address last week, the College unveiled its recently approved strategic plan: the College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan, 2005-2010. The plan is accessible on the college website, and a limited number of print copies will be made available to departments. The plan was devised with input from all shareholders in the College’s future. “A college or institution has the best chance to move forward when it has a well-articulated and carefully crafted strategic plan,” Dean Olson said at his Spring Address on April 20. “Thanks to the efforts of our Strategic Planning Steering Committee and to all the many faculty, staff, alumni, emeritus faculty, and community leaders who provided input on the College’s draft plan, the College now has an impressive and very specific plan for the next half decade.”
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| Program of Excellence Team | “The Scholar-Educator Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Neuroscience and Behavior” has been designated the College’s first Program of Excellence, Dean Olson announced at the Spring Address on Wednesday, April 20. The Program of Excellence initiative was established to promote a unique, cutting-edge, interdisciplinary academic program that will help bring distinction to the College and the University. Through a partnership with the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, this program will receive start-up funding of $60,000 during the first year (2005-06) and $30,000 during the second year (2006-07).
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Dean's Award Recipient
Dr. Timothy Lash and
Honorable Mention Dr. Willard Bohn | Distinguished Professor Timothy D. Lash of the Department of Chemistry and Professor Ali Riaz of the Department of Politics and Government were honored with the College’s first Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement—two annual awards of $3,000 each, one for a tenured faculty member and one for an untenured tenure-track faculty member, at the Dean’s Spring Address on April 20. Dean Olson named two honorable mentions, as well: Distinguished Professor Willard Bohn of the Department of Foreign Languages and Professor Jon A. Friesen of the Department of Chemistry. Applications were evaluated based on research and creative activity, including publications, grants and contracts presentation of papers and major speeches; honors and awards; service on doctoral dissertation committees and master's thesis committees; service to the discipline; and external letters of review. The Dean’s Award joins the Arts and Sciences Lecturer Award as the two most prestigious research awards in the College.
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University Distinguished Service
Awardees Julie Ruby and
Cindy Caldwell | College of Arts and Sciences lead staff were recognized for their outstanding service to the University, the College, and the Community at this year’s University Civil Service and Administrative Professionals Awards ceremony on April 20. Cindy Caldwell, lead staff secretary for the Department of Economics, and Julie Ruby, lead secretary for the Department of History, were both honored with the University Distinguished Service Award."The College staff often go above and beyond the call of duty," said Dean Olson. "I am pleased to see Cindy Caldwell, Tara Reeser, and Julie Ruby receive this honor for their truly outstanding service to their departments, the College, and the University."
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From left, Dr. Jamal Nassar,
Dr. Tom Eimermann,
David Crumbaugh,
President Bowman,
and Pat Cotter | On Saturday, April 16, the ISU Pre-Law Program had much to celebrate, including the naming of the Pre-Law Center and the 5th Annual Pre-Law Awards Banquet, at which ISU's top pre-law students were honored. The formal naming ceremony celebrated the generous gift of David Crumbaugh, an attorney with Latham and Watkins in Chicago, to fully equip and name the Pre-Law Center after Dr. Tom Eimermann, Crumbaugh's pre-law advisor when he was a student at ISU in the early 1970s. Dean Olson, President Bowman, Patrick Cotter (Chair of the Attorneys Advisory Council), Dr. Jamal Nassar (Chair of the Department of Politics and Government), and Dr. Robert Bradley (current pre-law advisor) all spoke about the significance of the gift for pre-law students, and the source of the inspiration for the gift—Dr. Tom Eimermann. "ISU is fortunate to have had Dr. Eimermann on the faculty, and now his name will forever be associated with the program he helped create," said Dean Olson. "We are also here to honor David Crumbaugh, who made our dream to have a state-of-the-art Pre-Law Center—the best Pre-Law Center in the state of Illinois, if not the nation—a reality in January through his generous gift. David’s gift means much to the students who utilize this Center on a daily basis."
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| Bill Morgan | Bill Morgan, Emeritus Professor of English, will present a poetry reading from his newly published chapbook of Illinois landscape poems, Sky With Six Geese, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28. Cover art for the new book is by Harold Gregor, ISU Emeritus Professor of Art. The reading, which is sponsored by the English department, WGLT radio, and Spoon River Poetry Review, will take place in the University Galleries in the Center for the Visual Arts and is free and open to the public. Morgan calls his book “intensely local” and says that “Bloomington-Normal and the Central Illinois countryside have the starring roles in these poems.”
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