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From left: Dr. Sarah Diel-Hunt
and Deborah Fox | Dr. Sarah Diel-Hunt, CASNews Editor and Assistant Dean for External Affairs, will leave Illinois State for a position as Division Chair at Heartland Community College and will be replaced by Deborah Fox, currently a development officer at the University of Illinois. Diel-Hunt served in the Office of the Dean since 2001, where she served as editor ofCASNews and also helped create the College’s Community Advisory Board, Chicago Advisory Board, and Emeritus Faculty Board. “We will greatly miss Sarah because she brought such intelligence, competence, and charm to us all,” said Dean Olson, “but we are also excited about attracting such a first-rate professional as Deborah Fox. An alumna of Illinois State (‘79), Fox said, “I’m delighted to return to ISU and to work with the dynamic team in the College Office.” She begins her appointment on June 1.
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| Dr. Jamal Nassar | Professor Jamal Nassar, Chairperson of Politics and Government and leading authority on politics of the Middle East, delivered an invited lecture entitled “Is Peace Possible?” at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia on May 3. Sponsored by a wide array of organizations, including the Victorian Peace Network, the Globalism Institute, the Australian Arabic Council, the Palestinian Charity Association, and the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, the lecture focused on the issues of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict as well as the ramifications of the elections in Israel and the election of Hamas, the Islamic party. “Our world is full of tyrants. International law does not prevent them nor does it allow other countries to declare war just because they do not approve of the policies of such leaders. Tyranny is best fought with justice not war,” said Nassar. “We need to set the example of a fair and just global leader and then lend a helping hand to all those fighting tyranny and oppression all over the world.”
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The Autism Service, part of Illinois State University Psychological Services Center, recently received a $100,000 grant from The Autism Project of Illinois (TAP). The grant will help the Autism Service expand their existing services ranging from individual treatment in the clinic and in-home services to providing parent and sibling support groups as well as providing support services such as volunteers to the Autism Society of McLean County. “With the additional money, we have been able to hire additional graduate clinicians and significantly expand the types of services offered,” said Dr. Karla Doepke, Associate Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Autism Service. “This grant is significant to the Autism Service program because it expands our ability to simultaneously meet the research, training, and service missions of the University at both the graduate and undergraduate level. It also ties us into a broader network of state services and professionals throughout the state with whom we can collaborate on a variety of projects.”
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The Department of Politics and Government recently sponsored the 14th annual Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science during which several award-winning papers were chosen to be published in Critique, a worldwide student journal of politics. The Collegeof Arts and Sciences boasts two outstanding journals featuring the work and research of students. Along with Critique, the Department of History annually publishes Recounting the Past: A Student Journal of Historical Studies at Illinois State University. “Critique and Recounting the Past are two high-quality journals highlighting student research that are published in our departments,” said Dean Olson. “Many of our own students—undergraduate and graduate—are published in these journals, and this speaks to the quality of the academic experience our students receive."
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| TV-10 | Illinois State University’s student television station, recently won honors in four student categories at the Illinois News Broadcasters’ Association Awards Banquet that took place on April 29. For the second year in a row, TV-10 placed first for the Outstanding Hard TV Program with “The LineUp.” This program is a weekly sports show produced by Jake Flannigan, senior, directed by Paige Blair, senior, and co-hosted by Evan Allen-Gessesse, senior. The station also placed second for the Outstanding Soft TV Program with “The Top Ten Things about ISU.” This program, produced by Kristen Fishel, senior, hosted by Matt Schanche, junior, and edited by Jon Emmerich, ’05,was created to give first year students a view of what’s good about the University from the student perspective.
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| Dr. Maura Toro-Morn | As the global economy gains strength and resources, the issue of migration becomes more and more important. Here in the U.S., immigration reform is a hotly debated topic in classrooms, coffeehouses, and in Congress. Illinois State has a resident expert on the topics of migration and immigration in Dr. Maura I. Toro-Morn, Professor of Sociology and Assistant Director of the Unit for International Linkages in the Office of International Studies. Her latest book Migration and Immigration: A Global View was published by Greenwood Press in 2004. Toro-Morn and co-author Marixsa Alicea from DePaul University brought together fourteen scholars from around the world to describe and analyze migration issues in regions all over the world. “As an ‘immigrant’ woman myself, I have always been curious about why people move, how, and what are the consequences of movement” said Toro-Morn. “Technically speaking, I am not an immigrant since I was born a U.S. citizen in Puerto Rico. Yet, I feel like an immigrant because I have gone through all the stages that typically immigrants go through in the process of settlement. In other words, Puerto Ricans do not cross a national border when we migrate to the U.S., but we do cross a cultural border.”
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