Illinois State University was awarded the inaugural Walter Cronkite Civic Engagement Leadership Award in a ceremony at the United Nations in New York on June 19. Illinois State won the award for its student
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Dean Olson, Judy Woodruff, and Dr. Larry Long at the United Nations
| civic engagement initiatives over the past year, including its participation in the American Democracy Project and the Film Your Issue program (FYI). At the ceremonies, Judy Woodruff, history-making television anchor and judge in the FYI contest, congratulated the Illinois State representatives on their achievements. Illinois State University is deeply committed to integrating civic engagement into the curriculum,” said Dean Olson at the awards ceremony. “So, we are extremely pleased and honored to receive the Cronkite Award.” Distinguished jurist Walter Cronkite headed the celebrity judging panel, which also included Senator Barack Obama, Fox Film Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman, and actor George Clooney. Dean Olson attended the awards ceremony along with Dr. Larry Long, Executive Director of the School of Communicationand Dr. John McHale, Assistant Professor of Communication.
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Charlie Schlenker, WGLT Assistant News Director, has received the prestigious National Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) for the second year in a row. WGLT is the only radio or television station to win the national award this year in the four state region including Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. Schlenker received the award in the small market radio division for News Writing. There were more than 3,700 entries in the National Murrow Awards competition for the year and only 55 broadcast outlets won awards. Last year, Schlenker won a National Murrow Award for Sports Reporting. “It’s great to see Charlie recognized at the national level for his outstanding work,” said Bruce Bergethon, General Manager of WGLT. “We’re also proud that GLT listeners are able to hear reporting from him and his colleagues, Willis Kern and Jim Browne, on a daily basis.” GLT also won three regional awards from RTNDA, for Best Newscast, Best News Writing, and for Willis Kern’s Hard News Feature on a hotel worker protest. This is also the second consecutive year WGLT has won more than one regional award.
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William Cupach, Professor of Communication, has received the Outstanding Book Award from the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) for his coauthored book “The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking.” Cupach was presented with the award this month at the IARR conference in Crete. In addition, Cupach, a past IARR president, delivered the keynote speech on the subject of stalking and unwanted relationship pursuit. Lauded by its reviewers, “The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit” examines the processes by which everyday relationships evolve into forms of harassment and threatening activity. The book provides the first and most comprehensive statistical summary of the prevalence, types of behavior, levels of threat and violence and types of victim response that result from these types of relationships. The book also develops a new theory of how these relationships develop from everyday relationships and the ways in which the victim of such unwanted pursuit can cope with the ongoing harassment
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Dr. Ron Gifford, graduate students Sally Heizel and Sravani Biswas, watching the PRD rally in Mexico City
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Patrice Olsen, Assistant Professor of History, and Ron Gifford, Instructional Assistant Professor of History, along with five Illinois State graduate students worked as international election monitors in the recent presidential elections in Mexico. The Illinois State group, along with other international election watchers, received their election monitor credentials from the Federal Electoral Institute, an independent body founded in 1990 to ensure fair elections in Mexico. Olsen, who teaches Latin American history and is active in Illinois State’s Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and her group were assigned to monitor voting at a disputed polling place in Mexico City’s central plaza. “We hear from several people that this is the nastiest campaign in recent Mexican history,” Olsen told a Pantagraph reporter while in Mexico City. “Fears of fraud and manipulation of votes justify the presence of tho
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The Illinois State Writing Project hosted its 2006 Summer Institute, “Teachers Teaching Teachers,” on the Illinois State University campus from June 13 to July 8. Cosponsored by the National Writing Project
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Writing Project partcipants Judy Corbin, Susan Spangler, and Debra Blunier
| and Illinois State University, the Institute provided an opportunity for teachers of all disciplines and all levels, pre-K through college, to meet, read, write, develop, and demonstrate expert teaching practices and prepare to share what they've learned with other teachers. Dr. Janice Neuleib, Director of the Illinois State Writing Project, said, “Jim Grey, founder of the Bay Area Writing Project and in turn the National Writing Project, discovered that teachers learn best from other teachers and that writers learn best from other writers. The Summer Institute gives teachers the opportunity to write together and to develop new and experimental methods for better teaching of writing in all disciplines and at all grade levels.”
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