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Volume 3, Issue 30: April 30, 2007
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Richard J. Payne
| Distinguished Professor of Politics and Government Richard J. Payne will be featured in an upcoming PBS special on American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Payne has extensively researched Hamilton’s life, career, and political worldview. “Hamilton devoted his whole life to one thing, and that was creating the United States,” said Payne. “And although there is no major monument today to Hamilton, he doesn’t need one. We live in Hamilton’s monument—this United States.” The American Experience documentary on Alexander Hamilton will air on PBS stations on Monday, May 14 at 8 p.m. central time. The program covers the full sweep of Hamilton’s short life, one that had more than its share of heroism, scandal and tragedy.
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Volume 3, Issue 30: April 30, 2007
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Nancy Lind, Gary Olson, and Jamal Nassar | Over 150 students, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered in the Old Main Room earlier this month to celebrate the Department of Politics and Government’s 40th anniversary. President Bowman congratulated the department on its many accomplishments, and Dean Olson observed that the College expects great things of the Department in the next forty years. “I am proud to have been a member of this wonderful department,” said Dr. Jamal Nassar, Chair of the Department, who is retiring in July. “It has superb faculty, outstanding students, successful alumni, and the distinction of being one of the most productive departments in the state of Illinois. We have good reason to celebrate the achievements of our faculty, students, and alumni.” Click Read More for more photos.
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Volume 3, Issue 30: April 30, 2007
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ISU Speech Team | This month the ISU Speech Team took “third in the nation” at the American Forensic Association national championship tournament and "fifth in the nation" at the National Forensic Association tournament. Over 70 schools competed in each tournament. In addition to the third place team victory, ISU also had three individual event runner-ups with Katelyn Wood (senior) in informative speaking, Annie Kincade (senior) in prose, and both Katelyn and Annie in their duo interpretation event. Kyle Schultz (senior) also advanced to the finals, where he secured a 4th place victory in communication analysis. Katelyn Wood also received the prestigious AFA “All-American” award, which is given to model speech students who demonstrate academic excellence, commitment to the speech activity and engagement with her campus and community. The average grade point average of those students who were eligible was a 3.7, and only the “best-of-the-best” are chosen for this honor.
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Volume 3, Issue 30: April 30, 2007
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Richard Sullivan |
Professor Richard Sullivan and students in his Political Sociology course are the winners of the 2007 Illinois State University Excellence in Civic Engagement Award for their group project “Increasing Student Power in the Local Community.” The award is developed by the American Democracy Project Task Force and is awarded by the Provost of the University. The annual award was established to recognize an exemplary curricular or co-curricular civic engagement project that promotes intellectual and experiential student learning and encourages political participation. The award comes with a $500 allocation that Sullivan says will be used to support future campaigns his students develop.
Dr. Sullivan accepted the award on behalf of students in his Political Sociology course who have developed and implemented strategies to increase student power in the local community. Sullivan said the idea for the project was born from the Normal mayoral election results in spring 2005—an election decided by fewer than 500 votes of the roughly five thousand votes cast. In a community where students comprise approximately 20,000 potential voters, fewer than 100 had voted in that election.
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Volume 3, Issue 30: April 30, 2007
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Susan Prendergast | Dr. Susan Prendergast, Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, received her PhD from the University of Illinois and joined the ISU faculty in 1999. Prendergast’s most recent research has been in the area of Classroom Amplification and particularly a new speaker technology that preserves consonants (the parts of speech that allow us to understand rather than just hear speech) throughout classrooms. Classroom amplification improves academic performance for children with mild and fluctuating hearing loss, for non-native English speaking children, and also for children with normal hearing and no other handicaps. Teachers benefit as well because they don't have to strain their voices to be heard. Both children and teachers, therefore, experience less overall fatigue. "Dr. Prendergast's research in sound field amplification for classrooms has been crucial to many classrooms,” said Walt Smoski, Chair of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department. “It has given justification to many school districts to obtain sound field systems in order to aid children who have hearing losses perform at or above grade level."
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