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HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE TO SPEAK ON CAMPUS JAN. 27
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| Coretta Scott King |
Coretta Scott King, international leader for nonviolent social change and widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., will speak on Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. in E. J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. General admission tickets are $4 each with a Zip Card. For tickets, contact the E.J. Thomas Hall ticket office at ext. 7570.
“An Evening with Coretta Scott King”
is the third event in the 2002-2003 University of Akron Forum Series. It is sponsored by E.J. Thomas Hall, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Akron Black Women's Leadership Caucus and The Coming Together Project.
King has devoted her life to social justice and peace. She travels the world to speak out on behalf of such issues as racial and economic justice, women’s and children's rights, gay and lesbian rights, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, health care and educational opportunities.
A native of Alabama, King is a graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She also has received honorary doctorates from more than 40 colleges and universities.
Since her husband's death, King has devoted much of her time to the creation of the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. The center principally is devoted to training people, especially students, in nonviolent social protest. It also houses a library and archives of the Civil Rights Movement.
King has helped to found a number of organizations, including the Black Leadership Forum, the National Black Coalition for Voter Participation and the Black Leadership Roundtable. She has published a collection of her husband's quotations, “The Words of Martin Luther King Jr.,” and has written her autobio-graphy, “My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.”
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NEW PARTNERSHIP WILL ADVANCE SCIENCE EDUCATION
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| Elizabeth Stroble |
The University of Akron and St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron have established a partnership to provide the high school’s students and teachers access to resources available at the University while giving unique support to students and professors in the College of Education and Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences.
Education majors at UA will have a new opportunity to gain experience teaching high school students using the inquiry-based/constructivist model methods for teaching science.
The program also is designed to advance science education for high school students so they are better prepared for college.
“Our joint Partners in Progress program is an important step to advance science education in America,” said President Luis M. Proenza. “Our nation must increasingly prepare its citizens to have the scientific literacy required in the knowledge economy.”
David V. Rathz, headmaster of the high school, noted that, “This program will help to enhance our academic excellence, and will help our students advance their post-high school academic careers.”
Through the program, the high school students can join science classes and help research programs at the University. Plans include the creation of a Science Inquiry Laboratory at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, which will include high-technology communication with the University.
Meanwhile, UA students preparing to be science teachers will have opportunities to get teaching experience at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.
“We have been using the inquiry/constructivist model of teaching in our science curriculum since 1993, and we are looking forward to constructing a curriculum for future science teachers to develop skills in inquiry-based science education,” said Mary Jo Chionchio, chair of the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School science department and the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School project director for Partners in Progress. “One of our goals is to foster the mentoring of high school students by University scientists.”
Elizabeth Stroble, dean of the College of Education, added that, “This is the type of cooperative effort we envisioned when we founded the Center for Collaboration and Inquiry at The University of Akron and then provided leadership for the new Northeast Ohio Center of Excellence in Mathematics and Science Education.”
The College of Education and the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences jointly founded the Center for Collaboration and Inquiry in 2002.
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SCHOOL OF ART TO HOST ALUMNUS
The Harlem Renaissance will be the topic when alumnus Michael Adams lectures at the Myers School of Art in Folk Hall 165 on Jan. 29 at 6 p.m.
Adams, whose visit is hosted by the Myers School of Art, earned a BFA in drawing at UA in 1984 and furthered his studies at Columbia University. An expert on the architecture and culture of Harlem, Adams is the author of the newly published “Harlem: Lost and Found.” He has been featured in count-less articles and radio and television shows and has contributed to a number of books about New York City.
For more information, call ext. 6030.
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SCHOLARSHIP SATURDAY FACULTY INTERVIEWERS NEEDED
The University Honors Program is coordinating the third annual Scholar-ship Saturday event for Feb 15. Faculty and administrators are needed to participate as interviewers on that day.
Students attend this event by invitation only. Invitations are issued based on high academic standards after review of prospective students’ applications. Students invited to the event who enroll at UA will receive a guarantee of a $1,000 scholarship for completing the interview.
Last year, 105 faculty and staff inter-viewed more than 300 prospective students on Scholarship Saturday, and more than 225 of them later enrolled at the University.
The time commitment for an interviewer is 7:30 a.m. to noon for the morning session (breakfast provided) and/or
12:30 to 5 p.m. in the afternoon (lunch provided). During each session, two interviewers meet with each high school scholarship applicant.
Interview room reservations have been made in locations in or adjacent to the Auburn Science and Engineering Center, but faculty in those areas can volunteer to conduct the interviews in their own offices. Every attempt is made to match faculty with student applicants in the same major.
Guidelines and some training will be available for each faculty member scheduled to interview. Faculty who volunteered last year will be contacted about returning as interviewers this year.
Interested volunteers should send their name, department name and telephone extension or e-mail address to the University Honors Program office at plemmon@uakron.edu , or call
ext. 5247. For more information,
contact Dale Mugler, director of the Honors Program, at ext. 5365 or dmugler@uakron.edu .
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WOMEN’S STUDIES ANNOUNCES SPRING LECTURE SERIES
“Body Beautiful” is the theme for the 2003 spring lecture series sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program. The lectures will take place on Wednesdays from Jan. 22 to April 30. All lectures will be held in Polsky 464 from 2:45 to 4:15 p.m. The programs are free and open to the public.
“This series will focus on women’s body image and how that image may be influenced by culture, as well as the participants reconnecting and reclaiming their own bodies,” says Deb Esty, series coordinator. “The series is designed to be a combination of information and discussion/participation.
Here are the upcoming lectures for January and February:
Jan. 22
“Body Image,” presented by Sue Stock-Ward, psychologist and assistant director of training at UA’s Counseling, Testing and Career Center.
Jan. 29
“Hair Thang,” presented by Juanita Martin, psychologist and director of UA’s Counseling, Testing and Career Center.
Feb. 12
“Domestic Violence,” presented by Stephanie Miller of the Battered Women’s Shelter.
Feb. 19
“Sexual Assault,” presented by Christine Kienzle of the Rape Crisis Center.
Feb. 26
“Looksism and the Media,” presented by Claudia Gerhardt, a professional counselor.
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PSYCHOLOGY ARCHIVES NOW SMITHSONIAN AFFILIATE
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| David Baker |
Planning a visit to the Smithsonian? The trip just might be closer than you think. The Univer-sity’s Archives of the History of American Psychology has been accepted into the prestigious Smithsonian Institution Affiliations program.
The program offers museums across the country the opportunity to have greater access to Smithsonian collections and resources. The Psychology Archives is the first archive in the nation to be granted affiliate status.
Unlike traditional museum loan programs that place artifacts on loan for periods normally less than a year, the Smith-sonian Affiliations program permits long-term loan of artifacts.
“The Affiliations program is a very effective way for the Smithsonian Institution to reach beyond the geograph-ical limits of its own museums,” says Michael Carrigan, director of Smith-sonian Affiliations. “As a Smithsonian Affiliate, the Archives of the History of American Psychology may integrate Smithsonian artifacts and collections into its exhibitions, educational initiatives and research programs.”
Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small says the Affiliates Program benefits both institutions: “Museums around the country have an abundance of the one resource we’re short of — display space. At the same time, because many muse-ums are new and seek to expand and create new exhibits, they lack the very resource we have in abundance — objects.”
David Baker, director of UA’s psychology archives, says affiliate status recognizes that the instruments and artifacts housed here have an important and unique place in American history.
“With the addition of the Smithsonian affiliation, recognition is now given to the outstanding instrument and apparatus collection that is the largest in the United States,” Baker says. “Our diverse collec-tion of more than 1,000 instruments and apparatus documents more than a century of the science and practice of psychology. The combination of our apparatus collection, extensive manuscript collections and unparalled holdings of films and photographs provide a fascinating window on the past.”
In addition to borrowing objects from the Smithsonian’s collections, the Psycho-logy Archives will have the opportunity to utilize Smithsonian outreach services, including curriculum development for local schools and hosting Smithsonian traveling exhibitions, workshops and lecture series given by Smithsonian scholars and scientists.
Affiliates also benefit from shared Smithsonian staff expertise in areas of conservation, collections care and exhibition development.
Since the Smithsonian Affiliations program was created in 1997, the Smithsonian has established partnerships with more than 120 affiliates in 34 states, plus Panama, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
UA’s Archives of the History of Ameri-can Psychology was established in 1965. According to Baker, it has grown to be the largest and most important collection of its kind of original documents, tests, apparatus, films and photos. The archives is located in Polsky LL10-A.
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CONVERSATION PARTNERS NEEDED
The English Language Institute, the University’s English program for international students, needs faculty, staff and student volunteers to participate in its Conversation Partners Program during the spring semester.
Through this program, the ELI pairs an international student who is learning English with an American partner for one hour of informal conversation per week. ELI students come from all over the world and bring with them a wide variety of educational, political, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds.
Registration for the program begins
Jan. 21 in the ELI Office, located in Olin Hall 302. The one-hour weekly meetings will continue from the week of Feb. 10 through May 2.
Call ext. 7544 for more information.
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BLACK HISTORY LECTURE SERIES BEGINS IN FEBRUARY
“The Responsibilities of the Public Citizen” is the theme for the 2003 Black History Lecture Series presented by
The University of Akron’s Pan-African Studies, the Ohio Humanities Council and Alltel Mobile. The lectures, which are free of charge and open to the public, will be held on Feb. 6, Feb. 27 and
April 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Martin Univer-sity Center. For more information contact Abel Bartley, director of the Pan-African Studies, at ext. 4909.
William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, will open the series on Feb. 6 with a talk on urban policy and minority groups. His teaching and research interests include urban poverty, urban race and class relations, and social inequality in cross-cultural perspective. He is the author of “Power, Racism and Privilege,” “The Declining Significance of Race,” “The Truly Disadvantaged,” “When Work Disappears” and “The Bridge Over the Racial Divide.”
Houston A. Baker, the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Arts and Sciences Professor of English and professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University, will lecture on the Harlem Renaissance on Feb. 27. He is the author of articles, essays and reviews in Victorian, American and Afro-American literatures and cultures. Baker also has penned a number of critical and scholarly books and studies of Afro-American literature and culture, including “Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.”
The series concludes on April 10 with Winthrop D. Jordan, professor of history and Afro-American studies at the Univer-sity of Mississippi. He will discuss the legacy of “The One-Drop Rule” — that it only takes one drop of African blood to make a person African American — as a top American social policy. Jordan, the co-author of several textbooks for junior high and high school students, is the recipient of seven book awards, including the National Book Award.
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FACULTY MEMBER PASSES AWAY
Ruth Victoria Fuquen, a part-time lecturer in Spanish in the University’s Department of Modern Languages, died Dec. 30.
A native of Allentown, N.J., she earned a B.A. in 1972 at Newton College of the Sacred Heart, and a M.A. at The University of Akron in 1993. Fuquen was a member of the Board of the Ohio Opera Theatre, the Mutual Friends Reading Group of Canton, a Friend of the Stark County Library and participant in various poetry workshops.
She is survived by her husband, Rosendo Fuquen Molano, and three daughters, Ingrid Fuquen of New York, Lilia Fuquen of Cleveland and Andria Fuquen of Canton.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Breast Cancer Founda-tion in care of the American Cancer Society, 925 S. Main St., North Canton, OH 44720.
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RESEARCH GRANT GUIDELINES TO BE DISCUSSED ON JAN. 23
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| Elizabeth Kinion |
Elizabeth Kinion, professor of nursing and chair of the Faculty Research Committee, will discuss Faculty Research Grant Committee guidelines and give suggestions on optimizing chances for funding at a Faculty Research Committee Informational Session on Jan. 23 from noon to l p.m. in Trustees Room II on the third floor of Ayer Hall.
For registration and further information, contact Mary Dingler, Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs at
ext. 7774 or mdingler@uakron.edu .
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UA PRESS RELEASES RAILROAD HISTORY
The first railway that connected the east coast of the United States with the Mississippi River was the vision and work of the American builders William Reynolds of Pennsylvania and Marvin Kent of Ohio.
Reynolds and Kent fought political battles in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, overcame the financial panic of 1857-58 and found investors in Europe who financed the building of the railroad from 1852-64.
As the first president of the Pennsylvania and New York divisions of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, Reynolds chronicled his and Kent's efforts to build this influential trunk line railroad in a history that has never been published.
Peter Gifford, systems manager for administrative computing services at Allegheny College, and Robert Ilisevich, a professor of American history retired from Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, Pa., edited Reynolds’ history, and present it in a new book, “European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad.”
The 258-page book is part of The University of Akron Press series on international, political and economic history. For more information, contact Jodi Arment, marketing manager, via
e-mail at jarment@uakron.edu .
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