Emporia State University General Assembly

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Emporia State University General Assembly

• Spring 2008

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Dr. John Schwenn

• August 1989 February 2008
• Interim President May October 2006
• VPAA since 1997
• Many Thanks
• Best Wishes

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Accomplishments

• Administration Fiscal Affairs
• Facilities
• Initiation of the Deferred Maintenance Program
  approved by 2007 Legislature
• Progress on MU renovation
• Modifications to William Allen White Library to
  accommodate University Archives
• Completion of TCS frontline functions to
  storefront area in lower level of Butcher
  Education Center

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Accomplishments

• Administration Fiscal Affairs
• Fiscal Affairs
• Continued refinement of Banner system
• Development (pending Budget Committee and KBOR
  approval) of innovative improvement to fee
  payment procedures

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Accomplishments

• University Advancement/Foundation
• Established online giving
• Implemented new Planned Giving pages on the
  University Advancement website
• Noteworthy growth of the START program
• Coordinated successful Bonner Bonner Diversity
  Lecture Series in September
• Completed 15 million scholarship campaign
• held Homecoming event thanking 2007 donors
• Instituted the Lyman B. Kellogg Society
• Established the Black Gold Society
• Received the largest single gift in ESU history
• Won Bronze Awards for three publications from the
  Council for Advancement and Support of Education

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Accomplishments

• Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Department of Communication and Theatre
• ESU Debate Squad - all members have cleared in
  varsity level at one tournament and have won at
  least one round as well.
• Kelly Thompson and Kurt Fifelski to Octafinals.
• Debate squad hosted an international debate with
  two British debaters who were touring the United
  States.
• Kenna Reeves has been named a 2008 Kansas Master
  Teacher.

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Accomplishments

• Department of Sociology and Anthropology
• Dr. Gary Wyatt has a new book Family Ties
  Relationships, Socialization, and Home
  Schooling, University Press of America.
• Department of Math, Computer Science and
  Economics
• The Departments of Biological Sciences,
  Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics, and
  Physical Sciences developed an outreach program
  for Hispanic youth.
• Dr. Betsy Yanik serves on the National Strategic
  Planning Group for Science, Technology,
  Engineering, and Mathematics.
• Dr. Joe Yanik has joined a national
  interdisciplinary group focused on resources for
  students learning science, technology,
  engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
• Emporia State University was one of fifteen
  universities selected by the AASCUs American
  Democracy Project to participate in the
  Deliberative Polling Project.

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Accomplishments

• Department of Music
• Dr. Terry Barham was awarded the Harry Robert
  Wilson Award for lifetime service to the choral
  art by the Kansas American Choral Directors
  Association.
• Yaokun Yang, MM - Performance, took first place
  in the Graduate Division at the Collegiate Piano
  State Competition.
• Feifei Jiang, MM - Performance, took second place
  in the same competition.

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Accomplishments

• Departments of Physical Sciences
• Rachael Lane, junior chemistry major, was one of
  just 29 students nationally to receive a Greater
  Research Opportunity Fellowship from the EPA.
  Award provides up to 17,000 per year for two
  years of educational expenses, a 500 per month
  stipend, and a paid summer internship at an EPA
  laboratory. EPA has also provided funding for
  Rachael to conduct a two-year research project at
  ESU.
• Dr. Eric Trump, associate professor, chemistry,
  is the president of the Kansas Academy of
  Science. ESU will also be the host for the 139th
  annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science,
  March 28 and 29, 2008.

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Accomplishments

• ESU Library and Archives
• Archivist Heather Wades exhibit, Robert
  McCloskeys Make Way for Ducklings The Drawings
  that Produced the Book that Inspired Nancy
  Schöns Sculpture in the Boston Public Garden,
  ran at the Boston Public Library from September
  6-October 12, 2007. The exhibit feature 15 items
  from ESU's prestigious May Massee Collection.
• Cynthia Akers is Roundtable representative on the
  American Library Association Conference
  Committee, 2008 for the ALA Annual Conference,
  2008, Anaheim, CA. She was also named to the
  State Librarians Interlibrary Loan Development
  Program (ILDP) Task Force, 2008, and is serving a
  third term as a member of the 2008 Kansas Notable
  Books Committee.

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Accomplishments

• School of Business
• Dr. William Smith assisted in formal creation of
  the 22-county Flint Hills Tourism Coalition, Inc.
  and was elected the Coalitions first president.
• The ESU Center for Business and Economic
  Development conducted 10 monthly workshops in
  partnership with the FHTC during 2007.
• Dr. Smith was a speaker at the October 2007
  Kansas Flint Hills Heritage Conference in
  Cottonwood Falls sponsored by the FHTC Heritage
  Task Force.
• Students in the Business Policy class achieved an
  institutional average score in the 85th
  percentile nationally on the Major Field Test in
  Business.
• An Emporia State University chapter of Beta Alpha
  Psi was chartered in the School of Business in
  the fall.

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Accomplishments

• Teachers College
• Alums
• Jill Augustyn, Tamara Cassidy, Kristen Healy
  Crank, Shane Heiman, Derrick Richling, Erin
  Nichols and Jennifer Schmidt selected as Horizon
  Award winners by KSDE. Seven of the 32 Horizon
  Award winners this year are ESU grads!
• Max Heinrichs - Kansas Assistant Principal of the
  Year
• Jamelle McConnell-Brown and Eric Kessler Milken
  Award Winners
• Tristen Wendland was named the National
  Rehabilitation Counselor of the Year by the
  Veterans Administration
• Students
• Steve Harmon and Sandra Valentione of 3 finalist
  teams in the Association for Education
  Communication and Technology PacifiCorp
  competition.

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Accomplishments

• Teachers College
• Departments/Programs
• HPER has established relationships with two
  corporations Trikke and Garmin - both of these
  have resulted in significant equipment
  contributions to the department.
• Teacher preparation at ESU was selected by the
  George Lucas Foundation as 1 of 10 schools of
  education in the nation that will change the way
  we teach. Edutopia Magazine (November/December
  issue) summarized our program.
• The adaptive special education program received a
  Kansas Board of Regents grant to hire two
  additional full time faculty members to prepare
  additional special education teachers for the
  state of Kansas.
• Saleem Sehlaoui and Nancy Albrecht received a
  U.S. Dept. of Education grant to train additional
  ESL teachers.
• Gaelynn Wolf-Bordenaro was elected to the
  American Art Therapy Association Board of
  Directors.

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Accomplishments

• School of Library and Information Management
• SLIM Ph.D. student Jody Howard and Nance Nassar,
  School Library Senior Consultant at the Colorado
  State Library, received a 25,553 grant titled,
  Celebrate a Winning Team Principals and School
  Librarians, Ingredients for Increased Student
  Achievement! Jody has been designated as the
  grant coordinator.
• Professor Herbert Achleitner and Dean Gwen
  Alexander participated in the Information
  Literacy and Life-Long Learning Conference in
  Belgrade, Serbia.
• The first EDI Leadership Institute was held on
  the ESU campus, Oct. 18-19, 2007. It brought
  together 30 EDI students and their librarian and
  faculty mentors from Kansas, Colorado and Oregon.

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Accomplishments

• Intercollegiate Athletics
• Volleyball qualified for the NCAA Tournament for
  the second time in three years.
• The 2007 softball team finished with the second
  highest team GPA in the country at 3.631.
• Senior Jonel Rossbach earned All-American honors
  in cross country for the second straight year.
• The year 2007 ended with ESU being the only D-II
  institution in the nation to have womens
  basketball, mens basketball, volleyball and
  baseball ranked in their respective national top
  25 polls.

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Accomplishments

• Division of Student Affairs
• Admissions, Financial Aid and ESU Foundation
  collaborated on the creation of a new Hornet
  Scholarship Program.
• Reviewed and revised all Welcome Week activities
  creating a new program to further facilitate new
  student transitions.
• Began process of coordinating Banner Operations
  Group.
• Finalized revision of the Student Code of
  Conduct.
• Implemented several first year programs related
  to at risk students including the EDGE Program,
  Student Success Program and First Year Hall.

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Accomplishments

• From the Office of the President
• I recently complete work on the Interim Advisory
  Committee on Math and Science of the Kansas
  Legislature.
• I will continue my visits to each department on
  campus.
• I will continue the series of meetings with
  students tentatively called, Pizza with the
  Prez.
• I will continue the process of holding small
  lunch meetings with faculty members.

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The Only Constant is

• CHANGE!

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In the Interim

• Dr. Rod Sobieski Interim Vice President for
  Academic Affairs (Part time)
• Personnel (Academic Affairs)
• Dr. Betsy Yanik Interim Associate Vice
  President for Academic Affairs
• Co-Chair Strategic Planning

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Search Process

• Search Committee
• Dr. James Williams, Chair
• Dr. Harvey Foyle
• Ms. Diana Kuhlman
• Ms. Mary Conley
• Dr. Zeni Colorado
• Dr. Gary Wyatt
• Dr. Lynne Chase
• Dr. Barry Smith
• Ms. Cynthia Akers
• Ms. Alli Jordan
• Mr. Matt Marasco

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Reorganization

• There are several reasons for looking at making
  the changes.
• Data needs
• Consistency in marketing processes
• Critical nature of retention and graduation rates
• The need to develop greater and deeper
  partnerships

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Organization Charts
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• Thank you and have a wonderful semester!