VPASA Quarterly Report to Board of Trustees

DIVISION OF ACADEMIC
AND STUDENT AFFAIRS

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Biology Department

 

Dr. Roger Sauterer presented a seminar entitled “Fast Times in the Cretaceous: The life and times of T-Rex” to the public at the Anniston Museum of Natural History on September 27, 2007. 

 

Dr. Roger Sauterer presented a seminar entitled “Fast Times in the Cretaceous: The life and times of T-Rex” to the public at the UAB Sigma Xi chapter on October 29, 2007.

 

Dr. Roger Sauterer presented a seminar entitled “Fast Times in the Cretaceous: The life and times of T-Rex” to the public at the Alabama Paleontological Society on December 03, 2007.

 

Dr. Benjie Blair presented a seminar entitled “Diguising microbiology in symbiotic associations as a method of reaching ‘Non-Microbiology students’” at the Southeastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology on November 09, 2007 at Auburn University.

 

Dr. Benjie Blair, Mr. Lawrence Nelson, Dr. Chris Murdock, Dr. Mark Meade, and Dr. Stephen Watts (UAB) presented a seminar entitled “Qualitative analysis of sea urchin Lytochinus variegates gut mircoflora from a closed culture system” at the Southeastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology on November 09, 2007 at Auburn University.

 

Mr. Jeffery O’Kelley and Dr. Benjie Blair presented a seminar entitled “Analysis and classification of intestinal mircobiota of Plethodon glutinosus glutinosus (The Slimy Salamander) by 16S RNA sequencing” at the Southeastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology on November 09, 2007 at Auburn University.

 

 

Criminal Justice

 

The Criminal Justice Department awarded new three scholarships for corrections students partially sponsored by the Ernest Selig Foundation.  The award recipients were Renee Bellew, Gloria Floyd and Elizabeth Maxwell.  Dr. Ronald Mellen chaired the selection committee.  The new Selig Corrections Scholarships will be given annually.

 

Dr. Ronald Mellen’s latest article, "Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES): An Effective Treatment in a Jail Setting," was published in American Jail Association and Academe for December 2007.  Ms. Stephanie Mitchell, M.S., Criminal Justice, Jacksonville State University, 2007, is the co-author. 

 

Dr. Mellen also is co-author with Ms. Mitchell on “An Exploratory Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in the Southern States' Departments of Correction" in The Southern Concourse, the journal of the Southern States Correctional Association for the Fall 2007 issue.

 

Dr, Mellen has been appointed to the Symposium Committee for the School of Arts & Sciences.  In early December he was asked by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department to conduct a recidivism study on graduates from the county's Substance Abuse Treatment Program.

 

Dr. Richard Davis was a featured speaker on “Community Policing” at the Alabama Community Development Institute on October 5, 2007.  The Institute was held at the Houston Cole Library.

 

Dr. Vance McLaughlin serves as the Advisor to the National Criminal Justice Honor Society, and co-hosted its induction ceremony on December 3^rd.

 

On December 11, 2007, Tara Servatius interviewed Dr. McLaughlin on WBT-Radio, FM 99.3, Charlotte, N.C. about police use of deadly force as it related to a current controversial case in Charlotte.  She identified Dr. McLaughlin’s JSU affiliation and introduced him as a nationally recognized police-use-of-force expert.

 

Dr. McLaughlin is conducting research on a book about Harry F. Powers, a serial murderer executed in 1932, doing a study of Buffalo, N.Y. homicides with Dr. Wade C. Mackey, reexamining the Atlanta Ripper murders with Dr. Robert Bing of University of Texas-Arlington, and conducting an historical analysis of Savannah, Georgia homicides with Dr. Richard Kania.

 

Dr. Richard Kania attended the American Society of Criminology’s annual meeting in Atlanta in November, presenting a paper on “Cardinal Richelieu's Pragmatic Conservatism and French Criminal Justice Reform,” recruiting new faculty, and chairing two panels. 

 

Dr. Kania has signed a contract with Anderson Publishing of the Lexis/Nexis Group to write a new textbook to be titled, Managing Criminal Justice Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice.

 

Dr. Kania was the guest speaker for the Jacksonville Inter Se Study Club, discussing the current state of the terrorism threat in the United States.

 

The Department moved faculty into newly refurbished offices in the basement of Brewer Hall over the Christmas-New Year holiday.  The new office suite was prepared in the space left by the transfer of the Alabama regional crime lab from Brewer Hall to Fort McClellan.  Drs. Richards Davis and Dean Buttram are low located in the new offices and additional office space is provided there for adjunct faculty and student organizations.  Other faculty have been relocated on the first floor, switching to the offices vacated by Drs. Davis and Buttram.

 

  

Drama

 

JSU Drama Department has cast the production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF that will be produced by the Drama and Music departments in February. The cast, crew, and orchestra of over 90 students began rehearsals in January.

 

JSU Drama now boasts an increase in majors to 70 for the spring 2008 term.

 

There are 25 events with 54 performances scheduled in the 2008 Kaleidoscope, Festival of the Arts, schedule.  These events begin in January with an opera and children’s theatre performances and run through April. This year celebrates the fifteenth year of the festival.

 

 

English

Dr. Carmine DiBiase has had three reviews accepted for publication by the Times Literary Supplement.

 

Dr. Andrea Porter has had a paper accepted at the nation College English Association conference in St. Louis in March.

 

The English Department will be hosting the following activities:  ON THE BRINK, Southern Writers Conference, February 9, 2008; Southern Playwrights Competition, deadline for plays is January 15, 2008; Annual JSU Holocaust Remembrance, March 27, 2008.

 

 

History and Foreign Languages

 

The Department hosted and coordinated the Alabama Historical Association Fall Pilgrimage which was held at the former Fort McClellan. Dr. Ted Childress, Professor Emeritus of History and former Faculty Marshall, returned to take part in the program.

 

Dr George Lauderbaugh and members of the History Club and Phi Alpha Theta (in cooperation with the First Presbyterian Church) conducted another successful Guatemala Children Shoe Box Program. Shoe boxes were decorated and filled with toys and necessities for needy children in that country.

 

Dr. Jennifer Gross presented a paper titled “Widows in Confederate Fiction: ‘the Lives of the Men Would Be Changed Comparatively Little’” at a Symposium on the 19^th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression which will be held in Chattanooga in November.

 

Dr. Russel Lemmons spoke as part of a lecture series at the University of West Georgia on “The Great War, Weimar and German Nationalism.” He has been selected to present a paper at the European Social Science History Conference that will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

 Dr. Harvey H. Jackson continues to serve on the editorial board of The Anniston Star and write a weekly column on southern politics and culture.  He is also a regular contributor the magazine Longleaf Style. This month he will speak on “Frontier Alabama: ‘It is good to be shifty in a new country’” at a symposium on “Cultural Crossroads: A New Country” which will be held at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

 

 

Institute for Emergency Preparedness

 

The Institute for Emergency Preparedness (IEP) once more continues to grow academically as well as serve the region through contractual emergency planning services and community and scholarly activities. 

 

Academic Programs:

 

The MS-Emergency Management program, presently in the fifth academic year of implementation, continues to exceed Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) viability standards in both enrollment and program completion projections.  To-date, there have already been 69 MS Emergency Management graduates, which is six times our total program completion projection for all five years.  Enrollment projections are also being significantly exceeded.

 

Undergraduate and graduate Emergency Management course enrollment numbers/head counts show an overall increase between the fall 2006 and fall 2007 academic sessions/terms.  On average, undergraduate emergency management course enrollment/head counts increased approximately 11% between fall 2006 and fall 2007 sessions.  Likewise, graduate enrollment/head counts between fall 2006 and fall 2007 show an increase of 15.5%.  Introductory-specific undergraduate and graduate emergency management course enrollment numbers show an increase as follows:  EM 301 Introduction to Disaster Management increased by 14.6% between fall 2006 and fall 2007, and EM 505 Foundations of Emergency Management increased by 20% between these terms.  Most other emergency management course enrollment numbers also show a significant increase in enrollment numbers for the specified time-frame.

 

During this reporting time-frame, the IEP has 2 pending/proposed contracts anticipated to begin shortly. 

 

Contracts that are anticipated to begin shortly are:

 

·        Center for the Study of High Consequence Event Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Johns Hopkins University Consortium.  IEP will continue to work on this project with the consortium in development of emergency preparedness awareness courses during the second year.  JSU’s contract for the first year was $15,420.00.

 

·        Medical Coordinator for Alabama CSEPP, ADPH (FY08).   IEP will continue to work with ADPH to provide medical planning and guidance for the six CSEPP counties in Alabama with this contract totaling $288,500.00.

 

Conference exhibition:  “Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Atlantic Chapter Conference.”  Groton, CT:  October-November 2007.

 

Conference presentation:  “Vulnerable Populations and Special Needs:  An Afterthought No More.”  Governor’s Volunteer Leadership Conference, Mobile, AL:  December 2007.

 

Mathematical, Computing, and Information Sciences Department

Recruitment trips were made to the following high schools to showcase the programs offered through the MCIS department:

 

1.      North Jackson, Stevenson, AL – 9/26/07

2.      North Sand Mountain, Higdon, AL – 9/26/07

3.      Benjamin Russell, Alexander City, AL – 9/27/07

4.      Douglas, Douglas, AL – 10/12/07

5.      Westbrook Christian, Rainbow City, AL – 10/18/07

6.      Oxford, Oxford, AL – 11/16/07

 

Participating faculty/students included Ms. Rhonda Kilgo, Ms. Sherry Kennedy, Mr. David Thornton, Dr. David Dempsey, Ms. Ann Edwards, Dr. Monica Trifas, Mr. Mark DaParma, Ms. Martha Knight, Dr. Zizhong Chen, Ms. Audria White, Dr. Youngmi Kim, Dr. Andrew Ciganek, and Mr. Matt Burns.

 

Dr. Guillermo Francia presented a paper, “The Design and Implementation of an Automated Security Compliance Toolkit: A Pedagogical Exercise,” at the Information Security Curriculum Development Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, September 2007.

 

Dr. Edwin Smith presented a talk, “Difficulties in the Approximation of Convex Bodies by Polytopes,” at the American Mathematical Society meeting, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, November 2007.

 

University Travel and Self-Improvement Grants were received by five faculty—Dr. Monica Trifas, Dr. Tom Leathrum, Dr. Jan Case, Dr. Ming Yang and Dr. David Dempsey—November 2007.

 

Dr. Fred Kelley attended the American Mathematical Society Committee on Education Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 2007.

 

Dr. Fred Kelley, Dr. Donnie Ford, and Dr. Andrew Ciganek participated in two ABET Webinars, “Preparing the Self-Study 08-09” and “How to Develop a Survey”, Jacksonville State University, December 2007.

 

 

David L. Walters Department of Music

 

During the reporting period of October, November, December 2007, the David L. Walters Department of Music, its students, faculty and guest performers participated in the following activities:

 

The studio of low brass students under the leadership of Mr. Christopher Hosmer, Instructor in Music, organized and presented the second annual series of concerts, recitals, masterclasses and presentations called Octubafest.  The series of seven (7) events during the month of October included a faculty recital, a variety of concerts featuring low brass instruments and a concert and masterclass by Guest Artist Adam Frey, Euphonium. 

 

The Department presented Guest Artist Molly Barth, Flute, in concert on 3 October 2007.  Ms. Barth also conducted a masterclass and made a lecture presentation to students of the flute studio.

 

The Southerners made exhibition appearances during this period in Carrollton, Georgia, and in Haralson County, Georgia.  They also made a special appearance in the Atlanta Dome as the featured exhibition marching unit for the Bands of America Regional Competition Finals.  This appearance of the Southerners was made before an appreciative audience of over 30,000 high school bandsmen, parents, teachers and fans of marching bands in the southeast.

 

During this period students within the Department organized the JSU Men’s Chorale as a club activity.  With a faculty sponsor, these students organized weekly rehearsal sessions, selected repertoire and presented their first public concert on 17 November 2007.  They made several subsequent public appearances during the remainder of the semester.

 

JSU departmental ensembles continued their regular schedule of presenting regular public performances.  These included performances by the following ensembles (the director’s name is shown in parentheses):

           

            Gospel Choir (Dr. Myrtice Collins)           4 November 2007

            Percussion Ensembles                             9 November 2007

             (Mr. Clint Gillespie, Mr. Tracy Tyler)                       

           Jazz II and Jazz III Ensembles                  13 November 2007

              (Mr. Mace Hibbard, Mr. Marc Miller)

           Encore!    (Dr. Renee Baptiste)               14 November 2007

           A Cappella Choir  (Dr. Patricia Corbin)  18 November 2007

           JSU Community Orchestra                       27 November 2007

             (Mr. Michael Gagliardo)    

           The Chamber Winds of JSU                    29 November 2007

             (Mr. Kenneth Bodiford)      

            Madrigal Dinner Presentation                 30 Nov./1Dec. 2007                  (Dr. Patricia Corbin)

          Jazz I Ensemble  (Dr. Chip Crotts)           30 November 2007

           Calhoun County Civic Chorale                   2 December 2007

                (Dr. Patricia Corbin)

 

The Department conducted five (5) Student Performance Hour presentations during this period.

 

The following students presented degree recitals (solo recitals presented as part of their degree requirements for the BA in Music):

 

            Stan Renda, Tuba                          23 October 2007

            Anna Abrams, Piano                        2 November 2007

            Arnold Montgomery, Saxophone    6 November 2007

            Skylar McHan, Saxophone              7 November 2007

            D. Jarrod Lee, Baritone                   9 November 2007

            Matthew Headly, Baritone                9 November 2007

            Jean Allen, Soprano                       11 November 2007

            Morgan Tucker, Flute                     12 November 2007

            Jonathan Deloach, Percussion     15 November 2007

            Lauren Spicer, Percussion            18 November 2007

            Jonathan Sanders, Trumpet          28 November 2007

            Teri Young, Flute (Senior Recital)   1 December 2007

 

Mr. Christopher Hosmer, Tuba, presented a Faculty Recital on 14 October 2007.

 

Dr. Michael D’Ambrosio, Composer, was announced as first Prize winner of the 2007 University of South Carolina Choral Composition Competition for his work, “Wind on the Island”.  The composition will be premiered in the spring 2008 and will be performed by the USC Choir when it tours China next year.  The prize garnered a cash award and will be submitted for publication by a national publisher.

 

Dr. Mytrice Collins and Dr. Renee Baptiste made presentations at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History meeting in Charlotte, NC in October 2007.

 

The following students in the Department received undergraduate degrees at graduation exercises held in December 2007:

  

Jacquelyn Bradley

Ashley Canham

Jami Fennell

DeShawndre Hill

Tiffany Hutcheson

Daniel Johns

David R. Johns

Grayson Lawrence

Kehri Magalad

Matthew Maulding

Rachel Nichols

Laura Oleska

 

 

Physical & Earth Sciences

Dr. Jonathan Herbert had an article published “Future climate change scenarios for Big Bend National Park, Texas”.  The Southwestern Geographer 10: 38 - 53.

 

Dr. Miriam Helen Hill and Dr. Bryan Burgess of Friends of Rural Alabama received a renewal of their grant from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) for software for their Conservation Grant.  This grant is funding software for their American Environmental Geographic Information System Project and has a commercial value of about $135,000.

 

Dr. Miriam Helen Hill presented "Asset Mapping and Development: A Geographical View" to the Community Development Institute held at Jacksonville State University on October 4.

 

Dr. Miriam Helen Hill presented "The Gujarat Earthquake: Geography, GIS, and Emergency Management" at Academe at Jacksonville State University on October 17.

 

Dr. Miriam Helen Hill received a renewal of the SG&I Education Grant from Intergraph.  This provides a software licenses for GeoMedia Professional for the Geographic Information System Laboratory in 203 Martin Hall, student disks, and technical support for the 2008 and 2009 calendar years.  The annual value of this grant has been listed at about $750,000.

 

Dr. Miriam Helen Hill has earned a Certificate in Emergency Management from Jacksonville State University in the December graduation.

 

Dr. David Steffy, Dr. Al Nichols and two chemistry majors, Jasmine Olander and Shogo Mori continued research on the removal of trichloroethylene from contaminated water using Ambersorb and Dowex adsorbenets (abstract). American Chemical Society Southeast Regional Meeting, Greenville, October 24-27. At the same meeting, Drs. Steffy and Nichols along with graduate student Amy Mclaughlin presented “Bioaccumulation of mercury in the earthworm Lumbricus terresteris”

 

Dr. David Steffy, Dr. Al Nichols and Amy McLaughlin presented an abstract at the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting titled “Laboratory Protocol for Measuring the Bioaccumulation of Mercury by Earthworms” in San Francisco, California on Dec. 10, 2007

 

Department of Sociology and Social Work

 

Dr. Tina Deshotels reviewed a manuscript for journal Deviant Behavior, September 24, 2007.  She made the following presentation: “Hate Crimes,” Mid-South Sociological Association Conference, October 25, 2007, Mobile, Alabama.  She was elected chair of the committee on membership for the Mid-south Sociological Association and she accepted a position on the board of directors at Daybreak Crisis and Recovery Center, Inc. She received the following publicity for the student organization she sponsors (WISE): Anniston Star “Not Forgotten: Vigil at JSU remembers Calhoun County’s victims of domestic violence,” October 9, 2007 and the JSU Chanticleer “Vigil memorializes victims of domestic violence,” October 10, 2007.

 

Dr. Mark Fagan made the following presentations: (1) "Retirement in Alabama," 2007 Alabama Retiree and Relocation Conference, Jacksonville State University, September 7, 2007, Jacksonville, Alabama; (2) “Retirement Development,” Alabama Community Development Institute, Jacksonville State University, October 4, 2007, Jacksonville, Alabama; (3) “A Statewide Strategy for Improving Social Work Licensure Exam Pass Rates,” the national Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, October 28, 2007, San Francisco, California; (4) “Retirement Development,” Sarnia-Lambton Economic Development Conference, November 22, 2007, Petrolia, Ontario, Canada; and (5) “Retirement Development as an Economic Development Strategy,” Pike Road, Alabama, December 21, 2007.  He was quoted in the following publications: Camden (Arkansas) News, October 2, 2007; Anniston Star, October 25, 2007; Birmingham News, December 2, 2007; Montgomery Advertiser, December 26, 2007; and First Monday (Lambton County, Ontario, Canada) for December 2007.

 

Dr. Rodney Friery made the following presentation: “The Incinerator at Anniston, Alabama: Four Years Later,” 59^th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Criminology, November 15, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Dr. Clark Hudspeth served as Treasurer for the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association at the 2007 mid-year meeting at Mississippi State.

 

Dr. David LoConto made the following presentation:  “Shaping Versus Creating Reality: The Realist Vision of Interaction Opportunities,” Mid-South Sociological Association Conference, October 25, 2007, Mobile, Alabama.  He was also the Organizer and Presider of the ‘Pragmatism and Sociology’ session at the Mid-South Sociological Association Conference.  He served as a panelist in the “Innovative and/or Successful Teaching in Sociology” session at this same conference.  He was selected as Chair, Ethics Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association and as a member of The Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award Committee for the Mid-South Sociological Association.  He served on the Paper Selection Committee for the Atlantic Coast Pragmatism Conference, November 2007, Asheville, North Carolina.

 

Dr. Nancy Francisco Stewart made the following presentations: (1) “Be Extreme Inside and Out: Developing Service Learning Within Nonprofits,” The First Statewide Conference on Service Learning, The University of Alabama, September 27, 2007, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; (2) “Perspectives on Poverty: Creating Faithful Angels for the 21^st Century,” with three of her students: Divya Patel, Donna Austin and Faye Sharp, Alabama/ Mississippi Social Work Education Conference, November 8, 2007, Oxford, Mississippi; and (3) “Generations at Work: Understanding Our Generations and Ourselves: Communication and Personality Styles,” Engineering Department, Southern Natural Gas of El Paso Energy Corporation, December 15, 2007, in Birmingham, Alabama.  Her work was cited in Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation (2006) by Mary Kane and William Trochim, Sage Publications.  She served as an Alabama Poverty Project Board member, re-elected Secretary for 2008 and assigned to Personnel Committee, Executive Committee and University Relations Committee.  She also served on the JSU Wellness Committee and held a focus group with area clergy on September 12, 2007 and attended Concept Systems Conference, October 12-14, 2007, Alexandria, Virginia.

 

Mr. James Powe and Ms. Julie Nix and their Field Students organized a National Adoption Month Event on November 16, 2007 at Gadsden State Community College to honor foster and adoptive families.  They worked with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption for the reception for foster families in Etowah County.

 

Ms. Kim Womack served on the National Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD), Annual Program Meeting Local Planning Committee as the Health and Wellness-Walk/Run Coordinator.  She also served on the Annual Alabama Conference for Social Work, Program Committee for 2008

COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (CCBA)

Dr. Ted Schoen, AACSB Reaffirmation Team Chair, met with CCBA administrators on October 17 to discuss the upcoming review scheduled for February 2008.

 

Dr. William Fielding traveled to Norfolk University in Virginia to serve as a member of their reaffirmation team, October 28-30, 2007.

 

The CCBA hosted the 3^rd graduation of the Anniston Army Depot Management Leadership Program on Friday, November 16. 2007.

 

Faculty were honored for teaching, research and service on December 12, 2007 at the Annual CCBA Fall Meeting.  Dr. Rob Landry received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Dr. Doris Bennett received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service.  Dr. Brent Cunningham received the Bob and Lou Kennamer Teaching Award.  Dr. Patricia Borstorff received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research.

 

Certificates for excellence were also presented at the meeting in the following areas:  Teaching:  Dr. Ronnie Clayton, Dr. Ben Hardy, Dr. Rob Landry, Dr. Jim McIntyre, Mr. Gene Padgham, Dr. Bill Schmidt, Dr. Doris Bennett, Dr. Shawn Carter, Dr. Cynthia McCarty, Dr. Chris Westley, Ms. Taleah Collum, Dr. Angela Sandberg, Dr. Cindy Sneed, Dr. John Sneed, Dr. Jeff Zanzig, Dr. Patricia Borstorff, Dr. Brent Cunningham, Dr. Mark Hearn, Dr. Michael Marker, Mr. Jeffrey Parker, Dr. David Palmer, and Dr. Joann Williams.  Research:  Dr. Ronnie Clayton, Dr. Rob Landry, Mr. Gene Padgham, Dr. Bill Schmidt, Dr. Doris Bennett, Dr. Shawn Carter, Dr. Cynthia McCarty, Dr. Chris Westley, Ms. Taleah Collum, Dr. Angela Sandberg, Dr. Patricia Borstorff, Dr. Kenneth Day, Dr. Michael Featherstone, Dr. Carl Gooding, Dr. Mark Hearn, Dr. Michael Marker, Mr. Stan Newton, Mr. Jeffrey Parker, Dr. David Palmer, Dr. James Thomas, and Dr. Joann Williams.  Service:  Dr. Ronnie Clayton, Dr. Ben Hardy, Dr. Rob Landry, Dr. Jim McIntyre, Mr. Gene Padgham, Dr. Bill Schmidt, Dr. Doris Bennett, Dr. Shawn Carter, Dr. Cynthia McCarty, Dr. Chris Westley, Ms. Taleah Collum, Dr. Angela Sandberg, Dr. Cindy Sneed, Dr. John Sneed, Dr. Jeff Zanzig, Mr. Glenn Graham, Dr. Patricia Borstorff, Ms. Paula Buchanan, Dr. Brent Cunningham, Dr. Michael Featherstone, Dr. Carl Gooding, Dr. Mark Hearn, Dr. Michael Marker, Mr. Jeffrey Parker, Dr. James Thomas, and Dr. Joann Williams.

 

 

Finance, Economics, and Accounting Department

 

The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Southern Finance Association was held at The Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, SC in November 2007.  Dr. Ronnie Clayton serves as the Executive Director of the Association and is involved in all aspects of the planning and implementation of the meeting.  Approximately 250 finance academicians and professionals present over a three-day period to present and discuss their latest research. 

 

Dr. Clayton attended an Editor’s seminar at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on December 7, 2007.  The seminar “Frontiers in Society Publishing: A Road Map for Success” was invitation only and provided excellent information for Dr. Clayton’s role as Executive Director of the Southern Finance Association, which sponsors the Journal of Financial Research and for his role as Editor of Financial Decisions.

 

Dr. Clayton has received an invitation to serve on a six member review team to travel to the country of Jordan to review undergraduate Finance Programs offered in that country.  The program is sponsored by the King Hussein Foundation.  Dr. Clayton received training for the review at the English Language Institute in Washington, DC, in October, will travel to Jordan for two weeks in March 2008 to review the programs and will return to Washington in early April to present the results of the review to members of the Foundation.

 

The CCBA and Dr. Cynthia McCarty, Director of the Center for Business and Free Enterprise Education and Entrepreneurship, sponsored a workshop entitled “Pizza and Economics” held in the Merrill Building on December 6, 2007.  Twenty-two secondary education students attended the workshop which was taught by Dr. Stan Easton.

 

Dr. Jeff Zanzig presented his paper entitled “Development of an Expert System for Use in Auditing Education” at the Association for Global Business Meeting in Washington, D.C. on November 2, 2007.

 

 

Department of Management & Marketing

Dr. Patricia Borstorff

Dr. Borstorff presented a paper, "Factors Influencing Acceptance of M-Commerce." Authors: Pat Borstorff, Jim Thomas, and Cynthia Sneed at the Association of Global Business in Washington D.C. on November 16, 2007. The paper was also in the Proceedings of the Conference.

The International Academy of E-Business which meets in San Francisco in March accepted the following paper for presentation. The paper was also accepted for the E-Business Review, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Paper:  "Mobile Commerce Trust: the Influence of Technophobia and Mental Intangibility." Authors: Patricia C. Borstorff and James L. Thomas.

Dr. Borstorff had the following paper accepted for journal publication. Paper: "King Of The Hill: Competing For Foreign Direct Investment in Dixie." Authors: Patricia Borstorff, Taleah Collum, and Stan Newton It will be published in the International Academy of Case Studies Journal in 2008. This is a refereed journal.

Dr. Borstorff has been chosen to be part of the Leading Edge Institute, a leadership development organization for college women across the state of Alabama. Fifty women leaders from East Central Alabama have been selected to write letters for a book to be published.

Dr. Meehan nominated Dr. Borstorff as a representative of JSU.

Dr. Borstorff received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research award from 2006-2007 for CCBA.

Dr. Borstorff was a trainer and leader for Executive Leadership Development Course, Leader, Anniston Army Depot, October 2007.

Dr. Borstorff received the Excellence in Service Award CCBA 2006-2007, given in December 2007.

Dr. Borstorff received the Excellence in Teaching Award CCBA 2006-2007.

Dr. Borstorff received the Excellence in Research Award CCBA 2006-2007

Dr. Richard Cobb

Dr. Cobb was a trainer and leader for Executive Leadership Development Course, Leader, Anniston Army Depot, October 2007.

Dr. Brent Cunningham

Dr. Cunningham was appointed by President Meehan to the JSU Integrity Committee.

Dr. Cunningham was appointed by President Meehan to the University's NCAA Certification Self-study Steering Committee.

Dr. Cunningham received the CCBA Dean's Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2006-07.

Dr. Mark Hearn

Dr. Hearn was a trainer and leader for Executive Leadership Development Course, Leader, Anniston Army Depot, October 2007.

Dr. Mike Marker

Dr. Marker was a trainer and leader for Executive Leadership Development Course, Leader, Anniston Army Depot, October 2007.

Dr. David Palmer

Dr. Palmer was a trainer and leader for Executive Leadership Development Course, Leader, Anniston Army Depot, October 2007.

Dr. Palmer worked with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and Alabama Court System to create a value and impact study for the 4-H project at Coosa Valley Youth Services in Anniston, Alabama.  This evaluation and value contribution analysis included the impact of 4-H training on at risk youths from Talladega, Etowah, Cleburne, Cherokee and Calhoun Counties.

Dr. Palmer attended Society of Marketing Advances Annual Conference in San Antonio from November 7 to 11 where he presented a paper titled, “Adoption of Net-based Customer Service Systems (NCSS): Analysis of a Longitudinal Field Experiment,” and was the discussant for two research topic sessions.

Dr. Joann Williams

Dr. Williams was a trainer and leader for Executive Leadership Development Course, Leader, Anniston Army Depot, October 2007

Center for Economic Development and Business Research (CED)

Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

JSU SBDC Counseling and Training

The JSU SBDC provided counseling to over 105 small businesses, and presented training to 87 individuals during this reporting quarter.

JSU Economic Update, September/October and November/December 2007 Issues

During this reporting quarter, the September/October and November/December issues of the Update were published and distributed to more than 7,700 subscribers. The most recent issue may be viewed on the JSU CED web site:  http://www.jsu.edu/depart/ced/.

Commendation by the Deputy District Director of the Small Business Administration (SBA) District Office in Birmingham

During this quarter the JSU SBDC submitted a number of client success stories to the Birmingham SBA Office.  Mr. Raymond Hembree, Deputy District Director of the SBA District Office in Birmingham, commended the JSU SBDC staff for their diligent work.  Mr. Hembree stated that the JSU SBDC has always provided client success stories to the SBA in a timely manner and is a demonstrated friend to the SBA Alabama District Office. He expressed appreciation for all the Center does to help the small business community of Alabama..  Mr. Hembree is a JSU graduate.

Recognition of the JSU SBDC in the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium (ASBDC) Winter Newsletter

During the quarter, the JSU SBDC was spotlighted in the Winter Newsletter of the ASBDC.  The article discussed the Center’s services and successes since it opened in 1981.

The Chamber, Gadsden and Etowah County 2007 Small Business of the Year Ceremony

 

JSU CED and SBDC staff attended the Gadsden & Etowah County Chamber of Commerce’s 2007 Small Business of the Year ceremony on October 3, 2007.  Eighteen small businesses received awards for demonstrated excellence.  The featured speaker was Mr. Alex Baker, a JSU graduate, who has successfully developed a small business.  In 1993, Mr. Baker and AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp. (AIG Global) founded AIG Baker, and then A.B. Shopping Center Properties, Inc. Mr. Baker has served as President and CEO of the company since its founding.

Annual Meeting, Alabama Association of Regional Councils (AARC)

 

Mr. Pat Shaddix, Director JSU CED, and two CED staff members attended the annual meeting of the AARC held at the Perdido Conference Center, Perdido Beach, Alabama, October 21 through 23, 2007.

Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC)

Mr. Pat Shaddix, Director JSU CED, and one CED staff member attended the annual meeting of the SEDC held in the Peabody Hotel and Conference Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 5 through 7, 2007.

 

Graduation, Class 3, Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) Management Leadership Program

 

JSU CED and SBDC staff attended the graduation of Class 3 of the ANAD Management Leadership Program in Merrill Hall on Friday, November 16. 2007.  JSU CCBA and CED personnel teach, administer the program, and coordinate internships with industry for all ANAD students attending the program.

 

Alabama Rural Action Commission Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama

 

On November 28, 2007, Mr. Pat Shaddix, Director JSU CED, attended a meeting of the Alabama Rural Action Commission held at the Ross Bridge Conference Center in Birmingham.  Mr. Shaddix serves as Co-Chairman for Economic Development in East Alabama, being appointed to that position by Alabama’s Governor, the Honorable Bob Riley.  

 

Alabama Small Business Development Consortium (ASBDC) Director’s Meeting

 

Mr. Pat Shaddix, Director, JSU CED, attended an ASBDC director’s meeting on December 4 at the ASBDC office in Birmingham.

 

Seminar, Starting and Operating a Child Care Center

 

Mrs. Robbie Medders, Associate Director, JSU SBDC, coordinated and presented a seminar, Starting and Operating a Child Care Center, on December 7, 2007. The seminar was presented in the JSU CED Library.

 

JSU SBDC Recognized as the Outstanding SBDC in Alabama for 2007

 

On December 17, 2007, Mr. M. William Campbell, State Director, Alabama Small Business Development Consortium (ASBDC) presented a plaque to the JSU SBDC recognizing it as the outstanding SBDC in Alabama for the year 2007. The plaque was: “in recognition and appreciation of the unwavering support and dedicated effort to benefit the small businesses of Alabama.”

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Dean’s Office

 Dr.  Cynthia Harper and Ms. Sissy Spense traveled to Huntsville, Alabama on October 1, 2007 to meet with Mr. Jim Patterson to seek a contribution to the College of Education and Professional Studies Ramona Wood Annex project sponsored by the University’s Capital Campaign.

Dr. Cynthia Harper served as a grant reviewer for the Alabama Commission on Higher Education’s No Child Left Behind Grant Committee October 4-5, 2007 in Montgomery, Alabama.  The US Department of Education (USDE), Title II, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) competitive grant program is the largest federal program supporting K-12 professional development activities to improve teaching and learning.  The Commission administers Title II, Part B of this program making funds available on a competitive basis to public and private institutions of higher education in partnership with Local Education Agencies.

Drs. Cynthia Harper and John Hammett participated in the Alabama Association for Colleges of Teacher Education on October 8-9, 2007 in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Cynthia Harper and Ms. LeAnn Crow traveled to Piedmont, Alabama on October 22, 2007 to meet with Mr. Lin Latta to seek a contribution to the College of Education and Professional Studies Ramona Wood Annex project sponsored by the University’s Capital Campaign.

Dr. Cynthia Harper represented Dr. William Meehan at the Alabama Partnership for Children’s Board meeting on October 25, 2007 in Montgomery, Alabama.

The College of Education and Professional Studies hosted the annual Fall Superintendent’s Consortium in the JSU Gamecock Center on October 30, 2007.  Participants included superintendents from partner P/12 Local Education Agencies in the JSU service region.

Drs. John Hammett and Kelly Ryan attended an Alabama State Department of Education meeting in Montgomery, Alabama on October 26, 2007 to gain information about educational programs available in the area of Sports Management.

Drs. Cynthia Harper and John Hammett made a professional presentation at the Mid-South Educational Research Associations Annual Conference in Hot Spring, Arkansas November 6-10, 2007.  Through this presentation participants were provided information to assist them in involving P/12 education advisory groups to improve educational programs.

Dr. Cynthia Harper and Mr. Earl Warren traveled to Piedmont, Alabama on November 14, 2007 to meet with Mr. and Mrs. Millard Young to seek a contribution to the College of Education and Professional Studies Ramona Wood Annex project sponsored by the University’s Capital Campaign.

Dr. Cynthia Harper attended the Counselor Luncheon at the Lumpkin House in Albertville, Alabama on November 27, 2007.  The luncheon was sponsored by JSU’s office of Admissions and included P/12 counselors employed by the Marshall County Board of Education.

Dr. Cynthia Harper attended the Counselor Luncheon at the All Steak Restaurant in Cullman, Alabama on November 29, 2007.  The luncheon was sponsored by JSU’s Office of Admissions and included P/12 counselors employed by the Cullman Board of Education.

Dr. Cynthia Harper attended the Alabama Commission on Higher Education meeting in Montgomery Alabama on December 607, 2007.

Dr. Cynthia Harper participated in a state-wide Dean’s meeting held in Troy, Alabama on December 11, 2007.  The purpose of the meeting was to determine ways to incorporate AMSTI into the undergraduate education curriculum offerings.

Dr. John Hammett participated in the Counselor Luncheon at the Capital Club in Montgomery, Alabama on December 12, 2007.  The luncheon was sponsored by JSU’s Office of Admissions and included P/12 counselors employed by the Montgomery Board of Education.

Dr. Cynthia Harper participated in the Counselor Luncheon at the Summit Club in Birmingham, Alabama on December 13, 2007.  The luncheon was sponsored by JSU’s Office of Admissions and included P/12 counselors employed in the Greater Birmingham Area.

Dr. John Hammett was selected to serve as Chair of the NCAA Self-Study Subcommittee on Governance and Commitment to Rules Compliance.

Dr. John Hammett was selected to serve as a member of the SACS Accreditation Team to Albany State University, GA.

Dr. Cynthia Harper was selected to serve as a member of the NCATE Accreditation Team for High Point University in High Point, North Carolina.

Department of Child Development Center

We had a staff professional development day on October 8^th and received training on CPR and First Aid.

 

We’ve had monthly fire and storm drills, and although we hope we never have the real thing, we'll be ready.

 

Each class held a Halloween Party on October 31^st.  The children (and some teachers!) came to school in costume and went “Trick-or-Treating” to each classroom.

 

Our annual Christmas Program and reception was held on Thursday, December 13^th.  It was standing-room-only as each class performed various songs for their families and friends who then adjourned to have refreshments and meet with their child’s teachers.

 

Our enrollment at the end of the 1^st quarter 2008 has climbed to 100, with more families joining our Center when we get back from the Christmas Holidays.

 

Department of Communication 

Visit dates for the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) are set for Sunday, February 3 to Wednesday, February 6, 2008

 

Two females and one male—all university professors—have been assigned as team members to visit the Department of Communication.

 

Department’s self study has been completed and sent to the team.

 

Hotel reservations have been made ahead of time for the team.

 

The department hired three adjunct faculty members and two project assistants who joined the department in fall, 2007.

 

The search for the Ayers Chair is continuing.

 

Dr. Jeffery Hedrick attended a technology workshop in Birmingham this fall. That conference dealt with advanced software (Photoshop) utilization.

 

Dr. Kingsley Harbor attended the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) national conference in Washington DC this summer.  He participated in several sessions including an assessment workshop.

At the AEJMC conference, Harbor served as a panelist on the subject of the challenges and rewards of department chairmanship.

The Ayers Lecture for 2008 has been scheduled for March 12, 2008, and the lecturer will be Mr. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher of The New York Times.

The department held its Third Alumni Reunion on October 20, 2008. The reunion was a success with many alumni attending and interacting with faculty and students with the purpose of networking with our senior students. The department  head, Dr. Kingsley Harbor, presented the JSU pin to all alumni who were in attendance.

Installation of new technology has been completed in the department, and as a result, all classrooms and labs in the Department of Communication now have smart boards/multi-media instructional technology.

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Dr. Denise Richardson (Secondary Education) has been notified their article Working with Students with Disabilities in the General Science Classroom has been accepted for publication in Special Education Technology Practices.   The journal will let them know as soon as possible if the article will be published in the September/October or November/December issue.

Dr. George Johnson served as a Facilitator for an evening with Mario E. Hoyos, Ph.D. candidate from the University of Caldas, Manizales, Caldas, Columbia, South America, on September 24, 2007.  This program was sponsored by the School of Continuing Education and the Office of International Programs from Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Larry Beard attended the meeting to go over the regulatory changes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of the Alabama Administrative Code (ACC) for special education personnel held in Rainsville, Alabama, on September 25, 2007.  This regional training was held for school personnel during the day and for parents at night.

Dr. Larry Beard and Dr. Slenda Haynes attended the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Training Conference in Washington, D.C., from September 26 through 31, 2007.  Dr. Beard is a member of the committee for Standard 5: Faculty Qualifications, Performance, and Development and Dr. Haynes is a member of the committee for Standard 1: Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions.

Dr. Celia Hilber was the lead interpreter for the Installation of The Most Reverend Robert J. Baker as The Fourth Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama at the Cathedral of Saint Paul Memorial of The Guardian Angels on October 2, 2007.  She and her husband, Jim, were interpreters for the deaf audience.

Dr. Melinda Staubs attended the National Conference for Economics Education in Denver, Colorado, on October 4, 2007.  She has a professional interest in this area of study related to elementary education majors.

Dr. Dale Campbell and Dr. Gena Riley presented at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Regional Conference in Richmond, Virginia, on October 11, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Strategies to Help Children Understand the Concepts of Addition and Subtraction.

Dr. Nina King served as a member of a team created by the Alabama State Department of Education to visit schools and assess according to the Alabama Essential Elements for Guiding School Improvement.  The team visited Brighton Middle School in Birmingham on October 17-19, 2007.

Dr. Slenda Haynes presented at the Rocky Mountain Regional International Reading Association (IRA) Conference in Billings, Montana, on October 19, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Effective Vocabulary Strategies for Content Areas.

Dr. Dale Campbell presented at the Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ACTM) Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, on October 26, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Using Journals in Pre-Service Math Methods Classes.

Dr. Teresa Gardner presented at the Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ACTM) Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, on October 26, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Using Math Journals to Improve Math Calculations and Comprehension.

Dr. Patsy Lowry, Dr. Judy McCrary, and Mrs. Karen Nemeth presented at the Alabama Reading Association (ARA) Conference in Huntsville, Alabama, on October 26, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Emergent Literacy Through Integrated Content Areas.

Mrs. Sandra Sudduth presented at the Alabama Reading Association (ARA) Conference in Huntsville, Alabama, on October 26, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Teaching Math Through Multicultural and Global Perspectives Using Children’s Literature.

Dr. Larry Beard and Dr. Teresa Gardner presented at the Teaching Education Division (TED) of the Council for Exceptional Children National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Assistive Technology and Response to Intervention: Improving Outcomes for All Children.

Dr. Celia Hilber, Dr. Elizabeth Engley, and Dr. Nina King presented at the MidSouth Educational Research Association (MSERA) Regional Conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on November 7, 2007.  The title of the presentation was General and Special Educators’ Perceptions of Bullying in the Lower Grades.

Dr. Charles Notar (ESE), Dr. Cynthia Harper (Dean), Mrs. Lynetta Owens, and Dr. Gena Riley (TSC) presented at the MidSouth Educational Research Association (MSERA) Regional Conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on November 8, 2007.  The title of the presentation was The Evolution of PRIME: Process for Remediating Identified Marginal Education Candidates.

Dr. Patsy Lowry and Dr. Judy McCrary presented at the MidSouth Educational Research Association (MSERA) Regional Conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on November 8, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Combining Looping With Action Research in the College Classroom: A Three-Year Study.

Mrs. Phyllis Taylor and Mrs. Jennifer Strain presented at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Regional Conference in Denver, Colorado, on November 9, 2007. The title of the presentation was Bag n’ Bottle Science; READ an Inquiry Lesson.

Dr. George Johnson presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in International Early Childhood Conference in Melbourne, Australia, on November 16, 2007.  The title of the presentation was No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent: Equity and Justice in the Classroom.

Mrs. Sandra Sudduth attended the Fall Conference of the Student Alabama Education Association (SAEA) in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 30-December 1, 2007.  She chaperoned the officers of the group and attended sessions as well.  She is the advisor of the SAEA Chapter on campus. 

Dr. Melinda Staubs presented at the National Council for the Social Sciences (NCSS) National Conference in San Diego, California, on December 1, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Using the NCSS Notable Trade Books: Lessons and Units.

Mrs. Phyllis Taylor, Mrs. Jennifer Strain, and Dr. Dale Campbell presented at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Regional Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 7, 2007.  The title of the presentation was Bag n’ Bottle Science: READ an Inquiry Lesson.

Department of Educational Resources

Dr. Gordon Nelson – article published – Cooperative Learning and Motivation:  Students Developing Multimedia Power Point Presentations.  Proceedings:  5^th Annual Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2007), Orlando, FL, 41-44.

Presentations:   “Lifelong Learning in a New Society:  Making Education Accessible Across All Ages”  Presentation at the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA) Annual Conference, Hot Springs, Arkansas, November 2007.

“Cooperative Learning & Motivation:  Students Developing Multimedia Power Point Presentations,”  Presentation at the 5^th International Conference on Education & Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2007), Orlando, Florida, July 2007.

Dr. Jimmy Barnes – Presentations:  “Collecting Research and Accreditation Data with Live Text”  MSERA Fall 2007 “E-Folios for the 21^st Century Learners”  MSERA Fall 2007.

Dr. Donna Herring – Books:  Herring, D., & Barnes, J. (2006).  Teaching the Learning Outcome Through Project-Based Learning.  Morrisville, NC:  Lulu Publishing, Inc.

Herring, D. (2007).  Teaching the INTASC Standards Through Project-Based Learning.  Morrisville, NC:  Lulu Publishing, Inc.

Articles in professional journals:  Herring, D., & Notar, C. (2007).  Website Evaluation for Teachers.  International Journal of Arts & Sciences, LLC. Vol 2, No. 2.  Pages 10-12.

Friery, K. & Herring, D. (2007).  Top Ten Must Do’s:  Creative Techniques to Bring your Faculty on Board.  Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, 1036-1039.

Herring, D., & Notar, C. (2007).  Show What You Know:  ePortfolios for 21^st Century Learners.  Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, 87-92.

Scholarly Presentations at Professional Conferences & Meetings

National Live Text Collaboration Conference

1)      Nobody Told Me That!!!  Orientation for Dummies

2)      Top Ten Must Do’s:  Creative uses to Bring your Staff on Board

3)      The Live Text Light:  Shining the Way for Student Success

Mid-South Educational Research Association Conference

4)      Improving Student Performance Through Graduate Orientation

5)      Proven Ways to Bring Faculty & Staff on Board with Live Text

6)      Creating & Delivering Online Courses with Live Text.

7)      Teaching & Assessing the INTASC Standards through Project-Based Learning.

 National America’s Choice Conference

8)      State Alliance:  Implementing the America’s Choice Reform Model in the High School.

9)      A Virtual Tour of Chattooga High School

10)  Show What You Know:  Digital Portfolios for the 21^st Century Learning.

 International Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education Conference.

11)  Top Ten Must Do’s:  Creative Techniques to Bring Your Faculty on Board.

12)  Show What You Know:  ePortfolios for 21^st Century Learners.

 Dr. Betty Morris – Presentation – at the GA Information Literacy Conference in October.

 Dr. Mary Montgomery - Served as a member of the review team for Alabama Essential School Standards at Southside High School in Selma, AL.

Dr. Isreal Eady – Publication – Restructuring Music’s Role in the Middle School Curriculum—in the College Student Journal.

Presentations – “Supervisor’s Perceptions of Integrating Music into Core Areas in Middle Grades to Positively Influence Learning”—SCREA—Kansas City, MO

“My Soul Looked Back and Wondered:  The Supervisory Styles of Two African American Principals of Segregated Schools in Georgia”—MSERA—Hot Springs, AR.

 Dr. Charlotte Eady – Publications:  Eady, C.K., & Zepeda, S.J. (2007).  Evaluation, supervision, and staff development under mandated reform:  The perceptions and practices of rural middle school principals.  The Rural Educator, 28(2), 1-7.

Eady, C. K. (2007).  Rural middle school principals’ perspectives of supervision and evaluation as they implement a recent statewide reform initiative.  In S.J. Zepeda (Ed.).  Real World Supervision:  Adapting to Practice.  Larchmont, N.J.:  Eye on Education.

Presentation:  Paper – “My Soul Looked Back and Wondered:  The Supervisory Styles of Two African American Principals of Segregated Schools in Georgia,” at the Mid-South Educational Research Association in Hot Springs, AR.

 Dr. Jerry Kiser & Dr. Tommy Turner  -  Presentation:  Uniting, Spirituality & Sexual Counseling – AL Counseling Association Conference in Birmingham.

 Dr. Kathleen Friery, Dr. Nancy Fox & Dr. Gordon Nelson – Presentation:  Singing in the Rain, AL Counseling Association Conference, Birmingham, AL

Dr. Melanie Wallace – Presentation:  Inspiration through Collaboration:  Chi Sigma Iota Idea Exchange, AL Counseling Association Conference, Birmingham, AL

Attended:  the Association for Counselor Education & Supervision meeting in Columbus, OH in October.

Dr. Tommy Turner, Dr. Jan Chandler, Dr. Nancy Fox, & Dr. Jerry Kiser – Presentation:  In School Suspension:  Counselor Involvement & What is Working, AL Counseling Association Conference, Birmingham, AL and School Bullying:  Three Levels of Prevention/Intervention, AL Counseling Association Conference, Birmingham, AL

Dr. Kathleen Friery, Dr. Jerry Kiser - Presentation:  In God We Trust, All Others Bring DATA!”  Counselors Making a Difference with Action Research

Dr. Tommy Turner – attended the NCATE Conference in Arlington, VA.

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences 

The application for AAFCS (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences) Accreditation was submitted in September 2007.  We anticipate going through the self study process between Spring 08 and Spring 09.

 

Dr. Debra Goodwin continues to serve on the Wellness Committee.  Wellness Wednesdays were held each month in the cafeteria.

 

Dr. Tom Phillips produced a departmental presentation on DVD to be distributed to the area high schools as a promotional tool. 

 

Family and Consumer Sciences classes this semester had a combined enrollment of 619.

 

The department held the first faculty meeting of the fall semester on September 5, 2007.  The faculty discussed plans for the upcoming school year, including the AAFCS accreditation timeline, and the ADA Program Assessment Report due in November.

 

We are continuing to update the Food Lab kitchen.  At this point, new range hoods have been installed in all five kitchens and the two oldest ranges have been replaced. 

 

Dr. Debra Goodwin has resubmitted a request for renovation of an area downstairs which will increase space for the student lab and create a faculty office.

 

Dr. Tom Phillips’ FCS 454 class, Administration and Supervision in Child Care programs, met at the Child Development Center at McClellan during the fall semester.

 

Dr. Debra Goodwin presented at the Montage Club meeting on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 in Guntersville, AL.  Dr. Joyce Roy, former JSU professor, presided at the meeting.

 

Dr. Tom Phillip’s FCS 454 class (Administration and Supervision of Child Care Centers) visited the Harris Early Learning Center in Birmingham on Monday, October 1, 2007.  This tour allowed the students to observe a model child development facility.

 

Ms. Paula Napoli presented at the Grace Church Preschool Friends Parent Program on Monday, October 1, 2007.  Her presentation was on brain development in preschoolers.

 

Dr. Tom Phillips edited the Fall 07 newsletter for the Department.

 

Dr. Tom Phillips and Dr. Debra Goodwin manned the FCS table at Preview Day in September.  Approximately forty potential students requested additional information about the concentrations in our department.

 

Dr. Tim Roberts and Dr. Debra Goodwin submitted faculty portfolios for tenure.

 

Ms. Robbie Boggs presented to the Family and Consumer Sciences Class at Bremen High School on careers in fashion and other opportunities in Family and Consumer Sciences on October 5, 2007.

 

Ms. Robbie Boggs and students in the Fashion Fundamentals and Merchandise Planning and Analysis classes attended the fashion show at AmericasMart: Women’s and Children’s market held in Atlanta on October 13, 2007.

 

Ms. Paula Napoli presented to the Grace Church Preschool Friends Parent Program in Anniston on October 15, 2007.  The topic was discipline of young children.

 

Ms. Robbie Boggs attended a reception honoring Dean Laura Jolly, the new dean of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia on October 17, 2007.

 

On October 29, 2007, Ms. Napoli presented an art program to the Preschool Friends Parent Program at Grace Episcopal Church in Anniston.  She also presented “Positive Discipline” to the same group on November 5, 2007. 

 

Dr. Tim Roberts participated in the Auburn University Distance Learning Advisory Committee meeting on November 5, 2007.

 

Dr. Tom Phillips presented “The influence of identity diffusion on high school students’ psychosocial well-being” at the MSERA conference held in Hot Springs, AR from November 6 through November 9, 2007

 

Along with six Family and Consumer Sciences students, Ms. Robbie Boggs attended the Alabama Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Leadership conference and business meeting held at Oakwood College in Huntsville, AL on November 8, 2007.

 

On December 4, 2007 the Faculty and Staff of Family and Consumer Sciences met to discuss policy and procedures for the department.  The faculty is working toward a more unified approach to addressing issues such as attendance; assignments turned in late and missed exams.

Dr. Debra Goodwin and Ms. Paula Napoli presented at the National Science Teachers Association Conference in Birmingham, AL on December 8, 2007.  Their presentation was titled “Positive Approaches in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity.”

Department of Health, Physical Education & Recreation

 

Dr. Jeff Chandler and Dr. Mark Kovacs published a book titled Tennis Training:  Enhancing On-court Performance with Racquet Tech Publishing, October 2007.

 

Dr. Jeff Chandler attended SCJ/JSCR Editorial Meeting with Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins in Baltimore, MD October 18-19, 2007.

 

Dr. Jeff Chandler presented at ASAHPERD Conference in Birmingham, AL November 12, 2007.  The topic was "Writing Research Papers and Other Professional Publications."

 

Dr. Jimmy Griffin presented at CAA Fall Conference in Montreal, NC October 17-19, 2007.  The topics were "Measuring Spiritual Growth" and "Dueling Banjos Research Symposia."

Dr. Ronnie Harris presented at the NE Georgia District Conference of HPER at Reinhardt College on October 5, 2007.  The topic was "Teaching Dance in Schools."

 

Mrs. Donna Hey presented at KAPHERD in Louisville, Kentucky October 25-26, 2007.  The topic was "Sport Specific Yoga."

 

Mrs. Donna Hey presented at ASAHPERD Conference in Birmingham, AL November 12, 2007.  The topic was "New Hip-Hop Dance Craze."

 

Dr. William Hey presented at KAPHERD in Louisville, Kentucky October 25-26, 2007.  The topic was "Creative Group Strategies for the Health Education Class."

 

Dr. William Hey presented at ASAHPERD Conference in Birmingham, AL November 12, 2007.  The topic was "AAHE:  Time to Participate."

Dr. William Hey will serve a three-year term on the AAHE Awards committee.  The term will begin at the end of the 2008 AAHPERD conference in Ft. Worth, Texas.

 

Dr. William Hey was recently nominated for the Southern District AAHPERD Honor Award, Southern District AAHPERD Scholar Award, and the AAHE Board of Directors.

 

Dr. William Hey co-authored (with Dr. Michael Ballard, Eastern Kentucky University) and submitted a manuscript to the KAPPERD Journal titled “Considerations for moving into administration:  Career advancement or a move into the dark side?”

 

Dr. William Hey is co-authoring (with colleagues from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey) a manuscript titled “A content analysis of Turkish newspapers:  Identifying articles containing health information related to physical activity.”

 

Dr. William Hey donated copies of his book The Hawks Last Flight to raise funds for a new Elementary School Playground in Marthaville, LA.  The effort raised over $450 at a book signing during the Marthaville Heritage Festival for the playground fund.

 

Dr. Mark Kovacs presented at ASAHPERD Conference in Birmingham, AL November 13, 2007.  The topic was "A Coaches Guide to Heat and Hydration."

 

Ms. Gina Mabrey presented at ASAHPERD Conference in Birmingham, AL November 12, 2007.  The topic was "New Hip-Hop Dance Craze."

 

Dr. Glenn Roswal was the keynote speaker at Hong Kong Baptist University Annual Seminar in Hong Kong, China November 7-11, 2007.

 

Dr. Glenn Roswal was the keynote speaker at World Congress on "Disability in Washington, D.C."  November 15-17, 2007.

 

Department of Instructional Services

Faculty/staff accomplishments: Mr. Mike Zenanko and Mr. Stan Cates purchased and installed two LCD projectors that failed.  Two more have been purchased and they will replace existing five year old LCD projectors.  A new server has been purchased for the Multimedia Instructional Laboratories.  The server will replace a six year old server. The server is used for storage and provides students a way to search the holdings of the Learning Resource Center.

Mrs. Dorothy Phillips has resigned.  A search is underway for a replacement.  The Coordinator of the T/LC will be an additional duty for Mr. Zenanko until such time as it is filled.

Department of Secondary Education

Dr. Sheila Anne Webb presented "Salmon Run", at St. Cloud State University, College of Fine Arts & Humanities, St. Cloud, Minnesota, on October 17, 2007.

Drs. Carol Uline and Jan Wilson presented "Reading Comprehension the Write Way", at the International Reading Association Regional Conference (IRA), Billings, Montana, October 18-20, 2007.

Dr. Denise Richardson presented "Serendipity in Action Research:  Leadership for School Improvement", at Intellectbase International consortium, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 2007.

Dr. Charlie Notar presented: "The Evolution of PRIME", "Disciplinary Action Committee"; "Parents' Perceptions of their Child's Computer Use at Home as a Result of Technology Use in the School"; and "LiveText vs. Web Design Software: Research Shows. . ." at the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA), Hot Springs, Arkansas, November 6-9, 2007.

Drs. Jordan Barkley and Jan Wilson presented a "Language Arts Methods:  A Professional Development Approach" at National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), New York City, New York, November 15-18, 2007.

Dr. Linda Mitchell presented: "A poverty of riches: Students with reading difficulties using online historical resources"; "Successfully engaging low-achieving students in complex historical reasoning"; 

"Meeting the challenges of issues-centered instruction with ‘low-achieving’ students"; and "Attempting Issues-Centered Instruction with “Low Achieving Students” at the 87th National Council for the Social Studies/College and University Faculty Assembly Conference (NCSS/CUFA), San Diego, California, November 27-December 2, 2007.

 

Drs. Charlie Notar, Jan Wilson and Jordan Barkley published "Pre-service Teacher Training in Computer Technology Integration for Classroom Instruction," National Social Science Perspective Journal 35(2), 184-191 (2007).

 

Drs. Carol Uline and Charlie Notar published "Pumped:  Motivation as the Foundation for Learning, a Review of Research Literature on Motivation and Who is Responsible for It", Asian Social Science, Vol. 3, No. 11, November 2007.

 

Dr. Denise Richardson attended “Science Instruction:  Forensic Strategies (7-12)” presented by Bureau of Education and Research, in Atlanta, Georgia, December 11, 2007.

Department of the Teacher Service Center

Dr. Gena Riley and Dr. Kelly Ryan attended Background Review training in Montgomery.

 

Dr. Kelly Ryan attended a Sport Management meeting in Montgomery.

 

Dr.  Gena Riley conducted 3 seminars for pre-service teachers.

 

Dr. Gena Riley attended the Alabama Field Directors forum.

 

Dr. Gena Riley presented at the regional National Science Teachers conference in Birmingham

 

Dr. Kelly Ryan presented at the Mid-south Regional Education Research Association.

Department of Technology & Engineering

The Department of Technology & Engineering has completed the third session of leadership training for the Anniston Army Depot.  The next session will begin in the Spring 2008 semester.

 

The Industrial Advisory Council met on Friday, December 7^th to work on reversing and validating program competencies.

 

Dr. Noureddine Bekhouche presented at the national conference for NAIT (National Association of Industrial Technology) on October 25^th. The title of the presentation was “Student Perceptions in the Circuits Lab.”

 

Dr. Jess Godbey presented at the national conference for NAIT (National Association of Industrial Technology) on October 25^th.  The title of the presentation was “The Effects of Behavior-Based Safety Techniques on Safe Behaviors: Case Study.”

 

Dr. Dana Ingalsbe presented at the national conference for NAIT (National Association of Industrial Technology) on October 25^th.  The title of the presentation was “Using an Industry-Partnered Class Project to Reinforce Lean Principles.”

 

Mrs. Teje Sult presented at the national conference for NAIT (National Association of Industrial Technology) on October 25^th.  The title of the presentation was “Gendered Based Obstacles in Teaching.”

 

Dr. Jess Godbey, Dr. Dana Ingalsbe, and Mr. Terry Marbut presented at the national conference for NAIT (National Association of Industrial Technology) on October 25^th.  The title of the presentation was “Meeting the Needs of Students and Employers: Development of an Innovative Graduate Program in Manufacturing Systems Technology.”

Department of TV Services

“Inside Gamecock Athletics,” produced by Television Services was taped and edited weekly during football season.  The program features highlights from the football games, comments from Head Coach Jack Crow and interviews with JSU football players.  “Inside Gamecock Athletics” can be seen during football season on TV24.  The program may also be seen at various dates and times on the College Sports Southeast Channel.

A rough cut edit of the Described and Captioned Media Program video has been sent to the DCMP national headquarters in Spartanburg, SC for their approval.  This full length video and a series of PSA’s will be distributed as DVD’s for the Described and Captioned Media Program and the U.S. Department of Education.  DVD’s of this program will be made available to school teachers and parents of the disabled who are interested in captioned media.  National PSA’s will be made available to television stations.  The program and PSA’s will be available on the DCMP website at dcmp.org.

Mr. Steve Kines trained Communication 470 “Advanced Electronic News” students in the field on the operation of the Canon XL2 cameras and also how to shoot for news and for the editing process.

Ten 1-minute JSU commercials aired during the TV24 broadcast of the JSU/Samford Volleyball game.

The 1947 Gamecock football team reunion package was produced for Alumni Affairs.  This package aired on the video display screen at Paul Snow stadium during the November 10th football game.

Mr. Steve Kines conducted a camera workshop for Communication 320 “Video Production and Editing” students.

TV Services Engineer Ted White installed and tested a new automation program for the campus radio station, WLJS.  He also completed the installation of the new satellite receiver that brings National Public Radio programming into the station.

Ten 1-minute JSU commercials aired during the TV24 broadcast of the JSU/Tennessee State Volleyball game.

Ten 1-minute JSU commercials aired during the TV24 broadcast of the JSU/UT Martin Soccer game.

The commercial reel for the CSS broadcast of the JSU/UT Martin football game included 25 breaks.  Fourteen were JSU breaks ranging from 1 – 3 minutes. 

Mr. Steve Kines completed a highlight reel for football. 

 

The transition in radio to the new NPR Content Depot is complete. 

JSU commercials (ten 1-minute breaks) aired during the JSU vs. Southeast Missouri State Volleyball game shown on TV24.

Taped the dedication ceremony for The Gladys M. Carlisle Fine Arts Facility.

Mr. Bobby Mikel and Mr. Steve Kines were requested to critique student PSA work assignments for the Comm. 320 class.

Taped the Homecoming Parade.

The commercial reel for the CSS broadcast of the JSU/Tennessee Tech football game included 25 breaks. Fourteen were JSU breaks ranging from 1 – 3 minutes.

JSU commercials (ten 1-minute breaks) aired during the JSU vs. Tennessee Tech Soccer game shown on TV24.

Completed a DVD for the Gadsden Center for Cultural Arts.  They are doing a yearlong sports theme for 2008 and asked for some video clips from JSU.  The DVD consists of the JSU football historical video used to open home football games with, the 1947 Football Team Reunion video, and the sports segment of the Admissions video.

Completed 400 DVD’s of the “Marching Southerners through the Years 1995 – 2006.”  This double set will be sold during the Southerners reunion on November 10^th.

Mr. Bobby Mikel conducted an editing workshop this afternoon for a Comm. 320 class.

Taped Professional Development event for the College of Education and Professional Studies where High School Counselors learned how to respond to the media.

Comm. 301 (Intro. to TV Production) toured the TV24 Television Production Truck.  TV Services set up the truck and answered questions during the student walk through of the different areas of remote productions including Engineering, audio, graphics, technical directing, cameras, and even an announcer’s booth.

Mr. Bobby Mikel and Mr. Steve Kines conducted editing sessions for Comm. 320 (Video Production & Editing).

Mr. Steve Kines conducted editing sessions for Comm. 301 (Intro. to TV Production).

Mr. Bobby Mikel and Mr. Steve Kines conducted editing sessions for Comm. 320 (Video Production & Editing).

Completed four Sports packages and mastered to a DVD for inclusion in JSU Sports Hall of Fame Banquet. 

Taped JSU Sports Hall of Fame Induction ceremony.  DVD’s of the ceremony will be made available to inductees, family and friends as soon as the program is posted with graphics, packages, etc.  The ceremony was also aired several times on TV24.

The commercial reel for the CSS broadcast of the JSU/Eastern Illinois football game included 25 breaks. 14 were JSU breaks ranging from 1 – 3 minutes.

The Spring 2008 Registration spot aired on Cable One and TV24.

Made 12 DVD copies of student teaching that was taped from May of this year.  The student teaching took place at Anniston High, Pleasant Valley and Kitty Stone.  This request came from the College of Education & Professional Studies.

Taped numerous drills of the baseball team.  These drills will be edited into a presentation that Coach Jim Case will be making in January at a baseball conference attended by over 5,000 of his peers.

A new promo, “JSU Wishes You A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year 2007” features President Meehan and the first lady. The commercial aired over CableOne and TV24 during the Holidays.  A similar spot ran last year during the Holidays.

Taped The Calhoun County Civic Chorale Winter Concert.  The concert featured Christmas music and aired on TV24 at various times and dates from December 17^th through the 28^th.

Taped Dr. William J. Hubbard’s retirement celebration and gave him a DVD of the event.

The Office of Admissions hosted an appreciation luncheon for TV Services to thank us for all the work we did in creating the current Admissions DVD.

Taped Professional Development event for the College of Education and Professional Studies where JSU Faculty/Staff learn how to respond to the media.

Produced and broadcast the 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Fall Graduation Exercises live on TV24 and live over the Internet.  The ceremonies were also rebroadcast at later dates and times.  DVD copies of the ceremony are being sold through the Campus Bookstore.

LURLEEN B. WALLACE COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Student Enrollment.  Enrollment in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS) continues to be robust.  JSU’s official census date is January 17; new admission and enrollment data will be reported after that date.

 

Ms. Laura Walker, RN, MSN, and Mr. Windon Edge, RN, MSN, joined the faculty as instructors in spring 2008 bringing the number of full time faculty to 25. 

 

The Alabama Board of Nursing (ABN) awarded Nursing Instructor Ms. Betsy Gulledge a $10,000 scholarship.  Ms. Gulledge is a PhD student in Nursing with a focus on Biobehavioral Research.

 

The ABN also awarded $10,000 scholarships to JSU MSN students Mr. Gary Milligan and Ms. Cristy Daffron.

 

Instructor Ms. Christie Shelton presented “Recruitment Strategies for Vulnerable Populations” at the 39^th Biennial Sigma Theta Tau International Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, November 3-7, 2007.  Ms. Shelton received a University Travel and Self-Improvement Grant to support this scholarly endeavor.

 

JSU students in the CNHS Pediatrics course NU 324 provided health fairs for children in November 2007 at First Baptist Church Jacksonville WeeCare Daycare and Jacksonville First United Methodist Church Kids First Daycare.  Topics included dental hygiene, hand washing, stranger danger, fire safety, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, water safety, nutrition, exercise, and play manners-no bullying.

 

Assistant Professor and STEP Program Director Dr. Phyllis Waits and Instructor Ms. Kim Helms presented “Cruising on the Evidence:  An Online Research Course” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Baccalaureate Education Conference, November 29-December 1, 2007, in New Orleans, LA. 

 

The Community Service and Development Trust of New Zealand and the Global Healthcare Solutions to Vulnerable Populations 2008 Conference Planning Committee invited Instructors Ms. Carrie Elkins and Ms. Sumer Buckner to present at the 2008 International Conference.  Their topic was “Moving Mountains:  Partnering to Improve HIV/AIDS Care in Rural Alabama.  The conference is January 15-17 in Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Instructor Ms. Sherron DeWeese was invited to present “Women in the Modern World:  The Struggle for Equality” at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England.

 

Instructor Ms. Christie Shelton will present “Predictors of Self-Reported Health Status Among Environmentally and Occupationally Exposed Individuals” at the Southern Nurses Research Society.  Greater than 800 nurse researchers are anticipated at this February 2008 conference.

 

Instructor Ms. Carrie Elkins has been invited to present “Obesity:  The Affluent Society and the Quest for Treatment”, March 9-14, 2008, at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England.

 

The Athens Institute for Education and Research has invited Assistant Professor Dr. Debbie Curry and Instructor Ms. Becky Bertalan to present “Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome:  Are We Majoring in the Minors?” at the International Conference on Health, Fitness, and Active Living, May 8-11, 2008, Athens, Greece.

 

The International Nursing Research Conference has invited Assistant Professor and STEP Program Director Dr. Phyllis Waits and Instructor Ms. Christie Shelton to present “The Role of the Nurse in Both Natural and Man-made Disasters:  Establishing the Evidence” at their June 30-July 3, 2008, conference in Jerusalem, Israel.

 

JSU University Travel and Self-Improvement Grants were awarded to Assistant Professor Dr. Kay Williams and Instructor Ms. Tammy Morrow for their scholarly presentation “Survivor Diabetes:  Advocating for the School-aged Child with Diabetes to Outwit, Outlast, and Out-cope” to be made at  the Society of Pediatric Nursing, April 3-6, 2008, Denver, CO.

HOUSTON COLE LIBRARY

 

 The Library hosted a Web Conference, “Applying Fair Use Doctrine to Colleges and Universities,” which covered aspects of copyright law relevant to academic institutions.

 

The Library hosted a Web Conference, “Hundreds of Web Sites, Countless Insights,” which highlighted best practices in web design.

 

Mr. John-Bauer Graham and Ms. Jodi Poe were elected to the Library School Association’s Board of Directors at the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies.

Mr. William Hubbard retired after twenty years as University Librarian.

Publications:

Ms. Laurie Charnigo and Ms. Carley Suther published “Popcorn ‘n Picture Books: Promoting Children’s Books in Academic Libraries.”  The Southeastern Librarian (v. 5, no. 33, Fall 2007).

 

Ms. Hanrong Wang and Ms. Carley Suther had an abstract accepted for a chapter entitled “Distance Education in China” to be published in Education in China: 21^st Century Issues and Challenges by Nova Publishing.

 

Ms. Jodi Poe and Ms. Paula Barnett-Ellis published “Electronic Reserves for the Nursing Programs at Jacksonville State University” in The Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserves (v. 17, no. 1/2, 2007) pp. 67-81.

 

Ms. Jodi Poe published a review of “OANDA: The Currency Site: in Choice (v. 45, no. 2, October, 2007) p. 265.

 

Ms. Jodi Poe submitted a review of the “TechEncylopedia” web site for Reference Reviews.

 

Ms. Jodi Poe submitted a review of the “Auto Repair Reference Center” database for Reference Reviews.

 

Ms. Bethany Latham signed a book contract with McFarland and Company, Inc. to write Cinema Gloriana: Elizabeth I in Film and Television, with a tentative publication date of 2009.

Ms. Bethany Latham had accepted for publication an Internet Column “Primary Sources on the Web” in Reference Reviews (v. 22, no. 1).

 

Ms. Bethany Latham had accepted for publication a feature article, “Ancient Egypt’s Triumph and Turmoil:  The 18^th Dynasty” in EBSCO/Novelist PLUS database.

 

Ms. Bethany Latham had accepted for publication “Read-Alikes for Alison Weir” in EBSCO/Novelist PLUS database.

 

Ms. Kimberly Stevens had accepted for publication a review of “East Asian Collection (University of Wisconsin’s Digital Collection)” in Reference Reviews.

 

Ms. Kimberly Stevens had accepted for publication a review of “Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature” in Reference Reviews.

 

Presentations:

 

Mr. John-Bauer Graham, Ms. Bethany Latham, and Ms. Jodi Poe presented “What’s New in the Alabama Virtual Library” at the Alabama College Association Conference, November 27, 2007, Birmingham.

 

Ms. Laurie Charnigo presented “Fifth Annual Popcorn ‘n Picture Books”, November 20, 2007, Jacksonville State University.

DISTANCE EDUCATION

Faculty/Staff Accomplishments:

Dr. Sherri Restauri and Dr. Frank King, along with Dr. Gordon Nelson from the College of Education and Professional Studies presented at the Mid-South Educational Research Association in Hot Springs, Arkansas in November 2007.  The title of this presentation was Lifelong Learning in a New Society: Making Education Accessible Across All Ages. This paper was also published in the Mid-South Educational Researcher, Vol. 35 (4).

The staff in the Office of Distance Education participated in the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRO) consultation visit.  The purpose of the visit was to help JSU develop an inclusive plan that would benefit the university now and in the future in having a positive impact upon enrollment.

Dr. Frank King attended the ACCESS session in Montgomery to discuss current videoconferencing initiatives and opportunities, including dual enrollment prospects, for the university.

Dr. Sherri Restauri presented at the SLOAN-C Conference in Orlando, Florida in November 2007. This presentation was entitled Learner Engagement as a Determining Factor in Student Achievement: Beyond the Filing System Mindset.

Mr. Mark Camp, Videoconferencing and Telecourse Specialist, attended a week-long Tandberg manufacturer training in Reston, VA.  After these trainings, Mr. Camp was awarded three Tandberg certifications, including TCTA, TCTE and TCTMSS.

Staff from the Office of Distance Education attended various webinars throughout the reporting period in order to enhance their knowledge of and productivity in the Office of Distance Education. Topics of these webinars included copyright, web design, Blackboard, and more.

Staff from the Office of Distance Education participated in several half-day, day-long, and multiple-day training and planning sessions on roll-out of the Luminis Content Management System (LCMS). The Office of Distance Education is one of two pilot groups at JSU who will be rolling out their websites during the Spring 2008 semester under the new LCMS.

Organizational Items

The Office of Distance Education sponsored a National Distance Learning Week initiative by conducting multiple workshops and presentations, during the week of November 12 – November 15, 2007.  This event was instituted to highlight the role that distance learning plays in higher education, and was formally acknowledged for the first time this year in a national manner.  The Office of Distance Education featured programs on podcasting, the online streaming of audio-video content and the other educational technology tools.

Monday, November 12, 2007 involved Respondus Test Creation Software Training, which was conducted from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in Room 174 Self Hall.  The Office of Distance Education also presented to the Faculty Senate on distance education and educational technology initiatives and options at JSU.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 focused on podcasting beginning with a Tegrity presentation.  This was followed by Ms. Sara Brenizer from Gadsden State Community College who discussed best practice uses of Tegrity.  At 1:30 p.m., Mr. Mark Camp presented podcasting tools currently on campus.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 included a presentation on ePortaro’s Folio tool at 10:00 a.m. in Room 208 Self Hall was held, offered by ePortaro.  Ms. Misty Cobb also conducted a presentation for the Secondary Education faculty on SafeAssign from 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 15 started with a Respondus Test Creation Software Training session at 9:15 a.m. and ended with a 2:30 p.m. session.  Both of these lasted an hour to an hour and a half and were held in Room 174 Self Hall.  Ms. Cobb also conducted software demonstrations of Respondus LockDown Browser, Respondus LE, Respondus 3.5 and Respondus StudyMate.

On October 20, 2007, the Office of Distance Education participated in the university-wide Departmental Open House exhibition.  Displays and promotional materials were prepared for distribution to interested parents, potential students and current members of the university community.

The Fall 2007 Distance Education New Faculty Orientation was conducted in the Gold Room in Bibb Graves for new faculty at JSU.

Blackboard & Educational Technology Initiatives

The first iTunes U audio and video podcasts were delivered in the Fall 2007 semester. Unique iTunes pages were generated for each course; links to these unique pages may be distributed by faculty to students as a link within Blackboard courses, or even distributed via email.  Continued interest in capturing of audio and video by faculty as well as by students has spurred the development of a podcasting station within the Office of Distance Education.  Capture of audio and video during the Spring 2008 semester will be on-going, and work within this initiative is planned to increase over the next several semesters.

During the Fall 2007, the Office of Distance Education offered a number of workshops, which had recently been revised to include new information from the updated Bb system:

Getting Familiar with My Blackboard Course

--Wednesday, September 12, 2007 from 10:00-11:30 a.m. or 2:00-3:30 p.m.

--Topics covered in this workshop include system requirements, logging into Blackboard, My Institution tab, accessing a course, basic content addition, instructor/course announcements and staff/faculty information.  This workshop was geared towards new faculty.

Adding Content and Assignments

--Tuesday, September 18, 2007 from 9:15-10:45 a.m. or 2:30-4:00 p.m.

--Topics covered in this workshop include course design, functionality and creation of learning units, glossary, assignment creation/submission tool, course links, course copy procedures and settings.   This workshop is geared towards faculty who have completed the “Getting Familiar with My Blackboard Course” or the equivalent.

Communication Tools

--Thursday, September 27, 2007 from 9:15-10:45 a.m. or 2:30-4:00 p.m.

--Topics covered in this workshop include Blackboard email functions, discussion board, virtual classroom, chat, user groups and student homepages. This workshop is geared towards faculty who have completed “Adding Content and Assignments” or the equivalent.

Quizzes, Tests, and Surveys

--Thursday, November 1, 2007 from 9:15-10:45 a.m. or 2:30-4:00 p.m.

--Topics covered in this workshop include test pools and quiz/test/survey construction and deployment. This workshop was geared towards faculty who have completed “Adding Content and Assignments” or the equivalent.

Gradebook, Reporting, and Performance Dashboard

--Wednesday, November 7, 2007 from 10:00-11:30 a.m. or 2:00-3:30 p.m.

--Topics covered in this workshop include grade entry/modification, gradebook management, gradebook download, review status, adaptive release and performance dashboard.  This workshop was geared towards faculty who have completed “Adding Content and Assignments” or the equivalent.

Additionally, the Instructional Design Specialist held thirteen one-on-one training sessions with both adjunct and full-time faculty on topics of the faculty members’ choice.

Blackboard Upgrade— A Blackboard upgrade to 7.3.159.29 was completed on December 17, 2007.  This upgrade included several new features and enhancements, such as the Early Warning System.  This tool is used to communicate warnings to students regarding performance in a Blackboard course.  Warnings may be based on attendance, graded performance, or late or missing assignments.  Some enhancements were made to the discussion board and My Courses module, to name a few.  An additional tool, Pronto, has been installed and is under evaluation.  Pronto is an instant messaging and voice chat tool that allows for spontaneous student-to-student and student-to-instructor communication.

SafeAssign Roll-Out— SafeAssign is a plagiarism detection tool that was installed on the Blackboard production server during August 2007.  SafeAssign is available through Blackboard for both instructor and student use.  Additionally, Blackboard course shells have been granted to non-academic groups on campus who may need to take advantage of the benefits of this tool, as well.  As papers are submitted to the SafeAssign submission area, the papers are compared across comprehensive databases for content matching.  A matching report is generated that includes the text of the uploaded manuscript along with any matching content found within a database.  The source of the matched text is provided, as well.  SafeAssign training was included in the Adding Content and Assignments workshops offered by the Office of Distance Education on September 18 from 9:15-10:45 a.m. and 2:30-4:00 p.m.  Fourteen faculty attended those training sessions.  SafeAssign manuals for both instructors and faculty were created and placed in the Distance Education Faculty Group in MyJSU for faculty who were unable to attend training.

Plans for LDB Pilot—The Respondus LockDown Browser is “a custom browser that provides a secure testing environment within Blackboard…” During an online assessment, students are unable to visit other websites or access other applications on their computers.  The specialized browser also disables print functionality and the copy/paste function commonly found in various word processors and operating systems.  Over fifty faculty from various departments on campus were invited to participate in the LockDown Browser pilot.  Training sessions were held on November 12 and 15 to help faculty prepare their Blackboard exams for the special browser.  A total of eighteen faculty attended those sessions.  To date, fourteen faculty have committed to the pilot.  It is expected that additional faculty will sign up to participate in the pilot after the Spring 2008 semester begins.  The pilot begins on January 1, 2008 and ends on April 30, 2008.  Post-pilot evaluations of the browser will be given to both faculty and students who use the browser.

LCMS Pilot – The Office of Distance Education agreed to be a pilot group participant in the Luminis Content Management System (LCMS) project.  Mr. Chris Casey and Ms. Misty Cobb attended training sessions throughout the Fall 2007 semester regarding the LCMS.  On December 18 and 19, 2007, Mr. Casey and Ms. Cobb attended two four-hour sessions to begin migrating current web pages and creating new web pages on the LCMS.  The readiness review date for the new web pages has been set for February 4, 2008 and the go live date is tentatively noted for early March of 2008 for the pilot groups, including the Office of Distance Education.

Videoconferencing

The Office of Distance Education sponsored the Videoconference Open House on December 4, 2007.  Community members, as well as JSU faculty and staff, participated in a demonstration of the new, state-of-the-art videoconferencing equipment, which was installed at the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester.  This modern equipment is now being utilized at all JSU on-campus and off-campus sites.  JSU now has the capability of reaching sites throughout the world with two-way interactive audio and video communication capabilities.  This technology has great value to the educational community as well as governmental and business applications.

Equipment removed from videoconferencing sites on- and off-campus was donated to a number of departments across campus at JSU during the Fall 2007 semester who indicated a need for these materials. This equipment includes large-screen televisions, media cabinets, and more. Cooperation and resource-sharing among DE and these other departments serves to enhance the needs of the university as a whole.

New Programs & Initiatives

Fifteen programs are now offered online through Jacksonville State University’s Distance Education program. These programs are advertised through the use of the http://myjsuonline.com website. The MPA in Athletic Administration was the most recently listed program.  The following online degree programs are now offered:

College of Arts and Sciences

BS in Emergency Management with a minor in Homeland Security

BS in Emergency Management with a minor in Public Safety   

   Telecommunications

Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management

MPA in Emergency Management

Graduate Certificate in Spatial Analysis and Management

MPA in Spatial Analysis and Management

MPA in Athletic Administration

MS in Computer Systems and Software Design

College of Commerce and Business Administration

Master of Business Administration

College of Education and Professional Studies

MSEd in Physical Education

MS in Manufacturing Systems Technology

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

MSN in Nursing (in Community Health Nursing)

RN to BSN (STEP Program)

RN/BSN/MSN in Nursing (STEP Program)

Advertising

Twenty-three new online courses were approved through the Alabama coordinator of the Southern Regional Electronic Campus. Continued advertising of the MyJSU Online Distance Education initiative in areas such as the SREC ensure knowledge of these programs to students outside of the local area, thereby growing the DE program and overall student enrollment at JSU.

The MyJSU Online domain (http://myjsuonline.com) continued to receive student interest via  internet hits. Traffic to the website is monitored monthly. The graph below indicates the unique visitors to the MyJSU Online website, along with the number of “hits” to the site by month over the last quarter.

An advertisement for the MyJSU Online website developed by Distance Education, listing all of the online programs, was released in the Gadsden Chamber of Commerce publication during the Fall 2007 semester, as well as in a publication of the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce. These printed mediums enhanced local knowledge of the online programs available through JSU.

Enrollment:

 

Enrollment in Distance Education continued to remain at a high level in the online area of course format. Supplemental courses, or courses augmented by the Blackboard Course Management System, continues to grow each semester. The table below indicates the unique course sections as well as student enrollment in each format of Distance Education during the Fall 2007 semester.

 

COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES
AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Continuing Education

 

As of December 31, 2007, The Office of Continuing Education conducted 99 classes beginning October 1, 2007. Service was provided to 671 students and 6,954 contact hours were generated.

 

Jacksonville State University’s Office of Continuing Education hosted the First Annual Community Development Institute in October.  The institute was held on the 11th floor of the Houston Cole Library. The CDI is committed to the non-exclusive training of individuals in the fields of community and economic development. The 31 participants came from a wide range of occupations and interests, from elected officials to volunteers at non-profit organizations. 

 

UPACE, the University Partnership for Alabama Continuing Education, continues to offer certificate programs for the Association of County Administrators, Association of County Engineers, County Revenue Officers Association of Alabama, E911 Administrators and the Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police.  Participating in the program at this time are 226 County Administrators, 123 County Engineers, 137 Revenue Officers, 98 E911 Administrators and 784 police chiefs.

 

In October, the UPACE Partnership held “Legislative and Government Relations” in Montgomery with 17 attending.  “General Management and Supervision I” was held in Dothan with 21 attendees, including county administrators, county engineers, and 911 district directors.  In December, “Ethics of Public Officials and Employees” was conducted for the same groups in Birmingham with 22 attending. 

 

Police Chiefs (23) from throughout the State of Alabama received training in “Effective Management and Supervisory Techniques” in Dothan.  These courses are credited toward the Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police Certified Law Enforcement Executive Certificate Program.

 

In November Continuing Education staff members Lynne Nabors, Kelly Beegle, Ann Spicer and Rhonda Noah attended the annual LERN conference where all received training, were tested, and received their designations as Certified Program Planners.  This is a very important accomplishment which is an achievement related to much study and work during the year prior to the conference and to courses attended while at the conference. 

 

The Jacksonville State University Certificate in Leadership Principles was awarded to 29 employees from Keystone Foods after completing 40 hour of training.

 

Wellborn Cabinet had another 12 employees to complete 76 hours of training and earn their JSU Certificate in Basic Supervisory Principles.  This is the fourth year that Wellborn Cabinet has contracted with the Office of Continuing Education for customized training.

 

Online courses continue to be popular.  Twenty-five students completed various online courses including real estate, accounting, computing, fitness, grant writing, and conflict intervention.

 

In-Service Education Center

 

During the period October 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007 the In-Service Education Center provided 46 sessions for over 600 teachers and administrators in a 15 school district region.

 

The In-Service Center provided two days training in the second of a series of sessions for school system liaisons to a mentoring program.  This is in conjunction with the Alabama Department of Education Alabama Teacher Mentor program.

 

The In-Service Center provided two sessions for teachers who are seeking National Board Professional Teaching Certification.  The series of sessions help teachers prepare to submit a portfolio for certification consideration by the board.

 

The In-Service Center provided training on December 6, 2007 for members of 15 school system Textbook committees.  This training prepared the committee members to review publications recommended for system-wide consideration and adoption.  It was provided prior to the textbook review that will be sponsored by the Center in late January.

 

The In-Service Center received a grant of $695,545.40 from the Alabama Department of Education to provide support to 29 former school principals who serve statewide as resources to schools and systems involved in the Alabama Reading Initiative.  This support is offered in supplying these principals with materials and supplies, cell phones and cell phone coverage, laptop computers and computer assistance, and travel expenses.  The grant also provides cost for professional development for regional school reading coaches.

 

The Alabama Regional In-Service Center network lobbied the legislature for an increase in funding for 2007-08, to assist in providing numerous programs supplied by the Alabama Department of Education.  The legislature increased the JSU funding by $100,000 reflected in a budget of $323,731.00.

AMSTI

The Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative at Jacksonville State University is currently serving approximately three hundred science teachers and approximately three hundred sixty math teachers in our seven county in-service region.  Since August 2007, five hundred eighty kits have been distributed to math and science teachers.  The science teachers received approximately one hundred GLOBE kits along with the AMSTI science kits. 

Today there are approximately six hundred math and science kits in classrooms.  The first round of kindergarten through fifth grade kits were returned to the AMSTI site the second week of October.  In December, kindergarten through eighth grade science kits were returned to our site to be restocked.  Each rotation period in one – two weeks, our staff restocked approximately two hundred kits and sent them out to different teachers to use for another eight weeks. School systems will pick up their kits for rotation three January 10-11, 2008.

 

Pallet racks are scheduled to be added to the warehouse in January 2008.  We currently need storage space for one thousand two hundred eighty one and space to refurbish two hundred ninety six kits four times during the year. In April 2008, we will need storage space for three thousand five hundred forty four tubs. We will need refurbishment space for seven hundred twenty eight science kits.

 

New AMSTI Schools will be chosen in February.  JSU will be adding ten new AMSTI schools.

 

The AMSTI Summer Institute 2008 will be held July 7-18, 2008.  We will train approximately 800 teachers.    

 

 

DIVISION OF ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
AND STUDENT AFFAIRS

Admissions Office

Approximately 200 juniors from 71 high schools received a taste of college life courtesy of Jacksonville State University’s Emerging Leaders Day on November 6, 2007.

The event, in its eighth year at JSU, is an opportunity for the students to participate in leadership seminars, meet student leaders from other high schools as well as meet with JSU student leaders. High school counselors were asked to identify three juniors in their school who hold leadership roles and are interested in further developing leadership skills to attend the event. 

At the end of the day, several students received door prizes as souvenirs of their day at JSU.  Breezy Edwards, a junior from Ohatchee High School, walked away with the grand prize: a leadership scholarship worth one year’s tuition at JSU.

Career Placement Services

Metlife conducted on-campus interviews on October 1, 2007; Honda and ACIPCO conducted on-campus interviews to recruit cooperative education positions for Spring 2008.

Scot Logistics visited our campus and conducted an informational session in the Merrill Building and TMB; Russell Manufacturing of Alexander City spoke to Computer Science classes on October 18^th in order to recruit for open positions

Jeh Jeh Pruitt, JSU alumnus and FOX 6 Sports Anchor/Reporter, was the keynote speaker for Career Connection Day on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at the TMB Auditorium and the Food Court in the Montgomery Building. The day consisted of concurrent employability break-out sessions, a special address by Mr. Pruitt at 10:00 a.m., and a Sleek Greek Fashion Show at 12:30 p.m. Enterprise Rent-a-Car provided free meal coupons to those students who participated in at least one employability session, and in addition to the free meal, they also had their ticket included in a drawing for a new I-Pod.

Career Placement Services was featured in the Winter Edition of the Longleaf Style, in which the Etiquette Meal was featured.

Redstone Arsenal was on campus Oct. 24th in the TMB Food Court to collect resumes from JSU students/grads. Interviews for those qualifying were conducted on Oct. 25th in the Office of Career Placement Services. Redstone currently employs 11 recent JSU graduates.

Ms. Turner and Ms. White attended the Career Expo sponsored by the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce on October 16, 2007.

On November 6^th, approximately 75 students were privileged to meet and have the opportunity to network with representatives from the corporate sponsors at a four-course etiquette meal.  Casandra Burks from Mobile, AL spoke on Professional Dinner Etiquette and Image. Topics addressed included Business Etiquette, Professional Dress, Fashion and Image.

Ms. White, Ms. Turner and Dr. Klimasewski hosted Intergraph Technologies of Huntsville on November 6^th to speak with Geography classes in Martin Hall in an effort to recruit geographers and cartographers.

Ms.Turner presented to the Residence Assistants (RA's) and the senior football players on the importance of registering with Career Placement Services and Interviewing Tips.

Ms. White and Ms. Turner assisted over 130 individual students during the last quarter with employability and co-op issues.  Forty-nine new teaching jobs were posted; 140 non-teaching jobs were posted, and over 4000 electronic contacts were made with students concerning job openings.  Currently, there are 32 students participating in co-op for the Spring '08 semester.  Seventy-three JSU students interviewed for jobs.

Counseling and Career Services

The following seminars were presented by CCS during the Fall 07 semester: Stress Management, Debt Awareness, and Alcohol Awareness Week with over 680 students participating by filling out pledge cards to not drink and drive. CCS participated in a Candlelight Vigil, supporting the Don’t Drink and Drive campaign and enlisted approximately 160 students to participate in their Fatal Vision Goggles demonstration.

Mr. Todd Prater presented at the Alabama Counseling Association.   The topic was "The History of Special Education: How IDEA and ADA 504 Affect School and Community Agency Counselors."

Mr. Adam Green was the keynote speaker for the JSU Emerging Leaders Day. He also presented at Douglas Middle School’s Leadership Program.

Special congratulations to the JSU Peer Educators, who in years past have won several Area 8 Awards for Bacchus and Gamma.  However, at this year’s national convention, held in Atlanta, GA, JSU was voted National Affiliate of the Year.  This is a huge honor for Jacksonville State University and the JSU Peer Educators.  The advisors for the Peer Educators are Rickey Naugher, Linda Shelton, Adam Green and Todd Prater.

Also noteworthy, Mrs. Norma Gunter, Secretary to the Director of CCS, received a pin for 20 years of services at JSU.

Disability Support Services (DSS)

Mr. Daniel Miller; Mr. Stephen Cain; Mrs. Cindy Camp; Mrs. Jennifer Yocum and Mrs. Stephanie Hatfield attended the annual SERID conference in Asheville South Carolina from October 1 to 4 as presenters and participants.

Mr. Daniel Miller and Mrs. Katy Goodgame presented at the Vocational Rehabilitation sponsored Transition Expo at Lakeshore on October 11.

Mrs. Jennifer Yocum and Mrs. Cindy Camp attended Deaf Extreme on October 11.  Captioning services were provided to deaf and hard of hearing on subjects such as self-advocacy, career exploration, and course placement.

Mrs. Linda Turner attended the monthly Para-Transit meeting on October 17.  This is an appointment made by the Jacksonville City Counsel.  As part of her responsibilities, she votes toward the overall approval of ridership for persons with disabilities.

Mr. Daniel Miller attended the ADRS Deaf Advisory counsel meeting in Montgomery on October 18.

Mrs. Katy Goodgame attended the planning session for the ADD conference to be held in April 2008 on behalf of Mr. Daniel Miller.

Mr. Daniel Miller, Mrs. Linda Turner, Mr. Stephen Cain and Mrs. Jennifer Yocum participated in the ACT preparation in Birmingham on November 3 and 17.  Captioning and interpreting services provided for students preparing for the ACT examination.

Mr. Daniel Miller presented at a regional training session in Houston, TX. This was a transition conference sponsored by the Texas Department of Education.

Mr. Tracy Donald, Associate Director, Auburn Disability Support Services at Auburn University was on site for a comprehensive examination and recommendation session regarding the E-Text program for JSU.

Mrs. Linda Turner attended a Council of Organizations Serving Deaf Alabamians (COSDA) meeting on December 6. She serves as Secretary for the statewide organization who oversees deaf and hard of hearing needs/issues throughout the state.

Mr. Stephen Cain was selected by The Anniston Star to voice and sign a part for the Multimedia portion of the traditional New Year’s poem.

Daniel L. Miller and Linda Turner each presented at the state Easter Seals Conference in November.  Mr. Miller discussed transition from high school to college and Mrs. Turner presented on the generational attributes.

Student Health Center

The Student Health Center participated in Breast Cancer Awareness Month during October by distributing pink lapel pins, mints and ink pens to patients of the Student Health Center.  Breast cancer awareness items were also given to Dr. Charlotte King-Eady, Ed. D., Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc (Beta Omega Chapter of Griffin, Georgia).  Approximately 1,000 individuals attended concert and infomercial.

The Student Health Center provided materials for Red Ribbon Week to Kitty Stone Elementary located in Jacksonville, Alabama and Eura Brown Middle School located in Gadsden, Alabama.

The Student Health Center provided pamphlets and information on sexually transmitted diseases to the JSU Peer Educators for distribution and to Mr. Chris Moore for a STD awareness program at Daugette Hall.

The Student Health Center provided the pamphlet, “Contraception:  Choosing a Method”, to Dr. Tommy Phillips for distribution to his Family Life Education Class (FCS355).

Twelve children of the Family and Consumer Sciences Department Child Development Center trick-or-treated the Student Health Center.

Mrs. Nancy Edge-Schmitz presented a program regarding Women’s Health Issues to the women’s basketball team.

Mr. Robert Mills presented programs to two LS100 Freshman Orientation classes regarding services of the Student Health Center.

Mrs. Nancy Edge-Schmitz was interviewed by Ms. Bethany Harbison, Mr. Brandon Hollingsworth and Mr. Kevin Jeffers of The Chanticleer for a four-part series, “Taking a Look at Student Health @ JSU”.

Mrs. Twyla Hobbs and Mr. Robert Mills successfully completed the mastery test (non-supervisory) in Preventing Sexual Harassment.

Mrs. Nancy Edge-Schmitz successfully completed the mastery test (supervisory) in Preventing Sexual Harassment.

Mrs. Nancy Edge-Schmitz continues to serve on the University Substance Abuse Program Committee, the University Safety and Environmental Health Committee, the Housing Appeal/Petition Review Board, the Intervention Committee and the Wellness Committee.

Mr. Robert Mills continues to serve on the University Personnel Counsel and the Alumni Board.

The total number of client visits this quarter was 1,205.  This total includes 1,018 student visits and 187 faculty/staff visits.  The primary care physicians and the gynecologist provided services at the SHC 12 hours per week during the months of October - December 2007.

	OCT – DEC  2007
Freshmen	355
Sophomore	208
Junior	218
Senior	178
Graduate	58
Student Contacts		1,017
Staff		187
Other		1
Total Contacts		1,205
MD Students		738
Staff		120
Other		1
MD - total		859
Nurse Students		199
Staff		64
Other		0
Nurse - total		263
GYN Students		80
Staff		3
Other		0
GYN - total		83
New Patients		245
Return Patients		960
Total Patients		1,205
Appointments		918
Walk-ins		287
Total Contacts		1,205
Prescriptions Dispensed		1,096

 

EENT	365
URI	116
Rash / Bite / Skin	64
Injections	131
Back / Muscular / Skeletal	38
Male Problem	12
Female Problem / Annual	85
Neurological	54
Prescriptions	43
Labs	25
HCG Pregnancy Test	5
Bladder / Kidney / UTI	45
Injury	41
Physical	13
Stomach / Bowel	54
Blood Pressure	31
Follow Up	41
Other	22
Blank	20

 

Recreational Sports

 

Jacksonville State University will once again be hosting two high school basketball tournaments at Pete Mathews Coliseum.  The Calhoun County Basketball Tournament will be played January 14-19 and the Northeast Regional Tournament will be played February 19-23.  The regional tournament drew over 30,000 people to the coliseum during the week long event last year.  The 34 year old facility is in the need of some renovation to continue to host both of these excellent recruiting events.

University Police

Melonie Carmichael completed the University All Hazards Emergency Plan.

 

Officers William Lowe and Michael DeVoe were hired to fill the two officer vacancies and are attending the Northeast Alabama Law Enforcement Academy at this time.

 

Sgt. Shawn Giddy, Sgt. Rob Schaffer, Officer Ashley Roper and Officer Matt Langley attended the Attorney Generals Law Enforcement Conference in Montgomery on Violence in schools.

 

Sgt. Shawn Giddy and Officer Donyale Richard attended firearms instructors training in teaching patrol rifle fundamental to responding officers.

 

Cpl. Jerry Perkins attended the Field Training Officers Instructors Course.

 

JSUPD passed the National Crime Information System Audit.

 

 

Department of University Housing and Residence Life

 

Occupancy Report:

 

Please see the attached unofficial occupancy report for spring 2008.  An official occupancy report will be completed at the end of January.  Please note the continuous improvement in percentages since Fall ’03.  The occupancy rate has made sufficient increases each year.

 

Fall 2003:       80%                                                                                  Spring 2004:  86%

Fall 2004:       89%                                                                                  Spring 2005:  82%  

Fall 2005:       95%                                                                                  Spring 2006:  93%

Fall 2006:       98%                                                                                  Spring 2007:  97%

Fall 2007:       95%                                                                                  Spring 2008:  97%

 

Staff Report:

 

Ms. Elpida Elia from Murray State University was hired as the Residence Life Coordinator (RLC) for Sparkman and Daugette Halls.

Mr. Jessie Chappell who was a Resident Assistant (RA) has been hired as the Assistant Residence Life Coordinator (ARLC) for Sparkman and Daugette Halls.

Residence Hall Association (RHA) Report:

RHA Co-Sponsored a Tailgate Party with the Student Government Association.

RHA Co-Sponsored the Organizational Council’s Thanksgiving Pot Luck Dinner.

RHA members put boxes in each hall to collect canned goods for the Jacksonville Christian Outreach Center. The group collected over ten boxes of canned goods and helped out several more families for the holiday season.

RHA Executive Officers will be representing JSU at the ALURH Conference at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Program Report:

Programming Dimension: LEARN (Life Skills, Education, Awareness, Responsibility, and Needs).

Program Title: Circle of Death (38)

Residents gathered to discuss the dangers of alcohol abuse and drinking games. A speaker came and gave residents facts and statistics on the deaths involved with certain games.

Program Title: In Front of Closed Doors: Halloween Addition (43)

Residents decorated their doors for Halloween. Contest winners received prizes for their efforts.

 

Program Title: Sex Ed 2007 (14)

Residents were invited to get the facts on safe sex from a speaker for the health department.

 

Program Title: Fitzpatrick’s Season of Giving Clothes Drive (100+)

Residents donated clothing for a worthy cause. Two large boxes overflowed with donations and the residents celebrated the success. 

 

Program Title: Ways to Stay Healthy in the Winter Season (18)

Residents were given new and fun ways to stay healthy and fit when it is cold outside.

 

Program Title: Fire! Fire! Fire! (64)

Residents came out to get the facts on proper procedures for evacuating and preventing a fire.

 

Halls	Available Beds	Occupancy %
Crow	183	98%
Curtiss	177	96%
Daugette	147	96%
Dixon	189	96%
Fitzpatrick	223	96%
Logan	121	96%
Patterson	103	98%
Sparkman	212	95%
Subtotals	1355	97%
Apartments	Available Beds	Occupancy %
Campus Inn (Eff)	48	96%
Campus Inn (1Bd)	35	100%
College	22	100%
Jax (1Bd)	28	89%
Jax (2Bd)	11	100%
Pannell-1	65	92%
Pannell-2	5	80%
Pannell-3	1	100%
Penn House	32	100%
Subtotals	247	96%
Houses	Available Beds	Occupancy %
All Houses	7	100%
Subtotals	7	100%
Totals	Available Beds	Occupancy %
Totals	1609	97%

 

Student Life

 

Freshman Forum

 

The JSU Freshman Forum has undergone the selection process for the 2007-2008 year.  There were 149 applications turned, the largest in the history at JSU.  48 students were chosen for the forum.  The first Freshman Forum meeting was held on September 24, 2007.  They have already completed several campus and community service projects for the fall semester.

 

Greek Life

 

2007 – 2008 Executive Board for the JSU College Panhellenic Council are as follows:

 

Jessica Janssen – President

Nicole Ochs – VP of Judicial Affairs & Jr. Panhellenic

Shelley LeBerte – VP of Recruitment

Mary Hall – Assistant VP of Recruitment

Lauen Haney – Secretary / Treasurer

 

In late September, the Panhellenic council brought a National Consultant Team to campus to access the functionality of our college Panhellenic. This team consisted of 3 national National Panhellenic Conference Delegates, Julie Johnson (Kappa Delta), Carol Jones (Alpha Omicron Pi), and Malaea Seleski (Zeta Tau Alpha).  These women made several recommendations to us, and we have instituted an Action Plan Committee (consisting of students and advisors) to develop strategies to implement these suggestions. Also, our Recruitment Task force has taken on a different face.  In the previous year, this team has consisted of advisors (leading) & students.  This year the team has been handed over to our sorority leaders to make suggestions and develop marketing plans for our sororities.  

           

2007 – 2008 Interfraternity Council (IFC) Executive Board:

 

Davis Varner – President

Kyle Hicks – VP for Recruitment

Warren Sarrell – VP of Judicial Affairs

James Herringdine – Secretary / Treasurer

Drew Furlough – Public Relations / Scholarship

 

IFC has made it their task of adapting their meetings from a medium of information exchange to a forum of discussion of relevant topics relating to our member organizations.  Their first topic of the semester was how to improve Fraternity relationships with UPD, so Sergeant Shawn Giddy has been attending IFC meetings working with delegates to improve communication.        

 

National Pan – Hellenic Council (NPHC) sponsored its annual NPHC Week which consisted of a host events to celebrate these service based groups.  This week consisted of a yard show, step show, student mixer, along with various community service initiatives.  This year’s theme was “Getting Back to the Basics.” 

 

Also, Assistant Director of Student Life – Greek Life, Eddie Banks – Crosson presented “What’s Really Going On” at the Summit on Black Greek Lettered Organizations.  This program engaged undergraduate students with relevant topics centered on recruitment, fundamental values, and trends associated with black Greek lettered organizations today.

 

Student Government Association (SGA)/Multicultural Programming

 

The SGA/Multicultural Programming co-sponsored the Latin Dance Party with The International Student Organization on September 19, 2007.

 

The SGA/Multicultural Programming had an active role in the coordination of Family Day held on September 22, 2007.

 

The following SGA Committee Heads attended the National Association of Campus Activities Conference held on September 27-September 30, 2007 in Charleston, South Carolina: Brittney Cunningham, JaLisa Tanniehill, Rafael Ferrell, Justin Brown, D’Angelo Smith, Jamil Ghazel.

 

Homecoming Pageant was held on October 3, 2007. There were 25 contestants entered in the pageant this year. The theme this year was “Party Like a Gamecock.”

 

Homecoming election was held on October 11th for the top 5 and Queen election was held on October 18, 2007. 

 

Homecoming events: Karaoke in the Café, Pep Rally and Queen announcement, Door/Window decoration, Rock Star Block Party, Campus-Wide Step Competition and Homecoming Parade.

 

SGA sponsored JSU Six Flag Day on October 27, 2007.

 

SGA held the annual Fall Blood Drive on October 31 and November 1, 2007.

 

SGA co-sponsored the Annual High School SGA Conference on November 14, 2007.

 

American Indian Heritage Month was celebrated on November 15 with a display of authentic artifacts from the United Cherokee Ani-Yun-Wiya Nation out of Guntersville, Alabama.

 

JSU in Lights was held on November 26, 2007 at the President’s Home.

 

Midnight Snack in the Café was held on December 5, 2007.

 

SGA Executive Mid-Year Retreat was held on December 13, 2007.

 

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