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October 2005 Benefits Open House and On-line Enrollment Staff Professional Development Workshops 
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New Initiatives Last month I reviewed the tremendous progress our humanities programs have made and described some new humanities initiatives that are destined to take us even further. In the next few paragraphs, I'll enumerate some similar good news and outline a few promising initiatives that are developing within and amongst our social science departments.
Three of the five social science programs evaluated in the recent US News rankings were rated in the top ten of public peers (crime, law and justice, sociology, and economics), while psychology and political science landed in the second ten. Subprograms in industrial psychology, demography, and international relations are all ranked in the top six of their public peers. The strength of our social science departments is also evidenced by data on federal funding. Sociology is number one and psychology number two in dollars awarded, and political science has moved up to thirteenth. Several initiatives are under way in the social sciences. Most prominently, the project to refurbish and expand the Moore Building, home of the Department of Psychology, is underway. We anticipate that the “new” Moore will contain significant space for the Child Study Center, the developing neuroscience emphases of the department, as well as much better office and research space for faculty and graduate students. Undergraduates, too, should have better space with expanded advising and meeting facilities. Other initiatives focus around important issues. You have no doubt heard the old saying that the world has problems, but universities have departments, but Penn State is in the forefront of universities that are breaking down those departmental barriers. We in the College have several good examples of that. We are planning to invest in more of these initiatives, and, as we approach a new development campaign, believe that others outside the University will also find this work valuable. During the past two years, Kevin Murphy, professor of psychology, has spearheaded a project on the social science of terrorism, now the Center for the Behavioral and Social Science of Terrorism. Kevin has built an array of partners: faculty inside Penn State, outside Penn State, and now within the Worldwide Universities Network, of which Penn State is a member. The Center will connect research groups around the globe that are working on issues such as what motivates terrorists, how the life cycles of terrorist organizations develop, how target populations can be educated so that the fear factor of possible terrorist events is minimized, and how responses to terrorist events can be better understood and the trauma ameliorated. Other projects have recently won significant federal support. With continuing funding from the National Science Foundation, Frank Baumgartner, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and his collaborator Bryan Jones of the University of Washington, direct the Policy Agendas Project. Designed to help predict and explain when government swings into action around a particular issue, the project involves the collection and dissemination on the Web of a consistent set of indicators of governmental activity, public opinion, media interest, and interest group behavior across the entire period since World War Two. This project may serve as the centerpiece of a developing initiative in democratic responsiveness, led by Frank and John McCarthy from sociology, Mike Hogan from CAS, and others. With significant representation from sociologists, the Population Research Institute has long been important to social science at Penn State. This year PRI is preparing a renewal for its federal support. Associated with the PRI is a new center, funded last year by the National Institute on Aging, led by Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology. This new center focuses on the demography of health and aging and brings together around those issues from Liberal Arts and HHD. Internationalism is another key issue area where our social scientists are making an impact. We are hoping to draw together several faculty to develop plans to create an international center that would draw together experts from a variety of departments. Within the social sciences, the College has significant strengths in areas ranging from international trade to international conflict and from international demography to international labor issues, as well as cross cutting strengths in particular areas of the world. How to array all of this within a coherent center is the issue confronting us now. These are just a few of the arenas in which our faculty are making contributions to their disciplines and to larger issues. I might add that there are a number of other College initiatives, including disability studies; science, technology, and society; the moral development of children; and leadership and ethics; that hold much promise for bridging the best of the humanities and social sciences. I look forward to supporting these various endeavors as they continue to develop and sharing more news of the accomplishments associated with them. With regards, Susan Welch Catch Plagiarism: tlt.its.psu.edu/turnitin/ Reports of plagiarism on term papers are nothing new. Now there is on-line assistance designed especially to help instructors cope with the problem. In addition to simply “Googling” suspicious lines, instructors can use tlt.its.psu.edu/turnitin/, a Web site designed to track and identify plagiarism. The University has purchased a license for this site so Penn State instructors may use it free of charge. Anecdotal reports from others have indicated that a high proportion of term papers that they have checked are plagiarized from the Web. I encourage you to make use of this resource. You should also know that our College, under the leadership of Assistant Dean Barbara Welshofer, has been playing a major role in advancing the University's commitment to academic integrity more generally. Soon you will be hearing about improvements in the University's Internet resources devoted to academic integrity, and Barb will be offering to work with departments to help spread news about best practices to faculty and graduate student instructors. At the College's “welcome session” for new students in August, our new students pledged to observe high standards of academic integrity, so we want to make sure that they learn exactly what that entails. Vigilant apprehension of plagiarizers is essential; also important is the education of our students about what academic integrity entails, particularly in the new atmosphere of Internet research. Susan Welch Darryl C. Thomas, associate professor of African American studies, received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Darryl joins us from Binghamton University where he was an associate professor of Africana studies, political science, and philosophy and also served as the Chair of the Africana Studies Department from 1997 to 2003. He has published widely on the international politics of the Third World, African and Africana Studies, globalization, democratization and global Africa resistance to globalization, and U.S. hegemony and empire. Joseph Kieyah, assistant professor of African studies, graduated in 2003 from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. in economics. In 2004, he received a J.D. degree with a focus on international law from the University of Iowa, College of Law. While in law school, he taught intermediate microeconomics, and law and economics in the economics department. His interdisciplinary research interest is in law and the economics of Africa 's development, focusing on land reforms, judicial corruption, and international law. He has published articles in the American Law and Economic Review and the Journal of Comparative Economics. Clemente K. Abrokwaa, assistant professor of African studies, originally from Ghana, holds a Ph.D. in international Intercultural studies from the University of Alberta, Canada. Until June 2005, Clemente served as senior lecturer in the Department of African and African American Studies at Penn State. His research interests focus on science and technology in Africa, economic development, peace and conflict, and education in Africa. He is currently writing a book on contemporary Africa. Jonathan Eburne, assistant professor of comparative literature and English, received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Before coming to Penn State, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center of Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. His fields of specialization include modernism; Surrealism and the avant-garde; literary and cultural theory; American literature since 1865; crime fiction and film; and transatlantic studies of literary and cultural exchange. He has had articles published in PMLA, Yale French Studies, symploke, Pleine Marge, and Studies in the Novel. His current book projects include Surrealism and the Art of Crime. Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, professor of economics, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993 and began his professional career as an assistant professor in the business school at the University of Chicago. After rising to the rank of associate professor there, he was tapped by the Costa Rican government to serve a four-year term as Chief of its Council of Economic Advisors. Thereafter he returned to the United States to assume consecutive visiting professorships at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most recently, he has been serving as a full-time consultant to the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. Andre's research has spanned a wide range of topics, including cross-country growth patterns, and how political processes shape these interactions. He has produced influential papers on the causes of long run growth, the role that multinationals play in economic development, and the politics of trade policy. Jennifer Edbauer, assistant professor of English, received her Ph.D in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Jennifer's areas of specialization include rhetorical theory, composition studies, community rhetorics, and cultural theories of place. Her current research investigates rhetorics of place and the affective dimensions of those public discourses. She also has an interest in the pedagogical use of new media and technology, especially digital film and Web-based forms of social networking. As a new faculty member, Jennifer will teach courses in advanced composition, critical theory, and rhetorical studies. Her research appears in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Journal of Advanced Composition, Postmodern Culture, and Composition Forum. Brian Lennon, assistant professor of English, is a creative writer whose specialty is literary nonfiction. Brian holds a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa, and has just completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Brian's first book, City: an Essay (University of Georgia Press, 2002), won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction. Brian also has published more than a dozen essays and reviews in such journals as The Iowa Review and Conjunctions. He currently is at work on a memoir of Istanbul and New York. Along with nonfiction writing, Brian will teach history and theory of the essay and travel writing. Xiaoye You, assistant professor of English, recently received a Ph.D. from the Department of English at Purdue University. His scholarly interests focus on comparative rhetoric and issues of English writing instruction in international contexts. In his dissertation, titled “Writing in the 'Devil's Tongue': English Writing Instruction in Chinese Colleges, 1862–2004,” he explored the historical intersections of Chinese and Anglo-American rhetorical traditions. His articles have appeared in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, the Journal of Second Language Writing, and Studies on Asia. Jennifer Boittin, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies and history, and Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities, had a completely bilingual upbringing (French and English) and a childhood spent mostly in France and French-speaking Switzerland. She then found her way to Princeton University for her B.A. and Yale for her Ph.D. in French history. There she developed an interest, further reinforced by a year of research and studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, in integrating French literature and film into her study of history. The resulting dissertation, “Soleil Noir: Race, Gender and Colonialism in Interwar Paris” has recently led to the publication of an article in the spring 2005 volume of French Historical Studies. Carrie Jackson, assistant professor of German and linguistics, has recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, specializing in Germanic linguistics and second language acquisition. Her dissertation examined how intermediate and advanced non-native speakers of German use grammatical and semantic information when reading sentences during a timed sentence-comprehension task. Her research and teaching interests include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and foreign language pedagogy. Erica Brindley, assistant professor of religious studies and history, holds bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Her area of expertise is ancient Chinese thought and religion; her work on “Individualism in Early Chinese Thought and Politics,” explores ideas about self-cultivation and human agency in the Warring States period of Chinese history (c. 479–221 B.C.E.) Sumita Raghuram, associate professor of labor studies and industrial relations, earned her Ph.D. in human resource management from the University of Minnesota and comes to us from Fordham University. She has also taught at the Copenhagen Business School and New York University. Sumita will teach graduate and undergraduate courses in human resources and research methods. She is a widely published scholar whose research focuses on telework and the virtual workplace and international human resource issues. She also has experience as a management consultant in the United States and India. Mark Anner, assistant professor of labor studies and industrial relations, was previously a visiting assistant professor at Cornell where he earned a Ph.D. in government and also studied Industrial and Labor Relations. He will teach courses on international employment relations and globalization. Mark's research has focused on the automobile and apparel industries in Latin America and is based on eighteen months of field research in Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, and Honduras. Prior to returning to graduate school, Mark worked for many years as an advisor to unions in Central and South America and as a union organizer for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union in the United States. Stephanie Rickard, assistant professor of political science, comes to Penn State after completing her Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego in 2005. Her research focuses on international political economy—on the domestic and international politics of trade reform, interindustry labor movements under different varieties of capitalist systems, and on reform of the welfare state. Phillip Atiba Goff, assistant professor of psychology, received his Ph.D. in social psychology at Stanford University in 2005. His research investigates the notion that our representations of self and others deeply influence our social and political worlds. As a stereotype threat researcher, his work suggests that the threat of being seen as racist can have the ironic effect of producing racial discrimination, and can lead to the endorsement of negative racial ideologies. His research agenda also includes understanding how white racial identity is experienced in the United States, how dominant groups mentally represent non-dominant groups, and how these mental representations can lead to discriminatory behavior, particularly in the criminal justice system. Michelle Frisco, assistant professor of sociology, came to Penn State from a position as an assistant professor at Iowa State University. She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin. Her research and teaching interests include social demography, health, adolescents, and family. Molly Martin, assistant professor of sociology, obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include social inequality, family, social demography, and health. Stephen Matthews, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff, and has served as the director of the Geographical Information Analysis (GIA) core in the Penn State Population Research Institute. His research and teaching interests include GIA methods, ethnography, neighborhoods characteristics, and family and child well-being. Michael Massoglia, assistant professor of crime, law, and justice, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests include crime and deviance, research methods, and life course studies. Ann C. Crouter, professor of human development and family studies, PI; Alan J. Booth, distinguished professor of sociology and human development; Jeanette N. Cleveland, professor of psychology, Co-PI; Laura C. Klein, associate professor of biobehavioral health; from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Work Stress, Health, and Parenting Among Hotel Employees.” Roger K. Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies, from the John Templeton Foundation, for “The International Religion Date Initiative: Documenting Religion's Impact in the International Arena.” Jeffrey G. Parker, associate professor of psychology, from the National Science Foundation, for “The Origins and Consequences Over Friends in Early Adolescence.” Stephen A. Matthews, associate professor of sociology, anthropology, geography, and demography, PI; Glenn A. Firebaugh, Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography; and Barrett A. Lee, professor of sociology and demography; from the National Science Foundation, for “Collaborative Research: Measuring Spatial Segregation.” Mark D. Shriver, associate professor of anthropology, from the University of Pennsylvania, for “Indentification of Loci Associated with Spontaneous Preterm Birth in African-Americans by Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping.” Dean R. Snow, professor of anthropology, from the National Geographic Society, for “Identifying Ancient Artists.” Sandra Spanier, professor of English, from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for “The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.” Almeida J. Torbio, professor of linguistics and Spanish linguistics, and Barbara E. Bullock, professor of French and linguistics, from the National Science Foundation, for “Workshops on Linguistic Convergence and Language Processing.” Nancy A. Tuana, Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Director, Rock Ethics Institute PI; Kenneth J. Davis, associate professor of meteorology; Klaus Keller, assistant professor of geosciences; James S. Shortle, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics and Director, Environment and Natural Resources Institute; Michelle M. Stickler, Education Specialist; from the National Science Foundation, for “Integrating Ethics into Graduate Training in the Environmental Sciences.” Daniel J. Weiss, assistant professor of psychology and linguistics, from the National Science Foundation, for “Collaborative Research: A Comparative Investigation of Statistical Learning.” Kenneth M. Weiss, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Genetics, PI; Joan T. Richtsmeier, professor of anthropology; Alan C. Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology; from the National Science Foundation, for “Collaborative Research: Genetics of Craniofacial Variation and Human Origins.” Michael J. Wenger, associate professor of psychology, from “Pennsylvania Tobacco Settlement Fund, for “EEG/ERP Data Streams Software.” James W. Wood, professor of anthropology and demography, PI; Patricia L. Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, demography, and women's studies; Stephen A. Matthews, associate professor of sociology, anthropology, geography, and demography; Timothy M. Murtha, Jr., assistant professor of landscape architecture; from the National Science Foundation for “AOC: Spatiotemporal Dimensions of Population Change in the Northern Orkney Islands, c. 1735–2000.” Annual discussion of the College promotion and tenure procedures and standards. This is an annual meeting held to acquaint untenured faculty with how the College's promotion and tenure process works and the standards expected. The meeting will be on Monday, October 24, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 124 Sparks Building. In addition to remarks from Dean Welch, the program will include a panel (Caroline Eckhardt and Ray Lombra) with experience in the promotion and tenure process. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussions. All events listed here are listed chronologically on the Web Calendar. The Labor Studies and Industrial Relations Speaker Series Dr. Sakhela Buhlungu, who will speak on, “Worker Mobilization and the Democratic Transformation of South Africa,” Wednesday, October 19, noon–1:30 p.m.(lunch provided), 216 Willard Building. Dr. Buhlungu is a professor of sociology at the University of Witwatersrand currently in residence at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. He studies workers' rights and the labor movement in South Africa, specifically trade unionism, union movements, political engagement, industrial relations and the ‘new' social movements. It is co-sponsored by African and African American Studies and the Africana Research Center. Dr. Sarosh Kuruvilla: “Business Process Outsourcing and High-Skill Labor markets: The View from India," Thursday, October 27, 4:00–5:30 p.m., 216 Willard Building. The Comparative Literature Luncheon The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community. Each week there is a short (20 minute) presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline. Daniel Walden (dxw8@psu.edu) is the coordinator for the series this semester. We meet Mondays in 102 Kern at about 12:15 p.m. You can bring your lunch or buy a lunch tray in Kern Cafeteria (next door) and bring it into 102. Coffee and tea are provided in 102 (no charge). The speaker will begin at about 12:40 p.m. Allowing a few minutes for discussion, we'll conclude in time for classes that meet at 1:25 p.m. All students, faculty, colleagues, and friends are welcome. The schedule follows: Monday, October 24, 2005 Monday, October 31, 2005 2005–2006 French and Francophone Film Series Thursday, October 20, 2005 : L'Esquive (Games of Love and Chance ) by Abdellatif Kechiche & Ghalia Lacroix, 6:30 and 9 p.m., 113 Carnegie Building. This film is about teenagers in a multi-ethnic suburb of Paris who discover love, jealousy, and competition in the encounter between contemporary slang and eighteenth century rhetoric as they produce a school play by Marivaux, "Les jeux de l'amour et du hasard.” Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress (Sara Forestier), César Awards (2005). 117 minutes. For more information, contact Rebecca M. Bressler, administrative assistant IV, Departments of French and Francophone Studies and Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Studies, 211 Burowes Building University Park, PA 16802, Telephone 814-865-0214. The Fall 2005 Communication Arts and Sciences 590: Colloquium Friday, October 21, 3:35–5:30 p.m., 367 Willard Building. Allegheny Mountain Reading Series Black Romanticism: a symposium on Atlantic cultures. October 21–22 Marlon Ross, University of Virginia. Paul Youngquist, Penn State University. Other participants include Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania; Elise Bruhl, City of Philadelphia Law Office; Julie Carlson, University of California at Santa Barbara; Debbie Lee, Washington State University; and Hester Blum, Cecil Giscombe, Linda Selzer, and Lissette Szwydky of Penn State. This symposium is sponsored by the Department of English, the Institute for Arts and Humanities, the Rock Ethics Institute, and the Africana Reseach Center. Lecture in Honor of the Kelly Professorship in Nineteenth-century English and American Literature Aldon Nielsen: Religious Studies Lecture Series The Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Lecture Series Speakers for the CAMS lecture series this fall include: All lectures are in 102 Weaver Building; receptions with refreshments will follow.
Annual Joanne and Paul Tanker Lecture Thursday, November 10, 4 p.m., 118 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center Friday, November 11, 3:45 p.m., University Club The Social Science Statistics Partnership Meetings The Social Science Statistics Partnership is holding fall 2005 meetings in 302 Pond Hall, from noon–1:15 p.m. Bring your lunch; dessert and drinks will be served. The schedule of topics includes: Monday, November 7: “Hierarchical Linear Models I.” Monday, November 21: “Hierarchical Linear Models II.” The Social Science Statistics Partnership is a consortium of scholars interested in statistical methods for research and teaching. For more information about these programs and the Partnership, please contact Suzanna DeBoef ( sdeboef@psu.edu ); Hock-Peng Sin (hpsin@psu.edu); or Heather L. Ondercin ( hlo114@psu.edu ). Upcoming Funding Competition Deadlines November 1, 2005: November 15, 2005: For further information and complete guidelines on these programs, please call the Institute at 865-0495, e-mail arts-humanities@psu.edu, or visit www.research.psu.edu/iah. The WebEvents Calendar features lectures, talks, and conferences sponsored by units within the College of the Liberal Arts and by the College. If you have something that you would like posted to the calendar for your department, please send entry submissions to Carol Sonenklar at cas499@psu.edu. If you need to obtain or exchange parking permits, please come to Room 111 Sparks Building, Monday through Friday, from 9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. only. Please remember to bring your license plate number(s) with you when you register for your permit. Once you have a permit, please be sure you report new or changed license plate numbers to Michele Aitkin at mla12@psu.edu or 865-7691. As a reminder, if you are leaving the College, you will need to return your parking permit to 111 Sparks Building. Benefits Open Houses and On-Line Enrollment During November you may make changes in your 2005 benefits package during the “Time To Choose” period. If you do not want to change your benefits, you do not need to do anything, unless you are participating in the Health Care or Dependent Care Reimbursement Options of the Flexible Benefits Program. If you participate in either of these programs, you are required to re-enroll every year. Faculty and staff are encouraged to make their benefits changes and re-enroll for flex benefits on-line by going to the Employee Benefits Web site (http://www.ohr.psu.edu/benefits/benefits.htm). This Web site will be available beginning November 1 and is also an excellent source of information concerning your benefits. In order to help you make informed benefits decisions, the following open houses will be held: Tuesday, November 8, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 9, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 15, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Representatives from the Employee Benefits Division, Health Plan providers, SERS, TIAA/CREF, the five tax deferred annuity companies, and prescription drug plans will be available to answer faculty and staff questions. In addition, informational group meetings will be held in rooms adjacent to the locations mentioned above. If you are unable to attend any of the Benefits Open Houses and have any benefits questions, please call the Employee Benefits Division at 865-1473. Many of you will remember Carl G. Vaught, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, who died September 18, in Waco, Texas. Professor Vaught taught in the Department of Philosophy for thirty-one years, where he served as head from 1982–1992, before moving to Baylor University. In addition to numerous articles in books, professional journals, and books, Professor Vaught is the author of Access to God in Augustine's Confessions: Books X-XIII (2005); Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions: Books X-XIII (2004), Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places (2004); and a three-volume work about Augustine's Confessions published by SUNY Press: The Journey Toward God in Augustine's Confessions, Books I-VI (2003). Memorial contributions can be made to the DaySpring Baptist Church Building Fund in Waco or the W.J. Kilgore Fellowship Fund, Department of Philosophy, at Baylor University. The family invites you to leave a message or memory in its “Memorial Guestbook,” at www.wilkirsonhatchbailey.com. Staff Professional Development Workshops Announced The schedule of 2005/2006 workshops for Liberal Arts staff members has been posted on the Liberal Arts Human Resources Web Site: http://www.la.psu.edu/facstaff/prodev.htm. Interested staff members may register by contacting Betsy Will (ejw5@psu.edu ). Three members of our faculty and staff serve as College sexual harassment resource officers. These individuals may be contacted for confidential advice on matters relating to sexual harassment: Mel Mark, professor of psychology, 863-1755; Jennifer Morris, director of administrative service, 863-8426; and Deborah Clarke, associate professor of English and women's studies, 863-9592. Alternatively, the University Affirmative Action Office (863-0471) may be contacted directly. Edward (Ned)Balzer, programmer/analyst, Liberal Arts Computer Support Services. Richard Brungard, lead counselor, undergraduate studies. Karen Ebeling, staff assistant VII (stewardship assistant), alumni relations and development. David Horner, information technology specialist, Liberal Arts Computer Support Services. Christopher Thomas, information technology specialist, Liberal Arts Computer Support Services. Tracey Kennedy, staff assistant VI, psychology. Mary Ann Stauffer, staff assistant V, African and African American Studies, labor studies and industrial relations, and women's studies. LA Times is compiled by Carol Sonenklar, Alumni Relations and Development Office, 13 Sparks, 865-8085. This publication is available in alternative media on request. Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please consult Michele Aitkin 814-865-7691 in advance of your participation or visit. The Pennsylvania State University is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to programs, facilities, admission, and employment without regard to personal characteristics not related to ability, performance, or qualifications as determined by University policy or by state or federal authorities. It is the policy of the University to maintain an academic and work environment free of discrimination, including harassment. The Pennsylvania State University prohibits discrimination and harassment against any person because of age, ancestry, color, disability or handicap, national origin, race, religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Discrimination or harassment against faculty, staff, or students will not be tolerated at The Pennsylvania State University. Direct all inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policy to the Affirmative Action Director, The Pennsylvania State University, 328 Boucke Building, University Park, PA 16802-5901; Tel 814-865-4700/V, 814-863-1150/TTY U. Ed. LBA 06-114 |
