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New Developments in the College Welcome to campus and to the beginning of the 2003-04 academic year! I hope all of you had a pleasant and productive summer. I’d like to extend a special welcome to our new faculty and staff who have joined the Penn State family this month. I hope you find that your careers here are both pleasant and challenging. Although Penn State did not escape unscathed from the budget blows faced by public universities throughout the nation, we are doing better than most, thanks in part to our tuition increases, sustained student desire to enroll at Penn State, and a continuous process of changing to be more efficient. As you will see later in this issue, despite budget woes, we were able to hire about thirty new tenure line faculty members, many of them at the senior level. This does not represent a significant growth of faculty, however, because almost an equal number retired or resigned. Nonetheless, the new appointments we are able to make continue to strengthen our faculty and are an indication of the continuing dynamic movement of the College to reach its goal of overall excellence. In addition to our increasing quality, you may have also noticed we are increasing in enrollment. Indeed, we are in the middle of an enrollment boom. Though the growth is not shared equally across the College, most of our departments are feeling the pressure. The figure below illustrates the tremendous overall growth in enrollment in the College:
Our enrollment gains since 1995 are bigger than the total enrollment of several Penn State colleges. How have we coped with this increase during a time of financial strain, while still maintaining our momentum toward increased excellence? First, the provost has helped significantly by converting some of the money we typically received each year on a “temporary” basis to permanent money, that is, money that is a permanent part of our budget. Second, these new permanent funds have allowed us to handle the incremental enrollment largely through increasing our full-time fixed-term faculty. The number of such faculty has increased from 40 to 125 since 1995; now fully one-quarter of our full time faculty have fixed-term contracts. Our fixed-term faculty are a valuable part of our teaching program, and are providing high quality instruction to thousands of students each year. During this sharp growth in the number of fixed-term faculty, the number of our tenure-line faculty has stayed relatively constant. Third, we have moved to be more efficient in every way we can, especially including administrative overhead, but also including reducing under-enrolled classes and making sure our general education offerings are filled to capacity. For the fall semester, with the exception of one large but under-filled class, ninety-nine percent of the seats in our general education courses are filled! This is a testament not only to the popularity of our courses but to the good management of our department heads and their administrative assistants. Of course, increased enrollments and full-time faculty put pressure on space. We are tighter this year than in any time since I’ve been here. Although significant new space will not come to the College until sometime in the spring semester when Pond Lab is turned over to us, space issues took priority during the summer. Under the direction of our facilities coordinator, Alice Fogg, we completed two remodeling projects in Burrowes. One provided air conditioning for the staff of the School of Languages and Literatures on the third floor of Burrowes. The other project developed an efficient second floor space for the staff that will be supporting the departments of French and Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. We also are sprucing up the corridors in the deans’office suite in Sparks to improve functionality and to reduce the “high school” corridor appearance. In advance of taking possession of all of Pond next spring, we acquired some modest new space in Pond for the fall semester which will provide storage and workspace for our classical archeologists. Next summer, Pond will become the new home for political science and the SSRI. I look forward to another year of continuing to strengthen the quality of all we do in the College of the Liberal Arts and to working with you toward that end. Susan Welch All Liberal Arts faculty are cordially invited to a reception to meet new tenure-line faculty colleagues. The event will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday, September 29, at the Hintz Family Alumni Center (the Hintz center is the old University president’s house, located behind Sackett Building). Each of our new tenure-line faculty will be introduced. Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Liberal Arts Donor Stewardship Program Wins CASE Award Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts’ donor stewardship program won a Seal of Excellence Award from the Council of Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). CASE is the national organization of university fund-raisers. Congratulations to Marilyn Byers, Denise Surovec, and Cathy Thompson for this outstanding accomplishment!A tool of the College of the Liberal Arts’ Alumni Relations and Development office, the College Awards and Stewardship System (CASS) is a centralized data system accessible by department heads and staff as well as the development officers and staff. CASS is a means of tracking and disseminating information for the timely and effective stewardship of donors and the awarding of the funds they establish. Liberal Arts established CASS with the simple objective of doing a better job thanking donors. By providing networked access to thank you letters and related information (via a Lotus Notes software application), it would help improve the quality of letters sent to donors, provide timely reminders to those charged with interacting with donors, and provide consistency to contacts with donors who gave to multiple departments. Once the application was launched, Marilyn, the CASS administrator, guided the expansion of CASS to include fund management and spending, in an overall effort, coordinated with Denise, assistant to the financial officer, and Cathy, administrative assistant, research and graduate studies, to properly steward the funds raised in the current campaign and in past campaigns. The College is very proud to have received this award. CASS has been critical to the success of our development campaign in Liberal Arts. A significant number of friends and alumni have given major additional gifts in this campaign and, nearly without exception, those individuals have mentioned that they were moved to do so at least partly because they felt the College was using their donations wisely. A key to their feeling that way is good communication with our donors, and CASS has made it easier than ever to have excellent communications with the people so important to our success. This year the College welcomes thirty-one new tenure and tenure line faculty colleagues. This month we profile new professors and associate professors. Mitchell Aboulafia, head and professor of philosophy, received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College, and joined us from a position as Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is the author of The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy; The Mediating Self: Mead, Sartre, and Self-Determination; The Self-Winding Circle: A Study of Hegel's System; and of articles in social theory, American philosophy, and continental thought. Aboulafia's current work examines the relationship between pragmatism and European social theory, and addresses issues of cosmopolitanism and recognition. Donna L. Bahry, professor of political science, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977. Prior to joining Penn State, Donna was a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Donna specializes in politics and public policy in the USSR and Post-Soviet States. She has written extensively on issues concerning elections, public opinion, politics, and economic reform in Russia. The National Science Foundation has often supported Donna's research and involvement on USSR policies. Francis Dodoo, professor of sociology and demography, is from the University of Maryland, where he was Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies. Francis specializes in African demography and in race and inequality in the United States. He has published about thirty articles in scholarly journals in the past twelve years. To fund his research, in the past few years he has received multiple grants from the Rockefeller Foundation as well as grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the World Health Organization, and a major new grant from NICHD. His work combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, and his most recent work builds on both detailed fieldwork and statistical methods to examine the link between poverty and the spread of AIDS in urban Africa. Francis also competed in four Olympics as a triple jumper. Edward Green, professor of economics, comes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where he is currently a Senior Vice-President. Ed has been a professor of economics at Princeton, Cal Tech, University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Minnesota. He has made seminal contributions in several areas of economic theory. His paper with a former student, Rob Porter, “Noncooperative Collusion under Imperfect Price Information,” defined a new branch of the field of industrial organization. Ed’s paper, “Lending and the Smoothing of Uninsured Income,” has had an enormous impact on macroeconomic modeling. Ed has supervised several graduate students who have become leading figures in the discipline of economics. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society, one of the most prestigious accolades in the economics profession, since 1987. Joan Kelly Hall, professor of linguistics and applied language studies and education, received her Ph.D. in TESOL from SUNY Albany in 1991. Prior to coming to Penn State, Joan was a faculty member in Language Education and Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Joan has published extensively on both theoretical and empirical issues related to second and foreign language learning with particular attention to the role that classroom discourse plays in learning. Two of her recent publications that draw on her work include Methods for Teaching Foreign Languages, Prentice-Hall, and Teaching and Researching Language and Culture, Pearson. She brings her experiences and expertise to the Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Program, and she is joint appointed in the College of Education. Brian Hesse, director, Jewish Studies Program, professor of Jewish Studies and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1978. He joins us from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he has been head of the Department of Anthropology and Social Work for the last five years. A zooarchaeologist specializing in the late prehistoric and early historic periods of the Near East, he has concentrated his fieldwork since 1980 in Israel at the sites of Megiddo, Ashkelon, Miqne-Ekron, and Sha’ar Hagolan. Current interests include the emergence of complex animal husbandry systems in the Jordan Valley in the sixth and fifth millennia BCE and the material evidence for cultural identity in the Iron Age of the southern Levant, particularly those aspects which are connected to the dietary laws in the Hebrew Bible. Recently, he completed a stint as co-editor of the American Schools of Oriental Research journal. Quang Vuong, professor of economics, comes from the University of Southern California. He has made important contributions in several areas of econometric theory. Quang is well known for his work in model selection and non-parametric estimation. In addition, his research on the empirical analysis of auctions and procurements has set the standard for work in the area. Quang’s work is regularly funded by the National Science Foundation. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society, one of the most prestigious accolades in the economics profession, since 1997. Paul Zeleza, professor of African Studies and history, received his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 1982. Paul was professor of history and African Studies and the director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published extensively on African economics and history and has received numerous awards for his work including being nominated in 2002 and short-listed for Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth-Century. Paul has several books forthcoming including, A Modern Economic History of Africa and Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Africa. J.-Marc Authier, associate professor of French and applied linguistics, received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California in 1988. His main research interest is in the formal treatment of natural language. Specifically, his work in grammatical theory has focused on the syntax and semantics of various linguistic phenomena including anaphora and quantification in such languages as English, French, KiNande (Bantu), Mandarin Chinese, Tamil (Dravidian), and Thai. His publications include numerous articles in major refereed journals and book chapters, and two co-authored books: Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics, 1999; and Structure and Interpretation in Natural Language, 1999. Jonathan Brockopp, associate professor of religious studies and history earned his Ph.D. with distinction in Religious Studies from Yale University in 1995. He did additional graduate work in Egypt at the American University in Cairo, at the Bourguiba Institute in Tunisia and at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Prior to his arrival, he taught at Bard College. He is the author of Early Maliki Law, and with Jacob Neusner and Tamara Sonn, Judaism and Islam in Practice: A Sourcebook and is currently completing the manuscript of The Charismatic Authority of the Muslim Scholar. Jonathan's special areas of interest and teaching include the history of Islamic law; feminism and Islam; religious fundamentalism; and the comparative study of Islam with other world religions, especially Judaism, and problems in religious ethics and contemporary moral issues. Sophia A. McClennen, associate professor of comparative literature and Spanish, received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Duke University in 1997. Her areas of specialization include post-colonial Latin American literature, comparative cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, Latino/a studies, and critical theory. She joined us from a position at Illinois State University. Sophia has received Fulbright, NEH, and Tinker Foundation grants. Her publications include a book The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language and Space in Hispanic Literatures, due out from Purdue University Press this fall, with a second book, Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope under contract with Duke University Press. She recently returned from a Fulbright research/lecturing appointment in Peru, for a project on politics and gender in Latin American cinema. Marcy North, associate professor of English, received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Michigan. Prior to her arrival at Penn State, she was a faculty member at Florida State University. Her book, The Anonymous Renaissance, a study of the enduring popularity of anonymous authorship in early modern print and manuscript culture, was published this year by the University of Chicago Press. She is at work on a new book about the fate of collections of manuscript literature during the era of printed books with a view toward shedding new light on seventeenth-century standards of taste and practices of interpretation. David Pan, associate professor of German, received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Columbia University. David taught at Washington University and Stanford University before working as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. The main goal of his research has been to establish how aesthetic form creates the basis for structures of perception. In addition to numerous articles, he has published a book on German Expressionism as a form of primitivism and an edited volume on the nineteenth-century writer Heinrich von Kleist. His latest book, entitled Aesthetics and the Sacred: Redeeming the Traditionalist Critique of Modernity, develops this primitivist perspective into a theory of culture by demonstrating how a productive interest in myth can open onto a revised post-colonialism. David is spending the 2003-04 academic year in Berlin on a Humboldt Fellowship. Isabelle Perrigne, associate professor of economics, comes from the University of Southern California. She has made significant contributions in the field of industrial organization. Her work has appeared in some of the best journals of the profession, including Econometrica and The Journal of Econometrics. Isabelle has demonstrated remarkable success with the supervision of Ph.D. theses. Ruilin Zhou, associate professor of economics, comes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where she is currently a senior economist. Ruilin completed her thesis in 1993 and has made significant contributions in the field of monetary theory. Her work has appeared in the very best journals of the profession, including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, and The Review of Economic Studies. In the past, Ruilin has served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and has been funded for her work by the National Science Foundation. Vandiver to Direct Africana Research Center Beverly Vandiver, associate professor of counseling psychology at Penn State, has been appointed the new director of the Africana Research Center (ARC). The Africana Research Center was developed to examine historical and current knowledge of African Americans, Africans and Afro-Caribbean peoples. The ARC also strives to promote current faculty and student research and scholarship, and to contribute to Penn State’s support of diversity. Along with her scholarly and administrative interests, Vandiver has worked as a counselor and spent the last three summers as an instructor for the Academic Talent Development Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in several journals and books, most recently in the Journal of College Student Development and The Counseling Psychologist. The ARC, founded in 2001, offers a yearly undergraduate research symposium
and funding for additional research, symposia, outreach projects, and
other scholarly work. It is also a co-sponsor with the Rock Ethics Institute
and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center of a project, “Breaking
the Silence,” which aims to educate internal and public school audiences
about issues related to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and freedom project. It is a pleasure to report that eleven Liberal Arts faculty from eight departments at University Park and one at Abington College have been promoted or had tenure awarded. Congratulations! Tenured: Lee Newsom, associate professor of anthropology. Promoted to associate professor with tenure: Promoted to professor: D. Scott Bennett, political science; N. Edward Coulson, economics; Cecil Giscombe, English; Nicholas Joukovsky, English; Ellen Knodt, English (Abington College); Robert O'Connor, political science; Sandra Spanier, English and women's studies; and Adrian Wanner, Slavic and comparative literature Robert Harkavy, professor of political science, was awarded a Senior Fulbright Award for lecturing and research at the University of Kiel, Germany from May to July 2004. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, from Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for “Literati Spirituality and Jesuit Learning in Late Ming China.” Edward Keynes, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the fall-winter semester 2003-04 at Hiroshima-Shudo University, Hisoshima, Japan. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, Paul Amato, professor of sociology and demography, and Alan Booth, distinguished professor of sociology, human development, and demography, from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Well-being.” Cathleen Moore, associate professor of psychology, from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Attention and Oculomotor Control: Attention Resolution.” Jeffrey Robinson, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences, from the University of California at Los Angeles for “Addressing Patients' Multiple Concerns in Primary Care.” Sandra Spanier, professor of English and women's studies, from Howard Heinz Endowment for support of the Hemingway Letters Project. Four Liberal Arts faculty have been named as resident scholars at the Institute this year. Kumkum Chatterjee, associate professor of history, will be resident in the fall and work on a monograph on how early modern to modern historians of India came to construct their views of history. Mark Morrisson, associate professor of English, will work on a book project on alchemy and atomic theory. Cecilia Novero, assistant professor of German and comparative literature, will work on a book project on the interrelationship between Avant-garde art, consumption, consumerism, and critical theory in twentieth-century Europe. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, will work on a book that looks at the phenomenon of Catholic mission and conversion in late Ming China, between 1583 and 1644, from the perspective of Chinese society. Mark, Cecilia, and Ronnie will all be residents in the spring semester. The Institute for Arts and Humanities announces faculty awards and the 2003-04 schedule for applications for awards for spring 2004 and 2004-05. IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipients Three Liberal Arts faculty won Institute for the Arts and Humanities Individual Faculty Grants for fall: Pius Adesanmi, assistant professor of comparative literature, will conduct archival research for his book project on the neglected writings of African women on national and political discourse. Lisa Surwillo, assistant professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, will conduct research for a book project that examines the Spanish use of an American narrative of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, as a frame for discussion of the contraband Transatlantic slave trade to Cuba. Jean-Claude Vuillemin, associate professor of French, will prepare a critical edition of a play by Jean Rotrou, L'Innocente Infidélité. Please note the following approaching deadlines for Institute competitions: Wednesday, October 1, 2003: Team Teaching Across the Disciplines, 2004-05 This new IAH competition provides opportunities to bring interdisciplinarity into upper-level undergraduate and graduate classrooms through collaborative teaching. Funding will cover expenses directly related to faculty team-teaching, including use of multi-media resources; guest speakers; faculty/student travel to museums, to performances, or for learning-related projects in other locations; and a course buy-out for one faculty member to facilitate team-teaching. Maximum grant award: $7,500. Wednesday, October 15, 2003: Individual Faculty Grant Program (for the period January-June 2004) This program helps to fund the research and creative projects of individual faculty members in and across the arts and humanities at Penn State. Awards support materials, travel for research/creative activity, costs related to publication, wages for research assistance, and release time. Maximum grant award: $4,000. Wednesday, November 5, 2003: Resident Scholars and Artists Program, 2004-05 This program, jointly sponsored with the College of the Liberal Arts and the College of Arts and Architecture, provides up to eight faculty members per year with one semester of release time from teaching, a $1,000 grant for research expenses or materials, and the use of an office in Ihlseng Cottage. Thursday, November 20, 2003: Interdisciplinary Groups Funding for interdisciplinary groups covers expenses directly related to group programming such as travel, lodging, and honoraria for invited speakers, performers, or artists; costs of publicity; research assistance to help with programming; costs related to publication ensuing from symposia or lecture series; and costs of exhibition or performance. Group programs may be funded for one academic year (2004-05) or for two years (2004-06). Maximum amount per group per year: $10,000. Tuesday, February 10, 2004: Graduate Student Summer Residency Program, 2004 Sponsored in conjunction with the College of the Liberal Arts and the College of Arts and Architecture, this competitive program provides advanced graduate students with a $3,000 stipend and the use of an office in Ihlseng Cottage during summer session 2004, enabling them to spend focused time working on their dissertations or final creative projects. Graduate officers may nominate up to two students per department or program. Monday, March 1, 2004: Individual Faculty Grant Program (for the period July-December 2004) See information listed above for this program. Further information on these programs can be found on the IAH Web site at http://www.research.psu.edu/iah/. The College will sponsor a panel discussion and information session on promotion and tenure for tenure-track faculty on Thursday, October 16, 2003, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 124 Sparks Building. In addition to remarks from Dean Welch, the program will include a panel of department heads. The material covered will be similar to previous years (promotion and tenure procedures, dossier preparation, and the responsibilities of the tenure candidate), although we will, of course, touch on changes in promotion and tenure guidelines made during the past year. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. Though the panel is targeted for tenure-track faculty, all faculty are welcome to attend. Richard Carlson, psychology, Wilson Moses, history, and Jacqueline Rogers, labor studies and industrial relations, sociology, and women's studies, were elected to represent the faculty on the Faculty Advisory Committee. Provost Emeritus Faculty Teaching Scholar Awards Francis Gentry, Professor Emeritus of German, Leonard Rubinstein, Professor Emeritus of English, Daniel Walden, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English, and comparative literature, have been nominated to teach as Provost's Emeritus Faculty Teaching Scholars for Spring 2004. Undergraduate Studies Advising Brown Bag In Liberal Arts, our majors are advised by College level advisers until they transfer to their major usually in their sophomore year. Then they are advised by departmental advisers, who might be faculty or staff. Curricular advising, and making sure students enroll in the right classes at the right time, is complex. To help departmental advisers stay abreast of advising issues, Liberal Arts Undergraduate Studies has begun a brown bag lunch for departmental advising. The primary goal of the brown bag program is to improve undergraduate advising by sharing information, establishing a protocol for addressing advising issues, and building a community of advisers. Topics for the brown bag sessions are determined through recommendations of departmental and LAUS advisers. Subjects have included policies, procedures, or responses to recurring questions, and calendar-driven topics corresponding to relevant advising interests that arise at predictable times, such as at the start of a new semester. A diverse audience participates at the brown bag luncheons. Some departments send faculty advisers, some have professional staff advisers, and some send a staff assistant to represent their department. Departmental major enrollments also vary in their size from twelve students to one thousand, so many points of view on each issue emerge. One outgrowth of the sessions has been an advising Web site that references the materials addressed in the sessions (http://advising.la.psu.edu). This site contains the minutes from each brown bag program, and a searchable, alphabetical listing of each issue that has been addressed. This has provided a convenient source of information to all advisers. The site includes policies and procedures and downloadable versions of advising forms. The College of the Liberal Arts will be participating in the new University-wide calendar. Many of Penn State’s largest event planning offices are already using WebEvent, the software product that Penn State’s Web Strategies Team has selected to use to create the calendar. Starting now, you will be able to view all Liberal Arts events, lectures, symposium, and colloquium at http://www.events.psu.edu. Highlights of these events will be posted in the LA Times online as in the past, but specifics will be found using the WebEvent calendar. Louise Sharrar, staff assistant, will be the administrator for the College. All information can be sent to her at lsharrar@psu.edu and will be requested at the same time the call is sent out for the LA Times online. Lois Seitz, Webmaster for the College, is also assisting with the project. Other information about this project can be found at the Penn State WebEvent Support Web site http://www.sa.psu.edu/webevent and by e-mailing webevent@sa.psu.edu. Tensions of Change: Writing and Making the American Landscape In autumn 2003, Penn State will host an interdisciplinary speaker series entitled “The Tensions of Change: Writing and Making the American Landscape.” The series is organized by individuals in the Master of Fine Art program in English and the Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn State. Through an integrated program of six major public events, three concurrent College courses, and numerous ancillary programs, Tensions of Change will explore the ways our society safeguards and simultaneously dismantles and remakes beloved spaces.A number of nationally and regionally prominent writers and artists involved with conservation, design, health and the environment, sprawl, transportation, and tourism will interact directly with students, faculty, and community members throughout the length of the program. All events will occur on Pennsylvania State’s University Park campus and are open to the public. Project sponsors include the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the University Libraries, the Master of Fine Arts program in English, the Department of Landscape Architecture, the Center for Watershed Stewardship, the Bracken Lecture Series fund, the College of the Liberal Arts’ Research and Graduate Studies Office, the Women’s Studies Program, the Rock Ethics Institute, and the College of Arts and Architecture’s Research and Graduate Studies Office.
Human Resources Reorganization With the departure of Dick Leah, the College is reorganizing the human resources function. As of September 1, Jennifer Morris has assumed the position of director of administrative services in the College of the Liberal Arts. This is a redefined position, including the activities formerly part of the human resources position, along with new responsibilities for oversight of information technology, facilities, and planning. Jennifer, who holds a Penn State B.A. degree in English with high distinction, knows the College and its many activities very well. She has held positions of increasing responsibility in the College for 25 years beginning with her position as administrative aide in the Administration of Justice Program, and including advisor for the General Arts and Sciences Program, coordinator of the Undergraduate Records Office, and then assistant to the associate dean for administration where she worked with the College's outreach portfolio, planned and implemented undergraduate recruitment activities, served as a liaison with non-University Park colleges, and managed processes involving issues of academic integrity, curriculum development, and sexual harassment. Human Resources and Administrative Update Program On September 18, the College will have an administrative update session for administrative and staff assistants who handle departmental promotion and tenure matters. The workshop will include promotion and tenure and human resources issues. The program will be held in the Assembly Room of the Nittany Lion Inn from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. I would like to send my thanks to all of the Liberal Arts staff who generously donated their vacation days to me during my husband's recent illness. My family and I appreciated your overwhelming support during his illness. We were blessed with having so many caring and thoughtful people working in this College, which gave me the opportunity to care for my husband and family. Thank you so much, Gay Catherman The Day of Caring is scheduled for Thursday, October 2, 2003. The program invites members of the faculty, staff, and other community members to volunteer a day of their time to assist United Way agencies with various projects. Last year’s projects included painting and landscaping at member agencies. Please consider participating in this worthwhile event. Those interested in participating in the Day of Caring should register by contacting the Centre County United Way at 238-2941 or 238-8283. Together, we make a difference in our community. Harriet Bicksler, marketing communications account specialist II, psychology, CASSP program Danielle Guess, staff assistant VI, psychology, CASSP program Mary Virginia Jones, research technician, psychology, CASSP program Ann Litzelman, project director, psychology, CASSP program Karol McClintic, staff assistant VI, history, religious studies, classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, and Jewish studies John Mwaura, project director, psychology, CASSP program Kimberly Smith, conference planner, psychology, CASSP program Kelly Summerford, administrative assistant II, psychology, CASSP program Faye Maring, external relations assistant, alumni relations and development Linda Bell, staff assistant V, PA Commission on Sentencing Gennifer Blesh, staff assistant VII, languages and literatures Gay Catherman, staff assistant VI, economics Karen Ebeling, staff assistant VII, history, Richards Civil War Era Center Clifford Evans, psychiatric clinical specialist, psychology Kathy Force, staff assistant VII, English Helen Gardner, staff assistant VI, psychology Sherrilee Gilliland, staff assistant VI, psychology David Horner, computer support assistant, English Diane Jones, academic counselor, psychology Kristie Kalvin, staff assistant VI, communications, arts, and sciences and philosophy Gloria McCambridge, administrative assistant I, psychology Erica McMullen, staff assistant VI, languages and literatures Kimberly Miller, staff assistant VI, anthropology Ramona Muzzio, staff assistant VII, communications, arts, and sciences and philosophy Diane Plummer, staff assistant VII, psychology Elaine Prestia, staff assistant VI, psychology Kathleen Rumbaugh, staff assistant VII, philosophy, Rock Ethics Institute Barbara Schrack, staff assistant V, PA Commission on Sentencing Penny Smith, staff assistant VII, alumni relations and development Christopher Thomas, computer support assistant, French and Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Angela Clark, staff assistant VI, political science Cynthia Coleman, staff assistant VI, history, religious studies, classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, and Jewish studies Nancy English, staff assistant V, political science Julie Lawry, external relations assistant, alumni relations and development LA Times is compiled by the Dean’s Office, 110 Sparks, 865-7691. 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