NAMES-IN-THE-NEWS

Dr. William H. Friedman, department of marketing and management, presented a paper and chaired a session at the Americas Conference on Information Systems, in Boston, August 1-5. The article titled, "The Digital Divide," concerns societal cleavages along several dimensions, separating those who participate in computer use and those who do not. The paper appeared in the conference proceedings.
This conference also offers various workshops in the latest technologies; Friedman attended one on systems analysis software at nearby Bentley College.

Raymond-Jean Frontain, English department, recently delivered a paper titled "D. H. Lawrence's 'David and the Genre of the Biblical Play in England'" at the Eighth International D. H. Lawrence Conference in Naples, Italy. He has contributed essays on "Caravaggio," "David and Jonathan in the Visual Arts," "Lorenz Hart," "Jerry Herman," "Cole Porter," and "Stephen Sondheim" to GLBTQ: An Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, which promises to be the most extensive project of this sort in the field of cultural studies

Lekeitha Hartfield, speech-language pathology department, was selected as one of 30 Fellows out of 127 for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Minority Student Leadership Program. She will have the opportunity to participate in a set of leadership activities at the annual convention in New Orleans, build and enhance leadership skills and interact with leaders in the fields of audiology, speech-language pathology and the speech and hearing sciences. Her award includes lodging, meals, convention registration and other travel stipends.

Debbie Barnes, College of Education, and Dr. Linda Arnold, Field Experiences, in cooperation with the Arkansas Department of Education, provided PATHWISE Classroom Observation System (COS) training for 125 area teachers on Monday and Tuesday, July 23 and 24, at the Holiday Inn Airport in Little Rock. PATHWISE is an assessment tool for the formative evaluation of the classroom performance of student teachers and first-year teachers. It is grounded in nineteen essential teaching criteria, which is an integral part of the state's newly adopted mentoring program for beginning teachers which culminates with the Praxis III assessment, leading to full licensure.

Dr. Jane McHaney, College of Education, was awarded the "Distinguished Leadership Award" by the Arkansas Leadership Academy following their week long, invitational Strategic Leadership Institute held in July at the Tyson Management Development Center in Russellville. Dr. McHaney was among 29 Arkansas administrators and academy partners selected to participate in the institute.

Dr. John Murphy, psychology and counseling department, conducted faculty training on "Preventing and Managing Problem Behavior in the Classroom" for Huttig School District in Union County on Monday, August 13. He also conducted training on "Preventing and Managing Problem Behavior in the Classroom: Parent Involvement Strategies" for Kingsland School District in Cleveland County on Tuesday, August 14.

Dr. Joe Arn, Middle/Secondary Education and Instructional Technologies, presented "Making the Most of Your Memory" at the Pope/Yell County Adult Education Faculty Fall In-service held August 14 in Russellville.

Ken Vaughn, Professional Field Services, presented "Teacher Licensure Update" in UCA's Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center and Dr. Tammy Benson, Early Childhood and Special Education, presented "Intergenerational Pen-Pals!" in Reynolds Performance Hall for the Conway Public Schools' Elementary Teachers Professional Development Day held Tuesday, August14. Approximately forty elementary teachers attended each of the two sessions. 

Dr. Mary H. Mosley, Early Childhood and Special Education, gave a two-day pre-school workshop for 19 teachers and other participants at Fourche Valley Elementary School, Thursday and Friday, August 16 and 17. Topics included balanced literacy, assessment, storytelling/retelling, Arkansas Frameworks/Standards, ELLA and ELF programs, PATHWISE, and the mission statement of the school. Dr. Mosley has been asked to do a follow-up in-service for the teachers later this year.

Dr. Patty Phelps, Middle/Secondary Education and Instructional Technologies, gave an in-service presentation on "Becoming Involved in the UCA/BCMS Teacher Education Partnership" for 75 teachers at Bob Courtway Middle School Friday, August 17. Phelps explained ways for teachers to become involved in the second year of the partnership as mentors, case discussion facilitators, and resource speakers. Teachers were also invited to join Phelps' book discussion group, which is funded by a UCA Public Service grant. The group will meet six times this semester on designated Wednesdays after school to discuss the selected book, "The Students are Watching," by Ted and Nancy Sizer.

Dr. Mary H. Mosley, Early Childhood and Special Education, completed the four-day training session for Praxis III assessors held Friday, August 24, through Monday, August 27, in Little Rock. ETS trainers from Ohio conducted the training. Assessor Proficiency tests will be administered this month. 


Dr. Ann Witcher, Middle/Secondary Education and Instructional Technologies, and co-authors Dr. Tony Onwuegbuzie, Howard University, Washington, D.C., and Dr. Lynn Minor, Valdosta State University, Georgia, have been notified that their proposal, "Trends in Pre-service Teachers' Educational Beliefs," has been accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the Mid-South Educational Research Association to be held November 15 in Little Rock. 

Debbie Barnes, College of Education, and Dr. Susan Peterson, Center for Academic Excellence, presented two 2-part sessions on Teacher Shortage at the Association of Teacher Educators Summer 2001 Conference, "The Best Teachers For All Our Children," held August 4-8 in Portland, Oregon. Tuesday, August 7, they presented "Recruiting New Teachers Using Externally Funded Initiatives," which featured Internet resources to locate external funding, and examples of UCA's externally funded recruitment initiatives, including scholarships, a recruitment conference, and secondary student recruitment efforts. On Wednesday, August 8, the two presented "Providing the Best Teachers for All Our Children: Recruitment and Retention Initiative in Arkansas," which featured recommendations made by the state Teacher Recruitment and Retention Committee, and the Arkansas Mentoring Model for beginning teachers, which included the PATHWISE mentoring system and Praxis III performance assessment.

Lynn Burley, writing and rhetoric department, received a Faculty Development Grant for her proposal entitled "Ebonics in Composition" to bring Dr. Arthur Palacas from University of Akron in Akron, Ohio to conduct a workshop.

Debbie Barnes, College of Education, received a Faculty Development Grant for her proposal entitled "NCATE Workshop: Improving Instruction through Collaboration, Technology and Assessment." Fourteen faculty will be attending from the College of Education, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, and the College of Fine Arts and Communications.

William H. Friedman, marketing, management and information systems department, served as session chair and presented a paper, "The Effects of Cyberslacking on Organizations and Employees," at the Hawaii Conference on Business. The article appeared in the conference Proceedings.

This paper concerns the use of company Internet resources by employees, who are normally expected to be working on company business during business hours. Clearly there are economic issues stemming from non-business Internet activity, like lost productivity and consumption of scarce bandwidth; but there are also moral issues like living up to one's responsibility and fulfilling a contract, whether implicit or explicit. Several additional dimensions to the cyberslacking phenomenon are also discussed: the psychological effects on the employees in terms of addiction and guilt and the means employers have to curtail this activity, say, by filtering
software or company Internet policy codes.

Terry Wright, writing and rhetoric department, has a collection of his short poetry on display in the "Arkansas Literary Forum," an online journal of literature and art. He also has eight original fractal art pieces featured as well. The URL for both is:
http://www.hsu.edu/dept/alf/2001/wright-poem.htm
Moreover, a short review of Wright's most recent chapbook, "Safe House," is
contained in the same issue at:
http://www.hsu.edu/dept/alf/books/wright-review.htm

James W. Brodman, history department, contributed a piece on the character of crusading to a book entitled, "Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades," edited by Michael Gervers and James Powell, published by Syracuse University Press, 2001. Brodman's piece bears the title, "The Rhetoric of Ransoming: A Contribution to the Debate over Crusading in Medieval Iberia" pp 41-52.

Peter Mehl, philosophy department, presented a paper entitled "Edifying Hermeneutics: Kierkegaard's Existential 'Method' and Its Limits" at the Fourth International Kierkegaard conference.

In addition, as part of his summer sabbatical, Mehl did some research in the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College as a summer fellow in the library's summer scholars program.


GRANTS
Name of Grant: Structured Student Study Sessions
Names of proposal author (s): Jeff Pitchford
Amount of funds received per year or per length of project (if different): $6,681
Length of Project: July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 
Department, College, or non-academic unit, in which the project will be located: University Center for Academic Success
Who will be involved other than the author (s)? N/A
What will be the outcome (s) of this grant? Target Perkins eligible students at UCA with tutoring assistance
How will this grant benefit UCA, the students, the community, and/or the state? Provide tutoring assistance.
 

Name of Grant: Secondary Math Specialist
Names of proposal author (s): Linda Griffith
Funding agency (ies): Arkansas Department of Education
Amount of funds received per year or per length of project (if different): $64,850
Length of Project: July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 
Department, College, or non-academic unit, in which the project will be located: Arkansas Center for Mathematic Education
Who will be involved other than the author (s)? State secondary mathematics teachers
What will be the outcome (s) of this grant? Provide additional support for secondary mathematics teachers in Arkansas as they seek to improve students achievement in mathematics.
How will this grant benefit UCA, the students, the community, and/or the state? It will help Arkansas improve student achievement in mathematics.

Name of Grant: Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS)
Names of proposal author (s): Lauretta Koenigseder
Funding agency (ies): Department of Health & Human Services
Amount of funds received per year or per length of project (if different): $18,179
Length of Project: July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 
Department, College, or non-academic unit, in which the project will be located: department of nursing
Who will be involved other than the author (s)? N/A
What will be the outcome (s) of this grant? Funding is to increase representation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the healthcare workforce.
How will this grant benefit UCA, the students, the community, and/or the state? It offers a source of financial support to individuals who may have limited financial resources for a baccalaureate education.