February 26, 2010
Vol. II, No. 7
WheelerNotes
Rumors Heard on Campus: Word on the street is that
full-time faculty and staff in Academic Affairs may
want to put the evening of April 8 on their calendars.
Though you would have to check this out with Pam Bell
and her industrious committee, the story is that an
invitation may be forthcoming to join your colleagues
for heavy hors d’oeuvres early in the evening of April 8,
and, if your schedule permits, attend a Gordon College
production of Hamlet later in the evening. Again, one
is never sure of rumors, but this rumor about a
Shakespearean Evening might bear checking out.
Computing Summer Compensation: Because the
compensation for summer is so closely tied to
enrollments, it becomes very important to describe
precisely when the critical review of enrollments will
take place. In Summer 2010 we will evaluate the
enrollment on two dates: Tuesday, June 1 (at the close
of open registration on that day) and Friday, June 4
(immediately after the drops for nonpayment have
occurred). We will use the larger of these two numbers
in determining faculty pay for a course.
Example: A student who has started 36
semester hours and has withdrawn with a W
from 15 hours will lose financial aid, even if
his or her grade point average is 2.8.
Ethics Please! Because completion of the USG on-line
ethics review will be a requirement for issuing contracts
this next year, much grief will be avoided if faculty and
staff members complete this 40 minute exercise as soon
as possible. Here are Ms. Warren’s instructions:
Start at the Gordon College web Home page
Click: My Gordon
Click: GeorgiaVIEW Vista
LOGIN: User Name: (your normal network login to
check your e-mail)
Password: (your normal network password)
You should see: My GeorgiaView tab
Double Click: TRAINING–ETHICS – ETHICS COURSE in
the middle of the screen
Make certain on the left side of screen, you are on
the Student View tab.
Complete all sections listed. No certificate will be
printed upon completion of the course.
BursteinNotes
The One Fact About Financial Aid Every Faculty
Member Should Know: The ‘ins and outs” of the
financial aid rules are so arcane that in most
circumstances the wisest response to a question is to
refer the questioner to Larry Mitcham and his
knowledgeable staff. However, we do need to know
this rule: In order to continue to receive financial aid, a
student must pass 66% of all course work attempted.”
In these weeks just before midterm, when students may
be contemplating withdrawing from a course, we need
to be able to communicate to them that although a “W”
does not affect the grade point average, repeated “W’s”
can result in loss of financial aid.
Please join us at the next Business and Social Science
Monthly Forum, which will meet on March 24 at
2:00 pm and will feature Dr. Jeff Knighton speaking
on “Academic Freedom: What All New Professors
(and some veteran professors) Need to Know.”
Dr. Jeremy Richards is presenting “Stanley Morse and
the 1952 South Carolinians for Eisenhower
Campaign” on March 6 at the South Carolina Historical
Association conference in Columbia, SC.
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GahrNotes
Dr. Mark Brinkman and Christina Rogers, a student
in Dr. Brinkman’s Special Research Topics course in
Fall 2006, were published in January 2010. They
tested a couple of different ant food baits, and a
combination of the two, to see which attracted the most
number of ants and the largest number of different ant
species. Dr. Brinkman showed Christina how to do
the sampling at the Gordon College walking track and
then she did the sampling on her own at Dauset Trails
Nature Center near Jackson, GA. The manuscript was
submitted to the Journal of Entomological Science and
it was accepted for publication. The reference for the
publication: Brinkman, M.A. and C.G. Rogers. Bait
preferences of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) in central Georgia. Journal of
Entomological Science 45(1): 51-53 (January 2010).
Drs. Mustapha Durojaiye, Cathy Lee, and Marwan
Zabdawi attended a USG Regional STEM Institute
Conference at the University of West Georgia, February
18 -20, 2010.
Dr Mustapha A. Durojaiye was a presenter on
Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010: “Using Animation to teach
Concepts in Human Anatomy and Physiology”.
Dr. Cathy Lee had a poster and discussion session
on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010: titled “An Effective and
Fun Way of Learning Anatomy: Labeling Bone
Markings on the Skeleton and Body Surface”
Dr. Marwan Zabdawi moderated three sessions in
mathematics and engineering.
Dr. Cris Ennis judged both the Griffin and Spalding
High science fairs this month. On March 1st, Dr. Ennis
will present: “Understanding, Reinforcing and
Retaining Mathematical Concepts through Chemistry,”
at the International Conference for Academic
Disciplines in Orlando, Florida.
Adjunct, Mr. Don Franklin, helped host ‘The Physics
of NASCAR Workshop’ at Atlanta Motor Speedway on
Feb. 20th with 30 teachers and students attending the
event. This workshop will be adapted so that physics
teachers across USA, Canada and Mexico will be able
to employ it at racetracks in their area.
Diane Hayden and her husband are co-executors for
the estate of a personal friend. Five years of work with
UGA successfully concluded with a contribution of
$1.1 million dollars from this estate to the University of
Georgia, School of Agriculture to be used specifically
for the development of the new four year degree
programs on the Griffin campus.
Dr. Greg Hartman will be a judge at the RESA
Science Fair in Griffin this Friday, 26 February.
Dr. Linda Hyde took Earth, Wind and Fire Science
Club members on a field trip to the Georgia Aquarium
on February 6.
Dr. Beike Jia has published at the interface between
biology and chemistry: “Distinguishing MethicillinResistant and Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Using
Volatile Headspace Metabolites” in IEEE Sensors
Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2010 71
Dr. Cathy Lee, Georgia Chapter President of KSEA
(Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association;
(www.ksea.org) attended the 6th Annual Conference of
YGTLC (Young Generation Technology Leadership
Conference) in Washington, DC as an invited guest
speaker: “College Teaching can be one of the Avenues
for the Science and Engineering Majors to Contribute to
the Society” .
Dr. Richard Schmude, Jr. gave a talk about the planet
Mars to the Atlanta Astronomy Club on January 22,
2010 at Emory University. HigginsNotes
Because we do most of our tutoring with students, we
like to keep faculty up to date on our efforts to train
these tutors and insure that they are providing our
students with the best help possible. To that end, I
would like to let you all know that on Saturday,
February 20 nine Gordon College Student Success
Center tutors and four faculty members attended the
10th Annual Georgia Tutoring Association Conference
at Macon State College, in Macon, GA.
Kate Tooley, Curtis Mann, Garrett Washington,
Noah Cochran, Bec Sinoway, Walter Jones,
Mulugeta Aksma, Jocelyn Tobias and Elizabeth
Battey joined Gordon College faculty members Dr.
David Janssen, Dr. Mark King,
Mr. Sam Tolbert, and Mr. Peter Higgins at the
conference, which was attended by almost 300 tutors
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and Learning/Success Center professionals from both
public and private colleges across the state.
I think it speaks volumes about the dedication of our
student tutors that nine of them gave up an entire
Saturday without pay in this effort to professionalize
themselves. They are truly committed to helping their
fellow Gordon College students.
I would like to emphasize also that our tutors did not
merely attend the conference but were active
participants. Dr. Janssen and Mr. Peter Higgins led a
panel presentation that included student tutors Kate
Tooley, Curtis Mann, Noah Cochran, and Bec
Sinoway; Dr. Mark King delivered a presentation with
Kate Tooley and Walter Jones. In all, Gordon College
Success Center tutors participated in four of the
Conference’s twenty-two total presentations. The only
other school that had a student tutor involved in a
presentation was Valdosta State University.
MilewiczNotes
As just a brief reminder, please note that March 1st is
the first of our two spring deadlines for applying for the
Honors Program. I hope you will consider urging your
best students to apply. Current students need a
cumulative 3.5 GPA or higher to be eligible for the
program. A full description of application procedures, a
list of program requirements, as well as the spring
honors event calendar, can be found at:
http://www.gdn.edu/honors
O’SullivanNotes
Please remind your students and advisees who plan to
enter Gordon’s Early Childhood Education
baccalaureate program next year that the applications
for this program are still available in Russell 104.
These applications were due February 4, but we are
continuing to accept applications of qualified applicants
while the admissions committee is doing its
deliberations.
Also, please be aware as you talk to advisees, that
Gordon has been approved by the Board of Regents to
begin baccalaureate programs in Mathematics and
Biology. Students who major in these two new
programs may also have the option of completing a
teaching certificate in order to teach at the secondary
level. Please encourage students who might be
interested in staying at Gordon to major in these new
offerings to contact either advisors in math or biology
or to contact the Education Division for more
information. Thanks for your help in getting the word
to students.
Group advising worked so well for us last fall that we
will be repeating the process this spring. We plan to
have three sessions this time. Those dates and times
are: March 25 from 6:00 to 7:00 in Russell 211,
March 29 from 2:00 to 3:00 in Russell 211 and
March 31 from 2:00 to 3:00 in Russell 208. Students
may choose to come to any one of these. If you are
advising education students, would you please alert
them to these group advising meetings? We will also
be sending all education majors an email about this.
Even though students will still need to see their regular
advisors to unlock schedules, we are hopeful these
group advising sessions will make that advising of
education students much more efficient. If you advise
education students, you are welcome to come to any
and all of these sessions, of course! Thanks for all your
help in getting our future teachers pointed in the right
direction.
Finally, the Education Division has had several reasons
to celebrate lately. One of our students, Christina
Rogers had an article published with Gordon faculty
member Dr. Mark Brinkman. Education faculty
members Dr. Pam Bell, Dr. Becki Jones and Dr.
Sheryl O’Sullivan gave a presentation about Gordon’s
Early Childhood Education program at the Association
of Teacher Educators national convention in Chicago.
And Education faculty member Dr. Mike Borders gave
a presentation at the Georgia Council for Exceptional
Children state convention about the curricular content
needed for dual certification in early childhood and
special education. Congratulations to all!
WhitelockNotes
For Fall 2010, our 3-credit GFYE 0098 course will be
replaced by the 1-credit GFYE 0097. GFYE 0097 will
be required for students with three LS requirements and
an option for LS students with two requirements when
seats are available. This course will meet two days a
week for 8 weeks, ending at midterm. Eight sections of
GFYE 0097 will be offered Fall 2010 with 24 seats per
section. Faculty members interested in teaching the
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course will be given two options for working it into
their schedule: a faculty member may teach up to two
sections of the course as an overload, receiving $1000
for each section; or, with their division chair’s approval,
a faculty member may teach two sections of the course
and assume 20 of the GFYE students as advisees in
exchange for credit for teaching a 3-credit course in
their regular schedule.
Also, advisors should be aware that our Learning
Community program will be offering some creative and
exciting options for our students. Pre-Nursing majors
enrolled in any Biology lab course will be able to take a
special topics English 1101 (with Dr. Powers) class
with readings and assignments focused upon the field of
Nursing and Health Sciences. Pre-Pharmacy majors
enrolled in Chemistry will be offered a similar special
topics course in Public Speaking (with Dr. Boltz). We
will also offer a pairing of Math 1001 and Biology 1111
and a pairing of Reading 0099 and English 0099.
Finally, we are continuing our experiment of offering a
core-level course to a selection of Learning Support
students, once again pairing a section of Reading 0099
with a section of Psychology 1101.
Dates & Deadlines
Mar 4
Mar 9,10,11
Mar 15
Mar 15-19
Mar 24
Mar 24
Mar 30 - Apr 17
April 5-23
Apr 7-11
April 8
Apr 15
April 19-23
Apr 20 – Aug 3
Apr 26 –May 27
Apr 26 - Aug 2
Apr 27
May 3
May 4-7
May 13
May 15
May 21
May 27
May 31
Mid Terms
Regents’ Testing Program-Student
Center Auditorium
Furlough Day-College Closed
Spring Break for Faculty & Students
GA History & US Constitution Exam
Graduation Fair
Alumni Weekend
Summer/Fall 2010 Early Registration
for Continuing Students
Gordon Theatre Group presents
Hamlet
A Shakespearean Evening
Gordon College Production of Hamlet
Gordon Lecture Series:
Dr. Gary Cox
7:00 PM-Student Center Auditorium
Summer/Fall 2010 Early Registration
for Readmitted Students
Open Registration for Continuing &
Readmitted Students
Summer 2010 Open Registration for
Continuing &Readmitted Students
Fall 2010 Open Registration for
Continuing & Readmitted Students
Regents’ Test Results Available
Last Day of Classes
Final Exams - Book Buy Back
Summer 2010 New Student Orientation
– Alumni Memorial Hall
Group Advising & Registration
Graduation
Furlough Day
Early Registration
Payment Deadline for 1st Session & Full
Session Classes – 4:00 PM
Memorial Day Holiday
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