Vol. V. No. 3
October 15, 2012
WheelerNotes
How the Years do Fly!! Professor Anderson: With
great regret we accepted word that our Director of the
Library, Professor Nancy Anderson, has decided to
retire from Gordon State College in December of this year.
Those of us who have worked with Nancy over some or all
of the twenty-six years she has served at GSC have taken
note of the extravagant care she has directed at the
holdings of our beautiful Hightower Library and the
welcoming spirit with which she has greeted students and
faculty who have sought services in that library. Thank
you, Professor Anderson!
We will have more to say about Nancy’s departure later.
For the present, we note that we have established a search
committee to try to fill this big hole. The Committee will
be chaired by Dr. Ed Whitelock. He will be joined in this
effort by Professor Beverly Eskridge, and Drs. Beike
Jia, Sheryl O’Sullivan, and Jeffery Rogers.
Re-Calibration of Travel Allowance: From several
sources we received a request that we rethink the perfaculty travel funds made available to our academic units.
With the registration fee for many regional conferences
increasing, $500 is sometimes not sufficient to attend even
a regional conference. For the past several years, the
travel budget of each academic unit has been computed as
(number of full-time faculty)*($500). As of October 1 of
this year, the budget of each academic unit has been
altered so that the amount budgeted for travel is (number
of full-time faculty)*($750) for academic year 2012-2013.
We caution that this does not mean that each faculty
member is guaranteed access to $750. As with the
previous allocation, the division chair or dean of the unit is
charged with developing a policy that will provide access
to travel funds for all faculty but may differentiate in
amount depending issues such as (a) when the request is
received and/or (b) whether the faculty member is
presenting or serving in leadership role and/or (c) whether
the faculty member has applied for support from the
faculty development committee. We will re-examine this
travel allocation as we prepare a budget for the next
academic year.
Remember that if you have questions about travel
guidelines you can contact our institutional budget analyst,
Justin White, in the VPBA’s office.
Technology Focused Teaching and Learning Grants:
As we systematize our support for Teaching and Learning
through the efforts of Drs. Perkowski and WattsWarren, we would like to make available additional
resources as well as programming. We do not want to
duplicate the work of the Faculty Development committee
which has funds that it makes available to support teaching
and learning and other professional development. Since
most of the faculty development monies are presently
allocated to support travel, we will make available grants
of up to $2000 for technology, equipment, on-line training,
and/or materials connected to a project that will enhance
teaching and learning in the class room environment, the
hybrid environment, or the on-line environment. The
Request for Proposals for these grants can be found on the
Academic Affairs web location. Proposals are due on
November 9.
Looking Forward – New Degrees at Gordon State
College: Each year the Academic Affairs Office must
send an academic forecast to the University System
describing new degrees that Gordon State College might
hope to implement over the ensuing 48 months. The most
recent report was made on September 1 and, because most
of current thinking on these matters has been driven by
ideas that have come from the faculty and staff, we publish
the content of this report for campus consumption:
(Please see next page for report.)
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Degree
Title\Degree
Level
BS in Health
Science in
Health Services
& Informatics
Administration
Instructional Delivery
Method(s)/Physical
Location
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Estimated
Implementation Date
Spring, 2013
Current
Status of
Program
Degree
approved,
faculty
hired,
curriculum
under
development
Prospectus
reviewed,
full
proposal
requested,
full
proposal
delivered
on August
29, 2012.
Preliminary
work in
progress
BS in Human
Services
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Fall, 2013
BS in Health
Science in
Health Services
and Informatics
Administration
Bachelor of
General Studies
On-line Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Spring, 2014
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Fall, 2014 Fall 2015
Preliminary
work in
progress
BSN
(pre-licensure)
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Fall, 2014 –
Fall 2015
Preliminary
work in
progress
BSED in Middle
Grades
Education
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Fall, 2014Fall 2015
Preliminary
work in
progress
BS in
Criminal
Justice
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Fall 2015 2016
Preliminary
work in
progress
BS in
Management
Traditional Delivery,
Barnesville, GA
Fall 2015 2016
Preliminary
work in
progress
Two observations are important:
 Placing a program on this list does not guarantee that
it will be implemented. Our experience is that each
new program approval is a politically challenging
process that usually takes longer than we anticipated.
 The work of the Strategic Planning Committee will
take precedence over this work, should there be
disparities between the strategic plan and this
academic forecast. In the best of all worlds, we
would have waited until after the strategic plan was
complete to make this forecast, but seldom is that
“best” available to us.
BaskiNotes
Complete College Georgia: Many of you are familiar
with the Lamar County College and Career Academy
(LCCCA), the new public charter school integrated into
the existing high school. Gordon State College and
Southern Crescent Technical College are the postsecondary partners in the LCCCA, and Gordon’s efforts
are a part of our Complete College Georgia plan in helping
students develop and pursue academic and career
paths. Our institutions, and therefore our students, benefit
from improved communications and mutual
support. Gordon’s LCCCA Advisory Group, which
includes representatives from the major academic units,
works with me to develop ideas and lead our efforts. I
serve as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the
LCCCA.
Gordon State College is working with the LCCCA on
increasing participation in dual-credit classes (Accel), but
we also connect with the Career, Technical, and
Agricultural Education (CTAE) program at the high school
level, principally through collaboration between CTAE
and our Nursing and Education faculty and
administrators. You may be interested to learn about the
Work Ethics Rubric being used this academic year as part
of the evaluation of student work in the LCCCA
courses. The criteria in this rubric are 1)Discipline and
Character, 2) Attendance in Class, 3) On-site Job
Shadowing or community service project, 4) Productivity
and Academic Performance, 5) Responsibility and
Organization, 6) Attitude and Respect, 7) Team Work and
Work Habits, 8) Self-Management and Time Management,
9) Oral and Written Business Communication Skills, and
10) Appearance and Professional Image.
ACCEL Students and Early Alert Report: We value
having ACCEL (high school dual-credit) students in our
classes, as they are typically among the brightest students
in their high schools and our classrooms, but some of them
experience the same issues with adjustment to college that
our “traditional” students experience. Your Early Alert
reports can be a great help to these students.
An email has been sent to the appropriate counselor at a
given high school for any ACCEL student who was listed
on the Early Alert Report. These emails will be sent out
each semester in an effort to avoid surprises back at
home. The high school and the parents may not find out
that a student has not been engaged in a college class until
the end of the semester, when final grades are reported. In
a spring term, that knowledge usually means that the
student will not graduate with his or her class. Since this
kind of surprise has been a concern for some time, we are
glad to have a much more efficient method for reporting
these students who are underperforming early in the
term. The Student Success Center and Computer Services
have helped make these reports happen. Thank you for
your effort in generating these reports.
Peter Higgins and Testing Center Update: You may not
be aware that, because we have expanded his duties, Peter
Higgins now holds the title of Director of Student Success,
Advisement, and Testing. “Advisement” refers to preterm advising in the SSC and oversight of our first-year
student advising efforts in the SSC. . . . We have heard
from a number of well-qualified applicants about the
position of Testing Center Coordinator, and Mr. Higgins
will soon begin the interview process. We are able to
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move forward with this important initiative because of
careful resource management at the cabinet level.
GarrettNotes
The Gordon College Association of Nursing Students
(GCANS) has been very busy this semester providing
service to the community. Hearing & Vision Screenings
were performed by students for two days at New Hope
Elementary School in Locust Grove, GA and were
supervised by Professors Samantha Bishop and Amy
Spearman. Our Gordon State nursing students also
assisted Ms. Alice Turner with administering flu vaccines
here on campus on 9/10 and 9/12. Professors Veronica
Taylor, Wendy Martin, Cathy Hammond and Amy
Spearman also participated in this health promotion
event. GCANS continued their work and participated in
administering flu vaccines to 300 students in a joint effort
by Lamar County Schools and the Lamar County Health
Department on 10/2 and 10/3. Professors Samantha
Bishop and Patricia Stewart were on hand to assist in
this large vaccination event. Thank you to all the students
and faculty for keeping our community and campus
healthy.
From a scholarly perspective, Professor Sarah
Handwerker’s article “Transforming Nursing Education:
A Review of Current Curricular Practices in Relation to
Benner's Latest Work” has been published in The
International Journal of Nursing Education
Scholarship. Professor Handwerker’s writings address
current societal and healthcare system trends that highlight
the need to transform nursing education. Congratulations
Sarah for your timely contribution to nursing education.
In clinical news, Professor Teresa Buchanan, who is a
Family Nurse Practitioner has been granted admission
privileges at Spalding Regional Medical Center. The
credentialing process to obtain hospital admitting
privileges is a rigorous one, and we congratulate Professor
Buchanan on her accomplishment.
GahrNotes
Dr. Beike Jia has been invited to speak at the Mass
Spectrometry forum of the 2nd Annual Conference
and EXPO of AnalytiX-2013 in March in China. The
conference is the annual flagship event for Bio
analysis and Chemical analysis in the field of bio &
laboratory instrumentation. In 2011 the event
attracted approximately 500 participants from around
the world.
Dr. Greg Hartman gave a presentation entitled
"Georgia Bats: Habitat and Conservation" to Amanda
Horne's third grade class at Lamar County
Elementary School on 27 September. The kids were
so enthusiastic and had so many questions, the
planned 50 minute presentation finally came to an end
after an hour and 40 minutes..... and then only
because school was letting out for the day.
Dr. Robert Hayden’s case study: "Unexpected
Metastatic Disease in a Senior" was published in the
Georgia Chiropractic Association Journal in
September. In August, Dr. Hayden also did a onehour presentation, "Georgia Chiropractic Law
Update" at the Florida Chiropractic Association
Convention in Orlando. A few weeks ago, Dr.
Hayden was interviewed by Sue Baxter, a freelance
writer who is writing for Arthritis Today magazine
published by the National Arthritis Foundation. Dr.
Hayden serves as one of six members on the
American Chiropractic Association Media Team. On
Friday, October 20, Dr. Hayden will be moderator for
a Risk Management panel discussion in Atlanta for
the Georgia Chiropractic Association's 100th
anniversary meeting.
Dr. Mustapha Durojaiye organized a field trip for
the members of the Alpha Tau Alpha Biological Club
to the Food and Drug Administration’s regional
laboratory in Atlanta. The students engaged in
discussion with the deputy director and the section
chiefs during the visit. They were accompanied by
Dr. Mustapha Durojaiye and Dr. Cathy Lee, the
club advisers’. The tour was conducted on October 1,
2012.
JansseNotes
As advising for Spring kicks into full swing, please
remember that students may register for Honors sections
even if they are not admitted into the Honors
Program. Interested students will need to contact me
because they will not be able to self-register, but students
with aptitude and interest in a particular Honors section are
encouraged to enroll. Taking an Honors class is a great
way to learn about the Honors Program as well. We are
offering the following Honors sections this Spring:
CHEM 1212KH
COLQ 2994H: Medicine in America: A Topical History
ENGL 1102H
HIST 2111
SOCI 1101H was approved by the Academic Policy
Committee last week and will be offered in the Fall.
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If you have an interest in teaching an existing Honors
section or would like to propose a new one, please contact
me.
KnightoNotes
Dr. Jeff Rogers presented a paper, “Young Man with a
Press: The First Six Months of William Gilmore Simms’s
Editorship of the Charleston City Gazette” at the Biennial
William Gilmore Simms Society Conference on
September 27-29, at the University of South Carolina in
Columbia, SC. Dr. Rogers is also an officer for the
Society.
Dr. Karen McCarron, the Chair of the Regents’ Advisory
Committee for Business, attended the fall orientation for
all Regents’ Advisory Committees’ Chairs on Oct. 6, 2012
in Macon on the campus of Macon State College.
Drs. Tom Aiello and Elizabeth Watts Warren attended
the Governor’s Teaching Fellows training program in
Athens, GA, Sept 5 – 7, and Oct. 3 – 5.
Drs. Kris Beck and Prathibha Joshi attended the USG
Faculty Development Workshop on September 28 in
Athens.
Dr. Don Butts attended the meeting of the American
Association of University Professors (AAUP) – Georgia
Association, in Atlanta, on October 6. Dr. Butts is on the
state Board of Directors.
The History Club raised almost $300 during their Breast
Cancer Awareness campaign.
Drs. Christy Flatt and Barry Kicklighter accompanied
17 students from Globalization (Social Science COLQ)
class and Psychology and Sociology students on a field
trip to the CDC and the High Museum of Art. The
highlight of the CDC visit was our tour guide, a Medical
Sociologist, who was able to inform the students of the
role of Behavioral Scientists in combating disease. A key
component of the High Museum was viewing an exhibit
that examined the interplay of technology, the
environment, and the consumer’s need for fossil fuels.
MahaNotes
Dr. Sheryl O’Sullivan has had a couple of presentations
accepted. She will be presenting at the GATE (October
2012) conference as well as the ATE conference on
research she has completes about changing attitudes and
dispositions of teacher education candidates.
Dr. Mike Mahan has had a presentation accepted by
NSTA for Atlanta, GA on November 3rd. This is in
relation to using grant funded programs for teachers to
apply to classroom settings and learning opportunities.
Gordon State College will be participating in a pilot study
to evaluate teacher performance as part of the “Race to the
Top” (RT3) program from the Georgia Department of
Education
We have received word from Georgia Power, a partner in
Education that two of our recent graduates were awarded
$1000.00 grants for classroom supplies. The two
graduates of the Teacher education program are Amy
Betsill and Nick Wilson both are from the class of 2012.
This is part of the New Teacher Assistance Program
sponsored by Georgia Power.
Physical Education is actively working to create a new
physical education activity course that will take advantage
of the excellent rock wall climbing facility here at Gordon.
PerkowskiNotes
Desire2Learn (D2L) is already available for Gordon State
Faculty, and a series of training sessions has been ongoing
to prepare our faculty for Spring 2013online, hybrid, flip
and traditional courses.
WhitelockNotes
Dr. Marc Muneal, with six student petitioners, chartered
Alpha Tau Theta, the Gordon State College Chapter of
Sigma Tau Delta, and the International English Honor
Society. Dr. Muneal will serve as the chapter sponsor.
Ten students became the founding members of the Alpha
Tau Theta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International
English Honor Society: Asia Anderson, Charlotte Coile,
David Cromer, Amy Tate, Nicolas Thomas, Stephanie
Hogg, Olivia Gunn, Anna Cogdill, Shaunasee Holder, and
Dara Story. The students will be officially inducted later
this semester.
Gordon State College Humanities faculty have long been
well-represented amongst participants at the annual
Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, but
this year special mention must be made of two English BA
Program students who made presentations at the
conference in Nashville this September: Ms. Charlotte
Coile and Ms. Asia Anderson.
BA English program offerings for spring 2013 include
ENGL 3220 Renaissance British Literature (Dr. Richard
Baskin), ENGL 3350 Modern and Postmodern American
Literature (Dr. Doug Davis), ENGL 3400 History of
English and the American Languages (Dr. Marc Muneal),
ENGL 3920 Technical Writing (Dr. Wesley Venus), and
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ENGL 4910 Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition:
Composition Theory (Dr. Edward Whitelock).
The “President’s Report,” edited by Dr. Peter Boltz, will
soon be “on the rack.” The cover story this year will be
President Max Burns and the faculty feature will be Dr.
Rhonda Wilcox. Other stories include one about 2006
graduate Caleb Tarno and 1958 graduate and Green
Beret, John Eddy. This year’s edition marks the tenth
consecutive year of publication.
Dr. Marc Muneal gave a paper entitled “Fanny Cradock’s
Ambitions” at the 2012 Popular Culture Association in the
South Annual Conference.
Dr. Stephen Raynie and Dr. Caesar Perkowski
presented their findings about specific methods to increase
retention and pass rates in online courses, Improving
Student Pass Rates in Online Composition Courses—The
Personal Touch, at the Third Annual Distance Learning
Conference: Teach for Tomorrow at Columbus State
University in September.
Dr. Rhonda V. Wilcox presented a paper at the Popular
Culture Association in the South Conference in Nashville
(September 27-29) in a panel which included GSC senior
English major Charlie Coile and English professor
emerita Dr. Mary Alice Money. Dr. Wilcox's title was
"Future Maternal: Mothering in the Future History
Episodes of Dollhouse and Fringe," and Charlie Coile's
title was "'The Doctor's Wife': Representations of Women
in Doctor Who." Dr. Wilcox also delivered copies of the
Fall 2012 issue of Studies in Popular Culture, and
Associate Editor and Book Review Editor David Janssen,
Assistant Editor Marc Muneal, and Editorial Assistant
Charlie Coile were publicly recognized for their
contributions to the work of the journal in the conference's
Friday evening Awards Reception.
Dates & Deadlines
Oct 17
Sophie Shao - Cello
Oct 17
Student Recital: Featuring Music & Theater Students
2:00 p.m. FA Auditorium
Instrumental Music Concert
begins at 7:30 p.m. FA Auditorium
Early Registration for Continuing Students
Oct 23
Oct 29Nov 16
Nov 9
Nov 15
Nov 21
Nov 21-23
Nov 22-23
Nov 28
Nov 29
Dec 3
Dec 3
Dec 4-7
Dec 17 thru
Jan 1
Presidential Investiture
11:30 – 12:45 Lunch for visitors from other campuses
12:45 – 1:00 Procession line forms for visitors and
Gordon faculty in hallway behind the Fine Arts Audit
1:00 Procession begins Investiture Ceremony
2:15 Reception for Visitors, Students, Staff, and
Faculty in Nursing and Allied Health Building
New Student Orientation – Alumni Mem Hall
Group Advising/Registration (Spring 2013 Semester)
Administrative Offices are open
Thanksgiving Holidays for Faculty & Students
Thanksgiving Holidays for Administrative Staff
College Closed
Student Recital: Featuring Music & Theater Students
2:00 p.m. FA Auditorium
Choral Music Concert - begins at 7:30 p.m. FA
Auditorium
Instrumental Music Concert - begins at 7:30 p.m. FA
Auditorium
Last day of classes
Final Exams
College Closed
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