September 30, 2010
Vol.Vol.
III, II,
No.No.
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WheelerNotes
Reminder 1:
Students who participate in college-sanctioned
events such as athletic competitions at other
colleges and/or music ensemble performances in
off-campus venues receive approved absences.
Faculty members can verify these approved
absences by visiting the web site
http://www.gdn.edu/departments/academicaffairs/
approvals.asp
Receiving an approved absence does not relieve
the student from responsibility for the work
covered on the missed day, but does ensure that
the student will have the opportunity to make up
that work on a schedule determined by the
instructor.
Reminder 2:
Our primary mission at Gordon College is
teaching. However, when our colleagues find
opportunity for scholarly success, we celebrate
that success. To that end we maintain a
“Celebration Cabinet” in the hallway of the third
floor of Lambdin Hall. If you have a juried paper
that has been published in the last three years or an
artifact such as a book or an award, we would be
pleased to display a copy in the “Celebration
Cabinet.” If you are able to loan us a copy to
display, please send it to Ms. Almand or Ms.
Blackstock.
Pat Yourselves on your Backs: A piece of data
came across my desk this week that I thought was
worth reporting. As a two-year, access college, we
mark our successes in many ways. When a student
completes learning support courses and moves into
the college-level curriculum, we have provided an
important service to that student. When a student
graduates from Gordon College, new stars appear in
our collective crown. However, we can also
measure our contributions as students move from the
Gordon campus to quality for four-year colleges and
universities. Here is some data from students who
were Gordon students in Fall 2008:
Transferred toUSG Research University
(UGA, Ga. Tech, …) 133
Transferred to Regional or State University
(Armstrong, Columbus, Valdosta, …) 240
Transferred to established non-USG
four-year schools: 150
Good work!! Keep it up!
AndersonNotes
Films on Demand (Master Academic Collection)
consists of 7,000 video titles (77,000 segments) in
Humanities & Social Sciences, Business &
Economics, Health, and Science & Mathematics.
Also included is the new collection of United
Newsreels which includes an additional 260 titles
(1,250 segments). And all this is available to
Gordon Faculty, Staff and Students through
GALILEO. We will provide training to Faculty on
two different dates; October 7th at 2-3 pm for a
small group in the Technical Services Area of the
Library (a class is scheduled in the Teaching Area
so we cannot use that area). We will have another
training session on October 27th at 2 pm and it will
be in the Teaching Area of the Library. We hope
that many of the faculty will attend to see how you
can use these Films in your classes. Several faculty
members have already used this database and
professed their thanks. One quote sums it up nicely
“This is fantastic”
The GALILEO Express Link for this database is:
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zfod
You may also find it listed under Databases A to Z
and under the difference subject areas.
Check the link to see all the Films available in your
subject area.
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BaskinNotes
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL): The
4th annual SoTL Commons Conference will be
held on March 9-11, 2011 at Georgia Southern
University in Statesboro, Georgia (USA). The
submission of proposals period ends October 31,
2010: http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/
ijsotl/conference/2011/call.htm. Typically, attendees
come from 10-15 countries. Faculty and academic
administrators are invited to participate in this
international conference for improving student
learning in higher education today.
Call for Proposals—18th Georgia Conference on
College & University Teaching: Friday &
Saturday, February 11-12, 2011, Kennesaw State
University Center, and Kennesaw. Conference Web
Site & Call:
http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/conferences/gaconf/2
011.html.
GFYE 0098 note: New students in the spring
semester who have three Learning Support
requirements will be required to take GFYE 0098 if
seats are available. New students with two LS
requirements may also take the course.
The GC@FVSU program has 206 students this
semester, an increase of approximately one third
over last fall’s enrollment. Thanks go to Ms. Tonya
Moore, our faculty, and our staff for managing the
logistics and providing the best possible learning
experience for these students. Last week, I had the
good fortune to visit with a couple of our students
who completed the program during the summer
session. These are serious students who talked
enthusiastically about their academic and life plans,
and the experience demonstrated the benefits that
come from the hard work put into this program.
BetkowskiNotes
For almost two years, Gordon College has sponsored
a chapter of the Hispanic Scholar Network. The
Hispanic Scholar Network is an organization of
student clubs on thirty-two campuses
nationwide established by the Hispanic Scholarship
Fund, the nation’s leading scholarship and
educational outreach program for students of Latino
heritage. Michele Perry-Stewart, Minority
Advising Program Coordinator and a member of the
Learning Support English faculty, began this chapter
and serves as club advisor. Currently, Gordon
College is the only Hispanic Scholar Chapter outside
of the Atlanta area, besides the University of
Georgia. In its 34 year history, the Hispanic
Scholarship Fund has provided over $221 million in
scholarships to more than 90,000 students in need.
Two-thirds of these students were first generation
college students. The chapter at Gordon College has
implemented events to promote diversity such as
participating in the HSF Student Coordinator
Training at the Target Headquarters in Minneapolis,
volunteering in INSPIRA, a college preparatory
program for K-12 students with more than 10,000
attendees, and hosting a range of academic success
speakers. In October, the club will host a speaker
from the Princeton Review, and the President of the
Atlanta Hispanic Nurses Association. For more
information about HSF, please review the website at
www.hsf.net.
Although the basis of LS English class is writing
(verbal/linguistic skill), Wanda Stuckey, a member
of the English faculty, creates assignments to reflect
a degree of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences: (a) In
writing description, students mentally exercise
spatial skills; (b) Writing assignments which feature
illustration can focus students’ attention on their
bodily/kinesthetic skills; (c) Process writing and
classification allow students to demonstrate their
logical reasoning; and (d) Narrative writing appeals
to intrapersonal skills. Of course, peer and group
work is an interpersonal skill exercised in all
composition classes. English LS classes may be
concentrating on verbal skills, but they are still
exercising Gardner’s other intelligences.
Fran Boggs, LS reading instructor came in 1st in her
age group in the 5K Buggy Days race. Fran cut 2
minutes off last year’s time.
GahrNotes
Dr. Mark Brinkman
Presented the inaugural installment of the MNS
Division’s Seminar Series titled: “Fire Ants, Sodium
Bicarbonate and pH”. His seminar was conducted on
September 20th.
Dr. Amanda Duffus
Amanda has been invited to speak on Ranaviruses in
Europe at the first Symposium on Ranaviruses at the
2011 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists (JMIH) in Minneapolis, Minnesota
USA from 6 – 11 July 2011. This presentation is
based on her publication:
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Duffus, A.L.J. and A.A. Cunningham. 2010. Major
Disease Threats to European Amphibians.
Herpetological Journal. 20:117-127.
Drs. Susan Glenn and John Reece
Susan and John are happy to announce that the SGA
has approved the establishment of a new club called
the Computing Club. The Computing Club plans to
meet regularly to pursue a variety of topics and
interests in the field of computing, for example,
gaming, robotics, parallel computing, and computing
combined with other disciplines such as art and
music. In addition, the club plans to sponsor special
speakers from four-year schools as well as from
industry. There are no dues or fees for members,
and the Computing club is open to all Gordon
College students.
Dr. Beike Jia
‘Baker’ has received confirmation that his paper
titled “Reactions between rubidium atoms and C6F6,
C2Cl4, C2HCl3,CH2=CCl2, or trans-C2H2Cl2 in
crossed molecular beams”, has been accepted by the
European Journal of Mass Spectrometry.
Dr. Cathy Lee
Participated in UKC 2010 (US-Korea Conference on
Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship;
http://ukc.ksea.org/ukc2010/ ) in Seattle, WA,
August 11-15, 2010. The theme of the conference
was “Green Technology for a New World”. She was
an invited speaker for the Korean Women in
Science and Engineering Forum (KWise).
Dr. Greg Hartman
Dr. Hartman is reviewing the book "The Biology of
Small Mammals" (Joseph F. Merritt, author; Johns
Hopkins University Press) for The American Society
of Mammalogist's Journal of Mammalogy.
Dr. Lynn Rumfelt
1. Lynn will start a natural science program for
children in kindergarten through second grade called
“Kids Exploring Their World Around Them” at
the Barnesville Public Library in Lamar County,
Saturdays 11:00 – 11:30AM October 2nd through
December 18th. She will use reading, art, simple
experiments and play activities to educate these
young students about the natural sciences in a
manner which allows them to explore their natural
curiosity and gain experience and confidence in their
reading and writing skills and use their creativity.
This program is free and open to the public.
2. Lynn’s initiative and hard work in organizing the
first-time ever MNS Divisions’ Seminar Series came
to fruition on September 20th when Dr. Mark
Brinkman presented the inaugural address: “Fire
Ants, Sodium Bicarbonate and pH”.
Dr. Richard Schmude
1. Talks
a. “Telescope viewing session given to a group
of Girl Scouts from Carrollton, GA at The
Rock Ranch on Sept. 18, 2010. Richard
sponsored this event. [about 60 attended].
b. “Jupiter: Wind speeds” a 60 minute
workshop given at the Atlanta Astronomy
club on August 20, 2010 at Emory
University [32 attended].
c. “Jupiter: Recent Events (2007-2010)” a 40
minute talk given at the ALConExpo
conference in Tucson, AZ on June 26,
2010.
d. “The Brightness and Color of the Saturn
System” a 25 minute talk given to the
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at
the University of New Brunswick
(Fredrickton campus) on July 3, 2010.
e. “Mars Photometry 2009-2010” a 25 minute
talk given at the Association of Lunar and
Planetary Observers Conference at Florida
State College in Jacksonville on July 31,
2010.
f. “Recent Developments on Jupiter” a 25
minute talk given at the Association of
Lunar and Planetary Observers Conference
at Florida State College in Jacksonville on
July 31, 2010.
g. “The Remote Planets” a 25 minute talk
given at the Association of Lunar and
Planetary Observers Conference at Florida
State College in Jacksonville on July 31,
2010.
2. Publications
a. “Wideband Photometry of Saturn in 20082009” Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 68,
No. 2, pp. 96-103 (2010).
b. On Friday afternoon September 24, Richard
received word that his book “Comets and
How to Observe Them” has just been
published.
Dr. Marwan Zabdawi
Based on “outstanding achievements” The Marquis
Who’s Who has selected Marwan’s biography for
the inclusion in their forthcoming 65th edition 2011
of Who’s Who in America.
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MilewiczNotes
Please note that the first Honors Program
application deadline for this academic year is
October 10th. I hope you might encourage your best
students and advisees to consider applying as we
move into the term and our high-performing students
become easier to identify.
All application and program information for the
Honors Program may be found at:
http://www.gdn.edu/honors. There, students can also
find a downloadable application.
The Honors Program event website at
http://honorsevents.gdn.edu/ is also available for
your reference.
As always, I welcome questions and comments
about the program and appreciate your continued
support.
O’Sullivan Notes
Even though it is a bit early to be thinking about
advising for spring, there are a few dates we here in
the Education Division wish those of you who
advise would-be teachers would keep in mind. We
will be having group advising sessions for teacher
education majors again this year. The dates and
times for those advising sessions are October 19
from 6:00 to 7:00 and October18 and 27 from
2:00 to 3:00. All sessions will take place in Russell
211. Students may choose any of the three sessions,
but early childhood majors and middle grade
education majors MUST attend at least one of these
sessions. Students who plan to teach secondary
school do not come to these sessions, but instead
continue to meet with their advisors in the major
fields (math, history, etc.). 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.
Early childhood and middle grade education majors
who have advisors outside the Education Division
will still need to see their regular advisors to unlock
schedules, but we are hopeful these group advising
sessions make the advising of education students
much more efficient. Thanks for all your help in
getting our future teachers pointed in the right
direction!
The Education Division has also had several reasons
to be proud lately. First, two of our graduating
seniors have been selected to receive Georgia
Power New Teacher Assistance Grants. These
grants, of $1000.00 each, are given to outstanding
students who are employed as first-year teachers to
assist them in buying materials and equipment for
their classrooms. Jalisa King, second grade teacher
in the Griffin-Spalding District, and Erica Tyler,
first grade teacher at Lamar Primary School were the
happy recipients of these grants.
Also, in faculty news, Dr. Becki Jones recently
presented at the Culturing the Popular Conference
held in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Dr. Jones
presented on her use of the popular movie, Blind
Side, in her foundations of education courses.
WhitelockNotes
Professor Valerie Calhoun is an acknowledged
reviewer for the 7th Edition of Roger Kamien’s
Music: An Appreciation, the textbook required for
all Gordon College sections of MUSC 1100.
Dr. Doug Davis presented at two conferences this
past summer. He presented a paper, “The Material
Culture of Race in Flannery O’Connor’s Short
Fiction,” at the San Francisco meeting of the
American Literature Association (ALA). He also
organized and moderated a discussion panel,
“Immigration and Alienation in Science Fiction,” at
the Phoenix, Arizona meeting of the Science Fiction
Research Association (SFRA). At the SFRA
meeting, he was elected to become the editor-inchief of the SFRA Review, a quarterly journal of
essays, reviews and news covering the field of
science fiction scholarship.
Dr. Davis’s essay, “Shiftlet’s Choice: O’Connor’s
Fordist Love Story,” was published in the edited
collection Flannery O’Connor in the Age of
Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace, released
this summer by the University of Tennessee Press.
Also, his book review of Glen Scott Allen’s
monograph, Master Mechanics and Wicked
Wizards: Images of the American Scientist from
Colonial Times to the Present, was published in the
Spring 2010 issue of Studies in Popular Culture. He
is currently finalizing an essay, “The Technological
Sublime in the Literature of the New South,” that he
was invited to submit for a special issue of Southern
Review.
Dr. Stephen Powers has published a couple new
works in literary journals. His poem "Elitist in
Central Georgia" is in the current issue of
Interrobang?! and my poem "I'm the New Lover
Helping Her Try On the Unused Oleg Cassini" is in
the current issue of Rougarou.
Dr. Rhonda Wilcox has co-edited (with Sue
Turnbull of Latrobe University, Melbourne) a
collection of essays on the television program
Veronica Mars, which is forthcoming from
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McFarland Press. She has also finished editing the
newest issue of Studies in Popular Culture (32.2)
with the help of Dr. David Janssen, who serves as
Reviews Editor
Dates & Deadlines cont’d
Oct 25
MNS Speaker Series 2 PM IC 112
Oct 27
Nov 1
Galileo Training – “Films on Demand” 2 PM
Teaching Area of Hightower Library
Benefits Fair 10-4 PM Fnd Rm
Nov 8
APC Meeting 2 PM IC 209
Nov 1-19
Early Registration for Continuing Students
Nov 10
GeorgiaVIEW Training 2 PM IC 102
Nov 11
Nov 15
Gordon Speaker Series
6 – 9 PM SC Auditorium
Faculty Senate Meeting 2 PM R208
Dr. Buell Wisner, Ph.D. in English from The
University of Tennessee, 2010, M.A. in English
from Georgian Southern University, 2001, and B.A.
in English and History (Cum Laude) from The
University of Georgia, 1998.
Nov 17
Brown Bag Conversations 2 PM Fnd Rm
Nov 18
Nov 22
New Student Orientation
Group Advising & Registration Spring 2011
MNS Speaker Series 2 PM IC 112
Nov 23
Residence Halls close at 4 pm for Thanksgiving
Dr. Marc Muneal, Ph.D. in English Language and
Literature, Emory University, 2010, and B.A. in
English (Valedictorian), Morehouse College, 2004.
Nov 24
Administrative Offices are open
Nov 24-26
Thanksgiving Holidays for Faculty & Students
Nov 25-26
Ms. Wanda Stuckey, Ed.S. and M. Ed., in English
Education, and B.A. in English Language and
Literature, Columbus State University, 1984, 1978,
1974
Dates & Deadlines
Nov 28
Thanksgiving Holidays for Administrative &
Staff College Closed
Residence Halls reopen at 4:00 PM
Nov 29
APC Meeting 2 PM IC 209
Dec 1
Dec 6
Student Recital – Applied Music Students
2 PM – Fine Arts Auditorium
Open to public/Free Admission
College Chorus/Concert Band
7:30 PM – Fine Arts Auditorium
Free Admission
JURIES
Applies Music Majors
TBA Fine Arts 116 Not Open to the Public
Last Day of Classes
Dec 7-10
Final Exams & Book Buy Back at Bookstore
Dec 10
Residence Halls close at 4:00 PM for Christmas
Dec 20Jan 3
Jan 4
College Closed for Christmas Holidays
New full-time faculty:
Dr. Cortney Grubbs, Ph.D. in English from The
University of Florida, 2010, M.F.A. in English from
the University of Florida, 2004, and B.A. in English
(Sigma Cum Laude) from The University of Central
Florida, 2002.
Sep 29-Oct 2
"Sylvia" 7:30 PM Fine Arts Auditorium
Dec 2
Oct 2
Auditions – Program Admission/Scholarships
9 AM – 5 PM Fine Arts High School Students
GeorgiaVIEW Training 2 PM IC 102
Dec 6
Oct 6
Oct 7
Oct 7
Oct 8
Galileo Training – “Films on Demand”
2-3 PM – Technical Services area Hightower
Librry
Midterm – Withdrawals after Oct 7 will be
automatic WF except in documented hardship
cases.
See or Call the Registrar’s Office. Cannot
withdraw online.
Posting Midterm Failing Grades
Staff Report
Jan 5
Faculty Report
Jan 6
New Student Orientation – Alumni Hall
Group Advising & Registration
Auditions -- Program Admission/Scholarships
9 AM – 5 PM Fine Arts High School Students
Open Registration
Oct 11 -12
Fall Break for Faculty & Students
Oct 13
Georgia History & US Constitution Exams
Oct 13
APC Meeting 2 PM IC 209
Oct 13
NFO-Rev of Advising & Other Matters
2PM – Fnd Rm
Faculty Senate Meeting 2 PM R208
Jan 7
Jan 7
Last day to withdraw & receive a full tuition refund
Payment Deadline for Early & Open Regist 4:00 PM
Education Division – Group Advising
18th & 27 th 2 P M – 3 PM Russell 211
19th 6 PM – 7 PM Russell 211
Academic Contests
Jan 10
Spring 2011 Classes Begin
Jan 10 – 11
Late Registration
Jan 10-13
Drop / Add
Jan 13
Last day to receive a refund for reduction of hours
Payment Deadline for Late Registration & Drop/Add
4:00 PM
Oct 18
Oct 18, 19, 27
Oct 19
Oct 20
Oct 21
Student Recital
Applied Music Students
2 PM–Fine Arts
Open to public/Free Admission
Academic Contests
Jan 7 & 8
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