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Multicultural Week at ASU offers films, food, more
The International Student Association and the Student Activities
Board are hosting Multicultural Week festivities. Tonight's Movie
Night features a 7 p.m. screening of "Lago Raho Munna
Bhai" in the Student Union Auditorium.
ASU-Jonesboro selected for HLC's assessment academy
ASU-Jonesboro
has been selected as a pioneer institution in the Higher Learning
Commission's Academy for Assessment of Student Learning. ASU is one
of 36 institutions that will participate in the inaugural year of
the Academy program. The Academy will provide participating
institutions with a four-year sequence of events and interactions
that focus on improving student learning through an institution-wide
commitment to assessment. ASU sent a team of eight faculty members
and administrators to the Academy Roundtable in Lisle, Ill., Feb.
28-March 2. The roundtable introduces institutional teams to the
academy processes and other cohort institutions, and provides for
development of the initial steps in developing action learning
projects under the supervision of HLC staff and specially trained
mentors. During the roundtable, the ASU team focused on developing
plans for action projects associated with an organizational
structure for academic assessment, a pilot assessment study for
selected general education learning outcomes, and graduate program
assessment. Members of the ASU team include Dr. Lynita Cooksey,
Academic Affairs, Barbara Doyle, Assessment Services, Dr.
John Pratte, Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Andy Sustich,
Graduate School, Dr. David Harding, Political Science, Dr.
Gretchen Hill, Sociology, Dr. Melodie Philhours,
Management and Marketing, and Dr. Deborah Chappel Traylor,
English.
Hall to present award-winning paper
Heritage Studies student and graduate assistant Glinda Hall will
present her paper, "Inverting the Southern Belle: Emily Toth
Redefines Gender Myths," to the 2007 Popular Culture/American
Culture conference in Boston, April 4-7. Hall's paper
also won this year's William Brigham Award and
will be published in the Journal of Popular
Culture. Hall will receive the Brigham Award during the conference.
Buxton to present dissertation today
Gary L. Buxton, candidate for the PhD in Heritage Studies, will
present his dissertation today at 4 p.m. in Library 804. The title
of his dissertation is "The Art of the Auctioneer: A Performance
Tradition in Ethnographic and Historical Perspective." A catered
reception will follow. The event is sponsored by
the Heritage Studies PhD program, a division of
the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr. McGregor an invited presenter at conference
Dr. Loretta Neal McGregor, Psychology and
counseling, was an invited presenter at the Southeastern
Psychological Association's annual conference recently in New
Orleans. Her presentation, "The life and times of Mamie Phipps
Clark," described how Dr. Clark's doll research with children was
used successfully to show the harmful effects of segregation in the
1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case.
Concert Choir to perform with Memphis Symphony
The ASU Concert Choir will
perform Mendelssohn's "Elijah" with
the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Saturday, April 14. MSO is
offering half-price admission to students, family, friends, and ASU
personnel. Congratulations to Dr. Dale Miller and the Concert
Choir for being selected to perform.
'The Race for Planet X' comes to ASU Museum
Arkansas' first immersive,
hands-on museum on wheels, sponsored by the Arkansas Discovery
Network, is visiting the ASU Museum Saturday, March 17,
from 1-4 p.m. The museum on wheels remains in situ Monday-Wednesday,
March 19-21, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., providing hands-on engineering
skills and scientific concepts at a 6th-grade level, but children of
all ages are invited. The mobile museum is available to schools,
libraries, and community centers thanks to a generous grant from the
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. For details, call the ASU Museum at
ext. 2074, or see
http://www.arkansasdiscoverynetwork.org/museum-wheels/.
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