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University Planning Committee meeting
will be held today
The University Planning Committee
will meet Wednesday, March 17, at 9 a.m. in the Board Room of the
Library (8th floor). The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the
budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Faculty members have paper
accepted at conference
Four faculty members collaborated
on a paper, "Developing and Implementing a System of Shared
Governance from a Faculty Perspective,” that has been accepted at the
Fourth International Conference of
the American Institute of Higher Education. Julie Isaacson,
Nursing, Dr. Mike McDaniel, Communication Disorders, Dr.
Louella Moore, Accounting, and Dr. Beverly Boals-Gilbert,
Teacher Education, have extensive experience with shared governance at ASU. Dr. McDaniel, Isaacson, and Dr.
Moore are active and long-term participants in the initial task force efforts charged with
creating and designing a viable shared governance system. They are all
members of the Shared Governance Oversight Committee, chaired by Dr.
McDaniel. Dr. Beverly Boals-Gilbert is the current Faculty Senate
chair, president of the Faculty Association, and the newest member
of the Shared Governance Oversight Committee. All paper submissions
for the conference are
peer-reviewed and will be published in the proceedings of the
conference. Additionally, "Developing and Implementing a System of
Shared Governance from a Faculty Perspective,” is in consideration for the
conference's Distinguished Paper Award. The award-winning paper will
be selected through a competitive blind review process, and will be announced at the conference.
If a paper wins an award, it will be published in a journal.
Dr. Chaudhury presents paper
at conference
Dr. Zariff Chaudhury, Metallurgical Technology, recently
presented a collaborative paper,
“Cultural Diversity Issues in the Undergraduate Engineering
Program,” at the 39th annual
meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) in
Albuquerque, N. M.
The purpose of Dr. Chaudhury’s study was to explore
the perceptions of the importance of cultural diversity in
engineering. Both undergraduate engineering students and engineering
graduates participated in his study. Dr. Chaudhury’s
findings suggest that students and graduates perceive that it is
important to include cultural diversity courses in the engineering
program and that qualified students across ethnic groups have equal
access to the engineering program.
However, students, compared to
graduates, felt that the existing curriculum was culturally diverse
and stressed the need for more minority recruitment. Students, more
than graduates, believed that engineering professionals have high
standards as regards their work ethic, experience high levels of job
satisfaction, and are well paid. Dr. Chaudhury also chaired a
session, “Young Adult Perception of the Social World." Several
hundred national and international scholars, including a Nobel
Laureate in physics, participated and presented papers at the
conference.
SCCR is a multi-disciplinary organization made up of about 150
members. The members all share a common devotion to the conduct of
cross-cultural research. SCCR is fundamentally inter-disciplinary
and provides members the opportunity to network with scholars from a
wide variety of approaches.
Dr. Coleman selected to serve on city board
Dr. Charles Coleman,
Technology, was recently selected by the City of Jonesboro’s Department
Community Development Organization to serve on the North Jonesboro
Board of Initiative, or the NJBNI. The board was developed to
develop “an approach to reducing poverty and building strong
resilient communities.” The first meeting of this board was held
Feb. 24.
Dr. Mello has article
published in international journal
Dr. John E. Mello, Marketing, director, Center for Supply
Chain Managem ent,
was recently published in the Winter 2010 edition of “Foresight: The
International Journal of Applied Forecasting.” Dr. Mello is a member
of the Foresight editorial board and is also a frequent contributor
of sales forecasting articles in the journal. His published article,
“Corporate Culture and S and OP: Why Culture Counts,” examines the
roles of corporate culture in sales and operations planning (S and
OP), making the case that businesses must instill in employees a
vision of a smoothly running S and OP process and foster the
cultural values and norms necessary to achieve it. Dr. Mello joined
the faculty at ASU in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. from the
University of Tennessee. Prior to completing his Ph.D., he worked
for 26 years in the consumer packaged goods industry in a variety of
manufacturing positions at Unilever and Playtex Products.
Journalism faculty, graduate
students, present papers
Two faculty members and five graduate students from the College of
Communications recently presented research papers at the Midwest
Conference at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communications (AEJMC) at the University of Oklahoma. The graduate
student papers were produced under the instruction of Dr. Lillie
Fears, Journalism, and Dr. Osa Amenyi, chair,
Radio-Television, in journalism and radio-television course sections
of Interpretive Research Methods during the fall 2009 semester.
Dr. Myleea Hill, Journalism, presented “How 2 rite Gr8 leeds: A
study of the impact of text messaging on basic news writing
skills.” Dr. Jack Zibluk, Journalism, was chosen to present
his research on “The Reporter Test for Multimedia Ethics." The following graduate students
presented at the conference. Fawaz Mohammad Alajmi presented
research on “International Students’ Uses and Gratifications for the
Online Social Networks;” Alejandro de le Sen presented “My Picture
of America: East Asian Students’ Perceptions of the United States;”
Shanelle Frazier presented “Students’ Perceptions of Technology
Resources at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A
Qualitative Analysis;” Jessica N. McMorris presented “The
Perceptions of African American Stereotypes in Reality Television;”
and Khalaf Tahat presented “Al Jazeera’s Role In Promoting Extreme
and Violent Trend among Arab People.”
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