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·Federal Reserve Board Accountant To Speak At SIUE
March 16
·Winters Named Director Of SIUE Nursing Regional
Office At SIUC
·IU Professor To Speak At SIUE’s Probst Memorial
Lecture March 29
·SIUE Students, Volunteer Services Proud Of
National Recognition
·Motivational Speaker To Give Keynote Address
At Social Work Gala
·D. Schilling Named Employee Of The Month
For March
·Writers Club Presentation Set For March 16
At ESL Higher Ed. Campus
·SIUE Summer Session Registration Begins March
15; Come ‘Dive In’
·UW-Madison Professor To Speak At 35th Annual Marti
Lecture
·SIUE Named To 2009 Higher Education Community Service
Honor Roll
·SIUE Alestle Wins Five Journalism Awards Through ICPA
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Arthur Lindo, chief accountant in Banking Supervision
and Regulation for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, will speak Tuesday,
March 16, at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The event, including
breakfast, is free but reservations must be made by March 11 by calling (618)
650-3363. Or by e-mail: ghoedeb@siue.edu.
Complementary parking is available in the University’s Visitor Parking
Lot B.
Appearing at 7:30 a.m. at a breakfast that Tuesday in Meridian Ballroom, on
the first floor of SIUE’s Morris University Center, Lindo will speak about
“Loan Losses and Illiquid Markets: Implications for Lending and Economic
Recovery.” Lindo will present his views on the financial crisis and recent
developments in banking and commercial lending. Those in the financial services
field or accounting, or interested in the Federal Reserve Bank’s role in
our financial system, may enjoy Lindo’s presentation.
He is the senior Federal Reserve Board official responsible for the development of policy positions on domestic and international accounting, auditing, reporting, disclosure and related internal control issues affecting the financial services sector. He also represents the Federal Reserve Board on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Reports Task Force and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Accounting Task Force.Before joining the Federal Reserve Board in 1994, Lindo was with the Office of Thrift Supervision’s (OTS) Office of the Chief Accountant, and also was a senior auditor with Touche Ross & Co., Washington, D.C.
A CPA and a member of the AICPA, Lindo earned a bachelor’s in accounting at Catholic University of America and an MBA in Finance at George Washington University.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Susan Cramer Winters, a registered nurse with a doctorate
in nursing and who has been a nursing educator for nearly 20 years, has been
named director of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Regional
Nursing Program located on the SIU Carbondale campus. Last year, the SIUE School
of Nursing joined forces with SIUC to address a statewide nursing shortage in
opening the regional nursing program at SIUC. Beginning in August, more than
80 freshmen were accepted at Carbondale as pre-nursing students.
Winters comes to SIUE after serving as a member of nursing faculties at McKendree
University in Lebanon and at John A. Logan College in Carterville. She also
has held several positions at the University of Virginia Medical Center including
education coordinator and as a clinician specializing in cardiovascular nursing.
For SIUE, Winters has responsibility for all facets of the nursing program at
the regional campus location. “This collaborative endeavor between SIUC
and the SIUE School of Nursing is truly a win-win-win situation for SIUC, SIUE,
and perhaps most importantly, for Southern Illinois," Winters said. “Prior
to this point, any student in the area who wished to pursue a traditional BSN
degree had to leave the area. To have an accredited program of the SIUE School
of Nursing’s caliber available in Carbondale is deeply thrilling,”
she said. “I look forward to our graduates contributing to the health of
the Southern Illinois region, and I relish the opportunity to bring the program
to life in Carbondale.”
SIUE Nursing Dean Marcia Maurer said Winters is eminently qualified for her
leadership role in developing a presence in Carbondale for the SIUE Nursing
program. “Susan is the face of the SIUE School of Nursing at the Carbondale
campus and serves as the liaison between not only the two campuses, but the
key constituents involved in our program. After several years as a resident
of Carbondale and because of her excellent credentials,” Maurer said, “Susan
is well-positioned to lead our efforts in Southern Illinois. She knows the area
and can work well with health care facilities in finding clinical placements
for our students.”
Through the partnership, SIUE nursing faculty teach classes at Carbondale,
while other select classes are offered via tele-education between the two campuses.
The SIUE nursing faculty also is providing clinical supervision of the nursing
students in the Carbondale area. “The Carbondale region is rich with clinical
sites for students to obtain valuable experiences; this is a significant part
of a nursing program’s curriculum,” Maurer pointed out.
Since the SIUE School of Nursing—fully accredited by the Commission on
Collegiate Nursing Education-is the official home of the program—a BSN
would be conferred by SIUE even though a student is taking program classes at
SIU Carbondale, Maurer explained. “Admission to the nursing program at
SIUE is competitive; the same criteria will be in place for applying students
at the Carbondale campus,” Maurer said. “The number of students accepted
will be contingent not only on academic strength but on the capacity of the
clinical sites. Students who are not admitted may re-apply in the next academic
year or change to one of the many health care majors offered at SIUE or SIUC.”
Winters and her husband, Todd, as well as their two children, Sloan and Luke, reside in Carbondale. Winters’ office is located in Rm. 278E, SIUC Student Health Center; she may be reached by telephone, (618) 453-4401, or e-mail: suwinte@siue.edu. Her office hours are 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Click here for a photo suitable for print of Susan Winters. (SIUC Photo)
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The 34th Annual William J. Probst Memorial Lecture, sponsored
each year by the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Chemistry,
will be presented March 29 by Gary Hieftje, Distinguished Professor and Mann
Chair of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington. Hieftje will speak
about “Teaching and Research: Symbiosis or Conflict?” at 7 p.m. in
the Meridian Ballroom, on the first floor of SIUE’s Morris University Center.
That same day at 2 p.m., Hieftje will speak about “Models, Methods, and
Machines for Chemical Measurements” in Room 3114 of SIUE's Science Building.
As part of Probst Lecture activities, nearly three dozen undergraduate and
graduate Chemistry students will present their research findings in a poster
display in Meridian Ballroom from 3-5:30 p.m. and after the evening lecture,
with students on hand to answer questions related to their research activities
and findings during that time. SIUE Chemistry faculty and outside judges will
select two undergraduate and two graduate students among those presenting findings
to receive SIUE Thomas D. Bouman Memorial Research Scholar Awards, which include
$500 award stipends.
Hieftje’s research focuses on analytical chemistry. He currently holds 15 patents on instruments that assist chemists in analyzing and quantifying samples. He has received awards from the American Chemical Society, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, and Research and Development Magazine, among others, for his inventions and research. Hieftje is author of 10 books and has more than 500 publications to his credit.
Since 1976, the Probst Lecture has featured talks by noted chemists, including two Nobel Prize recipients. The event pays homage to Professor William J. Probst, who taught organic chemistry at SIUE for nearly two decades before his death in 1975. In addition to sponsorship by the Department of Chemistry, the lecture series—free and open to the public—is funded by the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences, the SIUE Graduate School, SIUE Student Government and the SIUE Chemistry Club. The Sigma-Aldrich Corporation also assists with the program.
Click here for a photo of Gary Hieftje.
A total of 2,152 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students engaged in 23,019 hours of community service through volunteer efforts during 2009, a fact that recently earned them national recognition. The students' commitment through the Student Leadership Development Program and Volunteer Services earned them a spot on the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is the awarding agency that recently named SIUE to its 2009 list. The universities and colleges included on the list demonstrated a commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
The Corporation oversees the annual President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in collaboration with the U.S. departments of Education, and Housing and Urban Development, as well as Campus Compact and the American Council on Education. CNCS is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs, and leads President Obama's national call to service initiative, United We Serve. For more information, visit the Web site: www.nationalservice.gov.
"I'm very proud of what these students have accomplished through the leadership program," said Suzanne Kutterer-Siburt, assistant director in the Kimmel Leadership Development Center and coordinator of Volunteer Services. Members of SIUE Volunteer Services took part in 153 projects last fiscal year, with the majority of activities taking place Saturdays. Through Volunteer Services, students provide many area agencies with volunteer help. One agency, the Call for Help, Inc. Sexual Assault unit, uses students as medical rape advocates who provide assistance to victims every day of the week, every day of the year, at 18 hospitals in the Metro East.
The students also have formed the SIUE Raise Your Voice Campus Compact, which is a student-led group that involves students in the community, providing training opportunities and promotional plans on local, regional and national levels. The group registered more than 1,500 voters last year. Some of the students through Volunteer Services routinely spend time working through the Catholic Urban Programs Holy Angels Shelter and the Continuum of Life Care Center's Paulyn House offering food, clothing and amenities to the area's homeless. Paulyn Snyder, a social worker with Holy Angels and one of the founders of Paulyn House, said the students' commitment to these organizations is vital to the community.
"They really make a difference in the community because they give hope," Synder said. "People need hope. They need hope to keep going and to keep living. Hope gives them a reason to live. These students are making a huge difference in our lives."
These experiences, which take place on and off campus, are an important part of an SIUE student's education and will help with academic and professional development. The Kimmel Center, under the purview of the SIUE Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, offers co-curricular experiences that promote personal growth, develop self-confidence and leadership abilities, and prepare students for life-long learning.
Mackenzie Smith, 20, of Paris, said students benefit from being involved in
volunteer efforts. "I think we, as students, are blessed to have (the)
Kimmel (Center) ... because they provide us with so many resources when it comes
to taking part in volunteer programs," said Smith, a sophomore majoring
in nursing. “I have met a lot of friends and developed a lot of friendships
through these opportunities as well." Smith completed the Student Leadership
Development Training program last year and has spent many volunteer hours working
with the homeless. "I've done a little bit of everything," she said.
"These programs have allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and have introduced me to different cultures."
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) John F. Foppe, president of Visionary Velocity Worldwide,
which offers a variety of professional services ranging from professional speakers
to corporate training, will be the featured speaker at the Fourth Annual Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville Social Work Scholarship Gala on March 20. Reservations
must be received by March 15. Scheduled to begin with a 5 p.m. social hour,
the gala will take place in Meridian Ballroom, on the first floor of SIUE’s
Morris Center. Dinner will follow and a 7 p.m. program is planned. Awards will
be presented for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and
agencies as well as social workers who have an impact on their communities.
A silent auction also will be offered.
Foppe also is executive director of Community Link, a non-profit agency based
in Breese, which provides a variety of services for those with physical and
developmental disabilities. In addition, he is the author of What’s
Your Excuse? Making the Most of What You Have (Thomas Nelson, 2008), which
has been published in six languages. Foppe’s accomplishments would be noteworthy
for anyone 40 years of age, but are indeed remarkable considering he was born
with seven major birth defects. Mentored by internationally known author and
speaker Zig Ziglar, Foppe has presented motivational speeches and training sessions
in 15 countries and for Fortune 500 companies.
All proceeds from the gala benefit the scholarship fund for the SIUE Department of Social Work. Tickets are $50; a table of eight, $350. For reservations, call the department, (618) 650-5429.
Congratulations: Diane Schilling, office support specialist for the SIUE Center for International Programs, is the March recipient of the Employee Recognition Award. In the photo, Schilling (third from left) received the award from Vice Chancellor for Administration Kenneth Neher (second from left). She was nominated for the award by Geeteeca Vanaik (at far left), a Center advisor, and Julie Bobeall-Marshall (second from right), study abroad coordinator. Also shown is Center Director Ron Schaefer (far right), who also nominated Schilling. In addition to the plaque Schilling was presented, she was awarded a $25 gift certificate to the SIUE Bookstore, two complimentary lunch coupons to the University Restaurant or other Dining Services locations, and parking close to her office for the month. (SIUE Photo by Denise Macdonald)
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club annual Women's Month
feature, “Bouquet of Kwansabas for The Sisterhood,” is set for 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 16, in Room 2083, Building B, on the East St. Louis Higher Education
Campus, 601 J.R. Thompson Drive, East St. Louis. Subtitled “A Conch/Us/Nest
of Expressions for Women’s History Month,” the free public event is
co-sponsored by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Drumvoices Revue,
a multicultural journal published by the SIUE Department of English Language
and Literature and the EBR Writers Club, as well as Black River Writers Press.
The event also will be hosted by EBR Club President Darlene Roy.
Panelists—“drawing poetically upon ‘herstory’”—will
include poet-fiction author Charlois Lumpkin (a.k.a Mali Newman), poet-photographer
Roscoe Crenshaw, poet-Jack and Jill administrator Jaye Willis, spoken word artist-open
“mic” host Susan “Spit-Fire” Lively, journalist-poet Patricia
Merritt, poet-English teacher Treasure Williams, psychologist Lena Weathers
and others.
The “kwansaba,” a 49-word poem of seven lines with each word containing
no more than seven letters, was invented by the EBR Club in 1995 and is taught
across the globe in classrooms, workshops, prisons, and churches. Eugene B.
Redmond, Club namesake and SIUE emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature,
also will share kwansabas with the audience. In addition, SIUE graduate student
Al Henderson will curate a visual salute to women and an area performing arts
troupe will offer dance to commemorate the month.
Founded in March 1986 and chartered by Sherman Fowler, Redmond, and Roy, the
EBR Club is celebrating its 24th birthday in March. Club Trustees are: poets
Maya Angelou and playwright Amiri Baraka, actor Avery Brooks, novelist Walter
Mosley, poet-editor Quincy Troupe, scholar Jerry Ward Jr., and Dr. Weathers.
Late trustees include Gwendolyn Brooks, Raymond R. Patterson, Barbara Ann Teer
and Margaret Walker-Alexander. In addition to the periodical, SIUE and the Club
also have co-published several books, among them Drumvoices Revue (The Richard
Wright Centennial Issue/2008) and Eighty Moods of Maya & Other Photo-Poetic
Moments from the EBR Collection (also 2008). Both will be available for
sale at the March 16 event.
For more information about the Writers Club or other area cultural-literary activities, call SIUE, (618) 650-3991, or write the EBRWC, P.O. Box 6165, East St. Louis, IL 62201, or by e-mail: eredmon@siue.edu.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) With more than 700 classes to choose from, now is the
best time to “dive in” and enroll in Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville’s Summer Session, a smart move that could mean lighter class
loads in the coming semesters and also a chance to attend classes with an even
lower teacher-student ratio than usually offered at SIUE. According to Roger
Maclean, executive director of SIUE’s Office of Educational Outreach and
coordinator of the summer session, attending class in the summer also helps
keep students in a convenient course sequence. “We have structured pre-requisite
courses so they do not overlap,” Maclean said. “For example, a brand
new student who starts SIUE in the summer could take the two required courses
in biology needed to move up to the 200 level; in other words, they’d be
ready to start a 200 level biology course in the fall.
“In addition, one of the most significant benefits of starting your academic
experience in the summer is that you can lock in at the previous year's tuition
rate,” he said. “Then, your tuition cost for the next 48 consecutive
months will be the same. By jumpstarting your academic career in the summer
instead of the fall, your savings could be significant over the course of the
next four years. As for continuing SIUE students, enrolling in summer session
helps them stay on track to finish within the 48-month ‘guaranteed tuition
rate clock.’”
Maclean also pointed out other benefits to enrolling in summer session: \
Registration for SIUE’s Summer Session begins Monday, March 15; visit the Web site for more information: www.siue.edu/summer, by phone, (618) 650-2080, or by e-mail: summersession@siue.edu. Those interested also may visit SIUE’s Service Center on the first floor of Rendleman Hall for more information.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Claudia Card, the Emma Goldman Professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be the speaker Thursday, March 18, at the 35th Annual Fritz Marti Lecture at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Speaking about “Evils and Inexcusable Wrongs,” Card will conduct the lecture at 5 p.m. in the Oak/Redbud Room, on the second floor of SIUE’s Morris University Center. A reception is scheduled from 4:30-5 p.m.
At UW-Madison since 1966, Card also holds teaching affiliations with four other programs: Women’s Studies, Environmental Studies, Jewish Studies, & LGBT Studies. Her recent books include The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (Oxford 2002); The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (2003), Genocide's Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair (co-edited with Armen Marsoobian; Blackwell 2007), and one due in the fall, Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide (Cambridge). Card also has held grants from the NEH and ACLS, and was a 5-year Senior Fellow (2002-2007) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison. In 1996, she was the SWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year. In 2008, she delivered the John Dewey Lecture at the Central Division American Philosophical Convention, and the following year was elected vice president of the Central Division APA.
The SIUE Marti Lecture was established in 1976 to honor the memory of then Philosophical Studies Emeritus Professor Fritz Marti, who taught at SIUE from 1966-1971. For more information, call the Department of Philosophy, (618) 650-2250.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
has named Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to its 2009 list of colleges
and universities that have demonstrated a commitment to volunteering, service-learning
and civic engagement.
The Corporation oversees the annual President's Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll in collaboration with the U.S. departments of Education,
and Housing and Urban Development, as well as Campus Compact and the American
Council on Education.
Many of the service projects and volunteerism opportunities afforded students
at SIUE are coordinated through the SIUE Kimmel Student Leadership Center, offering
a variety of student activities and leadership opportunities to assist in the
personal and professional development of all students.
These experiences, which take place on and off campus, are an important part
of an SIUE student's education and will help with academic and professional
development. The Kimmel Center, under the purview of the SIUE Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs, offers co-curricular experiences that promote personal
growth, develop self-confidence and leadership abilities, and prepare students
for life-long learning.
The Kimmel Center staff assists students with planning and coordinating programs
that promote the educational, cultural and social enrichment of the University
community. These events and programs include Welcome Week, Homecoming, Family
Weekend, Black Heritage Month, International Night, Springfest and Activities
Fairs, among many others.
"This national recognition is, indeed, an honor that reflects our commitment
to creating a vibrant campus life, which includes civic engagement, service
learning and community involvement," said SIUE Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Narbeth Emmanuel. "While it is further testament to our pledge
to achieve excellence, it more importantly recognizes the invaluable contributions
of our students to serve their communities.
"It is also a powerful promise to prospective students that SIUE fosters
a climate where students become engaged and capable student leaders."
The CNCS honorees are chosen based on a series of selection factors, including
scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation
in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school
offers academic service-learning courses.
"Congratulations to the awardees and students for their dedication to
service and commitment to improving their local communities," said Patrick
Corvington, the Corporation's CEO. "Our nation's students are a critical
part of the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle the most persistent
challenges we face.
"They have achieved impactful results and demonstrated the value of putting
knowledge into practice to help renew America through service."
More than 700 higher education institutions across the country received the
federal recognition. CNCS is a federal agency that engages more than five million
Americans in service through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve
America programs, and leads President Obama's national call to service initiative,
United We Serve. For more information, visit the Web site: www.nationalservice.gov.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's college newspaper,
The Alestle, recently won five state awards through the Illinois College Press
Association at the organization's annual convention in Chicago.
The awards included:
• An honorable mention in the general excellence category for non-daily
newspapers with a circulation of 4,000 or more;
• First place for Sports Editor Allan Lewis, a junior mass communications
major, for a sports news story examining money in Division I sports;
• First place for Photographer Derrick Hawkins, a senior art and design
major, for photos taken during the annual campus March Down event;
• The Alestle took third place in its division in the photo essay category.
Photographers Sean Roberts, a sophomore, and Hawkins won for their photo essay
about fire damage at SIUE's Cougar Village Apartments;
• An honorable mention for Copy Chief Kenneth Long, a senior mass communications
major, in the column-writing category.
The Alestle Editor-in-Chief Karina Swank, a senior English language and literature
major, accepted the awards on behalf of the staff members from the 2009-2010
academic year.
"Being back in the general excellence category at ICPA is a big deal.
The competition in the category is very strong," Alestle Program Director
Tammy Merrett-Murry said. "This award points to the hard work that The
Alestle staff has been doing to continually improve the quality and level of
journalism at SIUE. I'm very proud."
The Alestle competes nationally against many other newspapers from across the
country. State-wide The Alestle competes regularly against newspapers from such
student newspapers and schools as the Bradley Scout at Bradley University, Chicago
Maroon at the University of Illinois, Chicago Weekly at the University of Chicago,
the Columbia Chronicle at Columbia College, DePaulia at DePaul University, Dominican
Star at Dominican University, Chicago Flame at the University of Illinois-Chicago,
the Journal at University of Illinois-Springfield, Lewis University, the Loyola
Phoenix at Loyola University, the Independent at Northeastern Illinois University,
The Torch at Roosevelt University and the Xavierite at St. Xavier University.
Entries in the competition were judged for excellence by members of the Illinois Press Association.
