In this issue:
ASU
spring commencement
May 11
Class
campaign
raises scholarship
money
Speech
contest
winners announced
Students
in
business
administration
score third
highest average
ASU's
jazz
band performs
benefits concert
ASU Staff Advisory Council Report
In
Memoriam
ASU employees recognized
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Augusta State
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University System
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Christopher
Murphy, professor of history and anthropology, presented History
and Change at Augusta State University at Woodlawn Methodist Church.
He also presented a talk on the History of
Racism from an Anthropological Viewpoint to a Leadership Augusta
class at Fort Gordon. Murphy spoke at the Preservation Planners Annual
Retreat about preservation issues connected with ASU's implementation
of its Master Plan.
Andy Hauger, chemistry and physics, has been elected chair of the Faculty Policies Committee, and Jeff Heck, library, was elected secretary for the 2002-03 academic year.
Cpl. Steve Wolford and Officer
Henry Jackson from Public Safety helped
fingerprint more than 150 kids at the Family Health Fair held at the National
Hills Baptist Church fellowship hall. Pam
Lightsey from the bookstore assisted the two with the event. The
fingerprints were placed on identification cards, which were given to
parents for safety
purposes.
Bill Nelson, ASU library director, served as a member of the SACS Accreditation Committee which visited Milligan College at the end of February. Nelson was also appointed to the national College and Research Libraries Standards Task Force. Nelson was also appointed as a member of the Regents Strategic Objectives Team 1.5, which is charged with providing input on goals for the USG Information and Instructional Technology Strategic Planning Project.
Additionally, he presented a workshop, Continuous Assessment for College and University Libraries: Practical Application of ACRL Standards, as a pre-conference workshop to the Texas Library Association in Dallas.
Saundra
Reinke, political science, and her MPA students recently completed
a study for the Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corporation and presented
their findings to the ANIC board.
Hubert van Tuyll, department of history and anthropology, was named the North American liaison for the Center for World War I Studies, an independent Dutch organization.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Samuels (financial aid) and her husband, Michael, on the birth of a baby boy, John Michael Anthony Samuels, Jr., April 9
