The University of Tennessee at Martin Faculty and Staff Newsletter | Oct. 8, 2018

addendaUT Martin administrators Dr.

Charley Deal, special advisor to the chancellor, and Petra McPhearson, vice chancellor for finance and administration, are two of 18 members of the inaugural class in the University of Tennessee Executive Leadership Institute.

Deal became special advisor to the UT Martin chancellor in spring of this year after serving as associate vice chancellor for alumni relations and annual giving since July 2007. He also serves as executive director of the WestStar Leadership Program and interim director of the UT Martin Office of Research, Grants and Contracts.

McPhearson became vice chancellor for finance and administration in April after filling the position in an interim capacity since January 2016. She began working for UT Martin in 2011 and previously served as both interim director and director of budget and management reporting. She held several positions with the UT Health Science Center in Memphis and Bethel University in McKenzie before coming to Martin.

The institute is part of UT President Joe DiPietro’s legacy and was established to prepare internal candidates for future leadership positions and complement current succession-planning efforts within the UT System.

“My overall goal as president of the University of Tennessee

DEAL, MCPHEARSON NAMED TO INAUGURAL UT EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

has always been to leave this place in better shape than I found it,” said DiPietro. “I believe in the importance of developing leadership skills and understanding leadership’s role in higher education and look forward to teaching part-time in the program during retirement.”

The institute’s first cohort met Oct. 2 in Knoxville. Designed and led by Dr. Bob Smith, special advisor for leadership and talent development to the UT president and chancellor

emeritus of UT Martin, the institute offers participants special development plans, executive coaching, mentoring and experiential learning. The class will meet six times throughout the year for multi-day leadership sessions. Candidates were nominated by their supervisors and competitively selected by campus and institute leaders.

“We estimate that 40 percent of our administrators will be eligible to retire in the next five

years – creating vacancies in as many as 100 positions,” said Smith. “The institute will help ensure the right people with the right skills are ready to advance as opportunities become available.”

The 18 members of the 2018 cohort represent each UT campus and institute and oversee critical functions within the university system.

Other cohort members are:

LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – (l-r) Dr. Charley Deal, special advisor to the chancellor, and Petra McPhearson, vice chancellor for finance and administration, are two of 18 members of the inaugural class in the University of Tennessee Leadership Institute.

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Caroline Ideus, an instructor with the Office of International Programs and International Admissions, conducted a pre-departure orientation session Aug. 3 on teaching English as a foreign language for 63 participants of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. The Consulate of Japan in Nashville hosted the session. The JET Program is a competitive, full-time, paid teaching exchange program lasting one to five years and managed by the Japanese government. Ashton Priest (UT Martin 2018) was among the participants in this session. She is serving in Aomori City in Aomori prefecture.

Charles Lewis, lecturer of music, recently received the Dr. Charles and Betsy Cox Jackson Symphony Conductor’s Award from the Jackson Symphony. This award is given in honor of Dr. Tyler and Katheryn Swindle and is presented each year to a musician who personifies the heart and spirit of the orchestra. Lewis currently serves as principal flutist in the ensemble and has been a regular member of the symphony since 2010.

Lane Last, professor of art, has had a video work selected for inclusion in the upcoming exhibition at the Ospizio Giovani Artisti in Rome, Italy. It will be displayed alongside other international artists until June 2019.

Dr. Mark Simmons, professor of music and director of choral activities, conducted the Jackson Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 29 as part of the 40th-annual “Starlight Symphony” concert on the lawn of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson. Simmons is currently serving as associate conductor of the orchestra and led the ensemble in the finale of Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” He also served as cue conductor for the seven cannon used during the performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.” Approximately 5,000 people attended the free concert.

Dr. Shane Jones, assistant professor of music and co-director of the UT Martin Percussion Studio, led the ensemble’s presentation of the fall Roots of Rhythm school tour Sept. 27-28. The outreach tour performed for schoolchildren in Gibson, Madison and Obion counties in Tennessee and Calloway County in Kentucky. The program reached more than 3,500 students and community members and educated audiences about the history, culture and music of Ghana, Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Brazil, as well as the United States.

Dr. Bob Peckham, professor emeritus of French, has published an online translation study of the English Bible in the Andy Holt Virtual Library. The text is supported by more than 270 links to resource works and supplements Peckham’s previous online study of the Bible’s translation into French during the Middle Ages.

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•Rob Chance, UT System administration, director of payroll

•Frank Cuevas, UT Knoxville, associate vice chancellor for student life and adjunct assistant professor

•Lannett Edwards, UT Institute of Agriculture, professor and graduate director

•Macel Ely, UT Institute for Public Service, director of the Naifeh Center for Effective Leadership

•Tyler Forrest, UT Chattanooga, associate vice chancellor for budget and

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finance•Shelley Hawkins, UT Health

Science Center, professor and executive associate dean of academic affairs

•Jean Mercer, UT Knoxville, assistant vice chancellor for research and director of the Office of Sponsored Programs

•Angelia Nystrom, UT Foundation Inc., director of specialty programs for the UT Institute of Agriculture

•Daniel Pack, UT Chattanooga, dean of the college of engineering and computer science

The UT Martin chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society will host its annual recognition ceremony beginning at 7 p.m., Oct. 9, in Watkins Auditorium of the Boling University Center. Mike Stockdale, retired director of the wildlife forensics laboratory for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, will serve as keynote speaker.

This ceremony recognizes

Phi Kappa Phi to host Mike Stockdale, Oct. 9

FEATURED SPEAKER – Mike Stockdale is shown examining a laboratory slide during a photo shoot for Campus Scene in 2004.

freshman and sophomore students who excel academically, and the event is open to the public.

Stockdale earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UT Martin in 1971 and 1975, respectively, and has since gained more than 42 years of experience in wildlife forensics. He has served as an expert witness in wildlife forensics for numerous state and federal courts and is a board-certified wildlife forensic scientist through the Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences.

He retired from his position as director of the wildlife forensics laboratory for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency in 2006 after more than 34 years of service. Stockdale returned to part-time work with the TWRA later that year and currently works as an adjunct instructor in the UT Martin Department of Agriculture, Geosciences and Natural Resources. His current research centers around developing DNA allele frequency databases for white-tailed deer and black bear in Tennessee.

•Stacey Patterson, UT System administration, vice president for research, outreach and economic development and president of the UT Research Foundation

•Joanne Romagni, UT Chattanooga, vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school

•Jim Sauceman, UT System administration, director of IRIS administrative support

•Matthew Scoggins, UT System administration, general counsel

•John Stier, UT Institute

of Agriculture, associate dean for the Herbert College of Agriculture

•Carey Whitworth, UT System administration, assistant vice president for government relations and advocacy

•Catherine Womack, UT Health Science Center, interim chair of preventative medicine for the College of Medicine

More information about the institute, including attendee biographies, is available online.

The UT Martin Choro Ensemble will perform as a part of the Meek Music Series from 12:15-12:45 p.m., Oct. 10, in front of the Paul Meek Library. Guests are invited to bring their lunch and eat while enjoying the performance.

The UT Martin Choro Ensemble is a group that performs Brazilian “choro” music, known for its fast and cheerful rhythms. This genre is instrumental and includes

guitar, flute, mandolin, trombone, bass, oboe and clarinet.

In case of bad weather, the performance will be moved inside the library.

The Meek Music Series includes a variety of lunchtime concerts by UT Martin music ensembles. The next performance will include the LCD Woodwind Trio and the Faculty Brass Quintet on Nov. 14.

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UT Martin to host 34th-annual Ohio Valley History ConferenceUT Martin will host the 34th-

annual Ohio Valley History Conference from Oct. 18-20. This is the first time for UT Martin to host the event, which is open to registered guests only.

The Ohio Valley History Conference is the oldest and largest gathering of historians in both Tennessee and Kentucky. The conference will welcome between 70-90 professional historians and graduate students from across the country to present their research on public, digital and teaching histories. This year’s conference will emphasize research on the centennial of United States participation in World War I and the semicentennial of 1968.

Panel sessions will run throughout the morning on both Friday and Saturday in the Boling University Center. Most panels will include presentations on three related topics with insight from a specialist and an opportunity for questions from the audience.

Session topics include Native American relationships with white Americans in early U.S. history; race and slavery in antebellum and modern America; American diplomatic history; modern military history; women’s suffrage; Progressive Era women’s history in Tennessee; the civil rights movement; American diplomatic history; and America’s experiences in the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Cold War and World War I.

Dr. Thomas Bruscino, associate professor at the U.S. Army War College, will present “From the Old World to the New: The Meuse-Argonne Campaign and the Birth of the American Century” during a banquet Oct. 19. Bruscino is the author of “A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along” and “Out of Bounds: Transnational Sanctuary in Irregular Warfare.”

He holds a doctorate in

military history from Ohio University and has served as a historian for the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth.

Rebecca Price, founder and president of Chick History in Nashville, will speak at a luncheon Oct. 20. Her presentation, “The March to the 19th,” features a documentation of women’s history in Tennessee specifically relating to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

Price is a museum curator with professional experience in nonprofit programming, administration, and strategic communications and marketing. She earned her Master of Arts in museum studies from George Washington University and has worked for the American Association for State and Local History, the Institute of Museum and Library Services,

the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and several historic homes and museums.

SPECIAL NOTE: UT Martin faculty and staff members are invited to attend panel sessions as space allows. Contact Dr. Richard Garlitz at rgarlitz@utm.edu for more information.

SOMERVILLE HEALTHY HAWKS – (l-r) Kayla Dillon, program resource specialist for the UT Martin Somerville Center; Carmen Saulsberry, public health educator for the Fayette County Health Department; and Kara Tapp, center director, met Sept. 20 to discuss the semester’s “Healthy Hawks” initiative.

The UT Martin Somerville Center is partnering with the Fayette County Health Department to host several events this semester. The events will focus on walking, water consumption and tobacco cessation as part of UT Martin’s “Healthy Hawks” initiative.

“Healthy Hawks is important to our students and our community,” said Kara Tapp, center director. “We have to start somewhere, and this is the first step to showing how easy it can be to live a better, healthy life with just a few changes.”

Tapp and Kayla Dillon, the center’s program resource specialist, met with Carmen Saulsberry, public health educator for the Fayette County Health Department, on Sept. 20 to plan the fall events. The center and health department co-hosted a “Healthy Hawks Walk” on Oct. 2 and will host another at 11 a.m., Nov. 27, on the walking trail behind the center.

The health department will represent Healthy Hawks at the UT Martin Somerville Center fall bash and open house from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Oct. 26, located in the center’s parking and playground areas. The department will also present health information to students every third Thursday of the month throughout the semester.

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•Answer – One of the crosswalk signal pillars in this location was recently hit by a car and disconnected. This pillar controlled the crosswalk signal when pedestrains approach from that side. The yellow caution tape is intended to alert pedestrians that the flashing signal will not start when they enter the street and to be cautious of drivers who may not notice their approach. New parts to replace the signal pillar have been ordered and will be installed as soon as they arrive.

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•Oct. 1-12 – Annual enrollment period for state insurance 2019 benefits•Oct. 8 – Dr. Mark McCloud to appear on WBBJ; 5:30 p.m.•Oct. 9 – Women’s Center speaker series: Kandi Morris on dating violence; Paul Meek Library, room 120; 12:15 p.m.•Oct. 9 – Phun with Physics demonstrations; Brehm Hall, room 258; 6 p.m.•Oct. 9 – Phi Kappa Phi recognition ceremony: Mike Stockdale featured speaker; Watkins Auditorium; 7 p.m.•Oct. 10 – Meek Music performance series: Choro Ensemble; outside Paul Meek Library (indoors if raining); 12:15 p.m.•Oct. 11 – Faculty/staff $5 lunch in Skyhawk Dining Hall•Oct. 11 – Equestrian vs. Sweet

Calendar

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Training sessions on a variety of Canvas topics are regularly held in room 215 of the Paul Meek Library. A full schedule and registration information are available online.

Briar College; McWherter Agricultural Pavilion; 10 a.m.•Oct. 11 – Meeting of the Martin branch of AAUW: Marci Floyd, county trustee, to speak; Gooch Hall, room 322; 6 p.m.•Oct. 11 – MusicEdLove lecture series; Band Rehearsal Hall; 7 p.m.•Oct. 12 – Jackie Johnson to appear on Good Morning West Tennessee, WBBJ; 6 a.m.•Oct. 12 – Equestrian vs. South Dakota State; McWherter Agricultural Pavilion; 10 a.m.•Oct. 13 – Football vs. Eastern Kentucky; Graham Stadium; 2 p.m.•Oct. 14 – Soccer vs. Austin Peay; Skyhawk Soccer Complex; 2 p.m.•Oct. 15-16 – Fall break, no classes; Administrative offices remain open

The WestStar Leadership Program is accepting applications until Oct. 12.

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