UNF’semphasison individ-

ualized attentionfor students willtake on a newdimension with thecompletion of a$36 million resi-dential communityon the eastern edgeof campus.

The initial phaseof the project willprovide at least 500 beds for sophomore and jun-ior students. “In the past we have provided newhousing intended primarily for our freshman stu-dents but we now need additional beds to allowthose students to stay on campus in their sopho-more and junior years,” explained Paul Riel,director of Housing Operations.

Many national studies have indicated that stu-dents residing on campus do better academicallyand socially while providing valuable leadershipskills for campus activities and clubs, Riel said.

Plans arebeing formulatedto attempt toreward these stu-dents with bothamenities andprograms in away not possibleat other residencehalls on campus.

The roomswill include pri-vate bedroomsand semi-private

bathrooms. These suites will include utilities andoffer wireless Internet connectivity, cable TV andkitchenettes. In addition, the vision at this pointis for the complex to sport its own swimmingpool, fitness center, convenience store, tenniscourts and recreational fields. But perhaps thebiggest amenity will be ample parking so residents won’t have to hunt for a parking spaceevery day.

Lynn Hendricks, director of Residence Life, is

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New housing promises new UNF experience

2 Kickoff planned forUnited Way campaign

4 China & oildiscussed

12 Hunter-Gaultdelivers MLK address

Paul Riel Lynn Hendricks

NEW NAME FOR COLLEGE OF HEALTH

The College of Health is nowthe Brooks College of Health.Brooks Rehabilitationannounced a $3.6 million giftto the University last month.The donation will be matchedby the state of Florida at 100percent bringing the total to$7.2 million. This is in addi-tion to a $1.4 million donationmade by Brooks in 1996.

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Dr. Elizabeth Furdell, this year’s winner of the Susan B.Anthony Award, called it a “labor of love” when asked toexpress her thoughts on winning the award.

“Winning the Susan B. Anthony Award means so much to me atthis stage of my long career in academia because it validates all myefforts to advance respect for women in the profession, “ saidFurdell, a professor of history. “Besides doing scholarship inwomen’s history and offering classes that deal with issues of gender,I have consciously tried to be a positive, complete role model formy students. I am very grateful to the Women’s Center for recog-nizing me this year.”

The Susan B. Anthony Award annually salutes a member of theUNF community who has made significant contributions to thewomen of UNF by being a positive role model for women, workingto improve the position of women on campus through advocacy andeducation and exhibiting qualities of leadership on campus.

“The Women's Center is delighted to have presented Dr. Furdellwith the Susan B. Anthony Award this year,” said Anita Vorreyer,director of the Women’s Center. “Betty has continuously demon-strated her commitment to women and women's issues throughouther time at UNF. Her vita clearly demonstrates her commitment

throughout her entire career.”Furdell has taught at UNF

since 1983. In 2002 she wasnamed UNF’s DistinguishedProfessor. Furdell has won fiveteaching awards at UNF, includ-ing Outstanding Teacher threetimes. She was a finalist in 2003for the Times-Union’s Eve Awardin education. She also has writtenfour books, edited a fifth, and hasproduced dozens of articles, ency-clopedia entries and book reviews.

She received her bachelor’sdegree from the University ofWashington and her master’s anddoctorate degrees from Kent State University. She taught at theUniversity of Great Falls in Montana for 12 years before coming toUNF. While at Great Falls, she developed a reputation as an EqualRights Amendment advocate, debating the equality issue withopponents throughout Montana.

Furdell receives Susan B. Anthony Award

‘Brown Bag It’ for United Way

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The UNF United Way campaign will kickoff on April 6 with atheme of “Brown Bag It for United Way.”

Lynn Brown, this year’s UNF United Way chair, explained thatthe theme is designed to encourage faculty and staff to sacrifice one lunch a month and “Brown Bag it for United Way.”Based on the assumption that each lunch would cost $5, such a sac-rifice would generate a $60 contribution to United Way.

The kickoff rally will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on theUniversity Quad near the Robinson Student Life Center and willinclude lunch and a variety of prizes donated by vendors. The spon-sor for the event is Mayes Food Services Inc.

The goal for this year’s campus campaign is $45,000, an increaseof about $3,000 from the previous year. Last year about 186 facultyand staff participated in the campaign and campaign organizers arehoping to substantially increase participation this year.

Tentative plans call for sponsorship of a leadership event and a kickoff event on campus. Details will be included in Campus Update.

This year for the first time, faculty and staff will be able to usethe United Way’s electronic donation system to make contributionsonline. Faculty and staff can go to https://donor.united-e-way.org togain access to this secure donation system.

Although United Way continues to represent 70 charitableorganizations, this year the campaign is focusing on three areas:early childhood success; helping at-risk students achieve; and seniorindependence and engagement. A donation to a particular focusarea will benefit a variety of agencies that specialize in that particu-lar community service. United Way officials explained that the

focus areas also assist the agencies to be better situated to obtaingrants for such programs.

Donors who decide to contribute to one of these focus areas willbe making a donation to the Community Fund.

This year the Community Care Challenge will match first-timeand increased-leadership gifts. A donor’s first-time or increased giftof $650 will be matched to $1,000 and the donor will be recog-nized at the silver level of leadership giving. The community CareChallenge is sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, CogginAutomotive, St. Joe Co. and Regency Centers.

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United Way helps families. Felecia, a working mother of three, neededaffordable, quality childcare. With United Way-funded scholarship assistance, her children are in a program to prepare them for kindergarten. UNF’s donations help families like Felecia’s.

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BY JULIE WILLIAMS

Staff Writer

It's not your average senior-level physics course. Theclass consists of only eight students, primarily non-sci-ence majors; the course prerequisites are "thinking,

pondering, wondering and rigorous curiosity"; and the loca-tion for the course will vary by day, beginning 4,242 milesfrom UNF's campus.

The course is PHY 4930, Trainsformational Learning onthe EuroRail, taught by Dr. Jace Hargis, assistant professorand director of the Office of Faculty Enhancement. Knownfor his innovative teaching methods, Hargis developed thecourse as an unconventional alternative to teaching andlearning. Instead of presenting material from behind apodium and testing his students’ memorization skills,Hargis will take his students on a 12-day whirlwind traintrip throughout Europe so they can apply what they learn intextbooks to the real world.

The trip begins June 5 in Jacksonville and will take thestudents by Chunnel and train to Paris, Zurich, Munich,Venice, Rome, Milan and Madrid. Students will have anopportunity to observe, engage in and explore the cultures of seven countries, with coursework completed en route toeach destination.

“This course is a very demanding travel-abroad experi-ence focusing on conceptual, contextual learning throughthe disciplines of the sciences," Hargis said. "We will beimmersing ourselves with local people and cultures, so the students will be expected to highly interact with their colleaguesand native residents, and to maintain a high level of scholarlyactivity during less-than-optimal conditions."

Hargis made sure students who applied for the course knewthis was not going to be a glorified vacation.

“The application process for this course was very competitivebecause I wanted to make sure we had a diverse group of studentswho displayed particular characteristics,” he said. “This is defi-nitely a course for ‘wash and wear’ students.” In a nutshell, Hargiswanted to select students who were serious about learning, lookingfor adventure and eager to explore new cultures.

Although the trip is still two months away, the students havebeen meeting monthly since January to complete the requiredcoursework and plan the trip. They must complete the requiredreading, which includes books on Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinciand Albert Einstein, as well as a novel, “The Razor’s Edge,” by W.Somerset Maughham, and a play, “The Physicist,” by FriederichDurrenmatt. In addition, each student has been assigned a leg ofthe trip, tasked with researching the area, planning lessons anddeveloping an itinerary for a 24-hour period.

Amy Wuest, a sophomore double-majoring in philosophy andEnglish, has spent time learning about Rome, since she’s going to

be responsible for leading her classmates through the ancient city.“I’ve been looking at maps, reading about the history of Rome,and talking with people who have traveled there to find out wherewe should go and what we should do,” she said. “I’d like to plan awalk where we can talk about Leonardo da Vinci while retracinghis footsteps and experiencing some of the things he experiencedin Rome. And I think it would be great if we could check out acafé where Sartre and Hemingway used to hang out.”

The students will also visit several universities throughoutEurope to learn what college life is like in other countries. Forexample, the students plan to visit Ludwig Maximilians Universityin Munich to tour the campus and meet a German physicist whowon a 2005 Nobel Physics Prize for his work in developing laser-based precision spectroscopy.

Hargis said one of the objectives is for students to “engage inactive, productive discourse relating to the connection between sci-ence, literature, media and how they connect to Europeangeography, social and economic parameters.”

This course is one of many UNF Transformational LearningOpportunities designed to broaden students’ intellectual and worldviews. TLO funding provided by the University reduced the costof this trip from $2,400 to $950 per student. For more informa-tion on this particular TLO, visit www.jhargis.com/europesyl.htm.

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The eight students who will travel through Europe this summer as part ofa TLO course include undergraduate and graduate students majoring ineducation, philosophy, English, biology, art, chemistry and communica-tions. They are (clockwise from center front) Naomi Kouri, Katelin Lier,Sarah Hawas, Melissa Soto, Kathy Schofield, Julie Williams (participatingas staff journalist/student), Mudhurie Maharaj and Amy Wuest.

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distinguishedvoices

Instead of viewing the economic and military development ofChina as a threat, Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy sees theopportunity for mutual growth if the U.S. is careful in its

foreign policy initiatives.Roy, who spoke to a packed banquet room at the University

Center last month, said the first step in understanding China is tounderstand the United States. “If we don’t know why we are actingthe way we are, then there may be a risk of other countriesmisunderstanding us,” he warned.

Specifically Roy, who retired in 2001 after a 45-year career withthe State Department, said what happens between the United Statesand China is far more important for the future of world stabilitythan what is happening in Iraq, which is diverting much of thiscountry’s attention.

The three-time ambassador to Singapore, China and Indonesiaoutlined why developments in East Asia should be considered theparamount foreign policy issue facing the United States.

“China’s economy is growing at extraordinary breathtakingspeed,” he said, noting that in the last 25 years the country hasaccomplished as much economically as it took western nations 125years to accomplish since the Industrial Revolution.

The military growth in China, Roy asserted, is directly relatedto U.S. actions overseas. “Asians are worried that we are actingmilitarily without consultation,” he said. He was critical of thosewho use the Chinese military buildup as an excuse to bash thecountry. “This may result in 21st Century Yellow Peril thinkingthat is a self-fulfilling prophecy and not in the best interest of theU.S,” he said.

Contrary to seeking military confrontation, Roy maintainedChina is actually seeking stability. Without peace, Roy said, Chinarealizes that it cannot achieve economic growth at home. Theambassador related the history of China, which has engaged inseveral wars with major powers over the last 100 years. “China

realizes howdevastating a warcan be to economicgrowth,” he said

One exampleRoy cited was therecent joint-military exercisebetween China andRussia, two long-time adversaries.“They have acommon interestin balancing theU.S. role in thatregion. Ourforeign policy isthe driving forcebehind this,” he noted.

The ambassadordid raise concernsabout China’s resource consumption. “China is gobbling up worldresources at an alarming rate,” he said, adding that it has overtakenthe United States in resource consumption. Along with India,China’s resource consumption raises serious potential issues for U.S.economic growth.

In addition, Roy said confrontation with China could result indirect economic impact on the U.S. economy. “When China buysU.S. Treasury bonds, it helps keeps interest rates low here,” he said.

Roy’s speech was part of the UNF Distinguished Voices LectureSeries and was co-hosted by the World Affairs Council ofJacksonville’s Global Issues Forum.

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Speaker warns of coming oil crisis

His words were measured. His analysis was thorough. Hisconclusion was discomforting. The U.S. dependence onforeign oil will be the crisis of the 21st century.

Michael Klare, a noted energy author and director of the FiveCollege Program in Peace and World Security Studies, came toUNF last month to discuss “Oil, War and Geopolitics: The GlobalStruggle over Energy.”

Klare started his lecture by mapping the current predicament fac-ing the United States, which produces only about 40 percent of itsenergy needs domestically. “We are producing less and less of whatwe consume and we are consuming more and more,” he emphasized.

Domestic oil production peaked in 1971 at 12 million gallons aday. Now the U.S. produces only about 6 million gallons a day andimports nearly 12 million gallons a day.

The remaining known oil reserves, estimated to be about

1 trillion gallons, are much more expensive to recover and arelargely concentrated in countries that are “unfriendly, unstable anddangerous,” he noted. Most experts predict these known reserveswill be exhausted in 30 years.

The result, Klare said, is the U.S foreign policy has been “prostituted” to safeguard oil supplies. He used Saudia Arabia asan example of a country whose royal family is protected by theUnited States in order to safeguard the country’s oil reserves.

Klare was careful to point out that this prostitution of foreignpolicy did not start in the Bush administration but has gone backas far as the FDR administration. “We recognized after World WarII that whoever controlled the Persian Gulf could pose a potentialthreat to American’s security,” he said.

Consequently the U.S military has become more and more

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BY TOM CAIN

Staff Writer

The works of some special artists with ties to UNF recentlyadorned the walls of the gallery at the Douglas Anderson School ofthe Arts.

The art — 23 visual works and 15 poems — was created byjuvenile offenders serving time in the Duval County Jail. Theyoung artists are in a program called “Living Inside,” which wasdeveloped in partnership with the Cultural Council of GreaterJacksonville and the Duval County State Attorney’s Office. UNFprofessor Dr. Mary Baron teaches creative writing in the jail as partof the program. Several UNF student volunteers assist Baron, whoalso wrote the original grant to start the program.

“The juvenile inmates, like all of us, were born into a lifescript,” Baron said. “For most of them it is a story about poverty,violence, sex, racism and drugs. Money and bling (street slang fordiamonds, jewelry and all forms of showy style) are the markers ofrespect and you get them however you can. The ‘Living Inside’program asks them to show us what they feel and think in paintingand poetry. It offers different life scripts and helps them write theirown.”

Barry Wilson, a print-making teacher at Douglas Anderson, sawan art exhibit which featured the works of the “Living Inside”inmates at the Ponte Vedra Fine Arts Center. “When I saw thisexhibit last year, I was taken by the honesty of the work,” Wilsonsaid. “It is almost raw at times, but it is real communication. I feellike this work, both visual art and writing, was a pipeline out forthese young people.”

The inmates’ art was exhibited along with works by 10 DouglasAnderson students. Martha McManus, education program managerof the Cultural Council, said Wilson told her that he thought it

would be good for Douglas Anderson students to see artwork bystudents with a very different perspective on life.

McManus took digital photographs of the exhibit at DouglasAnderson and the visitors who looked at the artwork. She thenbrought the photos to the jail. “This way, our ‘Living Inside’ students will be able to see that their work was seen by people inthe Jacksonville community and by students their own age,”McManus said.

The juvenile inmates are ages 13 to 17. They can stay in the“Living Inside” program if they turn 18 while taking a class. All ofthe juvenile inmates have been accused of serious crimes likeassault, robbery with violence and murder.

Special artists display work at Douglas Anderson

Mary Baron joined Barry Wilson in the gallery at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts where the works of the“Living Inside” and Douglas Anderson students were displayed.

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Coggin College of BusinessCharles R. Diebel – M.B.A. ‘78H. Eugene Baker III – B.B.A. ’74, M.B.A. ‘76Cleve E. Warren – B.B.A. ‘80Jose I. Saez – B.B.A. ‘96

College of Computing, Engineering and ConstructionDr. Greg Bollella – M.C.I.S. ‘88

2005 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients

The following is a complete list of 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients. The Outstanding Alumni Awards are presented toalumni of UNF for outstanding professional achievement, contributions to the community and exemplary service to the University.Recipients are selected by each college dean. Anyone may nominate a deserving UNF graduate.

Outstanding Alumni

College of Education and Human ServicesJudith Poppell – Ed.D. ‘98Monica McAleer – M.Ed. ’86, Ed.D. ‘00

Brooks College of HealthGarry L. Karsner – M.S.H. ‘94Christopher M. Kirby – B.S.H. ’00 and M.S.H. ‘01Barbara A. Drummond-Huth – B.S.H. ’80 and M.S.H. ‘82

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DISABILITY AWARENESS DAY Members of Florida Service Dogs Inc, along with

some of the dogs that are in training, came tocampus for Disability Awareness Day to help

educate people interested in learning about howto acquire, maintain, and train service animals.

BASEBALLHarriet, one of the Osprey mascots,greets players from Aoyama Gakuin

University prior to their game againstUNF last month at Harmon Stadium.Aoyama Gakuin, five-time Japanese

national champions, defeated UNF 8-3.

A pitcher for Aoyama Gakuin Universityfaces a UNF batter in early-inning action.

PHOTOS BY KELLY TRUE

DISABILITY AWARENESS DAYMichelle Buzzelli (from left), Shannon Brennan,Ryan Vander Weide, and Arlene Jacobson repre-sented the Student Council for Exceptional Childrenon Disability Awareness Day. The students handedout bookmarks and provided information aboutinteracting with people who have disabilities.

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BY TOM CAIN

Staff Writer

Using a palette of flowers and shrubs inshades of blue, green, pink and yellow,Chuck Hubbuch is subtly adding

splashes of color to the campus landscape.“I want to take a nice landscape, build it up

and make it even better. It’s a chance to create, touse more flowers and make it sparkle a littlemore,” said Hubbuch, who started last August asthe coordinator of Landscape and Grounds. Priorto coming to UNF, Hubbuch was the curator ofhorticulture at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardensfor three years. Before that he was the director ofplant collections at Fairchild Tropical Garden inMiami for 18 years.

Hubbuch, long and lanky at 6-feet-3, has asoothing style of speaking — he carefullyenunciates each word — which seems perfect forsomeone who has spent a great deal of time inthe lush tranquility of botanical gardens.Hubbuch, 49, was born and raised in Louisville,Ky. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology fromthe University of Kentucky.

“The University is very fortunate to have beenable to attract Chuck Hubbuch to the campus,particularly since we were on the eve of starting acomplete campus-wide landscape makeover,” saidCharles Bear, director of Physical Facilities.“Everyone on campus will begin to see changesthis spring with a large number of floweringshrubs and trees just added to infuse color andbrighten up our campus environment. Chuck isvery knowledgeable, professional, an excellent leader, and we arefortunate to have him.”

Hubbuch, with a staff of 29, has already started adding somesparkle to the campus. Between the College of Health and aparking garage, the addition of more than 20 sabal palms alongwith camellia and viburnum shrubs and healthy doses of mulchhave turned a drab section of concrete and asphalt into an eye-pleasing panorama of pink, blue, white and green.

“People love to be surrounded by foliage and shrubs,” Hubbuchsaid. Hubbuch wants to plant more trees throughout campus. Heenvisions the trees as creating canopies over walkways, making formore shade on those scorching summer afternoons. For Hubbuchthe visual perspective of more green and less concrete is anotheradvantage to planting trees around buildings.

Trees, specifically magnolia trees, play a large part in a projectHubbuch has planned for the not-too-distant future. He wants tocreate what he calls “a sense of arrival” for the Kernan Roadentrance to UNF. To accomplish this, his staff will plant magnolia

trees and shrubs at the UNF entrance and in the median and on theshoulders of the road for a few hundred feet in each direction onKernan. Hubbuch is also working with the Florida Department of Transportation on proposed landscaping for the St. Johns Bluff entrance.

Hubbuch has adapted quickly to his new work environment. Heplans to continue adding lots of blue flowers to the landscape atUNF because blue is one of the school colors. He’s also producingfact sheets — 80 pages so far — which contain information aboutcampus plants and photographs of them. Hubbuch is working withfaculty members from the Department of Natural Sciences on theproject, which may ultimately become a Web site.

Of the 10 largest counties in the state, Duval is the only onewithout a major botanical garden, Hubbuch said. Perhaps one dayUNF can help fill some of that void. “I’d like to see it [UNF] as adestination for community gardeners to get ideas for their homes,”Hubbuch said. “It’s an exciting place. UNF can be as important asany public gardens in the area.”

Hubbuch wants to make campus landscape sparkle

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The Faculty & Staff page appearseach month in Inside and is

designed to recognize professionalachievements and accomplishments offaculty and staff. To submit items,contact your college dean or JulieWilliams at jkwillia@unf.edu.

College of Arts andSciences

ART AND DESIGN: LouiseFreshman Brown’s works wereincluded in the following exhibitions: Testimony, SoloExhibition, St. Johns PerformingArts Center, January to March,and American Confluence, 13 Artists, EDSVIK KONSTHALLin Sollentuna, Sweden. Herwork was featured in theJanuary/ February issue of Arbusand in a Home & Garden TVshow. Brown also served asjuror of the Black and WhiteExhibition for the St. AugustineArt Association in St. Augustine.

Dr. Scott Brown organizedand co-chaired the session“What’s the Use of Medieval Art Anyway?” at the College Art Association conference in Boston.

Dr. Karen Carter published“L’Age de l’affiche: Critics,Collectors and Urban Contexts,”an essay for the exhibition catalog, Toulouse-Lautrec andthe French Imprint: Sources andLegacies of Fin-de-Siècle Posters,Paris – Brussels – Barcelona(New Brunswick, New Jersey:Jane Voorhees ZimmerliMuseum of Art, 2006). Theexhibition is scheduled for thefollowing venues: theBirmingham Museum and ArtGallery, Birmingham, England(Spring 2006); the Museum ofthe City of Edinburgh,Edinburgh, Scotland (Summer2006); and The Jane VoorheesZimmerli Museum of Art, NewBrunswick, N.J. (Spring 2007).

Ellen Housel’s work is currently included in the show“What do You See, What do You Hear?” at the JacksonvilleWomen’s Center. Housel alsowas awarded second place in agroup show of the JacksonvilleCoalition of Visual Artists at The Players by the Sea, juried byNofa Dixon.

Dr. Debra Murphy organ-ized and chaired the session“Off the Pedestal: PresentingContemporary Installations andNew Media” at CAA in Boston.

CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL

JUSTICE: Dr. Michael Hallettpublished "Private Prisons inAmerica: A Critical RacePerspective," with University ofIllinois Press. Hallett andSuzanne Zahrly of the MSCJprogram published “BeyondShelter: Expanding Spheres ofInfluence for Reducing ViolenceAgainst Women. A Case Studyof Hubbard House inJacksonville, Florida,” in: "It’s ACrime: Women and Justice,"edited by Roslyn Muraskin andpublished by Prentice Hall.Hallett, with former colleagueDr. Mike White, also published“Revisiting AnomalousOutcomes Data from the‘Breaking the Cycle’ Program inJacksonville,” in the Journal ofOffender Rehabilitation, Vol. 41,No 1. Hallett and Dr. KareemJordan presented a paper titled“DMC and Juveniles whoWitness Violence: A JacksonvilleCase Study” at the Academy ofCriminal Justice Sciences meet-ings in Baltimore in March.

Ted Wallman had an articlepublished in the annual PrisonAlmanac Journal for 2006.

Dr. Jennifer Wesely pub-lished "Negotiating Myself: TheImpact of Studying FemaleExotic Dancers on a FeministResearcher" in the February2006 issue of QualitativeInquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1.

ENGLISH: Dr. Clark Lunberrypresented a paper titled“Setting an Empty Stage:Proust’s Presence in Beckett’sAbsence” at a Florida StateUniversity conference “Beckettat 100: New Perspectives.”

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS:Dr. Scott Hochwald presented“Fascinating MathematicsProblems and Their Solutions”at the FL MAA and FTYCMA2006 Joint Annual Meeting inJupiter, Fla., in February.

WORLD LANGUAGES: Dr. JoseAngeles presented“Representación de la repre-sesión y la resistencia en ‘Terror ymiseria en el primer franquismo’,de José Sanchis Sinisterra” atthe 35th Annual 20th and 21stCentury Literature and CultureConference in Louisville, Ky.

Chris Baynard presented“The Political Ecology of HeavyOil in Eastern Venezuela” andserved as a panelist in the session Energy Policy andGeographic Research: The Yearin Review at the Association ofAmerican Geographers’ AnnualMeeting in Chicago.

Dr. Patricia Geesey pub-lished “Faites comme chez vous:Spatial Appropriation in Franco-Maghrebi Cinema” in“Discursive Geographies:Writing Space and Place inFrench,” edited by JeanneGarane and published byEditions Rodopi.

Coggin College ofBusiness

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE:Bettie M. Adams was re-elected to the Board ofDirectors for Community FirstCredit Union. Her term on theboard is for three years.

Dr. John MacArthur had hisarticle, “Cultural Influences onGerman versus U.S.Management AccountingPractices,” published inManagement AccountingQuarterly, Winter 2006. In addition, his article, “StrategicCost Structure Choice in ServiceOrganizations: The Case of theTransportation Industry,” waspublished in the InternationalJournal of Strategic CostManagement, Spring 2006.

Dr. Oliver Schnusenbergpresented "Time is Money inUndergraduate FinancialManagement Courses" at theAmerican Society for Businessand Behavioral SciencesConference in February.

ECONOMICS AND GEOGRAPHY:Dr. Mina Baliamoune-Lutzreceived the OutstandingService Award as track chair ininternational economics andeditor of the Journal of Businessand Behavioral Sciences, fromthe American Society ofBusiness and BehavioralSciences. The award ceremonytook place at the 13th AnnualMeeting of ASBBS in Las Vegasin February. Also, Baliamoune-Lutz, Dr. Andres Gallo and Dr.Paul Mason received BestPaper Award from the ASBSSfor their paper “Financial Depthand Economic Growth in LatinAmerica and North Africa,”which was presented byBaliamoune-Lutz.

Dr. Sharon Cobb presentedthe paper “New Tensions in theFinancial Services Industry: DoCredit Unions Really Want to beBanks?” at the 2006 AnnualMeeting of the Association ofAmerican Geographers inChicago in March.

SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

CENTER: Diane L. Denslow and

Janice W. Donaldson authoredan article that appeared in theBusiness Education Forum, theofficial publication of TheNational Business EducationAssociation. The article, titled“A Comparative Analysis ofUniversity EntrepreneurshipPrograms,” appeared in theFebruary issue.

College of Computing,Engineering andConstruction

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

MANAGEMENT: Drs. J. DavidLambert, John Alexander, and Jerry Merckel were issued a U.S. Patent (6,999, 876) fortheir “Modular Architecture forRapid Deployment andCoordination of EmergencyEvent Field Surveillance” inFebruary.

ENGINEERING: Dr. JosephCampbell served as a judge atthe 2006 Northeast FloridaRegional Science andEngineering Fair in February.

Dr. Nick Hudyma and B.BAvar had their paper, “Changesin Swell Behavior of ExpansiveClay Soils from Dilution withSand,” published in theEnvironmental and EngineeringGeoscience Journal, Vol. XII, No. 1, February 2006.

Dr. Steve Nix participated inthe February meeting of theSouth Miami-Dade WatershedStudy Technical ReviewCommittee; participated in theFebruary workshop ofLeadership Jacksonville; and wasappointed to the ExecutiveCommittee of the AmericanInstitute of Hydrology as thevice president of AcademicAffairs.

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION

SCIENCES: Dr. WilliamKlostermeyer and J.Goldwasserand had their paper,"Parity Dominating Sets in GridGraphs,” published inCongressus Numerantium, Vol. 172.

Dr. Robert Roggio present-ed his paper, “Robust SoftwareDevelopment: A TechnicalApproach Using the RationalUnified Process,” at theInformation Systems EducationConference 2005. His paperwas subsequently selected toappear in the InformationSystems Education Journal, Vol.4. Roggio was also the keynotespeaker at the February meetingof the North Florida Rational

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Users Group (NF-RUG), wherehe presented a talk, “So YouThink You Know What a UseCase Is.” Roggio also serves onthe NF-RUG Board of Directorsas financial director.

Dr. Judith Solano and LisaJamba had their paper, "UsingAcademic Learning Compacts(ALCs) to StreamlineAssessment," published in thesymposium proceedings of BestAssessment Processes VIIISymposium, Engineering,Technology, Computing, AppliedScience, Rose-Hulman Instituteof Technology, in February.

Dr. Charles Winton partici-pated in the KISS Institute forPractical Robotics' board of directors meeting in February.Winton was selected to co-chairthe Technical Advisory Board forthe institute.

College of Educationand Human Services

CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION:Dr. Edwidge Bryant presenteda keynote address on HaitianIdentity and Language at theUniversity of Central Florida inJanuary. The event focused onCreole Identity: Negritude,Antillanite, and Creolité. Bryantalso was invited by the interna-tional education association,TESOL, to review the new national and international adultESOL standards and to provideinsight into the advancementand development of adult ESOLstandards and vignettes thatfocus on planning, instructing,assessing, identity and context,language proficiency, learning,content, and commitment andprofession. In addition, Bryantwas invited to participate in thereview of state level contentadult ESOL standards. The firstmeeting was held in January inTallahassee and was organizedby U.S. Department ofEducation/World Education andthe Florida Department ofEducation.

Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh sub-mitted an invited chapter on theeffectiveness of K-12 onlinelearning to the Handbook ofDistance Education. Cavanaughalso presented “Effectiveness ofOnline Algebra Learning:Implications for TeacherPreparation” (coauthored by Dr. Jan Bosnick, UNF alumnusKathy Gillan, and USF colleagueMelinda Hess); and “ActionResearch Supported by

Technology: A ProfessionalDevelopment Program in K-12Science and Mathematics,”(coauthored by TerryCavanaugh, Marianne Barnes,Lehman Barnes and Faiz Al-Rubaee) at the Society forInformation Technology inTeacher Education meeting inOrlando in March. Cavanaughalso presented "Technology forAction Research" at the FloridaEducational Technology Confer-ence in Orlando in March.Cavanaugh’s paper,“Effectiveness of Online AlgebraLearning: Implications forTeacher Preparation” (coau-thored by Janet Bosnick, UNFalumnus Kathy Gillan, and USFcolleague Melinda Hess), wasawarded an Outstanding PaperAward from the annual interna-tional Society for InformationTechnology and TeacherEducation.

Dr. Matthew McCrudden(with Dr. Gregg Schraw of theUniversity of Nevada-Las Vegas)presented. “The Role ofRelevance Instructions inLearning from Text” at the annual conference of theEastern Educational ResearchAssociation in Hilton Head, S.C.in February.

Dr. Christine Weber pre-sented “A Florida Focus onDispro-portionality in Gifted”with colleagues from the FloridaDepartment of Education at theNational Forum for NCCRES(Nation Center for CulturallyResponsive Educational Systems)in Denver in February.

SPECIAL EDUCATION: Several special education faculty madepresentations at the FloridaDivision of Learning Disabilities(FOLD) 2006 Regional Drive-InConference, “Rising to theChallenge” at University ofCentral Florida in January. Drs. Sharian Deering andJanet Bosnick presented “ErrorPatterns in Whole NumberArithmetic ComputationAssessment and Remediation";LaJuan Stout, Drs. JaniceSeabrooks and Len Robersonpresented “Teaching Attitudestoward Multicultural Students”;Drs. Karen Patterson, SusanSyverud and Seabrooks pre-sented “Positive Intervention forStudents with LearningDisabilities: Using GuidedNotes”; Syverud and Pattersonpresented “Advancing YoungChildren in Reading.”Seabrooks, Drs. Kristine Webb

and Gwen Williams (FAMU)presented “Transition Planning:Students with Disabilities Frontand Center.” Patterson, Stout,Roberson and Seabrooks pre-sented “Increasing LearningOpportunities with Brain FriendlyTeaching Strategies.” Syverudalso was invited to give a work-shop for interns at UNF’sProfessional DevelopmentSchools. The title of the work-shop was “Providing a SafetyNet in Reading for YoungChildren.” She was also givenover $5,000 in curricula fromSRA/McGraw-Hill Companies tosupport her students’ spellingand writing tutoring efforts atWoodland Acres Elementary.

Dr. Lynn Woolsey was votedin as one of two representativesto the National Council on DeafEducation Board at a recent con-ference of the American CollegeEducators of the Deaf and Hardof Hearing in Denver. Woolseyalso presented a paper,“Exemplary Teachers of theDeaf: A Presentation of theirStrategies and Interactions withtheir Students,” at the same conference.

DEAN'S OFFICE: Drs. MarshaLupi and Suzanne Martin of theUniversity of Central Florida presented “Leadership in the21st Century” at the 58thAnnual Meeting of theAmerican Association ofColleges of Teacher Education inSan Diego in January.

Dr. Larry Daniel has beenappointed to the ResearchAdvisory Board of the NationalMiddle School Association.Daniel and Dr. Carolyn Stonepresented “The SchoolCounselor and StudentAchievement: Development ofthe SOAR Program at theUniversity of North Florida” atthe annual meeting of theAmerican Association ofColleges for Teacher EducationJan. 29 - Feb. 1 in San Diego.The paper was part of a sympo-sium featuring outstandingcounselor education programsacross the United States. Danielalso participated in a symposiumtitled “How to Publish: Advicefrom Editors” at the annualmeeting of the SouthwestEducational Research Associationin Austin in February. Other pre-senters in the symposium wereDrs. Linda Zientek and BruceThompson (Texas A&MUniversity), Robin K. Henson(University of North Texas),

Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie(University of South Florida) andPatrick M. Jenlink (Stephen F.Austin State University).

Brooks College of Health

NURSING: Dr. Barbara J.Kruger and Karen Colemanfrom NE FL AHEC presented"Fun 2B Fit: A Model ChildObesity Prevention Program" at the Florida Association of Public Health Nurses RegionalConference at World GolfVillage.

PUBLIC HEALTH: Dr. Judith C.Rodriguez presented“Addressing Hispanic/LatinoHealth Issues Through CulturallyCompetent Approaches” at theAlabama Dietetic Associationmeeting in Birmingham.

Continuing EducationDEAN'S OFFICE: The American

Society for Training andDevelopment (ASTD) awardedSteve Borowiec and the 2004-05 Leadership Develop-ment Team the organization’sVolunteer-Staff PartnershipAward. The award recognizesBorowiec’s collaboration in creating a new model for devel-oping-chapter leaders. ASTD isthe world's largest associationdedicated to workplace learningand performance professionals.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM:Ruth Harrold wrote "Englishfor Hotel Housekeepers," amanual for teaching English tohotel housekeepers, and pre-sented it at the InternationalTeachers of English as a SecondLanguage convention in Tampain March.

Student AffairsINTERCULTURAL CENTER FOR

PEACE: Kamele "Oupa"Seane recently presented a per-sonal account regarding life inSouth Africa under the apartheidsystem, during the 2006Gwendolene M. CarterConference at the University ofFlorida in Gainesville in March.The conference, "Law, Politics,Culture, and Society in SouthAfrica: the Politics of InequalityThen and Now" was sponsoredby the Center for AfricanStudies and the Levin College ofLaw. Edited papers from the conference will appear in afuture UF publication.

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Department: Residence LifeJob: Area coordinatorYears at UNF: I started in the beginning of July 2005, so about seven-and-a-half months. WHAT'S/WHO'S YOUR FAVORITEAuthor – Nicholas Sparks, particularly his writing in the “The Notebook.” I cried forhours. Though I prefer picking up a book by an author I never heard of and diving in. Movie – “A Time to Kill,” “Traffic,” “Forest Gump,” and “Crash” – They all make youthink about the world we live in and how we impact each other. Actor/Actress – Christopher Meloni and Markiska Hargitay – They are the mostdependable. You can always count on them being on TV whenever you need them. Gotto love “Law and Order!” Musician/Musical Group – I would have to say that Dido and The Shins are two of myfavorites, but my selection is subject to change based on my mood.Sports Team – Yankees! I have to stay true to my hometown!Vacation destination – Though I have not had the opportunity to travel as much as Iwould like, I plan to make traveling a top priority as I get more established. Top on theexploration list are the Greek Isles. Hobby – I enjoy both painting and solving cryptograms. Although my artistic ability is limited at best, I am an ace atsolving puzzles. Proudest Accomplishment – Earning my master of education from the University of Delaware. Most Memorable Moment at UNF – Each day I spend with the other area coordinators, resident assistants, and otherResidence Life staff members provides me with a new memorable moment. They are like family.

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The Division of Sponsored Research has announced thefollowing grants and contracts:

Cheryl Fountain (Florida Institute of Education):• “Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-free Schools Technical Assistance

and Training,” Florida Department of Education/U.S.Department of Education, $120,000

• “Sunshine State Scholars Competition,” Florida Lottery, $7,500

John Alexander (Engineering), “Intelligent Dog Dish Design,Phase I, Prototype 1, 2, and 3,” Life Reporting Systems, $158,805

Mollie Lawrence (Economics and Geography), “Mathematics andEconomics: Connections for Life (Grades three-five) Workshops,”National Council on Economic Education/3M Foundation, $2,500

Dale Casamatta (Biology), “Assessment of Epiphyte LoadingAssociated with SubmergedAquatic VegetationCommunities in the LowerSt. Johns River andInvestigations into theEffects of Microcystisæruginosa on Some BioticResponses,” St. Johns RiverWater ManagementDistrict, $38,000

Rebecca Marcon (Psychology), “School Readiness Evaluation forthe Clay/Nassau/Baker/ Bradford School Readiness Coalition andEpiscopal Children’s Services,” Episcopal Children’s Services, $5,505

Matthew Corrigan (Public Opinion Research Laboratory):• “Jacksonville’s “Green It Up, Clean It Up” Program,” city of

Jacksonville, $850• “Phonathon Fund-Raising Campaign and Donor Analysis, UNF

Annual Fund, fall 2005,” UNF Foundation, $18,855

Jeffry Will (Sociology and Anthropology), “Local Evaluation for theSiyafundisa Project,” Fresh Ministries, $21,000

Len Roberson and Janice Seabrooks (Special Education), “VirtualESE Program: Social, Personal, and Career Skills for ExceptionalLearners,” University of South Florida/Florida Department ofEducation, $5,000

Sponsored Research awards announced

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Bob Wood says he was attracted to UNF’s College ofContinuing Education by its great reputation and trackrecord of success.

Wood, who assumed the dean’s position in March, comes toUNF with more than 30 years of experience in education as well asin private business.

Experience in both sectors taught Wood the important role community-based education plays in the success of any businessenterprise. He isn’t shy about stating his vision for ContinuingEducation at UNF. “We want to be the first-choice trainingprovider for business and industry in this region. When businessexecutives think about training, I want them to think about UNF,” he said.

Last year, Continuing Education with its 25 full-time staffmembers offered about 452 educational opportunities to 5,381 participants. Wood says he wants to increase the number of stu-dents served and consequently the revenue generated by the college.

To accomplish that, Wood plans to use his dual experience inthe education and business communities.

Before coming to UNF, Wood was dean of ContinuingEducation and Workforce Development at Central CarolinaTechnical College in Sumter, S.C. In five years there he doubled thenumber of classes and increased profits and revenues threefold.

His education experi-ence also includes a stint atPiedmont Technical Collegein Greenwood, S.C., and serving as the principal of aprivate high school.

For 16 years, from 1980to 1996, he owned andoperated his own company that was involvedin everything from management training andconsulting to trucking. Hesold the company in 1996and after taking some timeoff to pursue his passion ofplaying golf, decided to get back into education.

With three grown children, Wood and his wife of 35 years,Diane, were attracted to Jacksonville because of the quality of life itoffered. It will give him ample opportunity to golf as well as to“walk, eat and cook, ” his other declared pastimes.

“I’m excited about coming into a very strong program with anexcellent reputation and working to enhance that program,” he said.

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Fulfillment of another of UNF’s 2003 International TaskForce recommendations has been realized with the recentrelocation of the English Language Program from Academic

Affairs to the Student Affairs division. The English as a SecondLanguage Program, headed by Ruth Harrold, offers intensiveEnglish language classes and language proficiency (TOEFL)preparation for international students and business professionalsfrom an office suite located in the University Center.

“Following the Task Force’s recommendation to ‘examine therole of UNF’s English language program,’ President Delaney,Acting Provost Workman and I have given this considerablethought and feel it to be the most effective organizationalrealignment,” explained Vice President for Student andInternational Affairs Dr. Mauricio Gonzalez. The task force in itsReport to the President made numerous recommendations to“internationalize” the campus, including consolidation ofinternational-student-related units under one umbrella.

The move has a number of benefits, according to Gonzalez.Among them is a greater rate of return for international-studentrecruitment dollars. “Simultaneous recruitment for both ELP andUNF’s degree programs has the potential to increase UNF’sapplicant-to-enrollment rate by creating awareness amonginternational student prospects of the University’s strong ELP,

comprehensive International Center and globally applicable degreeprograms,” he said.

Relocation of the unit also increases the likelihood that ELPparticipants will continue their relationship with UNF into theirdegree choice because of their familiarity with UNF’s geographicarea, campus core, international staff and UNF faculty. ELPregistrants who currently receive instruction at the UniversityCenter would be able to immerse themselves into core-campus lifemuch sooner while enriching domestic students’ daily experience.“We then can provide them a seamless and supportive transitioninto degree-seeking student status in one of UNF’s five colleges,”Gonzalez said.

There also are a number of benefits for our faculty, according toGonzalez, including the possibility of earmarking a portion of therevenue generated by ELP, which is an auxiliary operation, tostrengthen international faculty initiatives.

As with any program transfer between University divisions,Gonzalez explained there are issues to be worked out, such asreporting structure and impact on classroom utilization. Gonzalezsaid he is pleased that the guidance of this task force continues tobe recognized by implementation of its recommendations. Todownload the task force report online, go towww.unf.edu/dept/intlctr/Report_to_President.pdf.

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The Fine Arts Center hosted some of the most talentedstudents in theater from around the country duringthe Kennedy Center’s American College Theater

Festival in February.More than 700 students from the Southeast (Region IV)

were at UNF vying for top honors in main-stage productionspresented at the Lazzara Performance Hall. The design competitions, short plays and workshops were at FCCJ whichco-hosted the event. Region IV includes 10 states and over 90 colleges and universities. Festival productions are judgedby a panel of three people selected by the Kennedy Centerand the national committee. Four to six of the best produc-tions are selected for the Kennedy Center national festival inWashington, D.C.

“The goals of the festival are to promote excellence in educational theater and provide a wide range of opportunitiesfor students to learn more about every aspect of theater and toshare and celebrate their exceptional work,” said Sharon Papian,executive director of the Fine Arts Center. The Festival also encourages colleges and universities to produce new plays writtenby students and to present distinguished productions of the classicsand experimental works. “This was a wonderful opportunity forUNF to be immersed in this dynamic theatrical environment andfor the students to experience our amazing campus and all it has tooffer,” Papian added.

UNF students, faculty and staff from the entire University aswell as community members were invited to participate in the festival.

FAC production manager Jaime Davidson was enthused by thenext generation of theater professionals. “It was inspiring to seethese students honing their craft in a festival situation. The caliberof technical work was impressive and it’s great for UNF to be a partof the continuing progress of the theatrical arts,” Davidson said.

Gregg Henry, the festival program representative presented aplaque to Papian at a reception in recognition of the “contributionsof the University of North Florida, John Delaney, President, SharonPapian, FAC executive director and Jaime Davidson, FAC produc-tion manager for exemplary support of educational theaterexcellence as hosts of the Kennedy Center College Theater Festival.”

Fine Arts Center receives Kennedy recognition

Fine Arts Center Executive Director Sharon Papian and FAC ProductionManager Jaime Davidson exhibit the plaque presented by the KennedyCenter in recognition for UNF hosting the Kennedy Center College TheaterFestival recently.

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is on specialassignment. As the bureau chief ofCNN’s Johannesburg Headquarters

and the recipient of numerous awards, shenot only serves as a veteran journalist, butalso as an American prism through whichthe world views African economic, culturaland political relevance.

As the featured speaker at the 25thannual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Scholarship Luncheon, she spoke of her tiesto UNF and why she made the trip fromJohannesburg to speak. Her memories ofthe Sunshine State are related to timespent with her native Floridian grandpar-

ents. She recalled being an only child atthe time and how American cinema bothfascinated and saddened her by the wayblacks were portrayed.

One of the most significant challengesfor Hunter-Gault was attempting to gainentry into the University of Georgia,which by law did not admit blacks until1961. She was subjected to harassmentand taunting but eventually graduated in1963. She went on to work as an editorialassistant at New Yorker Magazine.

During the mid-‘80s, Hunter-Gaultwas in South Africa surrounded by thetumultuous times of apartheid. She spokeabout witnessing the wounds of a blackwoman who had endured a brutal beatingwith a sjambok, or whip. Ever the

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Map illustrates the approximate location of UNF’s newest housingproject. The residence hall will be along the eastern ridge of cam-pus (right section of map) and will be connected to the existingcampus (left section of map) by a nature walkway.

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reporter, Hunter-Gault wanted toprovide the facts. She was deniedthe opportunity so she and a friendhid the evidence and eluded thepolice until she could safely report.

In the early ‘90s, the failedpolicies of apartheid were abol-ished, led by President FrederikWillem de Klerk. NelsonMandela, who spent 27 years injail as a political prisoner, succeeded de Klerk at president in the first multi-racial electionsheld in 1994.

In 1997, Thabo Mbeki, SouthAfrica’s current president, cameinto power. According to Hunter-Gault, today’s South African youth“have space to dream but are alsounemployed, uneducated, with notechnology or books and angry.”

Oupa Seane, director of the UNF Intercultural Center for

PEACE and a native of Soweto, said SouthAfrica is populated by 45 million people,“80 percent who are struggling, mostlyblack, and 10 percent who are white withconcentrated wealth.” Seane added thatthe country, however, still has “plenty ofnatural resources and is still in recoveryfrom apartheid.”

President Mbeki and the AfricanNational Congress, described by Seane as“everyone’s party,” are addressing the current state of affairs through a learningprocess that takes time. The biggest threat to the future of the South Africaneconomy is AIDS. Millions have beenorphaned resulting in a markedlydecreased labor force.

Hunter-Gault remains optimistic.Quoting her favorite poem, she said,“What is Africa to me? Copper sun orscarlet sea? Jungle star or jungle track?

When the birds of Eden sang? What is Africa to me?”

MLK Scholarship recipients

Four students received $1,000 MartinLuther King Jr. Scholarships for the 2006-07academic year.

• Shane Allen Horn is a junior in the Collegeof Education and Human Services major-ing in social science education.

• Hernando Zambrano is a junior in theCoggin College of Business majoring inaccounting.

• Jennie Davis is a junior in the CogginCollege of Busines majoring in interna-tional business and marketing.

• Vanessia Gooden is a freshman in theCollege of Arts and Sciences majoring inhistory and Spanish.

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excited about the possibilities the new housing will present for programming opportunities. She envisions a “living and learning” environment in which students will have study sessions, tutoring, counseling and perhaps classes in the complex thus adding a new dimension of intimacy not possibleat larger universities.

“We want to be a leader in the state of Florida in the type ofresidential experience we can offer. It will definitely differentiateus from other public universities in the state,” she said.

The complex will be connected to the central core of campusby a 1,000-foot elevated walkway through a nature area thatwill accentuate the environmental aspects of the University.

Both Riel and Hendricks must complete considerable plan-ning before bringing the project from the drawing board tooccupancy, which is tentatively set for the fall of 2008.

One of the biggest aspects of the project will be the exten-sion of roads and utilities into the previously undeveloped areaof campus. This will be a major expense for the University butwill serve as the foundation for future housing projects alongthe eastern ridge.

When completed, the new housing also may eliminatetripling of existing rooms thereby reducing some of the congestion now experienced in other housing areas.

“It’s a win-win for all of our residential students and theUniversity as we continue to grow but maintain the one-on-oneatmosphere on which we pride ourselves,” Riel noted.

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UNF and the World AffairsCouncil of Jacksonville are offeringpeople an opportunity to see theworld from a different perspective –not by traveling abroad or takingclasses, but by having students inter-act and discuss current events andAmerican foreign policy at GreatDecisions Society meetings.

The Great Decisions GlobalAffairs Education Program is in its52nd year of existence under theForeign Policy Association. The FPAprovides the materials for the group,including an annual “Briefing Book.”

Now in its second year of existencein Jacksonville, the Great Decisionsprogram is being offered to 10th-and11th grade students at four localschools, including Allen D. NeaseHigh School, Stanton CollegePreparatory, Paxon School ofAdvanced Studies and Bartram TrailHigh School.

The group is comprised of students at UNF and the four highschools. Four UNF professors and social studies teachers at thehigh schools facilitate the groups. Each professor is assigned to adifferent high school.

Dr. David Schwam-Baird, a professor in UNFs Political ScienceDepartment, is the group leader for Nease. He said the group is agood way to get students to experience alternative perspectives onforeign policy and issues.

“It’s to make them more aware,” Schwam-Baird said. “If we’rereally doing our job, they’re not only getting more information but they’re learning how to ask the right questions about what’sgoing on.”

Students are given discussion points based on the eight topicsprovided by the Foreign Policy Association in their annual “GreatDecisions” publication. Each meeting consists of a different topic,so out of the eight meetings during the year, students will debate,question and discuss topics involving foreign and local affairs,world crises and security issues.

“Most American students don’t know anything about Americanforeign policy,” said Dr. Mary Borg, director of the UndergraduateEnrichment Program in the Political Science and PublicAdministration Department at UNF. “It’s just really good toexpose them to all of these current events.”

Since the students might not be exposed to such current events,Schwam-Baird said he thinks it is not a disadvantage to the partic-ipants if they are not fully in-the-know.

“You don’t have to be already brimming with information,”

Schwam-Baird said. “It’s good if all of this stuff is new to you. It’sjust another way to get the information.”

The meetings are held in classrooms at the high schools and atUNF, and the group’s size averages around 20 students. Becausenone of the students in attendance are required to be there, it issometimes difficult to encourage them to speak their mind. That’swhen faculty members act as guides for discussions.

The UNF Foundation Board is the primary source of fundingfor the Great Decisions Progam at UNF. “The program is an out-reach to the community, but it’s also a way to expose these reallygood students to UNF,” Borg said. “When they come and see ourprofessors and our facilities, they are more likely to think of us as achoice for college.”

Students involved in the program receive a certificate and apotential recommendation from the UNF faculty member whocoordinated their group. Involved students are also encouraged toparticipate in a culminating exercise called the International CrisisManagement Exercise.

For the event this year, a simulated crisis was created betweenTaiwan and China, and the students played roles of world leaderswho had to resolve the crisis using their critical thinking skills.But while the students were trying to resolve the situation, the fac-ulty members kept adding in different situations to the problem.

“The whole time they are trying to solve this problem, theproblem changes,” Schwam-Baird said. “That’s what happens inreal life — the problem always changes. People really get into the exercise.”

Students on the hot seat

UNF students are placed on an international hot seat as they simulate solving a crisis between China and Taiwan as part of the Great Decisions program.

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ABC awards scholarship to UNF studentThe Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. Women’s

Council recently awarded the 2005-06 Tina L. HernandezScholarship to UNF student Jennifer E. Statlick. Statlickwill graduate in April and plans to continue her educationat UNF in the MBA program. The Tina L. HernandezScholarship is awarded each year to a female student inthe Building and Construction Management Program atUNF.

UNF team receives 2006 GreenhouseExemplary Course Award

A team of UNF employees was recently awarded a 2006Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course Award for theBlackboard course, Community Nursing Service-LearningHomebase. The annual Greenhouse Awards Program wasdeveloped to cultivate innovations in e- learning, supportthe organic growth of knowledge within the Blackboardcommunity and recognize exemplary campus serviceprograms. The Greenhouse program features three distinctaward categories for which Blackboard clients areencouraged to submit entries, including exemplarycourses, exemplary campus service and exemplarycommunity of practice initiatives.

The team members who submitted the Blackboardcourse include Barbara J. Kruger, Bill Ahrens and LindaConnelly of the School of Nursing; Deborah Miller of theOffice of Faculty Enhancement; Erin Soles of the Centerfor Instructional Research and Technology; and Tony Turrinof Information Technology Services.

In their proposal the authors wrote, “Blackboard is thehub that synergizes our service-learning activities andlearning community. Our cross-semester service-learningrequirement integrates all pre-licensure nursing students

into one of six non-term service-learning ‘courses’ calledhomebases with a complementary Blackboard site. Thesehomebases contain multiple partnerships around ageographic or program area. Each homebase is led by atleast two nursing faculty, enrolls 24-48 students from eachof our five semester levels, numerous community partners,and interdisciplinary faculty. Blackboard is the essentialglue that unites faculty, students, and communitypartners, beyond campus walls, in these community-campus partnerships.”

The team members elected to have the $5,000 awardgranted to UNF rather than to them as individuals. It willbe used to support future course development.

Musical premier honors Bill BrownLast month at Carnegie Hall a group of musicians

gathered to present a musical tribute to Bill Brown, longtime UNF professor and world-renowned tenor whodied in 2004.

On March 24, soprano Louise Toppin presented theworld premiere of “Aspects of Bill,” a collection of 21st century art songs written for voice and piano byseven prominent African-American composers in memoryof Brown.

Brown was an active performer with the world'spremier orchestras and opera companies as well as atireless advocate for African-American music and achampion of new music for voice.

Toppin was accompanied by Grammy-nominatedclassical and Broadway pianist Joseph Joubert, currentlythe pianist and associate conductor for the OprahWinfrey-produced musical, “The Color Purple.”

Proceeds benefited the William Brown Scholarship Fund.

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involved in protecting oil-producing coun-tries and oil- shipping routes, he said.“Gradually our military is becoming an oil-protection service.”

With China significantly increasing its oilconsumption, Klare concluded that the situa-tion is “going to get worse before it getsbetter.”

The solutions are complex and Klare wascritical of the current administration for fail-ing to provide the “moral leadership” on theissue. “Foreign oil is corrupting our societyand we have to fight our addiction to it,” hesaid.

He recommended, for example, legislationmandating the average fuel efficiency of cars

be increased to 50 miles per gallon. “There isno technical reason that can’t be accom-plished with today’s technology,” he said.

Although he praised federal funding ofrenewable resource research, he said theinvestment was much too small to havemeaningful impact on the situation in thenear future. “We must do much more andwe must do it rapidly. Fighting an addictionis not easy,’ he said.

Klare’s most recent book, “Blood and Oil:The Dangers and Consequences of America’sGrowing Dependency on ImportedPetroleum,” is now available in bookstores.

His lecture was part of the College ofArts and Sciences Speakers Series.

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April 30, 1965A bill authorizing a four-year

state university in Duval Countypassed unanimously through thestate senate. The bill was introducedby state Sen. John E. Matthews,whom the University’s computer andscience building (Building 15) isnamed after. The bill called for afeasibility study and authorized cityagencies to buy land and buildingsfor the University. It was the firststep for the State Department ofEducation and the city governmentin establishing UNF.

April 16, 1979UNF students voted for the

University’s official mascot duringthe student elections in the springsemester. Among the 10 mascotpossibilities were manatee, panther andconquistador. Students wrote in othercandidates including the osprey, which wassuggested by natural sciences professor Dr.Ray Bowman. After a run-off election atthe end of the month, students chose theosprey with 47 percent of the vote. Thesecond choice was the seagull, with 32percent. The armadillo, first introduced asthe UNF mascot by former alumninewsletter editor Dorreen Daly, was third

with 15 percent. The SGA Housemembers had to vote on the matterbecause the osprey won less than 50percent of the vote. The House decided toendorse the osprey by a 12-to-7 vote.

April 30, 1988Monique French was the first four-year

student to graduate from UNF with a 4.0GPA. The UNF Foundation Scholarreceived her bachelor’s degree in chemistry.

She graduated from Sandalwood HighSchool in 1984 with the second-highestGPA in her class. She was a member ofthe Phi Kappa Phi honor society andthe Golden Key honor society. She wasalso the first student to graduate fromthe University’s weekend MBAprogram with a 4.0 GPA. French laterearned her Ph.D. from ClemsonUniversity in industrial management.She is now an assistant professorteaching quantitative methods at theUniversity of Colorado in ColoradoSprings.

April 18, 1997UNF founding faculty members,

William “Bill” Brown and GersonYessin performed in the RobinsonTheatre in honor of the University’s25th anniversary. Brown, a tenor, alsoperformed Broadway tunes by RichardRodgers, an aria, Afro-Centric artsongs, and African-American spirituals.

Gerson Yessin, who was the former chair ofthe Music Department, performed“Ballade in G Minor” by Frederic Chopin,“Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwinand other songs that composers wrotewhen they were 25 years old. Brown sangin Carnegie Hall and performed withorchestras all over the world including theLondon Symphony Orchestra. He died ofheart failure at age 66 in October 2004.

This month in UNF’s historyBy ERIKA TORRES

Student Writer

Bill Brown and Gerson Yessin