FACULTY AND STAFF NEWSLETTER OCT. 5, 2009

• Dr. Beth N. Quick, Department ofEducational Studies chair, has been named aconsulting editor for the National Associationfor the Education of Young Children’s nationaljournal, “Young Children.”

• Sam Richardson and Mary Carpenter,Paul Meek Library, have recently had an articlepublished in Tennessee Libraries, Volume 59,Number 1 titled “Library Customer ServiceReceives the Ivory Tower Treatment.”

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Paul Meek Library will be hosting a book sign-ing for Sandra Robbins from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. onOct. 7 and Thomas Swafford from 2-4 p.m. onOct. 8. Robbins’ book, “Final Warning,” will beavailable for purchase. Swafford’s book, “TheMoonshine Man: The Life of Church Lester,” ison sale at the UT Martin bookstore.

Robbins is an alumna of UT Martin, taughtelementary school for 16 years and was MartinPrimary School principal for 17 years. She cur-

Book signings this week

UT Interim President Dr. Jan Simek met with administrators, faculty, staff, students, public officialsand community leaders when he visited campus, Sept. 29, as part of the president's annual campustour. Chancellor Rakes and Dr. Simek are pictured at a Faculty Senate session that closed out thetour vist to campus.

Interim President Jan Simek brought hisfall campus tour to UT Martin on Sept. 29with words of praise for the university buttempered with caution about the state’s bud-get situation. The stop at Martin was hisnext-to-last in a month-long tour that beganSept. 2 at the UT Health Science Center inMemphis and will end Oct. 6 in Knoxville.Simek’s comments were made to a group ofcommunity leaders, elected officials and uni-versity supporters at a noon luncheon in theBoling University Center.

Simek, continuing the five-year traditionof UT presidents touring the university’scampuses, was named acting president Feb.27 by the UT Board of Trustees followingthe resignation of Dr. John Petersen. Hebecame interim president July 1, a positionhe will hold for two years before returning tothe UT Knoxville faculty as a DistinguishedProfessor of Anthropology.

“Martin’s a wonderful campus,” he said.“Folks here are doing a terrific job educatingstudents and doing that terrific job withwhat are clearly diminishing resources.” He

added, “These kinds of circumstances, espe-cially difficult budget times, can often pro-duce a situation where people point fingersat others, offer up their colleagues ratherthan take the difficult choices themselves.That’s not been the case as we’ve confrontedthe difficult budget situations that we face atthe University of Tennessee.”

Simek touched on several topics, talkingfirst about the state’s budget situation andits effect on higher education. He noted thatstate revenues for August “were $28 millionbelow those projected for the budget,” animprovement compared to previous months.“We are on an upward move but we’re stillnot in the black as a state, and what thatmeans is that things are getting better, butwe’re not fixed,” he said. “Things are goingto be difficult for several years to come.”

He said that cuts in state appropriationsthat were set to begin July 1 are now delayedfor two years because of the availability offederal stimulus finds allocated to the uni-versity. But, those budget cuts still must

Dr. Simek spoke at a luncheon that washosted on campus for area and communityleaders as part of Campus Tour ‘09 at UTMartin.

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Interim President Simek optimistic, but cautious, about state budget

Retiring faculty members were hon-ored at a recent dinner. Included wereDr. Paul Crapo, professor emeritus ofFrench who retired after 14 years; Dr.Linda Ramsey, professor emeritus ofhealth and human performance, whoretired after 37 years, pictured withChancellor Rakes; and Dr. LindaBlanding, left, professor emeritus ofeducational studies, who retired afterseven years.

Carolyn Gresham, Division of Academic Affairsadministrative aide, recently was honored at aretirement reception in the McCombs CenterDougherty Tennessee Room. Faculty and staff con-gratulated her on 29 years service with the uni-versity. With her is her husband, Dr. JerryGresham, Department of Agriculture, Geosciencesand Natural Resources chair.

The Department ofMusic and the FirstUnited MethodistChurch of Martin willhost the 16th annualDessert Even ing at 7:30p.m., Oct. 9 and Oct. 10,at the First UnitedMethodist Church ofMartin. The voice area ofthe department will fea-ture a variety of classical,contemporary and lightchoral and solo musicthat will include dessertsserved to the audience attheir tables. The FirstUnited MethodistChurch of Martin is locat-ed at 225 Main St. Fortickets, contact SherryAdams in the Depart -ment of Music at 731-881-7402 or by email atsadams@utm.edu. Tic ketsare $18 for general admis-sion and $12 for studentsand children 12 andunder.

DessertEveningsslated onOct. 9-10

The second annual Friends of Paul MeekLibrary Fall Book Sale is slated for 8 a.m.-6p.m., Oct. 8-9; and 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 10.Books and media of all genres are being col-lected for this sale. Anyone with items todonate may take them to the library shippingdock or circulation desk. Proceeds from thesale will go to provide books for a specific aca-demic interest. Last year, the $1,500 providedresources for the Women’s Studies minor.Anyone who has a specific area of interest,area of concentration, minor or project thatcould use these library funds, may write a 50-100 word proposal. E-mail the proposal toJennifer Head (jhead@utm.edu) by Oct. 8.

Library book saleset for Oct. 8-10

rently lives in Martin. For more informationabout Robbins, visit http://www.sandrarob-bins.net.

Swafford is from Pikeville, Tenn., and is analumnus of the University of Tennessee atKnoxville with a degree in civil engineering.Swafford owns and operates Pikeville FuneralHome. As a retired engineer, he still does engi-neering consulting for Fairfield Glades.

For more information about the book sign-ings, contact Karen Elmore, senior libraryassistant, at ext. 7094.

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A benefit concert for the late Dr. JohnDougherty is slated for 7 p.m., Oct. 10, at theDresden First United Methodist Church.Dougherty was a professor emeritus of musicand former chair of University of Tennessee atMartin Department of Music. He died June 21in Martin. The concert will be performed bytenor Jason Winstead. The event is free, anddonations accepted will benefit a music schol-arship fund.

Benefit concert Oct. 10

Take advantage of the next opportunity toget one-on-one business consulting from RonAcree, Tennessee Small BusinessDevelopment Center (TSBDC) consultant.Acree will be at the University of Tennessee atMartin Regional Entrepreneurship andEconomic Development (REED) Center, 9a.m.-4 p.m., Oct. 8. He will be available tohelp aspiring entrepreneurs and existing busi-ness owners with advice on a business plan,financing options, marketing, customer ser-vice, cash flow and other issues.

Acree to offer advice Oct. 8

The Office of Extended Campus andOnline Studies October training includesthe following: Creating Online Surveys, Oct.6, 3-4, p.m., ITC Lab, second floor library;Copyright for Beginners, Oct. 6 & 8, 3-4:40p.m., 118 Library Seminar Room; BeginningPowerpoint 2007, Oct. 7, 3-4 p.m., ITC Lab,second floor library; Staples TrainingSession, Oct. 8, 10-11 a.m., 206 Gooch Hall;Beginning Word 2007, Oct. 12, 4-5 p.m.,ITC Lab, second floor library; PCICompliance Rules, Oct. 14, 10-noon, 206Gooch Hall; Beginning Microsoft Outlook2007, Oct. 14, 4-5 p.m., ITC Lab, secondfloor library; New to Mac, Oct. 15, 2-4 p.m.,206 Gooch Hall; Beginning AdobeContribute, Oct. 16, 3:15-4:45 p.m., ITCLab, second floor library; Beginning AdobePhotoshop, Oct. 21, 10-11 a.m., ITC Lab, sec-ond floor library; All about Twitter, Oct. 22,4-5 p.m., ITC Lab, second floor library;Beginning Excel 2007, Oct. 26, 4-5 p.m.,ITC Lab, second floor library; BeginningAdobe Photoshop, Oct. 28, 10-11 a.m., ITCLab, second floor library. To register, contactKaren Sliger at ksliger@utm.edu or ext.7940.

October training listed

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Those attending the recent tenure, promotion and faculty awards dinner, included, from left, standing, Richard Robinson, Paula Moore, Dr. DavidSammons, Dr. Misganaw Getaneh, Dr. Bryan Foltz, Dr. Ken VanVuren, Dr. Angie MacKewn, Dr. Philip Smartt, Lori Littleton, Dr. Chris Whitlow, Dr.Amy Simmons; seated, Stan Sieber, Dr. Michelle Merwin, Dr. Esther Christian Sellars, Dr. Stephanie Kolitsch, Dr. Becky Cox. Not present: Dr. Desiree’McCullough and Dr. Lionel Crews.

The Office of Alumni Relations will celebratehomecoming week with “Luau” as this year’stheme.

Homecoming 2009 will be celebrated Oct. 5-11,with Quad City’s live music, kid’s carnival, reunionand college tents, a petting farm, carnival games,food and fellowship as a focal point from 10:30a.m.-1:30 p.m., Oct. 10, in the Quad. Adding tothe festivities for current students, alumni andfriends are the alumni dinner and awards program,pyramid building competition, pep rally and GreekStep Show. At 2 p.m., Oct. 10, the Skyhawks willface Tennessee Tech University at Hardy M.Graham Stadium.

The following is a complete schedule of eventsfor homecoming week:

Monday, Oct. 5• 4 p.m. – Rope Pull, Pacer Pond Tuesday, Oct. 6 • 4 p.m. – Rope Pull, Pacer Pond • 7 p.m. – Lip Sync Show, Pacer Pond • 8:45 p.m. – Homecoming Court Announce -

ment, Pacer Pond Wednesday, Oct. 7• 4 p.m. – Rope Pull, Pacer Pond• 7 p.m. – Public Relations Student Society of

America’s “Womanless Beauty Revue,” Watkins

Auditorium, Boling University CenterThursday, Oct. 8• 4 p.m. – Rope Pull, Pacer Pond • 9:09 p.m. – SAC 909 Comedy Series, Watkins

Auditorium, Boling University Center Friday, Oct. 9 • 9 a.m. – Golf Tournament, Sharon • 1 p.m. – Family and Consumer Sciences

Historical Fashion Show, Watkins Auditorium,Boling University Center

• 3:15 p.m. – Rope Pull Championship, PacerPond

• 6 p.m. – Alumni Dinner and Awards Program,Duncan Ballroom, Boling University Center

• 7:30 p.m. – Music Department 2009 DessertEvening, Martin First United Methodist Church

• 8:30 p.m. – Pyramid and Pep Rally, ElamCenter

Saturday, Oct. 10• 7:30 a.m. – Letterwinner’s Breakfast and Hall

of Fame Inductions, Student Life Center, AlumniGym

• 9:30 a.m. – Chancellor’s Brunch, Paul MeekLibrary

• 10:30 a.m. – Opening Ceremony and OpenHouse for Brehm Hall Expansion, Brehm Hall

• 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. – Quad City

• 11 a.m. – Football Team’s Hawk Walk, Quadnear Paul Meek Library

• 2 p.m. – Skyhawks vs. Tennessee TechUniversity, Hardy M. Graham Stadium

• 5 p.m. – Softball Reunion and Oldtimersgame, Giles Softball Field

• 5 p.m. – Family and Consumer Sciences Tourof Home Management Home, Student HealthCenter

• 6 p.m. – Family and Consumer SciencesReception, Room 206 ABC, Boling UniversityCenter

• 6:30 p.m. – Family and Consumer SciencesBan quet, Duncan Ballroom, Boling UniversityCenter

• 7 p.m. – NPHC Greek Step Show, SkyhawkField House

• 7:30 p.m. – Music Department 2009 DessertEvening, Martin First United Methodist Church

Sunday, Oct. 11• 10 a.m. – “Walk in the Quad” • 10:30 a.m. – Homecoming Brunch, Skyhawk

Dining Room, Boling University Center For more homecoming information, visit

www.utmforever.com.

Homecoming ‘Luau’ kicks off on Oct. 5

The Web Events Calendar, accessible from the home page, is managed by Boling University CenterInforma tion Center.

Campus departments /or gan izations host ing or facilitating events must submit information to theInformation Center in order for an event to be posted on the Web calendar. The calendar also is the sourceof the Addenda calendar content. Use the form, at www.utm.edu/infocenter, or call ext. 7000.

Submit eventsto Web calendar

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during the summer by UT Martin; Martin, TN 38238

• Dr. Jan Simek - Interim President, University of Tennessee System • Dr. Tom Rakes - Chancellor, University of Tennessee at Martin

• Rita Mitchell - Addenda Editor, University Editor

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Monday, Oct. 5– Intramural flag football season begins

Tuesday, Oct. 6– 5 p.m. – Theresa Kimmy and Brittany Branumsenior art exhibitions, Paul Meek Library (Oct. 6-23)– 7 p.m. – Skyhawk volleyball vs. Eastern Illinois,Skyhawk Field House– 7:30 p.m. – Guest artist, Maraca2, percussionensemble, Campbell Auditorium, HoltHumanities– 8 p.m. – President's roundtable meeting, Room229, Boling University Center

Friday, Oct. 9– 8:30 a.m. – College of Agriculture and Ap pliedSciences Fall Advisory Council, WatkinsAuditorium, university center– 3:30 p.m. – Skyhawk soccer @ Eastern Illinois– 7 p.m. – Skyhawk volleyball @ Morehead State– 7:30 p.m. – Dessert Evening, 225 Main St., FirstUnited Methodist Church (Oct. 9-10)

Saturday, Oct. 10– 1 p.m. – Skyhawk volleyball @ Eastern Ken tucky– 2 p.m. – Skyhawk football vs. Tennessee Tech(Homecoming), Graham Stadium

Sunday, Oct. 11– 10:30 a.m. – Homecoming Sunday brunch, Sky -hawk Cafe, university center– 2 p.m. – Skyhawk soccer vs. Southeast Missouri,Skyhawk Soccer Field– 3 p.m. – Jonathan Byrd, senior euphoniumrecital, Watkins Auditorium, university center

Addendas are archived athttp://www.utm.edu/departments/

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come, and UT campuses have been asked to“look for another six percent of their stateappropriations in case of additional budget-cutrequirements from the state.” He added,“We’re hopeful that if the economy recovers alittle bit, that will be an exercise, but we can’tnot plan for additional difficulties into thefuture. These are tough times.”

Although Simek said that the university’sacademic core remains intact, he predictedthat reductions in force are inevitable. “Wewill lose jobs across the (UT) system, but forthe most part, those jobs will be in the supportstructures for the academic entities, ratherthan the academic entities themselves,” hesaid. “We’ll lose a lot of contingent faculty,people we hire part-time. But our tenure-trackfaculty that are the core of who we are will, forthe most part, remain intact. That is veryimportant, because that’s what provides theseed for future growth as we come out of this.”Even with additional fallout from the budgetcrisis looming, Simek said, “the University ofTennessee is doing quite a bit better thanmany of our colleagues in surrounding states.”

His comments then turned to the discussionof reorganizing higher education in Tennessee.He said that a “working group” is examiningreorganization as a way to address the primaryneed for more college graduates in the state.However, he said that steps could be takenwith the higher-education systems in place toaddress this internally without major changesin the structure. He said that the current tieredsystem has a “quite variable record of perfor-mance in producing college graduates.” Hepointed out that measures such as retentionand graduation rates are variable from oneinstitution to the next and are not as high asthey should be.

He cited UT Knoxville, which he said has agraduation rate of approximately 60 percent,the highest of any public university inTennessee. But, to compete with other nation-al universities, “we need to have graduationrates of around 80 to 85 percent.” He alsonoted UT Martin’s graduation rate of just over50 percent, second-best among public univer-sities in the state, which he said needs to becloser to 70 percent. “We need to set the barhigh,” he said, adding that assessment mea-sures are then necessary to assure the quality ofdegree programs.

Simek said that the reorganization discus-sion might also result in “a refocusing of our

community college system.” He sees untappedpotential in Tennessee’s community collegesand offered the three-tiered California systemof higher education as a model. The systemincludes the nationally focused University ofCalifornia, a locally focused state college sys-tem and a community college system “thatstands by itself and feeds into those other twosystems.” He said that the “ingredients” are inplace for a similar structure in Tennessee. “Iactually think that very positive things willcome out of this (reorganization discussion),”he said. “It’s never a bad time to talk abouthow higher (education) can fulfill its role inthe state.”

He closed by saying that he has no plans toremain as UT president after this interimappointment ends. He reported that the UTBoard of Trustees is developing a search proce-dure and job description for the president’sposition, adding, “I think in the next fewmonths, there will be movement to begin asearch.” Anticipating his return to teaching, hesaid, “I love being part of its (the university’s)faculty. I love working with the wonderful stu-dents we have here. I want to get back to that,because that’s the best job in the world for any-body who’s ever experienced it.”

UT Martin Chancellor Tom Rakes openedthe event by noting UT Martin’s success in theCampaign for Tennessee, with the universityreaching its fund-raising goal of $40 millionand looking to raise even more. He also notedthe university’s record enrollment of 8,100 stu-dents and said that the enrollment increasecan be linked in large part to improved reten-tion of sophomores and juniors. “We broughtin a few more freshmen than usual, but theretention is what’s boosted the enrollment,”Rakes said, adding, “We’re working very hardon the retention. We’re working hard oneverything, but that has made a real differencefor us in the last couple of years.”

Also on the program was a presentation byKatelin Turner, a junior biology major fromUnion City. Turner, the reigning Miss UTMartin who competed in the Miss TennesseeScholarship Pageant in June, said her decisionto attend the university initially was “a busi-ness decision” as she sought the best educationvalue. But in weighing the benefits and acade-mic opportunities, UT Martin “was the bestand only choice” for her college experience.Turner plans to attend medical school aftergraduating from UT Martin.

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