February
2004 • The monthly newsletter for UWT faculty and staff
| Contents |
| Higher
ed expert: Challenges at UWT face every similar campus worldwide
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| UWT
staff, faculty named to Chancellor search committee |
| New
head of Milgard School of Business named |
| Elemental:
New artwork on campus |
| Legislative
update |
| Don
Johnson named Business Leader of the Year |
| South
Sound College Fair a success |
| Administrative
Snapshot: A look at the issues and projects at UWT |
| Faculty
and Staff Notes |
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| Upcoming
Events |
| February
Black History Month. Check the UWT online
calendar for a listing of events.
Feb.
12
Coffee with the Chancellor, 1 p.m., Tacoma
Room. Legislative news and other
items will be discussed.
Feb.
16
President's Day holiday (University closed)
Feb.
24
Dr. J. David Hawkins: “Promoting Positive Youth Development
in Urban Communities,” 7 p.m., Keystone Auditorium.
Hawkins, Kozmetzky Professor of Prevention and Director
of the Social Development Research Group at the UW School
of Social Work, will discuss providing a foundation for
positive development and preventing delinquency and drug
abuse. Sponsored by the UWT Education Program's Center for
the Study of Education and Poverty.
Feb.
25
Jon Bridgman: “World Fairs in the Victorian
World,” 7 p.m., Washington State History
Museum. Examining the Great Exposition of 1851 and the World’s
Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Mar.
3
Jon Bridgman: “World Fairs in Troubled Times,”
7 p.m., Washington State History Museum. A discussion of
the Panama Exposition of 1915 and the New York World’s
Fair of 1939-40.
Jon
Bridgman, a UW professor emeritus whose series of public
history lectures has attracted
large audiences in Seattle for 15 years, will explore
the extravagant fairs as representations of the societies
that created them. The lectures will address the fairs’
purpose and permanent impact. Both lectures begin at 7
p.m. in the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific
Ave. Ticket prices for UWAA members are $12 for one lecture
or $20 for both; non-members will be charged $15 for one
lecture or $25 for both. Students pay $5 for one lecture
or $8 for both. To reserve tickets, visit www.uwalum.com
or call (206) 543-3839. Deadline for purchasing tickets
is Feb. 13.
Feb.
27
Reception Honoring Chancellor Vicky Carwein,
5-7 p.m., Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific
Ave. A program honoring Carwein will begin at 6 p.m. R.S.V.P.
is required by Feb. 23 to Leslie Anderson
at (253) 692-5753 or lashadow@u.
washington.edu. For those who want to say farewell in
a more casual setting, there will be a reception on campus
closer to Chancellor Carwein’s departure date.
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Higher
ed expert: Challenges facing UWT face every similar campus worldwide
The
issues facing UWT — how we fit with our long-established
“parent” campus, how faculty research and scholarship
fit with our community-oriented mission and our teaching focus,
how the state should fund us, whether we should become a four-year
institution — are the issues that face every similar campus
around the world. So said Dr. Barbara Holland during her visit
to UWT Feb. 3.
Holland,
here for the first UWT issues breakfast and related activities,
gave a comprehensive talk in the Keystone Auditorium about how
typical UWT is of urban and metropolitan universities across the
United States and around the globe.
Now
a consultant, Dr. Holland is a nationally recognized leader in
helping colleges and universities develop and strengthen ties
with their communities. Dr. Holland has written extensively on
higher education policy and is executive editor of Metropolitan
Universities, a leading journal in the field.
“Barbara’s
remarks were both reassuring and thought-provoking,” said
Chancellor Carwein. “It’s nice to know, as we face
these big questions, that a lot of other institutions have been
down this path already and that there is a body of information
out there about their experiences. We had a good turnout for Barbara’s
talk, and I hope we will be able to have her back in the future.
In the meantime, I encourage both staff and faculty to take a
look at her Power Point presentation and also to peruse her journal,
Metropolitan Universities.”
Dr.
Holland’s Power Point presentation (named “Holland
presentation 2-3-04”) is available in the Share/Everyone
file. A copy of Metropolitan Universities is available
in the Chancellor’s suite.
Linda
Kachinsky, an adviser in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences,
said she appreciated Dr. Holland’s deep understanding of
institutions similar to UWT and their distinct links to the communities
they serve.
“I
also liked her gutsiness to expand on the unique and sometimes-overlooked
funding needs of non-residential campuses,” Kachinsky said.
“Her ideas were refreshing and bold."
UWT
staff, faculty named to Chancellor search committee
A
number of UWT administrators, faculty and staff members will represent
the Tacoma campus on the committee searching for a new UWT chancellor.
UW
President Lee Huntsman formed the Committee on the Chancellorship
of the University of Washington, Tacoma, in January. Ginger MacDonald,
director of the UWT Education program, and Bruce Bare, dean of
the College of Forest Resources, will chair the committee together.
ASUWT
President Mark Dodson, Institute of Technology professor Steven
Hanks, Social Work professor Robert L. Jackson and writer/information
specialist Jamie Martin-Almy will also represent UWT on the committee.
Ray
Tennison and Jan Yoshiwara will represent the UWT Advisory Board.
Other members are Frederick L. Campbell, dean emeritus of Undergraduate
Education; JoLynn Edwards, UW Bothell Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences professor; James W. Harrington, Geography chair and professor;
and V. Vance Roley, Business School associate dean.
The
committee has been asked to develop a list of candidates for the
position and to recommend three or four individuals who could
successfully fill the position. The intent is to hire someone
who can maintain the momentum that has developed at the Tacoma
campus.
New
head of Milgard School of Business named
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| Shahrokh
M. Saudagaran |
Shahrokh
M. Saudagaran, professor and head of the School of Accounting
at Oklahoma State University, has been selected as the new head
of the Milgard School of Business.
Pending
formal confirmation by the Board of Regents, Saudagaran will become
head of the Milgard School of Business on July 1. He will replace
Dr. Patricia Fandt, the founding director of the business school,
who is retiring at the end of June.
“I
am thrilled that our Milgard funding has helped us attract such
a distinguished leader to replace our wonderful founding director,”
said UWT Chancellor Vicky Carwein.
Saudagaran
has been an associate professor of accounting at Santa Clara University
and a lecturer at Iranzamin Business College in Tehran, Iran.
Currently, he is head of the School of Accounting at Oklahoma
State University. That school enrolls about 300 undergraduate
accounting students and 90 master’s and Ph.D. students.
In addition, Saudagaran has been a management consultant with
Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) in Tehran; a research
associate with the Iran Center for Management Studies; the controller
for Van Leeuwen Buizenhandel BV in the United Arab Emirates; and
has a decade of experience providing consultation and executive
training for organizations in Asia, Europe and the United States.
Saudagaran
earned his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Washington
and has broad expertise in international accounting.
Fandt,
who joined the campus in 1994, made the Business Administration
program one of UWT’s best, said Jack Nelson, Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs. She has been the moving force in recruiting
and hiring a talented faculty, developing two degree programs
and achieving accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business. She has garnered strong support from the
South Sound business community.
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Elemental
Artist Steve Gardner discusses one of the four pieces in his
installation, “The Four Elements,” in the UWT
Science Building lobby in January. UWT’s interdisciplinary
approach to science inspired Gardner to blend ancient cultural
perspectives on what constitutes matter—earth, fire,
water and wind—for the new art installation. Each of
the four elements is depicted in a multi-layered clay installation
that draws on images, symbols and ideas from many cultures.
The artwork was funded through a Washington State Arts Commission
program called Art in Public Places. VIEW
THE COMPLETE ARTWORK |
Legislative
Update
What
initially appeared to be a quiet legislative session for UW Tacoma
has been anything but.
Two
bills have been introduced that could have a tremendous impact
on the state’s upper-division campuses. Both have changed
since they were introduced, will likely change again, and may
or may not pass during this session. Most bills introduced during
any legislative session do not pass.
House
Bill 2707 initially called for bringing the funding
level for UWT and the other upper-division campuses in line with
that of the state’s regional universities (CWU, WWU, EWU
and Evergreen). That funding level is significantly less than
our current rate. The new version calls for having each campus
do a self-analysis to determine how it can best meet its current
mission and any enlarged mission it might see for itself. The
bill also suggests that it may be appropriate for some upper-division
campuses to become four-year institutions while others specialize
in two-plus-two partnerships. The bill also says campuses may
combine instruction with research targeted at regional economic
development. While the bill stipulates that funding for the upper-division
campuses would be lower than that of a research university –
the level at which we are now funded – it does not specify
what that level would be and seems to envision that it might vary
by campus. The self-analysis would be due to the Legislature Jan.
15, 2005. This bill must pass the House by Feb. 17 to be further
considered this session.
House
Bill 2843 originally called for merging UW Bothell
and Cascadia Community College into a new regional university
to be called Cascadia State University. This would be a campus
independent of the UW and the community and technical college
system. This bill has also been changed. The new version would
establish UW Bothell as a four-year, comprehensive university
while continuing its association with the UW (Cascadia Community
College is left out of this version). The bill calls for creating
a transition group to work out details of funding, offering lower-division
courses, etc. This bill must pass the House by Feb. 17 to be further
considered this session.
House
Bill 2437 calls for requiring baccalaureate-granting
schools to accept the same amount of transfer credit from community
colleges as they do from students transferring from four-year
schools. If this bill passes, the UW may have to modify its transfer-of-credit
policy slightly. The bill will likely not affect the way students
transfer credit to UWT.
Senate
Bill 6315 would remove the word "branch"
from legislative language. This bill takes out the descriptive
word "branch" and refers to the campuses by their names
only (UW Bothell, UW Tacoma, WSU Vancouver) rather than "branch
campuses."
A
bill that would have allowed race to be considered in admissions
has died.
Faculty
and staff interested in a legislative update are encouraged to
attend the Coffee with the Chancellor Thursday (Feb. 12) at 1
p.m.
Don
Johnson named Business Leader of the Year
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| Don
Johnson |
Don
Johnson, vice president and general manager of Simpson Tacoma
Kraft, was named 2003 Business Leader of the Year at the Business
Leadership Awards ceremony at the Washington State History Museum
in January.
Six
other area businesspeople were given Business Leadership Awards
at the event, presented by the UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business
and The Business Examiner and sponsored by Heritage Bank. Fred
Haley was given a Lifetime Achievement Award, and Thaddeus Martin
was given a Rising Star Award.
Johnson,
a 31-year employee of Simpson Tacoma Kraft, has a long relationship
with the Tacoma-Pierce County community. His core belief—that
community service is good business—has led him to devote
hundreds of hours to charitable organizations. He sets an example
for his co-workers by demonstrating that the responsibility of
business leadership extends also to individual efforts on behalf
of others.
A
panel of judges, made up of Milgard School of Business faculty,
members of the school’s Business Advisory Board and representatives
from Heritage Bank and the Business Examiner, selected the honorees
based on the core competencies emphasized in UW Tacoma’s
Milgard School of Business. Judges also considered nominees' contributions
to the individual's field of business, the region's business climate
and the community at large.
Recipients
of the Business Leadership Awards were Melanie Dressel, President
and CEO, Columbia Bank; John A. Hall, President and CEO, Rainier
Pacific Bank; Andrea Riniker, Executive Director, Port of Tacoma;
Randy Rushforth, President, Rushforth Construction, Inc.; Linda
Thomas, Executive Director, Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca,
Peterson & Daheim LLP; and Janeanne Upp, Executive Director,
Tacoma Art Museum.
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More information about the award recipients
South
Sound College Fair a success
More
than 1,000 people turned out for the South Sound College Fair
on the UW Tacoma campus Saturday, Jan. 24.
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| Jennifer
Reyes, staff member in Student Affairs, stacks foam fingers
in preparation for the South Sound College Fair. The fingers
were a popular item among the younger attendees. |
Over
a dozen public colleges and universities from around Western Washington
joined UWT at the event, sharing information about college applications,
financial aid, transfers, careers and more. Potential students
strolled between college tables, learned about UWT programs and
participated in workshops. The activities were well-reviewed and
informative, and the college and university representatives were
pleased and surprised by the high attendance.
“It
was a great showcase for our campus and example of our teamwork,”
says Wanda Curtis, Assistant Director for Admissions, Advising
and Recruitment, who led the planning for the event with the Enrollment
Management Committee’s Recruitment Subcommittee. “The
end result was a successful day for this campus and community.”
Administrative
Snapshot: A look at issues and projects at UWT
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you are working on something you think should be included here,
please contact Inside Track at uwtnews@u.washington.edu.
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Faculty
and Staff Notes
The
Institute of Technology welcomes two new babies this month: Cayden
Alegre Calo, son of administrative coordinator Carmelita
Calo, was born Jan. 21 and Angelina Nadine Fernandez,
daughter of program assistant Lorna Fernandez,
was born Feb. 2. Both babies were just over 9 pounds. The new
mothers are doing fine.
Teresa
Gregory (Development) and her husband, Daniel Hudock,
adopted a daughter, Jada, in China on Feb. 5. The new parents
say Jada, who will turn 1 this month, is healthy, happy and alert.
Les
Sessoms has joined the Institute of Technology as the
graduate program adviser.
