Dalton adopts FYP textbook chapters

Mosholder's scholarship recognized

Katherine Kinnick, Stacey Solomon, and Melanie Buchanan welcomed more than 350 prospective dual-enrollment honors students and more than 500 parents to KSU at three fall semester Honorview events. High-achieving students who are considering dual enrollment as either a high school junior or senior learned about what the program could offer them while helping them to navigate the process at both their high school and KSU. Dual enrollment allows students to attend KSU on either a part-time or full-time basis. The college courses count for both high school and college credit. Approximately one-third of dual enrollment students choose to continue their education at KSU once they graduate from high school.

Kinnick and Solomon have been invited to a record number of high schools this fall to talk with guidance counselors, students, and parents about the program. They will visit a total of 17 high schools. This is just one indication of the growing interest in KSU's Dual Enrollment Honors Program.

There's more good news for the dual enrollment program. Two DEHP students, Andie Leeds and Nicole Johnson, were selected to participate in the 2013 All-American Marching Band. They will perform during halftime at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 5, 2013.

Bisesi honored as a KSU Shining Star

In a unique collaboration between Emory University, KSU's American Democracy Project and Imagining America as well as two academic departments, 20 first-year theater majors showcased the power of turning research into performance in the ReGeneration events held this month. Jim Davis, the KSU 1101 professor in the TPS majors learning community, and Jane Barnette, the TPS 1500 professor, teamed up to develop an integrative learning experience that culminated in public performances.

Following a unique performance technique developed by English artist Peter Petralia, the students engaged in "theater for social change," according to Davis, with discussions of gun control, education, and the death penalty. A standing-room-only audience not only heard from the students, but they could also participate by adding to the "Twitter wall," which was facilitated by Brian LeDuc as part of the ADP eCitizenship initiative. Audience members also got their say as part of the talkback, led by the learning community students. Davis and Barnette were pleased with the students' abilities to understand how dramaturgy informs creative work, and they were also pleased with the participation of the audience members.

The ReGeneration initiative was originally developed by Dr. Debra Vidali at Emory University. KSU is one of several institutions developing and performing ReGeneration events during this political season.

College's strategic plan in final development

Under the leadership of Lynn Boettler, the UC Strategic Planning Committee is finishing its work and preparing the plan for review by the college. Much has changed in University College since the first strategic plan was developed in 2007, and there are more changes on the horizon as the Honors College is developed. Using the 2012-2017 KSU Strategic Plan, which was recently approved by the Board of Regents, as the foundation, committee members have spent more than a year revising the college's mission and vision statements, crafting goals and objectives, and determining the action steps and strategies necessary to fulfill those goals.

The UC Leadership Team, along with both academic departments and the CSL, have had multiple opportunities to provide input as the plan was taking shape. Members Fiona Brantley, David Schmidt, Judy Craven, Karen Boettler, Robert Jordan, and Carolee Larsen will once again solicit input in the coming weeks as the plan is presented to the college for review. The goal is to have the plan finalized and approved by the end of fall semester.