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Busy summer on and off campus
ENGAGE YOUR STRENGTHS | COMMUNITY | FUTURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
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Greetings!
One of the college's core values is community engagement, so it is no surprise that University College incorporated engaged pedagogy, scholarship, and service into its tenure and promotion guidelines. Our students, faculty, and staff are engaged in multiple communities -- locally, nationally, and internationally. One of our own has now been selected to lead the university's charge in making engagement a core value of KSU. As we wish him well, we appreciate all that Brian Wooten has done for the Center for Student Leadership, the Department of University Studies, and University College. Much like our graduates, we know he is moving on to do even bigger and better things!
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Wooten to lead engagement initiative
 Following an internal search chaired by Faculty Executive Assistant to the President Maureen McCarthy, President Dan Papp tapped Brian Wooten to serve as the Executive Director of Community Engagement.
The Department of University Studies will remain Wooten's academic home, but he will be transitioning out of the Director of the Center for Student Leadership position this month as he assumes his new role July 1. He will report directly to Provost Ken Harmon, and his office will be in Kennesaw Hall.
Wooten has served as one of the leaders of the Engage KSU initiative for 18 months, and he has developed numerous community partnerships while at the CSL. He was elected Chair of the National Association of Campus Activities in 2011 and just completed his tenure on NACA's Board of Directors as Immediate Past Chair. Wooten incorporates engaged pedagogy in his first-year seminars, and he has presented on student engagement at numerous national and international conferences.
President Papp appointed Nancy King, former Vice President for Student Success & Enrollment Services, to serve as Interim Director for CSL. A national search will be launched in fall semester.
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Street selected for Fulbright institute
 Katherine Street, a member of the 2011 PEGS cohort and the newly elected Student Government President, was selected by the Fulbright Commission to participate in the six-week Wales Summer Institute. Street was one of only eight students selected for the Wales Institute, which will allow her to study at Cardiff University, Bangor University and Aberystwyth University this summer.
Karen Powers advised Street on her Fulbright application, and she said Street's commitment to leadership and service to others made her a strong applicant. Street has also applied for admission into the Wellstar School of Nursing. She plans to remain involved in PEGS throughout her undergraduate experience.
Street appeared on the KSU homepage in late May, and you can read the full press release here.
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Faculty awarded for stellar research, service
 It was an honor to award University College's 2013 Distinguished Research & Creative Activity award to Debbie Smith and the 2013 Distinguished Professional Service Award to Stephen Braden at the May 9 awards luncheon. Smith and Braden were selected in consultation with the Faculty Development & Awards Committee, chaired by Jim Davis. They are both now eligible for the university-wide awards, which will be announced in August at the Opening of School.
Smith's scholarly activities include several publications and numerous presentations at national and international conferences. Braden has extensive service accomplishments during his nine years at KSU, including leadership on a variety of departmental, college, and university committees.
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Students, faculty present at ADP meeting
 KSU was well represented at the 10th annual American Democracy Project national conference earlier this month in Denver, Colo., as two PEGS students, four faculty members, and I served as presenters.
First-year PEGS students Danielle Ereddia and Melissa Kramschuster presented findings of their bioethics research project during the Poster Session. KSU's ADP co-chairs Carlton Usher and Keisha Hoerrner both presented during concurrent sessions, and Ken Hill and Todd Shinholster co-presented on the University College Global Engagement Scholars. Hill and Hoerrner are AASCU Global Engagement Scholars, and they, along with their scholars colleagues from across the country, co-facilitated the six-hour Global Challenges Pre-Conference Workshop. Yours truly attended the Political Engagement Project business meeting and presented on "Integrating Political Engagement Activities with other ADP Initiatives" at the Political Engagement Project Pre-Conference Workshop.
Brian LeDuc participated in the eCitizenship initiative planning meetings, and Brian Wooten attended ADP to network with colleagues who currently hold campus positions similar to the one he will assume in July.
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Faculty publish in variety of national venues
 Michael Keleher published an article in the forthcoming collection of essays Beyond Borders with James Baldwin: A Practical Guide for Everyone edited by Mary Brown Zeigler at Georgia State. Keleher's work, "Reconsidering Writing, Reconfiguring Identity: Theory, Composition, and the Work of James Baldwin," explores how students might apply rhetorical theory in their consideration of Baldwin's writings and other authors who have written about the intersection of personal identity and cultural geographies.
Kathy Matthews' chapter on diversity and multiculturalism will be used by Northern Illinois University in its custom-published textbook for first-year seminar students. This is the second edition of the NIU book that includes Matthews' work.
Keisha Hoerrner, Ken Hill, and Todd Shinholster are primary co-authors of a new "Global Challenges Student Guide," which will be published by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) this summer and embedded in the national blended learning course developed by the AASCU Global Engagement Scholars, which is utilized by colleges and universities across the country. Tina Zappile, an assistant professor of political science at The Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, is the fourth co-author of the guide.
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LINK Leads group studies environmental issues in Greece as culminating experience
Nine students from the LINK Leads group traveled to Greece May 16-28 with Judy Craven to learn more about the country's economic struggles and its environmental issues. After spending the last academic year researching the effects of tourism on the environment, they wanted to see them first hand. Craven noted that several of the students were intrigued by the water rights struggles shared by both Greece and metro Atlanta. Just as there are continuing concerns over Lake Lanier, students visited Lake Kerkini, a body of water that flows across borders. Their travels also took them to Thessaloniki, Santorini, and Athens. The Leads students are producing a documentary of their journey, and they posted to their blog throughout the trip. Click here to read their entries. Leads is the final year of the three-year Leaders IN Kennesaw (LINK) program administered by the Center for Student Leadership. Each Leads cohort chooses its international experience based on a social issue they want to study.  |
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Save the Date!
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The 2013 First-Year Convocation will be held Friday, Aug. 16, at 6 p.m. in the Convocation Center. The new day and time will ensure the annual ceremony for first-year students is part of the Week of Welcome.
Charles Schroeder will be the Convocation speaker. He has over 40 years' experience in higher education, most notably as Vice President for Student Affairs at Georgia Tech, the University of Missouri, and St. Louis University. He currently serves as a Senior Associate and Consultant with Noel-Levitz, a national consulting firm, where he assists colleges and universities in improving the quality and effectiveness of their undergraduate programs by focusing on student success.
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Communication plan for college developed by University Relations
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Carla Barnes and her colleagues in University Relations spent several months interviewing college personnel and reviewing college materials before designing a communication plan designed to further marketing and branding efforts both internally and externally.
Representatives from both departments, CSL, and the Dean's Office are currently reviewing the plan and will determine how to proceed to raise the level of understanding of University College's unique role among campus audiences while educating non-campus audiences about the impact of the college's curricular and co-curricular initiatives.
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INTS graduate featured in KSU article about Global Engagement Certificate
|  Gian Delpethado, an Integrative Studies major, was featured in University Relations' recent article on the May ceremony for recipients of the Global Engagement Certificate.
Delpethado, who combined Communication and English to create an INTS degree, was one of 18 students honored by the Institute for Global Initiatives with the certificate.
Click here to read the full article.
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Keleher named to BOR task force
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Michael Keleher has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the state's Implementation Team to Transform Remediation. He is one of six representatives charged with course redesign for learning support English and reading classes. Transforming remediation courses is a Complete College Georgia goal.
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