Kathleen Conver, Editor
Linda Yoder, Public Information Assistant Summary is a newsletter for Bradley University faculty and staff.
(309) 677-2242; fax 677-2251; mkc@bradley.edu
$101 Million and Counting
The Bradley Centennial Campaign recently surpassed the $100 million goal.
Outright gifts and pledges total $101,725,000. Coupled with $23,930,000
in expectancies and other estate provisions, the Campaign currently totals
$125,655,000.
The effort is scheduled to end officially on May 31, 1998 culminating the
largest campaign in the University's history. An astounding 85% of Bradley
faculty and staff participated in a successful "family" solicitation
that netted more than $1.5 million in Campaign-related giving-- more than
a $1 million increase over the Campaign for Bradley in the '80s.
"A participation rate of 50% or more is truly outstanding and exceedingly
rare," said Dr. John Shorrock, vice president for advancement. "The
overwhelming response to Bradley's campaign by faculty and staff served
as a positive example to audiences beyond the campus."
The Centennial Campaign was the by product of the University's strategic
planning process that ended in 1991 which called for significant growth
in Bradley's endowment to enable the University to become a model institution
of its type. An assessment of University needs in 1992 defined those University
priorities that became the basis of the Campaign case statement.
The Campaign began publicly in May 1994, when $45 million in leadership
gifts were announced by Campaign Chairman Donald V. Fites and Bradley President
John R. Brazil. With 70% of the Campaign total designated for endowment
growth, the lead $20 million gift from Caterpillar came as a challenge to
encourage other corporations, alumni, and friends to join Caterpillar in
helping the University reach the objectives detailed in the case statement.
Since the beginning of the Campaign, Bradley's endowment has grown from
$30 to $128 million, more than 100 new scholarships and 4 endowed chairs
were established, and the Visitors Center and Global Communication Center
were constructed. The priorities identified in the strategic planning document
adopted in 1997 will further help direct how the campaign funds will be
utilized.
To recognize major benefactors to the Centennial Campaign, a recognition
wall is planned for the vestibule of the Visitors Center as are a final
report for all donors and a victory celebration for faculty and staff.
Commencement note
All faculty who will march at commencement should assemble by 8:45 a.m.
in the Rivermen Club Room at the Peoria Civic Center Carver Arena on Saturday,
May 16 to begin march at 9 a.m. Access to the Rivermen Club Room is near
the main entry to the Arena, at the Box Office entrance. Signs will be posted
and assistant marshals will be present to direct participants.
Name changes The name of the University Technology Service Center (UTSC)
will be changed to Technology HelpDesk starting May 16. The Technology HelpDesk
provides telephone and walk-up computing support, as well as trouble reporting
support via the Remedy Action Request System. Trouble reporting is currently
being provided for Computing Services and Telecommunications. Infrastructure
and Engineering Services, Instructional Technology & Production Services
(formerly Audio Visual Services), and the Cullom-Davis Library will subsequently
be receiving trouble reporting support from the Technology HelpDesk.
Another name change that will be effective August 20 will be that of the
Residence Halls of the Future. RHF will be changed to RHNet. The RHNet program
is now offering three options in the residence halls including two computer
system configurations and a network-only option.
News in brief
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No t e w o r t h y Articles
Dr. Rosalyn Anstine Templeton, associate professor, and Dr. Celia Johnson,
assistant professor, of education, "Making the school environment safe:
Red Rose's formula," Learning Environments Research: An International
Journal, Volume 1, No. 1, 1998; and "Can adding movement to learning
improve the classroom environment," co-authored with Dr. Rita Jensen,
associate professor of education, AACTE Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher
Education, ERIC No. ED 412199, 1998.
Dr. Irina Goldberg, language specialist, Foster College of Business Administration,
"Export of Educational Services Based on New Information Technologies,"
co-authored with Dr. Alexandre Solovov, deputy director, Samara Center for
New Technologies, Samara State Aerospace Center, Russia, Mezhdunarodnoye
Sotrudnichestvo Journal, No. 4, 1997.
Dr. Robert Underwood, assistant professor of marketing, "Is Your Package
an Effective Communicator? A Normative Framework for Increasing the Communicative
Competence of Packaging," Journal of Marketing Communications, Volume
IV, No. 4, Fall 1998.
Chapters
Dr. Robert Wolffe, assistant professor of education, "Math Learning
Through Electronic Journaling," in Electronic Communication Across
the Curriculum, D. Reiss, D. Selfe, and A. Young, eds., National Council
of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois.
Papers and Presentations
Dr. Jean Marie Grant, Dr. Robert Wolffe and Dr. Heljä Robinson, assistant
professors of education, "Number system revisted: Helping elementary
preservice teachers discover its complexity," National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1998.
Dr. Celia Johnson, assistant professor, and Dr. Rosalyn Anstine Templeton,
associate professor of education, "Promoting peace in a place called
school," American Educational Research Association, San Diego, April
13 - 17, 1998.
Dr. K.S. Krishnamoorthi, professor of industrial engineering, "The
Max-Min Control Chart - A Performance Evaluation," co-authored with
Dr. Chen-Sin Lin, associate professor of industrial engineering and G. Chu,
MSIE '96, Seventh Annual Research Conference of the Institute of Industrial
Engineers, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 1998.
Dr. Claire-Antoinette Lindenlaub, assistant professor of French, "Sade's
Apocalyptic Narration: The Generative Principle of Nature's Great Goddess,"
11th International Narrative Conference, Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature, Northwestern University, April, 1998; "Duras' Erotic Writing:
Aging and the Fantasmatic Search for a Crude Memory," Second Annual
Illinois Philological Association Conference, April 1998.
Dr. Linda Lyman, associate professor of education, and Dr. Christine Villani,
assistant professor of education, "The Interaction of Caring, Strength,
and Security Among Leaders in Creating a Learning Environment," annual
meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, April
13 - 17. Dr. Lyman also served as a discussant for a paper session titled
"Building Sensitivity: Including Cultural Elements in Learning Environments
Research." Dr. Villani also presented "Meeting the Needs of the
Gifted Students in Language and Mathematics" at the meeting.
Dr. Claire-Lise Tondeur, professor of French, "Ecrire la honte: Albert
Camus et Annie Ernaux," 26th annual 20th Century Literature Conference,
University of Louisville, February 1998, and "Inculture, honte et écriture,"
15th International Colloquium on 20th Century French and Francophone Studies,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 1998. She also organized and
presided over the session, "Aspects du roman" at the colloquium.
Dr. Robert Wolffe and Dr. Heljä Robinson, assistant professors of education,
"Emotionally Intelligent Cross-cultural Education" and "Linking
Brain Research to Integrated and Thematic Instruction," 53rd annual
conference of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
San Antonio, Texas, March 1998.
Professional Activities
Dr. Amir Al-Khafaji, professor of civil engineering and construction, spoke
on faculty assessment at an American Society of Civil Engineers meeting
in Detroit, Michigan March 5 and 6, 1998. focusing on the results of the
National ASCE Task Force on Faculty Assessment, which he chairs. The task
force's report, The Scholarship Landscape in Civil Engineering: A Bridge
Between Rhetoric and Reality, was developed in response to Syracuse University
initiatives and was funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and the Fund for
the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).
Dr. Linda Anglin, associate professor of nursing, as a member of the government
relations committee, served as co-chairperson of the Illinois Nurses Association
Nursing Student Political Action Day April 15, 1998 in Springfield.
Dr. Francesca Armmer, assistant professor of nursing, has received the 1998
Outstanding Black Alumni Award from Ball State University Alumni Association.
Dr. Chris R. Kasch, assistant professor of Communication, was an invited
participant at the GIFTS (Great Ideas For Teaching Speech) at the Central
States Communication Association, April 3, 1998; He also presented "Interviewing
As Strategic Action," a professional development workshop, for the
Illinois Occupational Health and Safety Association, April, 8, 1998.
Dr. Donna Konradi, assistant professor of nursing, recently was elected
to serve a two-year term from May 1998 to May 2000 as a research section
co-chair at the Midwest Nursing Research Society's annual meeting in Columbus,
Ohio.
Dr. S.N. Prasad, professor of electrical and computer engineering and technology,
with graduate students T. Rayamajhi, E. Cullerton and S. Modur, submitted
"SOIC and LTCC Package Modeling," to Northrop Grumman Corporation
in March, a project funded by a research grant from the corporation. In
addition, the four, along with graduate student M. Shover, completed the
installation of microwave absorbers in the anechoic chamber designed for
antenna measurements in the radio frequency (RF) laboratory. The project
is supported by grants from the college faculty research award committee
and the ECET department.
Dallas Walters, computer facilities supervisor of the Global Communications
Center, had one of his digital photographs selected for the Contemporary
Visons '98 show at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The juror was Ivan Karp, the owner of the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York
City.
NASA geophysicist to give Mounts lecture
Geophysicist Paul D. Lowman, Jr. of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland will present a public lecture Thursday, May 7 at 7 p.m.
in the Student Center ballroom as part of the Mounts Lectureship sponsored
by Bradley, the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Researach and
the Kiwanis Club of Peoria.
Dr. Lowman will speak on "Where are the extraterrestrials? Some geological
answers to Fermi's Question." He will discuss how geologic discoveries,
such as the abundance of large impact craters on the Earth, indicate that
communicative civilizations anywhere may not last more than a few thousand
years because of uncontrollable natural disasters.
Dr. Lowman, who has been associated with NASA since 1959, has been associated
with the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, Mariner 9, Voyager 1 and 2
and the Space Shuttle.
The Mounts Lectureship was established in memory of Bradley alumnus Timothy
L. Mounts, who had been research leader of the food quality and safety research
unit at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria
and recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Alumnus Award.
Construction projects
Several summer building projects may have an impact on traffic on and around
campus. Demolition of eight houses in preparation for the construction of
six tennis courts west of Glenwood on Bradley Avenue is expected to begin
in late May or early June. Although Bradley Avenue is not expected to be
closed in the block between Glenwood and Cooper, construction equipment
is likely to have an impact on traffic.
By June 1, the west sidewalk on Duryea from St. James to Bradley Avenue
is expected to be replaced in anticipation of the City of Peoria's resurfacing
of Duryea during the summer. During the resurfacing, the date for which
has not been set, traffic past the Global Communications Center, Garrett
Center, parking deck and Williams Hall is likely to be affected.
Some time after June 1, the asphalt drive to and around Founder's Circle
will be completely repaved from Bradley Hall to Elmwood Avenue. The construction
of a student apartment building at 1400 Fredonia and occasional parking
area restriping projects are also likely to cause an adjustment to traffic
patterns.
Graduation reception
The University will host a graduation reception for the class of 1998, their
families, faculty, and staff on Friday, May 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. in front
of Bradley Hall. Refreshments will be served. The rain location is the Student
Center Ballroom. Complimentary tickets may be picked up by noon on May 14
in the Alumni Office or call the office on ext. 2240.
