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Show B11 Castle Valley Review, March 2009 Continued from Previous Page. Ithacan online, Norah Shipman wrote, “Recent studies done at North Carolina State University and the National Education Association report students receive a lower-quality education with adjuncts and parttime faculty as opposed to full-time faculty. The Rocky Mountain News reports in Jan. 22, 2007, “Under heavy budget pressure, the state’s colleges and universities are increasingly delegating teaching duties to parttime employees - called ‘adjuncts’ - who are hired for a single course, or to instructors who earn far less than professors and do not enjoy the job protection of tenure. School leaders say part-timers bring real-world experience to practical courses in engineering, business, education or journalism, balancing the more theoretical approach of fulltime faculty. “But they do not relate to stu- dents in the same way as traditional professors, says Metropolitan State College of Denver President Stephen Jordan. “’I can remember the times that we would go from class back to the department offices and sit down and talk with faculty,’ Jordan said of his days as an undergraduate at the University of Northern Colorado. ‘When we don’t have full-time faculty, we deprive (students) of one of the most important parts of the collegiate experience.’ “Connecting students with traditional professors during their freshman and sophomore years could reduce Metro’s high drop-out rate, Jordan said. Metro loses 38 percent of its students during their freshman year. “Fewer than 40 percent of Metro courses are taught by traditional faculty members, and many Metro students don’t see an actual professor until their junior year.” Caring Award Applicants Sought for 2009 The Caring Award is presented to a College of Eastern Utah student in honor of Val J. Halamandaris, who grew up in Price, attended the College of Eastern Utah (then Carbon College), and continues his education and professional career in Washington, D.C. At both Carbon College and Carbon High School, Halamandaris was active in student activities: a representative to Boys State and Boys Nation, local and state winner of the Elks Leadership Contest, student body president, and honor student in Phi Theta Kappa, just to name a few. He received his bachelor’s of arts degree from George Washington University and his law degree from the Catholic University School of Law, both in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the D.C. bar, the bar of the U.S. District Court Circuit Court of Appeals and the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Throughout his career, Halamandaris has remained committed to care. An acknowledged expert in the field of health care and aging, he conducted daring investigations exposing fraud and abuse against the elderly and authors some 20 hard-hitting congressional reports that resulted in significant legislative reforms. He is the author and editor of books, including Profiles in Caring: Advocates for the Elderly (1991), Faces of Caring: A Search for the 100 Most Caring People in History (1992), and Heroes of the U.S. Congress (1994). For the past 13 years, Halamandaris has been editor and publisher of two national magazines, Caring and Caring People. With his brother Bill and former U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss, he helped found the Caring Institute in 1985, which is dedicated to the advancement of caring, integrity, and public service. The Val. J. Halamandaris Caring Award was established in 1996 by Bill Halamandaris, Val’s brother, and the College of Eastern Utah. It is a fitting tribute to a CEU student who demonstrates the spirit of caring, humanitarianism, and volunteerism exemplified by Halamandaris. Any College of Eastern Utah student in good standing and who will be graduating this year is eligible for nomination for the Caring Award. A student may nominate himself or herself or may be nominated by someone else—a faculty or staff member, another student, or someone off campus. Applications for nominations for the Caring Award are available in the CEU academic vice-president’s office (Reeves 183) or the CEU Sun Center (Student Center 207). Application deadline is March 30, 2009. The CEU student selected for the Caring Award will be presented with a trophy and a $100 cash award at the commencement ceremony. Nominees must have involvement in college activities providing direct service to others and/or similar direct service involvement in the community. Positions of leadership support, as opposed to direct service, are acceptable. The Caring Award nominee must demonstrate good standing at the College of Eastern Utah, graduating this year, intrinsic commitment to voluntary service, initiative and innovation in problem-solving, persistence in overcoming obstacles, advocacy for change that alleviates, or considerably improves, the status quo and a continual caring as demonstrated by volunteer activities. Several Bills Impacting CEU Remain in Play in Legislature The Utah Legislature’s 2009 General Session is half over. With less than three weeks to go several bills impacting the College of Eastern Utah remain in play. Senate Bill 67, Miner’s Safety and Training, offered by Senator Luz Robles (D – Rose Park) passed the Senate Natural Resources Committee with a unanimous vote. The bill seeks to quantify how successful mine training programs in the state are. Senator Robles seeks $600,000 in one-time funds for CEU’s Western Energy Training Center. Under the bill’s provisions, WETC would provide an annual report on progress in training miners. WETC operations director Dennis Dooley said the money can be put to use right away, “We trained more than 1,700 workers last year from all aspects of the energy industry. Continued funding would allow us to continue that in the way that the Utah Mine Safety Commission envisioned last year.” In the wake of the Crandall Canyon tragedy, the Utah Mine Safety Commission issued 45 recommendations to improve mine safety in Utah. More than a third of those envisioned a specific role for the WETC program, according to a handout distributed to legislators by CEU administrators. “It’s a tight budget year, but we think that we can get some stimulus money for this through the governor’s office,” said Brad King, CEU’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement and a former legislator. Another bill working its way through the House of Representatives would help CEU’s enrollment by expanding the number of so-called “border waivers” available to the College. House Bill 364, Border and Nonresident Student Amendments, by Representative Don Ipson (R-St. George) addresses a number of issues in relation to students located just across Utah’s border. Of interest to CEU is a provision that would allow students in neighboring states residing within 100 miles of a CEU campus to attend CEU at a discounted non-resident rate. “We’ve asked for an additional 82 waivers for a total of 100 waivers – they would decrease non-resident tuition by about $500 per semester for eligible students,” said Kevin Walthers, CEU Vice President for Finance and Administration. Non-resident tuition is double the resident rate of $980 per semester. Dr. Guy Denton, CEU’s Vice Provost for the San Juan Campus, said the waivers could be used to serve neighbors who have difficulty receiving service from their home states. “We already count members of the Navajo Nation as residents for tuition purposes, this applies similar logic to non-Natives who live close to our campus but are not eligible due to an accident of geography.” The additional students would not burden CEU financially as they would provide revenue for the college while primarily taking classes that have available seats. House Bill 364 received a favorable recommendation from the House Education Standing Committee and now heads to the full House for consideration. First Students Graduate from Barber Program at CEU When the College of Eastern Utah cosmetology department is mentioned, most people think of the women sporting the fashionable black smocks seen frequently around campus. The image of young men is not the first thought. What many do not realize is that there is a barber program at CEU. Recently two men, Nicholas Lucero and Donnie Leonard completed this new course of study. What sort of draw is there to being a barber? Lucero said “It’s for the fun, but everyone needs a haircut.” Leonard related that as a child he would go to the barber with his father and today there aren’t many old barber shops like that around. “Barbering is becoming a lost art,” says Lisa Critchlow, instructor of the barber program at CEU, “It has recently been allowed to be separated from the cosmetology program as its own individual program. The students must complete 1,000 hours to graduate from the program and this usually takes around nine months.” There is a theory class required for the course and the book work goes side-by-side with the handson experience. “The book work was probably the hardest part,” Lucero says. When asked what they would do with their new licenses, they had several ideas. The first answer was to own their own shops someday. Lucero said, “I couldn’t see myself doing anything else.” Leonard said he would like to call his establishment “Good Fellas.” Nicholas Lucero and Donnie Leonard recently graduated from the barber program at CEU. |