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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Three Presidential Teaching Scholars honored for outstanding teaching U. BY NATALIE MARKOS Chronicle Staff Writer Ten University of Utah faculty members have been awarded the new Presidential Teaching Scholar Awards, which are designed to recognize outstanding U. teachers. The awards were established by U. President Arthur Smith to promote teaching excellence at the U. Administration, faculty and student government members participated in the selection process. Along with recognition, the recipients will receive a $5,000 increase in their annual base salaries. Nominations for the professors were solicited all over campus, according to Reba Keele. chair of the awards screening committee. Students, departmental chairs, cole nomination forms leagues and deans prepared about professors they felt deserved the award, she said. The 75 nominees were then evaluated by a screening committee appointed by President Smith, according to Keele. The screening committee selected 25 candidates. The candidates were then asked to submit a portfolio to the president, Keele said. The portfolios were reviewed by a teaching committee. "There truly were 75 deserving people. The truly heartening thing about the award is how many U. teachers should have received the awards," Keele said. The recipients include Allan Ekdale, professor and two-pag- fees full-motio- n chair of geology and geophysics: Mark Nielsen, adjunct assistant professor of biology; Robert Goldberg, professor of history; Anne Riordan, associate professor of modern dance; Noel de Nevers, professor of chemical and fuels engineering; Robert Avery, professor of communication; Janice Frost, associate instructor of liberal education; David Kranes, professor of English; James Svendsen, associate professor of languages and literature; and Peter Philips, associate professor of economics. The recipients were also asked to give a statement about their philosophy of teaching. "The way I look at teaching is that you can't be a teacher unless you are a student. For this reason, I think teaching and learning are inseparable and a dire part of the U. If a person has stopped learning, they can't be an effective teacher. As a professor at the university, I have been a lifelong learner," Ekdale, award winner, said. "I'm honored and flattered to receive this award. Secondly, Everybody likes to be recognized for things thev feel they do well. There are many people deserving of this award and I hope I am as deserving of this award as those who did not receive them," said de Nevers, award winner Database programs like CD-RO- will expand to be included on the U. computemetwork. Students will be able to access the information from any computer lab on campus. This will reduce the waiting lines at the Marriott Library, Peay said. The fee increase will bring technology into classrooms, according to Peay. Projection equipment and small mobile computers will be placed in many classrooms to display graphic images, photographs, OF UTAH New chief of fair housing to 'rejuvenate lax dept.' h silence about her landmark nomination, Ending a Roberta Achtenberg, now the country's top fair housing official and a University of Utah College of Law alum, made a promise recently to her constituents and a threat to crooked mortgage lenders. Achtenberg promised as the new Assistant Secretarv for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to rejuvenate what she considers a lax department, first by empanelling two special investigation units to follow up on the practically innumerable discrimination complaints by minority groups wanting to borrow federal housing dollars. She gave notice to lenders who discriminate or who red line neighborhoods marking certain parts of communities for loans that there is trouble ahead. "Housing discrimination is pervasive and must be dealt with," Achtenberg said from her office in San Francisco, where she is a member of the Board of Supervisors. "The prior administration shied away from a problem that occurs in one of every two transactions. We plan to enforce the law and to exercise the authority of that office." Achtenberg, who graduated from the U. Law School in 1975. became national news the past few weeks because she is the first open homosexual to be appointed to a high federal government office. As director of fair housing, she is the number-twperson in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Although she was ultimately confirmed by a large margin in the Senate her sexual orientation spawned two days of acrimonious debate among the senators. Because Senate rules prevent appointees from defending themselves, Achtenberg did not respond during the hearings to charges that she would use the office to promote rights for gay men and lesbians and that she had used coercive political tactics to stop funding for Boy Scout groups in the Bay Area. Achtenberg said those who oppose her appointment had misconstrued her record, especially regarding the Boy Scout funding, which she said was a decision made by a chapter of the United Way, not an effort she led. "The record on that issue was completely distorted," she said. "I've conducted the whole of my public and private life to be as tolerant and accepting of diverse views as 1 possible can. Atiy suggestions to the contrary are wholly without truth." Achtenberg, who said she came to the law school to study with a nationally respected constitutional law professor, the late Arvo Van Alstyne, said she does not have a personal agenda for the fair housing office, and that she believes she was nominated by the Clinton administration, "because the president thought I could do the job well, not because I'm a lesfour-mont- off-limi- ts Ekdale said the U. has a definite commitment to teaching and educational excellence from the undergraduate to the doctoral programs. The awards program will continue for two or more years. The university will then evaluate its effect on encouraging commitment to better teaching. clips and animation. would have access to three-dimension- al state-of-the-a- rt computing, Hardy said. These electronic classrooms from page one ble with the new computing. IIMII III HI UNIVERSITY "The same conditions still enhance learning, according to Cliff Drew, associate dean of research at the Graduate School of Education. Student response to this visual education has been positive, he said. Fees were raised because there has not been an increase since the Instructional Computing Program was established in 1986, according to the director of budget at the U., apply," Hardy said. "I don't know of anyone who is excited about paying additional fees, but it speaks well of the students to step up and pay the fee. Otherwise, we wouldn't be getting it from the Legislature." Increases in the future are still being discussed by the presidentially-appointed task force. There has been some discussion to place an index on fees to correspond with consumer prices or tuition, Hardy said. This would prevent dramatic fee increases. Ralph Hardy. The Utah State Legislature would not fund the computing program in 1986. As a result, the' fee was designed to ensure that students o (58-31- ), bian." Women's Club awards five $1,200 scholarships U. D( 4 The University Boolistore & Health Sciences Bookstore will be buying back textbooks during ink JlUUuL For the most current information on buyback price and quantity call 585-323- 3 Health Sciences Bookstore Hours: M-- F 8:00am - 5:00pm BOOKSTORE UNIVERSITY U N I VE R S I Tm Y m mm This is the 11th year that the University of Utah Women's Club has awarded scholarships to outstanding women students. Five $1,200 scholarships were recently presented to outstanding U. students. The recipients must have a grade point average of 3.5, be a academic year and must also junior or senior in the 1993-9activities. and civic in community participate Amy Egan, a student in the College of Education, plans to students. Amy has work with minority, disabled and k limited students with tutored Hispanic English skills, is a big d from a dysfunctional family, coordisister to an nated services for "Shop With a Cop" and chaired many projects at the Bennion Center. Lena Kerr is in the College of Health and plans on becoming a physical therapist with a particular interest in pediatric neurological rehabilitation. She is a volunteer at the Salt Lake City homeless shelter in the children's school. She has worked at the Guadeloupe Center and with the blind. Robynne Kirkpatrick is a chemistry major and hopes to pursue a career in biomedical research. She recently presented a workshop at the "Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics Conference," for young women. She was a member of the Washington State Task Force on Violent Crime and has given dance instruction in the inner city to disadvantaged youth. Heidi Moulding is a political science major and hopes to enter law school. She is a volunteer for the Legal Aid Society, working specifically with domestic violence victims. She has worked at the Utah Food Bank, Salvation Army Kitchen, Seekhaven Women's Shelter and has campaigned to secure state funding for the Marriott Library. Robin Ott plans to enter law school upon completion of her political science degree. She was chosen by the Hinckley Institute of Politics to serve as an intern at the State Capitol for the 1993 Legislative Session. She has worked with the Turning Point Program for single parents and displaced homemakers. She is the mother of five children. UTAH OF i n in 1 i i i i mi i i i CAMPUS v cviHiTiFY7 .. rr.Tii.v.'. at-ris- eight-year-ol- |