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Show 4’| THE CAMPUS THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL * SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY + MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1998 Winter Convocation Series to feature variety International affairs, music, and the mind will be the three topics dominating a series of 11 SUU Convocation Series presentations during winter quarter, Each of the Convocations is free and open to the to-manage students in 10 states. He is the author of three books. the Armey flat tax proposal now before Congress. Feb. 5—Oak Ridge Boys, “Evening Performance Preferences.” evening performance with stories and demonstrations from their long-running musical history. toend the university’s use of race as a means for U.S.-China Affairs, “Understanding China Today: public. With one exception, each of the presentations will be made at 11 a.m. on a Thursday in the Auditorium. A 5 p.m. Jan. 15 lecture is planned at the As a member of the University of California Board of Regents, Connerly took the lead in a 1995 regents vote and run weekly through March 12. During the quarter, appearances are scheduled by a Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the California Hunter Conference Center. Convocations begin Jan. 8 journalist, educator, musicians, an economist, an international expert, an author, an illustrator, a children’s advocate, and a geologist. Two will involve musical lecture/ demonstrations. Preview.” Jan. 22—Ward Connerly, regent, University of California, “Proposition 209: Ending Racial The popular country music group will preview an Feb. 12—Xiaopo Huang, senior fellow, Council on Serious Analysis and Personal Insight.” admission. He is on the board of the California Huang is a former journalist and deputy director of the National Press Club of the People’s Republic of China. She graduated from Wuhan University in *Governor’s Foundation. Jan. 29—Stephen Moore, economist, “Privatizing the Wuhan China and the China Institute of Journalism in Beijing and studied under prestigious fellowships at Xiaopo Huang Princeton University. She became a vanguard in China’s social and economic reform of the 1980s. “This quarter, we will be looking at some particularly timely issues and we will have authoritative people offering their perspectives,” Lana Johnson, director of lectures/special projects at SUU, said. “Such topics as understanding China, the emerging states from the Feb. 19—Richard W. Paul, author and educator, “Critical Thinking: An Interconnected network of Skills, Habits, Attitudes, and Passions.” Paul is chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking and director of research for the Center for Critical Thinking. He has written five books and more than 100 articles on critical thinking for every grade level. He has been recognized internationally for his work in that field. Feb. 26—C.F. Payne, illustrator, “Original Creative Thought: Is It Disappearing?” Payne is a freelance illustrator based in Cincinnati, Ohio, who has worked with many national former Soviet Union, and the elimination of race as a factor in admissions in California higher education will be explored. The diversity of subjects is very broad and should create a great deal of interest.” Convocation speakers and their topics for the winter quarter: Jan. 8—Melor Sturua, international journalist, “Fledgling Freedoms: Russia and the Emerging Former Soviet States.” publications including Time, Esquire, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Money Magazine, and The New Yorker. Sturua is a political columnist for Moscow’s Izvestia, one of the world’s largest circulation newspapers. With Izvestia, he has served as bureau chief in London, New York, and Washington; and he has traveled with Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Jan. 15—The Ahn Trio, chamber musicians, a He has served as president of the Art Directors Club of Cincinnati and has received national recognition from several national publications. March 5—Betty Mahmoody, author,For the Love of a Child. Mahmoody is the author of the book “Not Without My Daughter,” which was subsequently made into a popular movie. The story tells of being as a hostage to her husband and his family in Iran before a dramatic escape with her daughter. A second book focuses on the international aspects of child abduction. lecture/demonstration. Violinist Angella and twin sisters, pianist Lucia and cellist Maria, have won several national music competitions and have performed recitals throughout Europe, the Far East, and the United States. The trio began performing in their native South Korea before coming to New York City to study at the Juilliard School of Music. Jan. 15, 5 p.m.—Hunter Conference Center, Glenn Latham, educator, “The Power of Positive Parenting and Effective Instruction.” Latham is a professor emeritus of education at Utah State University who has also taught at the University of Utah and the University of Oregon. He is principal investigator of a federally funded project which provides assistance in serving hard-to-teach and hard- March 12—David Schwartz, geologist, “Great Earthquakes of the Past and Future.” Schwartz has worked extensively in North, Central, Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute, a free market-based think tank in Washington D.C. He has worked as senior economist at the joint economic committee as an assistant to U.S. Representative Dick Armey, and he is an architect of Planning effort under way Describing a “season for institutional soulsearching,” SUU President Steven Bennion announced the first steps in a strategic planning committee of faculty, staff, and community representatives will provide valuable input and response to the strategic planning process. flow a strategic planning process that will engage the campus through the rest of this academic year and into the summer. The process and the results “SUU is evolving as it grows, and we need the insights of faculty and staff, community members and students, and many others as we give direction to the future of the institution,” Bennion concluded. The trustees endorsed the initiative and asked for periodic status reports. In other action, the trustees: B Approved plans for the continuation of Head Start programs in southern Utah. B Received a report from Dr. Cecelia Foxley, commissioner of Utah higher education, on what the governor’s budget recommendations mean for a deadline of March 30, 1998, to complete its work SUU, according to Foxley. B Approved a change in the master plan for the campus and authorized property purchase process at the university. Meeting with the university’s Board of Trustees in Salt Lake City, Bennion introduced an effort to involve the campus community in an update of the university’s mission statement. “J'ye asked Dr. Frain Pearson, chair of the communication department, to lead a group of talented faculty, staff, administrators, and students in a revision of the mission statement of the university,” Bennion said. “From this effort, will are vitally important to the future of the . university.” e has been given committe revision mission The and to outline major issues that need to be addressed in the strategic planning process. From that point, a planning team comprised of members of the president’s staff will oversee a long-term planning effort. A broad-based and South America, Europe and Asia studying potentially active earthquake faults and the hazards Social Security System: A Boon to Young Workers.” SUU. Recommendations are a positive note for negotiations. B Reviewed the status of collaborative efforts with the Iron County School District on the location of a new university physical education building they present. He is an internationally recognized paleoseismologist. Paleoseismology is the study of prehistoric earthquakes. Techniques he developed are being used widely to study active normal-slip faults. WGU staff members meet with acerediting bodies With the computer-based Western Governors University set to open on a trial basis this month, school staffers have been meeting with represent- atives from four accrediting bodies. WGU will use computers and satellites to link existing campuses within its 17 member states sO students at traditional schools will have access to a larger number of classes. WGU also intends to grant degrees based on “competency certification,” which means the school will give diplomas to anyone who can pass its tests. Its goal is to assure prospective employers that graduates have mastered a certain set of skills, and the school doesn’t care where a student acquires his knowledge — whether it’s from classes, books or on the job. Jeff Livingston, WGU's chief executive officer, said the school could clear the first hurdle on the way to accreditation this spring, though final approval from accreditors probably will take several years. Sandra Elman, executive director for the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, said this is the first time four accrediting commissions have been brought together to assess one school |