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Commission, task force organize to plan future

Highlights
€ Three from Review Commission are developing recommendations for selection of consultant.
€ University Senate creates task force for separate study related to possible restructuring of AU.
€ AAUP and University Senate establish Web page and e-mail listserv on Commission's work.
€ Administrative & Professional Assembly seeks seat at table.
€ Review Commission members present their perspectives. (separate item)
€ Campus Views: AU Senate Chair urges faculty to get involved. (separate item)

The Commission to Review AU's Role in the 21st Century will face its first major hurdle at its second meeting, tentatively scheduled for May 8, when the commission will attempt to choose a consultant.

Before the commission can begin its work, co-chairs Ed Richardson and William Walker and faculty representative Wayne Flynt are trying to identify names of consultants on which the commission can reach a consensus.

The consultant will be asked to develop information the commission can use in creating recommendations for the longterm strategic direction of the university.

Those recommendations concerning the organization and academic structure of AU were requested by the Board of Trustees at its April 3 session, with a report requested for the board's meeting in September.

Walker, dean of the College of Engineering, said last week he wants to see the commission quickly resolve faculty concerns about the panel's mission. Walker was selected with Richardson, the state's superintendent of education, as co-chair by other membe rs at the commission's April 13 organizing session.

With the commission charged to develop a plan for the university's future in a cost constrained economic environment, Walker says he expects the commission to receive input from a broad segment of Auburn's constituencies. The commission co-chair said he hopes the commission's work will generate a constructive discussion of the university's mission and structure.

"It is essential that everyone has input," Walker said. "People who are going to be affected need to have serious discussion of these issues and bring recommendations to the commission."

Richardson, at the April 13 session, also promised to seek input from all affected parties.

Leaders of the University Senate, meanwhile, are creating a task force of faculty and administrators for a separate study of the university's structure and potential cost cutting. The general faculty authorized creation of the task force at the faculty's annual spring meeting on April 14.

With two faculty representatives on the 10-member commission, faculty leaders expressed concern about limited faculty input. They described the task force as one way to gain more faculty input into potential areas of restructuring and cost-cutting.

Also, the Administrative and Professional Assembly on April 21 adopted a resolution asking for A&P representation on the commission, which has five board members, three senior administrators and two faculty members.

A&P Chair Robert Gottesman said the exclusion of professional and administrative personnel below the rank of dean from the commission, whether intentional or an oversight, is part of a larger issue for the assembly, which is trying to get representation f or its members on campus committees and boards involved in setting or influencing policies.

Glenn Howze, chair of the University Senate and a member of the review commission, said the separate task force will not be solely a faculty affair. The task force will have broad representation from faculty, administrators, staff and administrative-prof essional personnel and will seek to be an information resource for the Board of Trustees-appointed review commission, Howze said.

The Task Force will be chaired by Barry Burkhart of Psychology. Other members are: Jo Heath, AU Senate chair-elect; Kent Fields of Accountancy; Yvonne Kozlowski of Draughon Library; Robert Got-tesman, A&P Assembly chair; Brenda Turner, Staff Council ch air; William Stegall, Student Government Association president; June Henton, dean of Human Sciences; and Dwight Wolfe; head of Large Animal Surgery and Medicine; and David Wilson, associate provost and vice president for outreach. Although the task force lacks official status with the review commission, Howze said he thinks it can provide valuable assistance because its members are familiar with the internal workings of the campus.

Howze asked the task force to examine the efficiency of current administrative programs and administrative structure at Auburn, determine if some programs need to be phased out, find ways to simplify the administrative structure, without harming academic efforts and determine if there are non-academic areas that can be eliminated, reorganized or out-sourced.

Howze also instructed Burkhart to involve the faculty and other stakeholders in the work of the task force and to keep the review commission informed of its work and recommendations.

Meanwhile, the commission subcommittee of Richardson, Walker and Flynt is continuing its efforts to identify a consultant to aid the commission in its work.
Flynt said those efforts are hampered by the lack of clear guidelines from the commission as a whole. He said he hopes questions remaining from the first meeting can be answered at the May 8 session.

Flynt said the process has been complicated by the commission's decision to move forward with selection of a consultant before the commission has defined its objectives or what information it needs to meet those objectives. Even so, he said, the subcommi ttee is getting enough referrals for consultants that he thinks it can present some options that will be acceptable to the entire commission.

While a majority of the commission has said unanimous support of the commission would not be necessary for the official panel to hire a consultant, Flynt said last week that all 10 members need to have full confidence in the individual hired to assist the commission in decisions that will affect the future of the university.

The AU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors has set up an Internet page on which to post documents and other information related to the review commission. The website is at www.ag.auburn.edu/commission . Also, the Universi ty Senate has established an e-mail listserv to convey information about the process. To join the mailing list, e-mail majordomo@acesag.auburn.edu with the following two line message: subscribe com (then, on next line) end .

Members state their perspective of Review Commission's mission

What those involved are saying about the Commission to Review AU's Role in the 21st Century:

William Walker, commission co-chair and dean of College of Education (April 20): "If we can have open and frank discussion from faculty and other parts of the university, this process can result in something that can be embraced by most of the peop le in the university.

"Auburn is not alone in facing economic problems. Higher education is undergoing some very dramatic changes all across the country. We hear about institutions that are getting more financial resources, but there are others that are having many of the s ame problems we face, and even the ones that are better off financially are under pressure to improve accountability.

"The whole environment is drastically different from 15 years ago. I don't see it going back to those days."

Ed Richardson, commission co-chair and state superintendent of education (April 13): "There's progress in the right direction, but...higher education is faced with many of the same problems business has faced in the last few years.

"This is not a base closing commission.... For some time, we have heard about a brain drain, and we are trying to address the problem."

Glenn Howze, commission faculty representative and chair of University Senate (April 21): "If we can move quickly enough (with the University Senate's task force), we can try to get ahead of this process and have some input.

"People on campus realize that if we don't do something now, it will be done for us. If will be much better if the faculty and administration work together to strengthen academic programs than if we are outside the process.

"Everything needs to be on the table, and everyone needs to be forthright with what's happening."

Wayne Flynt, commission faculty representative (April 13): "Everything that's being said, I heard during the Funderburk era, and two years later, everything had change. I don't think urgency should drive the process. The only question should be: 'What should Auburn University students need to know and be able to do to compete effectively in the 21st century?'"

Flynt (April 21): "I have more confidence that the university committee being put together by the Senate will be more successful than the commission when it comes to finding ways to cut costs without seriously jeopardizing academic quality. I hope the co mmission will listen to that committee."

Bobby Lowder, AU trustee, commission member and sponsor of authorizing resolution for the review commission (April 13): "Hopefully we are all here representing the same cause: Auburn University. The role of this commission is to explore all kinds of possibilities.

"I find it very discouraging that faculty salaries are low, that some of our academic programs teeter from time to time on the brink of losing accreditation. I think this commission can work together and make this a better university."

Paul Spina, AU trustee and review commission member (April 13): "We're going to make Auburn as great as we can make it. We need to address these problems now. We cannot provide quality to make our students competitive in the 21st century with eve rything we now have."

Jack Venable, AU trustee and review commission member (April 13): "We have not trashed the 21st Century Commission (report). It is still in place. I support (President) Bill Muse 100 percent and don't intend to do anything that's going to hurt hi m."

Safety study stepped up in wake of pedestrian fatality on campus

AU's Traffic and Parking Committee is studying ways to make campus streets safer for pedestrians following an accident last week in which a student was killed.

The 14-member committee, made up of faculty, professional and staff members and students, unanimously passed a resolution Thursday to explore ways to make the campus more pedestrian friendly.

Tavon Khazaeli, an 18-year-old freshman from Birmingham died April 22 after he accidently stepped into the path of a Tiger Transit bus on campus.

"The entire university community was shocked and saddened by the tragic accident that took the life of Tavon Khazaeli," said Jim Ferguson, vice president for administrative services. "Our sincere condolences and sympathy go out to his family and friends. "

During its regularly scheduled meeting last Thursday, the committee agreed to establish a subcommittee to explore hiring a traffic consultant to make suggestions and develop a means to get input from all segments of campus, said Bill Trimble, professor of history and chairman of the Traffic and Parking Committee.

"This will give us some data that will help determine what we should do as the next step," said Trimble.

"The accident heightened everyone's awareness that pedestrian/vehicular conflicts are common around the campus," said Ferguson.

"It also served as a catalyst to elevate the discussion to a plan of action," he added.

A three-member subcommittee was formed last fall to study the idea. Trimble said the committee agreed in undertaking the study "it was understood that this might involve closing streets and modifying traffic patterns."

He added, "There were legitimate concerns about traffic flows on football games days, access to parts of the core campus for clinics and the disabled, and the need for service and parking access."

"On the other hand, all of us agreed that safety is the primary consideration, and that we should do all that is possible and necessary to achieve that."

Referendum lies ahead for state bond issue to finance agriculture facilities

Auburn stands to gain approximately $30 million for improvements to agricultural facilities under a bond issue that will go before Alabama voters this summer or fall, depending on scheduling issues to be resolved today on the closing day of the state legi slative session.

The $52 million agricultural bond issue has been approved by the Alabama Legislature and sent to the Secretary of State to be scheduled for a special election.
Pending as of last week was a bill to move items from special elections this year to the Nov. 3 general election.

The agricultural bond issue, if approved by the voters, will provide AU with $15 million for facilities in the College of Agriculture, $7 million for the School of Forestry and $7.5 million for Veterinary Medicine. All the projects involve the Alabama Ag ricultural Experiment Station.

College of Agriculture/AAES facilities in the bond issue include $5.5 million for a poultry science building, $3.5 million for an animal science building, $1 million for a beef teaching unit, $1 million for the Lambert Meats Lab, $2.5 million for the Swin e Research Center and $1.5 million for AAES Wiregrass, Black Belt and Tennessee Valley units.

If approved, another $13 million will go to the state diagnostic laboratory.

Of the remaining funds, $7.5 million is slated for agricultural projects at Alabama A&M and $2 million for veterinary and livestock facilities at Tuskegee University.

Another $16 million for general facilities improvements has been designated for Auburn and $3.3 million for AUM from the education bond issue passed recently by both houses of the Legislature and signed into law last week by Gov. Fob James.
That bond issue will not have to go before the voters.

The state's education budget for 1999-2000 was to be decided on the last day of the session, April 27. Auburn's budgeting plans for the coming year were awaiting resolution of the budget.

Gladden named Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer for 1998

Bruce Gladden, Alumni Professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance, has been named Auburn's Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 1998.

Gladden will present a public lecture, "Limits to Exercise," at 4 p.m., Monday, May 4, in Haley 3195. His topic, presented for a general audience, will explore the relationship of exercise physiology and sources of muscle energy to athletic activities.

"I'm going to talk about energy systems of the body and how they limit perform performance in athletic events," Gladden said. "I hope to offer some insights into how muscles obtain the energy they need to enable a person to compete or accomplish a task."

The annual Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectures are sponsored by the Graduate School, the Office of Alumni, Development and University Relations, and the home college of the presenter, which this year is the College of Education.

"Dr. Gladden exemplifies the principles on which the Distinguished Graduate Faculture Lectureship is based," said Graduate School Dean John Pritchett. "He is a truly outstanding teacher and researcher and, most importantly, he directs a large portion of his time to his graduate students."

In nominating Gladden for the honor, HHP Department Head Dennis Wilson complimented the professor on his mentoring of students as well as classroom and laboratory effectiveness. "The impact of such mentoring cannot easily be measured, but I am convinced that the many students that interact with Dr. Gladden are truly changed for the better and properly inducted into the profession as a result of that interaction," Wilson said.

Gladden's nomination was also supported in letters from colleagues at institutions in the United States and abroad.

This year's Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer has been a member of the AU faculty since 1989. He previously held faculty posts at the University of Florida and the University of Louisville and holds a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from the Universi ty of Tennessee.

Gladden is a past president of the Southeast American College of Sports Medicine, Outstanding Researcher of the Year in the AU College of Education in 1992, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, the American Colle ge of Sports Medicine and the Parker B. Francis Foundation.

Foy Student Union adds three advisors

The James E. Foy Student Union has added three new program advisors to its staff, says Union Director Debbie Conner.

The new advisors are David Rohlong, Jamie Milam and Vicky Conn.

Rohlong is the program advisor for the University Program Council, one of AU's largest student organizations, which provides entertainment, speakers and other special events for students. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Monte vallo and has worked in student programs at Huntingdon College and the University of Notre Dame.

Milam is the new program advisor for student publications and media and will
advise the Glomerata, Tiger Cub, Circle and WEGL staffs. Milam, whose responsibilities also include marketing and promotion of Foy activities, is a graduate of the University of Montevallo where she also worked in housing and residenc e life and the university's career center. She expects to receive a master's degree from Montevallo in May.

Conn is the advisor for the Student Government Association, Panhellenic Council and IMPACT. She received her bachelor's degree from Auburn in 1992 and a master's degree from Middle Tennessee State University. She has worked in student programs at Spring H ill College, the University of West Alabama, and most recently was student activities coordinator at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Teresa Vest named Budget Services director

Teresa Peters Vest, assistant director of Budget Services at Auburn University for seven years, has been named director of the department effective immediately.

The appointment was announced by Marcie Smith, assistant vice president for business and finance at AU. She also announced the appointment of Mary Jeanette Pate as assistant director.

Vest, who joined AU in 1979, was named acting director last fall following the death of Carolyn Hayhurst.

As director of Budget Services, Vest coordinates, compiles and prepares AU's operating budget for all four divisions ‹ AU main campus, AU Montgomery, the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. She also s upervises the daily operations and staff in the budget office and prepared financial statements as needed by university administration.

Before joining the Budget Services department in 1990, Vest worked for AU's Food Services Department for six years, serving as assistant manager and accounting manager. She also worked as a laboratory technical with the Department of Poultry Science.

Vest holds two bachelor's degrees from AU, one in laboratory technology and one in accounting.

Pate joined AU in 1995, and worked in Risk Management and Property Services before joining the Financial Reporting office at AU the next year. While there, she served as a property accountant and accountant III.
Before coming to AU, Pate worked in CPA offices.

Pate earned a bachelor's degree at AU in 1989 in accounting.

Catherine Love named Facilities executive director

Catherine C. Love has been named executive director of the Facilities Division at AU.

Love, formerly director of utilities, has been a member of the Facilities professional and administrative staff since 1984, and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Georgia Tech. She also has a degree from Jones School of Law at Faulkner Univers ity and is a licensed attorney in Alabama.

In announcing the appointment, Stanley Drake, assistant vice president for facilities, said Love has shown outstanding skills in management and engineering.

"Ms. Love has been responsible for implementing a number of innovative
strategies with regard to purchased utilities and has skillfully negotiated purchased utility contracts that have saved the university more than $8 million since 1984," said Drake.

"These accomplishments, together with effective day-to-day management of the Utilities Department, are indicative of her initiative and determination, as is her successful completion of work to earn her law degree while working full time."

In her new position, Love handles day-to-day management of the Facilities division formerly handled by Drake, who recently assumed broader responsibilities in overall campus facility and land use planning under an administrative realignment by Executive V ice President Don Large.

Energy executive named Lowder Visiting Executive in Business

George Hairston III, president and chief executive officer of Birmingham-based Southern Nuclear Operating Company, will be the Lowder Visiting Executive in the AU College of Business on April 28-29.

Hairston, a member of the Auburn Engineering Council, will begin his two-days of meetings and lectures by participating in an MBA case study on Tuesday at 8 a.m., in Room 501 of the Lowder Business Building.

Hairston will speak at 3 p.m. to two graduate management classes in Room 304 of Ramsay Hall.

On Wednesday, Hairston will speak to a senior level economics class at 8 a.m., in Room 026 of the Lowder Building. There will be a reception at 9 a.m., in Room 502.
After a roundtable discussion at 11 a.m. with faculty and graduate students in Room 402, Hairston will attend a luncheon hosted by Wayne Alderman, dean of the College of Business. He'll have an afternoon meeting with Groper before departing Auburn.

A native of Birmingham, Hairston earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from AU and got a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. He also completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pr ogram for Senior Executives.

Hairston joined The Southern Company system in 1967 as a junior engineer at Alabama Power Co. In 1972, he was assigned to the company's Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan as an operations supervisor. He was named plant manager in 1978.

In 1984, Hairston returned to Alabama Power's corporate headquarters as manager of nuclear engineering and technical support. Three years later he was elected vice president of nuclear generation.

In 1988, Hairston was elected senior vice president of nuclear operators of Alabama Power and Georgia Power Company. When Southern Nuclear was incorporated in 1990, he was named senior vice president of that company.

With the transfer of the operating license for Plant Farley from Alabama Power to Southern Nuclear in December 1991, Hairston resigned from Alabama Power. In 1992, he was named executive vice president of Southern Nuclear and in May 1993 was elected execu tive vice president of Georgia Power.

In December 1993, Hairston received the additional position of chief executive officer at Southern Nuclear. With the transfer of the operating license for Plant Vogtle and Plant Hatch from Georgia Power to Southern Nuclear in March 1997, he resigned from Georgia Power.

The Robert and Charlotte Lowder Visiting Executive-in-Residence program provides students and faculty with an opportunity to interact with prominent executives for an open exchange of views on current issues and to gain insight into the business world.

The program is made possible through an endowment by Robert and Charlotte Lowder of Montgomery. Lowder, a 1954 graduate of the AU College of Business and a member of the AU Board of Trustees, is chief executive officer of Colonial BancGroup.

Medical Clinic displays its new look

The Auburn University Medical Clinic displayed its newly renovated facilities with a ribbon-cutting at John Drake Hall last Thursday.

Dr. Fred Kam Jr. spoke at the ribbon-cutting by newly crowed Miss Auburn, Sara Ketcham. Other participants included AU President William V. Muse and Bettye
Burkhalter, associate provost and vice president for student affairs.

Among its extensive improvements, the former Drake Medical Center now has a new eye clinic. The new facility also features a smaller waiting room designed to move patients quickly into examination rooms.

In addition, outdated equipment was replaced with new equipment typical of medical centers in the private sector. And the center has beefed up its staff. It now has three physicians, two full-time and one part-time registered nurses, three nurse practitio ners, two medical technicians and an X-ray technician.

The AU Medical Clinic operates as a privately managed primary care facility following the outsourcing of health care by the university in 1996. Operated under a partnership of East Alabama Medical Center and Connecticut-based Collegiate Health Care, the c enter offers primary and family care for the entire university community.

Like other commercial health care providers, the center operates on a fee basis and accepts Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other health insurance.

Residence hall being renamed to honor Emily Leischuck

A June 2 ceremony is being scheduled to mark the renaming of the former Residence Hall L in honor of Emily Reaves Leischuck.

The AU Board of Trustees named the residence hall for Leischuck on April 3 in recognition of her service as assistant to three presidents during her 21 years as an administrator and professional staff member.

Leischuck has had emeritus status since retiring in 1995 as assistant to the president and Board of Trustees. She also served as an adviser to various student organizations and was cited by the board as an advocate on behalf of students.

The resolution renaming the residence hall noted that she devoted her years at Auburn to "enhancing the quality of student life on campus, utilizing her skills as an educator and counselor to touch the lives of many students with care."

Other upcoming dedications include ceremonies on May 21 commemorating the naming of an auditorium in Haley Center for Gordon Bond, who was dean of Liberal Arts until his death last year, and on June 2 for the renaming of Comer Hall Auditorium in honor of Joseph Hood, who served for 37 years as a faculty member, researcher and administrator with the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Renaming of the facilities for Bond and Hood was approved in January by the Board of Trustees.

Workshop set on effective teaching

An expert on conducting effective large lecture classes, Diane Ebert-May of Northern Arizona University, will present a workshop at AU from 1:10-3 p.m. May 8 in Cary 136.

Her program, "Innovative Teaching in Large Lecture Classes," is sponsored by the
College of Sciences and Mathematics.

Ebert-May is an associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Science and Mathematics Learning Center at NAU. She has been assistant provost and director of the Office of International Programs and Special Session and coordinator of the S cience Curriculum Development Laboratory in the College of Education at University of Delaware; and Assistant and associate professor of the Liberal Studies Department and Graduate School, Hudson College in Maine.

The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Ebert-May has published papers on innovative teaching, active learning, and creative instruction in large class settings.

At Auburn, Ebert-May also will have limited time to meet individually with interested faculty and graduate students. Those interested in scheduling individual meetings should contact Bob Boyd of the Department of Botany and Microbiology, 844-3905 or by el ectronic mail: rboyd@acesag.auburn.edu .

AU named to Internet research project

AU is among six Alabama universities selected to help develop the Internet of tomorrow.

The six schools have been awarded a total of $3 million in competitive grants by the National Science Foundation EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) grants for work on the emerging Internet2.

They will also design and test advanced versions of computer chips.

In addition to AU, other universities receiving grant monies are the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama-Huntsville, Alabama-Huntsville, Alabama A&M University and Tuskegee University.

The Internet has already changed global communications, and researchers say the Internet2 will enable further advances by drastically increasing the speed at which data can be transmitted. Researchers say the Internet2 will enable data to be transmitted u p to 1,000 times faster than the current Internet.

While the initial users of Internet2 will be research universities and governmental and industrial sponsors, within about five years everyone is expected to have access to the new resource.

Internet2 is expected to make great strides in areas such as distance learning, two way video and teleconferencing, virtual laboratories and more.
Alabama and UAB will establish a site where computer users can gain access to Internet2. UAH will oversee work on advanced microelectronic chips. The roles of AU, Alabama A&M and Tuskegee have not been outlined.

Marketing program cited for productivity by Journal of Advertising

An upcoming article in the Journal of Advertising ranks the Department of Marketing and Transportation in the College of Business fourth nationally for the productivity of its faculty.

The ranking is based on a study that examined the number of scholarly articles published in the top three advertising specialty academic journals -- Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research and Journal of Current Issues and Research in Adve rtising.

The study, which covered the period from 1989 to 1996, rated Auburn's department No. 4 out of 255 universities whose faculty contributed to the journals during the eight-year period.

Two of Auburn's faculty members -- Professor Michael LaTour and Associate Professor Avery Abernethy -- were listed among the top 12 individual contributors out of 736 individual contributors during the period examined.

Workshop set for users of DNA analysis software

A workshop on the Genetics Computer Group DNA analyzing and protein sequencing software package will be conducted from 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. May 7 in the Lowder Building, Room 105,

The program will be conducted by Dr. Elliott Lefkowitz, director of the Biological Computing Resource Facility at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
This software is used by more than 30,000 scientists worldwide. Access to the
Wisconsin Package -- a GCG product -- is through a sub-licensing agreement between AU and UAB. The AU contact for the May 7 workshop is Research Fellow Mary Cupp of the Department of Entomology, 844-5010 (cuppmar@mail.auburn.edu).

Promotion & Tenure

The Office of the Provost has announced the following faculty promotions and bestowal of tenure:

Associate Professor
College of Agriculture: Robert E. Blaylock, Animal & Dairy Sciences.
College of Sciences & Mathematics: Eric Bakker, Chemistry.

Associate Professor and Tenure
College of Agriculture: Elizabeth A. Guertal, Agronomy & Soils.
College of Architecture, Design & Construction: Randall Neal Bartlett, Industrial Design.
College of Business: Peter A. Stanwick, Management.
College of Education: Pamela C. Boyd, Curriculum & Teaching; Elizabeth Brazelton, Counseling & Counseling Psychology; Michael Kamen, Curriculum & Teaching.
College of Engineering: Ronald M. Barrett; Aerospace Engineering; Richard O. Chapman, Computer Science & Engineering; Hulya Kirkici, Electrical Engineering; Clifford R. Lange, Civil Engineering; Pamela H. Vance, Industrial & Systems Engineering.
School of Forestry: Lisa J. Samuelson.
School of Human Sciences: Susan S. Hubbard, Nutrition & Food Sciences; Paulette M. Popovich, Nutrition & Food Sciences; Mark B. White, Human Development & Family Studies.
College of Liberal Arts: Nan Fairley, Journalism; Keenan D. Grenell, Political Science; Robin Jaffe, Theatre; Zdenko Krtic, Art; Rene P. McEldowney, Political Science; Judith Sheppard, Journalism; Robert G. Weigel, Foreign Languages & Literatures.
Libraries (Librarian III and Tenure): Lisa S. Beall, Social Sciences; Dana M. Caudle, Cataloging; RBD Library; Clifton Dale Foster, Special Collections.
School of Nursing: Sandra S. Stevenson.
College of Sciences & Mathematics: Geoffrey Hill, Zoology & Wildlife Sciences. Francis J. Robicheaux; Physics; Lorraine W. Wolf, Geology.
College of Veterinary Medicine: Russell Reid Hanson, Jr., Large Animal Surgery & Medicine; Dean D. Schwartz, Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology.

Professor
College of Agriculture: Kira L. Bowen, Plant Pathology; Donald E. Conner, Poultry Science; Curtis M. Jolly, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology; Michael Paul Masser, Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures; Kyung H. Yoo, Agricultural Engineering; Geoffrey W . Zehnder, Entomology.
College of Architecture, Design & Construction: Michael F. Hein, Building Science; Tin-Man Lau, Industrial Design.
College of Business: Sharon L. Oswald, Management; Charles E. Price, School of Accountancy; Rex K. Rainer, Management.
College of Education: Edith A. Miller, Educational Foundations, Leadership & Technology; Randall B. Pipes, Counseling & Counseling Psychology; Darla J. Twale, Educational Foundations, Leadership & Technology.
College of Engineering: Kai-Hsiung Chang, Computer Science & Engineering; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Chemical Engineering; Adit D. Singh, Electrical Engineering.
School of Forestry: Richard W. Brinker.
School of Human Sciences: Margaret Craig-Schmidt, Nutrition & Food Sciences; Evelyn Crayton, Nutrition & Food Sciences.
College of Liberal Arts: Michael J. Moran, Communication Disorders; John S. Morgan, Art; Christopher Newland, Psychology; James B. Weaver, Communication.
College of Sciences & Mathematics: Alfred E. Brown, Botany & Microbiology; Craig Guyer, Zoology & Wildlife Sciences; Gary R. Hepp, Zoology & Wildlife Sciences; David T. King, Geology; Douglas A. Leonard, Discrete & Statistical Sciences; Tin-Yau Tam, Mathe matics.
College of Veterinary Medicine: John M. MacDonald, Small Animal Surgery & Medicine.

Tenure
College of Engineering: Soo-Young Lee, Electrical Engineering.
College of Sciences & Mathematics: James M. Barbaree, Botany & Microbiology.
College of Veterinary Medicine: Timothy D. Braden, Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology.

Campus Views: AU Senate chair calls for faculty involvement
Get involved now
By Glenn Howze

The next few months may well prove to be a defining period in the history of Auburn University. Both the content and quality of its academic programs are at risk.

At its April 3 meeting, the AU Board of Trustees adopted a resolution to establish a Commission to Review Auburn University's Role in the 21st Century. The resolution was in response to an evident belief by most members of the Board that a financial cris is exists at the University, and that the administration, faculty and other stakeholders lack the ability to make the kinds of cuts necessary to restore the University to financial health. What the Board seemed to be saying was that if the administratio n and faculty cannot make the needed cuts then the Board will do it.

On April 14, the AU General Faculty passed a resolution indicating that the Board, in establishing the Commission, had violated the widely accepted principle of academic governance by not exercising "an appropriate degree of self-limitation."
The faculty resolution noted that the faculty and administration should have the primary responsibility to determine the academic programs and organization of the University because they have a "greater understanding of and expertise in academic traditio ns and the interrelationships between the various academic units of the University."

The General Faculty resolution called for the establishment of a Task Force, composed of administrators, faculty, and students, to make recommendations for dealing with the University's financial problems, including possible restructuring of the Universit y. The resolution urges the Commission to use the findings of the Task Force as the basis for its decision-making. The Task Force is ready to work with the Commission to insure that the decisions made will be based on the best possible information.

It is important that all of the stakeholders of Auburn University the faculty, students, administration and staff keep informed about the work of both the Commission and Task Force. Attend meetings. Contact Commission and Task Force members to discuss your ideas and concerns.

The AU Senate, with the help of the AAUP, has established a Web site containing all of the documents received by the Commission and a mailing list for an on-line discussion of the work of the Commission and the Task Force. The URL for the Web site is www .ag.auburn.edu/commission. The mailing list is com@acesag.auburn.edu. To join the mailing list, email majordomo@acesag.auburn.edu with the following two line message: subscribe com (then, on next line) end

Our University is at risk! Now is the time to get involved.

Speaker to discuss gender and violence
Lynn Kwiatkowski from the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama will be the guest speaker at the Women's Studies Brown Bag Series in Tichenor 206 at noon Thursday. Her presentation, "Gender and Violence in North Vietnam," will addr ess the contradictions between communist state ideology, and household and family relations, particularly the prevalence of domestic violence. The series is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and
the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. Interested faculty, students and staff may attend. For information, contact Mary Cameron at 844-2822 or Donna Sollie at 844-3230."

Lecturer to discuss 'Life on Mars'
"Life on Mars?" will be the title of a public lecture at 8 p.m., Tuesday in Broun Hall auditorium by Richard N. Zare of Stanford University. Zare, who is the 1998 G.M. Kosolapoff Award Lecturer of AU's Department of Chemistry, is Marguerite Blake Wilbu r Professor in Natural Science at Stanford. He will also present a chemistry colloquium lecture at 1 p.m., Wednesday, in Chemistry Building 134.

BC/BS representative visits scheduled
AU's Blue Cross/Blue Shield representative will be on campus May 12, June 16 and July 14 from 10 a.m.-noon in the Payroll and Benefits Office at Ingram 211. No appointment is necessary.

Chamber music concert set for May 11
In its final concert of the season, the Auburn Chamber Music Society will present the Alcan String Quartet from Quebec on Monday, May 11, at 8p.m. in Goodwin Hall. The Canadian group will perform Beethoven, Debussy and Grieg. Admission, at the door, is fr ee for students; $15 for others.

Rehabilitation program receives grants
The College of Education's Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education has been awarded $870,000 for two five-year grants for support of the rehabilitation graduate program from the U.S. Department of Education. Only 22 grants were approved for r ehabilitation programs nationally by DOE. In addition, the productivity of the rehabilitation faculty was noted in the journal Rehabilitation Education, which ranked AU's rehabilitation graduate program fourth nationally in scholarly productivity. The r anking was based on the number of articles published in leading journals in the field. Earlier, the program was ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News and World Report.

University Club to host annual pig roast
The University Club will host its annual country-style pig roast at the Agricultural Engineering Farm at 5 p.m. May 9. Cost per person is $7.50. Guests are welcome. Reservations must be made by May 5 to Carol Warfield, Spidle 308.

Champion executive to present Weaver lecture
Carlton Owen, vice president for forest policy for Champion International Corp. in Greenville, S.C., will present the Weaver Lecture in the AU School of Forestry on May 5. Owen will speak on "Industrial Forestry in a Changing World" at 3 p.m. in Meeting R ooms E & F at the AU Hotel and Conference Center. Owen is a graduate of Mississippi State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in forest management and a master of science degree in wildlife ecology.

Employee Recognition Ceremony scheduled
AU's Human Resources Department will host its annual Employee Recognition Ceremony at 2 p.m. May 6 at the AU Hotel & Conference Center. Approximately 250 employees will be honored for five, 10, 30 and 40 years of service. Also, four employees will be n amed Employees of the Year. Faculty and staff are invited.

Faculty Tech Day set for May 12 in Student Union
Instructional technology will be the focus of Faculty Tech Day in Foy Student Union 213 and 208 from 8a.m.- 3 p.m., May 12. Hands-on demonstrations, displays, sneak previews of upcoming applications like OASIS and AU Forum, door prizes, informal consulta tions, and refreshments are among the planned activities. All faculty members are invited to demonstrate their use of instructional technology. If you have implemented an innovated technological application in your classroom (Web, CD Rom, Compressed Vid eo, multimedia, etc.), please share your experiences with your peers as a demonstrator at Faculty Tech Day. For additional information contact James Barnes (barnejr@mail.auburn.edu) or Cathy Ramey (rameycf@mail.auburn.edu).

Volunteers sought for child development study
The Child Development Study Program in the Department of Psychology seeks volunteers for a study involving children, ages 6-12, and their parents. Participating parents will complete questionnaires, and the children will take part in one lab procedure. P articipants will be compensated up to $70 for their time and effort. Contact research assistants at 844-6905.

Bakery founder to speak to Campus Club
Patricia Barnes, the CEO and "Sister Shubert" of Alabama-based Sister Schubert's Homemade Rolls bakery, will speak to the AU Campus Club at the Saugahatchee Country Club at 11:30 a.m., May 15. Barnes, an AU graduate, founded the bakery, which sells milli ons of rolls a week, after her rolls became popular at a church bazaar in Troy. Admission will be charged to benefit the Caroline Draughon Scholarship Fund, and the reservation deadline is May 7. Contact Trudy Baker at 887-9858.

Speech and hearing screenings offered
The AU Speech and Hearing Clinic will offer free screenings to the public from 1:30 4 p.m., May 6, at Haley Center 1199. No appointment is necessary, but children must be accompanied by an adult or legal guardian.

Achievements

Arlie Powell, professor in the Department of Horticulture, and Alabama Cooperative Extension System horticulturalist, is the new president of the Southern Region of the American Society of Horticultural Science. This marks the first time in 20 years an AU faculty member has been elected to the post. Powell is also the first ACES specialist to hold the position. He has previously served the horticultural society as chair of its executive, registration and membership committees.

Austrian novelist Michael Kohmeier recently presented a reading in German from his novel Telemach as part of an AU visit coordinated by Renate Latimer and Robert Weigel of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. K ohlmeier, whose visit was arranged by the Austrian Cultural Institute, presented his novel as a retold version of the Odyssey in modern terms. Latimer is translating another contemporary version of the Odysseus legend, Inge Merkel's Odysseus and Penel ope: An Ordinary Marriage into English.

T. Harmon Straiton Jr., head of the Department of Microforms and Documents for AU Libraries, has received the Alabama Library Association's 1998 Eminent Librarian Award. The award is given to a person who has made exceptional and enduring contribut ions toward the development of library service in Alabama. Straiton, a librarian at AU for 18 years, was recognized for his professional leadership in several areas, including developing state and federal publications and services, and development and pas sage of legislation to establish a state publications depository system.

Harriet Black Nembhard, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was selected as a Sloan New Faculty Fellow for the 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference. Nembhard presented a paper entitled, "A Plan to Use C ooperative Learning Lectures to Prepare Undergraduates for Research" as part of her competition for the fellowship. The Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution established by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in 1934.

David Hodge of Student Counseling Services won the award for Outstanding Advisor at the recent Bacchus and Gamma National Peer Education Nework's spring conference for affiliates in Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi. In addition, the AU student o rganization CADRE won the award for Outstanding Program for its co-sponsorship of the "Clothesline Project."

Three AU College of Agriculture faculty members are co-authors of a paper that won the Past Presidents Foundation Award as the best paper of the 26th National Agricultural Plastics Congress. Paul Backman and Rodrigo Rodriguez-Kabana, both professors of Pl ant Pathology, and James E. Brown, associate professor of Horticulture, were among the nine authors of "Reduction of Tomato Early Blight by Combining Soil Solarization and Biological Control Strategies."