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VOL. XXIII NO. 27 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWSLETTER AUG. 13, 2007

• Teresa Woody, director of the Office ofMinority Affairs, and Earlene Moore, associateprofessor of library science and Paul MeekLibrary collection development and ILL librari-an, recently attended the Tennessee AmericanAssociation of University Women LeadershipConference in Nashville. The Martin branch ofAAUW received recognition as the state branchwith the largest percentage of new memberships.

• Lane Last, associate professor of art in theDepartment of Visual and Theatre Arts, hadvideo work exhibited in July at the Third AnnualJakarta International Video Festival at theNational Gallery of Art in Jakarta, Indonesia.The showcase included 119 works from artistsrepresenting 27 countries.

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UT President Dr. John Petersenmade the most of a recent visit toNorthwest Tennessee with stops inMartin and Jackson during his week-long tour of the state that ended Aug.3 at the Knoxville campus. He visit-ed with UT Martin faculty and staffin the morning and used an eveningreception and dinner in Jackson tointroduce new university chancellor,Dr. Tom Rakes, and preview thingsto come for UT.

The Jackson event, held at theWest Tennessee Research andEducation Center, included electedofficials and community leadersfrom across the region. Petersenintroduced Rakes to the group bysaying that “you’re the most disad-vantaged person in the world” to bean internal candidate for a university

position. “And so for Tom Rakes tohave survived the search for chan-cellor and come out clearly the topcandidate from a very excellentpool, I think really tells you some-thing about how we’re going to con-tinue to build our program atMartin,” Petersen said.

Rakes used “capacity building” indescribing his vision for UT Martinand its students, faculty, staff, alum-ni and stakeholders. He asked theaudience, “What can we do to bringabout positive change in many,many ways – from economic devel-opment, to careers for our students,to expand opportunities for ouremployees and make our state, ourregion, a better place to live?” Heanswered the question by outlining

UT president’s tour makesstops in Martin, Jackson

UT President, Dr. John Petersen, left, opened his statewidetour of campuses and units with a visit, July 30, to UT Martinand the West Tennessee Research and Education Center inJackson. With him is Chancellor Rakes.

The Fall Teaching EffectivenessWorkshop will be from 1-5 p.m., Aug. 22,in Room 206, Boling University Center.Dr. Kevin Kecskes will conduct the work-shop centered around community-univer-sity partnerships.

Dr. Kecskes is Portland State Universitydirector for community-university part-nerships and is charged with helping cam-pus and community constituents live theuniversity motto: “Let Knowledge Servethe City.” More information aboutKecskes and the partnerships can be foundat http://www.pdx.edu/profiles/12514.

Those interested may register by eithercalling or emailing Susan Newbill at ext.7015, snewbill@utm.edu. Registration islimited to 85. No lunch will be served.Refreshments will be provided duringbreak.

Fall teaching workshop Aug. 22 Professor of political science, Dr.Richard Chesteen, recently won the facul-

ty features category of a statewide pod-casting tournament. His audio podcastwas on the topic of “Baba O’riley...defin-ing moments.”

In the spring, UT Martin joined univer-sities across the state in the “TennesseeSandbox Digital Media Tournament”(State Podcasting Tournament), sponsoredby FED EX Institute, Apple, Echo Musicand National Public Radio. Participatinginstitutions include: UT Knoxville, UTMartin, UT Chattanooga, Tennessee State,East Tennessee State, University ofMemphis and Tennessee Tech.

Faculty and students from all campusescompeted in five categories (facultycourse concepts, faculty features, servicelearning, student course concepts and stu-dent features). UT Martin selected win-

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• Dr. John Petersen — President, University of Tennessee System • Dr. Tom Rakes — Chancellor, University of Tennessee at Martin

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Monday, Aug. 13– Campus Recreation staff orientation/train-ing (Aug. 13-26)– Early fee payments fall 2007 (Aug. 13-21)

Tuesday, Aug. 14– UT Martin Campus Connection Tour (Aug.14-17)

Saturday, Aug. 18– 9 a.m. – WTWP teachers’ workshop, FineArts Building

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$70 million in capital projects under way orplanned at the Martin campus, including thesecond-phase construction of apartment-stylehousing and groundbreaking for a new stu-dent recreation center, all designed toincrease the university’s capacity to servestudents.

Referencing UT strategic-plan goals thataddress student access, student success andoutreach, Rakes discussed UT Online, theuniversity’s online education program coor-dinated by UT Martin. “One of the hallmarksof this campus has to do with how we makepostsecondary education more accessible forthe citizens in this state,” Rakes said, notingplans to expand UT Online degree offerings.“We also have the largest contingent of dual-credit enrollees, high school juniors andseniors taking advance-placement coursesand getting high school credit and collegecredit,” Rakes said, noting that the programcould enroll up to 650 students from 30 highschools this fall, more than any Tennesseepublic university.

Rakes also reminded the audience aboutUT Martin centers in Jackson, Ripley, Selmerand Parsons, all established, he said, in part-nership with their respective communities.Noting significant changes at all locations, hesaid that the Jackson Center will move to theJackson State Community College campusby December; renovations are being com-pleted at the Ripley Center; construction willsoon begin on the Parsons Center; and anexpansion is planned at the UT MartinMcNairy County Center/Selmer.

“This (the centers’ concept) brings collegeprograms to where students are,” Rakes said.“Some of the work they do online, much of itthey do face-to-face, but it’s a model thatworks for Tennessee, it works for our cam-pus, and when you count the growth on themain campus, plus these other facilities,there’s no end to what we can do, the capac-ity that we can build for our students and forthese communities.”

Petersen also referenced the university’syear-old strategic plan as he recapped recentevents and looked ahead. He told about theuniversity’s work with Gov. Phil Bredesenand state lawmakers to provide a 5 percentsalary pool for university faculty and staffwhile holding a tuition increase to 6 percent.He said that this year’s budget hearings withGov. Bredesen did not involve presenting alist of UT funding needs but rather “here’swhat we (UT) should deliver to the state ofTennessee.”

“We need to deliver workforce develop-ment, which means we need to generate edu-cational programs at the undergraduate, grad-uate and professional levels that serve the

state and the state’s industry,” Petersen toldthe group. “We need to do economic devel-opment. … Research is the driver, and weshould be the driver.” He also noted the UTHealth Science Center and its role in supply-ing quality health care to people across thestate. He said that partnerships are importantfor success in all of these areas, and he notedthe Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT’slargest partner, as an example.

“Oak Ridge National Lab is the largestbasic research Department of Energy lab inthe country. Secondly, it is also the mosthighly valued in terms of its productivity andefficiency,” Petersen said. He added, “It’s notsurprising that we’re developing programsthat are world-class, world-wide, at the lab.”He highlighted neutron, material science andcomputation research projects as examples.

He also talked about the impact of a biofu-els initiative supported by Gov. Bredesen,including $40 million in the new budget for abiofuels demonstration plant. Petersenreported that these funds and other invest-ment in biofuels research soon would totalalmost a quarter of a billion dollars in assets“to drive an enterprise that I think will do asmuch for Tennessee in terms of (the state’s)agriculture economy and economic develop-ment as tobacco did in its time.”

Petersen described UT as a “consolidateduniversity” that serves Tennessee in manyways. Once asked to name his biggest sur-prise since becoming UT president, he toldthe audience, “I came here thinking this wasabsolutely a superb opportunity and that wereally had a chance to do some things. Mybiggest surprise is it’s actually a biggeropportunity than I thought it was.”

Besides the opening visits to Martin andJackson, other destinations for Petersen thisweek include the UT Health Science Centerin Memphis, the UT Space Institute inTullahoma, UT Chattanooga and Kingsport.

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ners in three of the five to advance to statecompetition. Campus winners were Dr. PhilipSmartt, associate professor of naturalresources management; Jordan Tinkle, com-munications spring graduate; and Chesteen.NPR personnel were state-level judges.

Podcasts in the faculty features categorywere artistic in nature, storytelling and origi-nal writing and musical or dramatic perfor-mances. The merit was assessed primarily onthe aesthetic experience for the listener.

Steve Holt, Instructional Technology Centerdirector, co-chaired the tournament in its firstyear. The Podcasting Tournament files werehosted this year by East Tennessee StateUniversity on its iTunesU site, but next yearUT Martin will host on its iTunesU site.

“I hope to generate more interest in partici-pation from our students and faculty in thenext tournament,” said Holt.

The Tennessee Sandbox PodcastingTournament has been nominated for a nation-al award at the Campus TechnologyConference slated this month in Washington,D.C.

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The fall Blackboard Blitz will be Aug. 23-24in the newly renovated ITC Computer Lab.Seating is limited.

This time the Blitz will be a two-day event,with two advanced Blackboard training class-es on the second day. To see the classes andregister, go to: http://www.utm.edu/depart-ments/itc/register.php.

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Aug. 15 is the application deadline for theCPS Exam to be given Nov. 3 and the CAPExam (Part 4 for active CPS holders only) tobe given Nov. 2. The application packet is onthe IAAP Web site: http://www.iaap-hq.org/Cert/CertAppPacket.pdf.

The cost for the CPS Exam is $210 forIAAP members and $285 for non-members.The cost for the CAP Exam is $120 for IAAPmembers and $145 for non-members.

UT employees may also apply for theCareer Development Fund and receive up to$200 reimbursement per fiscal year. Anyonewho wishes to join IAAP before applying forthe exam can do so in order to pay the lowerexam fee.

Exams given Nov. 2-3