The Harbinger
February 25, 2008
Hiram College Awarded $100,000 from the GAR Foundation for a Nursing Simulation Lab
Hiram College received a $100,000 grant from the GAR Foundation to install a simulation skills laboratory for Hiram’s new nursing program. The lab will be part of the renovation of the second floor of Teachout-Price Hall which will become the home of the nursing program.
In 2007, Hiram College established a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) program, a direct result of efforts to grow the academic programs and the enrollment at the institution. Hiram’s B.S.N. program extends the institution’s strengths in the sciences and interdisciplinary studies to a field that is experiencing workforce shortages nationally, as well as regionally. The program welcomed its first class of 37 students in the fall of 2007.
Davina Gosnell, Hiram College's director of nursing, stated the grant is going to be a
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Dr. Davina Gosnel |
tremendous help in allowing us to build a state-of-the-art simulation skills lab and nursing facility.
Hiram’s nursing simulation skills lab will provide a dynamic environment of high-tech equipment, representative of what nurses find in today’s workplace, and the latest simulated models: SimMan®, SimBaby®, Surgical Sally®, Resuci® CPR manikins, and other simulation procedure models. The 1,876-square-foot lab includes both acute (hospital unit) and primary (examination room) workstations where demonstration, simulation, and supervised practice can occur. The lab will be equipped with a ceiling video camera, recording equipment, projector, screens, and monitor for demonstration, as well as skill assessment and critique. Designed to complement Hiram’s distinctive nursing curriculum and program, the lab will provide an excellent clinical foundation for our nursing students and allow them to seamlessly transition from student to professional.
Crain's Cleveland Business Names Hiram Grad as a Rising Star
Dr. Floun'say Caver was named to the 2007 Forty Under 40 list by Crain's Cleveland Business. The list recognizes forty up-and-coming business leaders in Northeast Ohio. Caver is the manager of budgets for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority where he manages the its $270 million operating budget.
Caver's feature and video are available online at the Crain's Cleveland Business Web site. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article
Caver, a graduate of Shaw High School in Cleveland, earned his bachelor's degree in management from Hiram College in 1998. He completed his master's degree in urban planning at Cleveland State University, and his Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Spring Brownbag Concert season begins with two of our adjunct faculty voice teachers
Trinity's traditional Wednesday Brownbag Concerts continue their 30th season on
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Shari Pachinger |
Wednesdays at 12:10 pm. The Spring 2008 season marks Daniel Hathaway's finale as Trinity Cathedral's canon for music, art and worship and artistic director of Music and Performing Arts at Trinity. The spring Brownbag concerts are some of the many events scheduled to celebrate his 31 years at Trinity and his incomparable legacy to the Cathedral and Cleveland.
This week, on February 27, Hathaway conducts the Trinity Chamber Orchestra with Shari Pachinger, soprano and José Gotera, baritone, performing Aaron Copland's Old American Songs and Appalachian Spring.
Hiram senior Lisa Beebe was sole undergraduate presenter at the Music in Dialogue conference
Beebe presented her research in French music at a conference for master’s and doctoral students.
Hiram senior Lisa Beebe, a French and music major from North Olmsted, Ohio, presented her paper "La Pape, Antechrist de Rome: Chansons Spirituelles and the French Reformation" on February 8, 2008, at the Music in Dialogue conference. The conference is held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and surveys current research in the fields of music theory, ethnomusicology, and historical musicology. Her discussion concerned Huguenot political and social songs during the sixteenth century.
"It was my first conference and I was very nervous," said Beebe. Beyond the initial anxiety of presenting at a national conference for the first time, Beebe described the valuable lessons she learned through sharing research with expert researchers in the field. "It made me really excited to continue my education and to keep exploring not only my own interests, but the work of others," she said.
Beebe’s research interests are baroque and Renaissance French music, which she cultivated at Hiram through an interdisciplinary study of both French and music. She plans to teach English in France after she graduates in May, and wants to eventually pursue a graduate degree in musicology or ethnomusicology. Beebe is a 2004 graduate of North Olmsted High School.
Dr. Stan Hale gathers information for academic search committee
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Dr. Stan Hale |
Dr.Stan Hale, an expert on academic search procedures, held an
open forum in the Pritchard room last Friday to gather and share our views on what qualities we would like to see in our new academic dean of the College. Dr. Stan Hale from Academic Search will use this valuable information to assist him in putting together the position announcement for our academic dean.
Storytelling in words, in entrepreneurship, in fabric
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, February 25 – 27 2008
Join the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethics and Values as they explore storytelling with keynote speaker Barry Lopez, and panelists Jo Ann Barefoot, Kim King, and Betsy Bauman.
Monday
Tuesday
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. |
Quilts convocation Kennedy Center Ballroom Betsy Bauman and Kim King – telling stories through fabric. |
Wednesday
7 p.m. |
"Stories of Corporate Responsibility" Kennedy Center Lounge Sponsored by Students Against Social Injustice |
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Barry Lopez |
Barry Lopez is the author of numerous books and contributor to many journals and periodicals. Lopez has written full time since leaving graduate school in 1970. In both his fiction and nonfiction work, Lopez explores the relationships between the physical landscape and human culture and society, examining issues of identity, ethics, and intimacy.
Jo Ann Barefoot is president of the Hiram College Board of Trustees. She is also chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Ohio Chapter Board of Trustees. Previously a partner in KPMG Consulting, she is currently president of Jo Ann Barefoot & Company, a management consulting firm. In addition to her Board of Trustees duties at Hiram, Barefoot spends time in India with Rising Star Outreach, where she studies and writes about micro-finance in leprosy colonies.
Kim King is professor of sociology at Hiram College. She has published regarding the study of quilts and fabric. Additionally, she has presented at many quilt shows and received numerous awards and recognitions for her work. King has given numerous presentations on the subject, including several presentations at Hiram, and African American Quilters and their Conceptualizations of the Postmodern Community, presented at the annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, 1999.
Chair and assistant professor of theatre, Betsy Bauman has worked in the theatre in a variety of settings, including Kent State University, the University of Akron, Berea Summer Theatre, Paul Cassidy Theatre, the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, the Cleveland Play House, and others. She is in her tenth year here at Hiram College, where she designs costumes for the productions and teaches classes in performance and design. Sewing and quilting have always been a favorite pastime and means of expression for Bauman, combining as it does, her love of fabric and theatre. She also enjoys traveling — as long as there’s a quilt show, a theatre, or a fabric store to visit.
Students Against Social Injustice (SASI) is a student-run organization that is involved with a number of social causes. The group does everything from going to School of Americas protests, to raising money for charities such as the Heifer Project. SASI also makes lobbying trips to Washington, D.C. each year to speak out on a variety of issues.
Enter this year's chili cook-off
Student Senate is having its annual chili cook-oOff in the lower KC on Monday, March 3, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., to raise money to buy a brick as a donation for a new playground to be constructed in Hiram Village near the fire station.
Faculty, staff, and students are welcome to partake in the various chili's that will be offered at $.25 a cup or to enter a chili for a chance at winning Spiciest, Meatiest, or Best All Around chili and prizes too.
There will be refreshments.
Email CHARNASTC@HIRAM.EDU or SENATE@HIRAM.EDU
if you are interested in entering.
Gelbke Fine Arts Center brings back classic movies!
February 29th Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill’s comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months: witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford).
March 21st The Age of Innocence (1993) Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, about a romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady that is doomed by 19th century New York society.
March 28th Basquiat (1996) chronicles the progression of Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) and his progression from living in cardboard boxes to penthouses, his romances, his drug use, and his death in 1988 at age 27.
Gelbke Fine Arts Center hosts Travis English presenting German art
Travis English '05, a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Stony Brook, will present his paper titled, "Politicizing the Flesh: Verist Nudes and the Cultural Politics of Prostitution in Weimar Germany." All are invited, and refreshments will be served.
James A. Garfield Institute for Public Leadership Spring Seminar Series
Monday March 3rd, 4:15 p.m. (Panel) and 6:30 p.m. (Reception, dinner, and keynote address), Hiram College Kennedy Center
Join the Garfield Student Scholars in an examination of economic, political, and ethical issues pertaining to immigration across the Mexican border in “Immigration: Contemporary Politics and Future Prospects.” The panel and dinner are both free and open to the public. RSVP requested for panel, dinner reservations required by February 28, 2008 to Kathy Luschek luschekk@hiram.edu or 330.569.6118.
Doris Meissner – Keynote speaker and Panelist
Former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and currently a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.
James Creagan - Moderator
Former ambassador to Honduras; director of the Center for International Studies, University of the Incarnate Word; Hiram College Trustee.
Allert Brown-Gort – Panelist
Associate director Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Craig Moser – Panelist
Professor of economics, Hiram College.
This week at a glance
Monday, February 25
ATP -
4:15 p.m. to - 5:45 p.m.
Jo Ann Barefoot President, "Stories of Entrepreneurship" - 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Reception with Mr. Lopez - Kennedy Center Reception Gallery - 5:30 p.m.
Music Department Recital - Student Performers - 6 p.m.
Barry Lopez - Coleman Center - "The Storyteller'’s Obligation" - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, February 26
Quilts convocation - Kennedy Center Ballroom - 11:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.
CESC - 4:15 p.m. to - 5:45 p.m.
Travis English '05, a Ph.D. candidate, 4:30 p.m., Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Men's Basketball NCAC Quarterfinals at Ohio Wesleyan University - 6 p.m.
Women's Basketball NCAC Tournament - at Ohio Wesleyan University - 8 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27
Library Forum - 4:15 p.m.
"Stories of Corporate Responsibility" Kennedy Center Lounge - 7 p.m.
Friday, February 29
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Monday, March 3
James A. Garfield Institute for Public Leadership Spring Seminar Series - 4:15 pm
Chili Cook-off - Lower KC - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Terrier Athletics
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