From jimshowalter48 at hotmail.com Wed Sep 16 13:25:55 2015 From: jimshowalter48 at hotmail.com (James Showalter) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:25:55 -0500 Subject: [Lu_faculty] Administrative Council/Faculty Senate Message-ID: 9-15-15 Tues // 2:05 p.Faculty,The President's Administrative Council has been busy with the opening of the school. In the first meeting of the Administrative Council, the focus was diverse but included an extended discussion of the housing snafus on the Langston campus. As faculty who teach on that campus know, this led to a great deal of irritation and more by students, to multiple meetings with administrators, and even to some students who would not relocate being locked out of rooms. It is my opinion that the problem was aggravated by the often clumsy attempts by the administration to undo the mistake, and by reports that they did not have enough rooms cleaned and ready in Young Hall to take an over-flow they knew was coming. At that meeting we also discussed the budget, and that, briefly, is simply bad with the prospects that it will get worse. With freezes in place and many proposed spending items required to pass by either the Dr. Burnett's desk or the President's, we are going to be trying to make our nickels go as far as possible. The result of this has been larger classes in the lower years on the Langston campus. Dr. Montgomery has been given the ok to hire adjuncts, but classes, particularly in Math and English but also in other areas, are large and, in some cases, too big according to the faculty who teach them. I have heard reports that, due to falling oil revenue, there may be mid-year "adjustments" made in state budgets, and with the one-time moneys used last year to patch the state budget gone, I don't see any hope on the horizon in the near future. In the Administrative Council meeting of September 14, Dr. Carol Cawyer, Institutional Research, introduced the draft of the new retention plan, a plan put together by a committee that included faculty. It is too detailed to summarize here, but it will lead to some possible changes by faculty. One prominent feature is an attempt to do-away with remedial courses and, instead, incorporate content when needed by individual students into the entry level college courses, eg., make available to Algebra students parts of Intermediate Algebra that they need. I did note in the meeting that in the 1990's there was a big push by the Regents to ban remedial course, one of the reasons for the Langston campus's Associates program and the reason that OSU invited Northern Oklahoma College down to do their remedial work for them. That push did not do away with remedial courses despite it's intentions. Finally, I again request of my faculty colleagues to volunteer to serve on Faculty Senate committees. Please contact the following Interim Chairs if you will help: Academic Affairs: Dr. Andre Washington (alwashington at langston.edu) Budget: Mrs. Angela Thomas (althomas at langston.edu) Personnel Policies: Dr. Joanna Mann (jmann at langston.edu) Elections: Dr. Meshack Sagini (mmsagini at langston.edu) Student Affairs: Ms. Kate Corbett (kcorbett at langston.edu) The next Faculty Senate meeting will be on this Thursday, September 17, from 11:00 -- 12:20. Dr. Sharron Burnett, V.P. for Fiscal Affairs, is to come and discuss the budget with the Senate, and we will then entertain any new business. If you have matters you feel should be brought before the Faculty Senators, contact one of our Senators. If you have any questions, please contact me. Jim Showalterchair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ffondjo at langston.edu Thu Sep 17 12:50:01 2015 From: ffondjo at langston.edu (FONDJO-FOTOU, FRANKLIN) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:50:01 +0000 Subject: [Lu_faculty] News about the INTRO TO MODERN COMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR LU FACULTY & STUDENTS Organized by LU-CCRE In-Reply-To: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317F85D2@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> References: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317F85D2@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> Message-ID: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317FA161@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> Dear All, Can you please advertise this event to LU faculty and Students? The Langston University Computing Center for Research and Education (LU-CCRE) is organizing a series of training/seminar on " Introduction to Modern Computing Techniques for LU Faculty and Students" starting September 21, 2015. To better accommodate all attendees, we have prepared a survey to collect their availability. Click here to take the survey (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17mdf2ZA66VYwwFGIG5pN9GI9E0O235krmxP-hsxw9Jg/viewform). We have attached to this email the flyer of the training/seminar topics. Thank you Franklin Fondjo and Joel Snow. Dr. Franklin Fondjo Fotou Assistant Prof./Chair Dept. of Technology | School of Art & Sciences | Langston University | Hamilton Hall Room: 123-122 | Phone : +1-405-466-3302 | Fax : +1-405-466-2931 | P.O. Box 1500 | Langston, Oklahoma 73050-1500 ________________________________ "Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. It doesn't matter what you look like or where you come from if you have knowledge." Benjamin Carson "Luck is where opportunity meets preparation." Denzel Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: comptopix2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 119028 bytes Desc: comptopix2.pdf URL: From ffondjo at langston.edu Fri Sep 25 12:17:51 2015 From: ffondjo at langston.edu (FONDJO-FOTOU, FRANKLIN) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:17:51 +0000 Subject: [Lu_faculty] News about the INTRO TO MODERN COMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR LU FACULTY & STUDENTS Organized by LU-CCRE Message-ID: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317FAEA7@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> Dear All, Can you please advertise this event to LU faculty and Students? We need more students to enroll. The Langston University Computing Center for Research and Education (LU-CCRE) is organizing a series of training/seminar on " Introduction to Modern Computing Techniques for LU Faculty and Students" starting October 1, 2015. To better accommodate all attendees, we have prepared a survey to collect their availability. Click here to take the survey (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17mdf2ZA66VYwwFGIG5pN9GI9E0O235krmxP-hsxw9Jg/viewform). We have attached to this email the flyer of the training/seminar topics. Thank you Franklin Fondjo and Joel Snow. Dr. Franklin Fondjo Fotou Assistant Prof./Chair Dept. of Technology | School of Art & Sciences | Langston University | Hamilton Hall Room: 123-122 | Phone : +1-405-466-3302 | Fax : +1-405-466-2931 | P.O. Box 1500 | Langston, Oklahoma 73050-1500 ________________________________ "Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. It doesn't matter what you look like or where you come from if you have knowledge." Benjamin Carson "Luck is where opportunity meets preparation." Denzel Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: comptopix2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 119028 bytes Desc: comptopix2.pdf URL: From ffondjo at langston.edu Tue Sep 29 13:10:49 2015 From: ffondjo at langston.edu (FONDJO-FOTOU, FRANKLIN) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:10:49 +0000 Subject: [Lu_faculty] FW: Dr. Steven Gordon and Mrs. Linda Akli visit to Langston University In-Reply-To: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317F8280@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> References: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317F8280@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> Message-ID: <38FEB07779921445B984C6782881874D317FC33D@EXCHANGE-MB1.lunet.edu> Hi, This email is to inform you that Mrs. Linda Akli and Dr. Steven Gordon will be visiting Langston University on Tuesday, October 6, 2015. They will be having a general talk in Hamilton Hall Room 206 for 1:00PM-2:00PM. The main topic of their visit is to talk about curriculum improvement and reform in the field of computational science and Engineering (Attached are the Education Flyer and an XSEDE general flyer). As well as XSEDE Education Program. Please find below both Dr. Steven Gordon and Mrs. Linda Akli bios. Please bring your students. ----------------------- Linda Akli is the Assistant Director of Training Education and Outreach at SURA and the XSEDE lead for the Under-Represented Community Engagement program. She is responsible for developing and delivering programs to broaden use of High Performance Computing and other advanced technologies in research and education. Previously she was employed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science where she led the development of the BEN Collaborative, a digital library for biological sciences education, and managed several student programs aimed at increasing participation in STEM including the Packard Graduate Scholars and the Merck-AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program. Ms. Akli's began her career in computer communications systems engineering. Her communication systems projects include international electronic messaging and global directory standards development, technical contributions to federal electronic commerce programs, and congressional committee policy input on defense communications. Ms. Akli is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Steven Gordon is the Senior Education Specialist at the Ohio Supercomputer Center and Professor Emeritus in City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University. He has also served as the Interim Executive Director of OSC for three years and the Senior Director of Education and Client Services. Currently, Dr. Gordon is the lead for the education program of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program funded by the National Science Foundation and the manager of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program. At OSC, Dr. Gordon has led the efforts to start computational science education programs at a number of Ohio institutions. For the XSEDE project, he is working with universities nationwide to assist them in starting computational science education programs by providing program models, shared materials, and professional development activities for faculty. His academic research centers around water quality and watershed management issues as well as the application of modeling and simulation to environmental assessment, land use change, and the use of Geographic Information Systems. ---------------------- Sincerely, Dr. Franklin Fondjo Fotou Assistant Prof./Chair Dept. of Technology | School of Art & Sciences | Langston University | Hamilton Hall Room: 123-122 | Phone : +1-405-466-3302 | Fax : +1-405-466-2931 | P.O. Box 1500 | Langston, Oklahoma 73050-1500 ________________________________ "Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. It doesn't matter what you look like or where you come from if you have knowledge." Benjamin Carson "Luck is where opportunity meets preparation." 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