Dean
Diana Comuzzie
has announced that the Schreiner Vocational Nursing Program is now
a part of the Trull School of Sciences and Mathematics.
“It’s exciting to have a program so successful and so
well regarded in health care circles become part of our school. Since
many of the courses required for LVNs to bridge over to the RN program
involve mathematics and the sciences, it is very appropriate that
the Vocational Nursing Program be housed with us. We are thrilled
they are with us, and we are looking forward to new collegiality with
the nursing faculty.”
Professor
Tom Wells’
first book “Drop-ins,” published by Publish America, is
doing well. Several of the characters are composites of people he’s
known here at Schreiner, including one character who is a dead-ringer
for a well-known university tutor around campus.
Wells’ second book, “Finders Keepers,” is in its
third revision and is on his agent’s desk. His third novel,
untitled at present, will be set in West Texas in the early 60s. For
more details, check his web site at www.tomdwells.com.
On
Oct. 1, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Marye
Tharp’s Principles of Marketing class received
a briefing on opportunities in entertainment marketing from guest
speaker Doug Quintal of Boston’s Emerson College. Professor
Quintal reviewed the significant differences between marketing management
approaches in product marketing and the fields of film, music, sports,
the arts, gaming, leisure travel and amusement parks.
Dr.
Ron Hatchett, founding director of Schreiner’s
new Center for Global Studies, believes that to succeed in today’s
global environment, people need special skills that will enable them
to interact successfully with those from many other countries and
cultures. According to Hatchett, those working in the international
field in business can expect to be paid, on average, 18 percent more
than their contemporaries working
only in the domestic market.
Courses being developed by the Center will provide Schreiner students
with a clearer understanding of the cultural, technological, economic
and political variations existing within the family of man. The Global
Studies program will also train students in the analysis of global
trends that are shaping the world of the future in which they will
live and work.
In
Fall 2004, Assistant Professor David Teneyuca and
Instructor Ray Walls
are teaching Schreiner’s first course in the MCSE
(Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) certification program.
The purpose of this innovative program is to provide Schreiner students
and Hill Country residents with first-class training for this prestigious
high-paying certification. Interest in the program is high. The first
class was completely full. The next course will begin in January 2005,
and requests for registration have already begun. The series of 10-week
courses is offered on Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5 p.m.
The Delta
Phi Epsilon Sorority held its Third Annual Cinderfella and Silent
Auction on Nov. 6 on campus. This annual event is held to benefit
the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
(ANAD) and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The funds given to ANAD help
with educational efforts and
support counseling, self-help groups and research. The funds given
to Cystic
Fibrosis help to research a cure for Cystic Fibrosis and to improve
the quality of
life for children and young adults with this disease. Sorority member
Melissa
Kelley organized the events.
For Breast
Cancer Awareness month, the Colleges Against Cancer Chapter at Schreiner
held a Think Pink Bingo Night. At this event, students called their
moms to remind them to get a mammogram. Additionally, members sold
breast
cancer awareness t-shirts as well as pink ribbon cookies. More than
60
students attended.
Vicki
Mullins ’98 and Stephanie
Lopez, Schreiner’s graphic designers, were featured
artists in a show of their original artwork entitled “Elements
of Reflection,” which hung from Oct. 5 to Nov. 3 in the Cailloux
Campus Activity Center. Mullins has been an award-winning professional
artist for over 20 years and in addition to her university position
she is a well-known
free-lance designer. Lopez, a well-known San Antonio artist and designer,
also
operates a successful free-lance design business and produces a line
of handmade special occasion greeting cards that emphasize Hispanic
heritage themes. click
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This
holiday season Student Activities, student organizations, and Habitat
for Humanity are donating decorated Christmas trees to families who
cannot afford to purchase a tree of their own. Students will decorate
the trees, and they will
be on display in the Cailloux Campus Activity Center. They will be
given to
the families before students leave for the holiday. The following
organizations
are sponsoring a family: Alpha Chi National College Honor Society,
Association of Texas Professional Educators, Best Buddies, Science
Club, Campus Ministry, Delta Phi Epsilon, Flato/LA Hall Council, Pre-
Law, College Republicans, Schreiner Community Outreach Program and
Colleges Against Cancer.
August
Blackburn, a junior biochemistry major, recently placed
fourth in the undergraduate oral presentations competition at the
American Chemical Society’s 60th annual meeting in Ft. Worth.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Bob
Holloway accompanied Blackburn to the competition.
Six of
Schreiner’s nine Hatton W. Sumners Scholars recently attended
the first Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series luncheon
of the year in Dallas.
Featured speaker was Governor Rick Perry. (L to R: Cynthia Dees, August
Blackburn, Megan McDonald, Michelle Leija, Governor Perry, Margarita
Diaz, Corrina Fox, and Pat Browne, sponsor. Scholars not pictured
are Chandra Bennett, Kristen Morton and Delma Thompson.) The meetings
are presented by the National Center for Policy Analysis through the
sponsorship of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation. Governor Perry’s
talk focused primarily on the current political scene, health care,
education, the job climate and taxation.
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