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| BSC Chapter of Phi Eta Sigma Inducts Five Freshmen | Monday, November 17 1997 | BSC Chapter of Phi Eta Sigma Inducts Five Freshmen | The Bluefield State College chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the national honor society for freshmen, inducted five freshmen into the Society earlier this month. Students must have earned at least 12 credits with a grade point average of 3.5-4.0 to be eligible for membership. This achievement places these students in the top two percent of all freshmen at BSC. Members inducted included Helen Janet Chaffins (Bluefield), Ronald Stephen Hartwell, Jr. (Matoaka), Anne Marie Keasler (Welch), Jerry A. Rotenberry, Jr. (Bluefield), and Michelle Lee Wiley (Lewisburg). The induction ceremony was conducted by Janena M. Long (chapter president), Amy S. Hill (vice president), and Sara L. Hall (secretary/treasurer). They were assisted by chapter advisors John Cardwell (interim Vice President for Student Affairs) and E. Ralph Patsel (Registrar). BSC President Dr. Robert Moore closed the ceremony by bringing congratulatory remarks to the inductees. | |
| West Virginia Network Helps to Make Internet 1000 Times Faster (WVNET Press Release) | Monday, November 17 1997 | West Virginia Network Helps to Make Internet 1000 Times Faster (WVNET Press Release) | Released by WVNET PRESS RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Roxann Humbert, 293-5192, Ext. 272 Fax: 293-5540 Morgantown, WV, -- The Internet of the future is expected to be 1,000 times faster, and West Virginia Network (WVNET) will help to make it happen. WVNET, the state higher education computing network, has been accepted as an affiliate member of the Internet 2 project, which is charged with creating a next generation Internet capable of supporting the rapidly-expanding needs of the national research and higher education community. WVNET and more than 100 other higher education institutions and networks in the country have joined forces to develop and evaluate new applications which fully exploit the capabilities of broadband communications, including real-time multimedia collaboration, distant and lifelong learning, and visualization. The Internet 2 project will be conducted in phases over the next 3 to 5 years. The early phases will be limited to research and development activities. New technologies will be deployed across the educational community in later phases. WVNET previously helped to develop the regional high-speed SEPSCOR network connecting supercomputer centers in six southeastern states, and collaborated with Bell Atlantic, the Governor's Office, and the Distant Learning Coordinating Council to create a high-speed state unified network (SUN) within West Virginia. This newly-created statewide network will unify eight different networks into one high-speed information highway serving higher education, K- 12 schools, libraries, government and health care institutions. It will also be linked to other interstate high-speed networks such as Internet 2 through the efforts of WVNET. WVNET is the main provider of Internet access within the state of West Virginia and has served the state for over 20 years, For more information, call 293-5192 or point your Web browser to the Internet 2 home page: http://www.internet2.edu/index.html. | |
| BSC Director of Instructional Technology Presents Programs on Distance Learning | Thursday, November 13 1997 | BSC Director of Instructional Technology Presents Programs on Distance Learning | Dr. Tom Blevins, Director of Bluefield State College's Instructional Technology Center, Center for Extended Learning,, and Academic Computing, has delivered two presentations to regional and national academic organizations recently. In October, Blevins' presentation, "Planning, Delivering, and Evaluating Distance Learning Content Through IPSI (Instructional Performance Systems Software) was a featured event in the "League for Innovation in the Community College's national information technology conference in Atlanta. "The workshop presented the use of IPSI as a distance learning-design tool that participants could use to assist them in designing and quantifying distance learning (DL) course materials and evaluation," Blevins noted. Earlier this month, Blevins conducted the program session, "Designing Instruction for Distance Delivery," at the West Virginia Community College Association's annual meeting in Flatwoods, WV. The program showed participants the necessary steps and thought processes involved in designing distance learning course materials for DL delivery. Blevins observed, "Current, excellent educational pedagogy is essential in assuring that planning, delivery, and evaluation components of distance learning courses are done correctly." | |
| BSC President Appoints Task Force to Advise and Assist in Recruitment of Minority Faculty, Staff, and Students | Thursday, November 13 1997 | BSC President Appoints Task Force to Advise and Assist in Recruitment of Minority Faculty, Staff, and Students | The creation of a "Presidential Task Force on Recruitment of Minorities" was announced today by Bluefield State College President Dr. Robert Moore. The 11-member task force will assist and advise the BSC president in developing additional strategies to identify and recruit qualified minority applicants for faculty and professional vacancies at the College, and will assist the institution in its ongoing effort to recruit minority students. "This task force includes outstanding African-American leaders, many of whom are BSC alumni, from throughout the region," Moore noted. "The members will have a vital role in assisting the College as we seek to address the need for diversity within our faculty and greater diversity among students and staff." The task force includes Sylvester Myers (Chair/BSC Institutional Advisory Board), Bluefield attorney J. Franklin Long, Beckley attorney Donald Pitts, Dr. Clifford Moore (Director, Council of the Southern Mountains), Mary Frances Brammer (Title I Facilitator, Bluefield Middle School), Dr. Jean Gilbert (Director/Appalachian Academic Development Center), Michael Henry (Director of Student Services, Southwest Virginia Community College), Robert Chambers (Counseling & Program Development, Southwest Virginia Community College), Virginia Hebert (retired educator), Ergie Smith (retired educator), and the Reverend Garry Moore (Pastor, Scott Street Baptist Church and member, Bluefield City Board of Directors). Bluefield State College currently advertises faculty and professional vacancies in the human resources offices of each of the more than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the nation, as well as in the nationally-distributed publication Black Issues in Higher Education. Dr. Marvin Rogers, Director of the Title III/BRACE program at BSC has alerted, consulted, and actively sought to interest and recruit for BSC position vacancies minority faculty and staff candidates from other institutions of higher education. Beyond his major responsibilities at the College, Dr. Rogers has also helped to recruit minority students, many of whom are now enrolled at Bluefield State. "This task force will be an active, vital group," Dr. Moore said. "My desire is that the combined energy and talent of this task force and the ongoing efforts at Bluefield State College will result in the addition of minority faculty, and an increase in the number of minority students and staff at this institution." | |
| BSC Selected to Participate in Southern Regional Education Board's Electronic Campus | Tuesday, November 11 1997 | BSC Selected to Participate in Southern Regional Education Board's Electronic Campus | Bluefield State College has been selected to be one of 50 institutions of higher education to take part in phase one of the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) "electronic campus," through which students from across the region can take courses at scores of colleges and universities. The electronic campus, which will offer more than 100 courses electronically during the semester beginning in January, 1998, was created by SREB to permit students to enter the electronic marketplace and take courses pledged to adhere to the "Principles of Good Practice," developed by SREB's Educational Technology Cooperative. Marshall University and BSC are the only West Virginia institutions of higher education participating in the initial phase of the electronic campus. SREB President Mark Musick notes, "We expect that many more colleges and universities, offering possibly hundreds of courses, will want to become part of the electronic campus in the fall semester, 1998 when we hope to move to full operation. The electronic campus will bring additional educational opportunities more conveniently to citizens across the region where they live and work." Musick said the barriers of geography and time that have limited higher education for many are being pushed aside through this electronic campus approach. The SREB is the nation's first interstate compact for the advancement of education, identifying and directing attention to key issues in education; collecting, compiling and analyzing comparable educational data; conducting studies on educational concerns; and initiating discussions directed to state and institutional long-range planning, actions and policy proposals affecting education. West Virginia is one of 15 member SREB states. Students may visit the SREB website, "www.srec.sreb.org" to get information about courses. | |
| "Nonverbal Communcation" Program Presented at BSC | Thursday, November 06 1997 | "Nonverbal Communcation" Program Presented at BSC | Jan Hargrave, a nationally recognized speaker on the power and effect of nonverbal communication, will present a program at Bluefield State College, November 12, beginning at 11 a.m. in the Hebert Gallery, BSC Student Union. The program is presented through the BSC Student Support Services office, and is open to the public, free of charge. During the program Hargrave will detail how "hidden messages" affect our success in "corporate America and education America." A recent guest on the "Ricki Lake" and "Montel Williams" talk shows, Hargrave will demonstrate how our nonverbal communication can make a positive impression on others, communicate our ideas more powerfully, take charge without being overbearing, and discern and diffuse hostility in others. She has presented seminars for major corporate clients including Exxon USA, Tenneco Energy, Chase Manhatten Bank, and Lockheed Martin. | |
| BSC Receives Microsoft Software Grant Award | Thursday, November 06 1997 | BSC Receives Microsoft Software Grant Award | Bluefield State College has been awarded a "Teacher Training Grant" from Microsoft, through which BSC and four area public schools will be able to utilize Microsoft software for a one-year period. The grant furnishes the BSC Instructional Technology Center (ITC) with Microsoft software in a program that permits the College to train public school teachers in Microsoft applications. The teachers trained through the program then return to the four selected public schools and use the software in classrooms and laboratories with their students. According to Dr. Thomas Blevins, Director of the BSC ITC, who wrote the grant proposal, the schools selected "will be BSC Clinical Development Centers which have the necessary equipment to run the software and will be familiar with training BSC student teachers and working with the BSC Division of Education." BSC selected several Clinical Development Centers (CDCs) and trained their personnel before the last NCATE visit to the College. A survey of CDCs will now be conducted to determine what equipment is available at each Center, and to ascertain whether they can run the Microsoft software. Participating Centers will then be selected, after which training will begin and software will be installed. Brushfork Elementary will be one of the four selected CDCs. Through the grant, BSC's ITC will also receive an NT server license for one year, in order to network the Microsoft products and train student teachers. "This is an excellent opportunity for the BSC Division of Education and the Instructional Technology Center to provide for public school teachers training in the latest Microsoft software titles," Blevins noted. "We look forward to partnering with Brushfork Elementary and the other BSC Clinical Development Centers which meet the specific technical requirements for these outstanding software titles." | |
| BSC Campus Activities Calendars Recognized at National Conference | Monday, November 03 1997 | BSC Campus Activities Calendars Recognized at National Conference | Bluefield State College's "Campus Activities" calendars were selected for national awards at last week's National Association of Campus Activities conference in Toledo, OH. The BSC "Fall 1996 calendar" received a second place award, and the College's "Spring 1997 calendar" placed third among the entries in NACN's "Non-Poster, Multicolored Advertising" division. More than 70 colleges and universities took part in the conference. | |
| BSC Currence Basketball Classic Field Announced | Monday, November 03 1997 | BSC Currence Basketball Classic Field Announced | Organizers have announced the field and pairings for the 18th annual Currence Basketball Classic, sponsored by the Bluefield (WV) Lions Club. This year's event, Novmber 28-29 at the Ned Shott Gym on the Bluefield State College campus, includes Ohio Valley, Concord, and Piedmont, in addition to the host Big Blues. In the November 28 opener at 6 p.m., Ohio Valley faces Concord. The Mountain Lions were picked to finish fifth in the 14-team West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference this season, in a preseason vote of league coaches. They return 6-3 forward Kelly Mann, last year's WVIAC tournament MVP. In the 8 p.m. nightcap that evening, Bluefield State meets Piedmont. The Big Blues, tabbed to finish the year in eighth place, welcome back returning regulars David and Carlos Jennings, Jay Gray, and JT Bradley. The November 29 pairings include Piedmont vs. Concord at 6 p.m., with BSC facing Ohio Valley at 8. | |
| BSC Lady Blues Step Up the Temp in '97-98 | Monday, November 03 1997 | BSC Lady Blues Step Up the Temp in '97-98 | Speed. . . it's been the trademark for Bluefield State College's new women's head basketball coach Kenny Osborne since his arrival at the campus a couple of months ago. "Speed" will also be a signature style for his inaugural Lady Blues' team, which opens its season at home against Concord, November 18. With outstanding quickness and depth in the backcourt, Osborne looks for his club to play a hustling, full-court brand of hoop. "We have good quality and outstanding depth among our perimeter players," he noted before a recent practice. "Although we can be successful with a halfcourt attack, I believe we can be more effective by looking to play a faster game." Returning veterans Wendy Black and Jennifer Douglas anchor the backcourt. Douglas led the WVIAC in three-point shooting accuracy last year, and Black blossomed as a scorer. Another key player from a year ago, Deneeka Burs, returns for her final season. "Wendy and Jennifer have the potential to be explosive scorers, either in a transition game or in the halfcourt, and Deneeka is a true quarterback as our point guard," Osborne said. Depth in the perimeter game is provided by sophomore Angie Webb, "a very pleasant surprise in preseason," according to the coach, freshman Amanda Kennedy, senior Lisa Applegate, and defensive-stopper Shonda Wilson. Sophomore Stephanie Meadows has also made significant strides. The former Summers County star figures to share time with Black and Douglas on the perimeter. Transfer student Nicole Huff is also a college-experienced force on the wing. "We can rotate players in and out, all day, with our perimeter game and remain very solid," Osborne stated. At the power forward, Shelley White figures to start. "Shelley is as good an athlete as we have on the team," Osborne added. Freshman Lori O'Quinn has the three-point shot and strength to play immediately, according to the coach. In the post, Jessica McClanahan and Leslie Roberts will split time. "Jessica is very sound fundamentally, and she's shown great improvement," Osborne said. "Leslie is a strong player, someone who knows how to play the pivot in the conference," he noted. The Lady Blues appear to have enthusiastically endorsed the new, faster style of play. "I think our players enjoy the freedom that's now available to them when they play. We'll definitely play a lot of people and we'll depend on forcing the action a little, offensively and defensively," Osborne said. The schedule includes 19 conference games, along with strong nonleague tests against schools like Lincoln Memorial, Cumberland College, North Carolina Central, Livingstone, and Bluefield College. "To be successful, we'll need to be relatively injury-free, experience a little luck, and get great leadership and direction from our seniors," the coach observed. "We've got a great tradition (averaging 20 wins per year over the past nine years) and we're ready get started." |
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