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 IN FOCUS: January 19, 2007
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR *
*SOUTHWESTERN, DILLARD SIGN PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT*
	  	

*January*

*19-Feb. 17* Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness, Fine Arts Gallery

*20* Men's lacrosse vs. The University of Texas (scrimmage), 11 a.m.

*26* Women's basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 6 p.m.

*26* Men's basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 8 p.m.

*27* Swimming and Diving vs. McMurry, 1 p.m.

*28* Men's lacrosse vs. Texas State University, noon

*28* Women's basketball vs. Sewanee, noon

*28* Men's basketball vs. Sewanee, 2 p.m.

*28* Opera Theatre:
" Don Giovanni," Jones Theater, 4 p.m.
28 Winter flute recital, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.

*29* Guest artist concert: Andreas Klein, piano, Georgetown High School 
Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.

*30* Guest Artist Concert: Meehan/Perkins Percussion Duo, 
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.

 


Southwestern University has signed a partnership agreement with Dillard 
University that will enable the two to pursue collaborative initiatives 
in several areas, including institutional management, diversity 
education and other academic efforts.

The agreement formalizes a partnership that has already been in place 
for several years. In December 2005, Southwestern sponsored a program to 
help faculty members from Dillard recreate course materials lost in 
Hurricane Katrina and develop new online courses that could be offered 
to students regardless of their location.

Southwestern and Dillard also are participating in a collaborative 
leadership and student exchange project funded by the Mellon Foundation. 
This program also includes Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, 
Morehouse College in Atlanta and Rhodes College in Memphis.

Creating formal alliances with historically black colleges and 
universities is one of the goals in Southwestern's Strategic Plan for 2010.

This is the second partnership agreement Southwestern has signed with an 
historically black college or university (HBCU). In April 2001, it 
signed a similar agreement with Huston-Tillotson University. As a result 
of this agreement, several staff members at Southwestern have provided 
management/administrative assistance to Huston-Tillotson. For example, 
Southwestern's vice president for institutional advancement has 
conducted a workshop on fundraising for the Huston-Tillotson staff and 
board of trustees, and two members of Southwestern's fiscal affairs 
office have provided assistance to Huston-Tillotson's business office. 
In 2005, Ron Swain, senior advisor to the president at Southwestern, 
conducted the search to hire a new dean of students at Huston-Tillotson.

Read the entire story here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/070118.html>.

* EVENTS *

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents pianist Andreas Klein in 
concert Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Georgetown High School Performing Arts 
Center.

Monday evening's concert will feature Mozart's "Sonata in B flat major" 
and "Fantasy in C minor," Schubert's "Sonata in B flat major," and 
Beethoven's "Sonata in C minor."

He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and complemented his studies 
with the legendary Claudio Arrau and Nikita Magaloff.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 
512-863-1379.

*FACULTY FORUM*

David Gaines, associate professor of English, director of the Paideia® 
Program and Paideia® Professor, will lead the noon Faculty Forum titled 
"Paideia®: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Bringing a Few More Things 
Together" on Monday, Jan. 22, in the Lynda McCombs Room.

Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea 
will be available for 50 cents.

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a feature article on Ed Kain, professor 
of sociology, who is being honored by the American Sociological Association.

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article on the Michael Nye 
photography exhibit in the SU Fine Arts Gallery.

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an obit on Grogan Lord, Georgetown 
business leader and Southwestern University Board of Trustees member, 
who died Jan. 13.

NOTABLES

An article titled "The Sociology Major at Institutions of Higher 
Education in the United States" appears in the January 2007 edition of 
the peer-review journal Teaching Sociology. The article is authored by 
*Edward L. Kain*, professor of sociology and University Scholar in the 
Sociology and Anthropology Department. Research in the article examines 
the extent to which national recommendations on the undergraduate 
sociology major, adopted by the American Sociological Association in 
1990, were implemented at 100 colleges and universities across the 
country a decade later.

*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, presented a paper titled 
"Between Coal and Stars: Reenchantment in Jacques Réda's 'Les bretelles 
étoilées'" at the December 2006 Modern Language Association Annual 
Convention in Philadelphia, Pa. The panel addressed recuperative themes 
and approaches to Paris in this French writer's recent work.



 
 
 
 
  	  	 

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