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FACULTY/STAFF NEWS
Heather McGuire Attended the Audu-bon North Carolina Board Meeting on November 5-6 in Corolla.
Cynthia Nicholson Attended the Council of Independent Col-leges Senior Leader-ship Academy on November 4-5 in New Orleans.
Ella Benson Attended the Virginia Council for Excep-tional Children Fall Conference in Rich-mond on November 18.
Carolyn Modlin Attended the Virginia Council for Excep-tional Children Fall Conference in Rich-mond on November 18.
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Patsy Taylor Attended the North Carolina Phi Beta Lambda Fall Leader-ship Development Conference in Greensboro.
Gilliam Receives Scholar Prize
The 2016. Chowan University
McDowell Columns Scholar Prize was presented to Trey Gilliam, As-sistant Professor of Religion, during the Celebration of Faculty Scholar-ship and Creative Achievements on Tuesday, November 15. The prize consisted of a cash award and a book style clock, showcasing a photo of the historic McDowell Columns Building, and engraved with Gilliam’s name.
Other 2016 prize finalists included: John Davis, Professor of English, Gregory Taylor, Professor of His-
tory Edward Snyder, Assistant Profes-
sor of History
Seok Yoon, Associate Professor of Exercise Science
Past prize recipients are: Gregory Taylor (2011) Sheryl Long (2012) John Davis (2013) Ashley Doane (2014) Thomas Brennan (2015)
Chowan to Take 500th
Anniversary Reformation Tour
Led by President Chris White, J Brabban,
Keith Reich, and Danny Moore, Chowan
students, faculty, staff, and friends of the
University will study the Reformation in
Germany, France, and Switzerland for ten
days in May.
The group will visit the historic sites of
the Reformation as Europe remembers
Martin Luther striking the nail into the
door of Wittenberg Castle Church 500
years ago in 1517. The trip begins in Ber-
lin and ends in Geneva, combining Refor-
mation history with a taste of local cul-
ture. Stops include Wittenberg, Eurfurt,
Eisenbach, Worms, Mainz, Heidelberg,
Strasbourg, Constance, Geneva, etc.
The trip is funded in part by the M. Eliza-
beth Harris International Travel Study
Endowment, which was established to
enhance study abroad for members of the
Chowan community. The endowment
provides opportunities for students, facul-
ty, and staff to enrich their global experi-
ences.
The 2016-2017 Harris Scholars are:
Kendall Butler
Ryan Harris
Wyatt Ray
Jessica Staley
Courtney O'Keefe
Olivia Borer
Sydney Bell
Jaime Calcagno
Rebecca Gayheart
Faith Fleming
Pamela Bond
David Cross
Alyssa Fairless
Emalie Hicks
Jax Eddleman
Joshua Nicholson
Dacian Patterson
Zoe Gray
McKaela Lane
Ashley Davis
Abigail Salazar
Jodie Lawrence
Faculty and Staff receiving Harris
Grants are:
Georgia Williams
Gladys DeJesus
Shannon Williams
Jay Howell
Jennifer Humphrey
Stephanie Peede
Melanie Eddleman
Brooke Reich
Syble Shellito
Liz Brown
The Chronicle of Higher Education
is celebrating its fiftieth anniver-
sary this month. Its vision fifty
years ago was “to produce great
journalism about every facet of
American colleges and university.”
Below are some of its headlines
since it first began publishing in
1966.
May 20, 1968
Campus Protest Movements
Take New Tack at Columbia
“In the turmoil at Columbia Univer-
sity this spring are sings that new
factors are being injected into cam-
pus protest movements.”
January 4, 1971
Academic Events
Something More
The Chronicle Celebrates Fifty Years
Ponderings
The season we know as one of light, joy, and gift-giving is also
regarded by some as a time of darkness, danger. With the candlelit tree, blaz-ing hearth, and festive punchbowl, Christmas Past also includes
broomstick-riding witches and vampire bat-borne cupids. Belsnickle The Pennsylvania Dutch Bels-nickle, brought to the United States by German immigrants, was a threatening figure in furs who was fond of carrying a large bundle of witches—and using them.
Krampus Bearing horns, dark hair, and fangs, Krampus hauled bad German kids down to the un-derworld—and still does. Cert Czech children feared the dreaded Cert. He came with black fur, long red tongue, horns, tail, one leg with a furry foot and the other with a cloven hoof, chains, switches, and a bad disposition—and bad boys and girls still run from him.
Shortage of Academic
Positions for Ph.D.’s Seen
Worsening in Next 20 Years
“’We have created a graduate educa-
tion and research establishment in
American universities that is about
30 to 50 percent larger than we shall
effectively use in the 1970’s and ear-
ly 1980’s, and the growth process
continues in many sectors,’ Allan M.
Cartter, chancellor and executive
vice-president of New York Univer-
sity, said.”
September 10, 1986
Women Flock to Graduate
School in Record Numbers,
but Fewer Blacks Are
Entering the Academic Pipeline
“When higher-education institutions
look for replacements for the large
number of senior professors who
will retire within the next 15 years,
plenty of female faculty members
will be available. However, linger-
ing sexual bias in hiring and promo-
tion decisions, as well as a shortage
of women with doctorates in scien-
tific fields, may cloud the promise
that women may achieve parity.”
November 1, 1989
Feeling Disillusioned?
Unappreciated?
“Professors — obsessed with being
perfect, eager to criticize, disillu-
sioned after years of sacrifice in
graduate school — may be making
themselves emotionally ill.
One psychologist believes that such
a pattern has given rise to what he
sees as an emotional disorder unique
to the professoriate. He has given it
a name — ‘professorial melancho-
lia.’”
June 13, 1997
Empty Tables at the Faculty
Club Worry Some Academics
“The faculty table at
the Johns Hopkins
Club is all but deserted
on a recent spring day.
A lone professor, gray-
ing and spectacled, sits
surrounded by seven
empty chairs. The ‘big
table,’ as it’s known,
has turned into a table
for one.”
April 21, 2000
A Couple’s Struggle to
Find Good Jobs in the Same City
“The influx of women into Ph.D.
programs has made graduate schools
a perfect mating ground. As a result,
faculty recruiters are spending more
and more time on the ‘two-body
problem’ — job candidates who
have academic spouses in tow.”
November 5, 2012
Adjuncts Build
Strength in Numbers
“When professors in
positions that offer no
chance of earning ten-
ure begin to stack the
faculty, campus dy-
namics start to change.
Growing numbers of
adjuncts make them-
selves more visible.
They push for roles in
governance, better pay and working
conditions, and recognition for work
well done. And they do so at institu-
tions where tenured faculty, alt-
hough now in the minority, are still
the power brokers.”
Saturday
November 19
Theatre@Chowan Presents
Night Sky, 7 pm (Turner Au-
ditorium)
Sunday
November 20 Honors College Student Association Awards Dinner, 6:30 pm (John’s Seafood))
Tuesday
November 22
Thanksgiving Break Begins
at the Conclusion of Clas-
ses
Monday
November 28
Classes Resume, 8 am
Wednesday
November 30 The Honors College Stu-dent Association Brown Lady Academic Bowl Semi-final Games, 11 am (Vaughan Auditorium)
Friday
December 2 The Honors College Stu-dent Association Brown Lady Academic Bowl Championship Game, 11 am (Vaughan Auditorium)
of the
Provost
is October 11th
2016 Photography Exhibition Winners
Through Their Eyes, the 2016 Stu-dent Photography Exhibition opened on Thursday, November 17. During the opening reception, the winners of the competition were announced. First Place - Darren Peoples Second Place - Shakira Williams Third Place - Giovanni McGlone The Chowan University VISION Club sponsored the competition.
The competition was judged by a professional photographer. Winning photographs were chosen based on the level of creativity and originality they demonstrated. The exhibition will remain open into the early part of the 2016 Spring Se-mester.
Taylor’s talk focused on his
book, North Carolina State
Prisons. Taylor co-wrote the
book with William Hinkle.
It is published by Arcadia,
Library Hosts Book Talk
which focuses on
local and regional
histories.
Whitaker Library hosted a
Book Talk with Greg Taylor,
Professor of History, on
Wednesday, November 16.
Written during the Great Depres-sion when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dicta-tor to save the nation from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity,
It Can’t Happen Here by Sin-clair Lewis “It Can't Happen Here is a cau-tionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Novel of the Week crime, and a liberal press. It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contem-porary as today's news.” Currently, It Can’t Happen Here is sold out.
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL NEWS
OVERHEARD “People need to be quiet and deal with Trump as
president. Anyway, I have a right to voice my opin-
ion.”
— Email from a Student