President Whitlock and several other representatives of the program and University were on hand for the enshrinement ceremonies at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, located at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington.

The Aviation Achievement Award recognizes institutions and organizations for their contribution to aviation. Previous honorees include airlines, general aviation associations, and training programs.

The genesis of EKU’s Aviation Program dates back to 1982, when former EKU Vice President Joe Schwendeman chaired a feasibility study that determined the Commonwealth needed a university-level aviation program to keep top candidates from leaving the state to pursue degrees in a rapidly growing field.

Schwendeman tapped Wilma Walker, then a professor of geography, to research and develop an academic aviation program, and EKU offered its first aviation courses in 1983. Ten students too private ground classes and three enrolled in private flight classes. When the University was granted approval for a minor in aviation in 1984, 18 students capitalized on the opportunity.

The program’s first full-time faculty member, David Henemier, joined the program in 1989 and still teaches in the program. Then, in 1991, EKU was approved to offer Kentucky’s first baccalaureate degree program in aviation.

In 1999, Tony Adams became the program’s second full-time faculty member and became program coordinator when Walker retired in 2000. James Adamson, who had taught part time in the program, joined as a full-time faculty member in 2001.

The program’s professional flight option is the only FAA-approved university flight program in Kentucky. Students who earn their degree in professional flight attain FAA certification as a private pilot, commercial pilot, an instrument rating, certified flight instructor-instrument and multi-engine ratings. Before graduation, they will log 250-300 flight hours via the fixed-base operator at Madison Airport, Air 51.

The aviation management option, designed for students who want to work in aviation but not as a pilot, includes courses designed to prepare students for employment in a wide variety of aerospace businesses.

The program, housed in the Department of Technology in EKU’s College of Business & Technology, has graduated 182 students since its inception. Graduates have pursued careers as military and corporate pilots, flight instructors, airline captains, airport and airline managers, airline dispatchers, air traffic controllers and other positions in and outside of the aviation industry. Some work for major airlines, including American, Delta and Continental, and for package delivery services, including UPS and DHL. Others work in the U.S. military, at regional airports, for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and in law enforcement. Some have gone on to earn advanced degrees in aeronautical science and engineering, aerospace management, business, law and medicine.

According to the script for a video shown at the ceremony, “EKU is equipping its graduates with the practical experience to give them a strong foundation in aviation, and a college degree to prepare them for careers in any field. Eastern’s Aviation Program is on track for continued growth and success.”

In addition to President Whitlock, other EKU representatives at the event were Henemier, Adams, Adamson and Walker, along with Bob Rogow, dean of the College of Business & Technology; Ed Davis, associate dean of B & T; Tim Ross, chair, Department of Technology; and Gary Abney, member of Board of Regents. Ken Schwendeman represented his father, Joe Schwendeman, and Dr. Adrienne Millett represented the Madison Airport Board.

For more information about EKU’s Aviation Program, visit www.aviation.eku.edu or call 622-1014.

For more information about the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, visit www.aviationky.org.

The event will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. in Walnut Hall of the Keen Johnson Building. Glasser’s portrait will hang in the Keen Johnson lobby alongside those of Eastern’s other presidents.

President Whitlock and the EKU Board of Regents invite the campus community to attend.

Glasser is now serving as President of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill.

She will use the funds to further her creative research.

Szorad earned her baccalaureate degree from Bowling Green State University and her master’s degree from East Carolina University.

Inspired by an appreciation of art and artists, the Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation was established in 1982 as a not-for-profit charitable corporation. The Foundation was the vision of silversmith and jewelry designer Ruth Chenven, and the vision was realized by her husband, Harold Chenven, following Ruth's death in 1980.

The Foundation gives cash awards to individual artists and craftspersons, selected by a panel of judges. Past winners have work in the permanent collections of prestigious museums, including the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition, winners have had their art displayed in numerous local museums and public spaces across the United States.

At the opening keynote address of the convention, giant screens will broadcast videos presenting the major themes of the convention through five-minute clips highlighting achievement in history education at these eight institutions. The themes include Achieving Excellence in Teaching Practice, World Class Learning Environments, Curriculum Transformation, Digitization and New Media in Teaching, and Student-Faculty Collaborative Research.

In addition to being shown at the opening keynote address, the video will be shown on a continuous loop at locations around the convention venue and on dedicated cable channels in the hotel rooms, and streamed on the AHA Web site. A DVD of the program will be made available to all delegates at the convention. The film will also be included in Historians TV news broadcasts and on the Historians TV Web site, which remains live for a year after the event. Attendance at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association averages between 5,000 and 6,000 from universities and other historical institutions across North America and around the world.

EKU’s selection as one of the highlighted institutions constitutes a signal honor not only for the department, but also for the university as a whole, according to History Department Chair David Coleman.

“EKU’s emphasis on student success has long made our campus a center of creative, attentive, cutting-edge pedagogy worthy of national and international notoriety,” he said. “To have our programs highlighted on this most visible of international stages as a model of effective higher education is an incredible opportunity to raise the profile of our institution.”

Of one fact he is certain: the explorers weren’t looking back.

“One of the great messages of Daniel Boone is that he left the certainty and relative comforts of home in Pennsylvania to move to the challenges of life on the frontier and the uncertainties of that life,” Whitlock said. “We’ll have to leave our comfort zone as we go from times of relative comfort and certainty into a world that’s going to be different for us.”

Whitlock was one of the speakers at the recent 275th birthday celebration of the famous explorer. The ceremony included the dedication of a plaque that now adorns a familiar campus landmark: the statue of Boone in front of the Keen Johnson Building. The bronze plaque is the first in a series of plaques marking the new Madison County Heritage Walk of Fame, a Madison County Historical Society initiative.

Attendees included two direct descendants of Boone – Connie Leach, a staff member in the College of Education, and her son, District Judge William Leach of Irvine.

EKU Archivist Emeritus Charles Hay, who serves as program director of the Madison County Historical Society, said the Walk of Fame represents “cultural heritage tourism at its best. This plaque is another example of the enduring bond between Richmond and the entire Madison County community and Eastern Kentucky University.”

Tom Appleton, history professor at EKU, cited several admirable qualities possessed by Boone, including modesty and humility even in the face of growing fame.

“Boone took all the attention in stride,” Appleton said. “He was described as a man of few words. He was never one to seek trouble, but he was always prepared,” putting aside fears of his own personal safety to help others.

“Boone was a dreamer, and had the courage to pursue his dreams,” Appleton added. “He was ever the optimist. He never became discouraged, always bounced back and never gave up.”

For more information about the Madison County Historical Society and the Heritage Walk of Fame, visit www.madisonhistoryky.org.

On Thursday, Nov. 19, a ceremony will mark the 30th anniversary of the Perkins Building. The event, which will include remarks from President Doug Whitlock and others, begins at 11 a.m. in the Perkins lobby and will be followed by a reception. The public is welcome.

The Perkins Building, built at a cost of $5.5 million (the Planetarium at an additional cost of $1 million) is now home to Continuing Education and Outreach, Information Technology, and the Training Resource Center.

“The Perkins Building has served a very important purpose for Eastern and the community and region these past thirty years,” said Whitlock, “and represents well the University’s historic commitment to public service and regional stewardship.”

The multi-purpose facility is named for the late Carl D. Perkins, who served as Congressman for much of eastern Kentucky from 1949 until his death in 1984. For many years, he chaired the powerful Committee on Education and Labor, and was a strong advocate for quality education at all levels, particularly in rural and economically disadvantaged areas, and student aid programs. In fact, the Perkins Loan bears his name.

In addition to its responsibility for all of EKU’s regional campuses, Continuing Education & Outreach comprises many areas: Adult Education, Challenge Course, Community Education, Conferencing and Events, Distance and Online Learning, Hummel Planetarium, Instructional Development Center, Media Production Center, OSHA Training Institute Education Center, Student Support Services, Summer Session, WEKU and Workforce Education.

Engle and Chris Brewster, professor at Henley Management College and the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, were chosen to advise on “HRM in Transition at Multinational Subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe - Survey 2010,” being underwritten by resources from the Hungarian National Research Board as of April 2009.

The survey investigates the transition of Human Resources practices and roles in Multinational Company (MNC) Subsidiaries in the Central and Eastern European region, including the identification of major steps of firm development; the importance of HR practices, their effectiveness and the cooperation among headquarters HR and subsidiary HR operations.

The research will be done by a consortium of professors from across the region. A tentative list of country partners includes professors in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

“This project is an extension of a process started in 2004 in Budapest” Engle said. “Professor Jozsef Poor of the University of Pécs in Hungary and I interviewed some 43 HR directors of multinational firms operating in Hungary during a five-week Visiting Professorship I enjoyed at the University of Pécs.

“My role in this project is to assist in the preparation of a questionnaire that provides comparability and yet is relevant to the specifics of each individual nation, as well as help interpret and communicate the results of these surveys,” Engle added.

Engle has been a Visiting Lecturer and in the Executive Programme in International Management (EMBA), FHS Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Soziale Arbeit, St. Gallen, Switzerland, and served a three-year appointment as Visiting Professor of International Management in the European Executive MBA (EEMBA) Program at the ESCP-Europe Europäische Wirtschaftshochschule, Berlin, Germany. He is a co-author of the widely acclaimed 5th edition of the text “International Human Resource Management. Managing People in a Multinational Context” (2008).

Engle received the EKU International Alumni Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004 and, in 2008, received the fifth annual Jack L. Dyer Excellence in Teaching Award at EKU. He is the third generation in his family to teach at EKU.

Prior to the presentation, a reception will be held in the Teaching & Learning Center at 2 p.m.

Both events are free and open to the public.

In the classic comedy, Reverend Morell brings a penniless young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, into his charming Victorian home. The hopelessly romantic young man is immediately smitten with the preacher’s fascinating wife, Candida, and a battle for her love begins.

Tickets are available at the Gifford Theatre Box Office, open noon to 4 p.m. weekdays. Student and senior citizen tickets are $5 and adult tickets, $6. For reservations, call 622-1323.

The Kiwanis Club of Richmond presented Black with the 2009 Jack Taylor Support of Agriculture Award, established in 2002 and named after former Agricultural Extension Agent and former director of the EKU Stateland Farm.

Black has been the recipient of awards from EKU, Future Farmers of America and the University’s Horticulture Club. His service to the community has included conducting greenhouse tours, judging 4-H contests at the county fair, and providing demonstrations to garden and homemakers clubs.

A graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Tennessee, Black has received pesticide certification from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, assisted in FFA contests at the local, regional, state and national levels, and participated in the Kentucky Nursery Association Convention.

He has worked diligently to acquire chemicals, equipment and other supplies for the floral program at Eastern, and his students have created floral arrangements for a wide variety of university and community activities.

The Taylor award has previously been awarded to a high school agricultural teacher, university agricultural administrators and teachers, an agricultural extension agent and a Madison County resident active in the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Past EKU recipients have been Dr. Danny Britt, former chair of the Department of Agriculture (2005); Dr. Bruce Pratt, chair of the Department of Agriculture (2007); and Mike Judge, former chair of the Department of Agriculture and former director of EKU Farms (2008).

On Dec. 2, the distinguished police officers will share their experiences and expertise from more than 20 years of working to transform some of the worst crime areas in England through urban planning and design.

The event, sponsored by the EKU Center for Crime and the Built Environment, will be held from noon to 2:30 p.m. in Stratton 300. It is free and open to all faculty, staff and students. For more informatin, contact Dr. Derek Paulsen at 622-1978 or derek.paulsen@eku.edu.

Advance tickets for the community favorite can be purchased for $26 each in the Colonel 1 Card office, located in Room 17 on the main floor of the Powell Building. Visa and MasterCard reservations may be made by calling 622-2179.

The University Singers, under the direction of Dr. Sue Ellen Ballard and accompanied by faculty and student instrumentalists on period instruments, will present the music for the event, which recreates the song, dance and festivities of 16th century English madrigal dinners. Guests will also enjoy a five-course meal, prepared and served by Aramark Dining Services.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., with seating beginning at 6:45 p.m. The first fanfare will sound at 7 p.m.

Proceeds from the event benefit the Department of Music.

Becky Reister, a math interventionist employed with Madison County Schools at Kit Carson Elementary, is on hand to offer professional development to 84 students enrolled in Elementary Math Methods – working with them on intervention strategies they can use with students in their own classrooms and helping them actually create tools to take into those classrooms.

The students left the class with additional tools and knowledge on instruction strategies that meet RTI (Response to Intervention) guidelines for the needs of struggling students, but also with ten frames, bead boards, numeral rolls and a variety of games to implement into their math instruction. During the class, they watched videotapes of children using these tools, called manipulatives, and strategies – allowing them see firsthand how they are used and how beneficial they are for students.

“Teachers are required to know how to meet all of the needs of every student in all content areas – especially math,” said Krista Althauser, who teaches the EKU course. “There is a tremendous amount of information and research on reading but not as much on mathematics. This professional development helps the students understand the urgency of being knowledgeable about teaching mathematics to all students and meeting their needs.

“While class time is structured around using the manipulatives, there is not time for them to be able to make them,” Althauser explained. “This professional development is designed so they not only learn how to use the manipulatives, but also get to make and take them when they leave.”

This was particularly helpful for the students.

“This meeting was enlightening and insightful,” said Sara Buckner, a sophomore special education major from Louisville. “I know math and I greatly understand it, but this makes me realize all kids don’t, and I gained from making the manipulatives to use to teach about the number 10.”

“The best thing was making my own supplies that I will be able to use in my classroom,” Elizabeth Howard of Richmond, a senior elementary education major, added.

“Test scores reflect the need for better qualified mathematics teachers,” Althauser said. “Forty percent of middle grade and elementary school mathematics teachers do not feel qualified to teach their content. Furthermore, elementary teachers do not have to be math specialists. Only 7 percent of elementary teachers have minored or majored in mathematics education or mathematics, according to recent research conducted by Stiff.”

In addition, current reform efforts advocate a shift from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction, noted Althauser. This shift emphasizes the need for alternative ways to teach and assess student learning.

Ashlee Prewitt, a freshman elementary education major from Brodhead, said this session allowed her to gain “new, fun ways to teach kids number combinations and practice working with numbers.”

The 30 members at EKU collected more than 42 tons of food, almost doubling the per-member contribution of the runner-up program. The collection amounts to almost 170,000 eight-ounce servings of food.

SERV Corps will receive a special Make A Difference Day traveling award at the Governor’s Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service ceremony next Spring.

EKU’s SERV Corps is one of the nation’s original AmeriCorps programs, dating back to 1994. SERV Corps partners with the following school districts in central and southeastern Kentucky: Madison County, Model Laboratory School, Fayette County, Rockcastle County, Clay County, Corbin Independent, Pulaski County, Garrard County, Casey County, Lincoln County, Danville Independent, Laurel County and Powell County.

The Corps members tutor at-risk reading students, teach the “Too Good for Drugs” curriculum, establish and coordinate drug education clubs, and coordinate volunteer programs.

Nancy Thames has served as the program’s director since its inception 15 years ago.

AmeriCorps is directed in Kentucky by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and nationally by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

For their service, SERV Corps members receive a living stipend and an education award that can be applied toward past or future college expenses, free health care, child care benefits if eligible, and forbearance on educational loans during their service period. The biggest benefit, though, may be the extensive service and professional experience and contacts with schools, agencies and communities that prove helpful in starting a career.

“Almost invariably,” Thames said, “our AmeriCorps members go on to good jobs after their AmeriCorps service. It definitely opens doors.”

For more information about becoming an AmeriCorps member, call 859-200-2771 or visit www.education.eku.edu/ameri-corps.

The orchestra, composed of 30 EKU music majors, minors and non-majors, is conducted by Jeremy Mulholland. The program will include the String Serenade by Janacek, Shostakovich's Chamber Sinfonia for String Orchestra, and Hovhaness’ “Prayer of St. Gregory,” featuring trumpet professor Joe Van Fleet.

“This is an amazing program of non-traditional orchestra music that is guaranteed to challenge and move the listener,” said Mulholland. “We invite everyone to be a part of this special event.”

The program is free and open to the public.

How are you helping to implement the EKU Quality Enhancement Plan?
I currently serve as one of the QE Coaches. In my role as a QE coach, I am working to incorporate teaching strategies that encourage our students to think more critically and creatively. In addition to my own teaching, I serve as a liaison to other faculty encouraging them to explore and learn more about the Paul and Elder model of critical thinking that the University as adopted for the QEP.

How can this transform and enrich the educational experience of our students?
I have always used case studies and problems-based learning activities in my classes. Using the Paul and Elder model has given me a framework to help students “think through” the cases and problems. It has also given us a common language to talk about our own thinking. In using that common language, I believe it has brought my students to a more reflective stance in terms of both content and their thinking processes. I am hopeful that as my students go out to work with deaf and hard of hearing children and youth, they will continue to use “think alouds” with their DHH students and build those same metacognitive skills in their DHH students.

How have you changed the way you teach?
I am not so sure that the I have significantly changed the way I teach. Using the Standards and Elements has given structure and focus to some of the strategies I have always used. I have also tried some of the assessment strategies that Gerald Nosich recommended in one of his workshops here at EKU.

What changes are you seeing in student performance because of an emphasis on critical thinking and/or communication skills in your classroom?
The assessment strategies are helping my students produce more precise, detailed, accurate work. Getting there has been a process but I believe it is worth it. I see students approaching projects and cases with a better sense of how to tackle problems.

How has the approach benefited you?
I think the greatest benefit has been the opportunity to share with faculty from across the University. I have learned so much from listening to others talk about how they have incorporated critical and creative thinking into their own programs.

Their ideas and models have challenged me to rethink how I plan and implement my own course work.

If you could offer one suggestion to your colleagues related to integrating our QEP theme, what would that be?
Come join us!

How do you see your role as Progress adviser?
I think I'd equate the role of a newspaper adviser to that of a parent: You're there to help pass along lessons, offer advice and encouragement and occasionally play the part of the surly boss who needs things done pronto. But, like a parent, you've also got to know when to loosen up on the reins. So I occasionally let students discover for themselves how to tackle a set of problems--whether it be how to approach a story, layout a page or handle a prickly source.

How do you view the role of a student-produced college newspaper?
I like to view The Eastern Progress as a big public forum, one that has two personalities. It's a place where people can turn to get information about campus life or find some colorful stories about the people who make the university such a vibrant place. Secondly, it offers an outlet (our editorial pages) for the airing of differing viewpoints, where we strive to cultivate a healthy exchange of ideas. And I think the Web site's comment forums have also offered another outlet for this, even if it sometimes gets a little testy in there.

How do Progress staffers receive feedback on their work?
A newspaper is very much a collaborative effort. We've got a lot of talented editors and staffers who take pride in the newspaper. They often look over each others' shoulders, offering suggestions on what they think might work. So students get a lot of feedback just by getting involved and hanging around the newspaper office. But I like to get in my own share of armchair quarterbacking as well. So each week, I write up a critique of the newspaper, where I highlight the things we did well and the things we probably should have handled differently. Also, when new journalists arrive on our doorstep, I try to work with them, editing their work and talking through their assignments to help them get comfortable with the admittedly alien process of interviewing complete strangers and writing about them.

What do students learn about journalism while Progress staff members?
The first thing that dawns on everyone here: Publishing a weekly newspaper is a mountain of work. It requires a ton of planning and then, on top of that, a big dose of contingency planning. Things rarely go as scripted--it's a fact of life--and that lesson gets driven home rather quickly in this field. So students learn to roll with the turbulence and keep their wits about them, doing whatever they can to get the story.

In a time when many newspapers are closing their doors, how do you convince students of the relevance of journalism?
It's true. Newspapers are slowly going the way of the dinosaur. They probably won't be around in a decade or two. After all, why spend tens of thousands of dollars to print and distribute a newspaper when you can essentially get the same information across on the Web at a fraction of the cost? A newspaper is a textbook example of a market inefficiency, and it's resolving itself the way most inefficiencies get resolved: they get hurled into history's dustbin.

But a newspaper, it should be said, isn't journalism. It's just a vehicle for journalism. And that vehicle is being replaced by a sleeker model with a lot more horsepower under the hood: namely the Web. Journalism's chief product--accurate, timely and interesting information--is still going to be around. It just won't need a vast army of personnel to distribute it.

So the skills we teach traditional journalists are still a necessity. Only now students will need to augment those skills with a bunch of new ones as well: audio, video, digital imaging, and Web design and development.

And I think that's where the challenge lies: We're training students to prepare for a future that's pretty much unknown. What's the state of journalism going to look like a generation from now? Well, shoot, I really have no idea. But I'll hazard a guess that compelling storytelling and timely, well-reported news stories will always have their place.

If there’s anything you’d like the campus community to know about the Progress or how it works, what would that be?
The Progress is a student newspaper, which means that every story, photograph, editing decision and design element is the labor of students. And these students are still in the learning stages--they make mistakes, they misquote a source, they misinterpret a ten-dollar word and they occasionally refer to the Allman Brothers in print as the Almond Brothers. But that's the beauty of the paper--it's a great laboratory for students to learn the trade and to perfect their craft.

Also, I think people sometimes view the newspaper as an arm of the University. But, truth be told, The Eastern Progress is largely independent. With the exception of a few things (my salary, our business manager's salary, our free office space and utilities), the paper is economically self-subsistent. The money generated by our student reps, who sell advertising space, pays for the newspaper's publication and distribution and the staff's (meager) wages. That amounts to an annual operating budget of about $75,000, which is no small feat when you consider that these students also go to classes and hold down part-time and full-time jobs.

I'm just really impressed by the sacrifices our students make and the dedication they show. And yet they still manage to have fun.

Barnett, Erin; Conneely, Becky; and Smith, Shannon. “Critical Thinking in First Year Seminars.” Ohio First Year Summit, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 16, 2009.

Blakeney, Michael. “First Response to Violence in the Home.” Kentucky Nurses Association Conference, Somerset, Ky., Oct. 29, 2009.

Brewer, Peggy, and McGlone, Teresa. “Students' Perceptions of Their Oral and Written Communication Skills.” Business Education Forum. Vol. 64, No. 1 (October 2009), pgs. 38-41.

Brown, Steve; Brewer, Peggy; and Tabibzadeh, Kambiz. “KWIKS: A Family Affair.” Journal of Case Research in Business and Economics. Vol. 2 (2009). www.aabri.com/jcrbe.html

Poór, József; Engle, Allen D. Sr. ; and Gross, Andrew. “Past, Present and Future of HRM - Based on the Practice of Multinational Subsidiaries Operating in Hungary, 1988-2005.” Conference Proceedings of the IX East Forum, Chemnitz University, Chemnitz, Germany, September, 2009.

Horn, Tammy. “Honey Bees: A History.” New York Times. Times Topics Blog. 11 April 2008 (Friday). topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/honey-bees-a-history/

Horn, Tammy. “Varroa in the Aloha State.” Bee Culture. Vol. 137, No. 7 (July 2009), pgs. 21-23.

Hunter, Sandy. “Safety Tips for Seniors.” Health Beat Magazine. [A publication of the Richmond Register]. (November 2009), pgs. 12, 14.

Jones, Paula; Kolloff, Mary Ann; and Kolloff, Fred. “Planning for Today’s Online Classes Using Tomorrow’s Technology: Best Practices for Using Wikis.” Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, Fla., October 2009.

Landon, George V. , and Seales, W. Brent. “New Methods for Rock Art Recording and Virtual Analysis.” Rock Art of the Caribbean. Ed. by Michele H. Hayward, Lesley-Gail Atkinson, and Michael A. Cinquino. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. Pgs. 188-197.

Field, Matthew; Landon, George; Clarke, Duncan; Park, Adrian; and Seales, W. Brent. “Stereo Endoscopy as a 3-D Measurement Tool.” Emerging Technology Session at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz., April 2009.

Larsgaard, Jim. “Teaching Students to Create ‘Effective’ PowerPoint Slides through Guided Discovery Learning.” Kentucky Business Education Association Journal. (Spring 2009), pgs. 11-12.

McQueen, Keven. Forgotten Tales of Indiana. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009. Illustrations by Kyle McQueen.

McQueen, Keven. Strange Tales of Crime and Murder in Southern Indiana. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009. Illustrations by Kyle McQueen.

Sultana, Qaisar, and Smith, Ron. “The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching English in Bangladesh.” Kentucky TESOL Conference [Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages], Louisville, Ky., Oct. 24, 2009.

Ware, Mixon. “The Un-retirement Movement: Trends and Employee Program Strategies for the Aging Workforce.” Employee Services Management (ESM) Conference, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 17, 2009.

Ware, Mixon. “Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Cinemeducation and Shared Stories in Holocaust Education.” Holocaust Studies Conference, The Holocaust and World War II: Perspectives from 70 Years, Middle Tennessee State University, Middlesboro, Tenn., Oct. 23, 2009.

Kentucky Library Association Conference, Louisville, KY, September/October 2009:
George, Julie S. , and Jones, Kevin. “Library Instruction: What’s There to Talk About?”
George, Julie S. ; Banks, Leah; Gardner, Betina; and Turner, Jeremy. “One Desk to Rule Them All.”
Judd, Cindy; Brooks, Stefanie; and Tofan, Cristina. “EKUsability: Putting the Students in Our Sites.”
King, Todd, and Tofan, Cristina. “A Fight to the Death: Two Catalog Search Interfaces Battle It Out.”
Lemmon, Michelle L. “The Best New Children’s Literature, Grades 3-5: KBA Nominees for 2010.”
Montgomery, Nicole; George, Julie; Marcum, Brad; Sizemore, Linda; and Trainor, Cindi. “Librarian Boot Camp: Creating a Set of Best Practices for Training, Creating, and Maintaining LibGuides.”
Montgomery, Nicole; Marcum, Brad; and Jones, Kevin. “Three for the Price of One: Creating a Package of Tutorials to Teach and Assess Information Literacy Skills.”
Trainor, Cindi, and Gardner, Betina. “Managing by the Seats of our Pants.”
Trainor, Cindi. “Presentations with Pizzazz.”
Wasielewski, Alice. “Not Lost in Translation: A Comparison of English as a Second Language Instruction and Bibliographic/Information Literacy Instruction.”
Watson, Kathy; Mayer, Theresa; Wrins-Ryan, Linda; and Walton, Sarah. “Battle of the Bluegrass: How to Organize a Book Battle Using Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominees.”

Criteria among the roughly 300 customers of each participating carrier polled included overall level of satisfaction, service expectations, ease of doing business with the carrier, products and services. Other areas included the likelihood of recommending and renewing coverage with the carrier, requesting information about an additional product and interest level in obtaining group insurance products from their carrier.

Colonial offers life, accident, cancer, and short-term disability insurance to EKU employees through payroll deduction. Colonial agents also provide their services during New Employee Orientation and the annual EKU Benefits Expo.