VAPA
Brown Bag Concerts
Wednesdays in October
The
School
of
Visual
and Performing Arts invites everyone to attend their Brown Bag Concerts
sponsored by the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council every Wednesday in
October at
noon
at
Anna
Gray
Noe
Park
. The October 6 concert featured
ULM
faculty and students performing selections from the Musical Theatre,
Classical Repertoire and selections from the President's Gala.
Easy
Entertaining 101 Session 1
October 13, 2004
Various simple party
ideas; handouts; ideas for a Guest Do It Party.
12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Filhiol Hall, Room 120. RSVP: 1903 or rjackson@ulm.edu
The
ULM
Business Symposium
October 13-16, 2004
Business
professionals from as far as California and Washington D.C. will be on
campus to deliver workshops on various topics, such as job attainment
strategies, starting a new business, technology security, casino
marketing, business scams, and new accounting standards.
ULM
Children’s Expo
October 16, 2004
Presentations by Dr.
Anna Hill, Dr. David Pritchett and the
Louisiana Purchase
Gardens
and Zoo. Craft booths will include embroidery bracelets; ULM Spirit
sticks and visors, and more...
10:00
-
11:30 a.m.
Filhiol Hall.
Together
We Can Conference
October 17-19, 2004
Annual conference held
by the Louisiana Department of Social Services, Office of Community
Services, in Lafayette, bringing together state child welfare workers
and juvenile justice professionals for the purpose of maintaining best
practices in protection of children from abuse and prevention of
juvenile delinquency. Linda
W. Christmas, Project Administrator, ULM Social Work Department
Foster/Adoptive and
Child
Welfare
Family
Resource
Centers
, will appear by request of La.DSS/OCS on a panel to discuss best
practices in child welfare.
The
Louisiana
Music Teachers Association state
convention
October 20-23, 2004
The convention, held in
the ULM Biedenharn Music building, will include sessions by Dr. Keith
White, Head of VAPA, Dr. William McKown, psychology, Corey Trahan,
Kristen Oden, and Dr. Chris Thompson, music. Guest clinician, Nancy
Weems of the
University
of
Houston
will be presenting a solo piano recital on October 21. The
ULM
music faculty will perform a recital for the convention on the faculty
artist series on October 22. This concert will feature the Sonata for
Two Pianos and Percussion by Bela Bartok and performed by Rick Seiler,
Coralie White, Deborah McClung-Guillory, Larry Anderson, and Mel Mobley.
For more infomation, call Deborah McClung-Guillory at 342-1581.
Louisiana
School
Facility Managers Association
Fall Conference
October 21-22, 2004
Dr. Bob Cage, Director
of the Louisiana Education Consortium Education Doctoral Program and
president of the LSFMA, will host the conference at the Atrium Hotel in
Monroe
. Speakers will include Paul Stephenson, Louisiana State Contractors
Association; Betty Brousseau, Department of Environmental Quality; and
keynote speaker David Geaslin, president of Operations and Maintenance
Analysts,
Houston
,
Texas
. His address, titled “Inverse-Square Rule for Deferred
Maintenance,” will be given during the luncheon on October 21. For
more information contact Dr. Cage at 342-1288.
Hubbard Street
Dance
Chicago
Master Dance Class
October 26, 2004
"Hubbard Street
Dance Chicago is a contemporary dance company recognized worldwide for
its exuberant, athletic and eclectic repertory."
The Division of Theatre and Dance will host this class from
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
at Brown Annex 120 (Dance Studio I).
ULM
students and community members are encouraged to take this class (no fee
charged). Hubbard Street will perform at the Monroe Civic Center
Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. ULM Students may purchase a ticket with
their ID for a reduced rate of $13 from the Dance office, Brown Annex
116. For more information, contact sanders@ulm.edu
or 342-1312 or visit the website www.hubbardstreetdance.com.
Easy
Entertaining 101 Session 2
November 3, 2004
Quick
Appetizers/garnishes.
12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Filhiol Hall, Room 120. RSVP: 1903 or rjackson@ulm.edu
Bill
Cosby to Perform at
ULM
November 9, 2004
The
ULM
Campus Activities Board
presents the James E. Cofer
Presidential Lyceum Series featuring actor and comedian Bill Cosby.
Cosby is set to perform a 2-hour plus comedy show in Fant-Ewing Coliseum
at
7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $35 for general admission and $15 for
ULM
students. Tickets will go on sale on October 12 at
8:30 a.m.
at the ULM Indian Bank or by calling 342-5132.
The
Department of Biology and the
Museum
of
Natural History
Seminar Series
October
18
Art Bogan,
North Carolina
Museum
of Natural Sciences. "Freshwater mussels: diversity, distribution,
and extinction."
November
1
Brian Crother, Southeastern
Louisiana
University
. "Primordial Germ Cell Development and Evolution."
November
29
Phil Harris,
University
of
Alabama
. "Systematics and biogeography of
North America
freshwater fishes."
All talks will be at
5 p.m.
in CNSB 345. For more information contact Dr. Russ Minton at 342-1795
The
Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Words and Music Festival
December 2-6, 2004
This literary and
cultural conference featuring authors, musicians, and critics will be
held in
New Orleans
,
La.
For more information contact board member Dr. Janet Haedicke, English,
at 342-1494.
Children
And Rural Education Conference (CARE)
April 2-5, 2005
ULM
will host a national conference in April 2005 on rural education as the
result of a $200,000 grant it recently received from the National
Science Foundation. Approximately 31% of the nation’s schools are
located in rural areas and are attended by more than 8 million children.
Yet, the impact of the new No Child Left Behind Law—especially
the need to provide “highly qualified” teachers to all
students—may be especially difficult in these areas. The Children and
Rural Education (CARE) Conference will focus attention on rural
education and establish an agenda that will serve as the blueprint for
rural education research for years to come. Higher education and K-12
faculty and administrators from across the nation; federal, state, and
local government officials and policy makers; and representatives of
non-governmental organizations such as the Rural School and Community
Trust and the National Rural Education Association will attend the
three-day meeting on the ULM campus in early April 2005.
ULM
will apply advanced Internet technology to provide the broadest possible
participation in the CARE Conference.
Use of the University’s Access Grid Node, a state-of-the-art
facility that employs the Internet to provide full voice, video, and
data interaction among multiple locations, will permit full
participation by people at four remote sites scattered across the
country. Additionally, email
and streaming video technology with allow anyone with Internet access to
observe the sessions and send questions or comments to the Conference
speakers.
Among
the keynote speakers are:
- Dr. Rachel Tompkins,
president of the
Rural
School
and Community Trust, a non-profit organization helping schools and
communities get better together;
- Dr. Sharon Draper, the 1997
National Teacher of the Year and author of the
award-winning essay, "The Touch of a Teacher," published
by the National Governor's Association;
- Dr. Knight Roddy, a
science educator from
Clinton
,
Louisiana
, and the recent recipient of the National Rural Education
Association Science Award; and
-
Dr.
Richard Ingersoll, associate professor of Education and Sociology at
the
University
of
Pennsylvania
, and a researcher whose work has been cited by former-President
Clinton
in numerous speeches.
The
CARE Conference will focus on the themes of organizing every school for
teaching and learning success; insisting on quality teacher preparation,
program accreditation, and licensure; and developing and sustaining
professionally rewarding career paths for teachers from mentored
induction through accomplished teaching.
The grant was written by Eric Pani, Associate Provost at ULM;
Virginia Eaton, Director of Graduate Studies and Research at ULM; Luke
Thomas, Dean of ULM’s College of Education and Human Development;
Patty Watts, Director of the Delta Regional Educator’s Academy; and
Natalie Campbell, Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies and
Research at ULM. Information
about the conference can be obtained by emailing care@ulm.edu.
For more events
check out www/ulm.edu/calendar
