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WSSU Names Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Everette L. Wit^erspoon, vicc president for Academic Affairs at Jackson State University, has been named vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at Winston- Salem .State Uni versity. Wlihehpoon assumes his new role on June 1 and succeeds Alex B. Johnson, who has resigned to 'become provost of a community college in Cleveland. "Dr. Witherspoon brings to the WSSU campus nearly 23 years of experience and a clear understand ing of academic administration," said WSSU Chancellor Clcon F. Thompson Jr. Witherspoon has spent the last nine years at Jackson State Univer sity, which has an enrollment of - approximately 6,700 students and awards baccalaureate, masters, spe-? cialist and doctoral decrees. A professor of education, With erspoon has served as executive vice president and acting vice president for Academic Affairs, an appoint ment that became permanent in 1991. 5 Before joining Jackson State, Withcrspoon was on the faculty and was dean of the School of Education at Tuskegee Institute. Witherspoon also spent several -years at Tennessee State University in Nashville, where he held a num ber of posts, including director of the University's Advanced Institu tional Development Program, dean of the School of Education, and head of the Department of Industrial and Technology Education. Early in his career, Wither spoon taught junior high and high school in Michigan and Virginia before moving to Tennessee State University, ^tate CoUege at Buffalo. New York, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Witherspoon, 52, is a graduate of N.C. A&T State University, where he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree. He received a Ph.D. in curriculum planning in 1971 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also studied at Wayne State University in Detroit, and at Harvard University, where he attended the Institute for Educa tional Management. Deltas Award Scholarship to Mt. Tabor Graduate The Winston -Salem Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. recently awarded a scholarship to Arlisia Murray, a graduate of Mt. Tabor High School. The sorority awards a scholarship annually to a female high school graduate. Murray has maintained at least a B average for at least four years. She is the daughter of Telma Murray. She will attend Hampton University in the fall. Murray, is a member of DELA, the Spanish Club and the National Vocational Honor Society. She is also a member of Red Bank Baptist Church, where she is on the youth and young adult choir. She also vol unteers with the Clean Green Club of Jonestown Road. Members of the chapter's edu cation committee are: Yvonne Baron, Gladys Wilson, LaVerne Gaither, Elsie Blackman, Doris Her rell, Patsy Murrill and Lam Dillard. Louise Smith is president of the chapter. (L. to r.): Louise Smith, Arlisia Murray, Telma Murray, Gladys Wilson, Yvonne Baron, Lorn DiUard, Patty " C.O.Matthews) WSSU Receives $100,000 Grant From Bell South Winston-Salem State Univer sity has been awarded a $100,000 grant over two years from the Bell South Foundation to help establish a Coalition for Educational Leader ? ship and Learning, Chancellor Cleon F. Thompson Jr. announced recently. The keystone of the coalition is a mcKlel clintcaHeaeMftf- program that would link teacher training to public school realities. All prospective teachers would be involved in volunteer community service to gain an intimate under standing of the climate, culture and challenges that children face daily outside of school and how these influences affect teaching and learn ing. The university hopes to use this program as a model for the entire university to incorporate a commu nity service component into the cur riculum. Also under the plan, four pro-? fessional development schools will be developed in collaboration with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. These schools and WSSU'? Division of Education will provide new clinical experiences for educa tion majors and professional devel opment of faculties. Public school teachers will be invited to the WSSU campus to serve as adjunct professors to share recent classroom experiences in seminars. The teachers will also evaluate student teaching practicums - , "Redesign of teacher education programs is of great interest not only to the BellSouth Foundation but also to schools of education," said King Triplets Southern Bell's_ director of corporate and external affairs. "We're excited about this chance to support a program with ftuoh promise for education reform." - Leiia L. Vickers, a national leader in the education reform movement and the director of the university's Division of Education, said: "This grant will provide WSSU an opportunity to extend its success ful program in teacher preparation into additional schools and commu nities, thereby giving more children access to quality education and suc cess in the educational environment "Helping the children of North Carolina experience success in the classroom is our priority." Winston-Salem State Univer sity, a historically black institution that was founded in 1892, was the * first such institution in the nation to offer African Americans profes sional teacher training and the bac calaureate degree in elementary education. The BellSouth Foundation is endowed by the BellSouth Corpora tion. It provides funding for educa tional efforts throughout the South east. WSSU Student to Study in Tanzania this Summer Winston-Salem State Univer sity is sending a student to Tanza nia, a key democracy in East Africa, to participate in the 1993 Summer Scholars Program of AHEAD, an acronym for Adventures in Health, Education and Agricultural Devel opment. AHEAD, which is located in Rockville, Md., is a non-profit, non-government organization estab lished in 1981 to improve the qual ity of life in developing countries. The student, Michael Powell, is a 21 -year-old junior from Lumber ton, N.C. Powell is an honor student majoring in therapeutic recreation in the Department of Physical Educa tion and is involved in WSSU's Health Career Opportunity- Program (HCOP). He is also the public rela tions, officers of the institution s Therapeutic Recreation Majors Club. As an AHEAD scholar. Powell is the first student to benefit from WSSU's new international program initiatives that are being developed by a special committee appointed last December by Chancellor Cleon F. Thompson Jr. . The chairman of the Interna tional Program Committee. Olasope O. Oyelaran, is an associate profes sor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages. While in Tanzania, Powell will work with local residents on various agricultural, health, education and community self-help projects. Powell and the other students in the AHEAD program will return to work on a inner-city project in Washington, where they will be "exposed to the needs of under served communities in the United States and apply the invaluable insight they have acquired from the assignment in Africa to an industri alized, urban inner-city commu nity," Oyelaran said. A&T Chancellor Appointed to NASA Committee Edward B. Fort, chancellor of North Carolina A & T State Univer sity, has been appointed by Presi dent William "Bill" Clinton as a member of the NASA Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station. Fort is one of 16 representatives of government, industry and acade mic experts from across the nation to participate in an independent review of the redesign options being developed by NASA. The advisory committee is charged with independently assess ing various redesign options of the space station presented by NASA's redesign team, and proposing rec ommendations to improve effi ciency and effectiveness of the space station program. Space sta tion international partners also are being asked to participate and will be named at a later date. The advisory committee will submit its recommendations in June. Other members of the commit tee are: Bobby Alford, executive vice president and dean of medicine, Baylor College of medicine; Jay Chabrow, president, JMR Associ ates; Paul Chu, director, Texas cen ter of superconductivity. University of Houston; Ed Crawley, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy; John Fabian, president and CEO, ANSER; Maj. General James Fain, deputy chief of staff require ments, headquarters L'SAF materials command; Mary Good, senior vice president of technology. Allied Sig Edward B. Fort nal. Inc.: Frederick Hauck. presi dent. International Technical Under writers; Lou Lanzerotti. chairman, space FTCC to Award Degree in Beane's Name A special honorary degree will be awarded posthumously to Bobby F. Beane, the police officer who was killed April 23, during the spring commencement program of Forsyth Technical Community College. The award will be presented to the fam ily of Beane, who was a student in the Law Enforcement Technology program at the time of his death. The commencement ceremony will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel of Wake Forest Uni versity. Julianne Still Thrift, presi dent of Salem College, will be the speaker. Over 390 students are eligi ble to receive associate in applied science degrees, associate in arts degrees, associate in science degrees, vocational diplomas, and certificates of completion. sciences board national research council; William Lilly, national academy of public administration; Duane McRuer, president. Systems Technology Inc.; Brad Parkinson, professor of astronautics and aero nautics, Stanford University; Robert Seamans. former deputy administrator, NASA; Lee Silver, W.M. Keck Foundation professor for resource geology, California Institute of Technology; and Alhcfl "Bud" Whcelon, retired CEO. Hughes Aircraft. 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