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School of Arts and Humanities
hosts financial seminar
for students
By Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes
ECSU is among several
universities to participate in a
nationwide effort to liost'
financial management
workshops for students at
historically black colleges and
universities.
On September 1,2005,
the School of Arts and
Humanities in collaboration with
HSBC North America, one of the
nation’s largest financial services
firm, and the Society for
Financial Education and
Professional Development
(SFEPD), conducted the first, in
a series of financial management
workshops for students in the
auditorium of the Fine Arts
Complex.
More than 200 students
attended. Some students
received gifts for participation.
Five students received cash
awards of $100 each to assist
with educational expenses.
In welcoming Ted Daniels, CEO
and President of SFEPD, Vice
Chancellor Ronald Blackmon
commended the program as one,
which was extremely relevant
and had the full support of
Chancellor Mickey L Burnim
and Academic Affairs.
According to Mr.
Daniels, “The seminars will give
students a better understanding
of personal financial
management and the practical,
everyday uses of financial
management strategies. We
expect this project will inspire
young men and women to share
their knowledge with families
and friends and will enhance
financial literacy in the African-
American community at large.”
The seminar focused on
maintaining a good credit score,
investment, and estate planning,
credit cards and interest rates,
automobile purchases, along
with other topics. Students
rated the seminar as very useful
and in some cases have
requested that more information
be sent to them.
Dr. Jennifer Keane-
Dawes, interim dean of the
School of Arts and Humanities
said she would invite SFEPD to
conduct a follow up workshop.
SFEPD has been
offering financial literacy
training to college students since
2001. Universities scheduled to
participate this year include
Virginia State, Rust College,
Savannah State, and Delaware
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New course sequence leads to certification
in homeland security teams
By Fae Deaton
Staff Writer
Recent events
surrounding Hurricane Katrina
in New Orleans gives proof of
need for increased awareness of
responding to emergencies
related to disasters. People were
without ways to cook food, store
it or have sanitary conditions, or
to be able to be safe in property
and personal being.
The course sequence includes
PH 110 Introduction to Public
Health and Sanitation, PH210
Community Health and
Sanitation,PH310
Environmental Health and
Sanitation, PH410 Public Health
and Bio-terrorism, and four 420
series 420-423, which provide
40 semester hours of experiences
in the different areas.
Professor Lloyd W. Mitchell,
Ph.D., of the Environmental
Health and Sanitation
Department, has constructed a
series that prepares the people in
our area, a rural community, to
respond to various types of
emergencies. Bio-terrorism is
one aspect of the potential
problems that could come about
during disasters. Major
communicable, infectious
disease is of special focus in
these courses.
Elizabeth City State University
is one of numerous sites across
the United States being trained
in aspects of the emergency
problems that can occur in
disasters, natural or otherwise.
The National Association of
Colleges for Homeland Security
(NACHS) includes about 100
training programs across the
United States, focusing oi>
various aspects of terrorism:
Structural Terrorism,
Aeronautical Terrorism, Social
Terrorism and Computer
Terrorism.
The Wednesday evening PH 110
class took part in simulation
activities, with the Theater
Department under Professor
Hight and Billicia Hines,
providing actors who did role-
playing as passengers from an
international flight with unusual
symptoms of illness, to two
people who had been at a pet
store in the mall and were feeling
very ill.
The class is divided into several
teams which are given the task
to develop material for resource
and education. This is a hands-
on class, which includes the
expectation that each student
will arrange four experiences in
the emergency response areas in
the city and county, not in the
field that is their major area,
totaling 20 hours for this first
class. Activities include taking
part in an EMS volunteer
response day, visiting the health
department to assist in
inoculations, and observing the
fire department and the central
communication system.
It is an exciting sequence to be
embarking on and the class
members are enthusiastic about
their assignments. After taking
all the courses, one can take the
certification tests to be deemed
qualified to be part of a
Homeland Security team.
Students’ choir saluted: film of Africa
trip shown
By Fae Deaton
Wednesdayevening,
September 28, at 7 p. m., the
ECSU Choir presented a
documentary film of their trip to
Africa, May 11 - 27, 2005. The
event had been postponed due to
the hurricane alert. Students,
faculty and special guests wore
African dress from Nigeria, as the
evening presentation showed the
guests and trip members the film
put together by film and
photographic journalists Kenya
Lyons and Billicia Hines.
Chaperones for the trip
were Chancellor Mickey L.
Burnim, Professors, Alexis
Joyner, Mrs. Patricia C.
Hines, Dr. Ebere Oriaku, Dr.
Ngozi Oriaku, and Rev.
Roosevelt Askew.
Under the direction of
Prof. Billy C. Hines, with
accompanist Vendetta Sutton,
assisted by ECSU Choir
President, Tshombe ,Selbe, and
Administrative Assistants
Octavia Armond and Alicia
Mitchell, the film allowed
viewers to experience some of
what all had seen on the trip that
had been under the auspices and
at the invitation of the Nigerian
Methodist Church.
The trip provided a
contrast in day-to-day living.
from food with no preservatives
added, at times lack of electricity,
to little if any air conditioning.
The students spoke of
the wide differences in the
economic levels of the people
native to Nigeria. Some were
very wealthy, and owned
expensive automobiles and
luxurious homes. Others had
some economic stability and
owned businesses; others lived
in poverty.
The latter were in great
abundance, and this disparity in
economic levels struck all the
students, and many spoke about
wishing to return to Africa at
some time in the future to find
ways to help the people of
Nigeria.
The students spoke of how
happy the people were that they
met, and how appreciative they
were of the choir and
chaperones coming. They spoke
of gifts they each had received
from the Nigerian Methodist
Church at their performances.
The members of the
churches were full of joy as they
brought their financial
contributions up to the
altar. Students spoke of wishing
to be good visitors and to
appreciate all that was done for
them on the trip by the people
of Nigeria. The wide disparity
in financial security made an
impact on the students and
helped them to value all they
were experiencing and the
comforts and experiences they
had in the United States.
All the students
acknowledged that the trip had
impacted on them very deeply.
They appreciated all who had
contributed to making the trip
possible, from the 461 individual
donors and about 100 plus
churches and organizations and
business that donated funds as
well as efforts on behalf of the
choir. This included various
administrative persons from the
University, iiidividuals from
Nigeria, and Mt. Lebanon AME
Zion Church and Rev. Melvin L.
Tate.
The program for this
event had the words “ ELEKE
DIRIUNU,” meaning thanks to
all of you and “UDO DIRI
UNU,” peace to all of you,
written on it. Appearances in
Nigeria included Port Harcourt,
Umuaia, Owerri, Aba, Enugu,
Abuja, and Lagos. For years to
come, all who went will become
aware of more and more ways
that this trip impacted on their
lives.