THE PENDULUM
NEWS
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 17. 2010// PAGE 7
Interim Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
named Distinguished University Professor
Rachel Southmayd
^ior Reporter
Interim dean
of the College of
Arts and Sciences
Pam Kiser has been
honored with the
title Distinguished
University Professor
after more than 28
years of service to
Elon University.
A native of North
Wilkesboro, N.C.,
Kiser is a licensed
clinical social
worker practicing
child and family
therapy. She was the first person in her
family to graduate from college.
Kiser joined the faculty of Elon in
1981 in the human services department.
She later took on the position of
department chair and in 2003 accepted
the position of service learning faculty
fellow.
“The focus of my professional life
Pam Kiser
Interim Dean of the
College of Arts and
Sciences
and what I’ve really focused on in my
scholarship and in my teaching is
experiential learning," Kiser said.
She writes about service learning
and educates faculty on other college
campuses about its methods and
benefits.
“Service learning is one of the tools...
and can help students experiment with
the role of community contributor
to take what they’re learning in the
classroom and see how it might benefit
their understanding of the community,”
she said.
Kiser took the position of interim
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
last June when Steven House became
the academic provost. When Alison
Morrison-Sheltar begins her term as
the new dean in May, Kiser will go
back to being a faculty member in the
department of human services.
Previously, Kiser had planned on
taking a sabbatical this year to complete
the third edition of her book, “The
Human Service Internship: Getting
the Most from Your Experience.” The
book is used in universities both in the
United Sates and internationally.
“I never set out to be a leader," she
said. “If anything, leadership came to
me."
Dan Anderson, assistant vice
president and director of university
relations, said President Leo Lambert
and the Board of Trustees introduced
the honor of Distinguished University
Professor in 2002, and faculty must
display certain characteristics to
be considered. Those awarded the
distinction have to meet a high standard
in their work.
“They make long-term contributions
to teaching and scholarship and are wise
mentors for their fellow colleagues,"
Anderson said.
Kiser is the fourth Distinguished
University Professor and the first
woman to receive the title.
“It is a very hard thing to internalize,”
she said. “It’s difficult to reconcile
from the stance that there are so many
or
I never set out to be a leader. If
anything, leadership came to me.
- Pam Kiser
INTERIM DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
m
deserving senior faculty people who
I could point to who are at least as
worthy, if not more so."
Kiser’s photograph will be displayed
on the first floor of Alamance and a
dinner will be held in the fall to honor
her and her achievements.
For Kiser, though, it’s always been
about Elon’s mission.
“It’s reminding us that we’re all here
in service to the institution, which has
a wonderful mission," she said, “It's a
worthy thing to devote your life to."
Business school adds
four majors to curriculum,
changes requirements
David Campbell
Reporter
The Martha and Spencer Love School of
Business is continuing to reinvent itself,
according to dean of the Business School,
Mary Gowan at a meeting with business
majors. At the Business Fellows reception
March 5, Gowan announced the passing
of new majors into the program. They
are finance, management, marketing and
entrepreneurship.
“I personally am very excited about the
new majors introduced,” freshman Business
Fellow Chris Welch said. “I had been
interested in finance, but was hesitant to
pursue it as a concentration. Having finance
offered as a major creates new opportunities,
and I am excited to see how the program is
developed.”
The current curriculum allows for
students to graduate from the Business
School with a bachelor’s degree in business
administration and a concentration in
finance, entrepreneurship, marketing or
management, but the new curriculum will
allow students to graduate with a bachelor’s
in business administration degree, with a
major in one of the concentrations.
Most business schools either have aBachelor
of Science in Business Administration or
Bachelor of Business Administration degree,
and the Love School of Business decided to go
with the B.S.B.A degree because it wanted to
maintain the quantitative and scientific piece
of the degree, Gowan said.
“We needed to provide more depth and
focus for fields of study,” Gowan said. “As we
continue to place our students in excellent
internships and jobs, we want to make
sure that they are really prepared to hit the
ground running and be competitive with
their peers."
The process of developing the new majors
involved a large amount of collaboration,
Gowan said. Faculty looked at what other top
business schools did for those programs and
talked to students about what they would
want in those majors.
They also asked ideal employers such
as Dell and UBS about what skills they are
looking for in potential applicants and talked
to alumni and students about internships,
job experiences and what they are finding
they need to know in the workplace.
Each department then put together a
proposal of courses for their respective
majors while the Business School reviewed the
core curriculum in its entirety, determining
whether minor or substantial changes were
needed. This twofold process allowed the
faculty to review the curriculum, which was
last assessed in 2002.
“It caused all the programs to really look
at what they are offering because evaluation
NEW COURSES BEING INTRODUCED
TO THE BUSINESS SCHOOL;
MGT 410 Project Management; In this
course, students will examine project
management roles and environments, the
project life cycle and various techniques for
work planning, control and evaluation
MGT 422 Sustainable Enterprise
Management; This course provides a
foundation in integrative sustainable
business strategies
ENT 340 Venture Funding; This course
addresses the financing of entrepreneurial
ventures
of the curriculum is always important. The
student body has changed. “The world has
changed, so it was really time for us to take
a hard look at what we were doing,” Gowan
said.
One major change is focusing more on the
Legal Environment of Business course.
“This course has been revised from a two-
credit hour course to a four-credit hour course
to include a business ethics component,”
Associate Dean Cassandra DiRienzo said.
“The name of the new course is the Legal and
Ethical Environment of Business."
The range of credit hours for the new
majors now range from 73-76. The business
school is also introducing two new minors
along with its business administration minor,
which will be offered as a minor and not a
major.
“The first is a minor in professional sales
and is an outreach of the Chandler Family
Professional Sales Center,” DiRienzo said.
“The second is a minor in entrepreneurship
and is an outreach of the Doherty Center for
Entrepreneurial Leadership. Both minors are
open to all Elon students.”
The business administration major
currently requires three economic classes.
With the new curriculum, each department
is allowed to keep the current economic
course or opt for a course more focused
in their particular major. Finance is now
requiring a money and banking economics
class for its third required economic class.
Gowan said the future of the Business
School is globalization. The school is
partnering with the foreign language
department to develop a strong international
business focus to complement a student’s
functional area of business. The Business
School is also pushing more students to
study abroad and obtain international
internships.
Barry Coe
Elon University
Campus Safety and
Police Officer
Campus Safety and
Police officer to run for
N.C. state senator
Anna Johnson
Managing Editor
Barry Coe said there are three reasons why he is running
for North Carolina state senator as a Libertarian: Evanna,
Joshua and Taylor. He said his children and the people of
North Carolina are heavily influenced by an improperly
restrained government.
“The only purpose, the only legitimate purpose of the
government, is to protect life, liberty and property,” said
Coe, an Elon University Campus Safety
and Police officer. “Government is not
properly restrained.”
Coe said he would run on the Libertarian
principles and would like to reduce the
size of government and restore freedoms.
He said he would accomplish these goals
by reducing the state government by 50
percent, even if it meant closing entire
departments.
The only department he said he would
approve would be those in the defense of
life, liberty and property.
If he were elected, he would like to
eliminate all laws that restrict individual
rights and responsibilities. He also said he
supports removing forced annexation, eliminating domain,
the death penalty, increased educational choice in regards to
charter schools and removing barriers to ballot access.
“Currently our Constitution guarantees the right to the
people to a free election and spells out how you would qualify
for ballot access," Coe said. “However, the duopoly — meaning
the Republicans and the Democrats — have passed laws to
restrict the ability of anyone running for office."
Earle Pope, an Elon Junior and member of the Libertarian
Party, said he knows Coe would hold true to the Libertarian
principles.
“It is important there is a third party, and we can stand
toe to toe," Pope said. “We don’t sell out and we stand by our
Ideals. And if you look at (Coe’s) viewpoint, he really does
stand up for the people."
Coe said what separates him from a Republican or Democrat
is that he is basing his campaign on principles instead of
instead of particular stances on the issue.
“Libertarian is the only party that establishes their
identity on principle," Coe said. “Democratic candidates and
Republican candidates have positions but they do not have
principals. Both operate from this approach — robbery."
He said the only difference between the two main parties
is they are robbing a group of people and giving it to someone
else.
The main difference between him and the two other
candidates, he said, is that he doesn’t have a large network of
business and civic groups. He said he is the “average Joe" with
his own personal set of morals.
Brandon Black, the leader of the Alamance County
Libertarian Party, said he is glad Coe is running and agreed
he would be a man “of principles."
“We need more people with principles and convictions to
run for theses offices," Black said. “People are starting to want
another option when it comes to voting and that is what the
Libertarians can offer and promote."
Coe is running as a volunteer, which means he is not
accepting any donations during his campaign. He said he
hopes “other liberty-loving people" will spread his name
during the election.
Additionally, if elected, Coe said he would not accept a
salary.