Holly Houk Cullen
LSU'S Biweekly Newsletter for Faculty & Staff
July 28, 2006 |
VOL. 22, NO. 23 |
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| Holly Houk Cullen |
LSU has appointed Holly Houk Cullen, formerly the marketing director for Public Affairs, to the position of interim assistant vice chancellor for Public Affairs.
In this position, Cullen will be responsible primarily for promoting LSU’s Flagship Agenda, and developing and implementing marketing and communications plans for the university that will enhance its image and reputation, while communicating key messages to internal and external audiences.
Public Affairs is part of the Office of Communication and University Relations, which brings together the Offices of Public Affairs, Institutional Advancement and Legislative Affairs under one umbrella to ensure a unified approach in working with all of LSU’s constituencies.
“Holly’s 20-plus years of experience in marketing and public affairs and her familiarity with LSU make her an excellent choice for this position,” said Michael Ruffner, vice chancellor for Communication and University Relations. “Her knowledge, skills and abilities, particularly her strategic planning background, operations and marketing skills, will allow us to continue to increase LSU’s visibility and reputation, nationally, internationally and here at home.”
“The search committee was impressed with Holly’s accomplishments throughout her career. She brings fresh energy, ideas and enthusiasm to her new post,” said Chuck Wilson, vice provost and chair of the search committee.
Cullen holds a master of business administration degree from Nicholls State University and a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from LSU. She earned national accreditation in public relations last year and was named 2005 Practitioner of the Year by the Public Relations Association of Louisiana.
“I am privileged to represent LSU in this new position,” said Cullen. “I am eager to lead our talented Public Affairs division, working closely with colleagues across the campus and beyond, in promoting LSU and its National Flagship Agenda.”
Cullen has been serving as marketing director in LSU’s Office of Public Affairs since August 2005. Prior to that, she served as associate director of University Relations for four years. She also has extensive experience in the health care arena, most recently as marketing director for Thibodaux Regional Medical Center.
Cullen has also served in a leadership capacity for a number of community service organizations, in addition to having served on several university committees and task forces.
LSU is offering an improved and updated way of publicizing campus events and occurrences that is free and open to all of the LSU community.
The LSU Web site now features a redesigned calendar for all LSU events, including the opportunity for LSU departments, programs and colleges to create their own calendars.
The online calendar displays LSU events ranging from the academic schedule to cultural and recreational events. The redesigned calendar has added features and conveniences for all users.
Accessed from the LSU home page or at www.lsu.edu/calendars, the LSU online calendar can be viewed by LSU students, faculty and staff, as well as the general public. In addition to viewing and submitting events, users can also access various new functions that have been added to the calendar. Many of the new functions are designed for those with PAWS accounts.
A major addition to the calendar program is the option to create departmental calendars. Each department/program/college is given the opportunity to create its very own online calendar under the LSU online master calendar. The events posted to the departmental calendar can either be viewed by the public or can be restricted to specific users chosen by the department. Departments/programs/colleges should contact the calendar administrator to set up their calendars at 225-578-3869.
PAWS users may continue to submit events for posting; however, they are now able to see the status of the events and change/update them. Similar to the process used before, PAWS users that are logged in can either click “submit an event” on LSU’s home page or simply click “manage events” and “request new event” in the calendar view. After filling in the event’s information in the form provided, users click “submit” to send the event off for approval and posting. Submitters will now be able to attach audio and video files to their calendar events. As before, the submitter will receive an e-mail confirmation once the event has been approved and posted online.
Other extras the calendar features include subscriptions to event categories and personal calendar downloads. PAWS users will be able to set up automatic e-mail event notices by subscribing to the calendar. The user can choose to have weekly or daily e-mails that inform them in advance of any type of event they prefer. Also, PAWS users will be able to download events to any program that recognizes vcalendar or icalendar (ex. Microsoft Outlook). By simply selecting an event, the PAWS user can download the event to his/her personal calendar in a matter of seconds.
If users run into questions, the site includes “help” links for functions on each page. Users are only a click away from answers to their questions at any time. Also, LSU’s Information Technology Services’ help desk will assist with any queries about the calendar at 225-578-3375.
Provost Risa Palm said “I encourage all LSU colleges, departments and organizations to use the new online calendar. It is an effective way to publicize events, and facilitates a decrease in the volume of broadcast e-mails.”
The calendar program was written by employees at LSU’s Information Technology Services. This is a great benefit to the university as the program and service is free and located on campus. The program may help to alleviate the excessive use of broadcast e-mails and departments are encouraged to take advantage of the service.
The LSU Museum of Art, or MOA, is presenting “Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960,” the first major exhibition of female artists’ contributions to American printmaking during the first half of the 20th century. “Paths to the Press” will be on display from July 29 – Jan. 7, 2007 at the LSU MOA, located on the 5th floor of the Shaw Center for the Arts at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge.
Organized by Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, “Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960” presents and interprets printmaking of 80 female artists.
“This exhibition provides a balanced representation of internationally and nationally recognized artists, well-known regional artists and underappreciated and relatively unknown printmakers,” according to Elizabeth Seaton, assistant curator at the Beach Museum of Art. “These artists’ collective contributions to printmaking were substantial and have yet to be fully detailed and interpreted.”
The exhibition begins its exploration during the second “etching revival,” which was driven by Bertha Jacques’ founding in 1910 of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Seaton said.
“It examines women who made major contributions to color printmaking during the first decades of the century, including Blanche Lazzell, Helen Hyde and Bertha Lum,” Seaton said. “It looks at how the establishment of print societies, the WPA and printmaking programs in teaching institutions during the 1920s and 1930s helped women such as Peggy Bacon, Constance Forsyth and Elizabeth Olds flourish as printmakers. It also examines women’s involvement in post-survey in 1960, when the flourishing of print publishers offered new production and marketing opportunities for artists of both sexes.”
The approximately 100 prints in the exhibition include objects drawn from Kansas State’s Beach Museum of Art; Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art; the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass.; the University of Kansas’ Spencer Museum of Art; and the collection of Belverd and Marian Needles, Winnetka, Ill. The Needles also have provided support for the exhibition.
A 350-page exhibition catalogue will be available. “The catalogue will be the first major reference on U.S. female printmakers active during the early to mid 20th century,” Seaton said. “It will include five scholarly essays, and 80 catalogue entries with artists’ biographies and full-page color reproductions of works. The catalogue includes entries by more than a dozen American printmaking scholars, dealers and collectors.”
In coordination with the “Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960” exhibit, the LSU MOA will offer several educational programs to the public. Below are a list of these opportunities.
Prints Galore
Saturday, Aug. 12, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, Shaw Center
Free admission, due to being held on the Shaw Center’s Second Saturday for Kids
Families will learn about the art of printmaking as they tour the exhibition “Paths to the Press” and make a relief print of their own. Supplies are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Printmaking Primer
Sunday, Aug. 20, 2 - 3:30 p.m.
LSU MOA members are free, all others free with museum admission
Location: LSU MOA, Paula Garvey Manship Floor (fifth), Shaw Center
This printmaking primer, provided by LSU MOA’s Education Curator Lara Gautreau will introduce participants to the history, vocabulary and tools of this wonderful art form.
Artists Up-Close, Leslie Koptcho
Thursday, Sept. 21, 6:30 p.m.
LSU MOA members are free, all others free with museum admission
Location: LSU MOA, Paula Garvey Manship Floor (fifth), Shaw Center
LSU Associate Professor of Art Leslie Koptcho’s prints and bookworks, which are rich in surface and color, are included in prominent collections such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Fogg Art Museum, the New York Public Library and the New Orleans Museum of Art. “Artists Up-Close” gives museum visitors the unique opportunity to meet and speak directly with practicing artists, like Koptcho, about their work.
Tunes of the Times
Sunday, Sept. 24, 2 p.m.
LSU MOA members are free, all others free with museum admission
Location: LSU MOA, Paula Garvey Manship Floor (fifth), Shaw Center
“Paths to the Press.” Enjoy an afternoon of music and art as Bill Grimes, E. & D. White Professor of Jazz Studies, and Willis Delony, associate professor of piano and jazz studies, perform a selection of music from years in which the art works were created.
Behind the Scenes, LSU Printmaking Studios
Sunday, Oct. 1, 2 p.m.
Free for all participants
Location: LSU Printmaking Studios
Tour LSU’s Printmaking Studios. Guides Kimberly Arp, LSU professor, and Leslie Koptcho, LSU associate professor, will show participants around as students demonstrate various techniques. Complete the visit by enjoying the reception for “Over the Top: Large Format Printmaking” at the Foster Hall Gallery. Please sign up in advance. For more information, contact Lara Gautreau, education curator at 225-389-7207 or lgaut@lsu.edu.
Women Artists in the Early 1900s
Sunday, Oct. 15, 2 p.m.
LSU MOA members are free, all others free with museum admission
Location: LSU MOA, Paula Garvey Manship Floor (fifth), Shaw Center
The women artists represented in “Paths to the Press” were but a few of those pursuing a career in art at the turn of the last century. What was it like to be a woman artist at that time? What challenges and opportunities did they face? How did women work together to excel in a male dominated field? These questions and more will be answered in this gallery talk by Jessie Poesch, professor emerita in the history of art at the Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University.
Artists Up-Close, Kimberly Arp
Thursday, Oct. 19, 6:30 p.m.
LSU MOA members are free, all others free with museum admission
Location: LSU MOA, Paula Garvey Manship Floor (fifth), Shaw Center
LSU Art Professor Kimberly Arp’s current work combines digital photographic images translated into archival ink jet prints with hand drawn imagery. Arp is continuing a series of images based on photographs of Scotland, and is also photographing New Orleans to develop a series dealing with the hurricanes and the rebirth and transformation of the city. “Artists Up-Close” gives museum visitors the unique opportunity to meet and speak directly with practicing artists about their work.
The LSU MOA in the Shaw Center for the Arts is Baton Rouge’s premier art museum. Located in downtown Baton Rouge overlooking the Mississippi River, it presents rotating, historical and contemporary exhibitions. Selections from the permanent collection are always on display. The 3,500-work collection includes 17th–20th-century American and British portraiture, landscape painting, prints and decorative arts, pre-Civil War New Orleans silver, historical art from India, Japan and South America, and contemporary Inuit sculpture.
General admission to the museum is $8 for adults; $6 for seniors (65+), students and LSU faculty/staff (with I.D.); and $4 for children 5 to 17. Children under 5 are admitted free.
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The LSU Board of Supervisors swore in three new members at its July 14 executive board meeting. LSU System President William Jenkins swore in (left to right) Dr. John George of Shreveport, Benjamin Mount of Lake Charles and Alvin Kimble of Baton Rouge. |
The LSU Board of Supervisors welcomed three new members to open its July meeting.
Alvin Kimble of Baton Rouge, Benjamin Mount of Lake Charles and Dr. John George of Shreveport were sworn in by LSU System President William Jenkins at the July 14 executive board meeting.
“We have a lot of work in the coming months,” said Board of Supervisors Chair Rod West. “And I thank you in advance for your hard work.”
The Board also approved several measures affecting LSU’s campus, particularly one authorizing the University to issue Auxiliary Revenue Bonds in the amount of $98 million to provide for construction projects such as: a $45 million renovation to LSU’s Student Union, a new Alex Box Stadium for Tiger baseball, a new Tiger Park for softball, and various parking complexes. Both athletic facilities will break ground in October.
Also approved was the contract of the Tigers’ new baseball coach, Paul Mainieri, who was recently hired after a 12-year stint as the head coach of Notre Dame. Mainieri’s contract will run through 2011 and features a base salary of $150,000, a combined $300,000 in equipment and media-related compensation and up to a possible $75,000 in bonuses related to the team’s performance.
The new coach greeted the board during Friday’s meeting.
“There wasn’t much for me to go back to,” Mainieri joked. “So I’m glad that you approved (the contract).”
Tiger football coach Les Miles, men’s basketball coach John Brady and women’s basketball coach Dana “Pokey” Chatman also received new contracts. Miles’ contract will feature a total compensation of $1.65 million for the 2006 season, while Brady’s and Chatman’s will pay $900,000 and $400,000 respectively. All three contracts feature various bonuses tied in to their respective teams’ performances, and also include incentives based on each teams’ Academic Progress Rate, a new measure instituted by the NCAA to gauge the academic performance of athletic programs.
The Board also approved contract modifications to 13 of 14 coaches in other sports, as well as men’s and women’s basketball assistants.
Chancellor Sean O’Keefe provided the Board’s Flagship Committee with a report on a $3.2 million appropriation by the state legislature to help promote LSU’s Flagship Agenda by increasing support for faculty and students.
The Chancellor also gave a status report on Forever LSU: The Campaign for Louisiana State University. This campaign is a strategic fundraising campaign designed to help transform the University into one of the nation’s top-tier schools by substantially increasing its endowment, and recently kicked off with a series of fundraising events in New York, Washington, D.C., Houston and at the Lod Cook Alumni Center on campus last month. The campaign plans to raise $750 million by 2010, the University’s 150th birthday.
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| Doris Collins |
Doris Collins, associate vice chancellor for Student Life and Academic Services, was inducted into the prestigious Parthenon Society of the Association of College and University Housing Officers - International, or ACUHO-I, the highest honor a member of the housing profession can receive.
Collins was surprised by the announcement during the opening banquet of the ACUHO-I Exposition in Atlanta on Saturday, June 24. ACUHO-I is the preeminent professional association dedicated to supporting and promoting the collegiate residential experience.
Collins was nominated for the award by the Department of Residential Life. In the department’s letter of support it was stated “Collins’ career in housing epitomizes the Parthenon criterion of supreme achievement and enduring contributions over time.”
Collins has served LSU for 29 years as assistant director of housing; associate director of housing; director of residential life; and her current position as associate vice chancellor for Student Life and Academic Services. She is currently responsible for Student Auxiliary Services, which includes the LSU Union, University Recreation, the Office of Student Media, the LSU Child Care Center and the Department of Residential Life.
Collins has worked in student affairs for 34 years, and believes strongly that her involvement in ACUHO-I and the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers, or SEAHO, gave her the confidence that has contributed to her professional success.
She began her housing career as a resident assistant and hall director at West Virginia University. Her first professional position in student affairs was the assistant to the dean of women and director of women’s housing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Collins, a West Virginia native, received her bachelor’s degree in secondary education and a master of science in biology from West Virginia University. She received her Ph.D. at LSU in 2002. Collins is also an associate member of the graduate faculty at LSU and teaches courses in organizational development. She has also authored publications in the field of human resource development on organizational performance, managerial leadership development and high performance leadership competencies.
During the course of her career, Collins chaired five ACUHO-I committees; served as ACUHO-I treasurer; served as a foundation trustee to the ACUHO-I Foundation Board; and served as a faculty member to the National Chief Housing Officers Training Institute, sponsored by ACUHO-I for housing directors internationally. She also served as a faculty member to the New Hampshire Technical Institute and served as LSU’s Residential Housing Association’s president-elect, president and past president.
Collins has received multiple awards including the SEAHO Founder’s Award and the ACUHO-I Leadership and Service Award. She was also the first recipient of the Charles Beene Leadership Award and the ACUHO-I “Herstory” Award, which recognizes women who have made outstanding contributions to the association. Additionally, she was chosen by colleagues nationally as one of the “ten shapers” of the student housing profession.
Before Hurricane Katrina, a permanent Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, housed on the LSU campus may have seemed like planning overkill, but after last hurricane season, a permanent EOC couldn’t have been built fast enough.
In the days and weeks following Katrina, the world watched in slow motion the horror and destruction that pummeled the state and its people. News reports showed desperate Americans living through a surreal nightmare, while others fought to help in any way possible. In the weeks following August 29, 2005, the LSU campus became a key player in the nation’s disaster recovery efforts, and the LSU EOC was the main coordination center for communications, planning and decision-making. Now that hurricane season is upon us again, LSU is more prepared than ever before with a new EOC ready and waiting at the LSU Public Safety Building.
The scope of the LSU effort during Katrina was so complex that Chancellor Sean O’Keefe knew from the earliest days that there was need for an EOC to manage the facilities and human capital housed on campus. “We activated an EOC on campus to coordinate various activities happening within our facilities,” said O’Keefe. “There were countless agencies involved in the response and recovery, and we needed a hub of support, communication and direction for on-scene responders and LSU departments.” Once the Katrina recovery mission was complete, the Chancellor reactivated the same temporary EOC during Hurricane Rita in the weeks following. The importance of daily coordination meetings in this original Pleasant Hall facility was evident during last hurricane season, and this year a permanent facility has been developed just in time for hurricane season. “The lessons learned during Katrina and Rita were used to formally establish the new LSU EOC so that there is now a process in place before the first storm of this season,” said O’Keefe. “This type of proactive crisis planning will pay off for the LSU community and the Baton Rouge community as well.”
During the LSU Katrina recovery efforts, dozens of state and federal agencies were involved in the mission, and practically every department on campus had a role to play in the medical evacuation. In fact, the LSU Fire and Emergency Training Institute actually rescued more than 1,800 trapped citizens from their New Orleans homes. The university also served as a staging and transfer site for victims. Approximately 15,000 evacuees were triaged on campus and referred to shelters and special needs facilities. These evacuees were provided with food and personal care on campus before being transported to other cities and states. Doctors and nurses from across the country volunteered on campus at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and the Carl Maddox Field House. The PMAC served as a field hospital for victims in need of medical attention, and the Field House was transformed into a special-needs shelter for evacuees requiring nursing and patient care. In total, both LSU medical facilities treated roughly 6,000 patients. The scope of work done on campus was massive. According to the Surgeon General, the 800-bed LSU operation became the largest fully-operational acute-care field hospital established in the U.S. since the Civil War, and the Katrina medical evacuation represented the largest deployment of public health officials in U.S. history. These efforts required a central coordination team, and the EOC staff served that role.
Besides arranging for the medical needs of evacuees, LSU also handled a variety of other missions during the Katrina response. The university provided a higher education reception and integration site for university students from New Orleans who were displaced by the storm. More than 2,800 displaced students enrolled in LSU during the days following Katrina. The university also created a Hurricane Information Hotline, staffed around the clock, which answered approximately 6,500 calls in 13 days. The LSU Athletic Department laundered 4,000 lbs. of bed linens and clothing for survivors housed on campus. Several federal agencies were also housed on campus, and the university arranged for facilities to be transformed into temporary office space for the New Orleans FBI, the Federal Task Force for Hurricane Fraud, and the FBI Cybercrimes Command Center.
LSU Police Chief Ricky Adams is the Incident Commander for the new EOC, set to be activated in case of another storm, or any number of other emergency situations. As incident commander, Adams has overall responsibility for managing the incident, planning strategies and implementing tactics. When the EOC is activated, Adams and his team will be responsible for ensuring incident safety, providing information services to internal and external stakeholders, and establishing liaison communications with other agencies participating in the incident.
“The LSU EOC will be activated as an all-hazards center to organize and manage LSU resources, respond to a crisis, and manage requests from internal and external sources,” said Adams. “Additionally, the LSU EOC will be responsible for providing Chancellor O'Keefe and the Executive Committee with up-to-date information for their use in determining policy. The EOC will also assist in the transition to normal business following a crisis.”
The EOC consists of a two-room facility with one side equipped for operations and communications and the other side set up for policy decision making. “It has been equipped with multiple levels or redundant capabilities in software, communications, and power sources for use in a crisis. The EOC has high-tech equipment such as the Motorola 700Mhz digital radio system, satellite phones, screens to display weather and news information, and video conferencing,” said Adams. “All of these tools will assist members of the EOC in performing their duties and providing for a safe campus environment during a crisis.”
LSU staff members who will be working in the EOC are currently undergoing training to become familiar with the principles of the National Incident Management System, a framework for incident command developed by the Department of Homeland Security and the President of the United States to integrate effective practices for emergency preparedness. The system is meant to enable responders at all levels to work together more effectively to manage domestic incidents no matter what the cause, size or complexity.