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 Bishop
to present Women Making History Lecture
Funded through the
generosity of ETSU alumna Barbara Murphy Brooks, the guest speaker for
the 2007 Women Making History Lecture is Dr.
Wilsie S. Bishop, ETSU vice president for Health Affairs and
university chief operating officer. Entitled “Moving Forward
With Confidence,” the Bishop lecture is scheduled for Thursday,
November 1, 2007, at 5:00 p.m. Location is the B. Carroll Reece Museum,
Main Gallery.
ETSU’s first
woman to hold the position of vice president, Bishop was named vice
president for Administration and university chief operating officer
(UCOO) in January 2005. With the impending departure of Vice President
for Health Affairs Dr. Ronald Franks in June 2007, ETSU President Paul
Stanton announced changes in the institution’s administrative
structure. On June 1, 2007, Bishop assumed the post of vice president
for Health Affairs while retaining her position and duties as university
chief operating officer. According to President Stanton, “Dr.
Bishop’s superb experience in all areas of administration, and,
in particular, her strengths within the health sciences arena, makes
her the ideal choice for this vital post in a rapidly evolving division
here at ETSU.”
Bishop has been formally
recognized – for “countless hours of valuable service, distinguished
leadership, commitment and dedication” – by the Commission
on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS),
the required accrediting body for ETSU and more than 790 colleges and
universities in 11 Southern states and in Latin America. She is presently
serving a three-year term in the 77-member elected body that represents
member institutions within the Commission on Colleges. She holds B.S.N.
and M.S.N. degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated
from the University of Southern California with graduate degrees in
education and public administration as well as the doctor of public
administration.
Serving in numerous
state, regional and national professional organizations, Bishop serves
or has served as a members of the Tennessee Women’s Economic Council,
Tennessee Educational Council for Health Sciences Professions, Southern
Association of Allied Health Deans at Academic Health Centers (chair,
2003-05), and the American Association for Higher Education. Also, she
is widely involved in the regional community, as well, serving at various
times on the Sullivan County Health Council, Johnson City Chamber of
Commerce Health Services Task Force, Appalachian Health Care Conferences
steering committee, Tri-City Airport Area Rotary Club, Appalachian Girl
Scouts Council and Appalachian Chapter of the National Foundation of
the March of Dimes.
For additional information
regarding the Bishop lecture, contact the Women’s Resource Center
at 423-439-7847.
 RV
Tour
"How
to Help a Sexual Assault Survivor: What Men Can Do"
is scheduled for Monday, October 1, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. in the Martha
Culp Auditorium of the D.P. Culp University Center. Presented by
the One in Four RV Tour all-male sexual assault peer education
group, the name, One in Four, has a dual meaning. First,
it refers to the nation-wide research study indicating that one
in four college women report surviving rape or attempted rape since
their 14th birthday. Secondly, One in Four seeks to be
the ones who inform other men how to help women recover
from a rape experience.
One in Four
was founded by Dr. John Foubert. Currently an assistant professor
in the graduate program for higher education administration at the
College of William and Mary, Foubert serves as the national president
of One in Four, along with serving as advisor to the William
and Mary chapter of One in Four.
Published research
shows that this unique program has the dual benefit of educating
men on how to help women recover from a rape experience while lowering
men's rape myth acceptance and their self-reported likelihood of
raping. The Men's Program is also the
name of the training manual authored by John Foubert that is available
from Brunner-Routledge Publishers. This manual provides educated
rape prevention practitioners with a comprehensive guide to creating
a sexual assault peer education group from the ground up.
In addition to
the evening presentation, One in Four will present a lunch
break workshop entitled “The Women’s Program.”
This program focuses on how women can be effective bystanders with
their friends in high risk situations, particularly those involving
alcohol. As part of the program, male actors will role play the
differences between men who are more likely to rape and men less
likely to rape, so that women in the audience can be better informed
about the subtle distinctions that distinguish high risk men. Location
is Meeting Room 6, D.P. Culp University Center, at noon.
Both programs are
sponsored by the ETSU Counseling Center, Women’s Resource
Center, and Greek Life, for more information contact the Counseling
Center at 423-439-4841 or the Women’s Resource Center at 423-439-7847.
 Murray
to conduct self-discovery
series
Pam Murray, B.A., M.B.A.,
local artist and art instructor, returns to campus during Fall Semester
2007 to conduct a two-part series entitled “Illustrated
Self-Discovery through Collaging.” A dynamic, enjoyable,
imaginative way to bring out and find out about the real you that is
often lying dormant or buried just beneath the surface, collaging can
bring out the Ah Ha! moments and awaken the deep-rooted self.
Scheduled for October
2 and 9, both sessions will be held at the Women’s Resource
Center, Panhellenic Hall, basement suite 2, at noon. Reservations
are required. To reserve a space or should you
need additional information, contact the Women’s Resource Center
at 423-439-7847.
Love Your Body Day 2007
On Wednesday, October
17, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the ETSU Counseling
Center will sponsor a variety of interactive information booths,
along with free giveaways, for Love Your Body Day
2007. Exhibitors will be set up in the Multipurpose
Room of the Basler Center for Physical Activity. ETSU students, faculty,
and staff will have access to everything from free massage therapy to
healthy eating tips to women’s health information.
October 17, 2007, marks
the National Organization for Women Foundation's tenth annual Love
Your Body Day. In response to unhealthy and exploitive
images of women in the media, NOW Foundation established the Love
Your Body Campaign to promote positive, healthy images
of women and girls, protest harmful and offensive advertisements, and
raise awareness about women's health issues.
For more information
on Love Your Body Day 2007,
contact Kim Bushore-Maki, ETSU Counseling Center at 423-439-4841
or by email at bushorem@etsu.edu.
Poster acknowledgment: Beryl Roda was
the Grand Prize Winner for the 2007 Love Your Body Day Poster
Contest. Article partially adapted from the National Organization for
Women (NOW) website at http://www.now.org/press.
Women’s
Health Series -
Fall 2007 Schedule
“Exercise
and Immunology: Is More Better?”
is the topic of a Women’s Health Lunch Break Seminar
scheduled for Thursday, November 15, 2007, at noon. Maria Schell,
C.N.N.C., laboratory director for the ETSU Department of Microbiology
in the Quillen College of Medicine, is guest speaker.
Schell will discuss the recent
20–year study comparing marathon runners and people that engage
in a moderate, regular exercise regime. The study revealed surprising
results: people doing too much aerobic exercise, like marathon runners,
experience a 72-hour window in which their immune system is down and
therefore they are more susceptible to infections. In contrast, people
walking for 30 minutes, 5 days per week or doing strengthening exercises
experience an up-regulation of their immune function. Also Schell’s
discussion will focus on the components of a moderate exercise regime
and the benefits associated with a multifaceted, yet individualized,
exercise program.
Location of the Schell
Women’s Health Series seminar is the East Tennessee Room,
D.P. Culp University Center, at noon. For more information contact the
Women’s Resource Center at 423-439-7847.
Saluting the
Women of ETSU
Starting with the September
2007 issue of the Women’s Resource Center Newsletter,
a regular feature will be dedicated to highlighting the accomplishments
and achievements of ETSU staff and faculty women. A great number of
faculty and staff women accomplish or achieve often under-noticed undertakings.
During summer 2007 five dedicated ETSU staff women received accolades
for their “outstanding service to the university and/or our surrounding
community” through the Employee Recognition Program coordinated
through the Office of Human Resources.
    
Pictured above from left to right
are Robin English, lead cashier in Financial Services;
Kathy Smith, legal assistant in the Office of the University
Counsel; Peggy McCurry, office coordinator in the University
Advancement Office; Lisa Bell, counselor in the Office
of Financial Aid; and Sharon Chandler, executive aide
in the Department of History. Congratulations to all of you on this
much deserved recognition.
 ETSU
Counseling Center starting new group program for student women
The Phenomenal Women’s
Group, a new discussion/support group for student women is
starting during Fall Semester 2007. Free and open to all female students,
the Group will explore topics such as sexuality and
sensuality, relationships, goals and values, body image and female empowerment.
Inspiring women to live out loud, the Phenomenal Women’s
Group is scheduled to meet on Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. –
3:00 p.m.
For more information or to pre-register
by September 24, contact Kim Bushore-Maki or Heather Deyton in the ETSU
Counseling Center at 423-439-4841.
2007 Distinguished
Faculty Awards
 East
Tennessee State University bestowed one of its highest honors upon Peggy
Cantrell, Ph.D., with the presentation of the 2007 Distinguished
Faculty Awards for Teaching, Research and Service on Wednesday, August
22, 2007. Cantrell, a professor in the Department of Psychology within
ETSU’s College of Arts and Sciences and a practicing clinical
psychologist, received the Distinguished Faculty Award in Service. Since
joining ETSU in 1982, she has consistently provided high levels of service
to the university, the surrounding community, and her profession.
According
to her nomination, Cantrell “has demonstrated tremendous pride
in providing service to ETSU and has been a real champion of promoting
innovation and excellence in teaching.” As president of the Faculty
Senate in 1995, her work to generate support for professional development
in teaching led to the creation of the former ETSU Teaching and Learning
Center. She played a major role in the establishment of ETSU’s
Instructional Development Grants and was the first chair of the program’s
oversight committee. In addition, Cantrell led a quality improvement
task force that made a “significant impact” on the university’s
faculty evaluation process by including goals for professional development
as an important area for review; this committee “also pushed for
a formal third-year review process, faculty mentoring models, and the
addition of peer review of teaching instead of reliance solely on student
evaluation of teaching.”
Cantrell’s
nomination points out that beyond her involvement in numerous committees
at the department, college, and university levels, perhaps her “most
intensive” service to the university was her stint as interim
dean of the School of Graduate Studies. From 1995-98, she “was
actively involved in upgrading and restructuring all staff positions
in (the school), developing the electronic application process and developing
the electronic thesis/dissertation process, which her successor implemented,
and establishing the tuition scholarship program.”
Since
returning to the classroom in 1998, Cantrell has been working to develop
ETSU’s doctoral program in clinical psychology, which will welcome
its first students in the fall of 2008. Her nomination says that while
Cantrell does not claim the idea for the program and has not labored
alone, she has worked to make it a reality by conducting community-based
needs assessment and planning, researching literature on psychology
training, developing the curriculum, negotiating training placements
and shared courses with regional partners and other departments, and
much more. “The result,” her nominator wrote, “is
a cutting-edge, model program for the training of clinical psychologists
to serve primarily as rural clinicians and researchers in health care
settings. Dr. Cantrell’s work toward making this program happen
reflects over a decade of tremendous but virtually unrecognized service.”
Cantrell
has been active in the profession of psychology as an oral examiner
for licensing, as a journal reviewer, and as an officer in the regional
Intermountain Psychological Association. She is on the clinical faculty
of the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s American
Psychological Association-approved psychology internship, which she
was instrumental in developing. She has been active in task forces on
developing continuing education guidelines for psychologists and upgrading
licensing law in the state of Tennessee, as well as a local task force
on domestic violence. In addition, she is in demand throughout the region
as a public speaker and is frequently invited to schools, churches,
and civic organizations to address a wide variety of topics, from parenting
issues, women’s concerns, violence, team-building, and group communication
to mental health in Appalachia.
Cantrell
holds a B.S. in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and
an M.A. in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University
of Southern Mississippi. Before coming to ETSU, she completed a research
fellowship in sleep disorders and taught at USM, and she held various
positions, including director of Virginia Outpatient Services, at Holston
Mental Health Center.
Annually,
Distinguished Faculty Award winners are nominated and selected by their
faculty peers, and each receive a medallion, a plaque, and a $5,000
check provided by the ETSU Foundation during the annual Faculty Convocation,
which marks the beginning of the new academic year and fall semester.
Robert Schoborg, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology
at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, received the Distinguished
Faculty Award in Teaching. Jeff Ardell, Ph.D., associate
chair/professor of Pharmacology at the Quillen College of Medicine,
claimed the Distinguished Faculty Award in Research.
Article adapted from staff reports prepared
by the Office of University Relations at East Tennessee State University.
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