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KU Endowment board members elect four new trustees
LAWRENCE — At the annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees on Oct. 2, four new trustees were elected: Paul DeBruce of Mission Hills; Gerry Dixon of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; Dana Hensley of Andover; and Dave Roland of Shorewood, Minnesota.
School of Education announces new name, effective fall 2020
LAWRENCE — The School of Education at the University of Kansas is now the School of Education & Human Sciences, effective fall 2020. “Our former name, School of Education, did not capture the broad range of academic programs that we house nor the scholarly research that our faculty produce,” said Rick Ginsberg, dean of the school. “We needed a name that reflects what we do, while still keeping the word ‘education’ prominent.”
KU launches Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative
LAWRENCE — During a summer in which countless research projects across the University of Kansas were stalled on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small group of Lawrence and KU Medical Center-based administrators and faculty members met to brainstorm opportunities for collaboration among health professionals, researchers and students in the arts and humanities. The new Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative has since doubled in size, and it includes community partners and other institutions of higher learning.
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Contact: Michelle Strickland, KU Endowment, 785-832-7363, [email protected]; Michelle Keller, KU Endowment, 785-832-7336, [email protected]; @KUEndowment
KU Endowment board members elect four new trustees
LAWRENCE — At the annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees on Oct. 2, four new trustees were elected: Paul DeBruce of Mission Hills; Gerry Dixon of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; Dana Hensley of Andover; and Dave Roland of Shorewood, Minnesota.
Paul DeBruce graduated from KU in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He serves as CEO of DeBruce Companies and the DeBruce Foundation, and he is former chairman and CEO of DeBruce Grain Inc. He served on the executive committee of the Board of the National Grain and Feed Association and is a past member and board member of the Kansas City Board of Trade.
DeBruce is a life member of the KU Alumni Association and the Chancellors Club.
Gerry Dixon graduated from KU in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business administration. He is the managing partner for U.S.- East Markets at Ernst & Young LLP based in New York City.
Dixon is a member of the School of Business Board of Advisors and the Accounting Advisory Council. He is a life member of the KU Alumni Association and the Chancellors Club.
Dana Hensley graduated from KU in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in language arts and in 1976 with a master’s degree in educational curriculum and instruction. She is a retired principal at Wichita Collegiate School.
Hensley is a member of Jayhawks for Higher Education and past member of the Hall Center for the Humanities Advisory Board. She was a member of the Far Above Hall Center Campaign Committee and is a life member of the KU Alumni Association.
Dave Roland graduated from KU in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He recently completed a business leadership role as president and CEO of NDC Technologies in Dayton, Ohio. He provides consulting and leadership to businesses needing restructuring, realignment and strategy development.
Roland is a member of the KU Engineering Advisory Board and recently completed a term as national board chair of the KU Alumni Association.
KU Endowment is the independent, nonprofit organization serving as the official fundraising and fund-management organization for KU. Founded in 1891, KU Endowment was the first foundation of its kind at a U.S. public university.
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Contact: Janelle Laudick, School of Education, 785-864-6089, [email protected], @Kansas_SOE
School of Education announces new name, effective fall 2020
LAWRENCE — The School of Education at the University of Kansas is now the School of Education & Human Sciences, effective fall 2020.
The new name was approved by the Council of Chief Academic Officers and the Kansas Board of Regents on April 17, 2019, and there has been a visual transition to the new name across a variety of facets at the university since then.
The School of Education & Human Sciences has been serving students at KU since 1909, and since then it has experienced a number of changes in different program areas. Years ago, the Department of Physical Education changed its name to the Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences. Today, that department has thriving programs in exercise science, sport management, community health and physical education. In addition, the Department of Educational Psychology continues to offer programs in counseling, school and educational psychology.
“Our former name, School of Education, did not capture the broad range of academic programs that we house nor the scholarly research that our faculty produce,” said Rick Ginsberg, dean of the school. “We needed a name that reflects what we do, while still keeping the word ‘education’ prominent.”
Stakeholders and constituents will begin and continue to notice the new name on all of the school’s correspondence, including external communications materials.
Other changes:
- Students graduating in December 2020 (summer and fall 2020 graduates) will show the new school designation; however, students who graduated in spring 2020 still showed the former school designation on their diplomas.
- In the workplace, the new name should be used in all instances beginning Oct 1.
- The School’s departmental e-mail address is now [email protected].
- The web domain soe.ku.edu will now redirect to soehs.ku.edu.
“There has been a great amount of work put into the transition to the new name, and we are excited to begin a new chapter of our school’s long and glorious history,” Ginsberg said. “Due to COVID-19 and other circumstances, we were not able to host our in-person celebration events but are still planning to come together with our faculty, staff, students and alumni in the future.”
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Contact: Emily Ryan, Biodiversity Institute, 785-864-6923, [email protected], @TheCommonsKU
KU launches Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative
LAWRENCE — During a summer in which countless research projects across the University of Kansas were stalled on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small group of Lawrence and KU Medical Center-based administrators and faculty members met to brainstorm opportunities for collaboration among health professionals, researchers and students in the arts and humanities. They named this initiative the Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative (HHARC).
In early June, more than 100 researchers across disciplines, campuses and institutions gathered for the first meeting of HHARC over Zoom. In four months, the group has nearly doubled. It now includes regional and national institutions of higher learning and community partners who are exploring topics of relevance across the humanities, arts and health.
HHARC is an initiative based in The Commons and led by Emily Ryan, director of The Commons, in collaboration with Tamara Falicov, professor of film & media studies and associate dean for research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Teri Kennedy, Endowed Professor and associate dean of interprofessional practice, education, policy & research with the School of Nursing at the KU Medical Center; and Katie Rhine, associate professor of geography & atmospheric science and African & African-American studies.
“The HHARC has provided an opportunity to work interprofessionally, bridging the silos we’ve built between health and humanities and the arts, between disciplines and campuses, and between institutions and communities. Our virtual gatherings offer new ways to view and think about our work, forge new academic/community partnerships (e.g., nursing and architecture), and open up new sources of funding,” Kennedy said.
The group hosts a monthly meetup, which serves to introduce a developing research project, written by scholars and practitioners across disciplines, and to offer networking opportunities around affinity topics. Growing areas of interest include aging, health disparities, humanities in health professions curricula and language revitalization. In addition, HHARC offers regular Coffee & Conversation events to introduce resources or dig deeper into emerging themes. “Info Share” sessions are presented to develop skills around interdisciplinary research opportunities.
“HHARC is an exciting and fruitful way to bridge geographical and disciplinary borders through Zoom,” Falicov said. ”Meeting with faculty from both campuses has helped us bridge the divide between KU Lawrence closer to KU Medical Center. The frequency by which we meet has already enabled multiple points of discussion, research collaboration and, most importantly, it has helped our faculty researchers challenge and expand the boundaries of their group research questions and methodologies. It is positively changing our research to make it more holistic as it incorporates multiple perspectives from various disciplines.”
With support from the Office of Research, tailored funding opportunities are presented on a regular basis.
“Ethics, culture, history, globalization and creative expression are so obviously central to understanding how and why COVID-19 has had the impacts that it has had,” Rhine said. “We felt a real sense of urgency to bring professionals, community members, researchers and students together to find common ground and purpose.”
Rhine is working closely with HHARC program assistant and honors undergraduate Radhia Abdirahman to bridge these opportunities to students in the University Honors Program, the School of Nursing Honors Program and the Multicultural Scholars Program. While fieldwork, publications and presentations are the more visible and celebrated dimensions of research, Rhine said that there is a lot that students can learn, even remotely, by working alongside faculty at these early stages of the research process.
“Whether it is learning how to write grants, explore digital archives or even just having conversations with scholars in fields outside the ones you are most familiar with…these are the building blocks of ground-breaking research,” Rhine said.
Upcoming events are listed here.
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