The Career Center is hosting the annual summer conference of the College Career Professionals of Iowa at Central July 8-9. Nearly 60 career professionals from Iowa’s small private colleges, community colleges and state universities will attend. Keynote speaker is Mike Blouin, director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development.

Central graduates employed at Vermeer Manufacturing Company in Pella are invited to a luncheon Wednesday, July 28, in the Global Pavilion from noon-1 p.m. If you are interested in attending and visiting with our alumni, please RSVP to the alumni office by Friday, July 23. Call 628-5154 or e-mail alumni@central.edu.

Shantel Bennett (dining services) developed a recipe that was submitted to Minor’s “Great Taste on Campus” national contest. Her recipe for “Cilantro Lime Stir Fried Veggies” was selected for publication as one of the top 20 recipes submitted. The award winning recipe also earned Bennett a gift certificate for $200, a gift basket from the Nestle Company and a chance to be selected to travel to Napa Valley, Calif. Shantel has worked on the “Very Veggie” vegetarian station in the Central Market since it’s conception in 1992.

Al Hibbard and Mark Mills (mathematics) participated as readers for the grading of the 2004 AP calculus exam. The grading took place June 2-8 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. This year, approximately 660 high school math teachers and college math professors worked to grade 225,000 exams during the week. With six questions per exam, there were 1.35 million individual questions to be graded during the week.

Nancy McNee attended the Technology in Education Workshops at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, in June.

Lowell Olivier (conference services) attended the annual conference for the Association of Collegiate Conference and Event Directors — International in Vancouver, British Columbia. This was his last meeting as the regional director of Region 6 (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa) for the organization. Olivier has been elected for a three-year term to the Pella Visitors and Convention Bureau board of directors. He also serves on the sales committee for the Pella Visitors and Convention Bureau.

Travis Sterling ’93 (athletics) is a physical therapist at Pella Health and Fitness. He recently became a board certified orthopaedic clinical specialist making him one of only 30 physical therapists, or 2 percent, in Iowa that are board certified in orthopaedics and the only OCS in the South Central Iowa region. Sterling is listed in a database by the American Physical Therapy Association as the “practitioner of choice” for the orthopaedic problems in the region. He will receive a certificate and plaque at the APTA combined sections conference in New Orleans in February 2005.

Lee Vande Voort (computing services) was a first-year participant in a two-year program at the Collegiate Management Institute (CMI) in May at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Sponsored by Central Association of College and University Business Officers (CACUBO), the institute is designed to discuss strategic issues in higher education and to develop management and leadership skills in participants. Vande Voort’s team was runner-up in the case study competition. CMI, now in its 18th year, is considered a premier leadership program for administrators.

Gwyneth Joan Bakken was born on June 11 to Aaron and Tara Baar Bakken ’98. She weighed 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 20 inches long. Grandparents are Tim and Sally Baar (modern languages).

Connor James Cunningham was born on June 14 to Ryan ’01 (athletics) and Jenni Beranek ’03 Cunningham. He weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. and was 19 _ inches long. Grandparents are Jim and Jane Beranek (advancement).

Connie Marlow (development) and her husband Cliff wish to thank the Central College community for the thoughtfulness shown to them after the passing of Cliff’s father. In addition, they would like to thank Central for the beautiful plant they received.

We express our sympathy to Judy Roorda (Upward Bound) and family in the passing of Judy’s mother, Jenny Van Essen, on June 24.

Our sympathy goes out to Linda Vander Werf (athletics) and family on the loss of her brother, Larry Lee Hamre, age 54. Larry had been plagued by MS since he was 22. Graveside services were held on June 14 in the Artisian Cemetery in Bellflower, Calif.

Abby Gonzales has joined the college relations office as news and marketing writer.

Reid Evans has joined the athletics office as an assistant football and the college relations office as marketing Web programmer.

Kristen Parks has joined the human resources office as staffing coordinator/human resource associate.

Jeff Pierson has joined campus security in the position of night student support.

Melissa White, Kevin Berg, and Phillip Hemming have joined the admission staff as admission counselors.

No report this month.

Listed below are few of the projects Pam Ewell’s (education) students completed spring term in Ed Tech/Instructional Tech. According to Ewell, this is exemplary work and productivity. “It is amazing to see the progression of learning with various instructional technologies and how productive our students can be when they put their mind to it,” she said.

Joe Schwanebeck ’06 created his own interactive software for teaching music theory and ear training. He also created an electronic tutorial for using the software, Camtasi Studio. Both are available on CD for viewing.

Melissa Freeseman ’06 created an online supportive teaching Web site for high school social studies, particularly for teaching of U.S. history. Her Web site is on CD and will soon be on Central’s Web.

Rob Robison ’06 surveyed middle school math teachers to better understand how a supportive math Web site might help them. He then created a Web site based on their suggestions. See his math resource Web site at http://www.central.edu/homepages/robisonr1/myweb/index.htm.

Carrie Roll ’05 created a unit for teaching Spanish celebrations. Her Web site provides resources for teaching this unit. See it at http://www.central.edu/homepages/rollc1 (take note of her reference to teaching competencies).

Jaimie Adkins ’07 mentored a professor in the language department. To be a mentor, she researched and read about the process of mentoring. She then began the mentoring experience with the professor on a weekly basis. Adkins reflected on this experience weekly in her journal. Some of her findings discuss the simultaneous renewal that occurs as a mentor. The mentored professor was extremely pleased with this opportunity and suggested that Ewell create similar programs for others to experience.

Forty new Web sites were created by Ewell’s students showing how educators can use the Internet to communicate and interact with students and parents. Their Web sites intend to be used in the future to showcase their portfolio and experiences in teacher education. Many other students created teaching units that exemplify sound and meaningful integration of instructional technologies. Next year the students will use their Web sites to demonstrate their skills and competencies in teaching.

For more of their educational Web sites, check the following:

http://www.central.edu/homepages/chaseh1,
http://www.central.edu/homepages/thomasm1,
http://www.central.edu/homepages/lavena1,
http://www.central.edu/homepages/rasmussene1,
http://www.central.edu/homepages/stubbsc1,
http://www.central.edu/homepages/whittlec1

Can’t wait for summer — Start making your summer plans now. Discount coupons are available for Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun in Kansas City and Adventureland in Des Moines. These may be picked up at the Information Center in Maytag, in the office at dining services and physical plant and in the human resources office.

Leading Others Through Change — Blur is the speed of change. The World Future Society projects there will be more change in this decade, than in the past 200 years! And in the past 200 years we’ve seen the advent of electricity, automobiles, computers, television, electronic retailing, ballpoint pens, colored margarine and jet aircraft to name a few.

Even higher education has changed. There are more degree programs, more competition for students and higher costs. In some institutions, learners custom design their degree program. Students can learn online. They want PPT. And most colleges have learned, or are learning, how to serve both the traditional and non-traditional students. Customer service is an increasing priority for higher education.

This means that leading others through change is a basic leadership competency. It is as important as preparing and managing a budget, selecting and guiding classroom instructors or showing learners how to learn. Yet few graduate schools prepare future higher education leaders in the strategies to effectively lead others through change.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a program where participants can gain new insights and skills in how to lead others through change.

What: Leading Others Through Change, presented by Richard Deems, Ph.D., from WorkLife Design
For Whom: Supervisors and managers
When: Thursday, Aug. 19, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Working lunch. Lunch will be provided). Break between 11 a.m.-noon to attend Dr. Roe’s state-of-the-college Address in Douwstra Chapel
Where: Weller Room 101
RSVP: Kristen Parks, parksk@central.edu or call ext. 7681