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Seven professors and an administrator received North Carolina A&T State University’s highest teaching and administrative awards last spring. The recipients were selected by their colleagues and each received a plaque and stipend, $1,000 for the teachers and $500 for the administrator. The outstanding professors included Chi Anyansi- Archibong, school of business and economics; Vincent Childress, school of technology; Elizabeth Jane Davis-Seaver, school of education; Perry Howard, school of agriculture and environmental sciences; Patricia Shelton, school of nursing; Harmohindar Singh, college of engineering, and Alex Williamson Sr., college of arts and sciences. Sanjiv Sarin of the college of engineering is the Outstanding Administrator of the Year. Shelton, an associate dean and professor of nursing, was one of 16 recipients of the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2004. For that honor, she received a commemorative bronze medallion and a $7,500 cash prize. 4 A&T TODAY Fall 2004 InsideAggieland Professors, Administrator Receive Top Honors Patricia Shelton wins UNC Board of Governors award The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recognized the fundraising and advertising efforts of North Carolina A&T State University at its annual international assembly that was held in San Diego in July. Under the leadership of David Hoard, vice chancellor for development and university relations, the university received the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s 2004 CASE/Wealth ID Awards for Educational Fund Raising. The award recognizes superior fund raising programs across the country. Exceptional groups of colleges, universities and independent schools were named to the Circle of Excellence for either overall performance or overall improvement in fundrais- Anyansi-Archibong Childress Davis-Seaver Howard Shelton Singh Sarin Williamson Fund Raising and Creativity Recognized ing. N.C. A&T was selected for overall improvement based on the judges’ analysis of the fund raising data the university submitted to the Council for Aid to Education’s annual Voluntary Support of Education surveys for the last three-year period. The “Aggie Life” comics received a bronze medal in the 2004 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Program. The awards program annually honors those institutions and professionals who excel in the area of advancement programs and educational communications. “Aggie Life,” a concept of Mable Scott, associate vice chancellor for university relations, appears weekly in the “Sunday Comics” section of the News & Record newspaper. The comics are used as a recruitment and marketing tool.
Playhouse InsideAggieland What happens when education gets the boot? A great deal of fun when the boot is a children’s developmental playhouse. Last spring Tamika Bain, a senior child development and family studies major at N.C. A&T, was approached by her husband’s general contracting company, Macadamia Properties, Inc., to participate in Greensboro Children’s Museum’s Playhouse Pizazz II fund-raiser. fund-raiser. The project involved designing and building playhouses for an auction to benefi t. Bain gave her husband (A&T alumnus Kenneth Bain ’98) an an affi rmative nod and enlisted help from Thurman Guy, associate professor of human environment and family sciences, and Karen Guy, director of curriculum and instruction. The Guys frequently collaborate on educational projectsects and immediately thought this to be an interesting challenge. (Architects for the project were P.K. Design Group, LLC.) Appropriately named “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot,” the playhouse was auctioned among seven other designs. Greensboro Greensboro Children’s Museum liked the boot so much that, after the auction, they purchased it. The playhousehouse is now a permanent fi xture at the museum where young young children can engage in discovdiscovery learning. Tamika Bain (left), Thurman Guy and Karen Guy are at home in the playhouse they helped design and build for Greensboro Children’s Museum’s fund raiser, Playhouse Pizazz II. The facility is wired for electricity and features an interactive arrangement of learning centers, cable television connections, a loft, a garden and wall mounted fans for warm days. A&T TODAY Fall 2004 5
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