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CAMPUS NEWS S Some of the latest training tools will now be available to graduate students in psychology at Northwestern due to a donation to the NSU Foundation. The Foundation has received a donation from Mental Health Resources to provide Northwestern’s Department of Psychology with some of the latest software and equipment needed to train students. Mental Health Resources is a full-service mental health clinic that provides both inpatient and out patient psychiatric treatment and therapy. Mental Health Resources provides services to people of all ages but has programs which specialize in working with emotionally disturbed children and adolescents and their families. MHR has clinics in Lafayette, New Iberia, Alexandria and Natchitoches. “We see our relationship with Northwestern as a win-win situation for our organization and the students,” said Dr. Ron Ray, chief executive officer of Mental Health Resources. Department of Psychology receives grant to assist in student training “We gain access to the best and brightest students in this region and our growing organization can possibly provide employment to some graduates. These are bright, motivated students who will get experience they could not get easily elsewhere.” According to Dr. Patrice Moulton, head of the Department of Psychology at NSU, Mental Health Resources’ contribution is an important step in the development of the university’s program. “This donation allows us to have graduate training materials we would not be able to have otherwise,” said Moulton. “We are very fortunate to have Dr. Ray provide Mental Health Resources as a practicum site for our students and support our department by providing resources for gradute training.” In addition to providing software, the donation will also be used to furnish an observation room used by students. Funding to renovate the observation room was provided by a grant from the Board of Regents Support Fund. III N D rs. Carter and Bernadette Boyd opened their home to host the Second Annual Basketball Extravaganza in mid- October. The evening brought Northwestern’s basketball staff to Bossier City for fellowship with alumni and friends interested in helping support the Demon basketball program through contributions. Anyone interested in contributing to the basketball program should contact the Athletic Association or the basketball office at (318) 357-4274. III Alumni Columns Winter 2000 / 6
Faculty Notes Elliott selected as Kilpatrick Life Professor of Insurance Dr. Stephen Elliott has been named the Kilpatrick Life Professor of Insurance at Northwestern State University. Elliott has been a member of NSU’s faculty for 20 years. Elliott earned his doctorate in economics and finance at Louisiana Tech University. He has extensive experience in insurance, financial planning, banking, real estate and as an economic consultant. While on Northwestern’s faculty, Elliott has consulted with most of the major textbook publishers on finance texts. His research has also been published regularly in a variety of national and international professional journals. Elliott has also been a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences. “This professorship will be a tremendous benefit for me in my teaching and scholarship,” said Elliott. “I will be able to conduct research that will keep me up to date in my field. That knowledge will be brought back to the classroom and shared with the students.” The professorship was created with a $60,000 donation from Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company. The donation was matched with an additional $40,000 from the Board of Regents Support Fund. A portion of the interest generated by the endowment each year will be used to fund classroom instruction, faculty research, purchase needed software and hardware and cover needed travel to professional conferences. The remaining portion will be used to build up the endowment. The College of Business is accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the primary accrediting agency and service organization for business schools in the United States.The accreditation covers baccalaureate degree programs in business offered by Northwestern. Elliott plans to conduct research on several aspects of insurance including consumer purchasing of insurance, regulations affecting insurance and how consumers make decisions on the purchasing of insurance. III Pollacia is recipient of the BellSouth Endowed Professorship in Telecommunications When Dr. Lissa Pollacia, an associate professor of Computer Information Systems at Northwestern, taught her first course via the Internet in 1996, it was to a group of students with little or no knowledge about the Internet. “My thinking was, what better way to teach the Internet than to utilize the Internet,” she said. Pollacia, who was one of the first faculty members at NSU to teach an undergraduate course entirely online, is the first recipient of the BellSouth Endowed Professorship in Telecommunications. Her Internet course, “Understanding and Utilizing the Internet,” was the first online course accepted by the Southern Region Electronic Campus from the state of Louisiana. Pollacia has been on NSU’s faculty for 13 years. She earned her bachelor of science in mathematics education and her master of science in mathematics from Northwestern. She earned her master of science in computer science and her doctorate in computer science from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She was the principal investigator for a Board of Regents grant for training in the theory and practice of online education. The grant “Creating Global Classrooms via Internet Technology” provided both equipment and training to expand online offerings to include other computer courses and a mathematics course. The BellSouth Endowed Professorship in Telecommunications was established in 1998. BellSouth donated $60,000, which was matched with $40,000 from the Board of Regents’ Support Fund. When the professorship was established, Herschel Abbott, president of BellSouth’s Louisiana operations said the professorship would mesh with the company’s goal of utilizing telecommunications technology to bring about change in the state’s educational system. III Leading literary journal publishes faculty member’s poem The experiences of a summer job several years ago are still vivid to Julie Kane. The assistant professor of English at Northwestern State University expressed those experiences in a poem published in a prestigious literary journal. Kane’s poem, “The Bottle Factory” appears in the fall edition of The Southern Review. “The poem is about the summer between high school and college when I worked in a bottle factory,” said Kane, who joined NSU’s faculty last fall. “I did packing and was a machine operator silk screening onto plastic bottles.” “In the poem, I drew a contrast between working with one’s mind and with one’s body doing physical labor. You get satisfaction from physical work that one does not get immediately from mental work even though both are difficult. With physical labor, you see the accomplishments immediately.” III Alumni Columns Winter 2000 / 7
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