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So again, I too want to welcome you all to Eastern,
best of class, first choice institution.
And I know you will find it a great home and an exciting place
to work, welcome again, thanks.
[audience applause].
Thank you to Provost Lord, Dean Augustine, they're running off
to the next place that is on their agendas.
And it will be a busy day for all of us.
And I would like to say to you, excellence in teaching permeates
our campus, it is a campus where voices are heard,
views are valued, vocation appreciated,
and victory celebrated.
You will experience a day and a half of personal resources,
a popular site visits, powerful panel discussions,
peer collaborations, and much much more.
Throughout the year, you will have the opportunity to attend
a faculty development workshop series.
As we begin this year, I ask that you take a total look
at the program.
I need your support and cooperation in our efforts
to become the best of class and develop first choice programs
to our students.
Remember, you can help us move Eastern Illinois University
from excellence to greatness.
What makes you successful at EIU?
Whatever you deposit.
No deposit, no return.
I am galvanized by the 2007-2008 academic calender
and the opportunities and challenges that lie before us.
John Ruskin asserts, "the first condition of education is being
able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."
As we enter our classrooms on Monday, I encourage you
to become a wholesome professor.
One who is physically fit, mentally ready, emotionally
healthy, scholarly prepared, and socially engaged.
Again, I welcome you, thank you, and now I am going to turn it
over to Dr. William Weber who will give us instructions on how
we are going to finish our day.
Let's welcome Dr. Weber.
[audience applause].
Okay, thank you Dr. Pearson, welcome everyone, it is a big
day today, and let me share with you your schedule for the day.
You will not be sitting here all day.
You will be out and about across campus checking out some
of the key offices across campus, meeting some of the
key people that Dean Augustine, Vice President Lord,
Dr. Pearson have already mentioned to you.
You have a total of five key offices that you are going
to visit today.
We're going to be breaking you up into groups by college.
Each group will have its turn with each of the key offices.
You will be visiting, first of all, Booth Library and seeing
the services available to you there to assist you
with your research and teaching.
You will be visiting the Office of Research and Sponsered
Programs where you will learn about the opportunities
available to you to assist you with grants
and your research activities.
You will be visiting CATS which is our Center for Academic
Technology Support and that is where you will get to play with
all of the fun gizmos.
And of course you have already seen some of the assistance that
we have got from CATS today with the video cameras here.
And then, fourthly, you will be having a visit with your
college dean and meets some of the staff of the deans' offices
that you will be working with.
In the middle of the day you will be having a luncheon,
we will be getting back together then, don't skip the luncheon,
there will be some great door prizes.
And then at the end of the day, you will be all gathered back
together at the Student Recreation Center.
As Dr. Pearson has mentioned, we want you to be physically fit
and mentally ready.
The Student Rec Center is an excellent opportunity for you
not just to take care of yourself, but also give you
another venue in which you can interact with your students.
We have Ken Baker, the Director of Student Recreation
in the corner back there, and so you will be hearing more
from him later today.
So that is your schedule for the day, I hope that you have good
walking shoes, have dressed comfortably for the weather.
There are bottles of water outside.
I suggest you grab one on the way out, because it is a hot,
humid day, surprise, surprise.
[unclear audio].
To accompany you on your visits to the key offices today,
we have some resource faculty members to help out
and to answer your questions.
Please notice that I am not calling then tour guides, okay?
They are not tour guides, there are some questions
that you can't ask me, you can't ask the Provost.
There are some questions that you may have that you need
to ask the other faculty.
And so we have faculty to accompany you today to provide
some of the insights from their departments and colleges
and to give you the chance to ask some of those questions
that you really want to ask but don't know who to ask.
So anyway, let me introduce the resource persons for the day,
and I think Dr. Pearson took my notes.
So I'm going to have to try to remember this.
From the Art Department, we have right here,
Ann Coddington and Robert Horvath.
They will be working with the faculty from
the College of Arts and Humanities.
From the College of Education and Professional Studies,
we have Lucia Schroeder, from the Early Childhood,
Elementary Level and Middle Level Education Department.
And Fabio Fontana, I have not seen Fabio today, is he here?
From Kinesiology and Sports Studies, hopefully he will
catch up with you later.
So, anyway, that is who the Education and Professional
Studies faculty will be working with.
[unclear audio].
Oh, okay, from the College of Sciences, we have Steven Daniel
from Biological Sciences, Scott Tremain from Chemistry,
no, I'm sorry, Bill Lovekamp from Sociology-Anthropology.
My mistake.
Again, they will be working with the College of Sciences
faculty today.
And then finally from the Lumpkin College of Business
and Applied Sciences we have Hank Davis from the School of
Business and Karla Kennedy-Hagan from the School of Family
and Consumer Sciences.
So those are the faculty resource persons you will be
looking with today, so feel free to ask them whatever questions
you need to ask them.
They will be sharing their insights with you.
[unclear audio].
Before we move on and send you off to your first stops
of the day, we need to do introductions of all of you.
So, Dr. Pearson, where in this large group would you like
to begin?
Okay, if you could just give us your name, your area, and where
you are joining us from, and we would love to meet you.
(female speaker). Stand up?
Yes, please, we have a large group.
(female speaker). Diane Burns?
(Diane Burns). Hello?
Is this on?
Can you hear me?
I'll use my professoral voice.
Diane Burns, I am Geology-Geography Department.
I teach Sedimentology and an Introductory Geology class.
I'm coming from St. Lawrence University in upper state
New York, it is a pleasure to be here.
I am David Viertel, I am also in Geology-Geography and I teach
Remote Sensing classes and I came here from Texas State.
Bruce Barnard, I will be in the School of Technology,
and I actually graduated from EIU.
Oh, welcome home.
Okay, hi, I am Tesa Leonce, this is very new for me, I am coming
from St. Lucia in the Caribbean, but I'm coming
from University of Wyoming, the grad school over there.
I am teaching in the Economics Department, and I am teaching
microeconomics and industrial organization.