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(Dean Hine). Ryan would you stand
between our two presenters here?
I would appreciate it.
I'd been saving this line for a long time, a rose among
two thorns, but I won't say that.
On the right is Cheryl Clapp.
On the left is Cathy Brachear who helps us in the School
of Continuing Education a great deal in technology.
Stating the obvious, Ryan is in the middle,
and he is our winner.
Mr. Ryan Gibson has been very instrumental in working with
the School of Continuing Education to implement many
new technologies related to projects and goals to benefit
Eastern Illinois University and its off-campus students.
He's also been invaluable to the School of Continuing Education,
helping us to achieve our technology goals.
We have done major studies for years and years of our
off-campus students to see how we're doing.
We always ask the question, "How did you hear about our
"off-campus programs?"
Up until just very, very recently, it was always word
of mouth, but that's not true anymore.
It's on the web, it's our web pages, that's our front door,
it's the way we do business.
It's critical for our success as we collaborate with the colleges
to have a very strong presence on the web.
Ryan has been instrumental in helping us develop that
and to implement that.
He continues to help the School of Continuing Education
with important projects such as the implementation of our
online course proposal form for these and many
other technologies related to projects.
We are nominating Mr. Gibson, and we are pleased that he is
the 2010 EIU School of Continuing Education Technology
award winner.
Thank you.
[audience applause].
[no dialogue].
(Dr. Cheryl Noll). Good afternoon.
It was the second day of classes in the spring semester, and we,
in the School of Business, thought that our biggest worries
at the beginning of the semester were making sure that students
were in the classes they needed, the faculty had everything they
needed to teach, and the computer labs were functioning.
Or so we thought those were our biggest worries.
Little did we know how differently our semester
was going to be.
As everyone is probably aware, Lumpkin Hall experienced
a significant flood as a result of a water pipe break.
This happened on the second day of classes.
Actually, it was a very frightening experience for those
who were in the middle of the water rushing down the stairwell
from the 4th floor all the way down to the lower level.
The water was gushing down behind the walls and out into
a classroom into the lower level.
People were running out of the building, not knowing
if it was going to collapse at any moment.
So we had to cancel classes and evacuated
the building immediately.
In a matter of minutes, and I think we checked it because
we have videotape of it, but it did not take more than four
to five minutes, there was about eight inches of water
in the lower level of Lumpkin Hall.
Unfortunately, this is where all of our ATAC and our Lumpkin
computer labs are located.
A lot of people from across campus responded very quickly
to turn the water off, and then they started that cleanup
that very night.
Many people helped us relocate our classrooms and our computer
labs not knowing how long we would be out of the building.
At first we thought maybe just a couple of weeks, we'll be out.
But as it turned out, we just moved in at the beginning
of the fall semester.
Two people who quickly responded to our needs were
Dr. Michael Hoadley and Mr. Don Braswell.
They both met with me the next day, after the flood, to help us
figure out what we needed to do to make sure that our labs
were moved and that our students were still being taught.
Our teaching labs presented an additional challenge because
of the unique software that we have on all of our computers.
There were no facilities across campus that had the software,
nor were any facilities the size that we needed for our classes.
As a result, the decision was made to move the computers,
rather than installing software on computers in other labs
across campus.
Quick action on the part of Mr. Don Braswell resulted in
the Lumpkin labs being relocated to the Gregg Technology Center.
Mr. Braswell assembled a team and spent a significant amount
of time dismantling the computers in Lumpkin, moving
them and then setting them up again in the Gregg Triad.
Sorry, the Gregg Technology Center, old habits die hard.
They moved their lab in a less than ideal location
to accomodate our needs.
Thanks to Mr. Braswell and his team, we missed only one day
of classes before the computers were set up again and ready
to use in the GTC.
Everyone worked really hard to make sure that the quality
of instruction was not compromised.
Not only were Don and his GTC staff instrumental in moving
and setting up our computers, Mr. Braswell was so gracious
to continue working with me and my staff so that we could
reschedule our lab classes in the GTC.
Don and his staff stuck with us through the summer to ensure
that we would be up and running for the beginning
of the fall semester, and we made it just in time.
Without Mr. Braswell's and his team's "can do" attitude and
their technical assistance, I'm not sure what we would've done,
and I'd rather not think about that.
I would like to publicly thank and recognize
Dr. Michael Hoadley for sharing the CATS resources
and Mr. Don Braswell and his team for their tremendous
assistance in getting us through this challenging time.
Thank you.
[audience applause].
[no dialogue].
(Dr. Hoadley). Let's give all
of the awardees a round of applause.
[audience applause].