President’s Lecture Series
Urban activist to discuss education and democracy

Dr. Patrick J. Finn, professor emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, will discuss “Completing the Revolution: Social Rights, Schooling and Democracy” as the second speaker in the President’s Lecture Series. Finn’s talk will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday (March 17) in 206 Bowen-Thompson
Student Union.

As an urban activist, Finn has been a leader for change through community conflict resolution, parent-empowerment workshops and the promotion of social diversity. He grew up in a working-class family in Chicago and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was on the SUNY-Buffalo faculty for 27 years. His book, Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest, has sold more than 16,000 copies.

The theme of this year’s lecture series is “Advocates for Change in the 21st Century: Body, Mind
and Spirit.”

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Classified Staff Council seeks Team Award nominations

The Classified Staff Team Award Committee is seeking nominations for the 2005 award. The award recognizes employees within a classified staff area who work as a team and whose collective efforts benefit students, units, departments, areas and the University community.

Any member of the University community (faculty, staff, student) may nominate any group of two or more permanent part-time or permanent full-time employees who work together on a daily basis for the Team Award.

Nomination forms can be found on the Classified Staff Web site at www.bgsu.edu/organizations/csc/Awards or by contacting Sue Frost at 2-2411 or sfrost2@bgnet.bgsu.edu.

Send three letters of support and the nomination form to: Sue Frost, Center for Archival Collections, Jerome Library, 5th Floor.

The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. Friday (March 18).

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Two technology dean candidates to visit, hold open forums

The College of Technology has announced that the second and third of four candidates for the position
of dean will be visiting campus this week. Dr. Ernest Savage has announced he will retire after this academic year.

Both candidates will speak on “The Future of a Vibrant College of Technology in Today's World of Higher Education,” followed by a question-and-answer session. There will be a reception after each presentation in the same room. The candidates will be introduced by Dr. James Smith, dean of BGSU Firelands and chair of the search committee.

Dr. Russell Eberhart, professor and chair of the electrical and computer engineering department and an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at the Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology, will be on campus Tuesday and Wednesday (March 15 and 16). He will hold an open forum from 3:45-4:45 p.m. Tuesday in the McFall Center Assembly Room.

Dr. Bor Jang, the Walter Booth Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at North Dakota State University, will be on campus Thursday
and Friday (March 17 and 18). He will hold his forum from 3:45-4:45 p.m. Thursday in 308 Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

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Dance Marathon marks 10th anniversary

More than 1,000 student volunteers are taking part in the University’s 10th annual Dance Marathon this weekend (March 19-20) to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network. The marathon will run from 10 a.m. Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday.

“A Decade of Miracles, A Lifetime of Hope” is the theme of this year’s event.

BGSU’s Dance Marathon has grown to become Ohio’s largest student-run philanthropic event and one of the largest Children’s Miracle Network Dance Marathon programs in the nation, according to publicity chair Brittany Barhite, a senior from Maumee.

More than 70 BGSU student organizations now take part, and the event has grown to incorporate a series of fund-raising activities throughout the fall and winter that culminate in the Dance Marathon weekend at the Student Recreation Center.

Since the first Dance Marathon was during the 1995-96 academic year, BGSU students have donated more than $1.3 million to help provide programs and services supported by the Children’s Miracle Network at Toledo’s Mercy Children’s Hospital, a partnership of St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center and the Medical College of Ohio.

Last fall, BGSU’s Dance Marathon received an Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Northwest Ohio Chapter in partnership with Leave a Legacy Northwest Ohio.

Funds raised by the BGSU students provide research, treatment, equipment and education for northwest Ohio youngsters who suffer from serious disease, birth defects, severe trauma or terminal illnesses.

A steering committee of 18 undergraduate students coordinates the event, with each member responsible for a committee working on a specific aspect of the program.

Visit www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/dancemarathon/ for more details about this year’s program.

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BG@100 holds another open forum

The University community is invited to learn more about the project to implement PeopleSoft administrative systems at a BG@100 open forum at 11 a.m. Monday (March 21) in 314 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Following a project update, attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions.

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