the Peirn State-Behrend NOVEMBER 7, 1985 New Provides More Incentive by Mark Wuerthele Collegian Staff Writer The Penn State Alumni Association, the Undergraduate Student Government, the Graduate Student Association and the Commonwealth Campus Student Government Association have agreed upon a new teaching award. The Penn State Teaching Fellow: The Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching will be in effect this year. The award, consisting of 3,000 dollars and an inscribed momento, will be presented annually in April at the University Awards Convocation. Its purpose is to provide en couragement and incentive for ex cellence in teaching. The Alumni Association believes that the award provides an excellent opportunity for all members of the University to recognize distinguished work in teaching, which is an important part of college. There are several expectations of the recipient: They must share their talents and work with others in the University system; par ticipate in workshops; give lec tures and presentations on teaching techniques for the new faculty or graduate assistants; take part in seminars; and teach various honors courses. The criteria for selection will be excellence in teaching, academic, advising and career guidance, en thusiasm, and real world focus. All full-time faculty are eligible as long as they have had a minimum of three years experience in teaching in the Penn State System. Pre-screening will be done in each campus and one faculty member will be chosen to repre sent their campus. Final selection will be made by a university com mittee comprised of students, faculty, alumni and an ad ministration representative who wil be appointed by the President Quality Control Institute Created by Gregory D. Goldsmith Collegian Staff Writer Late last summer, Penn State-- Behrend established a Quality Control Institute to help businesses start and maintain quality control programs. As part of the Quality Control Institute, a resource-center will be built here to house books, jour nals, videotapes, computer soft Award For Profs of the University. Nomintions will that of a large campus such as be taken from students', faculty, University Park. Students are parents and friends. _ known individually,- not as a This award will recognize number. Many times the various qualities of an excellent achievements of certain faculty, teacher. Stress will be placed on are pushed aside. This award will their personal excellence and in stress that there is recognition and the respect that they deserve -will that “you are doing a great job.” be known. Nominations for the award will Dr. John M. Lilley, Behrend’s be accepted until Tan. 30. If Provost and Dean, urges these anyone feels a teacher has ex types of awards because, especial- cellent qualities and excells in the ly at Behrend, the faculty is above mentioned categories, devoted to teaching, and the con- simply nominate them for the cem for the students is more than Penn State Teaching Fellow. Zibo Visits Behrend Four officials and an inter- Zibo is a city of two million preter from Zibo, Erie’s sister city people, 500 miles southeast of in the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China’s capital. It is a ci stopped at Behrend as part of ty of light manufacturing and their three day visit to Erie, on heavy industry. Its five hospitals Oct. 29. perform complicated tasks such as The four officials were: Wang open heart and neuro-surgery. Toa, Mayor; Cao Chuan-Zeng, Zibo is also known worldwide for the Director of Foreign Trade its porcelain factories. Bureau; Li Xian-Xin, the Vice- Provost and Dean Lilley com- Director of the Ecomonic Study mented on how Zibo became Center; Kong Xiang-Jun, Vice- Erie’s sister city. “Zibo was not Director of the Foreign Affairs pulled out of a hat. It is where Mayor Lon Tullio and interpreter look on. ware, and other materials. These resources will be loaned to member companies, and the In stitute staff will advise members about these materials. The staff of the center will con duct a series of seminars, workshops and. short courses for member companies. These pro grams will be administered by Greg Rathbun Collegian Staff Writer Collegian STATION ROAD, ERIE, PA. 16563 Office. The interpreter was Zhang Chun-Mao. through the College’s Division of Continuing Education. The most recent of the workshops was to begin on Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and-will finish on Nov. 12. It is entitled “Training the Trainer: Quality Control.” This program is aimed at the developement and training staff, the people who are responsi- QC continued on p.age 3 some local area companies have a lot of business.” During their stay in Erie, which lasted until Oct. 30, they visited the AMSCO plant, General Elec tric, Hamot Medical Center, Autoclave Engineers, the Ger trude Barber Center, the city’s water treatment plant and several Erie area colleges, including Behrend. The delegation arrived at Behrend at 8 a.m. on Oct. 29 and were greeted by ten University Cao Chuan-Zeng said that there staff members, including Dean were four colleges in Zibo. Two of Lilley and Dean Burke, these are industry colleges, one to “Welcome to all our guests this teach students about agricultural morning,” Lilley began, exten- machines and the other to teach ding his remarks to the eight at- them about building materials, tendants from the Erie’s Mayor’s The other two colleges are office and four members of the teachers colleges, one of which, is Zibo Steering Committee along a teachers special training college, with the five Chinese delegates. He also expressed an interest in Lilley described to the delegates Erie area institutions. “I think in what Penn State is and what it the future with the friendly rela does. He also made clear that 100 Zibo continued on page 2 Inside This Issue Faculty may add A plus to grading scale 2 A Night of the Arts 6 Zimmerman appointed to NABC 12 VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER 5 students from China attend Penn State. He talked about Penn State’s artificial heart that was recently used and empahasized Penn State’s role in technology. “We have graduated more technology students than any other university in the country,” Lilley said. After his speech, Lilley presented the delegates with pam phlets on Penn State and Penn State T-shirts.
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