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
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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.