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Tischler named Director of Summer session
By Judith Faruquee
The appointment of Dr. Nancy
Tischler as director for the
University’s entire summer ses
sions will be taking her away
from teaching at Capitol Campus
for the coming year 1983-84.
Dr. John W. Oswald, Universi
ty President, appointed the
Capitol Campus Professor of
English and Humanities to the
position which is effective July 1,
1983. Tischler’s responsibility will
be coordinating all summer pro
grams that will be offered by the
university in 1984-85 and 86.
Speaking about her new ap
pointment Tischler said, “There
hasn’t been a director since back
in the old days when there was a
semester system. My job will be
to coordinate all summer pro
grams for all campuses in the
University.”
The key word here is coor
dinate. Dr. Tischler will not be
directly involved with the Capitol
Campus summer offerings and
cannot speak of Capitol Campus’
future summer plans. She Said
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to figure what its needs are.”
Tischler will work with deans,
department heads, faculty
members and students to develop
innovative. 4 and attractive summer
programs that will capitalize' on
Penn State’s strength.
Studies will be made to ascer
tain what the market is. “Right
now,” according to Tischler,
“out of 10,000 students that
come to summer session, 40 per
“We don’t need to do
everything for credit.”
Nancy Tischler
Head of Summer session
cent are graduate students and a
large percentage of those are in
education. We need to know what
those graduate students want as
well as th undergraduate.”
“There will be courses that are
one, two, and three weeks long,”
continued Tischler. She said, “We
can draw on some of the non-
traditional students, alumni and
teenagers. We don’t have to do
everything for credit. We can find
out which people would come to
Penn State if we offered courses
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for them and what courses would
be appropriate to offer.”
“Traditionally University Park
does a lot of theatre in summer
and offers mostly liberal arts and
sciences. There is not as much, as
a rule, in engineering or
business,” reflected Tischler.
That is a typical picture at
Capitol Campus during the sum
mer also. “Here,” said Tischler,
“students have on occasion gotten
together in a theatre company. In
the past there have been courses
in children’s theatre and nine
teenth century theatre.”
Tischler who teaches courses in
World Theatre and Southern
Literature is a well-known
authority on Tennessee Williams
and authored the book Tennessee
Williams: Rebellious Puritan. It
looks like the plays of Williams
and Lillian Heilman will be re-
maining on the shelf until Dr.
Tischler resumes teaching at
Capitol Campus next year.
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alive and well at University Park
with Tischler coordinating them.
Tischler joined the faculty in
1966. Before that, she served on
the faculty at George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.,
and at Susquehanna University,
Selinsgrove, PA. At Capitol Cam
pus her many responsibilities have
included: chairperson of
Humanities graduate and
undergraduate programs,
chairperson of Penn State’s
Faculty Senate in 1981-82,
member of Faculty Advisory
Committee to the President and 1
member of the University’s Com
mission for Women.
Tischler earned a baccalaureate
degree at Wilson’s Teacher Col
lege and her master of arts and
doctor of philosophy degrees in
English as the University of
Arkansas. She is a member of
Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Beta
Kappa and was a Fulbright
Scholar.
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