Page 2 Behrend Briefs Personal Growth Group: The next session is scheduled for Feb. 3 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. If you are interested please contact Louanne Barton at 898-6164. Psychology Club Meeting: All current and new members are welcome to attend the meetings scheduled on Wednesdays from 4-5 p.m. in the Tigress Hall Conference Room. For information call Julie Tock at 898-6536 or Jason Flesher at 898-6848. Scholarship News: There will be a Truman Scholarship Information Meeting on Feb. 4 in the Reed Conference Room from 4- 5:30 p.m. The scholarship is designed for sophomore students interested in pursuing a career in public service. For more information call Mari Trenkle at 898-6160. Universty Scholarship Program: An informational meeting is scheduled for Feb. 13 at 5:15 p.m. in Reed 116. Freshmen and sophomores interested are welcome to attend, For more information, call Mari Trenkle at 898-6160. Tutors Needed: The Penn State-Bchrcnd Elementary School Volunteer Tutoring Program begins Feb. 4 and 5. No previous experience required since training and transportation are provided. Applications are available in the Office of Student Activities/Union, Ist floor Reed. Deadline for applications is Jan. 30. For more information call Mari Trenkle at 898-6160. PSD Education Abroad Deadline: Applications for spring 1993 semester will be taken until March 1. Some summer Study Abroad programs and French, German and Business programs in Europe are also available. For more information, please contact Mari Trenkle at 898-6160. Van to Worship Service: Wesleyville United Methodist Church is sending a van to campus to take students to its 11 a.m. Sunday service. The van will be in the Reed parking lot between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. and will return to campus after the service. All students are welcome. Free Tutoring Available: All Behrend students arc welcome to utilize the Learning Assistance Center’s services. Student and faculty tutors are on duty, offering help with many subjects. For more information call 898- 6014 or drop by the Center located in the South Cottage. Commu Majors: Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society in Communications will meet every Monday at 6:30 p.m. in Reed 116. Anyone interested in working with the society is encouraged to attend. Wanna Brief? If your organization has information you would like to see run in the Behrend Briefs, write it down and bring it to The Collegian office. All Commu 001 Students: Take Note: students arc reminded that The Collegian' s weekly meetings arc held on Thursdays in Turnbull 204 at 6:10 p.m. Anyone interested in working for The Collegian is encouraged to attend. The Collegian Search for division head... (Continued from page 1) large degree of administrative talent. "The candidate would have to have an established record of scholarly research -- papers published, books written -- since the candidate would have to be appointed to full professor in order to become head of the division," said Frankfortcr. "The candidate would also have to have a degree of humanistic talent as well as administrative talent." Frankfortcr added he imagined a doctorate degree, or the equivalent for art degree holders, would be required. The new division head, according to Frankfortcr, Police Re Reed furniture vandalized Police and Safely officers are from the TV lounge on the first by telephone were reported over currently investigating the floor of the Reed building. the weekend. The incidents are vandalism of furniture over the under investigation weekend. The furniture was taken Thursday, January 30, 1992 will have perennial challenges. "The new head will be doing many difficult things, including recruiting faculty. We arc filling five positions at the moment; just one of those positions had 250 applicants," he said. "Another task is working with the current faculty and staff to build their careers and professional dossiers." Money, or lack of it, is another problem Frankfortcr's successor will have. "The new head will have to supervise a number of budgets, many of which haven't grown in the past four or five years," said Frankfortcr. Additional issues include the Three cases of harrassment integration of the diversity requirement and the new writing across the curriculum program, which encourages all students to "write to learn,” regardless of their major. Frankfortcr, who has served as acting division head for the past two years, said he didn't want the position because his calling is in the classroom. "I never thought of myself as an administrator. An academic administrator is a special career, something far different from teaching," he said. "I'm looking forward to getting back to leaching and writing."
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