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Regents executive director meets with BHSU personnel

Perry meet with a group of practice teachers to discuss the role of technology in the classroom. He sought their views on technology preparation for teachers and how it's implemented in the classroom.

The executive director took time following his student teacher session to field additional questions from Vince Hafner, who is practice teaching in a third-grade classroom in Sturgis.

Perry participates in national business education conference

The theme of the convention and trade show is “Real Time, Real World: Accepting the Challenges of 2000 and Beyond.” He will serve as an assistant coordinator for the National Association of Business Teacher Education (NABTE) research session at the convention.

According to the BH business professor the association is trying to put together a list of colleges and universities that offer business-education courses, particularly in the western region. He noted that there are no business-teacher education courses available in Nevada and Oregon. When completed, the survey list should include distance education offerings available by correspondence, Internet, and satellite, at institutions in the west region. They expect to catalog the courses for students wanting to enter the business teaching profession.

Perry has been a member of the BHSU business faculty since 1965. He has a Ph.D. in business-teacher education from the University of Northern Colorado.

Simpson releases recording of original folk songs

The CD, Ozzie's Guitar, is available at the BH bookstore, at http://www.cdbaby.com/simpson (real audio clips available), at Borders, Common Grounds, Moyes Music, and Whispering Pines in Deadwood.

BH students earn excellence in writing awards - Top

Black Hills State hosts 8^th annual student volunteer awards banquet - Top

The theme for the banquet was “An Evening of Stars.” The annual awards ceremony recognizes volunteerism and leadership among individuals and student organizations at BHSU. Student award winners were nominated by fellow students, faculty, staff members, organization advisors and administrators who identified their contribution to the university.

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Bomengen wins Spirit of BH award - Top

Students and alumni were honored recently at the 8^th annual Student Volunteer Awards Banquet at Black Hills State University. The coveted Spirit of BH Award was presented to Lisa Bomengen, a senior business-education major from Sundance, Wyo., who in addition to being an honor student is also a gifted athlete.

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Shawn Rost named outstanding BH alumnus - Top

Shawn Rost was honored as the Black Hills State University Alumni Association young alumnus of the year at the university's 8^th annual Student Volunteer Awards Banquet.

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Poet will give a public reading at BH - Top

Crunk is a native of western Kentucky and is currently a professor of English at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Drawing on his own rural background, Living in the Resurrection is a series of tightly connected poems that chronicle the attempt of the volume's narrator to reconnect himself to his cultural and familial past. Faced with the devastation of the rural landscape, the erosion of traditional religious values, and the fragmentation of the modern family, the speaker seeks to infuse lost folkways with new meaning.

Crunk's interest in reclaiming a lost agrarian past is also evident in his second volume, New Covenant Bound. Between 1936 and 1968, nearly 7,000 families from western Kentucky and Tennessee were removed from their homes by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Army Corps of Engineers. Once the families were displaced, the land was flooded to

Crunk's first volume, Living in the Resurrection, was selected by James Dickey as the 1994 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Previous winners of this prestigious award include Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, James Tate, John Ashberry, and Carolyn Forché.

Crunk's visit is sponsored by the Black Hills State University English department and is part of a coordinated effort to introduce students to contemporary poetry. Crunk will visit BHSU English classes April 17^th and 18^th. To augment these classroom visits, nearly 200 students will study Living in the Resurrection as part of a common reading program. The Bush Foundation and the BHSU instructional committee provided funds for Crunk's visit.

For more information contact Dr. Vincent King at 642-6502 or by email at vking@bhsu.edu .

Crisis intervention seminar will be held in Heidepriem Hall - Top

PBL to sponsor blood drive - Top

Perry encourages BHSU faculty and staff to take this opportunity to celebrate life by donating blood.

South Dakota political science and public affairs conference to be held at BHSU - Top

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Native American political activist to speak to BHSU students - Top

Day will present “Reign of Terror,” a discussion of the ongoing, nationwide campaign to gain freedom for Leonard Peltier, a Native American leader who has been declared a political prisoner by Amnesty International.

Comedian will perform at Black Hills State - Top

Students to perform “Come Blow Your Horn” - Top

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PEARL club sponsoring a mini-march on Lookout Mountain - Top

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Whirlwind Horse Memorial Run and Walk is April 15 - Top

Williams and Ree will return to BHSU - Top

Williams and Ree, the comedy team that met while attending Black Hills State, will return to their alma mater for a show Tuesday, April 25 at 7 p.m. at the David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union multi-purpose room.

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Faculty and staff invited to join in disc golf tournament - Top

BHSU faculty, staff and student get a great deal. If

Minutes of the university assessment committee - Top

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Instructional improvement committee taking applications for course releases - Top

Course releases are available to any full-time faculty member with the approval of his/her dean and department chair. Course releases will be for one semester during the regular academic year. Consideration will be given for summer stipends for faculty unable to apply for a course release for the regular academic year because of documented departmental staffing problems.

• design a new course which will be infused with technology or offered through the internet;
• redesign an existing course so that it is infused with technology or offered for internet delivery;
• design a new course or redesign an existing course to be presented collaboratively with other BHSU faculty;
• significantly redesign an existing course; or
• design a new course.

Any full-time faculty member, full-time adjunct faculty or other full time staff member engaged in student instruction may apply for grant funds administered by the committee. Grant funding will normally be available up to a maximum of $1,000 per project. Priority will be given to projects that will have a broad-based, visible, continuing impact of instruction across faculty members and/or disciplines. Funds are available for development of materials and methods to improve teaching and learning, equipment to enhance teaching and learning, travel to conferences or workshops which enhance teaching and learning, and bringing consulting

Proposals for grant funding will be reviewed by the IIC on a monthly basis. The deadline for submission will be the last Friday of each month; a decision will be made as soon as practicable on each proposal. Ten copies of the proposals should be submitted to the grants and special projects office, W220, or to the chair of the committee, Sharon Strand. Proposals will consist of proposal and budget outlines following the specified format available at the grants and special projects web page.

Faculty-research committee has funds available - Top

It is anticipated that successful applicants will request support for faculty release time, research equipment, travel to research sites, research support for the production of creative work. Preference is given to new applicants particularly in the areas of education, business, social sciences and humanities.Two three-hour release times are available for spring of 2001. You can apply now.

The research committee will not provide salary. The committee may approve payment to student or non-student research assistants. Mail ten copies of your proposal to unit 9550.