PSU Magazine Summer 1987

-----·CAMPUS NOTES·----- Emlen, Enneking win Millar, Hoffman awards Two PSU faculty members have been honored by their peers for their years of teaching excellence, research and service to the University and community. Arthur C. Emlen, professor of social work, has won the Branford Price Millar Award for Faculty Excellence, and Marjorie A. Enneking, professor of mathematics, has received the George and Virginia Hoffmann Award for Excellence. The awards were presented at spring com– mencement, June 12. Emlen, who came to Portland State in 1965, h as served as director of the Regional Research Institute for Human Services since 1974. While at PSU h e h as conducted pioneering research in the areas of child care and work-family issues. Recent studies led by Emlen have helped to generate public-private cooperation in the pro– vision of day care and have encour– aged establishment of employer-based child care information and referral systems. "His research is relied upon by advocates, corporate executives and public policymakers across the country," said Dana A. Friedman, senior research associate of The Conference Board Work and Family Information Center in New York. "His work has been instrumental in securing needed funds for better quality child care services." Emlen also was honored last month in Washington, D.C. with a special award from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Cited was Emlen's pioneering work in permanency planning, a concept that encourages states to plan toward a permanent family status for all children who receive public child welfare services. Marjorie Enneking, who has been at PSU since 1968, is widely known for her commitment to the improvement of the teaching of mathematics. She is a founding member of the Oregon Mathematics Education Council and is Arthur Emlen Marjorie Enneking co-editor of The Oregon Mathematics Teacher. For the past two years, Enneking h as directed a national model project for alternative approaches to the teaching of secondary mathematics, with funding from the National Science Foundation. The program brings teachers from throughout the region to PSU each summer. During the past ten years, Enneking has developed and coordinated graduate and certification programs in mathematics for teachers. She also talks regularly to groups of middle and high school students about careers that use mathematics. Enneking is also known as a gifted teacher. Said one former student, "Her concern for her students and for Portland State University shows in everything she does, and her love of mathematics and teaching is infectious." The Millar Award is named for the University's second president and the Hoffmann Award for the retired Dean of Social Science. Alum wins drawing Guy Eichsteadt ('71) is the winner of PSU's Missing Viking contest, launched last fall. Eichsteadt won two round-trip tickets to Copenhagen in the drawing. Eichsteadt, who has worked with the Boy Scouts of America ever since graduating from PSU, submitted the names of three missing PSU alumni to qualify for the drawing. The contest, which was an effort to track down lost alumni, netted over a thousand names, said organizer John Eccles ('69). PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 22 Minority efforts enhanced at PSU A new PSU affirmative action officer has been appointed on the heels of the president's announcement of an eight-point affirmative action program. Jacquelyn Y. Harrell, chief of employee relations for the Texas Department of Corrections, is PSU's new affirmative action officer effective July 1. She replaces Major Morris, who retired this spring. Harrell, who has a law degree from Texas Southern University, imple– mented the affirmative action plan for 12,000 Texas corrections employees and served as assistant director of affirmative action programs at the University of Miami. In April, President Sicuro recom– mitted the University to equal educa– tional access and quality for students, faculty and staff. Sicuro's plan in– cludes: formation of a Minority Affairs Council and an Office of Minority Student Affairs; appointment of a Black Studies Program Advisory Council; activation of a tuition-waiving program for under-represented minority students from Oregon high schools; raising scholarship funds for minorities preparing for faculty posi– tions in higher education; and a charge to the University Advisory Board to maintain a broad perspective on and involvement in minority affairs. The president also charged that the new affirmative action officer would act as liaison to all these areas. Four vice provosts named in restructuring New PSU Provost Frank Martino will have four vice provosts working with him, as the result of President Natale Sicuro's restructuring of the Office of Academic Affairs. All four vice provosts are seasoned PSU faculty and administrators. The four vice provosts and their areas of responsibility are: Michael ' •