Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Welcome home and welcome to SHSU, vets!
Pass the word around to vets. Sam wants you here. The Admissions office is creating a new Veterans Resource Center as a one-stop service center -- meet other vets, find out how to max out your benefits, especially for those who have served since 9/11/2001. Example: the housing allowance is $1,134 a month! The books allowance is $1,000 a year. Come on, vets. Welcome home and welcome to Sam.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Jim Olson, Author, Teacher, Gentle Man
Sam has a lot of great teachers but Jim Olson is perhaps it’s most celebrated.
He is the only Sam professor to have earned all three of the University’s most prestigious awards – for Teaching, in 1977; for Research in 1988; and for Service in 2005.
He’s the author of more than 40 books and a two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. The publisher of his latest book, the Johns Hopkins University Press, is one of the nation’s most respected publishers.
For all of that, Olson is humble, soft-spoken and unpretentious man, with a great gift of intellect and eloquence as a writer.
His latest book is about cancer and the search for cures, treatments and an understanding of how cancers, in their many forms, begin and spread. If you want to understand the arch of cancer treatment, read his book: “Making Cancer History: Disease and Discovery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.”
He writes about the science, but also about the personalities, the egos, the politics, the rivalries and economics of cancer research and treatment.
Jim Olson knows a lot about cancer, and M.D. Anderson.
“I had cancer. I have cancer. I will always have cancer,” he writes.
Olson has been treated at M.D. Anderson off and on for the last 28 years. It was there that his left arm was amputated, just after Christmas in 1987, to rid him of an epithelioid sarcoma in his wrist that was about to kill him.
“Making Cancer History” is serious but compelling reading. Take this sentence: “For farmers and ranchers in Texas, decades of mending fences, plowing fields, and chasing cattle under cloudless skies and a blistering sun wrinkled their skin until it resembled the cracks and fissures in the parched earth,” as he goes on to make his point that such exposure to ultraviolet radiation elevates the risk of skin cancers – basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas and melanomas.
Olson’s latest feat is a pleasure to read; it will help lay readers better understand one of humankind’s more challenging problems, and may it well earn Jim Olson further awards and honors.
But he will still be on campus this fall, in the classroom, doing what he really loves to do most, teaching freshmen.
He is the only Sam professor to have earned all three of the University’s most prestigious awards – for Teaching, in 1977; for Research in 1988; and for Service in 2005.
He’s the author of more than 40 books and a two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. The publisher of his latest book, the Johns Hopkins University Press, is one of the nation’s most respected publishers.
For all of that, Olson is humble, soft-spoken and unpretentious man, with a great gift of intellect and eloquence as a writer.
His latest book is about cancer and the search for cures, treatments and an understanding of how cancers, in their many forms, begin and spread. If you want to understand the arch of cancer treatment, read his book: “Making Cancer History: Disease and Discovery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.”
He writes about the science, but also about the personalities, the egos, the politics, the rivalries and economics of cancer research and treatment.
Jim Olson knows a lot about cancer, and M.D. Anderson.
“I had cancer. I have cancer. I will always have cancer,” he writes.
Olson has been treated at M.D. Anderson off and on for the last 28 years. It was there that his left arm was amputated, just after Christmas in 1987, to rid him of an epithelioid sarcoma in his wrist that was about to kill him.
“Making Cancer History” is serious but compelling reading. Take this sentence: “For farmers and ranchers in Texas, decades of mending fences, plowing fields, and chasing cattle under cloudless skies and a blistering sun wrinkled their skin until it resembled the cracks and fissures in the parched earth,” as he goes on to make his point that such exposure to ultraviolet radiation elevates the risk of skin cancers – basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas and melanomas.
Olson’s latest feat is a pleasure to read; it will help lay readers better understand one of humankind’s more challenging problems, and may it well earn Jim Olson further awards and honors.
But he will still be on campus this fall, in the classroom, doing what he really loves to do most, teaching freshmen.
Monday, June 29, 2009
INTERNET NOW A DOOR TO A CJ MASTERS
Working full-time, supporting a family and you still want to earn a promotion to a management level position in law enforcement?
Police officers, federal agents and criminal justice professionals across the nation can now earn a master’s degree in criminal justice management, keep their full-time jobs and take the courses from their living rooms.
Sam Houston State University, known internationally for its degree programs in
criminal justice, policing, corrections, security studies, victim studies and forensic sciences, will begin this fall to offer its traditional master’s degree in criminal justice and management via the internet.
Students can complete the program in two years, from home or wherever they have access to the Internet.
“The goal is to provide professionals with easy access to a high-quality graduate degree no matter where they work or live," said the dean of Sam Houston State’s College of Criminal Justice, Vincent Webb.
Driving a long distance to a university campus and taking classes during work hours is not an option for most professionals in law enforcement and criminal justice, he said.
The curriculum includes courses on management and leadership, policing, corrections, the court system, computer applications and a healthy dose of research methods, Webb said.
The program also offers access to technical support 24-hours a day, seven days a week, students will have the opportunity to learn from a faculty that includes internationally recognized experts in criminal justice.
The United States government contracts with Sam Houston State’s highly regarded College of Criminal Justice to train police and law enforcement officers from around the world on its campus in Huntsville, Texas, but also in their home countries.
“This is a quality distance learning degree that graduates will work hard to earn and will be appropriately proud of,” said CJ professor Larry Hoover, who was instrumental in designing the program.
Applicants for the online program must have at least three years of work experience in law enforcement or some field of criminal justice, and already have earned a bachelor’s degree. The application deadline for the fall semester is August 1.
For more information, or to apply online, visit http://www.cjcenter.org/distancelearning, or call Tess Johnson in SHSU’s College of Criminal Justice at (936) 294.4326.
Police officers, federal agents and criminal justice professionals across the nation can now earn a master’s degree in criminal justice management, keep their full-time jobs and take the courses from their living rooms.
Sam Houston State University, known internationally for its degree programs in
criminal justice, policing, corrections, security studies, victim studies and forensic sciences, will begin this fall to offer its traditional master’s degree in criminal justice and management via the internet.
Students can complete the program in two years, from home or wherever they have access to the Internet.
“The goal is to provide professionals with easy access to a high-quality graduate degree no matter where they work or live," said the dean of Sam Houston State’s College of Criminal Justice, Vincent Webb.
Driving a long distance to a university campus and taking classes during work hours is not an option for most professionals in law enforcement and criminal justice, he said.
The curriculum includes courses on management and leadership, policing, corrections, the court system, computer applications and a healthy dose of research methods, Webb said.
The program also offers access to technical support 24-hours a day, seven days a week, students will have the opportunity to learn from a faculty that includes internationally recognized experts in criminal justice.
The United States government contracts with Sam Houston State’s highly regarded College of Criminal Justice to train police and law enforcement officers from around the world on its campus in Huntsville, Texas, but also in their home countries.
“This is a quality distance learning degree that graduates will work hard to earn and will be appropriately proud of,” said CJ professor Larry Hoover, who was instrumental in designing the program.
Applicants for the online program must have at least three years of work experience in law enforcement or some field of criminal justice, and already have earned a bachelor’s degree. The application deadline for the fall semester is August 1.
For more information, or to apply online, visit http://www.cjcenter.org/distancelearning, or call Tess Johnson in SHSU’s College of Criminal Justice at (936) 294.4326.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Web Site Writing Seminar
Stamats, our web site redesign firm will be back on campus July 23 and 24th to conduct "Writing for the Web" seminars. If interested contact anneo@shsu.edu.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
More great teachers
Ask any Sam alum and he or she will tell stories about great teachers they had at Sam. This is not just PR. It's a fact. Sam is large enough to attract great teachers and small enough that every Sam student is going to have the privilege of learning from them. Here's a good example. It's from a column written by 'Doc' Blakely in the Wharton (TX) Journal-Spectator:
"One of my agriculture professors at Sam Houston State University had such an impact on me that I still have flashbacks to some of his life lessons, especially with every spring garden. Dr. Shackelford was an East Texas boy who probably should never have left the farm but like he used to say, "A Grapefruit is just a Lemon who had a chance and took it."
"One of my agriculture professors at Sam Houston State University had such an impact on me that I still have flashbacks to some of his life lessons, especially with every spring garden. Dr. Shackelford was an East Texas boy who probably should never have left the farm but like he used to say, "A Grapefruit is just a Lemon who had a chance and took it."
Everybody called him affectionately 'Dr. Shack.' He was an agronomist and horticulturist. He loved to tell stories about his days growing up on a farm and how he was inspired to get off it."
If you have had your own story about a great teacher, we'd like to hear it.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Hey, Veterans, welcome home and welcome to Sam.
To serve you better, we're creating a new Veterans Center where you can hang out with other veterans and reservists; we have several hundred enrolled as students here. Also, we're holding a orientation especially designed to answer your questions about using your GI Bill bene's, other sources of financial aid, and academic advising and support. That Orientation will be August 6 in the Lowman Student Center. For more info, call Teresa Ringo at 936.294.1061 or email her at tringo@shsu.edu.
To serve you better, we're creating a new Veterans Center where you can hang out with other veterans and reservists; we have several hundred enrolled as students here. Also, we're holding a orientation especially designed to answer your questions about using your GI Bill bene's, other sources of financial aid, and academic advising and support. That Orientation will be August 6 in the Lowman Student Center. For more info, call Teresa Ringo at 936.294.1061 or email her at tringo@shsu.edu.
Web Site Redesign Updates
Our Stamats team returned to campus - see Today@Sam for photo and related story as our web site redesign project moves forward. Web site key messages include our high quality education with a high return on investment, the up close and personal caring found at SHSU, and our culture and traditions. Faculty and student success stories will appear throughout the web site pages. Plus, we'll have some WOW features that you'll want to see on Aug 27th when Dr. Gaertner reveals the design at the Faculty/Staff meeting.
Your web site redesign comments are invited and students interested in participating in a focus group on Wed, July 22, please contact me here or at anneo@shsu.edu.
Your web site redesign comments are invited and students interested in participating in a focus group on Wed, July 22, please contact me here or at anneo@shsu.edu.
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