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As noted in 21 (of the) Best Facebook Guides, Tools and Rants of 2012 So Far a few months back, Facebook remains the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking world. It's now exceeded one billion users, and as noted below, 80% of all businesses maintain an active Facebook presence.
But its incessant changes, moves to charge brands and celebrities for exposure they've become accustomed to getting for free, and possibly even (gasp!) aging demographic may be cause for concern.
Will Facebook lose ground to Google+? Is it becoming uncool? Or if not—how have recent changes in Facebook's layout changed best practices for marketers? what are the secrets to Facebook advertising success?
Find the answers to these questions and more here in two dozen of the best Facebook guides, tips, stats, facts, raves and rants of 2012.
Facebook Tips and Guides
The Simple Science of Facebook Engagement by MyBeak Social Media
Laura-Lee Walker shares an infographic that reveals the "formula to follow" for greater engagement on Facebook. Among the key findings: "Include images with posts. This increases the likelihood that fans will engage with your fan page (39 percent higher than average)." The infographic also shows the best (and worst) times to post, contest ideas, "winning words" to include in updates and more.
SEO for Facebook – New Video Revealed by Search Engine Journal
Adria Saracino points readers to a video produced by Facebook that provides business owners and marketers with tips on how to optimize their Facebook pages for search engines. She writes that "The video takes users step-by-step through a number of processes for building an optimized Facebook page with a good name and quality, relevant content."
How to Add A Twitter Tab to Your Facebook Page [Quicktip] by Hongkiat
Mustaza Mustafa presents a richly illustrated, step-by-step process for using the CertifiedSeller app to add a Twitter profile link to your tab on Facebook timeline. Commenters note that Facebook could certainly do something to make this process easier, but the method here does work.
Nine Ways To Improve Your Facebook Engagement and ROI by MENGonline
David Lund details nine tactics for improving marketing effectiveness on Facebook, such as "Use Facebook to communicate your new news and introduce new products. Your followers are more interested than most consumers in news about your products and brand. They will likely be early adopters and advocates that can help build word of mouth BUZZ about your new products." Though targeted at consumer marketers, many of the tips apply to b2b marketing as well.
Understanding the 6 Facebook Post Types by Practical eCommerce
Paul Chaney explains in detail the six types of posts that can be added to a Facebook page along with "reasons why you would use them and best practices for each post type" and tips for the best use of each post type, for example on video posts, "Don't put logos in the video. Harvard researchers found that the more prominent or intrusive the logo, the more likely viewers are to stop watching, even if they know and like the brand."
How to Do a Facebook Personal Profile Security Audit by Seriously Social
Ian Anderson Gray shows how to do an in-depth personal security audit on Facebook, covering everything from password updates and recognized devices to adding a "do not track" plugin and navigating Facebook's privacy settings. While this process is for personal profiles, Ian notes "if you do manage a Facebook page, make sure all your admins run a security audit on their personal profiles each month. There are serious issues here, because your page could be compromised by the security settings of one of your page's administrators."
Social Media Marketing: How I found the Facebook topic that was 371% more effective by MarketingSherpa
Jonathan Greene provides a detailed, illustrated five-step process for using Facebook Insights to identify patterns and trends that can make your social media marketing much more effective, or as he puts it, "Filtering your posts by certain KPIs might reveal very rewarding patterns in engagement and syndication, which could be the push you need to take your social campaigns to the next level."
13 ways to boost your Facebook Page reach by Socialbrite
Arguing that "Marketers who are whining about (Facebook forcing people to pay to have their page updates reach their Facebook fans) need to put down the tissues and realize that promoted posts are simply one option among many to amplify reach," John Haydon delves into the inner workings of Facebook's EdgeRank algorithm and offers 13 recommendations for reaching fans without writing a check, including posting awesome content (based on thorough analysis of past performance) and using your blog, events and webinars to increase visibility.
5 Successful Facebook Marketing Campaigns – Case Studies by jeffbullas.com
It's easy to generate tremendous traffic and buzz on Facebook if you're a major brand advertiser with buckets of money to spend, but what about small businesses with much more limited means? Jeff Bullas very helpfully here offers small to midsized business marketers some proven tactics for Facebook marketing success and then shares five case studies from small firms that have made a splash on the giant social network with cleverness and creativity, on a budget.
Stop Looking at Facebook's Insights by Inkling Media
Ken Mueller makes a compelling case for, well, not quite ignoring Facebook's Insights, but at least putting those numbers in proper perspective. Noting that "I honestly put very little weight in Facebook insights. They change how things are measured on a regular basis, and if you spend any time poring over the numbers, you know they clearly don't add up. I wish they did, but they don't," he outlines five reasons not to obsess over these metrics—and what to focus on instead.
Facebook Changes
Facebook Promoted Posts and Other Recent Updates of 2012 by Vertical Measures
Sarah Schager shares updates on nine post-Timeline Facebook changes, including promoted posts (only for brands with at least 400 fans), changes to how to links are handled within status updates, events, and the inclusion of mobile views in the reach metric (finally).
Facebook Simplifies Ad Creation With Redesigned Self-Serve Tool by Sprout Social
Jennifer Beese explains Facebook's recent changes to its self-service ad creation tool and notes "Once you've chosen what you'd like to advertise and listed your main objective, Facebook will recommend a combination of traditional sidebar ads and Sponsored Stories. Additionally, you'll receive a preview of how our Sponsored Stories will appear in people's' News Feeds."
12 Latest Facebook Page Features You Might Have Missed by Social @ Blogging Tracker
The delightful Wong Ching Ya details a dozen of Facebook's relatively new features, including onsite notification (which provides page administrators with "instant page notifications in your profile's homepage for new posts, fan messages, comments or whenever someone liked your page posts"), target page posts, and Facebook custom audiences ("Brand pages can now target their offline audiences on Facebook through relevant ads by uploading info such as email addresses, phone numbers or Facebook user IDs").
Facebook Advertising
10 Examples of Facebook Ads That Actually Work (And Why) by HubSpot
You've probably read about the dismal click-through rates for Facebook ads, but Dan Slagen here offers guidance on beating the averages through high relevance and a compelling call to action, then presents examples of brands generating strong performance with Facebook advertising.
Facebook Upgrades Small Business Site by MediaPost
Noting that small business advertisers are vital to Facebook (and Facebook is an important marketing platform for many small businesses), Mark Walsh reports on efforts by Facebook to help small businesses create more effective ads and generally use the social network more effectively, including tips like: "Ensure you know people are coming to your business because they found you on Facebook: whisper codes, unique Facebook links to your site, friend referrals, exclusive Facebook discounts. Also, put your Facebook URL on more of your in-store materials—receipts, napkins, brochures, etc., to increase fanning of your Page."
15 Tips For A Successful Facebook Ads Program by MediaWhiz
Adam Riff shares 15 "secrets" to optimize Facebook advertising, such as rotating ads frequently to combat banner blindness, tracking metrics beyond basic "likes," testing occupational targeting, and leveraging Facebook data to make smarter media buys through other channels ("The great thing about Facebook data is that it can give you insights about your consumer base that you might not have otherwise known").
A Simple Breakdown of All Your Facebook Advertising Options by HubSpot
Noting that "Facebook seems to be launching a new form of advertising—or some new feature within the advertising—every day," Amanda Sibley details the features and usage of Facebook's five forms of on-page advertising in this thorough and helpfully illustrated post.
Facebook Stats
Facebook 2012 Facts and Figures for Small Business Success by MyBeak Social Media
Laura-Lee Walker (again) shares a huge collection of Facebook facts in this infographic, such as that 58% of Facebook's one billion+ users visit the site daily; the average Facebook visits lasts 20 minutes; 80% of businesses are active on Facebook; the two most popular apps are the Blackberry Smartphones App and Texas Holdem Poker; and much, much more.
Facebook Focused On Upping Services For Small Businesses by MediaPost
Frequent best-of writer Laurie Sullivan reports on Facebook's efforts to make it simple for small businesses to connect with their customers on Facebook, noting "About one-third of the 100,000 small businesses that have published Offers are new Facebook advertisers, and about 30% are claimed on mobile devices," and that "Facebook (now) supports more than 13 million small and local business pages."
Facebook Rants and Raves
Is Google Unstoppable? by MediaPost
John Capone details advertising statistics and projections that suggest, over the next couple of years, in terms of advertising revenue, "Google will begin to leave Facebook and the rest (of the major ad sellers) in the dust." He describes Google as The Predator of the online advertising world, while Facebook is more like Barney the purple dinosaur.
5 reasons your brand doesn't need Facebook by iMedia Connection
Peter Platt sets out to dispel five "myths" of Facebook marketing, among them that Facebook is an engagement platform for brands: "A couple of years back, we wanted to 'like' brands so we could see what their offers were. But all too often, brands became that annoying friend who posted too much, and we quickly learned to hide or unfriend those brands. Brands also started building out complex Facebook platforms with lots of functionality and engagement tools, but the reality is that the news feed is the core of Facebook activity. Complex portals garner some interest, but at the end of the day, the news feed is where most of the users are."
Before You Buy Into The 'Zuckerberg Put': 5 Things Facebook's CEO Won't Tell You by Seeking Alpha
Kyle Spencer advises investors that although Mark Zuckerberg may have discovered he really does need to listen to the market, there are five things to keep in mind before diving into this stock, such as that the kids are somewhere else: "There was a time when Facebook was cool. Not anymore. 65% of Facebook users are 35 and older, and adults are the fastest growing demographic…Why is it important where teens hang out? Because parents follow their kids around on the Internet. Teens are the first adopters, the fastest social innovators and have more free time to surf the net. Jumping ship keeps teenagers one step ahead of mom and dad. Remember AOL? It's an old folks home, now."
Facebook is for Likes Not Leads by Brent Price Carnduff
Writing that "The truth is, most of those 900 million people (actually over a billion now) aren't there to be marketed to. And frankly, Facebook doesn't make it that easy for businesses to connect with them," Brent Carnduff outlines what he believes Facebook can, and can't, do for marketers and business owners.
Facebook: Are the Good Times Really Over for Good? by WindMill Networking
Chris Treadaway laments recent changes by Facebook that make it more expensive—much more expensive—for brands to reach fans with their content. He cites recent criticism of the social media network by Mark Cuban, George Takei, and a range of Facebook community managers, yet in the end concludes "It's going to cost us more to do the things that we've gotten for low cost so far…but we won't go anywhere." Maybe.


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Aviva Premiership Comment
Why has Neil Back been rubbed out of history?
Hugh Godwin
January 5, 2013
Former Leicester favourite Neil Back is the most prolific tryscorer in the history of English league rugby © PA Photos
Try scorers in England's top division from start of leagues in 1987 (at January 3, 2013):
There has been a lot of comment of late over Mark Cueto equalling Steve Hanley's record for Premiership tries. The pair of Sale wings - Hanley retired in 2008 due to a back injury, Cueto is still a going concern - have each scored 75 times in the Premiership.
With a fair wind and notwithstanding the Sharks' dire position in the Premiership, the record should fall to Cueto very soon. And, by the way, Tom Varndell is not too far off surpassing Hanley, either, with 70 Premiership tries for Leicester and his current club Wasps at the time of writing.
Only one problem: why has Neil Back been rubbed out of history? You remember him? 'Backy', king of the line-out drive at Leicester, master of nosing his way over the goalline while Martin Johnson and the ABC Club kept the opposition forwards at bay.
There was a great story a few years ago that a well-known bookmaker stopped taking bets on Back to score a try as the well-informed were making a killing on him. As the mention of Cueto, Hanley and Varndell above demonstrates, the odds are normally led by wings not flankers. Tigers supporters would pile their money on Back at double-figure odds and clean up.
As Harlequins' captain Chris Robshaw said recently, "you always knew when Leicester went to the corner, they would come away with points". And that's what Robshaw wants Quins to be feared for: scoring from every kind of position. The point being that the record try-scorer in the English top division is not Cueto or Hanley - it is Back, who scored 77 times for Leicester between 1990 and 2005.
The distinction is that the 'Premiership' began in 1997, concurrent with Allied Dunbar's sponsorship. But why this should effectively expunge the records from the 10 seasons of league rugby in England that preceded it escapes me. At the risk of a pun where Back's bonce is concerned, is this splitting hairs?
No, to me it's the same as the argument in football over quoting statistics from the Premier League from its inception in 1992 as if the old Division One never happened. Yet if you ask Liverpool or Manchester United how many league titles they have won, they don't start the calculation from 21 years ago.
Ditto the Champions League. If United look with pride on their recent successes in that competition, they would rather set up home at Anfield than ignore the glory night in 1968 when they won the European Cup. One was the forerunner of the other and deserves to be bracketed with it in terms of records.
Now, a certain amount of historical revisionism is a good thing. In a recent documentary the actor Hugh Bonneville was pretty disgusted to find a museum to Stalin in Georgia unfettered by any insight into the Soviet despot's reign of terror.
As far as I can tell there is no malign intent by rugby's commentators constantly referring to Hanley and Cueto but missing out Back. This is not an attempt to foist a Pol Pot style Year Zero on the game.
And, yes, there was a certain delineation in the forming of the Premiership. It was given impetus by the game going open in 1995 and introduced stuff like the salary cap and promotion criteria though not straight away (the cap started in 1999).
It did however suit the sponsors and broadcasters - both in 1997 and now - to view the Premiership as a new beginning. When, really, it was little more than a change of name: a rebranding of what had started in the 1987-88 season as the Courage Leagues.
If they had wanted to make it a proper clean break they should have got everyone to re-qualify for the top division in 1997.
Instead the participants in the Premiership's 'first' season were just the same clubs from the 1996-97 season before, plus Richmond and Newcastle promoted from Division Two. Varndell told me recently that he was keen on breaking the career record - as well as the one for a single season, which the Wasps wing has gone to the trouble of checking was 17 by Richmond's Dominic Chapman.
Hanley was modelled on the Jonah Lomu prototype, but he could run round as well as over you. It is true he is best remembered outside the North West of England for being clattered by the equally outsized Craig Quinnell in the Wembley meeting won by Wales in 1999.
Lacking the elephant gun that commentator Bill McLaren recommended for bringing Quinnell down, the then 19-year-old Hanley approached the rampaging Welshman with neither the plan nor the body position required and was bounced onto his backside, suffering a broken arm in the process. But Hanley, true to his statistics, also scored a try on that one and only England appearance, taking an inside line off Mike Catt at fly-half for a short run-in.
I don't think either Hanley - whose beaming smile remains evident at the Salford City Stadium, as 'Stan' still works for Sale's commercial department - or the graceful Varndell would wish to gloss over Back's achievements. It may be they simply do not realise.
Wikipedia records Hanley thus: "He scored 104 tries in 191 games, 75 of which were in the Premiership which remains a league record." Er, not quite.
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Testing Methodologies Explained
Main Test System
Processor: Intel i7 3930K @ 4.5GHz
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB @ 1866MHz
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 WS
Cooling: Corsair H80
SSD: 2x Corsair Performance Pro 256GB
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200
Monitor: Samsung 305T / 3x Acer 235Hz
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate N x64 SP1
Acoustical Test System
Processor: Intel 2600K @ stock
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB 1600MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Passive
SSD: Corsair Performance Pro 256GB
Power Supply: Seasonic X-Series Gold 800W
NVIDIA 320.29 Beta
AMD 13.5 Beta 2
- All games tested have been patched to their latest version
- The OS has had all the latest hotfixes and updates installed
- All scores you see are the averages after 3 benchmark runs
All IQ settings were adjusted in-game and all GPU control panels were set to use application settings
The Methodology of Frame Time Testing, Distilled
How do you benchmark an onscreen experience? That question has plagued graphics card evaluations for years. While framerates give an accurate measurement of raw performance , theres a lot more going on behind the scenes which a basic frames per second measurement by FRAPS or a similar application just cant show. A good example of this is how stuttering can occur but may not be picked up by typical min/max/average benchmarking.
Before we go on, a basic explanation of FRAPS frames per second benchmarking method is important. FRAPS determines FPS rates by simply logging and averaging out how many frames are rendered within a single second. The average framerate measurement is taken by dividing the total number of rendered frames by the length of the benchmark being run. For example, if a 60 second sequence is used and the GPU renders 4,000 frames over the course of that time, the average result will be 66.67FPS. The minimum and maximum values meanwhile are simply two data points representing single second intervals which took the longest and shortest amount of time to render. Combining these values together gives an accurate, albeit very narrow snapshot of graphics subsystem performance and it isnt quite representative of what youll actually see on the screen.
FRAPS also has the capability to log average framerates for each second of a benchmark sequence, resulting in the FPS over time graphs we use in the FIRSt part of this review. It does this by simply logging the reported framerate result once per second. However, in real world applications, a single second is actually a long period of time, meaning the human eye can pick up on onscreen deviations much quicker than this method can actually report them. So what can actually happens within each second of time? A whole lot since each second of gameplay time can consist of dozens or even hundreds (if your graphics card is fast enough) of frames. This brings us to frame time testing and where the Frame Time Analysis Tool gets factored into this equation.
Frame times simply represent the length of time (in milliseconds) it takes the graphics card to render and display each individual frame. Measuring the interval between frames allows for a detailed millisecond by millisecond evaluation of frame times rather than averaging things out over a full second. The larger the amount of time, the longer each frame takes to render. This detailed reporting just isnt possible with standard benchmark methods.
Frame Time Testing & FCAT
To put a meaningful spin on frame times, we can equate them directly to framerates. A constant 60 frames across a single second would lead to an individual frame time of 1/60th of a second or about 17 milliseconds, 33ms equals 30 FPS, 50ms is about 20FPS and so on. Contrary to framerate evaluation results, in this case higher frame times are actually worse since they would represent a longer interim waiting period between each frame.
With the milliseconds to frames per second conversion in mind, the magical maximum number were looking for is 28ms or about 35FPS. If too much time spent above that point, performance suffers and the in game experience will begin to degrade.
Consistency is a major factor here as well. Too much variation in adjacent frames could induce stutter or slowdowns. For example, spiking up and down from 13ms (75 FPS) to 28ms (35 FPS) several times over the course of a second would lead to an experience which is anything but fluid. However, even though deviations between slightly lower frame times (say 10ms and 25ms) wouldnt be as noticeable, some sensitive individuals may still pick up a slight amount of stuttering. As such, the less variation the better the experience.
In order to determine accurate onscreen frame times, a decision has been made to move away from FRAPS and instead implement real-time frame capture into our testing. This involves the use of a secondary system with a capture card and an ultra-fast storage subsystem (in our case five SanDisk Extreme 240GB drives hooked up to an internal PCI-E RAID card) hooked up to our primary test rig via a DVI splitter. Essentially, the capture card records a high bitrate video of whatever is displayed from the primary systems graphics card, allowing us to get a real-time snapshot of what would normally be sent directly to the monitor. By using NVIDIAs Frame Capture Analysis Tool (FCAT), each and every frame is dissected and then processed in an effort to accurately determine latencies, frame rates and other aspects.
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Author Notes: I refuse on principle to make pasta with butter (or powdered cheese) for my children. So I respond with this crowd-pleaser and artery-clogger. I prepared this version for my daughter's slumber party, and everyone loved it (even the vegetarian). Quick to prepare and easy to have on hand. Modify quantities and proportions as you will. Note use of complete packages below. I totally prefer American bacon to pancetta for its crispness in this dish. —Eric Liftin
Food52 Review: A good carbonara is not easy to find -- nor, for that matter, to make. We found the silky, rich sauce resulting from generous doses of bacon, egg and cheese totally addictive, and peas are a great addition. We also love the story behind Eric's recipe. After all, feeding one's children is often a necessity that breeds culinary invention. Because one of us (we won't name names) suffers the chronic plight of scrambling her eggs when she makes carbonara, we tempered the egg and cheese mixture by whisking in about 1/2 cup of the hot pasta water before adding the spaghetti. 10 oz. is a whole lotta peas (we're guessing Eric's kids are fans), so feel free to take his advice and modify the proportions. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: about 6
pound dried spaghetti
pound bacon
ounces frozen peas (1 package)
cup fresh grated parmesan
black pepper
- Start cooking the pasta (I have long subscribed to the less-water method Harold McGee addresses here).
- Take the bacon out of the package, cold out of the refrigerator, and cut across the slices into 1/2" wide blocks. Cook in a skillet over medium heat, stirring and breaking up the blocks with a wooden spoon.
- Dump the peas into a Pyrex bowl with a little water and microwave 3-4 minutes, until they are warm, stirring halfway through.
- While all the cooking is going on, Mix the egg, parmesan, and pepper (to taste - it's best to use a lot, but for kids, maybe less) in a large bowl. It should have the consistency of thick batter.
- When the pasta is done, drain it quickly. Don't linger, as it's good to capture some of the water. Dump the steaming spaghetti into the egg mixture, and agitate well to cook the egg. Add the bacon with a slotted spoon. Some purists will just empty the skillet into the bowl, but that is too much. Mix in the peas, and you're done. The biggest challenge is to get the bacon and peas mixed in evenly - I recommend steel tongs.
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Physical changes on UNF's campus are easy to recognize: new buildings, the shuttle system and enhanced student life. Changes in the student body might not be so obvious. But for those who work in Admissions, the changes are huge.
"The 2009 fall freshman class was the most academically advanced class that UNF has ever admitted," said John Yancey, director of Admissions. "We're a tough school to get into now. About half of the applicants don't meet the University's entrance requirements. For every 100 students who apply, we only admit 52. And of those, only 17 attend. So, UNF definitely is a competitive school to get into and we are always looking for the best student body possible."
Ten years ago, the incoming UNF freshman class had a 3.52 average GPA and an 1124 average SAT score. UNF's fall 2009 freshman class had an average 3.73 GPA and scored an average of almost 1200 on the SAT. The current national average on the SAT is 1016, so UNF's students are scoring far above the local, state and national averages, and have been for years, said Yancey.
"We are no longer perceived as an alternative to other universities in Florida," said Yancey. "For many incoming students, UNF is their first choice. They want to come here for the personal attention, cutting edge resources, cost effectiveness and incredible academic opportunities available to them."
For years, the Office of Admissions, in conjunction with other departments, has been working diligently to erase the perception that the University has low admission and academic standards by enhancing its selection criteria and processes to make UNF's student population brighter and more diverse than ever.
Faculty and staff who have worked at UNF for decades have been witnesses to the transformation. Janice Nowak, director of Academic Support Services, is UNF's longest-serving employee, having worked in financial aid for most of her nearly 40 years here. She recalls a time when the University had a reputation for being a "commuter school where anyone could get in and where the students were about the same age as their professors." Like the academic standards, the average age of the students has changed, too. Over the last decade, the number of students between the ages of 18 and 24 jumped 42 percent. Now students between the ages of 31 and 50 compose only about 13 percent of that population.
UNF is also trending toward more full-time, traditional students. Enrollment by full-time students rose 14 percent in the past decade, significantly transforming the University's image to be in line with that of other four-year academic institutions.
"In our earlier years, UNF hired faculty right out of getting their doctorate, so you could easily mistake a faculty member for a student and vice versa since the average age [of both faculty and students] in the beginning was in the 30s," Nowak said. "Since UNF began accepting students to four-year degree programs in the 1980s, that trend has been shifting."
Student enthusiasm has developed due to the regional, national and international student recruiting and selection process. Using a variety of databases, prospective applicants with a minimum 3.0 GPA are identified during their junior year of high school and invited to the annual Campus Preview event held each April, as well as for tours and open houses throughout the year. Once a student has asked for more information or submitted an application, a strategic communication plan is triggered that includes e-mails, phone calls, letters, postcards and even birthday and holiday cards, to keep them engaged and interested. High-profile applicants, those with 1140 or higher SAT scores, attend similar events that have greater emphasis on available merit-based scholarships and recruitment to the Honors program.
Yet, it is the personalized attention to students and families that is Admissions' specialty. The department has six region-specific coordinators for in-state recruitment visiting high schools and attending college fairs in areas that historically provide a high percentage of students who ultimately enroll and attend. These recruiters visit new locations as well. They work with families to help them understand the application process and forms, UNF's academic profile, available financial aid and housing.
Probyn Inniss, who oversees multicultural recruitment, is proud of the University's holistic approach to increase its diversity. He works with local churches in Duval County, coordinates free SAT/ACT test preparation classes and provides outreach to organizations such as 100 Black Men, Take Stock in Children and The Bridge.
"We have achieved a minority student population around 24 percent, which probably is the most diverse that UNF has ever been," Inniss said. "The University continues to progress with each new class, and programs like the First Generation scholarships and the MLK Luncheon make the dream of higher education a reality for those who might [otherwise] have ruled out college." The Jacksonville Commitment Scholarship Program has also had a positive impact on making UNF's campus more diverse.
Working closely with UNF's International Center, Admissions has helped to recruit a worldwide student population. In 2009, the UNF community included 338 international students in degree programs, as exchange students and in the English Language Program. UNF's international students come from 70 countries and represent every continent except Antarctica.
"We're proud to be convincing better students with more academic options that there is no place like UNF," Yancey said.
The $110 million Power of Transformation campaign is expected to raise money for a variety of needs on the UNF campus: undergraduate scholarships, program enhancements, and even new buildings. And if all goes well, the campaign will also bring in private funding to support a growing need on the campus: fellowships.
Quite simply, fellowships are scholarship programs for graduate students. Graduate students receive financial support and in return, the students perform research or serve as teaching assistants. Fellowships can have a significant impact on campus in assisting full-time faculty with a variety of teaching and research responsibilities. The Power of Transformation campaign is attempting to raise $5.95 million for new fellowships across campus.
The goal of increasing fellowships was set with an eye toward bringing UNF closer to the average number of graduate degree programs offered at peer institutions. UNF currently offers 28 graduate programs while its peer institutions offer an average of about 50.
Dr. Mark Workman, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, said the fellowships are essential if northeast Florida is to recruit talented individuals from elsewhere in the country and also develop current residents to assume leadership and innovative roles in the community. He noted that Jacksonville will need this kind of internal invigoration, innovation and entrepreneurship if it is to grow and prosper. "Just as Jacksonville cannot stand still if it is to achieve a reputation as a first-tier city, neither can UNF stand still if it is to achieve a reputation as a first-tier University," Workman said.
The transformational impact of fellowship graduates in the community is difficult to overestimate. Many advanced degrees allow individuals to make greater contributions in their community as well as in their profession.
Take for example, Leonore Gualano, a fourth-grade teacher at Sabal Palm Elementary School. She earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from UNF in 1990. In 1998, she won the Gladys Roddenberry Fellowship, a graduate teaching program funded by area philanthropist Gilchrist Berg. Because of this assistance, Gualano was able to return to UNF to earn her master's degree in elementary education in 2000. Her master's degree focused on the use of technology in the schools, which is becoming a major part of education. "It (her master's degree course work) helped me to take advantage of these new opportunities," she said.
With her master's degree, Gualano was able to obtain her National Board Certification in elementary education. In 2007, Gualano was selected teacher of the year at Sabal Palms Elementary and was a finalist for the Duval County Teacher of the Year. She is also a recipient of the UNF Outstanding Alumni Award in 2001. "Without the people at UNF who constantly inspired me and my fortunate receipt of the fellowship, I would not have been as successful in my teaching career," she said.
Gualano's experience is not unique. Countless professionals come to UNF to further their knowledge in their career fields. In 2009, more than 600 students were awarded advanced degrees at UNF.
Ask any dean in UNF's five colleges about fellowships and the conclusion is the same – they are needed to attract the brightest students to developing graduate programs.
Dr. Peter Braza, interim dean of the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, points as an example to the master's in engineering. "More graduate fellowships would help us draw talented students to UNF, students who might otherwise choose different universities," he said.
On the near horizon, Braza said the college is planning a five-year bachelor's/master's program in computer science. "This program will be unique in the state. We hope to entice many talented high school students in the Northeast Florida region to consider UNF first."
The need for private investment in fellowships may also pay other dividends for UNF. Since Florida is striving to establish a more knowledge-based economy, Provost Workman predicts the state will allocate more resources for training advanced students. With more fellowships, the University is better able to compete for state resources generating more of a return on private investment.
In addition, Workman emphasized that the movement of the state community colleges into baccalaureate degrees underscores the need for UNF to pursue advanced degrees. While Florida State College at Jacksonville will be accessible to students who are interested in vocationally oriented undergraduate education, UNF is in a position to lead the growth and development of the region in more advanced areas, he said.
"UNF is poised to carry out its vision to serve the North Florida region at a level of national quality," Workman said. "Through a combination of public support for graduate programs and private support for graduate students, UNF can proceed without delay to carry out this urgent and far-reaching task."
In 2007, UNF purchased the former AOL building and turned it into UNF Hall. That same year, the Alumni Association, the UNF Foundation and University pooled resources to purchase the old Auchter Co. building, now known as Alumni Hall.
"As people drive along Kernan Boulevard, they can really see UNF's presence, " said UNF President John Delaney. "Purchasing the building just south of the Kernan entrance to the core of campus is a natural next step for us." Delaney added that this long-term investment is important because so much property surrounding campus is wetlands and can't be developed. In addition, it is cheaper to buy an existing building than to construct a new one.
The city of Jacksonville is scheduled to begin re-routing Kernan Boulevard around First Coast Technology Parkway and UNF Hall in 2013 and finish the project in 2015. The rerouting will be the final phase of Kernan Boulevard improvements included in The Better Jacksonville Plan.
Under terms of the agreement being worked out with EIRE Jacksonville Florida Holding LLC, which owns the building housing ADT, a limited liability company controlled by the University will pay $4.75 million for the structure. UNF will not be able to take possession of the building before the current ADT lease expires in 2021.
UNF's Master Plan process will help determine exactly what will eventually move into the building. "By that time, we will have a better idea of how to most effectively use the space in that building based upon how academic programs have grown," said Shari Shuman, vice president of Administration and Finance. Possibilities for the building include the expansion of Continuing Education or an art gallery to display the works of students, faculty and exhibitions.
The First Coast Technology Park was developed from land donated to the authority by the A.C. Skinner family in 1987 with the expressed desire that the net proceeds of the land go to the UNF Foundation as an unrestricted gift.
When astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson took to the stage in the UNF Arena for this year's Presidential Lecture, he joked about the many ways the universe is trying to kill us. The crowd of nearly 3,000 laughed as Dr. Tyson listed off asteroids, black holes and cosmic rays as some of the many ways Earth could be destroyed. But the host of PBS-NOVA's "NOVA Science Now" program told reporters before the April public lecture that possible changes in the space policy are no laughing matter.
Prior to his public appearance he took time to comment on the Obama Administration's proposed budget-scrapping plans to return to the moon under NASA's Constellation program, which was intended to succeed the space shuttle program.
"I will never tell someone how to vote or who to vote for or what issue to back, but I will alert you to the consequences of making one decision or another," Tyson said.
The consequences of the Obama Administration's budget proposal downplaying manned space exploration have serious long-range repercussions for the country, he argued. "The extent to which you stimulate the presence of scientists and engineers in your nation is the extent to which you are investing in the innovations of tomorrow. The economies of tomorrow will issue forth from the science of innovation. It has been doing that ever since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution," he said.
Universities play a critical role in innovation because they produce the scientists and engineers of tomorrow. "Other countries understand the value of space exploration and science. They are investing heavily in them," he noted.
By contrast, he maintains the United States is coasting. "We are in a state of denial of the loss of who and what we were on the world stage. We think we are still standing on the hill that we ascended 30 years ago. It's not enough to produce good science teachers. You want to create a culture of discovery and the manned program can do that as no other."
Tyson also took issue with those who contend the United States cannot afford an ambitious manned space program. He pointed out that the NASA budget represents one half of one percent of total federal spending and that the proposed NASA budget is actually larger next year than this year.
"It is not a matter of 'is there money?' — it is a matter of how that money is being spent. The manned space program has been eviscerated." He described the proposed budget as reflecting an attitude that "maybe we will go [explore space] one day but until then let's do some other stuff."
As Hayden Planetarium director, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to study the future of the aerospace industry. He welcomed a national discussion of spending priorities.
"When someone says we can't afford it, I say if we can't afford one half of one percent, it means 99.5 percent of the rest of the money you feel is more important. Let's have that conversation. Let's see what we are spending money on and what the return on investment is expected to be," Tyson said.
Tyson advocates increasing NASA's budget to 2 percent of federal spending so "we can return to the moon, go to Mars and try to deflect an asteroid. We are approaching it in the wrong way if we say the manned program has only one place to go."
In the long run, Tyson argues that discoveries in space may well solve problems on earth. "Just as our resources begin to dwindle on earth, there is no shortage of resources in the universe. There is no shortage of energy in the universe. Who's to say that solving an energy problem on the moon isn't the same solution to solving it on earth?"
Tyson's appearance as part of the UNF Presidential Lecture Series was made possible by the UNF Foundation, the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville and WJCT Broadcasting.
Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2009-2010 Faculty Awards. Nominations came from students, faculty colleagues, administrators and alumni.
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards:William D. Ahrens (Brooks College of Health - School of Nursing)Emily A. Douglass (College of Arts and Sciences - Art and Design)Adel K. El-Safty (College of Computing, Engineering and Construction - School of Engineering - Civil)Paul A. Fadil (Coggin College of Business - Management)Michele J. Moore (Brooks College of Health - Public Health)Diana L. Tanner (Coggin College of Business - Accounting and Finance)Cara S. Tasher (College of Arts and Sciences - Music)Rico L. Vitz (College of Arts and Sciences - Philosophy and Religious Studies)Pamela A. Zeiser (College of Arts and Sciences - Political Science and Public Administration)Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award:Daniel C. Moon (College of Arts and Sciences - Biology)Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Awards:Lev V. Gasparov (College of Arts and Sciences - Physics) Richard F. Patterson (College of Arts and Sciences - Mathematics and Statistics)Outstanding Faculty Service Awards:Mina Baliamoune-Lutz (Coggin College of Business - Economics and Geography) Barbara J. Kruger (Brooks College of Health - School of Nursing)Distinguished Professor Award:Winner-- David E. Fenner (College of Arts and Sciences - Philosophy)Runner-up-- Thomas M. Pekarek (College of Arts and Sciences - Physics)
All recipients receive a cash award and will be honored with a commemorative plaque at the 2010 Fall Convocation. The awards are funded by the UNF Foundation and Academic Affairs.
Brooks College of Health
Clinical and Applied Movement Sciences: The results of Dr. James Churilla's hypertension study titled "Comparing Physical Activity Patterns of Hypertensive and Non-hypertensive U.S. Adults" conducted with Dr. Earl Ford at the CDC were accepted for publication in the American Journal of Hypertension. Churilla also presented a lecture titled "Prescribing Exercise for Special Populations: Translating Research into Practice" at the American College of Sports Medicine 14th Annual Health and Fitness Summit held in Austin, Texas.
Public Health: Don Hutton presented "Executive Coaching and Leadership" at the Catholic Health Association Leadership Conference in January. He also presented "Building an Effective Team Using Exceptional Leadership Skills" at the American College of Healthcare Executives' Annual Meeting in March and "Are You the Leader You Want to Be?" at Purdue University School of Pharmacy Dean's Pharmacy Executive Forum in April. In addition, he presented "Leadership Skills Needed in Today's Environment" at Xavier University's Program in Health Administration Professional Development Lecture Series in April and a keynote speech titled "Seven Traits of the Healthcare Leader of the Future" at the CXO [chief officer] Healthcare Summit in April.School of Nursing: Drs. Michele Bednarzyk, Carol Ledbetter, and Li Loriz gave a podium presentation April 17 at The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the presentation, "Clinical Evaluation Using Typhon Group EASI: Connecting Preceptors, Faculty & Students," was to demonstrate and discuss a novel online program for clinical preceptors to provide feedback to students about their performance. NONPF is the only organization specifically devoted to promoting quality nurse practitioner education at the national and international levels.
Deb Wagner presented a poster titled "Patient Satisfaction with Postpartum Teaching Methods Used by Nurses" at the Florida/Georgia Section of the Association of Women's Health's Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Conference in April.
Coggin College of Business
Accounting & Finance: Drs. John MacArthur, Jeffrey Michelman and Bobby Waldrup along with former UNF graduate student Dana Wallace had their case "JEA: On the Road to Cost Transparency" published in the IMA Educational Case Journal, March 2010.Marketing & Logistics: Dr. A.C."Josh"Samli had a paper accepted by the Macromarketing Society. The paper, "The Changing Marketing Orientation During the Second Half of the 21st Century," will be published in the society's conference proceedings. Samli also organized a special session titled "The Future of Globalization" for the annual conference of the American Marketing Association.
College of Arts and Sciences
Art & Design: Nofa Dixon, Jenny Hager and Stephen Heywood participated in the Off The Wall Exhibition of The Northeast Florida Sculptors, a juried exhibition at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum.
Kyle Keith was chosen to paint the official portrait of Judge Thomas Aquilino for the Court of International Trade in New York City. Keith also participated in the Annual Portraits Inc. conference in New York.
Vanessa Cruz had a film titled "Lazarus Revisited" selected for the Athens, Ohio International Film Festival. Cruz published an article titled "Brave New World: Where Does Experimental Animation Belong?" in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal.
English: Dr. Mary Baron participated in a poetry reading as part of the Amelia Island Book Festival.
Dr. James Beasley presented his paper "The Neo-Aristotelianism of Richard M. Weaver and Rhetoric's Dream of Professionalization" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, Ky.
Nicholas de Villiers published an article titled "Confessions of a Masked Philosopher: Anonymity and Identification in Foucault and Guibert" in Symploke. He published a book review of David M. Halperin's "What Do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity in Sexualities" and he gave two conference presentations: "Anno's Camera-Eye: Sexuality, Youth, and Inoculation" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Los Angeles; and "Metahorror: Sequels, 'The Rules,' and the Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Horror Cinema" at the Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media conference at the University of Graz, in Austria.
Dr. Chris Gabbard published a book review of "Autism and Representation," edited by Mark Osteen (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) in Disability Studies Quarterly. Go to http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1071/1253 to read the review.
Marnie Jones and graduate student Jacob Lusk presented a paper titled "Wicked Symmetry: The Dangerous Compulsion of Attraction in Twilight and Ziska" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in St. Louis.
Lunberry delivered a paper, "'Professional Exiles Like Me': John Ashbery's Self-Imposed Paris and the Pursuit of Poetic Abstraction," at the John Ashbery in Paris Conference at Institut Charles V – Université Paris Diderot; he was invited to do seven poetry installations on the conference windows overlooking Paris. Go to http://www.unf.edu/~clunberr/Lunberry/Home.html to view a slideshow.
Dr. Nancy Levine and four students (Sharon Cleland, Belinda Delzell George Minton and Sandy Stratton) published "Tea Sets, Tractors and T-1 Lines: the Survival of a Small Town Library: The Hastings Branch Library, Hastings, Florida," in The Florida Historical Quarterly.
History: Dr. Elizabeth Lane Furdell gave an invited lecture to Auburn University's Boshell Diabetes Research Program on "Reconstructing Diabetic Life: Treatment in Early Modern Britain."
Mathematics & Statistics: Dr. Denis Bell gave a talk titled "Associative Binary Operations and the Pythagorean Law," at the Mathematics Association of America/Florida Two-Year College Mathematics Association meeting in Gainesville. At the same conference Dr. Dan Dreibelbis gave a talk titled "Curves & Surfaces from 3-D Matrices," Dr. Scott Hochwald gave a talk titled "Too much Pi" and Dr. Len Lipkin gave a talk titled "Lets Read the News with our Students."
Dr. Kening Wang gave a talk titled "Strong Superconvergence of Finite Element Methods for Linear Parabolic Problems" at the American Mathematical Society 2010 Spring Souteast Section Meeting in Lexington, Ky.
Music: Dr. Gordon R. Brock served as guest conductor of an honor band for the 2010 Tennessee Wind Band Conference at Middle Tennessee State University.
Philosophy: Drs. Mitchell R. Haney and A. David Kline edited "The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work," published by Lexington Books.
Dr. Bert Koegler gave an invited talk, "Recognition and the Dialectical Roots of Self-Constitution," at the Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life Symposium in February at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Dr. Rico Vitz presented "Lies, Captivating Lies, and Religious Belief: Hume on the Learned Elite and the Christian 'Superstition'" at the SOPHIA Conference in February.
Political Science & Public Administration: Dr. Hyunsun Choi (with A.Kadambi) published "Civic Engagement and Sustainable Cities: Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in the United States" in Seoul Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, pages 231-247. Choi, along with S. Choi, also published "Climate Change and Regional Land Use Planning: The Formulation of California Senate Bill No. 375" in the Journal of Environmental Policy, Vol. 9, No. 1, pages 3-29.
Dr. Matthew Corrigan, presented the conference paper "Jeb Bush as Florida's Governor: An Activist Conservative" at the annual meeting of the Florida Political Science Association at UNF in March.
Dr. Martin Edwards addressed the Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association during their luncheon meeting April 14 at the River Club in Jacksonville. He discussed his new course, Law and Cinema, which provides an informative means of developing an understanding of the interaction between law and popular culture, and he made a presentation on how the motion picture industry depicts judges, attorneys and juries during trial proceedings.
Sociology & Anthropology: Dr. David Jaffee presented the paper "Industry Structure, Organizational Forms, and Labor Dynamics in the Intermodal Logistics Supply Chain" at the 28th International Labour Process Conference at Rutgers University. With Adam Carle, Neil Vaughan and Douglas Eder, Jaffee also published the article "Psychometric Properties of Three New National Surveys of Student Engagement Based Engagement Scales: An Item Response Theory Analysis" in Research in Higher Education, December 2009.
Dr. Ronald Lukens-Bull presented "Splitting the Kiblat: Consequences of Alternate Strategies for Educating Faculty at State Islamic Institutes in Indonesia" at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Dr. Melissa D. Hargrove was an invited speaker at the 12th Annual Kingsley Plantation Heritage Celebration titled "Resisting Enslavement and Preserving Dignity."
Dr. Gordon Rakita gave an invited lecture titled: "Of Metaphysics & Missing Links: Ardipithecus ramidus and Modeling Human Evolution" at the First Coast Free thought Society of Jacksonville.
Drs. Adam Shapiro and Chung-Ping Loh (Economics & Geography) published an article titled "Medicaid Cost-Savings of Home- and Community-Based Service Programs for Elderly Persons in Florida" in the Journal of Applied Gerontology.
Dr. Rosa De Jorio's 2009 article titled "Between Dialogue and Contestation: Gender, Islam, and the Challenges of a Malian Public Sphere" from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association, Vol. 15, No. 1, was republished in "Islam, Politics, Anthropology," edited by Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares and published by Islam Wiley-Blackwell.
World Languages:
Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes presented "La Retórica de la Experiencia: Apuntes Sobre Enargeia en las Novelas a Marcia Leonarda de Lope" at the Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium organized by the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater in March in El Paso, Texas.
Luis Mora–Álvarez presented "La Subordinación de la Identidad en El Rey de La Habana de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez" during the 8th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Cuba 2010: An Island in a Global World, held at Florida International University. He also presented "Lo Grotesco Como Recurso de Trasgresión en El Cojo y El Loco de Jaime Bayly" during the IX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica in Lima, Peru.
Dr. Jorge Febles presented "Mirta and Roberto: Incestuous Paradigms or How I Married 'My One and Only' Who Despised Me" during the 8th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Cuba 2010: An Island in a Global World, held at Florida International University. He also lectured on "José Martí's Impressions of American Culture During the Gilded Age" at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.
College of Computing, Engineering and Construction
School of Computing: UNF served as the host institution for the Florida/Georgia region of the 2010 Botball Educational Robotics Program. The program started in January with a robotics workshop for teachers and concluded in March with 13 teams competing in a robotics tournament held in the Student Union. This is the 13th time the College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction has sponsored this event. Dr. Charles Winton, who serves as the Botball program director for the region, is currently the chairman of the Board of Directors of the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, which organizes the Botball program internationally each year.
School of Engineering: Dr. Chiu Choi presented and published his paper titled "Effect of Observer Poles on Step Responses" at the 2010 Southeast Symposium of Systems Theory in March. Choi also chaired the session on Signal Processing and Time Varying Systems at the symposium.
Dr. Chris Brown and L. Hansen-Brown published their paper titled "Building a Virtual Learning Community to Engage Online Students; a Model for Instructors" in the Journal of Information Systems Technology and Planning, Vol. 3, No. 4, pages 1-8. Brown also presented two extended abstracts at the Annual Academy of Sciences in March: "Composting Secondary Municipal Biosolids using Chlorine Dioxide for Disinfection and Seeding for Competitive Exclusion of Pathogen Regrowth," co-authored by J. Brunson and F. Mussari; and -"Using Nexrad Precipitation Data in Groundwater Models: An Evaluation of Contouring Algorithm Error," co-authored by Dr. Pat Welsh and M. Fagan.
Dr. Adel ElSafty and Robert Bennett presented and published their paper, "Evaluation and Analysis of the Repair of a Post-Tensioned, Precast Concrete, Segmental Bridge," at the American Concrete Institute convention.
Dr. Susan Vasana presented and published her paper,"Biphase Code Detection for Differential Manchester Encoded Signals in Digital Communications," at the International Conference for Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications in March. Vasana also chaired the session on Internet and Multimedia Systems.
In March, Drs. Pat Welsh and Christopher Brown and the Taylor Engineering Research Institute hosted the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Estuarine and Coastal Waters Numeric Nutrient Criteria Workshop to assess the need for specific water quality criteria for excessive nutrients in numeric terms for the Northeast Florida estuaries, including the Halifax River, Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, the lower St. Johns River estuary and the Nassau-St. Mary's River estuary complex. Welsh, along with Michael Toth and Dr. J. David Lambert, authored an invited presentation titled "UNF's Real-time, Low-Cost Water Quality Buoy" for the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association's (SECOORA) Basic Operational Buoy Workshop in March at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington Center for Marine Science in Wilmington, N.C. SECOORA represents Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas in the Federal Integrated Ocean Observing System under the auspices of the 2009 Integrated Ocean Observing System. Toth also presented "The University of North Florida Water Quality Buoy" at the 2010 Office of Naval Research and Marine Technology Society International Buoy Workshop in March.
College of Education and Human Services
Childhood Education: Dr. Nile Stanley was a featured author for the 14th Annual Poetry Olio of the 55th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association in Chicago. Stanley founded this poetry performance event tradition in 1997 for reading educators. In celebration of National Educators Week, Stanley had a book-signing featuring his books "Creating Readers with Poetry" (http://maupinhouse.com/index.php/authors/nile-stanley/creating-readers-with-poetry.html) and "Performance Literacy Through Storytelling" (http://maupinhouse.com/index.php/authors/nile-stanley/performance-literacy-through-storytelling.html) at an educator reception at the Barnes and Noble store on San Jose Boulevard.
Dr. Christine Weber is working with the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to host the "Teachers New to Gifted Workshop" at Pacetti Bay Middle School in St. Johns County. This free event will be held on June 12 and Jodi O'Meara will be providing the keynote based on her new publication, "Beyond Differentiated Instruction." In addition, Dr. Weber, along with Dr. Laurel Stanley and Laura Langton, will be hosting the Working on Gifted Issues (WOGI) Institute on June 10 and 11 at the World Golf Village where Dr. Mary Slade, from James Madison University, will be presenting "Best Practices in Gifted Education" to coordinators of gifted programs across the state. Weber and Donnajo Smith (FLDOE) were invited to submit an article titled "Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students Through Online Programs" to Distance Learning for publication this spring. Weber had two more articles, one with Stanley titled "Parents of Gifted Children: Information Needs" and one titled "Providing a Challenging Learning Environment for Middle School and Secondary Gifted and Advanced Readers," published in the spring issue of the Florida Reading Journal.
Dr. Gigi Morales David, children's author, is leading a writing workshop at the annual Young Writers Workshop May 1. This event targets 4th and 5th grade inner-city students who are interested in developing their creative writing skills.
Dr. Katie Monnin's article "Aligning the IRA/NCTE Standards to Graphic Novels: An ELA Pedagogy of Multiliteracies" has been accepted for publication in InLand's "Literature for Adolescents" issue, due out in May/June.
Leadership, Counseling and Instructional Technology: Dr. La'Tara Osborne-Lampkin presented a poster session titled "Judicial Review of Grievance Arbitration and Awards in K-12 Schools" at the American Education Finance Association's annual conference in March. The co-author of the project is Dr. Perry Zirkel, the Third Eminent Scholar Chair in Educational Policy and Economic Development. Osborne-Lampkin's paper titled "Grievance and Arbitration Practices and Decisions: Outcomes of Rational Decision-making?" was accepted for publication in the Journal of School Leadership.
Office of the Dean: Dr. Marsha Lupi and Kathy Witsell served as faculty trip leaders for the seventh group of students interning in schools in Plymouth, England.
Department: Institutional Advancement Job title: Director of Annual GivingYears at UNF: will be 2 years this summer
What do you do at UNF? Describe your job duties.
I am the director of Annual Giving. The annual giving program consists of strategic, coordinated mini-campaigns and solicitations that raise funds for the University. We solicit alumni, friends, students, faculty and staff through a variety of solicitation vehicles including phone, mail, e-mail and personal visits. Our goal is to increase alumni participation and total dollars raised. In addition, we hope to educate and engage our constituents so that we may build a culture of philanthropy that will transcend generations of Ospreys.
Tell us about your family.
Most of my family lives in England, as that is where my dad was born. In fact, I met my grandpa for the first time over spring break, and my dad met his biological dad for the first time in October - very cool story. I also have a younger sister and both of my parents.Tell us something that would surprise people to know about you:
I am cousins with John Lennon.
I would be a sportscaster. I went to Indiana University and have a B.S. in sport communications.
What would you like to do when you retire?
Honestly, it seems so far away that I can't even think about retiring right now.What is your favorite thing about working at UNF?
This spring, UNF brought a phone program on campus and we hired students to call alumni and parents and ask for support. It was very energizing to have the students over here at Alumni Hall, engaging alumni and raising private support. So the short answer to that question would be the students who are enthusiastic about philanthropy.
What is the best thing you ever won?
I don't win many things, but my dad is very lucky and he won a cruise during a poker tournament and took my mom, my sister and me. So, I felt like I had won!
If you won the lottery, what would do with the money?
I would donate to higher education, give to my parents and sister, buy a nice house on the beach with a pool and basically live a life of luxury. Oh yeah, Tom Mills [associate director of Advancement Services in IA] and I discuss this from time to time and I told him I would give him some money so I better put that on here too in case I "get caught."
What is your favorite way to blow an hour?
At the gym. I am a gym rat and love pushing myself through cardio and weight workouts … granted, I would also blow an hour eating good food; so the two cancel each other out.
What was the best money you ever spent?
Going to the Super Bowl this year to watch the Colts. Even though the Colts lost, I was able to meet Bill Cowher, Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason, Spike Lee, Shannon Sharpe and Larry Fitzgerald. It was by far one of the most fun weekends in my life, and I think that any football fan should try to make it to a Super Bowl, regardless of whether or not your team is in the game. It was just a bonus that my Colts were there.
What is the proudest/happiest moment of your life?
As a student at Indiana University, I was the director of fund raising for IU Dance Marathon my senior year. We raised more than $400,000 for Riley Hospital for Children. There was no better feeling than being in the gymnasium with my peers, Riley Hospital administrators and Riley patients when the total was announced. Now, more than a decade later, they consistently raise more than $1 million a year for Riley Hospital and it is rewarding to know that I was a part of that organization when it was just starting out.What was the first concert you ever attended, and what was the most recent concert you attended?
The first concert I ever attended was the Oak Ridge Boys at the Indiana State Fair. I don't remember their individual names, but I do remember standing on my chair as a 5-year-old, just screaming my lungs out for one of the guys I thought was "sooo cute." Ha ha. The last concert was Big and Rich.
What person had the greatest impact on your life?
Definitely my parents. I am a first-generation college student, and my parents worked very hard to put me through undergrad and grad school. Growing up, there was never a question about whether or not my sister and I would go to school, even though my parents never did. They wanted better for us.
What are you most passionate about?
Football. I admit that when the season is over, I become a little bummed out. I am already gearing up for camp in August and preseason games.
Who is the most famous person you ever met?
In addition to all the football stars mentioned above, I also met Mario Lopez (aka AC Slater on "Saved by the Bell!") at the Indy 500 last year. Growing up in Speedway, Indiana, I have met a lot of Indy Car/NASCAR drivers too.
Tell us something about you that even your friends don't know:
I am incredibly shy. Most people see me out and about and I am friendly and talkative, but that takes a lot of courage/energy for me to do. I have had to "train myself" to be a bit more extroverted so that people don't mistake my shyness for being aloof.
What do you hope to accomplish that you have not done yet?
Start taking my parents on cruises and other vacations. They take my sister and me everywhere (even though we are 100-percent self sufficient grown adults) and I want to pay them back one day.
What's the last book you read?
"The Blind Side"
Q: From Joseph Martin (administrative assistant, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Dean) -- I frequently invite guests on campus to have lunch and tour our beautiful University, most of the time taking advantage of our near-full-service restaurant the Boathouse. Unfortunately, my guests must pay a $3 premium (daily parking) to do so. I know Parking Services and Chartwells are separate entities, but it would be nice to see some cooperative engagement between both groups. Perhaps Chartwells providing Parking Services with a dated voucher for the Boathouse (e.g. a free soft drink) to offer along with the daily parking pass. A free drink could easily lead to the purchase of an entrée (more revenue for Chartwells), and Parking Services might receive less criticism for charging so much for daily parking. Sounds like a win-win proposition. Is such an engagement feasible?A: From Vince Smyth (director, Auxiliary Services) -- Parking Services sells about 850 day permits on an average day. It is really not feasible for Chartwells to provide the potential of 850 free drinks each day. While many would obviously go unused, it is safe to say beverage revenues would decrease significantly. Further, the amount of paper required to produce these vouchers would be quite significant over the course of a year, much of which would end up tossed in the trash.
Q: From Deborah Bundy (retirement manager, Human Resources) -- Someone is going to get hit at the crosswalks in front of the Arena. I am amazed at the number of students who walk across without even looking. This week, I witnessed a student flying across on his bicycle, nearly getting hit. Aren't the skateboarders and bicyclists supposed to walk across?
A: From John Dean (chief, University Police Department) – Currently, they have the right of way and do not have to walk. We have some policy revisions in the works now that will require them to if they are passed by the Board of Trustees.
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Milestone Anniversaries:
Congratulations to the following employees who will celebrate a milestone anniversary at UNF in May.
35 Years:
Paul Ladnier, Associate Professor, Art and Design
30 Years:
Beverly Evans, Director, TSI/Foundation Accounting
25 Years:
Jeffery Ross, Store Receiving Supervisor, Physical Facilities
20 Years:
Diana Bednarik, Graphic Designer, Training & Services Institute
15 Years:
Michael Ballentine, Law Enforcement Officer, Campus Police
Charles Calhoun, Chair/Professor, Accounting & Finance
Charlene Dawston, Office Manager, Health Promotion
Lien Phan, Coordinator of Budgets, Student Affairs
10 Years:
Tamra Conner, Office Manager, Art and Design
Waheeda Rahman, Office Manager, Aquatic Center
Evelyn Serrano, Office Manager, Controller's Office
Daniel Simon, IT Network Engineer, Information Technology Services
Five Years:
Patricia Colvin, Adjunct, Public Health
Dana McCoy, Program Assistant, ADA Compliance
The following employees were either hired by UNF or accepted new positions at UNF from mid-March to mid-April:
Brenda Carmine, Financial Aid Specialist, Enrollment Services Processing
Philip Cox, Director MEA Research, Mechanical Engineering
Alberto Cubillas Capote, Custodial Worker, Physical Facilities
Douglas Diez, Senior Chemical Process Engineer, Mechanical Engineering
Jesus Garcia, Groundskeeper, University Housing
Celeste Hart, Assistant Director of Development, Brooks College of Health
Devi Karki, Custodial Worker, Physical Facilities
Durga Karki, Custodial Worker, Physical Facilities
Alex Lane, Groundskeeper, University Housing
Susan Massey, University Librarian, Carpenter Library
Paul Newton, Maintenance Mechanic, University Housing
Leigh Palmer, Assistant Director of Development, College of Arts & Sciences
Joseph Radicioni, Senior Custodial Worker, Physical Facilities
Carl Schumacher, Senior Equipment Mechanic, Physical Facilities
Reginal Smith, Recycle Refuse Worker, Physical Facilities
Jeanette Toohey, Assistant Director, Continuing Education
As risky sexual behaviors remain high among Florida teens, our adolescents are faced with epidemic rates of STDs, HIV and unplanned pregnancy. The need for more prevention is critical. Dr. Elissa Barr, an associate professor in the Department of Public Health, discusses the facts about teen sexuality and unplanned pregnancy.
How widespread are STDs and HIV?
Incredibly! Every year in the U.S. there are approximately 19 million new cases of STDs. More than half of these are youth ages 15 to 24. We now know that one in four sexually active teens has an STD. Florida youth are no different. In 2008, there were 50,000 new cases of Chlamydia among women in Florida. Of these, almost 40,000 (80 percent) were among females ages 15 to 24.
Every 9.5 minutes, another person in the U.S. becomes infected with HIV. In 2006 alone, there were 56,300 new cases. Young people ages 13 to 29 made up the largest group (34 percent or 19,200). Nationally, Florida ranks second in reported cases of adolescent HIV/AIDS, and Jacksonville ranks No. 14 in the rate of new AIDS cases among all U.S. metropolitan areas.
How common is teen pregnancy?
The U.S. leads all other developed countries in teen pregnancy and births. One in three of our teenage girls become pregnant at least once before age 20, with more than 400,000 babies being born to teens each year. Florida currently ranks No. 12 in teen pregnancy rates. In 2006, an increase in the U.S. teen pregnancy and birth rate occurred for the first time in almost 15 years, which raises national concern.
Why do we have such high numbers?
There are several reasons. Many teens are sexually active and engage in risky sexual behaviors. In a national Centers for Disease Control survey, 66 percent of Florida high school seniors reported having had sex and 24.4 percent reported having had four or more sexual partners. Additionally, many teens don't use contraception correctly and consistently. Teens report little knowledge of contraceptives and only half report using contraception every time. Finally, most STDs produce little or no symptoms, so people may not know they are infected but continue to spread them.
What can we do?
Talk with young people, not just about sex. Open communication and talking with your teens in general has been shown to be a protective factor in reducing risky sexual behavior. Bring up sensitive topics and be involved in their lives. Also, support evidence-based sexuality education in our schools. Research shows that programs containing information about both abstinence and contraception are effective. Such programs have delayed initiation of sex, reduced the numbers of partners and increased contraception. Numerous state and national studies consistently show that the majority of parents support schools teaching both abstinence and contraceptives. There should also be an increase in testing and treatment. Make it "the norm" to get tested, so people know their STD and HIV status.
What does Florida require in the schools?
Florida requires teaching Comprehensive Health Education, including HIV/STDs and teen pregnancy. However, local school boards decide how this is taught and which topics are included. A recent study found that the majority (87 percent) of Florida teachers agree that some form of sexuality education takes place in their schools. However, it's often not given enough time, not accessible to all students and occurs late in one's high school career.
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Common misconceptions keep many people from eating eggs. Dr. Catherine Christie, chair of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, unscrambles the dietary facts and myths about egg nutrition.
Eggs also contain many other essential nutrients, including vitamins A, D, B-12, B-6, choline, riboflavin, pantothenic acid and folate, as well as minerals like phosphorus, selenium, zinc, calcium and iron. Eggs also contain the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which are beneficial for eye health.
Now that you know the truth about eggs, try this heart-healthy egg recipe, which makes a delightful light and nutritious dinner with a simple green salad and fruit:
Spring Vegetable Frittata
Nonstick cooking spray
6 eggs
½ cup skim milk
1 cup sliced mushrooms
6 spears chopped asparagus
1 cup green peas
4 stalks green onion, chopped
½ cup shredded cheddar or Parmesan cheese
¼ tsp. black pepper
Nutrition Analysis per serving:
Calories: 232
Protein: 18 gm
Carbohydrate: 7 gm
Fat: 12.75 gm
Saturated fat: 5.5 gm
Monounsaturated fat: 5 gm
Polyunsaturated fat: 1.5 gm
Fiber: 3 gm
Sodium: 206 mg
The Goods runs monthly in The Florida Times-Union Taste section. In each article a faculty member from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics discusses facts and myths about a particular food and includes a healthy recipe. The UNF Department of Nutrition and Dietetics is made up of eight full-time faculty and several adjunct instructors, with approximately 215 UNF undergraduate students and 30 graduate students. Areas of faculty research include obesity prevention and treatment, eating disorders, cultural food patterns, nutrition education in underserved populations, metabolic syndrome and HIV/AIDS.


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- 27.03.2018
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Credit Suisse is a leading global wealth manager with strong investment banking and asset management capabilities. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has expanded to be a global force employing over 45,000 people in 50 countries. With new leadership, a new strategy and a streamlined global organization, we are set for growth. We partner across businesses, divisions and regions to create innovative solutions to meet the needs of our clients—and to help our employees grow.
With a presence in Poland since 2007, Credit Suisse is committed to growing the businesses here. The Poland offices are of central importance to Credit Suisse's approach to leveraging global talent base.
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The Chief Technology Office (CTO) is a global IT organization responsible for delivering comprehensive set of infrastructure, software and processes across the Credit Suisse Group.
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Gries Hall, a former NMU residence hall, now houses the Military Science, Criminal Justice, English, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology departments. It has a small lecture hall and a few classrooms.
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The Ada Vielmetti Health Center and Passages North literary journal are located on the ground floor of the building. The Upper Peninsula World War I Military Hall of Fame is located in the Military Science Department.
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We live in a world where transport by motorcar is undoubtedly the most popular and convenient method used by the overwhelming majority of people. The sad reality is that in a world very densely populated with people and motorcars there will be road traffic accidents. In a limited number of these cases there will be injury caused to people and in a few unfortunate cases people will die as a result of these road traffic accidents.
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