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15-December-1999 
99421 
 
    College News 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Knoxville College celebrated an event to remember last 
month when Barbara R. Hatton was officially installed as the college's 17th 
president. 
 
    Recently restructured as a work college, where students pay for tuition 
through pre-arranged employment, Hatton's vision and dedication have helped 
establish a school that not only guarantees a debt-free education to all 
students, but also meets the needs of the community by creating a 
responsible, prepared and socially aware workforce. 
 
    "The leadership challenge at Knoxville College is one of redeeming its 
legacy," Hatton said during her inaugural speech on Nov. 13. "We're cashing 
in on our legacy to create a new future for Knoxville College through our 
reorganization as a work college." 
 
    Knoxville College is the nation's only historically African-American 
educational institution structured as a work college. The former deputy 
director of the Education and Culture Program at the Ford Foundation, an 
international philanthropy that has provided more than $10 billion in 
grants and loans worldwide, Hatton has broken race and gender barriers with 
her appointments as professor, administrator and dean at many diverse 
institutions. 
 
    She was the first woman president of South Carolina State University, 
Orangeburg, S.C., the first woman dean of education at Tuskegee University, 
in Tuskegee, Ala., and the first African-American woman to serve as 
professor in the School of Education at Stanford University, in Stanford, 
Calif. 
 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Three Presbyterian colleges were recently recognized for 
leadership in the field of student character development in "The Templeton 
Guide: Colleges that Encourage Character Development," a guidebook recently 
released nationwide. 
 
    The three schools are: Austin College, Sherman, Texas; Blackburn 
College, Carlinville, Ill.; and Lyon College in Batesville, Ark. 
 
    The Templeton Guide contains profiles of 405 exemplary college programs 
in 10 categories; 50 college presidents who have exercised leadership in 
character development; and 100 colleges and universities named to the 
Templeton Honor Roll for their record of commitment to inspiring students 
to lead ethical and civic-minded lives. 
 
    Individual programs from four-year public and private colleges were 
selected in the following categories: First-Year Programs; Academic Honesty 
Programs; Faculty and Curriculum Programs; Volunteer Service Programs; 
Substance-Abuse Prevention Programs; Student Leadership Programs; Spiritual 
Growth Programs; Civic Education Programs; Character and Sexuality 
Programs; and Senior-Year Programs. 
 
    Austin College is profiled in the Student Leadership Program section 
for its Leadership Institute, started in 1995. The Leadership Institute is 
a four-year comprehensive program that structures experiences in leadership 
within the context of the established college curriculum. The program is 
based on a set of fundamental values - respect, responsibility and 
selflessness, reinforcing the belief that good decisions are based on solid 
understanding of these values. 
 
    Blackburn College is profiled in the Student Leadership section for 
itsLeadership Program that gives Blackburn students the opportunity to 
enhance their chosen major through the academic study of work and 
leadership. It offers students a living laboratory for leadership with 
opportunities to apply leadership theory and techniques in Work Program 
positions. The program, instituted at Blackburn last fall, results in a 
Certificate of Leadership awarded with the diploma, and gives each 
successful student a head start not only professionally, but personally. 
 
    Lyon College is profiled in two sections: Academic Honesty Programs for 
its honor system, and Substance-Abuse Prevention Programs for its 
alcohol-education program. Lyon's student-run honor system was adopted in 
1992. It incorporates an honor pledge that each student must take, a code 
of honorable conduct, standards of student behavior, and procedures carried 
out by the Honor Council, which is chosen by the student body. The alcohol 
education program at Lyon is also designed and conducted by students 
through an organization called P.A.R.T.Y. (Promoting Alcohol Responsibility 
Through You). The primary education component of the program is a series of 
three student-led sessions called "Peers, Tears, and Cheers." 

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