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25-August-2000
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College news

by Evan Silverstein

WEST POINT, Miss. -- Evelyn Kelsaw Bonner, who served for 33 academic years
as librarian, professor and division chair for Learning Resources at Sheldon
Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, has been hired as director of the Helen R.
Walton Learning Resource Center at Mary Holmes College. Bonner, a Mary
Holmes graduate and a native of Alabama, took her new position on July 5.
Her husband, David, retired from Sheldon Jackson after 33 years of service.

HASTINGS, Neb. -- Personal attention given to students by the faculty of
Hastings College has been recognized by the Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog
2001. Hastings was among 31 U.S. schools to win citations. The awards were
based on a 1999 nationwide survey of high school guidance counselors at
public and private high schools. Hastings has a student/faculty ratio of 13
to 1. Its advising program, the A.C. Ramsey Family Advocates Program,
matches incoming students with advisors. Faculty and staff members serve as
advocates to ensure that each student has someone on campus they can talk to
and trust.

CLINTON, S.C. -- A member of the religion and philosophy department faculty
at Presbyterian College has joined an elite group of 30 professors from the
nation's leading colleges and universities for a discussion of the impact of
Christian faith on their teaching. Robert Bryant, an assistant professor of
religion, was South Carolina's lone representative at the "Consultation on
the Vocation of the Presbyterian Teacher" Aug. 10-13 in Louisville and
Danville, Ky. The sessions were sponsored by the Association of Presbyterian
Colleges and Universities and Centre College, and funded through a grant
from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Bryant joined the PC faculty in 1998.

TULSA, Okla. -- The National Security Agency(NSA)has designated the
University of Tulsa as a Center of Excellence in Information Assurance. As
one of seven institutions chosen this year, the TU Center for Information
Security will help protect Internet systems from hackers and
cyber-terrorists. The center was recognized during an NSA conference in
Washington, D.C., on May 24, and a special White House reception the next
day. The TU center is spearheaded by computer science professors John Hale
and Sujeet Shenoi, both of whom have worked closely with the NSA since 1994.
Hale was recently awarded a prestigious Career grant of $210,000 by the
National Science Foundation. Shenoi was named the 1998-99 U.S. Professor of
the Year for founding the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC), a
nationally recognized program of scholarship and service that grew from
NSA-sponsored research in computer security.

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