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^^ LINDERM "^^*<s. ■^^" Including Ihe bouth Mountaineer ^m~ -y LehighWeek FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 Vol.3, Issue 6 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Professor Donald Campbell and President Peter Likins lead the academic procession into the 111th Founders Day exercises Sunday. In the second row are honorary degree recipient Mary Lowe Good and Provost David Sanchez; behind Good is author Leslie H. Whitten, '50. Grads Told To Examine 'Experimenting' Society By Rita M. Plotnicki Donald T. Campbell urged the 187 graduates, their families and friends at Lehigh University's 111th Founder's Day Exercises to examine "the experimenting society" as "one alternative future that I propose we seriously consider." Campbell, who is University Professor of Social Relations, Psychology and Education and a member of the National Academy of Science, described the experimenting society as "an image of the future that emerges from using social science in the service of society and government." He noted that "In my daily work I continue to be appalled at how regularly we lack any interpretable evidence of the effectiveness of new programs costing millions of dollars." The experimenting society would be "one that would Continued On Page 2> Patrick R. Balunis receives his diploma, the B.A. in social relations, from Likins during the ceremony in Packer Memorial Church. Department's People Key To Chemical Engineering Success Ru William .Inhncnn « ., .,,,... ,,,,,t,,,-,,.-.,,I,,..t,^ unit nnaroti^nc- l..k^.-.,tn..,; ,^,-,,.,.. By William Johnson The key to the growth and success of Lehigh's chemical engineering department has been its people, said Lehigh President Peter Likins and Air Products and Chemicals Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dexter Baker. Addressing more than 200 at an awards banquet Oct. 5 during the department's two-day convocation, both Likins and Baker praised the efforts of the people.responsible for the department's 25-percent annual growth over the last six years. Results of this growth include: •current annual research support of $4 million; • 10th place nationally in the number of Ph.D.s awarded annually; • recent fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Education; • new offices and laboratories on the Mountaintop Campus; • a high ratio of seniors (9 of 29 last year) going on to graduate work— a critical need— instead of industry; October 10, 1989 Scholarship Giving Sets Record, Again By William Johnson Lehigh alumni, long noted for loyal financial support to their alma mater, last year funnelled their generosity more than ever toward a top university priority— scholarships. During the 1988-89 academic year ended June 30, Lehigh alumni contributed $ 17.4 million— about $2 million more than any previous year— for a series of building, endowment and program purposes. For the third straight year, they earmarked a record amount of these total gifts for financial aid. Michael G. Bolton, vice president for development and university relations, said increasing financial aid and strengthening Lehigh's educational programs are the top fund-raising priorities for the university. Over the past four years, alumni have contributed more than $60 million, with nearly 25 percent of that total going toward scholarships or endowment for future scholarships. Over the same four years, Lehigh has increased the number of students receiving university scholarship money by 190, despite increases in Lehigh costs and little real increase in state or federal financial aid for students. Bolton noted that it was the fourth straight year that 60 percent of undergraduate alumni donated to Lehigh, a level of giving second in the nation among major research institutions. "Many of our alumni have families, and they are very much aware that a college education requires not only financial planning, but in many cases, significant financial aid," said Bolton. "Lehigh is extremely fortunate to have so many alumni and friends who not only support our efforts to improve Lehigh, but who also recognize and support our efforts to help worthy yet needy students." Lehigh's scholarship fund-raising total for last year was part of a record year for total gifts from private sources, with $26.7 million for all purposes received from alumni, friends, government, corporations and foundations. This included a record $6.6 million for Lehigh's annual giving program. Other uses of the funds included campaigns for the Mountaintop Campus and lacocca Institute; the new Rauch Business Center; the Murray H. Goodman Stadium; and endowment for faculty chairs and other projects. The university also was encouraged by its success with private foundations which gave ma broad range of programs designed to strengthen the university '■:•; education and research activities. Bolton cited several foundation grants, including: • $1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, made to 52 schools— most of them medical schools— to strengthen life sciences programs; • $450,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation, which selected Lehigh, Grinnell College, Penn and Yale for grants to establish Luce Professorships. At Lehigh, the professorship is in cognitive robotics and the philosophy of knowledge; Continued On Page 2> a new undergraduate unit operations laboratory program in Whitaker Laboratory; and • Lehigh's success in enrolling one out of every two American chemical engineering candidates it recruits, versus the national average of one out of three. Likins cited many of these achievements, noting that the programs and facilities "mean nothing without the people to carry them forward. Our people in chemical engineering take undergraduate instruction seriously, while they reach for horizons in research. At Lehigh, we have to do both, and we have to do both extremely well." Likins credited Baker, '50, for his leadership in the undergraduate laboratory development campaign. Baker, master of ceremonies at the Mountaintop Campus dinner, said the undergraduate labs dedicated earlier that day "personified Lehigh's strong relationship with industry." He went on to thank the 15 companies and the Continued On Page 3> Inside: Student Activism Alive, Well 3,4 Insights On Glasnost 5 P Delicious Photography In The South Mountaineer: Lehigh Wins BIG Over Harvard
Object Description
Title | LehighWeek Volume 03, Issue 06 |
Subject | Lehigh University--Periodicals |
Description | Reports on the past week's news, and schedules of upcoming events, at Lehigh University. Thirty issues yearly, published weekly, except for vacations, during the school year, and once or twice a month during the summer. |
Creator | Lehigh University. Dept. of University Relations. |
Publisher | Lehigh University |
Date | 1989-10-10 |
Type | Text |
Format | newsletters |
File Format | image/tiff |
Extent | 12 pages |
Dimensions | 38 cm. x 28 cm. |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V3 N6 |
Language | Eng |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Catalog Record | https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/304229 |
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Title | [Front cover] |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V3 N6 001 |
Language | Eng |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Catalog Record | https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/304229 |
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