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Volume 13, Issue 16
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January 12, 2000
Registrar Bruce Correll leads
a test of the new campus computer information system.
LEWIS mock
registration a
success
The LEWIS Project — Lehigh's
Enterprise-Wide Information System — completed a three-day
mock registration last month, assigning residence halls, rooms and
courses, and charging tuition to
200 students, in a successful first
test of the new campus computer
information system that is being
developed at the university.
In a related development, the
LEWIS Project debuted its Web
page at www.lehigh.edu/lewis.The
site will give progress reports and
list members of LEWIS'S committees and project teams.
Bruce Correll, university registrar and chair of the LEWIS
Student Project Team, said the
goal of the mock registration
"was to push the staff and test
their knowledge and to test the
system's basic capabilities. Everything worked exactly as expected."
The exercise showed that the
new Banner system is properly
designed and its links to other
data are fully operational,
Correll added.
"LEWIS is a fully integrated
system and this is a first for
Lehigh," Correll said, adding
that inconsistencies in table values highlighted by the test will
be addressed.
The test, which was conducted the week of Dec. 13, involved all the staff from the
registrar's office plus others from
residential services, the bursar's
office, enterprise systems, and
information resources. Some of
the student records used in the
test were created expressly for
the test; others were modified
records that were part of a test
data load of students from the
existing SRS system.
A second mock registration is
scheduled for mid-February to
further stress the system and
more closely simulate the actual
registration process. At that
time, the LEWIS teams will be
seeking students to help test the
system and to provide feedback
on their experience.
Meanwhile, several areas in
the LEWIS Student Project
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Harold A.
"Hap"
Wagner,
chairman
and CEO of
Air Products and
Chemicals
Inc. of Allentown, ad-
dresses
graduates at
Lehigh's
14th annual
January
commencement.
Deborah
Lehrman-
Waterman
(above),
who received a
Ph.D. in
counseling
psychology,
adjusts her
cap as
graduates
(left) mill
about
before the
ceremonies
begin. A
total of 401
students
earned
bachelor's,
master's
and doctorate degrees;
they represented 20
states and
12 countries.
Photos by Pam Shealey
Aim high where it counts,
Wagner tells Class of 2000
Setting high standards of conduct, especially in honesty and
integrity, headed the list of seven
points that Harold A. "Hap"
Wagner made in an address Jan.
9 to 401 graduates at Lehigh's 14th
annual January commencement.
"Don't sell yourself short,"
Wagner, chairman and CEO of Air
Products and Chemicals Inc. of
Allentown, told the graduates
and their families and friends,
who joined members of Lehigh's
faculty and administration for
the ceremonies at Stabler Arena.
"I can't say that I've always seen
dishonesty and lack of integrity
meet with punishment or failure,"
Wagner said in a speech lasting
under 15 minutes, "but I can say,
after 35 years with Air Products,
that we have always tried to be
honest and to act with integrity.
That has been the basis of our
company's success and growth,
and it has given me, personally, a
lot of energy and confidence."
Wagner, a member of Lehigh's
board of trustees since 1994, was
introduced by President Gre
gory C. Farrington, who exhorted the graduates to "go and
do brilliant things, but take the
time to be good husbands and
wives, fathers and mothers."
- In his other six points, Wagner
told graduates to:
• "Set your personal goals very
high. Stretch yourself and don't
be afraid to fail. These are are
the most challenging and exciting times I've seen. Opportunities are virtually limitless, no
matter what your field is."
• "Find a compatible career. You
may have to try several. Ask yourself whether you're having fun
working. Don't pick a career just
for the money. Look for something that brings satisfaction."
• "If you become a parent, do it
well and don't let other responsibilities take priority. Remember,
you are raising the next generation and the parents of the following generation."
• "Take citizenship very seriously. Study your obligations and
fulfill them well." After living in
several other countries, Wagner
said, he decided that the United
States, with its governing principle of one person, one vote, offered "the greatest freedom and
opportunities."
• "Give back. Start with your university." Wagner said 41 percent
of Lehigh's alumni make an annual gift to their alma mater,
placing Lehigh among the top 10
American universities for alumni
giving.
• "Commit yourself to a lifetime
of learning." Wagner cited the
words of Alvin Toffler, author of
Future Shock, who said illiteracy
in the 21st century will not be the
inability to read and write, but
the inability to "learn, unlearn
and relearn."
Wagner, who received an honorary doctorate in engineering
from Lehigh in 1998, said Lehigh
alumni account for 500 of Air Products' 16,000 worldwide employees.
"We have survived and prospered over the last 60 years in no
small part because of the contributions of Lehigh graduates," he
said.
Classroom
technology
upgrade approved
Lehigh President Gregory C.
Farrington has approved a
$750,000 proposal to upgrade the
university's classrooms and lecture halls with technology improvements, Provost Nelson Markley
said in a recent memo to campus.
Markley said the improvements would help address a problem created in part by the "computer revolution" and other recent advances in technology.
"Sturdy chairs with writing
arms and plenty of fine slate blackboards in a well-lit room no longer
provide a satisfactory learning
environment for many courses,"
Markley said. "Today we need the
multimedia technology spawned
by the computer revolution."
The funds will help pay for several small projects scheduled for
completion this month, Markley
said. Those include replacing and
enhancing projectors in Christmas-Saucon, Neville III, Whitaker
Laboratory and the Fairchild-
Martindale Library, and replacing
televisions in Maginnes Hall.
In addition, two new computer
projection system installations
will be undertaken in room 360 of
Packard Laboratory and room 161
of the Rauch Business Center.
Several "classrooms of the future" — experimental classrooms with a variety of configurations and types of technology
and built-in flexibility — are being considered for development
over the summer, Markley said.
Similar installations at other
schools will be studied to see how
the new technology can best be
applied to Lehigh's classrooms.
Don Bolle, the interim vice
provost for information resources,
and Pat Chase, director of facilities planning and renovation, will
lead the improvement campaign,
Markley said, in consultation with
the Deans' Council, FFPOC, the
registrar's office, and appropriate
faculty committees.
Markley said funding for the
classroom upgrades will be allocated from the following sources:
$400,000 from last year's surplus
and this year's budget, $100,000
from discretionary funds in the
provost's office, $80,000 from information resources, $70,000 from
the Class of 1999's senior gift, and
$100,000 from the facilities services office's maintenance and repair budget.
Markley noted that the last
major funding appropriation for
classrooms was made in 1996, in
response to a faculty survey, when
$250,000 was allocated to address
complaints about classrooms, including the adequacy and availability of working technology.
The pace of technological
change, he said, has been hectic
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