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January 13,1999
Lehigh-Lucent
announce partnership
"I was looking for an academic
program that allowed me to leverage my knowledge of business
while learning new
skills," said Lois J.
Clark, a business analyst with Lucent Technologies. "I found that
Lehigh University's
Management of Technology program fit the bill."
The Management of
Technology (MOT) program prepares technical
professionals with several years of work experience for broader management and leadership
responsibilities.
The MOT program is one
of several graduate degree programs that are
part of a long-standing relationship between Lehigh and Lucent
that also involves faculty recruitment, student research opportunities, employment possibilities
and educational benefits. The
success of the partnership was
assured recently when both parties signed a memo of understanding to continue their collaboration.
Nelson G. Markley, provost
and vice president of academic
affairs, believes the two organizations are breaking new
ground. "Lehigh and Lucent
ave had a long and productive
relationship. With increased involvements in areas such as the
exchanges between Lehigh faculty and Lucent staff, and curriculum revisions that reflect
current needs in high-tech areas,
the partnership will be even
more successful," said Markley.
The partnership enables Lucent employees to earn their
master's degrees through work
at Lucent. One or more courses
will be offered at the Allentown
facility, where employees can
enroll in Lehigh courses through
a simplified admissions process.
They will also be allowed to earn
credit hours for pre-approved,
job-related, microelectronics
projects, through Lehigh's engineering projects courses.
"This project demonstrates
the importance we at Lucent attach to education," said John T
Dickson, president of Lucent
Technologies Microelectronics
Group in Allentown. "We continuously seek new and innovative ways to make educational
opportunities available for all
our people."
Students can enroll in graduate degree programs in the College of Business and Economics,
such as the MOT program and
the M.B.A. They can also enroll
in graduate degree programs in
electrical engineering, and computer engineering and computer
science in the P.C. Rossin College
of Engineering.   In each case,
Please see Lucent on page 3
Beidler tells gratis
to "author their own lives
Lucy R. Moses distinguished professor of English
Peter G. Beidler (at left) addresses the assembled
iday's Commencement.
"Create a story you will have
fun living and telling about."
Peter G. Beidler
Lucy R. Moses distinguished professor of English
This is what Lehigh's Lucy R. Moses distinguished professor of English Peter G.
Beidler told 424 graduation candidates
at Commencement January 10 at Stabler Athletic and Convocation Center.
Students who completed their degree requirements during the fall semester received
bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees.
Beidler told the students about the 1968
Commencement when he received two doctoral
degrees, his own, and his wife, Anne's, who was
unable to attend the ceremony, having giving
birth to the first of their four children the previous evening. He went on to discuss all the
changes at Lehigh since that Commencement,
including the admission of women as undergraduate students as well as the increase in foreign and minority students as well.
"I love the old Lehigh. I love this new Lehigh
even more," Beidler said.
He told the story of Janice and Ted, two
Lehigh graduates who lived very conservatively
and took no risks. They graduated, got married, invested wisely and retired with a handsome savings. Beidler said that if Janice and
Ted's story were a novel in one of his classes,
the students would drop his course due to boredom.
"It is what goes wrong that brings out our
best. It's the risk that makes the story worth
telling," he said. "Make your story worth listening to."
Gregory C. Farringtbn, presiding over his first
January Commencement as President, conferred
degrees upon the graduates, and in keeping with
tradition, diplomas were awarded individually.
This is the 13th year Lehigh has awarded degrees
to students in January.
"Thank your parents for believing in you. These
are the people who raised you, supported you, loved
you in good times and all times. They even paid
your tuition," Farrington reminded the graduates.
Candidates for degrees were presented by Bobb
Carson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences;
Patti Ota, vice provost and dean of the College of
Business and Economics; Harvey G. Stenger, Jr.,
dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and
Applied Science; and Roland K. Yoshida, dean of
the College of Education.
The Rev. Andrew R. Baker, director of the
Newman Center, gave the invocation and asked the
benediction.
Raymond Bell, university service professor of
education and social relations, served as University marshal for the exercises. James R. Mcintosh, professor of sociology and anthropology, was
the macebearer for the processional and the recessional. Arnold R. Spokane, professor of education and human services, and Donald Talhelm,
emeritus professor of electrical engineering, headed
the University ushers.
The Mainstreet Brass provided music for the
processional and recessional.
-JeffBachman
ESI
Hirshon steps down,
Bolle named to fill in
Arnold Hirshon is stepping
down as vice provost for information resources, effective January
15, 1999.   Donald M.
Bolle, former dean of
the College of Engineering and Applied Science
at Lehigh from 1981-88,
has been named the interim vice provost for
information resources
by   Provost   Nelson
Markley.
Bolle, who retired
earlier this month from
Polytechnic University,
will serve in this position effective January
18 until a permanent
successor is named to
replace Hirshon, whose
departure was announced earlier this
month. During this interim period, Bolle will oversee client services, collection management,
administrative planning, information management, technology
management, and advanced
technology.
Markley said a search committee will be formed shortly to
identify a permanent successor
for Hirshon. Bolle will not be a
candidate for the position.
Bolle left Lehigh in 1988 to
become senior vice president and
provost at Polytechnic University,  and two years later,
sumed added responsibilities as
the institution's chairman of the
management committee, responsible for the overall university
administration. He returned to
the faculty at Polytechnic University in 1992, and served as
interim vice president for administration, spearheading the development of a strategic plan for
information systems. Bolle became re-acquainted with Lehigh
in 1996, serving as a consultant
to the Iacocca Institute.
Hirshon was named vice provost in 1995.- During the past
three years he developed an effective strategic planning process to integrate the library, computing and communications organizations, and a client-oriented organization to advance
those strategic plans.
Hirshon instituted Lehigh's
charter membership in Internet
2, including successfully leading
the NSF grant application to
support a high-speed backbone
connection. During the period he
served as vice provost, he published two monographs and a
number of journal articles, and
he represented Lehigh effectively through the professional
presentations that he gave nationally and internationally.
He was recognized nationally
in June 1998 when he received
the Hugh.Atkinson Memorial
Award from the American Library Association.
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