LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 12

              Dynamic and restless
Technology shapes
teaching of teachers
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Volume 13, Issue 12
LehighWeefc
The campus digest for innovation, news and events
South Mountaineer
Win over Lafayette
sends LU to playoffs
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November 23,1999
PhotobyJohnKishlV
Barbara Simmons (left), secretary of external relations, is
congratulated by Anne Noon,
coordinator of this year's
United Way campaign.
Simmons received the Most
Outstanding Department Coordinator Award for her work
in promoting the campaign.
United Way
Winners
The following people won prizes
in the 1999 "United Way Parade
of Prizes." The campaign raised
over $82,000 for the Lehigh Valley United Way campaign, which
raised over $11 million.
• Two tickets to the Lehigh/
Lafayette game: Wayne
Ferencin, electronics technician, physics
• Overnight stay for two at Comfort Suites "King Jacuzzi Suite:"
George Wilson, associate professor of IMSE
• One-night stay for two at the
Sayre Mansion Inn: Bob
Siegfried, executive director, financial systems and cost management
• Two Tickets "Night Light Bus
Tour" from the Bethlehem Tourism Authority: Kathy Clayton,
development research analyst
• $50 gift Basket from Just Born
Candies: Edie Ritter, director,
Manufacturers Resource Center
• $25 Gift Certificate from the
Aspen Inn: Millie Yeakel, loan
coordinator, financial aid
• Brunch for two from the Hotel
Bethlehem: Kathleen Haas, administrative clerk, development
• $25 Gift Certificate from the
Bouquet Shoppe: Fred Stein,
professor of chemical engineering
• $20 Gift Certificate from Anna
Mia Restaurant: Helen Mack,
acquisitions librarian
• Gift Certificates for two to a
performance at the Touchstone
Theater: Charles Smith, chair,
mechanical engineering and mechanics (MEM); Paul Franz, vice
president emeritus, development and university relations.
• Day off with pay: Joan
Andrews, editorial assistant,
alumni association; Kelly
Wagner, assistant director,
bookstore; Sue Lohrman, secretary, health center; Jane
Frounfelker, enterprise information consultant, information
resources; Bill Johnson, director
of external relations; Michele
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Hofstra!
Lehigh's football team
celebrates a 14-12 win
Saturday over arch-rival Lafayette at Goodman
Stadium. On Sunday, the
Mountain Hawks were given
an at-large bid to the l-AA
postseason tournament,
where they are seeded 14th for
the second consecutive year.
They will journey to Long Island on Saturday, Nov. 27, to
play third-seeded Hofstra.
The starting time for the
game had not yet been announced at press time, but
tickets can be bought by calling 610-758-4263. The game
will be televised live by
WFMZ-TV, Channel 69.
Brett Snyder '00 holds up the Patriot League trophy during
celebration after the Lehigh vs. Lafayette game.
Lehigh links to Broughal
Eugene Hickok, Pennsylvania's
secretary of education, came to
Bethlehem last week to praise a
partnership between Lehigh and
its neighbor, Broughal Middle
School, through which students
and professors help schoolteachers learn to incorporate the
Internet into classroom teaching.
Lehigh is using a $100,000
grant from the AT&T Foundation
to share its new network capabilities with Broughal by providing high-speed access to the
Internet through a wireless connection from the university.
"This is what education
should be all about," said Hickok,
"making connections through
technology, energy and bright
men and women."
"We're just excited," Broughal
Principal Joseph Santoro said at
a news conference at Broughal.
"The whole idea of the grant... is
to provide better access to the
Internet for our kids."
Federal and state governments
are spending billions to equip
America's schools with computer
technology, but a national survey
of elementary and secondary
teachers found that fewer than 4
out of 10 feel well-prepared to use
the Internet in teaching.
"As our students prepare to
compete in the information age,
we must work together to ensure
that our teachers have the ability to provide our children with
the high-tech skills needed to
compete on a global level," said
Hickok. "Innovative partnerships
such as this one are critical to ensure our children's future success
and for Pennsylvania to continue
as a leader among states and a
Photo by Rob Upton
Xenia Ramos (center), an eighth-grader at Broughal Middle
School, tries out a computer as Eugene Hickok, Pennsylvania secretary of education, and Deborah Kepler and Yueeng
Qian, graduate students in educational technology at Lehigh,
look on.
competitor among nations."
Under the direction of Terry
Boult, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
(EECS), the EECS department
has created a wireless bridge to
Broughal that will improve the
school's connection to the Internet.
Boult's graduate students will
maintain this wireless link.
Under the direction of Lee
Tuscher, professor of education
and human services, graduate
students in educational technology will help Broughal teachers
do research on the Web, create Web
sites and develop learning activities that incorporate various media and Internet resources.
"Learning in the new information age is too important to be
left to intuition; we must invest
in the 'R&D' of education," said
President Gregory C.
Farrington. "So, as we work
with our partners AT&T and
Broughal Middle School, our faculty and students also will examine how students learn and
what new technologies work best
in the classroom."
AT&T's new IMux wireless
technology will be used in the
project. The company also is supporting hardware and software
development and teacher training.
Planners report
to campus
Lehigh's Asa Packer campus has
plenty of room for expansion and
is "not nearly as dense as other
great, beautiful campuses," according to consultants from
Sasaki Associates, the firm retained to help Lehigh draft a new
campus physical master plan.
Compared to building coverage at other universities such as
Dartmouth, Brown and
Carnegie-Mellon, statistics
show that the Packer campus has
plenty of room for new buildings,
with an estimated 700,000
square feet of possible new space
while still preserving open green
areas. Building coverage at the
Mountaintop is even lower, more
comparable to suburban office
park than a university campus.
"There is a tremendous
amount of (growth) capacity (at
the mountaintop)," said consultant Rick Dumont during one of
the three open meetings the consultants held with faculty, staff
and students Nov. 17 and 18. "We
could almost double the square
footage (of buildings) with surface parking before it would begin to feel like an academic campus." He estimated Lehigh could
add roughly 600,000 square feet
of research and office space to the
area, which also has the infrastructure in place to support
more buildings. Developing other
land on the mountain and
Goodman campuses for more research/office space is not needed
for the "far distant future."
The consultants are also continuing their analysis of the conditions inside academic buildings, focusing on 11 of the older
buildings on the Packer Campus
and lacocca Hall. Of Lehigh's total 2.6 million square feet of academic and academic support
space, those 11 buildings have a
total of about 800,000 gross
square feet, and preliminary surveys show about 525,000 square
feet could use some renovations.
The consultants will develop estimates of the cost of these renovations, test new uses for buildings such as Lamberton and
Christmas-Saucon, and develop
estimates for the cost of new construction.
The team has heard from
most academic department
heads about their current needs
and projections of growth. This
"wish list" totals over 100,00(
square feet of new academic
space, and the need for an additional 200-250 more student
beds in apartment or townhouse-
style residence halls.
The movement of vehicles and
pedestrians and green space on
the Packer campus were also discussed. Preliminary design
schemes were presented which
feature a two-way loop road
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