Brown and White Vol. 121 no. 11

              Vol. 121 No. 11
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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By CHRIS RINALDI
Andrew Ward, associate professor of management, has been appointed to the newly established position of Charlot and Dennis E. Singleton ’66 Endowed Chair in corporate governance.
The title is new to the College of Business and Eco­nomics and has been founded through the generous efforts of active Lehigh alumnus, Dennis Singleton, ’66.
Ward has been a member in the Department of Management at Lehigh since 2009, and he will be the first holder of the position after his strides and contri­butions in research and teachings of corporate gover­nance, CEO successions and networks.
“I was very excited to hear the news,” Ward said. “It is a great honor to receive an endowed chair, and espe­cially so to be the first recipient of that chair. It is also especially exciting that the chair is named for Dennis Singleton, one of our current trustees, who is actively involved at Lehigh.”
Since being named to the position, Ward said his top priorities are building an interest amongst the fac­ulty in order to further research in the field, as well as to spread awareness of corporate governance across the campus.
“My top priorities are to build an interest across campus in governance issues,” he said. “Governance issues are of interest to faculty from a number of differ­ent disciplines, for instance from political science, soci­ology, education, anthropology, to the various business disciplines, such as finance, accounting, management.
“In pulling these different disciplines together over a common interest, I think that we can create new knowledge and gain insights that you might not get just coming from a single perspective,” Ward said. “I would like to see this cross-disciplinary effort blossom on campus.”
Ward has gotten off to a fast start, already having launched weekly Singleton Governance Lunches that will enable interested faculty to get together and dis­cuss governance issues.
While Ward holds the new appointment in corpo­rate governance, he also has the title of Associate Dean of the College of Business and Economics.
Business professor receives position as Endowed Chair
By DOUGLAS BAJAN
A new accreditation system that aims to integrate the core values and skills, which Lehigh designs its student activities around, has been implemented over the past year to assess the Greek community.
“What we did was convene a committee of students and staff to take a look at the process to figure out how to make it more student-developmental,” said Tim Wilkinson, director of Fra­ternity and Sorority Affairs. “We wanted to gauge not just what are the chapters doing, but what they are learning from it.”
The new system in place reviews chapters on their respec­tive performances in five fields: intellectual, leadership, commu­nity and organizational develop­ment and facilities management for residential chapters.
“We changed our academic piece from scholarship to intel­lectual development,” Wilkinson said. “It now focuses both on scholarship and academic plans, but also on what the chapters are doing to raise the intellectual cognitive development of their chapter members.”
Leadership development has largely remained the same; community development, on the other hand, is essentially a hy­brid model of community service and philanthropy, while it also
PNO offers fun, games to South Side children
By ELIZABETH PUZIO
The Community Service Office hosted its monthly Par­ents’ Night Out event, during which children from South Side Bethlehem got to spend time with Lehigh students, this past Friday, Oct. 14.
Parents’ Night Out brings children from the South Side community together with Lehigh student volunteers, who watch and entertain the children, while the children’s parents get the night off, so to speak, to spend it however they want. The event is for children who participate in the CSO’s four homework clubs. The children come back to campus on a Friday evening for games and fun with Lehigh students.
“Parents’ Night Out basical­ly started because we realized that parents would probably find it helpful to have the kids out of the house for a night, so they could get things done that they wouldn’t normally have time for, like paying bills and grocery shopping,” said Karen Haberland, ’14, a student co­ordinator in the Community Service Office.
Since the events are held in the evening, the children’s par­ents are able to enjoy a night off after work or a long day of watching their kids.
In addition, the children are given hot, nutritious meals, which saves the family money they would otherwise have to spend on dinner. Each month’s PNO is themed. Pre­vious themes include “A Day at the Zoo,” “Fiesta Friday” and “Summer Block Party.” Through these themes, the CSO staff and volunteers work to make the children’s experience at PNO as great as possible.
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B&W photo by DAN CORONEL
Children from the South Side played with Lehigh students on Friday night at the Coummnity Service Office’s Parents’ Night Out event on the forth floor of the U.C.
New system streamlines old Greek accreditation
By ALEX BLOOM
President Alice P. Gast traveled to Malaysia earlier this month in an effort to con­tinue and expand the long-lasting ties between Malaysia and Lehigh, and in particular with Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia.
“The purpose of this trip was to follow up on the work of Lehigh’s Office of Interna­tional Affairs and to further connect with the leadership of UTM to discuss potential ways for our universities to collabo­rate,” Gast said.
As part of the three-day trip from Oct. 5 to 7, Gast lectured UTM students and faculty about international education and toured some of the university’s facilities and academic centers. In addition, she met with UTM’s Vice Chancellor, the equivalent to a university president, Profes­sor Dato’ Zaini bin Ujang, to discuss the development of joint projects between the two institutions, as well as with Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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President Gast visits Malaysia, builds ties
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n Lehigh’s Center for Global Islamic Studies is building bridges with the Muslim world.