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October 6,1998
Lehigh receives
$368,970 grant from NSF
Al Bean, the William R.
Keenan Jr. Professor of
Management and Technology and the director of
the Center for Innovation Management Studies, recently learned that
he will be awarded a
three-year $368,970
grant from the National
Science Foundation to
help form a strategic alliance between NSF and
CIMS.
It is hoped that the
grant will increase academic and industrial
participation in small
scale, interdisciplinary research
projects related to technological
innovations, Bean says.
The relationship between
NSF and CIMS dates back to
1985 when Lehigh first began
participating in cooperative research projects with other universities throughout the country.
- In 1996, Bean says, CIMS was
given the option of continuing
with this cooperative program or
striking out on their own to find
continuing financial support for
a host of research projects. The
CIMS team decided to submit a
proposal to the Management of
Technological Innovation
(MOTI), which Bean says was a
"better fit in terms of intellectual
capability."
"We saw a good opportunity
to connect our academic research
with our industry partners," says
Bean of the corporate consortium
that includes Air Products &
Chemicals Inc., Proctor &
Gamble, Exxon Chemical Co.,
Armstrong World Industries
Inc., the Gillette Co. and Texas
Instruments Inc.
"We're delighted this came
through," Bean says. "We took a
risk there, and we put in a considerable amount of time working with our sponsors on proposals. We're quite pleased the NSF
is supporting them."
—Linda Harbrecht
What's happening
on Campus in October?
Hispanic Heritage Month
National Coming Out Week
Oct. 5-11
Alcohol Awareness Week
Oct. 18-23
Sexual Assault Awareness
Week
Oct. 26-30
See LehighWeek throughout
October for event details.
New Media / Old School
Conference focuses on online journalism
Lehigh awarded
$587,000 grant
The view from the control room at the Time & Life Building in New York City
allowed for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 'New Media.'
John Kish IV
Academics, journalists and
online editors discussed
responsibility, the digital
age and journalism education at
a special conference in New York
City on Oct. 1.
The conference and panel
discussion was set-up by Jack
Lule, chairperson and associate
professor of journalism, to
discuss "New Media/Old School:
Journalism Education in a
Digital Age" (www.lehigh.eduI
-injeda). Moderated by Gina
Smith, technology correspondent
for ABC News, the debate and
discussions flowed together to
give a well-rounded look at the
future of online journalism and
journalism education.
During a question and answer
session, Heidi Wachs '99, a
journalism major, asked what
employers are looking for in an
online journalist. She found that
the question had more than one
answer.
"It doesn't matter to me if you
know how to program in HTML
or if you know how to use a
digital camera," said Michael
Goldberg, editor in chief of
Addicted to Noise
(www.addictedtonoise.com).
"What I want is someone who
knows how to write well, how to
write a lead, how to find out
what's newsworthy, how to
report a story. The basics of
journalism, that's what's
important."
New Media / Old School:
Journalism Education
in a Digital Age
A debate
on the future of journalism
Merril Brown, editor in chief of
MSNBC on the Internet
(www.msnbc.com), disagreed.
"It is important to understand
the technology that is out there
and how it can be used to put
together a multi-media package
to present a story," he said. "I'm
not saying that you have to be a
programmer or that you have to
go around with a digital camera
or video camera and put the
whole thing together, but an
online journalist has to know
how the story and the video or
sound clips will fit together.
What could be written out in a
print story as a quote may be
more dynamic if it is used as a
sound bite in an online story."
One of the hot topics that
came up during the discussion
was the Clinton scandal and how
the online media handled it.
While many news web sites
chose to show the entire, uncut
version of President Clinton's
testimony, Brown defended his
site's right to screen the video
clips before making them
available to the public.
"We did our job as editors,"
Brown said. "As both an editor
and a parent, I thought it was
important for someone to take a
step back and look at what was
going out there. There was just
some material on the tapes that
was not appropriate and needed
to be edited."
The panel, also included P.
Del Brinkman, director of
journalism programs for the
John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation; Richard J. Meislin,
editor in chief of The New York
Times Electronic Media Co.
(www.nytimes.com); and Janet
H. Murray, senior research
scientist at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
"We are in the middle of a
revolution," Brinkman said. "It
is impossible to settle on long-
term goals or solutions while
you're in the middle. We have to
get through the revolution first
before we can settle on how to
educate the journalists of
tomorrow."
—Greg LaPlant '97
EPI
The College of Education has been awarded a
nearly $587,000 federal
grant to prepare future
school principals for
leadership roles in the
education of students
with emotional or behavioral problems in
regular classroom settings.
The U.S. Department of Education grant
will enable Lehigh to
train 12 part-time and
four full-time students
in each of the next three
years covered by the
grant. Training will begin in
January under the grant program, titled "Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and
Results for Children with Disabilities - Projects of National
Significance."
The training program developed by Lehigh will serve as a
nationwide model, said George
White, associate professor of
education and human services
and-coordinator of Lehigh's educational leadership program
with the College of Education.
"Over the last 10 years, the
nature of how school principals
work has changed," said White,
the grant's principal investigator. "The greater majority of
their time involves dealing with
students who have special
needs. But the evidence suggests that many school administrators seriously lack several
critical skills and the appropriate knowledge to provide for Lhe
effective inclusion of students
with emotional and behavir ral
disabilities."
Students selected for the program will take courses taught by
Lehigh faculty in special education law, special education curriculum, instruction and program design. Each student will
receive supervised work experience in a public school. The students also will participate in a
series of "leadership institutes"
addressing leadership issues
and the management of special
education programs in regular
classroom settings. The discussions will be broadcast live by
satellite to six to eight sites
around the country.
White said most students selected for the program typically
will be elementary or secondary
school teachers, or school ad-
. ministrators in supervisory positions. Some students will be
recent law-school graduates interested in entering the education field or specializing in special-education law.
For more information
about the program, contact
White at (61,0) 758-3262
or gpwl@lehigh.edu
- Rich Harry
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