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LEHIGHNOW
November 8, 2000
Volume 1, Issue 1
Ed College goes global
IN BRIEF
Your first issue
of LehighNozv
This is the first issue of
LehighNow, a new
biweekly publication that
is replacing LehighWeek.
We hope LehighNow is
easier to read and that it
will better integrate the
online content found on
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at www.lehigh.edu.
LehighNow will
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the achievements of
students, faculty and
staff, as well as news of
campus developments
and upcoming events,
and also photographs. It
will be published in an
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College of Education
professors are going to
Europe to teach leadership
and technological skills to
teachers at English-
speaking international
schools.
A five-week course this
summer at Franklin
College in Lugano,
Switzerland, is expected to
draw enrollment from
around the globe and will
be followed by on-line
classes from Lehigh.
Program director
Daphne Hobson says the
course complements
marketing efforts by
Lehigh education professors in the Dominican
Republic, Senegal,
Malaysia, France, Spain
and Greece.
The program offers a
doctorate in international
educational leadership and
master's degrees in
educational leadership and
educational technology.
"There is a critical need
in international schools for
educational-leadership
training at the doctorate
level," Hobson says. "One
big problem is that 80
percent of international-
school heads are fired by
their school boards,
because they [don't] have
the training to deal with
issues like community
relations and school
financing."
Hobson and Profs.
George White, Ward
Cates and Steve Bronack
developed the program,
which can be completed in
two academic years and
two or three summers.
-Rich Harry
www2.lehigh.edu / news
Photo by Elizabeth Kocgin Collcy
Erik Blenheim '02 hit the crossbar from 35 yards at half-time on
Homecoming, Nov. 4, winning $500 but just missing out on a
PT Cruiser. Info: www.LehighLive.com.
Changes follow drinking incidents
The dean of students office
is working with students to
address concerns over the
recent hospital treatment of
seven students with
dangerously high blood
alcohol levels or injuries
sustained while intoxicated.
The seven incidents in the
first six weeks of the
semester exceed the six that
occurred during fall 1999.
Most occurred during midweek drinking games, in
violation of university
policy. Most of the injured
students were freshmen; all
have recovered.
In a letter to undergraduates, Dean Sharon Basso
announced new steps to
protect students' health and
safety. The changes complement existing policies, such
as parental notification,
university discipline
charges, and arrest by
university police.
"This is an emotionally
charged issue," Basso wrote.
"We are at this point today
because of the clear
indication, based on the
number of student hospitalizations, that there is a
significant level of unsafe,
abusive drinking occurring."
Lehigh, part of a national
coalition to reduce high-risk
drinking, enacted new
policies last fall that helped
reduce campus crime by 41
percent in 1999-2000.
"No one is under the
mistaken impression that
we are going to eradicate
underage drinking or
alcohol abuse," said John
Smeaton, vice provost for
student affairs and director
of Lehigh's Project IMPACT.
"Our goal is to create a
healthier and safer living
environment for our
students by reducing
alcohol abuse."
Under the initiative,
freshmen who drink at a
Greek event will not be
allowed to join a fraternity
or sorority their first year or
to board in a chapter house
their second year.
Students Affairs is
increasing the subsidy it
pays fraternities to hire
outside staff to monitor
parties where alcohol is
served.