SHSU
Update For Week Of June 4
Leadership Series Trains With Two
Speakers
Speakers Robert J. Schout and Doug Kruse will discuss different
aspects of leadership for two training sessions during the
Correctional Management Institute of Texas’ Leadership
Series on July 7 and July 18.
The July 7 session, featuring Schout, will be held from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Criminal Justice Center’s Killinger
Auditorium.
He will discuss leadership styles and its appropriateness
pertaining to task assignments, delegation of responsibilities
and creating climates of success; fundamental skills for developing
people, creating empowerment zones at work, and dealing effectively
with politics; enhancing the performance and productivity
of your staff; and how to lead organizations or employee groups
in the midst of change, among other topics.
Kruse will discuss “Increasing Your Leadership Capability”
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 18 in the Hazel B. Kerper Courtroom,
in the Beto Criminal Justice Center.
Both workshops are free and open to the public, as well as
those affiliated with probation and parole, law enforcement,
TDCJ and the SHSU College of Criminal Justice.
“One of our goals is to provide quality leadership
programs to the corrections field, and we’re trying
to expand on our leadership trainings,” said Christie
Davidson, CMIT interim director.
Both courses offer seven training hours for the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice’s Community Justice Assistance Division,
Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and the Texas Commission
on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
Registration, which will be held at 7:45 a.m. on both days,
is required, as seating will be limited for both sessions.
The Criminal Justice Center is located at Bobby K. Marks Drive
and Bearkat Boulevard, formerly Avenue I and 16th Street.
For more information on the July 7 event, contact Sara Nash
at 936.294.3073, sgnash@shsu.edu
or Sharese Hurst at 936.294.1687 or sharese@shsu.edu,
and for more information on the July 18 speaker, call 936.294.1705
or 936.294.1706 or e-mail jdserio@shsu.edu
or npayne@shsu.edu.
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PGA/PGM To Have Annual Meeting
Sam Houston State University’s PGA of America/Professional
Golf Management program will host the annual PGA/PGM Spring
Meeting June 4-6.
All of the directors of the 17 PGA/PGM universities in the
United States, their assistants, and representatives from
the PGA will be in Huntsville for two days of meetings.
The event begins Sunday afternoon with golf at the Whispering
Pines course near Trinity. There will be meetings in the Lowman
Student Center Monday and Tuesday mornings.
Participants will play golf Monday afternoon at Raven Nest
and Tuesday afternoon at Elkins Lake. There is also a dinner
at the Peabody Library on Monday night.
“We are very excited to be hosting this event,”
said Rich Ballinger, director of the SHSU PGA/PGM program.
“It gives us the opportunity to show all of these people
our university and the wonderful amenities that we have. I
am sure they will all be impressed with the great golf that
we have in this area as well.”
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Mickey’s Memorial Tournament
To Tee Off June 16
Mickey’s Memorial Golf Tournament, benefiting the
Fisher Tull Endowed Scholarship, will be held June 16 at the
Wedgewood Golf Course in Conroe.
Tim and Charlotte Tull, son and widow of composer and distinguished
professor of music Fisher “Mickey” Tull, are coordinating
this year’s event.
The four-person scramble will begin with an 8 a.m. shotgun
start.
Players may enter as members of teams or individually, to
be placed on a team.
The entry fee of $99 per player includes practice balls, cart,
refreshments and lunch.
For those unable to play, sponsorships are also available
at $100 per hole, with advertisements on a tee box, and $99
to sponsor a music/student golfer as a "designated hitter."
Direct contributions to the scholarship fund are also encouraged.
The scholarship is awarded every fall to an incoming freshman
wind or string player.
Students are nominated by their studio teacher and the audition
is judged by a panel of faculty and members of the Tull family.
Winners are selected on the basis of musicianship and potential
for leadership in the School of Music.
Entry fees and contributions should be sent to: Tim Tull,
414 Reinerman, Houston, Texas, 77007.
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Equine Specialization Breaks
New Ground For Ag Dept.
A newly-created specialization within the SHSU Department
of Agricultural Sciences’ animal science program was
recently featured on Equestrianmag.com, an online magazine.
The article discussed SHSU’s first breaking and training
course and the donation of seven registered fillies trained
by students this past spring as part of the course.
“We took seven 2-year olds on loan from (Huntsville-area
resident) Floyd Moore, who is one of the largest paint horse
breeders in the nation, if not the world,” said Matt
McMillan, assistant professor of animal science and equine
program director. “They were halter-broke when we received
them, but they basically hadn’t been touched by humans
in about a year.
“Most of them came along great; most of the kids did
very good,” he said. “We had a pretty big semester;
we had a nice start.”
McMillan joined the SHSU faculty in January and taught three
different courses in the spring, two on horses, he said.
As director of what he hopes will become a full-fledged program,
McMillan said he envisions the program growing, already having
created several courses for the upcoming year and a university
horse judging team, to include a Collegiate Horseman’s
Association chapter; hosting more judging clinics for high
school students, the first of which was held this year by
the SHSU judging team; hosting an area Future Farmers of America
contest; establishing an open horse show; and, eventually
developing a horse breeding program for SHSU.
“There is a tremendous amount of interest out there
in the equine area,” he said. “More and more universities
are putting in equine programs, and the reason for that, simply
stated, is that in the state of Texas last year, there was
$13 billion spent on equine and equine related items.
The university has already received six horse donations in
addition to the seven that were loaned to the department for
the course and is always looking for more donations or loans
to continue the breaking and training course, McMillan said.
A similar article was also featured on the American Paint
Horse Association Web site and may be included in one of the
APHA’s written journals, McMillan said.
For more information on the equine area, call McMillan at
936.294.1214 or e-mail mattm@shsu.edu.
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Education Awards
160 Scholarships
A total of $48,600 in scholarships was awarded to students
seeking bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees
at the recent 28th annual College of Education Honors Presentation
and Reception.
Students from the departments of curriculum and instruction,
educational leadership and counseling, health and kinesiology,
language literacy and special populations, and library science
received a total of 160 scholarships, as well as awards for
exemplary performance, by department chairs and faculty members.
Undergraduate students accounted for 78 of the scholarships
and awards, and 82 were presented to graduate students.
“What an honor and blessing it was to be chosen by the
scholarship committee to receive such an award as I have been
given,” said Jessica Barbier, senior academic studies
major who received the Gibbs A. and Lela M. Wynne Scholarship.
“Receiving this scholarship will help me reach my goal
of becoming an elementary teacher.”
In addition to family members and friends of the recipients,
scholarship donors were present as well as several faculty,
staff, and administrators from across campus.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
June 4, 2006
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