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California law and credential standards require that all teacher education candidates receive information about sexual harassment and suspected child abuse BEFORE entering California classrooms. For more information about Professional, Legal and Ethical Teacher Performance Expectations in California see TPE #12
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- Watch the Legal Seminar online (link below)
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The Andrews University Theological Seminary and Physics Department are hosting the Midwest Religion and Science Society's (MRSS) annual autumn conference on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007.
This year's program, "To Know as We Are Known," will focus on issues that theologians and scientists wish that other disciplines knew more about. The forum was begun in 2006 under the direction of Karen K. Abrahamson and with the support of the Theological Seminary and AU Architecture Library for the purpose of interdisciplinary conversation.
The Midwest Religion and Science Society (MRSS) has recently invited Abrahamson and physics professor, Gary Burdick, to serve as steering committee members on its regional six university/college panel. Participating organizations in the MRSS include Andrews University (MI), Bethel College (IN), Bluffton University (OH), Goshen College (IN), Manchester College (IN), and the University of St. Francis (IN). These organizations meet twice yearly for the purpose of engaging in interdisciplinary conversation (see http://www.goshen.edu/religionscience for the 2008 conference featuring Ralston Holmes III). In addition, MRSS director Carl Helrich, Goshen College, and Abrahamson are working with the MRSS steering committee to form the Midwest Center for Religion and Consciousness, which will study the question of consciousness, particularly in regard to the role of systemic order as understood from complexity theory and the ethical/moral responsibilities that arise from human consciousness as a high-level property within complexity theory.
This year's forum speakers represent a broad range of disciplines in the sciences and religion:
Karen K. Abrahamson, MA, PhD (Cand.), is managing editor of Andrews University Seminary Studies and a member of the adjunct faculty of Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences. She is currently writing her dissertation Telos in Scripture and Contemporary Metaphysical Discussions of Teleological Argumentation, which is concerned with the question of order and its relation to the so-called telic cause. She has conducted research in the Netherlands, Austria, Italy and England.
Gary Burdick, PhD, is professor of physics at Andrews University and assistant dean for graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences. Burdick is the author of a number of scholarly articles and has engaged in extensive travel for presentation on his research in physics. He was awarded the North Central Regional Young Investigator by the Sigma Xi Research Society in 2004.
Ben Clausen, MS, PhD, has degrees in geology and physics. He has performed nuclear physics research at several National Laboratories resulting in dozens of abstracts and articles in the peer-reviewed literature. During his 20 years as a research scientist at the
Geoscience Research Institute, lectured worldwide on science and religion topics, and in 2006 co-authored The Book of Beginnings.
Raoul Dederen, PhD, Dr es ScMor, is a former dean and professor emeritus of the department of theology and Christian philosophy at the Andrews University Theological Seminary. He has served as an observer at the World Council of Churches and is an expert in ecclesiology.
Martin Hanna, PhD, associate professor of historical theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, has worked in the Bahamas and at Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica, where he was chair of the religion department, associate professor of education and leadership, and director of the Ellen G. White Seventh-day Adventist Research Center.
Lee LaVanway, AS, is CEO and Market Master of the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, a member of the Andrews University adjunct faculty, and an environmental and food-supply activist. LaVanway actively researches temperate fruit-growing areas around the globe and lobbies for the preservation and protection of American food supplies and farming districts at the local, regional and national levels.
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9:00 am Breakfast and devotional with Raoul Dederen
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10:15 am Gary Burdick, session coordinator
Lee LaVanway
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11:15 am Interdisciplinary Breakout sessions (discussion of issues raised in Session 1A)
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Martin Hanna
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5:45 pm Consensus Session
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Nystatin belongs to the group of medicines called antifungals. Vaginal nystatin is used to treat fungus infections of the vagina. Nystatin vaginal cream or tablets may also be used for other problems as determined by your doctor.
Nystatin is available only with your doctor's prescription.
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Studies on this medicine have been done only in adults, and there is no specific information comparing use of vaginal nystatin in children with use in other age groups.
Many medicines have not been studied specifically in older people. Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults or if they cause different side effects or problems in older people. There is no specific information comparing the use of vaginal nystatin in the elderly with use in other age groups.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Nystatin usually comes with patient directions. Read them carefully before using this medicine.
This medicine is usually inserted into the vagina with an applicator. However, if you are pregnant, check with your doctor before using the applicator to insert the vaginal tablet.
To help clear up your infection completely, keep using this medicine for the full time of treatment, even if your condition has improved. Also, keep using this medicine even if you begin to menstruate during the time of treatment. Do not miss any doses.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
To help cure the infection and to help prevent reinfection, good health habits are required.
If you have any questions about this, check with your health care professional.
If you have any questions about douching or intercourse during the time of treatment with nystatin, check with your doctor.
Since there may be some vaginal drainage while you are using this medicine, a sanitary napkin may be worn to protect your clothing.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
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Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 #1 smash hit "Happy Together," his place in rock and roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over 5 million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather immense iceberg. For five decades, Howard Kaylan has been a key player at the heart of the rock and roll revolution. In addition to his years with the Turtleswhose other best-selling hits include "She'd Rather Be With Me," "You Baby," "It Ain't Me Babe," "She's My Girl," "Elenore" and "You Showed Me"Kaylan was a core member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and half of the much loved duo Flo & Eddie. Howard's voice has also appeared on recordings by a vast array of artists including Bruce Springsteen, T. Rex and Alice Cooper.
Kaylan's years with the Turtles are the stuff of legend: the first rock group to perform at the White House, wild encounters with the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix (on the same night!), countless TV and concert appearances, and a string of hit records that have never lost their popularity. But while most artists would have been happy for the five-year success that the Turtles enjoyed, for Howard Kaylan that run at the top of the charts was only the beginning. His two years with the renowned Zappa were an education and a complete artistic upheaval, marked by highs such as sharing the stage with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and lows like watching the band's equipment burn to a crisp at the notorious Montreux fire that later became the subject of the Deep Purple classic "Smoke On the Water." Kaylan appeared on four Mothers of Invention albums and in Zappa's theatrical feature film 200 Motels.
Following their stint with Zappa, Kaylan and fellow Turtles/Mothers vocalist Mark Volman went off on their own, calling themselves at first The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie, and then just Flo and Eddie, until reclaiming the Turtles name. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Howard Kaylan's entry into professional music and he's still out on the road with Mark singing the hits! Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc. (Backbeat Books, April 16, 2013) is Howard Kaylan's incredible story, a timeless rock and roll tale intensely colorful, brutally honest, and a whole lot of fun!
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House Speaker Paul Ryan tried again Friday to recast the presidential election as an ideological choice between a Republican-led congress that will fight for limited government and Hillary Clinton's "liberal progressive" agenda.
"Beneath all the ugliness lies a long-running debate between two governing philosophies: one that is in keeping with our nation's founding principles — like freedom and equality — and another that seeks to replace them," Ryan said in Madison, Wisconsin.
Ryan said Republicans would seek to bring every federal regulation to congress for review and to simplify the tax code.
He also called to repeal President Obama's signature health care law, which he said was part of Democrats' "liberal progressivism."
"Liberal progressivism is not government for the people, it's by them, the elites," he said.
The speech was yet another attempt by Ryan to refocus an election that's gone wildly off the rails as Trump this week lashed out at both Democrats and Republicans — even Ryan himself — for what he says is a conspiracy against him.
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Chair Taylor called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone. He introduced Mr. Nat Glover as Special Assistant to the President and welcomed him as a guest to the meeting.
Chair Taylor asked for a vote to approve the minutes from June 20, 2006 workshop. The minutes were approved as presented.
Chair Taylor stated that he and President Delaney recently attended a Board of Governors workshop and received ideas for peer review for the upcoming year.
President Delaney spoke about Jacksonville's crime rate, stating that many minority high school students never considered a college education. If they dropped out of school, the chances they would become involved in crime increased dramatically. He stated that there was a need for UNF to have a higher level of minority outreach which would better our community, keep kids in school and offer them a possibility of a college education. The University hired Sheriff Nat Glover in a part-time position to recruit these minority students.
President Delaney spoke about the University's goals, stating that these goals intended to sharpen our mission and values, improve and demonstrate academic quality, integrate the culture of the institution, strengthen and focus our community linkages and define our peer aspirations. He referenced the meeting materials and read a few highlights from a document titled, "Miami University, State of the University Address 2006." He spoke about Miami University (Ohio), stating that it offered some characteristics we would want to consider for UNF.
Chair Taylor stated that Miami University (Ohio) had many parallels in values with UNF. He stated that the referenced document would be a wonderful framing document for discussion to address the goals of the year.
Trustee Halverson stated that Miami University (Ohio) was a well-regarded institution but encouraged the use of several aspirational institutions rather than a focus on one university.
Trustee Coggin stated that the focus needed to be on becoming the best in some niches, not on being all things to all people.
President Delaney stated that the University intended to bring in an outside consultant for the 2006-2007 evaluation. He stated that thought needed to go into how to approach this.
Chair Taylor stated that the Board should provide input and guidance, and provide leadership by contacting the Association of Governing Boards (AGB). He stated that the process should be completed by the end of spring 2007.
Trustee Crawford asked for clarification on the goals for this evaluation. Chair Taylor stated that this evaluation should take place every three to five years and would encompass a broader look at the University's governance, including the Board and the President.
Trustee Thompson spoke about the recent presidential evaluation process, stating that the process went well but should be reconvened for further input and recommendations in an attempt to improve the process. She recommended that the same presidential evaluation committee or the Executive Committee look at what the goals were for the outside consultant's evaluation and create an agenda for what they intended to accomplish.
Trustee Twomey stated that he would like to further discuss the presidential evaluation process. He proposed the Board needed to articulate its goals for the process and not leave it to the consultant.
Trustee Halverson stated the evaluation should begin with an internal focus on best practices by looking at institutions outside Florida. The intent should be to sharpen the institution's vision prior to enlisting an outside consultant.
Chair Taylor suggested that it would be useful to reconvene the Executive Committee, and encourage all trustees to participate, to make sure everyone was on the same page.
Chair Taylor stated that President Delaney had reframed these goals to be consistent with the evaluation plan developed by the Board. He asked President Delaney to review these goals.
President Delaney stated that this list of goals intended to sharpen the University's mission statement, since it was not articulated as strong as the Board would have liked. He spoke about an ethics statement for the Board, stating that articulating this would sharpen and focus the institution's values and mission.
Discussion then moved to the institution's measurement of academic excellence. Trustee Halverson suggested that these measurements come from analogues, using data from other universities who measure academic excellence. Trustee Abdullah suggested that measurements include business and industry and UNF's connection to the local community, stressing the need for the institution to be responsive to the needs of local employers.
Trustee Thompson asked that the President's goals include discussion regarding the University's role in the community. Trustee Thompson suggested that a workshop be scheduled to further discuss the University's role in the community.
Chair Taylor stated that the President's goals might incorporate the University's relationship with the community by adding more specific language. He suggested further discussion about the strategic plan.
Chair Taylor addressed the University's flagship programs, asking how many of these programs should be pursued. President Delaney stated that the University wanted to have some top 20 programs. He stated that accomplishing this would help with external funding and lifting the profile of the University.
Discussion continued, addressing diversity among faculty and increasing faculty salaries. It seemed that the University was trying to hire new faculty at competitive salaries but existing salaries had not kept pace with compression and inversion. Consensus was that this was a major commitment for the Board and efforts were being made to intervene and address inequities.
Vice President Serwatka referenced the annual goals, stating that these goals were just for the upcoming year. The strategic plan addressed long term plans and faculty salaries were addressed in that document.
Trustee Kendrick asked about faculty salaries – when would the University meet its target. She stated that this issue needed further discussion prior to the upcoming budgetary process. Vice President Shuman stated that this item could be added to the budget presentation.
Trustee Kendrick asked if there were any designated stretch goals. Trustee Thompson stated that these goals needed to be determined by the Board. Chair Taylor agreed to add this discussion to the upcoming workshop.
Chair Taylor stated that several points had been brought up during this discussion about the strategic plan. He stated that the upcoming workshop would be limited to a few issues critical to the strategic plan. Trustee Crawford suggested that the President's goals be cross-referenced with the strategic plan.
Chair Taylor asked that all trustees provide feedback through President Delaney and that this input be used to create a final version of the President's goals.
The Board took this topic up as its last item of discussion. The Board encouraged the President to remain judiciously and actively involved.
Vice President Owen stated that there were three major initiatives in Tallahassee. She listed these as (1) an attempt to draft a bill that clarified inaccuracies in correct Florida statutes, (2) a pending lawsuit seeking declaratory judgment between the BOG and the Legislature, and (3) a consultant hired by the Board of Governors (BOG) to look at the structure of the State University System (SUS). Vice President Owen spoke about each of these efforts, stating that it was her intent to apprise trustees so they would know what to expect.
Trustee Thompson stated that with the new governor, changes might occur in the appointment of members to the BOT. She stated that it was important to look at the process and make recommendations to the new governor.
Trustee Halverson stated that he felt it was important to adopt a proactive point of view and to outline what an ideal board would look like. He suggested that this Board should create a well thought out plan and identify people who would fill these slots.
President Delaney stated that this would be a good workshop topic – to sketch out how the ideal board would look.
This item was deferred to a later date.
Chair Taylor adjourned the meeting.
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Things have been different this season for East Duplin girls� tennis coach Marsha Pierson.
Things have been different this season for East Duplin girls� tennis coach Marsha Pierson.
While her Panthers are 15-2 entering today�s home match with Fairmont in the first round of the NCHSAA 2-A dual team playoffs, Pierson knows her squad wasn�t been pushed to the limit a lot en route to winning the East Central 2-A Conference title.
Blame that on statewide realignment, which moved strong programs like Swansboro and Topsail into 3-A, leaving East Duplin the only perennial contender left in the ECC.
And for the record, both Topsail and Swansboro made the state 3-A playoffs.
�We�ve had a great season, but we�ve not had as many challenges this season and we�ve not had to push ourselves the way I feel we�ve had to in the past,� Pierson said. �We came out of a tough East Central Conference, but we did lose (to realignment) Topsail and Swansboro.�
The Panthers� only two losses came against 4-A teams Hoggard and Laney.
Still, Pierson knows matches will only get tougher from here, starting with the opening-round match with Fairmont (9-5), the top seed from the Three Rivers Conference. The match starts at 4 p.m.
The winner will play the winner of Edenton Holmes (13-3) and North Lenoir (6-4) in the second round.
�We�ve played Fairmont in the past,� Pierson said. �I feel like we should do pretty good, but I feel like things will get more difficult.�
The Panthers are led by ECC player of the year Rebekah Bryant along with Madison Sholar � both of whom will play in the individual East Regional tournament Friday in Snow Hill.
East Duplin�s doubles teams of Laken Teachey and Maggie Weis and Stacie Whaley and Kerry Miller also advanced to the regionals.
�It will take all six in singles (for EDHS to play well in the playoffs),� Pierson said. �If you don�t do well in singles play, you don�t get to your doubles.�
The Panthers aren�t the only area team to host a first-round playoff match today.
Jacksonville (10-3) plays host to Topsail (7-7) at 3:30 p.m. in the first round of the 3-A playoffs.
The Cardinals shared the Coastal 3-A Conference title with Swansboro but are the league�s top playoff seed. Topsail is the top 3-A seed from the Mideastern 3-A/4-A Conference.
�You never know what the other team has, but I know that Topsail has traditionally been strong,� Jacksonville coach David Fleischer said. �I am confident that if our girls play the way they can, (the Cardinals will do well).�
This is the second consecutive season the Cardinals have at least shared the conference title. They won it outright last year en route to advancing to the second round of the playoffs.
Additionally, Fleischer said JHS is 36-4 in conference play the last 40 matches.
�I think this group has a lot of fun,� he said. �We have a lot of athletes, but they don�t put too much pressure on themselves, and you see that with our results.�
Swansboro (14-2) is the only other area team in the 3-A playoffs. The Pirates, the Coastal Conference�s second seed, visit Eastern Wayne (15-0) today in the opening round. Eastern Wayne is the top seed from the Eastern Carolina Conference.
�I do know they are undefeated on the season, but I think we can do well,� Swansboro coach Megan Mahone said. �These girls have worked hard. They knew we graduated our top four from last year and that they had big shoes to fill. They worked hard to fill those shoes. They give 110 percent every day.�
Still, Mahone knows the Pirates face a daunting task in trying to defeat unbeaten Eastern Wayne.
�I think we can do well,� she said. �There�s room for upsets. We have to show up and make a strong presence.�
Dixon and Lejeune also made the playoffs.
Dixon (6-3), the second seed from the ECC, visits Clinton (12-2) in the first round of the 2-A playoffs. Clinton is the top 2-A seed from the Four County 1-A/2-A Conference.
In 1-A, Lejeune (10-3), a wild card from the Coastal Plains Conference, visits Wallace-Rose Hill (4-4) in the opening round. Wallace-Rose Hill is the top 1-A seed from the Four County Conference.


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Alexandria Library Acquires Unique Historic Map and Ledger
A 1796 map—which would be the earliest of its kind to be owned by the city—and 200‐plus page ledger will find a home at the Alexandria Library. The acquisition of the extraordinary documents, which belonged to Charles Alexander and were used in a case that was heard by the Supreme Court, was celebrated with members of the historic Alexandria community. The Library is pleased to house the manuscript map and related ledger of land records at one of the city's leading establishments that focuses on local history and genealogy: The Special Collections Branch at 717 Queen Street.
"I'm amazed that it's alive, still here and hasn't perished," said the branch's manager, George Combs, who found the map truly remarkable. Noting that the map was created with more detail, coloration and character than your typical manuscript map, he recognizes that it will be a prized possession. "Initially I didn't think we'd be able to acquire it, especially during these financial times."
Pulling together to make this momentous feat possible, were contributions of several organizations. This group, led by the Alexandria Library Company, also include the Alexandria Forum, Alexandria Historical Society, the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Association, and the Historic Alexandria Foundation.
"Within the historic community, we all agreed the documents should remain in town," said Rose Dawson, Alexandria Library's Director. "We appreciated the fact that Gary Eyler, the map's owner and seller, supported working with the team to make it happen. The Map and Ledger are just a few items we hope to use to heighten public awareness about Alexandria's rich past."
The timing of the acquisition couldn't be better, as the Library celebrates its 75th anniversary as a public institution this year.
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Doctor of Psychology in Counseling Psychology (PsyD): FAQs
- What is Counseling Psychology?
Counseling Psychology is a subfield in psychology that focuses on health and well-being, helping people cope with problems from a strength-based perspective. In addition, counseling psychologists are aware and affirming of differences among people, including those differences related to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and physical ability. People often seek help from counseling psychologists for problems related to work or school, relationships, and normal life transitions, in addition to crises or more severe difficulties.
- What is a PsyD degree?
Doctoral training in psychology culminates in the awarding of either a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) or a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Each degree enables its holder to pursue licensure as a psychologist and to practice independently. The difference between the two degrees lies in their relative emphasis during the training process. Most Ph.D. programs have a dual training emphasis on both clinical practice and conducting scholarly research. In contrast, the training model adopted by most PsyD programs places greater emphasis on clinical practice rather than on research. Graduates of PsyD programs are generally better prepared for a direct service rather than an academic or research-oriented career.
- What is special about Chatham University's PsyD in Counseling Psychology program?
Chatham University offers one of only a few PsyD in Counseling Psychology programs in the nation. Chatham already has a strong presence in the region with its well–established Masters of Science in Counseling Psychology program, which prepares students to become licensed professional counselors. The Doctor of Psychology in Counseling Psychology degree builds upon this strong foundation, and enables students to become practice-focused doctoral level psychologists.
- What else is special about the program?
Chatham's PsyD program offers comprehensive basic education and training in counseling psychology, with an added unique focus on counseling psychology's role in promoting sustainable health and well-being across many dimensions, including mind, body, and the larger world. We recognize the interdependence of all parts of the world – including individuals, families, schools and work, neighborhoods, and the nonhuman natural world, and the importance of using a systems perspective when helping people. This means that we consider how the domains of mental, physical, social, economic, spiritual, vocational, political, and communal functioning, among others, might be related to the clients' concerns. Our students learn to support client health and well-being that is sustainable – that takes into account the resources that are needed to thrive both today and into the future. These ideas are woven through many of the academic courses.
- Is the idea of sustainable health and well-being a new idea in psychology?
Yes and no. The concepts of balance, reflection, long-term thinking, and thoughtful action have long been a part of the psychologist's practice. In addition, the science of psychology has from the beginning involved the study of human behavior and systems, and of the interaction between humans and their environments. Keeping these concepts in mind when working with individuals and families with a variety of problems is very important.
More recently, psychology has moved toward recognition of the importance of issues related to the natural environment for everyday human functioning. According to the past president of the American Psychological Association, Alan E. Kazdin (2008), "[psychology] ought to make the promotion of a sustainable environment a high priority within psychology and integrate our rich offerings with the efforts of other sciences, agencies and organizations. So many topics of our field (and virtually all of our APA divisions) are directly relevant and could be mobilized to convey more clearly that psychological science makes a difference." In addition, the APA Task Force on the Interface between Psychology and Global Climate Change (2009)recommended that psychology become actively involved in addressing problems related to global climate change, and include information about these topics in the education and training of psychologist practitioners.
- Is a doctoral degree necessary for a career in psychology?
It is possible to enjoy a career as a mental health professional at the bachelors or the masters degree level. However, the term "psychologist" is protected and reserved for those individuals who have earned a doctoral degree in psychology. Licensure as a psychologist is limited to those who have earned a doctoral degree. The decision to pursue doctoral training in psychology is a personal one that depends on many considerations, including career goals, life circumstances, and many other factors.
- What is the model of training in Chatham's PsyD program?
Chatham's PsyD program in Counseling Psychology has adopted the practitioner–scholar model of training. This means that students will receive training in both research and practice, but that there will be greater emphasis on practice.
- What are the basic requirements for admission to the program?
Enrollment in Chatham's PsyD in Counseling Psychology program requires a masters degree in psychology, counseling, or a related field. Click here for additional requirements for the program. Interested applicants who do not meet all requirements for admission are encouraged to consult with program directors about their situations and individual options. For example, many of the pre-requisite courses are available for students to take at Chatham the summer prior to admission to the doctoral program.
- What are admissions requirements
See PsyD Requirements for specific admissions requirements.
- What kinds of practicum training are offered?
Chatham's psychology department has strong relationships with many agencies, hospitals, schools, and organizations within the Pittsburgh region. Practicum settings will allow students to provide services to a wide variety of populations under the supervision of psychologists.
- Is a dissertation required for the PsyD in Counseling Psychology degree?
Yes, PsyD students complete a dissertation as a requirement for the degree. Consistent with the philosophies of the PsyD degree and the practitioner–scholar training model, the project involves research that will inform practice and be directly beneficial to communities and constituencies affected by or involved in the research.
- Who are the faculty in the PsyD program?
The PsyD faculty is widely diverse, and represents a range of orientations and types of practice. However, we have a shared commitment to the goals and values of Chatham's PsyD program. Students in the program can expect to be challenged and supported by faculty members to grow intellectually, professionally, and personally. Click here for information about individual faculty members.
- What careers are possible with a PsyD from Chatham?
Graduates of Chatham's PsyD program can expect to pursue careers in most areas of psychology practice across the full spectrum of settings, including hospitals, community agencies, university counseling centers, clinics, and independent practice.
- Will it be possible to work full–time while enrolled in the PsyD program?
Working full-time while completing the PsyD program would present many challenges. Courses are offered during the day and evenings. Beginning in the second semester, there are practicum experiences each semester, each requiring about 20 hours per week on-site.
- Is financial assistance available?
Chatham University offers several part–time assistantships to qualified students, as well as providing opportunities for on-campus employement. The Office of Admissions provides information about these opportunities. In addition, students may obtain information about educational loans from The Financial Aid Office.


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Paris, 11 February 2002
30 students from all over Europe have an opportunity this week to design their own space station, in ESA's unique Concurrent Design Facility. The interdisciplinary approach of the task encourages the participation not only of aerospace engineering students, but also architects and business studies students.
The Space Station Design Workshop is being held at ESA's technical centre, ESTEC from 17 to 22 February and is open to students from all ESA Member States. It is a joint initiative between ESA and the University of Stuttgart. Throughout the week, the 30 graduate (or near-graduate) students, selected from over 180 applications, have the opportunity to learn and practice systems engineering applied to the conceptual design of a space station and to network with ESA experts and fellow space enthusiasts.
In the unique environment of ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) the students will use advanced design methodology and custom-built tools to carry out their task. They will be divided into two teams and will be requested to fulfil a mission statement generated by ESA in close co-operation with the University of Stuttgart. A public presentation of the best design will be made on the last day of the workshop, Friday 22 February.
The CDF is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with a network of computers, multi-media devices and software tools, which allows a team of multi-disciplinary experts to apply the concurrent engineering method to space mission design. It facilitates a fast and effective interaction of all disciplines involved, ensuring consistent, high-quality results.


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Twinkies-maker Hostess Brands has offered a potentially sweet deal to the unions it's been fighting with: 25% of equity and two seats on a restructured nine-member board of directors. That would make the unions part of Hostess' capital structure for the first time.
Since January, Hostess, which owns Twinkies — along with Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Wonder Bread and other iconic baked goods — has been in bankruptcy. The chief combatants have been two major hedge funds and the Teamsters. Last month, they were inching closer to an agreement over costly employee pensions that would give Hostess a chance to emerge from its second Chapter 11 filing in a decade. But even though they made further progress in recent weeks, Teamsters leaders ultimately declined to accept the final management proposal. Nonetheless, they agreed to pass the proposal along to the rank-and-file. Those 7,900 employees, along with roughly 7,000 workers who belong to the less-combative Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, will be voting in September and October whether to accept cuts in wages, pensions and other benefits, along with work rules more favorable to the company. It's unusual for union leadership to send a proposal to workers despite not approving it.
Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn told Fortune what the stakes were. If the company proposal is rejected, he says, the company will "move toward liquidation." He told all Hostess employees the same thing in a letter asserting a "breakthrough" and promising a "brighter, more secure future." Rayburn is hoping employees believe his threat and accept "deep" concessions rather than vote to be out of work altogether. But, unpublicized in the media, the Hostess offer also includes 25% of the equity and a minority position on the board. While Hostess' financial track record of the past decade is dismal — its debt is crushing and equity has effectively been wiped out in bankruptcy — gaining a significant piece of ownership in the company could still prove appealing.
MORE: Hostess is bankrupt … again
The unions declined comment for this story. But in a message to Hostess employees who were Teamsters, Ken Hall, the union's secretary-treasurer and No. 2 man, wrote that "[we] cannot endorse the company's final offer. But given that the likely consequence of rejecting it outright means the loss of your jobs, it is our duty to inform you…what the offer means to you and your livelihoods and to let you vote on your future and the future of Hostess."
Under the Hostess proposal, the details of which were provided to Fortune on an anonymous basis, Hostess employees, including management, would have wages immediately cut 8% but then raised 3% in the next year of a five-year contract. Employer contributions for health insurance would decrease 17%. Contributions to multi-employer pension plans would cease until 2015, at which point the current required level of funding would plummet from $100 million to $25 million. According to Rayburn, the proposal has been endorsed by Hostess's key secured lenders, which are led by two major hedge funds in the New York City area, Silver Point Capital and Monarch Alternative Capital. One estimate put costs savings for Hostess in the neighborhood of $190 million.
The deal would restructure much of Hostess' nearly $1 billion of debt. Silver Point Capital and Monarch's current stake, each somewhere between $50 million and $100 million, would largely be unchanged. But it was clear that the $170 million invested by Manhattan private-equity firm Ripplewood Holdings — which acquired control of Hostess as it came out of its first bankruptcy in 2009 — would be wiped out. In addition, under the deal, various professionals involved in the bankruptcy proceedings, including lawyers and investment bankers, would give up $60 million in fees, about an 18% discount.
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Rayburn says he will hold a series of "town hall" meetings with union members in September. "In my experience," he says, "even though emotions can run high, people will respect a leader who will stand up, and take Q-and-A and be accountable." He has set December as an "aggressive target" to emerge from the bankruptcy. If the deal is signed, Rayburn says a search for a permanent CEO would begin. The litigants in the bankruptcy are scheduled to give an update this week to the federal judge in the case.
It's possible Hostess is still playing a game of chicken. If, say, the unions vote down the company's proposal, especially by a narrow margin, employees may assume Hostess will come back with another, improved offer. But Rayburn wants to shoot down any such pie-in-the-sky expectations. Two years ago, he was brought in as the restructuring expert to run New York City Off-Track Betting when it went bankrupt. "I have a track record. When I told the New York Senate that if they didn't approve [a rescue bill] the way the Assembly did I'd close OTB. And they didn't and I did." In other words, Rayburn may be the wrong negotiator to bet against.


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Captain J. M. Ferguson, who celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday by selling the farm home near Ashland, where he has lived for 40 years, has precipitated a storm that bids fair to tear up the entire city--and all unknowingly
Captain Ferguson is a native of Wayne County and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances here. As a Civil War veteran he has been prominent at many confederate reunions which have been held in this county. He is a brother of the late C. W. Ferguson, known throughout the county as "Uncle Charley."
All his life Captain Ferguson has been opposed to gambling. Yet, when a big real estate man came to him with an offer of $100,000 for his farm and 300 acres, which nestles in the hills of northeastern Kentucky, and now in the corporate limits of Ashland, the old soldier snapped it up.
The secret is this: The real estate man is said to have told the captain that he intended to cut the land up into lots and sell them to accommodate the rapid growth of the town.
Captain Ferguson has been a life-long Methodist and opposed to gambling in any nature--and the Puritanic town of Ashland is now "sitting up to take notice," as the word has gone out that this beautiful farm is to be converted into a race track that will not be second to Churchill Downs at Louisville, Latonia or the Lexington track. The city is stirred from center to circumference, and the ministers in all churches preached last Sunday on the subject, "Shall Ashland Surrender to Race Track Gamblers?".
But it seems the die is cast, for there is nothing that can be done, so far as anyone has been able to discover.
In the meantime, those followers of racing who are jubilant at the prospect are enumerating the cities from which they expect to draw great crowds. They point out that in five minutes, an Ashlander can set foot in three states--West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. They plan to draw crowds from Ashland with its 25,000 inhabitants; from Ironton, whose 15,000 residents live just across the river from West Ashland; from Portsmouth, 30 miles down the river, a city of 50,000; from Huntington and its 50,000; from Wayne county and Charleston, from Point Pleasant, from Parkersburg and from many others situated in the three states.
While all this is being planned by the big horsemen of Kentucky, Captain Ferguson is sitting quietly at home, thinking of the past and explaining how he made his $100,000.
Captain Ferguson was born in Wayne County, West Virginia, and he takes great pride in telling how he made his first money. His first 10 cents was made by gathering a quart of turnip seeds. He had no land to cultivate, so he was given permission by an old farmer to cultivate the corner made by a "stake and rider" fence. Here he planted Irish potatoes, and when they matured he sold them for a dollar. Then he dug 32 pounds of ginseng for which he was paid $4. All this time his mother was his banker. He had about $6 now, and he bought two calves and sold them for $8 and bought a heifer. When the heifer had grown into a cow, he sold her for $12.
Later he found himself the possessor of about $16, and he found a piece of land containing about 120 acres. He borrowed sufficient money from his mother to make up the deficit and bought the land.
When he was 15 years old, he had more than enough money to go to school, and he entered a little academy at Ashland, known as Conductive seminary, where he studied about three months, his earlier education being in the hands of his mother.
At 19 he married to Miss Susan Cannon. They bought a few acres of land and went into housekeeping at the forks of Twelve Pole in West Virginia, and from there, in the spring of 1857, they moved to Lewis County, Kentucky. They moved to Ashland in 1873, buying the farm on which he has lived all these years for $16,000, which he paid in trade and cash.
His first wife dying some years ago, he married a Mrs. Dickenson of old Virginia. His only surviving children are two daughters, Mrs. ? N. Pollock of Ashland and Mrs. Charles Smith of California.
Captain Ferguson is possibly one of the best known men in Kentucky and West Virginia, as he has attended all Methodist conferences for years. He served in the Civil War on the Confederate side.
Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia May 11, 1922
In accordance with a law enacted by the last legislature providing for the erection of suitable memorials for men who gave their lives in the World War, a monument has been ordered to commemorate the memory of Wayne County boys who made the supreme sacrifice while in service.
The monument for Wayne County soldiers will be placed on the courthouse square in Wayne. The costs of approximately $12,000 is covered by the special levy provided by the legislature.
Rev. W. H. Beale of Wayne is in charge of the erection of the Wayne County monument and announces that he hopes the memorial will be ready for unveiling by July 4th. It is planned that the program for the dedication will include addresses by prominent men in addition to the impressive ceremony which will attend the unveiling.
The name of every Wayne County soldier, sailor, or marine who died while in service during the World War will be inscribed on the monument. So far Rev. Beale has received the named of twenty- nine men who died in service. He believes there are others from Wayne County whose names have not been reported to him. We are publishing herewith a list of the names received so far. If any reader of Wayne County News knows the name of any Wayne County man who died in service whose name is not included in this list, kindly forward the information at once either to this newspaper or to Rev. Beale at Wayne. Our readers are earnestly requested to co-operate with us in order that not a single name may be lacking when the Wayne County Memorial is unveiled. The work of placing the names of the men on the monument will be begun in a few days, which makes it necessary that the information requested be sent in at the earliest possible date. The names of the men received to date who died in World War service are as follows:
Harry Adkins, Fort Gay
Lindsey Adkins, Wayne
Van Bradshaw, Wayne
William Crum, Jr., Crum
William H. Damron, Dunlow
Roy Davis, Lavalette
Emery Dean, Fort Gay
Scott Hamm, Fort Gay
Lee Hooser, Fort Gay
Charlie Johnson, Kenova
Mason H. Keister, Fort Gay
Clyde L. Lester, Fort Gay
Roscoe Lynch, Kenova
Ransom Marcum, Crum
Patrick Milum, Genoa
Thomas Muncy, Ceredo
William S. Napier, East Lynn
William H. Payne, Ceredo
Claude W. Pogue, Ceredo
Merton M. Postle, Ceredo
Wayne Sellards, East Lynn
Thomas P. Smith, Quaker
Charlie A. Stone, Ceredo
Minville Thompson, Fort Gay
Smiley Wellman, Ceredo
Andrew J. Wellman, East Lynn
Kelly Williamson, Dunlow
Otto Jackson, Wayne
Allen Tabor, East Lynn
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Green Room
by Melinda Whiting
Renaissance Man: Dana Gioia brings broad interests and a business background to the NEA.
In 1991, a General Foods marketing executive penned a glum prognosis for the future of American poetry. Verse, argued Dana Gioia in an Atlantic Monthly article, had become invisible to the general public. Universities harbored hundreds of poets writing solely for the delectation of other faculty-based poets; general-interest periodicals had dropped any mention of poetry from their pages; poetry journals and books reached a miniscule readership. Gioia offered several specific prescriptions--few of which seemed likely to appeal to the patient--for bringing poetry back into the mainstream. The article (and Can Poetry Matter?, the book from which it was drawn) caused an uproar in literary circles and resonated well beyond them.
Gioia was not just any businessman. He was also a respected poet and critic who made his literary reputation emphatically outside the academy. By the time he left his business career in 1992 to concentrate exclusively on writing, he had already published two books of poetry, as well as essays and reviews in The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Upon returning to his native California, Gioia added the post of classical music critic of San Francisco magazine to his credits. His third book of poems, Interrogations at Noon, won the American Book Award in 2002.
In January, Dana Gioia became the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Postponing his arrival by a few weeks to finish an opera libretto, he arrived in Washington in February and sprung into action, testifying before Congress on the state of the arts agency and putting the final touches on a broad-based "Shakespeare in the Schools" program spearheaded by the NEA. We spoke in late March about his literary and musical background, and his plans for the Endowment.
Melinda Whiting: Your artistic interests are famously broad, extending to all forms of literature, music, and film. Do you also see the ideal audience in that mold, representing a broad range of interests?
Dana Gioia: The arts are healthiest when they address or engage a mixed audience. One problem about the 20th century is that it encouraged the overspecialization of the arts, and many of them went from being public arts to being coterie pursuits. I believe a playwright, a composer, a poet usually is at his or her best when addressing a mixed audience of different kinds of people. A diverse audience tends to bring a whole different set of demands to the composer, to the conductor, to the soloists. That challenges artists to grow.
MW: Is the ability to speak to that broad audience a necessary component of artistic excellence, in your view?
DG: Well, there are many kinds of art, and there are many kinds of excellence. Any art form should, within the limits of the form, be able to articulate or express everything in human experience. But when we talk about the performing arts--music, opera, theatre, dance--we're largely talking about arts which are historically civic. It can't be coincidental that the three greatest periods of live theatre--which I would take to be Athens in its golden period, Elizabethan England, and 19th-century Italy for opera--were periods when all classes were in the theater. In Athens, literally every citizen of Athens was entitled to attend those performances. And in 19th-century Italy, anybody who could get to the opera, got in there.
Consequently, rather than simply addressing the concerns and the ideals of a single group of people, a playwright or composer or librettist had to create works of art that appealed to different people, even to competing classes. That challenge tended to bring out the greatest feats of imagination. That's why great dramatic artists like Shakespeare or Verdi are performed all over the world. It's because there's something universal in their works. And I fear that I am old-fashioned enough to believe that art has universal qualities.
On the other hand, I do personally prize writers, composers, painters who are in some ways coterie artists. There's a kind of poet called a poet's poet, and some of my favorite writers would fall into that category.
MW: Tell me about the business path you followed for seventeen years. After studying literature and business at the graduate level, you had a choice to make. What informed that choice?
DG: I went to business school after having spent a couple of years at Harvard graduate school in a Ph.D. program for comparative literature. I wanted to be a writer, but in graduate school I realized that I was being trained to be an academic literary theorist. I didn't know enough about the world to realize that I could have gone to New York and scraped by as a literary journalist. I also had family obligations, as the oldest child in a fairly large working-class family, and I felt that I had a certain duty to them.
So my motives for going into business were both noble, ancient artistic motives: One was poverty, and the other was security. I wanted to create a life in which I could have a certain amount of protected time where I could write exactly as I wanted without worrying about the marketplace or deadlines. So I became probably the first human being in history to go to Stanford Business School to become a poet! I made myself a promise that I would spend three hours a day reading or writing, and I have pretty much kept that promise over the years.
MW: That shows a great deal of discipline, given the demands of the business career you led, the 60-hour-a-week kind.
DG: Exactly. I was working eleven or twelve hours a day. But I still wrote every night--except for Fridays, when I don't think anybody can, after five days at the office! And I wrote on Saturday and Sunday. I simply arranged my life around that, and it was a good life. I always felt that I was getting rewarded. I had a job that I enjoyed, worked hard at, and did well in. And I was able to write. Maybe not as much as I wanted to, but exactly in the way I wanted to.
MW: I think of business life as being very much a team effort. Obviously it's competitive, but it's essentially a social enterprise: working with other people, compromise, consensus. Then there's this solitary writing you were doing in the evenings, a real contrast.
DG: You understand it very well. I was an artist-intellectual going in, so it took me a while to understand how to work with teams. The most important thing I learned in business was how much more you can accomplish, and how rewarding it is, when you create a situation in which everybody can succeed together. These are not skills that one is taught in the literary world. Musicians understand them, though. Musicians are raised in collaborative situations, and my training in music eventually made this a very natural thing. It was also good for me to have a daily life that was social, because that allowed me to have a very solitary existence in the evenings devoted to writing.
MW: It also gave you daily contact with the people that you were writing for.
DG: You know, it is not a bad thing for a poet to spend his or her days hearing intelligent, nonliterary people speak, describe their lives, share the issues of their lives. I found that a very clarifying experience. It definitely made me a different sort of poet than if I had spent those years in a university.
MW: You mentioned your musical training. What form did it take?
DG: Well, I fell in love with music, and especially classical music, from the first moments I heard it. I had a Mexican uncle, an autodidact and intellectual, who taught himself six languages. He was passionately interested in music. My uncle was killed in a plane crash when I was six, and our apartment was full of his records and scores. My mother, out of a sort of piety to her brother, had kept these things. There were privately printed German scores--the complete works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Brahms, which we eventually sold to the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. My father, who was a working-class Italian man of no intellectual sophistication and no advanced education, had a kind of a patriotic attachment to opera. So he would play me Caruso records and my mother would play me Chopin.
MW: You grew up entirely in Los Angeles?
DG: Yes, in Hawthorne, California--the most bleak, industrial kind of urban landscape you could imagine. There was hardly a tree in the city limits. But I fell in love with music, and in second grade I began to learn the piano. When I was in eighth grade, I really wanted to be in orchestra or band, so I rented a dilapidated alto clarinet for almost nothing. Then I began to play bass clarinet. And then I went on to tenor sax, while continuing with piano. In high school, I played in the jazz band and began composing music. I had a group of musician friends and we used to go to all the modern-music concerts in Los Angeles. We would go around the county to any free concert. I went to Stanford thinking I wanted to be a composer, and in my sophomore year I actually went to Vienna, where I studied music and German.
Gradually I became more interested in writing and became a poet, but music has always been my other passion. When I left New York after twenty years to go back to California, I was asked by San Francisco magazine if I would write about literature for them. I asked if they had a classical music critic, and they said they didn't really have a regular one, and I asked, "How could you not have one in San Francisco?" The thing is, I really believe in the importance of criticism, of picking up a newspaper and seeing a concert reviewed, picking up a magazine and seeing classical music talked about, turning on the radio and hearing classical music mentioned or played. So I created, essentially, the classical music desk at San Francisco magazine.
MW: You wrote eloquently in a 1991 Atlantic Monthly article, "Can Poetry Matter?"--and in the book that followed--about how poetry was isolated from the general discourse in the last quarter-century. Your thesis was essentially that when poetry removed itself to a safe subculture within academia, it lost much of its vitality. Have you seen similar trends in other arts?
DG: Well, fifteen or so years ago one could have made a very similar argument about contemporary classical music in America. But there has been an enormous renaissance in contemporary music. I've been very gratified to see the success of some older composers whom I thought were terribly neglected at that time--like Lou Harrison, to mention one who passed away recently, or David Diamond. Or a composer that I myself have worked with, Alva Henderson.
MW: You wrote the libretto for his recent opera.
DG: Yes, Nosferatu. Another composer I admire is Ned Rorem, who is just wonderful. It's good to see the revival in the interest of people as diverse as Henry Cowell and Walter Piston. To see that Samuel Barber is finally being recognized justly as a national treasure. One of the strengths of American music is the diversity of approaches that are available. I mention composers that I have passions for, but there's any number of them. Most of my record collection--which is enormous--is 20th-century music.
MW: What's in your record collection?
DG: You know, I've got everything. I tend to find a composer that I like and immerse myself. Sometimes you don't like everything you hear, but you learn a lot. One that I have been listening to lately is this wonderful Mexican composer named Daniel Catn. I've been listening to a lot of Penderecki again, whom I really fell in love with in high school. I have also been discovering George Pelecis, Alexander Rabinovitch, and Peteris Vasks. Then there's a composer who is little-known and exquisite, Gerald Finzi. I don't think anyone ever set English poetry better than Finzi.
MW: I agree with you. The great thing in his vocal music is how naturally his melodies follow the spoken cadence of the words.
DG: And the way his melodic line becomes an organizing device. I guess it was about ten, twelve years ago that I discovered Finzi. The poet Alfred Corn happened to say to me, "Well, of course, you like Finzi."
MW: "Well, of course!" And you ran off to the record store!
DG: [laughs] Well, I decided to, yes.
MW: Returning to the insularity trend, some things have happened to poetry that you might not have foreseen twelve years ago when you wrote about this subject. Now there are the poetry slams and jams, there are the book clubs devoted to reading poetry aloud, and rap and hip-hop are being viewed as poetry in their own right.
DG: Which is what I called for in the last two pages of my Atlantic Monthly article--to turn poetry back into a performative art. Actually, the solution for poetry was to learn from music. Once people recognized the auditory nature of it, then they connected to it. After all, we live in a culture that has enormous auditory sophistication.
MW: What's the parallel "solution" for other art forms, especially those that already incorporate performance? Does the key to broader interest lie in engaging more diverse audiences, perhaps, or in education?
DG: Absolutely. I am the deepest and truest believer in the power of art. I really do believe that if you take people who have never heard a Beethoven symphony and somehow make a great performance accessible to them, it will change some of their lives. Some of those people are going to be not merely hungry, but starving for more.
MW: They will be transformed, in other words?
DG: Yes. Not everyone, but some of them. The difference between art and entertainment is that entertainment gives you a predictable pleasure that you indulge and enjoy, but you don't tend to emerge a different person. But art always allows at least the possibility of transformation, of an inner realization.
Now classical music raises different problems from those of poetry, in specifics, although on an abstract level the larger issues are the same. We have to make classical music both more accessible and less forbidding to the average intelligent person. And that has to start in education. Music should be part of every American child's education. If we do not provide music in the schools, we're producing impoverished students.
MW: You're talking about learning to do music, as well as learning about it?
DG: I don't think we necessarily need to have every child learn how to play cello or trumpet, but if they aren't getting chorus or some basic instruction in music, then the educational system is failing them. Now, ideally, they would have chorus; they would have band; they would have the possibility of individual instruction. They would have musicians visiting the schools as part of a complete package of education and appreciation. Certainly in both primary and secondary schools that should be available. I can't imagine a school that's complete that doesn't have band and chorus.
MW: And yet there are so many today that don't.
DG: Unfortunately, yes. But that is the challenge for both American education and the American arts establishment. And I would go one step further. Music education benefits the student even if the student never goes on to pursue any kind of musical career, even if he or she doesn't become an eventual audience member. Music instruction develops certain basic human skills that are essential to adults. So I would make use of the smaller argument--that music education is a way of supporting music in general, certainly. But more importantly, there is the larger argument that music is a necessary component in the development of fully realized adults.
MW: Today we have a kind of patchwork, with some schools having strong programs and other schools combining a limited curriculum with some offerings provided by the local orchestra, the local opera company, or both. Then there are schools where students get almost no musical exposure or, at most, a couple of performances per year. What can the NEA do in the next few years to even out that inequality and that lack of standardization?
DG: The NEA needs to take a leadership role in arts education. I don't mean that we should propose a monolithic national arts education policy. What I envision is a much more strategic kind of leadership. The United States needs an entity that evaluates all of the programs out there from a national perspective, and makes recommendations from among all of the available, proven possibilities. Local school districts, state organizations, professional organizations need some kind of reliable, central resource to identify the possibilities. Ideally, they could pick and choose what is best for their particular circumstances.
There is an enormous amount of good work being done--especially in music which, in some ways, has the strongest educational programs and the best track record of any of the arts. We need to distill the available approaches, recommend the best, and make a case to legislators about why it's important. Then we need to provide the materials and the resources to educators, so they can tailor the programs for their communities.
Now, let me answer the question in a different way, not from the NEA's perspective, but from the perspective of the music world. This country is full of remarkable musicians, and many of them are not working every day. We have an enormous underutilized resource in this country of musicians who could transform American education with their talents. How do we bring those people productively into the educational system to create the next generation of audience, artists, and patrons? That seems to me to be the other side of the NEA's challenge.
MW: In your testimony to Congress soon after your appointment, you stated that "the NEA needs to replace its old image as an embattled enterprise with a cogent account of its new mission and many accomplishments." How would you state that new focus?
DG: I refuse to believe that federal funding of the arts is a controversial issue. Most Americans want arts funding. They want to see the arts in their communities, and they want to see the arts in their schools. For a variety of reasons, there was a period in which arts funding got caught in the middle of the cultural wars. I refuse to become involved in those dusty battles. They bore me. They happened in the last century.
I'm concerned that there is a generation of kids who were born after the last of those controversies--which happened ten years ago. What are we doing for those kids now, and what do we want for them in the future? What do we want the future role of the arts in America and American education to be? Those are the questions that concern me. Everything else is history.
MW: And that's the priority for you?
DG: Absolutely. We need to re-establish the National Endowment for the Arts to its rightful place as one of the premier American public institutions. And I believe that, by and large, the American people want this. I also believe that the American legislators want this. I believe that the White House wants this. We need to build a compelling and inclusive consensus for arts funding.
The NEA gives so many small grants, that those grants tend to be invisible to the general public. People don't understand what the NEA is doing. What we need to do is bring ourselves before the public, and to be full of conviction about our mission. We need to offer a vision to Americans and American legislators of what the NEA might do for the country. We're not going to accomplish that by being timid or by being apologetic. I believe in the power of the arts to transform individuals and to transform communities. We should not deny that possibility to America. A great nation deserves great art.
MW: Every few years, the NEA announces some broad initiative to fill a void or address a problem, and in the best cases some real change has been effected by these programs. There was a dance touring program a few years ago, for instance, and a Shakespeare program is soon to be launched. I'm curious to have you dream a little bit and tell me what might be some of the areas where you think in terms of broad, sweeping NEA initiatives.
DG: Let me reminisce for a second, and then I'll dream for you. It is a matter of historical record that the growth of regional ballet, opera, theatre, chamber music, jazz, and to a lesser degree orchestras and museums, was the product of investment from the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1970s and 1980s. The key thing to learn from this fact is that enlightened and focused federal funding can transform the American cultural landscape. For every dollar that the National Endowment for the Arts gives, it tends to generate seven more dollars in other philanthropy and revenue. That creates an eight-to-one ratio of total impact in terms of investment.
Now, let's dream about the future. I would like to create programs that reacquaint Americans with the best of their own heritage across all of the arts and introduce a new generation of Americans to the accomplishments of our artists in music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual arts. I don't think that is an impossible dream. What we have to do is to put together an idea that will be irresistible to Congress, and I look on that as being one of my primary challenges: to give them a vision of something that it would break their hearts not to do.
What I'm thinking of is actually a large, integrated program across all of the arts that would involve partnerships with hundreds of organizations from around the states to reacquaint them with the greatest moments in the American arts. I don't have the idea yet, but I do think that there is a notion that European nations have that they call patrimony, their national legacy: What are those things, for example, that make Italy Italian?
MW: You're talking about their cultural heritage, the things that define them as a nation.
DG: Right. In Europe, they tend to define those things overwhelmingly through the arts: the architecture, the music, the literature, the painting, the sculpture, and the folk arts that help give the country its identity. To take those things away would make an Italian anonymous. The French, the Germans, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Chinese, the Japanese all have a very defined sense of their cultural patrimony.
MW: In America it's more difficult, because you have diverse cultures at work, and the thing that we have in common is more a set of ideals than a common history.
DG: But I think that just makes it a lot more interesting. Take a creation like jazz, which is the product of an African-American synthesis. But the audience for jazz and even the practitioners of jazz are no longer confined to a single community. So I think the American arts have the wonderful ability to combine and transform themselves. It could be enormously enjoyable and instructive to try to celebrate and articulate America's diverse artistic legacies across the arts. Now, this is something that would take decades to do. It might take the form of re-creations. Or it might take the form of juxtapositions of some sort. But I do think that the notion of connecting or reconnecting America with the best of its own artistic legacy is both an irresistible and an inexhaustible idea. We should think big.
MW: So, the money question: Do we have enough to start that job at present? Is the NEA funded in the way that it needs to be funded in order to achieve the kinds of dreams that I see forming in your head?
DG: The current budget of the National Endowment for the Arts is adequate to begin planning for the future. In fact, we're about to begin the largest tour of Shakespeare in North American history. It will combine educational programs and poetry-reading programs, in such a way that when we visit a hundred different towns in all 50 states, it can have a real impact. It won't be simply an isolated performance but part of a whole experience of Shakespeare in that community. My hope is that by demonstrating our ability to bring artistic works of indisputable merit to the broadest possible cross-section of America, we will create a precedent which will excite people so much that we will get significantly more funds in the future to do more programs of an even more ambitious nature.