Office of University Communications
CASL leader named to national Campus Compact team
Additional faculty and staff accomplishments noted
Date: May 28, 2008
“Elizabeth’s selection to the New Leaders Organizing Team confirms my nomination and belief that she is among the very best in our field, not only in Missouri but across the country,” said Melissa Mace, executive director of Missouri Campus Compact. “She will bring a wealth of experience and the ability to look at issues through multiple lenses to the work of the team.”
Members of the New Leaders Organizing Team represent a broad range of academic areas, types of higher education institutions, geographic regions, and approaches to civic and community engagement. Over the next 18 months, they will contribute to new print or online resources, present at state and regional events, and help shape Campus Compact’s efforts to support and convene high-quality engagement efforts and emerging leaders across the country.
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents—representing some 6 million students—who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. As the only national association dedicated solely to this mission, Campus Compact is a leader in building civic engagement into campus and academic life.
Campus Compact’s membership includes public, private, two- and four-year institutions across the spectrum of higher education. These institutions put into practice the ideal of civic engagement by sharing knowledge and resources with their communities, creating local development initiatives, and supporting service and service-learning efforts in areas such as literacy, health care, hunger, homelessness, and the environment.
Missouri Campus Compact, based at Missouri State, serves 38 member campuses across the state and is a statewide example of Missouri State University’s public affairs mission in action. For more information, see www.compact.org.
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Dr. Holly Jones, assistant director of the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR), received a $115,781 grant from the Pawnee Watershed Joint District No. 81 for her work at the Horsethief Reservoir near Jetmore, Kan. Jones recently directed excavations at the reservoir, which is considered an important stratified prehistoric site.
Radiocarbon dates from previous excavations in 2003 by the Kansas State Historical Society indicate the site, Horsethief Canyon (14HO308), was occupied during the period A.D. 880-1270, also known as the Middle Ceramic Period, Jones explained.
“The 2008 excavations at Horsethief Canyon by CAR produced a large volume of chipped stone tools, projectile points, bone tools, highly decorated pottery, a decorated turtle shell pendant, and a variety of features, such as hearths and storage pits,” she said.
According to the Kansas State Archaeologist Bob Hoard, the Horsethief Canyon site will define the Middle Ceramic period in southwest Kansas. Research questions that will be addressed in a special publication by the CAR involve the site’s taxonomic placement in Kansas prehistory, refining absolute dates, site formation and function, history of occupations, site seasonality, plant exploitation and faunal resources. Several Missouri State University graduates participated in the field project.
Dr. Arlen Diamond, director of broadcast services, received a $106,079 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the Digital Distribution Fund project.
The purpose of the fund is to assist stations in their TV digital conversion efforts.
“This grant will allow OPT to purchase a current technology encoder which is a critical equipment item that allows us to distribute our digital programs in both high definition and standard definition,” Diamond said. “It will also allow us to manage our digital bandwidth more effectively. Our current encoder will move to backup status.”