- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/eastern-illinois-university/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:24:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock starts student chapter of national honor society for Earth Science students /news-archive/2017/10/16/sigma-gamma-epsilon/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:24:34 +0000 /news/?p=68241 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock starts student chapter of national honor society for Earth Science students]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Earth Sciences has chartered a chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon. , which is the national honorary society for earth science students, was founded in 1915 at the University of Kansas and now has more than 200 chapters on colleges across the country. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 new chapter is only the second chapter in Arkansas with the first being at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. Earth science students submitted a petition to begin the chapter in 2016, which included support statements from Joshua Spinler, instructor of geophysics and the chapter鈥檚 faculty advisor; Department Chair Beth McMillan; and Dr. Lawrence Whitman, dean of the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology. 鈥淭he desire to start a chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon was entirely student-driven,鈥 Spinler said. 鈥淭he process started in the fall of 2016 with a small group of seniors in the Earth Sciences department, led by Matt Acree. They each submitted personal statements and had to meet specific GPA and credit totals in order to qualify for membership.鈥 National officers of Sigma Gamma Epsilon visited 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock on Sept. 18, and the organization鈥檚 national council approved the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock chapter during the national convention held Sept. 22-24 at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.
Tyler Kee attends the national Sigma Gamma Epsilon conference at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

Tyler Kee attends the national Sigma Gamma Epsilon conference at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

鈥淪tarting a chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon on campus was a monumental move for a department that, some 20 years ago, did not have a degree-granting program,鈥 said Tyler Kee, who will serve as secretary of the new student organization. 鈥淲e wanted a Sigma Gamma Epsilon chapter because it would clearly demonstrate our dedication to success and passion for our community, both to the university and to future employers and graduate admission committees.鈥 Kee represented 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock at the national convention, where he was selected as chairman of the National Chapter Affairs Committee. 鈥淎ttending the convention was an exhilarating and invaluable experience,鈥 Kee said. 鈥淚 was given the privilege to listen to decades-old chapters speak on their success. I met students from as close as Tennessee and as far as Utah, and we were all connected through our love of the earth sciences.鈥 In this position, Kee is responsible for leading the committee and ensuring that issues critical to the success of Sigma Gamma Epsilon are discussed and solutions are proposed. He also is responsible for reporting the committee鈥檚 findings and proposals in a letter that is published in Sigma Gamma Epsilon鈥檚 journal, The Compass. The new 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon is planning its first initiation ceremony on Oct. 20. Any 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student who is majoring in an earth science-related major, has completed 10 credit hours, and has a minimum 3.0 GPA in all earth science courses and a minimum 2.67 cumulative GPA is eligible to join Sigma Gamma Epsilon. For more information, contact Joshua Spinler at jxspinler@ualr.edu or 501-569-3544. In the upper right photo, members of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Earth Sciences faculty are pictured at Big Rock Quarry in North Little Rock. Pictured, from left to right, back row: Jeff Connelly, professor and associate dean of Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology; Tom Colby, visiting assistant professor; and Laura Ruhl, assistant professor. Pictured, from left to right, front row:聽Beth McMillan, chairperson of the Department of Earth Sciences;聽Rene Shroat-Lewis, assistant professor;聽Josh Spinler, instructor; and聽Michael DeAngelis, assistant professor. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Communications.聽]]> Endowed scholarship fund started to honor Waylands /news-archive/2017/06/27/67374/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:29:41 +0000 /news/?p=67374 ... Endowed scholarship fund started to honor Waylands]]> Several donors have started an endowed scholarship fund to honor Dr. Jane Wayland, Stephen Harrow Smith dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Business, and her husband, Dr. Robert Wayland, a visiting professor of management.聽 Michelle and John Towne started the scholarship fund in gratitude for a College of Business internship that helped their son Michael land a job after graduation. The Jane and Bob Wayland Endowed Scholarship will be awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student from the College of Business. Financial need will be strongly considered. 鈥淲e were overwhelmed and so grateful and very surprised,鈥 Jane Wayland said. 鈥淵ou never know what impact will happen from a small thing.鈥 In addition to the Towne family, additional founding donors for the scholarship fund include: Arkamedia LLC 鈥 鈥Inviting Arkansas,鈥 Deborah Baldwin and Jim Metzger, Dora Jane and Greg Flesher, John Fowler, Cindy Kilgore, Sheena Howell and Brad Elam, Karen and Terry Masching, Tara and Larry Stebbins, Shelia and Larry Vaught, and Jane and John Yocum. For more information or to donate to the scholarship fund, contact Sheena Howell, director of development and external relations for the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock College of Business, at smhowell1@ualr.edu or 501.569.3208. More about the Waylands: During her tenure as dean of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock College of Business, Jane Wayland has overseen many student success projects. They include the establishment of the College of Business Advising Center and the State Farm Business Skills Lab as well as the initiation of the student ambassador program to showcase top students. She also helped start Career Catalyst, an extracurricular program to prepare students for professional careers through career workshops, education in business ethics, service leadership, and applied experiential learning. She serves on the board for Economic Arkansas and is the treasurer and past president of the Arkansas Women鈥檚 Leadership Forum. She also volunteered on the Women Administrator in Management Board associated with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation organization, Rotary 99 Board, and the Women鈥檚 Foundation of Arkansas. Since retiring from Eastern Illinois University in 2007, Robert Wayland taught graduate courses in the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock College of Business until 2015, when he became a visiting professor of management. He also works as a labor arbitrator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. At Eastern Illinois University, he was a professor of management for 16 years. He also served in numerous leadership roles, including director of human resources, assistant to the president for Labor Relations, and director of Employee and Labor Relations. The Waylands reside in Little Rock and have four sons, 10 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. In the upper right photo, founding donors and 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock officials celebrate the launch of the Jane and Bob Wayland Endowed Scholarship Fund at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. Pictured, from left to right, back row: Tara Stebbins, Larry Stebbins, Karen Masching, Michelle Towne, Larry Vaught, Janessa Rogerson, Shelia Vaught, John Towne, Michael Towne, Terry Masching, Cindy Kilgore, and John Fowler. Front row: John Yocum, Jane Yocum, Andrew Rogerson, Jane Wayland, Robert Wayland, and Deborah Baldwin.]]>