Wendy Chang, vice chancellor for information technology, has been appointed a member of the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of IT. The three-year term started this month.

Garrett

Schnell Garrett is the executive director of campus life, having served in an interim capacity since February. She is overseeing the daily operations of the Office of Campus Life, including the Graf Recreation Center, the Child Development Center, Volunteer Action Center and the America Reads program. She will also serve as adviser to the Student LEADERS, Student Events Team, Student Activities Advisory Board and the student newspaper.

Jean Harper, English, has won a Mid-List Press Series Award for Creative Nonfiction for her book manuscript Greenhouse: A Memoir.

The book recounts her experiences working in the rose growing industry in Richmond, Ind. for a period of time in 1992. An important part of her experience was moving from a fairly privileged lifestyle in the East to being a member of a crew of blue-collar workers in a rose-growing greenhouse in the Midwest.

Many of the laborers with whom she worked were illiterate and were one paycheck away from poverty. The story also explores her feelings on moving from the east to the Midwest. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Cimarron Review, Living Forge Journal and elsewhere.

Since 1990, Mid-List Press has sponsored the First Series Award for the Novel for writers who have yet to publish a novel, and in 1995, the First Series was expanded to include awards for book-length collections of short fiction and creative nonfiction.
http://www.drexel.edu/doj/archives/2004/essay/harper_faith.asp

An active alumna leader on campus, Terry Hawkins Wiesehan, has been named director of alumni relations and campus events. Formerly, she was the reading lab coordinator in Tutorial Services, taught English and composition as an adjunct faculty member and was the recipient of this year’s Outstanding IU East Adjunct Faculty award.

Williamson

Tambrey Williamson, director of annual fund and donor relations, is serving on the board of directors for I-CASE, the Indiana Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

The IU East Alumni Association will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a dinner Friday, Oct. 15. Call Wiesehan for details at 765-973-8221.