CAMPUS COMMUNITY INVITED TO GIVE INPUT ON MEREDITH'S MASTER
PLAN -
By Bill Wade, vice president for business and finance |
 The
Meredith community will have the chance to review some preliminary
ideas and give additional input into the College’s facilities
master plan during two open sessions to be held on Thursday,
September 26. One session will be held in the afternoon and
one in the evening. Specific times and locations will be announced
later this month, via e-mail and/or e-news announcements.
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, a master plan consultant
firm based in Boston, Mass., will make a two-day visit to campus
September 26-27. In addition to the open sessions and meetings
with the Working Committee and Steering Committee, the group
will make a preliminary progress report to the Board of Trustees
at its September 27 meeting. Input from the campus community
will be used to develop the final campus master plan, which
will be presented to the campus and the Board of Trustees in
spring 2003.
Meredith began the facilities master planning process last spring.
The process involves reviewing all areas and aspects of the
campus, including looking at potential locations for future
academic buildings, enhancing the campus landscape and outdoor
spaces, improving vehicular and pedestrian traffic flows, and
relocating or adding new athletic and recreational facilities
and fields.
In addition to their work towards developing an overall master
plan, Shepley Bulfinch, the master plan steering committee,
and the working committee spent the summer developing and reviewing
conceptual plans for the spaces that will be vacated in Hunter
and Harris when the Science and Mathematics Building opens next
semester.
Shepley Bulfinch and the master plan committees have identified
a preferred option that would move foreign languages, honors,
international studies, and faculty development into Hunter along
with the Department of Human Environmental Sciences. According
to this plan, the communications department would move into
Harris and share expanded space with the School of Business.
The English, history and political science, and religion and
philosophy departments would expand into the remaining space
in Joyner. The option of moving the Learning Center into a space
in Hunter, Harris, or Joyner is also being explored.
This option provides all departments with more space than they
currently occupy, and it allocates office space in each building
for a school dean. This option also provides expanded space
for faculty and student lounge areas, and it maintains the same
amount of shared classroom space.
However, the plan is still in the conceptual stage, and will
have to remain flexible until several unknown factors are determined.
For example, some space will likely be lost if a new entrance
is created for Harris, while some square footage may be gained
by renovating and using the space in the existing Yarborough
Research Building and Greenhouse.
Focus, a space planning consulting firm hired as part of the
Science and Mathematics Building project, has begun to refine
Shepley Bulfinch’s conceptual plan. Focus will also analyze
the infrastructure (heat, A/C, plumbing, etc) of each building,
and will assist in the hiring of the architects and contractors
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FAMILY
DAY 2002 :BE A PART OF THE MEREDITH CONNECTION
By Megan Deane,
’03
On September 22, Meredith College’s Family Day will have
a new look. The traditional day for students and their families
will include many new events that emphasize faculty and staff
participation.
 "We
tried to make this more of a collaborative effort," says
Catherine Rideout, director of alumnae and parent relations.
Rideout says faculty and staff members’ presence at the
festivities is key to letting parents see how our community
connects with one another. To achieve this, faculty and staff
members will serve as table hosts at lunch from 11:45 a.m. to
1 p.m. This will allow families to get to know faces they have
seen around campus on a personal level.
Rideout believes it will "give parents a chance to see
interaction between faculty, students and staff, which is important."
The morning activities include two faculty seminars, which faculty
and staff are encouraged to attend. Dr. Paul Winterhoff will
present the "Context of Culture," where audiences
will learn about the first core course of Meredith’s new
general education curriculum. Dr. Jim Piazza and Dr. Allen McAlexander
will present "The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism,"
which is a part of Meredith’s Honors colloquium.
After lunch, faculty/staff can attend one of five interactive
sessions on topics from undergraduate research to the creative
process in dance. Afterwards, faculty and staff can join students
and parents on a tour of the new Science and Mathematics Building.
Rideout says the theme of family day is "The Meredith Connection"
because "we want to show how the community connects to
our campus and how our campus community connects with one another."
For more information, contact Rideout at ext. 8391.
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MEREDITH
TO MARK SEPTEMBER 11th WITH REFLECTION, INSPIRATION
- By Melyssa Allen
The
Meredith College community will have an opportunity to reflect
upon the events of September 11, 2001 during several events
to be held on campus Sept. 11, 2002.
A small service will be held at Meredith's flag pole beginning
at 8:30 a.m. A moment of silence will be observed across the
campus at 8:46 a.m.
 Campus
Minister Sam Carothers has asked two Meredith faculty members
with New York City ties to speak during the 10 a.m. chapel
service. Carothers said that Doug Spero, assistant professor
of communication, and Mary Ann Heym, an adjunct instructor
of music, "will discuss people they knew who were in
the towers" on September 11.
Spero said, "Sam asked me to speak because as a reporter,
at WCBS in New York, I was one of the first ones on the scene
for "World Trade One", the underground bombing of
the facility in 1993. Then I went on to cover the trials of
the six accused at Federal Court."
On September 11, Spero lost about 17 friends, including Deputy
Fire Commissioner William Feehan. He explained that he had
been asked "to speak on one person and I have chosen
the former fire commissioner, who was killed at age 71, long
after he could have retired...trying to save innocent lives.
I have already contacted his family and they said they will
be honored."
Of her planned remarks for the chapel service, Mary Ann Heym
said, "I didn’t lose one particular individual,
that grief was spared me. But as a former New Yorker, my world
changed significantly. I will speak of my close friends in
Manhattan, of their escapes, and of those who did not."
Carothers said "we also hope to have exchanged information
with Marymount Manhattan and have some word from their campus
to share in our service." Meredith College students prepared
a quilt for Marymount Manhattan College, Meredith’s sister
college in New York City, following the attacks.
On September 11, a group of Meredith students will also be
offering inspiration to the campus, through the LeaderShape
Vision Showcase. According to Kelly Conkling, assistant director
of student activities and leadership development, the first-ever
Vision Showcase was coincidentally held on September 11 of
last year.
"We are planning to have the showcase for this year’s
LeaderShape participants," Conkling explained, "because
this is a needed inspiration on a somber occasion."
Meredith student LeaderShape visions include decreasing illiteracy,
providing mentors to at-risk children, supporting the mentally
ill, and creating services for the homeless. The Vision Showcase
will be held in the Johnson Hall Rotunda.
"The Vision Statements of this year’s graduates
of the institute will be hanging in the Rotunda all day for
faculty, staff, and students to see. It’s a very moving
experience to see all of the students’ individual
visions of a better future," Conkling added.
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