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\ WESTERN GAROLIN 4 IAN CC ampus Life WCU student to Ship Paemieuiiie impact award from state organization From Staff Reports A Western Carolina Uni- versity student who is making service to the deaf community her lifes work will be hon- ored Saturday, Nov. 6, at the state level for her efforts and achievements. __ Shane Sullivan will re- ceive a Community Impact Student Award from North Carolina Campus Compact, a statewide coalition of col- lege and university leaders dedicated to promoting com- munity service, service learn- ing and civic engagement in higher education, A. senior biology ma- jor from Raleigh, Sullivan served from 2008 to 2010 as a volunteer tutor at the North Carolina School for the Deaf in Morganton, where she as- sisted students with learning sign language and English vocabulary, and with Ameri- can College Test preparation. Her fundraising efforts last year resulted in scholarships totaling nearly $1,000 for two NCSD seniors to attend col- lege. The daughter of Deir- dre Thompson Sullivan and Charles Sullivan, she gradu- ated from Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School in 2006, Ruth Jones, volunteer services director at NCSD, praised Sullivans enthusi- asm, energy, creativity and dedication as a volunteer. She is truly a treasure, Jones said. Sullivan is currently volunteer teacher assistant at See School From Staff Reports Western Carolina Universi- ty recently honored four alum- ni for achievements including guiding WCU during a period of unprecedented growth, pio- neering advances in nursing education, developing a top physical education program, and enhancing food. security for children and families in the Commonwealth of Dominica. During a ceremony held in Ramsey Regional Activity Center as part of Homecom- ing festivities Oct. 9, the Dis- tinguished Service Award was. presented to Chuck Wooten, vice chancellor for administra~- tion and finance at WCU. In addition, Carol Fowler Dur- ham, a member of the nurs- ing faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the Academic Achievement Award; Sarah Lowell, a physical education teacher at Cartoogechaye El- ementary School in Frank- lin, received the Professional Achievement Award; and Eliz- abeth Wall-Bassett, a nutrition and dietetics faculty member at East Carolina University, received the Young Alumna Award, We thank these recipi- ents for their dedication, hard work and accomplishments of taking what they learned at Western Carolina and applying it to make our world a better place, said Betty Allen, presi- dent of the WCU Alumni As- sociation. We are very proud. of our fellow alummi. The service award recipi- ent, Wooten, has guided criti- cal financial and business deci- sions at Western Carolina for the past 30 years. A Statesville native who earned a bachelors degree in business adminis- tration with a concentration in accounting from WCU in Western Carolina University student Shane Sullivan, he will be honored for her w york with the students at North Carolina School for the Deaf and other volunteer efforts, signs the word connect. where she develops enrich- ment units for academically or mtellectually sifted stu- dents in the fourth and sev- enth grades to connect their current literature to the world around them. She also teaches sign language to students in a special needs class. In addi- tion, she is a volunteer tutor at Blue Ridge School oe 1973, he joined the WCU staff in 1979 as controller. He was promoted to assistant vice chancellor for business af- fairs in 1987, promoted again to associate vice chancellor in 1996, and named vice chan- cellor for administration and finance in 2001. Pve had the good fortune of being at the table when a master plan was developed, projects were prioritized, and designers were selected, said Wooten. Watching the proj- ects move from construction to completion has been very rewarding. During his time as vice chancellor, WCU doubled the size of its campus with the 2005 purchase of 344 acres as part of the Millennial Initiative and has undertaken more than $310 million in major capital projects. Construction since 2001 has included the Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cam- pus Recreation Center, Court- yard Dining Hall and five residence halls, and a Health and Human Sciences Building is being built. In addition, the institution has renovated every athletics facility on campus. The Academic Achieve- ment Award honored Durham, a 1976 WCU nursing alumna who is now a clinical profes- sor and director of the Clinical Education and Resource Cen- ter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Durham has been a leader in nursing education and curriculum development for more than 28 years. She is part of an award-winning proj- ect that is shifting the focus in hursing education from body mechanics to safe patient-han- dling and movement. In addi- tion, she has been a leader in incorporating human patient simulation into nursing educa- tion and also has collaborated students with English/Ameri- can Sign Language vocabu- lary and reading comprehen- sion, The students with Down. syndrome and those students who are nonvocal benefit the most because sign helps them better communicate what they want, or what they need, we Marty Ramsey (center), director of alumni affairs, joins the 2010 service and alumni achievement award honorees who are, from left, Chuck Wooten, Sarah Lowell, Carol Fowler Durham and Elizabeth \ with pharmacy and medical schools to develop interprofes- sional simulation experiences for students across disciplines, Throughout her career, Dr. Carol Fowler Durhams ac- /complishments in the field of nursing education and curricu- lum development have done much to further the develop- ment of the field of nursing as well as to help with patient care and safety, said Allen. She has taken her knowledge and education forward to share it with others, while adding to it with ideas of her own. She has been an innovator. The Professional Achieve- ment Award celebrated achievements by Lowell, a national board-certified and award-winning, teacher who earned bachelors and masters degrees in education at WCU in 1984 and 1989, respec- tively. She began a physical used, Sullivan said. I also help with inclusion in the general education physical education class and with ba- sic living skills such as eating, washing hands and putting on shoes. Sullivan recently changed her career goal from veteri- nary oncology to special edu- education program in a rural elementary school 26 years. ago with no equipment and no funding, and transformed the program at Cartoogechaye Elementary School in Franklin into one of the top in the coun- try. The school was first named a National Association for Sports and Physical Education, STARS School of Excellence in 2006 and is recognized as having one of the top 25 physi- cal education programs in the United States. As the only physical education demonstra- tion school in North Carolina, hundreds of teachers, college students and administrators visit annually to learn more about the program. Lowell also serves as model. clinical faculty at WCU, Sarah Lowells accom- plishments in the field of physical education are phe- nomenal, said Allen. The of deaf students. On the WCU. campus, she founded Whee- Sign, the American Sign Lan- | guage Club, to raise aware- ness about deaf culture, sign language and related issues. Already honored this year with a WCU community ser- vice award, Sullivan is one of 20 students who will receive /all-Bassett. impact of her work has not only helped the children of the school where she teaches, but also our, Western Carolina physical education students, . as well as physical education programs throughout the state. She shows us what preat things can be accomplished by one person who has the willingness to work hard and the desire to make a difference. The Young Alumna Award honored Wall-Bassett, an ECU faculty member who com- pleted her bachelors degree at WCU with a double major in biology and economics in 2000, She is now a registered dietitian, an assistant profes- sor of nutrition and dietetics at East Carolina University and an adjunct professor in ECUs Brody School of Medicine. Jall-Bassett has helped de- velop prograins and initiatives that promote nutrition and Smith University. Photo Submitted from N.C. Campus Compact at its annual student confer- ence, hosted by Johnson C. The Com- munity Impact Awards are presented annually in recog- nition of outstanding student leadership and innovative approaches to volunteer and cusriculum-based community Photo Submitted food security not orily in the Carolinas but also in the Com- monwealth of Dominica, a mountainous Caribbean island home to about 70,000 people: For more than six years, she has worked collaboratively with Dominicas Ministry of Health and the Environment and the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Develop- ment, Sports and Youth Affairs on. initiatives ranging from developing school feeding programs {o training programs for health workers that cover topics such as basic nutrition principles and food safety and sanitation techniques. She has accomplished so much in the few years since her graduation, said Allen. Her hard work, dedication and service to others serves as an inspiration to us all.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2010-10-28
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