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Torrance documentary airs on GPTV
A film documenting the life and work of E. Paul Torrance, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus, will be broadcast on GPTV at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 29.
The film “Manifesto for Children” is based on Torrance’s 22-year longitudinal study on creative achievement by the same name which followed 215 young adults who attended two elementary schools in Minnesota from 1958 to 1964. The students were given creativity tests each year and were followed up with a questionnaire in 1980. On the basis of their responses, the Manifesto was developed to describe their ongoing struggle to maintain their creativity and use their strengths to create their careers and provide guidance to children.
In 1998, they were followed up to get ma picture of their creative achievements and to validate the Manifesto. Some of the 101 respondents had attained eminence, while others had sustained only mediocre careers.
Director David Silvian and writer Alice Silvian, his wife and a former UGA education program specialist who is now assistant dean for distance learning at Prestonburg Community College in Kentucky, traveled across the country for interviews that appear in the film.
New regents’ policy requires periodic review of system academic programs
On Oct. 11, the regents approved a new policy that calls for the comprehensive evaluation of every University System of Georgia academic program.
All undergraduate programs offered by the University System’s 34 public colleges and universities will be evaluated for their “relevancy, quality and viability” every seven years; the system’s graduate degree offerings will be evaluated at 10-year intervals.
The policy directs USG colleges and universities to develop evaluation procedures that address “the quality, viability and productivity of efforts in teaching and learning, scholarship and service as appropriate to institutional mission.”
Program reviews should involve analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data, the policy continues, and the data must support whatever judgments an institution makes about the future of the program. Depending on the findings, a program review could lead to the expansion, reduction or termination of a program.
Scholarship funds international travel
The creation of a new privately funded international travel-study scholarship program for sophomore, junior, and senior Honors students at the university has been announced by associate provost and Honors Program director Jere Morehead.
The Courts Scholars Program will offer grants of between $2,500 and $5,000 for as many as 20-25 Honors students to engage in international study or internships. At the donor’s request, most of the grants will be made available for travel to countries in Asia (including the Pacific rim) and Latin America.
Awards are merit-based and the amount of the awards will depend upon program costs and individual financial needs. The application deadline is Nov. 15 for the calendar year 2001. Award winners will be announced by Dec. 15.
“The Honors Program has identified international travel-study as one of our strategic priorities, and we hope to substantially increase the number of Honors students who have the opportunity to travel, study and work abroad,” Morehead says. “We are very excited about this new scholarship program for our very best students.”
For further information or to submit an application, contact Else Jorgensen (ejorgen@arches.uga.edu), Honors Program academic scholarship coordinator, 121 Academic Building, 542-1651. Applications are available from the Honors Program office. |
