LIKE WE DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW In U.S.News & World Report's recently published Best Colleges 2012, Carroll College is the top Regional College in the West. A U.S.News "regional college" focuses on undergraduate education but grants fewer than half of all degrees in liberal arts disciplines. The full Western Regional College rankings are online at: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-colleges-west In addition, in the concurrently published U.S.News & World Report list of "Best Value Schools," among regional colleges Carroll College is ranked number one in the West. Under U.S.News criteria, a "best value" rating is based on academic quality and the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of need-based financial aid. Basically, the higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the value. Sweet deal: that would be Carroll. For the Western Regional College Best Value rankings, see: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-colleges-west/best-value Speaking of cost savings for our students, Carroll recently received a check for over $37,500 from the Student Assistance Foundation (SAF). The SAF Acce$$ Grant is an annual cash grant that is awarded to Carroll students facing financial challenges, with the average award $1,000 per student. SAF has been supporting Carroll with annual Acce$$ Grants since 2000. WE THE PEOPLE Today, Carroll celebrates Constitution Day with a reading of the US Constitution by our Honors Scholars Program juniors on the steps of the Campus Center starting at noon. Everyone is welcome to bask in the sun and in the brilliance of this blueprint for our famous American experiment. SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE Next Monday, September 19, Carroll College and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) host a free, public talk by special guest speaker Frederick J. Frese, Ph.D., "Recovery from Schizophrenia," starting at 7 p.m. in Carroll's Campus Center. Dr. Frese is a psychologist who has specialized in the area of schizophrenia for over 40 years and speaks from experience, having been diagnosed with the condition when he was a young Marine Corps officer. With a sharp wit, Frese has been quoted and misquoted in the media on his misunderstood topic. Among his national appearances, he served as a panelist on PBS's Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness and has appeared on 60 Minutes and Nightline. For much more on his life's accomplishments see http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15243 AWARENESS WEEK CONTINUES Dr. Frese's talk begins a week of Carroll events promoting mental illness awareness, with a September 22 lunchtime panel discussion occurring in room 101 of O'Connell Hall starting at 12:30 p.m. Panelists at this free, public event will include University of Montana-Helena student Emma Volesky, who has gone public about her struggle with mental illness to audiences including the Montana Legislature; Carroll 1965 alumnus Curt Chisholm, whose son took his own life after silently struggling with bipolar illness; and Carroll Associate Professor of Mathematics Jack Oberweiser, who for many years has provided care for an adult daughter diagnosed with mental illness. HEADING FOR THE FINISH LINE Carroll's awareness week caps off on Sunday, September 25, with the Montana NAMI chapter's 8TH Annual NAMIWalk. The program starts at 12:15 p.m. at Memorial Park, across from the huge American flag east of Carroll's campus. The NAMIWalk raises awareness and funds for NAMI Montana, a nationally-recognized organization that supports, educates and advocates for Montanans who live with mental illness. This year's organizers are hoping to host over 2,500 walkers and raise $125,000. Carroll's Saints for Hope team again will take the walk of fame, and it's a little-known fact that last year Carroll would have fielded the nation's largest team if all of our students, faculty, and staff who walked the route had been officially registered as Saints for Hope. (Photo right: 2010 Saints for Hope) And, it's also not widely known that Helena's NAMIWalk is the second largest in the US. Hence, this year's other goal is to register all Saints for Hope participants-to formally enter and be counted, just enroll at: http://www.nami.org/walkTemplate.cfm?Section=NAMIWALKS&template=/customsource/NAMIWalks/WalkerInstructions.cfm&walksiteID=119®type=TMEM You can also register at the Saints for Hope table in the Campus Center during lunch every day next week. (For procrastinators, sign up is available on Walk day by checking in before 12:15 at the Carroll tent set up at Memorial Park.) The Carroll Saints for Hope team photo occurs at 12:15, with the walk starting within the hour, and the route goes from Memorial Park through Carroll's lovely grounds. Wear your Carroll colors to show your spirit as you help destigmatize mental illness. Even if you are not walking to raise money, you are welcome to join the Carroll team! GOLF CLUBS AND CONCRETE CANOES This is the final call for entries into today's American Society of Civil Engineers Golf Tournament fundraiser starting at noon on the Bill Roberts Municipal Golf Course just north of campus. Proceeds support our Carroll ASCE student chapter in their quest to win collegiate engineering's cutthroat concrete canoe competition while serving as engineering mentors to Montana school kids. Trips to regional conventions, also supported by this golf tourney, end up steering our engineering grads toward jobs in their profession and graduate school admission. Entry is $80 per person or $320 per 4-person team-head out to the course to sign up today before noon, or call ASCE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Gary Fischer, PE, at 406-447-4571. STUDENT NEWS The Office of Student Life and Sodexo have partnered to sponsor the meals for today and tomorrow's Family Promise of Greater Helena's Cardboard Box City event at Memorial Park east of campus. This is a fundraiser to support families needing basic food and shelter in Helena, and their numbers are growing. Family Promise is a community-wide program that offers necessities to assist families as they strive towards a more stable future. Carroll students will be serving meals at Memorial Park's box city site, where high schoolers will begin building their cardboard houses this afternoon for a sleepover to Saturday morning. The expected number of box city tenants is over 200 strong. A new Carroll club, Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), is up and running, with a meeting set for Wednesday, September 21 at 6 p.m. in the Campus Center's Student Activities meeting room. The group will convene with its regional coordinator and begin planning events at this get-together. SIFE is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders. Participating students form teams on their campuses and apply business concepts to develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need. An annual series of regional and national competitions provides a forum for teams to present the results of their projects. National champion teams advance to the prestigious SIFE World Cup.
Full coverage of all student events is updated all the time at: http://www.carroll.edu/students/index.cc
ALUMNI NEWS Events Homecoming is just a month away! It's four days of fun, and we have cool new stuff planned. First up, to answer the alumni call for more opportunities to reconnect with faculty and staff who meant so much to them, Carroll offers a special Homecoming gathering, "Friday @ 4" on October 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Campus Center lobby (or, weather permitting, by Sladdich Fountain). Appetizers will be provided, with a Knights of Columbus no-host bar. At Friday's annual Hall of Fame Banquet, Carroll will honor various alumni, including Erin Butts (2003) receiving the Young Alumni Award. The Rev. Richard Clifford (class of 1948) and the late Tom Twichel (class of 1957) will be inducted into our Alumni Hall of Fame. Next week's QNs will feature our Athletic Hall of Famers and Warren Nelson Award winner. Register for all Homecoming events now online at http://www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc Involvement Calling all Nursing Alums! The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the Montana Board of Nursing (BON) will be visiting with Carroll's Nursing Department for three days next week, and they want to hear from you. The CCNE is an accrediting body, and the BON regulates Montana nursing schools. All Carroll nursing alumni are invited to support their alma mater by meeting with the CCNE and BON teams on Tuesday, September 20, at 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Simperman Hall room 417. The accreditation team is especially interested in visiting with nursing graduates from the past ten years (the last accreditation visit was in fall 2001) to hear how Carroll's Nursing program has prepared them to be exceptional professionals-you can even offer your comments about the future of nursing education. To get involved, contact Terri John (tjohn@carroll.edu) in Carroll's Nursing Department. In the News Jim Larson, class of 1958, reports that he will be starting his second season with the world-famous Kids & Kubs ¾ Century Softball Teams of St. Petersburg, Fla., after completing his "rookie" season at 75 years young and batting .590. This coming season, he will captain one of the four Kids & Kubs teams. Jim played football and baseball for Carroll in the mid 50's, and he and wife Sharron are very community minded, with Sharron working as a "caring clown" at Morton Plant Hospital (Clearwater, Fla.) and as volunteer secretary of two nonprofit boards. Jim is a certified AARP Tax-Aide volunteer preparing free tax returns for the elderly and needy in Pinellas County, Fla., along with volunteering his services and civil engineering expertise to two nonprofits. On top of everything, Jim reports that his prostate cancer metastasis to bone continues to remain in remission and sends thanks to all the Carroll classmates, alumni, administration, faculty and friends for their prayers and concern. Drawing on his vast experience, he is writing an autobiography, Lord, What's It All About? in hopes of publication in 2012. (Jim and Sharron in photo left) Dr. Richard Buswell (photo right), class of 1966, was recently honored at the Montana state capitol as a Treasured Montana Artist during an unveiling ceremony for his photography. His photo display is part of an ongoing series showcasing Montana artists whose work focuses on the Treasure State. An internationally renowned photographer, his black and white photos have been acquired for permanent collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library of Congress and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His work will remain on display through the beginning of January 2012 in the front lobby of the Montana Secretary of State's Office, in the state capitol building, and it's always free of charge to visit. Bryan Wiedmeier, class of 1981, is in his second season as executive vice president of business operations for the NFL Cleveland Browns, after a 29-year tenure with the Miami Dolphins where he served in a variety of capacities. The 51-year-old played center for the Saints and was a member of Carroll's 1978 Hall of Fame team that went undefeated and made the NAIA playoffs for the first time in school history. In his nearly three decades with the Dolphins, including two years as its president, Wiedmeier worked in nearly every department. It wasn't long before he realized he would need either a CPA or a law degree in order to do more, such as work on player contracts. He went on to earn his juris doctor at the University of Miami School of Law, which paid off recently during his service on a labor committee during the four-and-a-half month NFL lockout that ended this summer. Read more at: http://helenair.com/sports/college/carroll-college/football/where-are-they-now-wiedmeier-making-a-living-in-the/article_4a6eefbc-db78-11e0-a3b6-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1Y2WiwMA6 Liz Moore (photo left), class of 1991, has been selected as the new executive director of the Montana Nonprofit Association. Moore most recently served as a member of the senior management staff of the Rocky Mountain Development Council (RMDC) in Helena. At RMDC, she gained valuable experience in program design, business planning, evaluation and administration across a wide variety of human service programs. Moore recently completed the master's of nonprofit management degree offered by Regis University. Helena band Rio, starring Carroll 2006 alumna Julia Yates (photo right) as lead singer, made a return trip to Bozeman, Mont., for a concert at The Ellen Theatre this week. Rio was a hit on last season's PBS show 11th and Grant and other venues. From fast-paced bossa nova to haunting jazz/pop ballads, 25-year-old Yates can do it all in style with her unique dusky and expressive voice. Mandeev Brar, class of 2000, married Melissa Weisensee in Sisters, Ore., on August 28, 2010. Mandeev received an honorable discharge from the Army in July 2010, after serving five and a half years as an airborne infantryman and later as a Special Forces medical sergeant (Green Beret) in Iraq during 2009-2010. Prior to enlisting in the Army, Mandeev attended the University of Denver College of Law, where he earned his law degree in 2003 and University of Colorado, earning a master's in 2005. Mandeev recently passed the Oregon Bar Exam and is an attorney with Hoffman, Hart & Wagner in Portland. Mandeev and Melissa, a finance manager at Kaiser Permanente, live in Portland, Ore. (Newlyweds in photo left) In Memoriam Allen L. Bell (photo right), class of 1972, died on September 6, 2011, at his Lenox, Mass., home. Before graduating from Carroll, he served in the Air Force and was stationed in Turkey. After graduating from Carroll, he earned a Master's of Education. During the 1980s and '90s, he worked for the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., teaching English as a second language to Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. From 1996 until the time of his death, he was employed at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., as a warehouse and safety manager. For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/allen-l-bell/article_8be5ff8e-ddcc-11e0-b6f3-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1XxQbiqIY FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Events The IMPACT Faculty/Staff Campaign kicks off this year on September 29, with Computer Science and Math Professor Phil Rose and Registrar Cathy Day serving as co-chairs. Faculty and staff are warmly invited to participate again this year as volunteers-please contact our co-chairs to get involved. The campaign concludes with a celebration at St. Albert's Hall on October 28. In the News Professor Emeritus of Sociology Rev. Jerry Lowney (photo left) has been serving on the Montana Governor's Juvenile Justice Council for six years and Gov. Schweitzer recently asked him to continue for a seventh. Fr. Lowney reports that his council service included a recent meeting that organized programs for juveniles that the Montana Legislature could consider adopting during its next session. These programs, Fr. Lowney says, would help keep young people out of jails and prisons by using alternative means. Dr. Joni Walton (photo right), Carroll associate professor of nursing, has announced a new article publication, "Striving to be heard and recognized: Nurse solutions for improvement in the outpatient hemodialysis work environment," coauthored with Dr. Jane Gardner and published in the Nephrology Nursing Journal May-June 2011. CAMPUS MINISTRY Sociology Professor Emeritus Fr. Jerry Lowney celebrates Mass at noon in Borromeo Hall's Chapel Monday through Friday. All are welcome to attend the ever-popular Sunday Night Mass at 8 p.m. in the Campus Center main lounge, celebrated by Fr. Marc Lenneman, our chaplain and Campus Ministry director. Other Mass times and dates throughout the week, including services and sacraments in Guadalupe and St. Charles Halls, are listed at: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/worship/mass.cc For all Campus Ministry news, including retreat info, homilies and discussions of Catholic social justice issues, check out: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/ ATHLETICS Tune In The Frontier Conference will have five football games broadcast live on TV via local CW networks statewide (and on the internet through Lyon Productions), including these Carroll games: September 24 versus Montana Tech; October 1 versus MSU Northern; October 15 versus Rocky Mountain College at Homecoming; and October 29 versus UM-Western in Dillon. Beartooth NBC in Helena also broadcasts Carroll games, with online viewing of Fighting Saints LIVE at: http://www.beartoothnbc.com/fighting-saints-live.html KBLL 1240 AM radio in Helena also broadcasts the Saints games, with online listen/watch options at: http://www.network1sports.com/station/kbll#menus And, the Carroll website offers live watch options at http://www.livestream.com/fightingsaints Upcoming Home Game Schedule Football: Tomorrow is a Nelson Stadium rendezvous between the Saints and UM-Western at 1 p.m. Volleyball: Two home games, with tonight's versus Rocky Mountain College at 7 and next Wednesday, Sept. 21, versus Montana Tech, also at 7. Golf: The Carroll College invitational in Helena next Monday and Tuesday Soccer and Cross Country are away. For more info and other scheduled games for all teams, go to http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/index.cc COMING EVENTS Ongoing to September 30: Carroll Art Gallery (St. Charles Hall) welcomes everyone to view its first 2011-2012 exhibit, "CORITA," featuring works by Corita Kent, a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Community. The display is multimedia, with original serigraphs, posters, and videos. Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. She ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College until 1968, when she left the order and moved to Boston. Corita's art reflects her spirituality, commitment to social justice, hope for peace, and delight in the world that takes place all around us. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays, and is always free of charge. This Carroll exhibit is made possible through the support of the Myrna Loy Grants to Artists Program. More info on Corita Kent's art is at: https://www.corita.org/ September 19: Lutheran Volunteer Corps recruiter Tori Carroll will be on campus 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Campus Center lobby. Students interested in this type of post-graduate volunteer opportunity are welcome. September 26-30: Graduate School Awareness Week. Events include the annual Graduate School Fair on Thursday, September 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center lobby-visit with representatives from regional grad-school programs. A Graduate School Admission Workshop will be held in room 107 O'Connell Hall on September 26, 27 and 28, with sessions occurring 4-5 p.m. daily. Plan to attend one and learn strategies for getting into the best grad schools, with expert presenter Don Asher. October 10-December 9: The Carroll Art Gallery (Carroll College's St. Charles Hall) continues its exhibit series with paintings by religion scholar Lisa Sweet. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays, and is always free of charge. More info is at: http://academic.evergreen.edu/s/sweetl/ October 10: John Sanchez, whose talk last winter was rescheduled for this fall, will speak on Columbus Day on the topic of Native Americans in the media. His talk, "American Indians: How the News Media Shapes American Indian Identity and Policy in the United States," begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Free and open to the public. In his lecture, Sanchez will focus on public perceptions of American Indian identity in the 21st Century as framed and dictated by news media and popular films like Avatar, the Twilight series and Dances with Wolves. He will examine what newspaper and TV news editors and reporters think about American Indians and what educators teach in public schools about American Indians, often using popular news media as their source of information. Sanchez will discuss how antiquated ideas about Indian people, including the myth that they are either very poor or very rich from gambling revenues and that they only wear feathers and leather, also affect public policy in Indian country. Professor Sanchez was recently named one of the leading scholars in the field of intercultural studies by The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, and he is a Freedom Forum Teaching Fellow. His tribal affiliation is Yaqui/Apache. October 13-23: Carroll Theatre Dept. presents The Women of Lockerbie, a contemporary drama by Deborah Brevoort directed by Carroll Theatre alumna Julia Porter (class of 2005). All performances in the Carroll College Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall). Dates are October 13-15 and 20-22 at 7:30 p.m., with 3 p.m. matinees on October 16 and 23. General admission $10, students and seniors $8. Carroll faculty and staff always get in free, and Carroll students always admitted free on Thursdays and Sundays. A story on Brevoort's visit to Carroll in September is online at: http://helenair.com/news/local/emotion-at-heart-of-lockerbie-play/article_7d137ef8-ddce-11e0-907a-001cc4c03286.html October 14-17: Homecoming. For all info, to to: http://www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc October 20: Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Creating Black Holes in the Lab" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free. October 21: Up 'til Dawn student-led fundraising program for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital presents "Rockin' for a Cause." More details TBA. October 25: Carroll Jazz Combo concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free. October 28-November 13: Carroll College Theatre Dept. presents: A Little Night Music, a musical with book by Hugh Wheeler, music/lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, based on Ingmar Bergman's film and co-produced with the Helena Theatre Company. Directed by Carroll Director of Improv Michael McNeilly with music direction by the Helena Symphony's Maestro Allan Scott, this light opera musical is a first for Helena. All performances at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena at 7:30 p.m. on these dates: October 28-29 and November 9-13. Ticket prices are: $18 for general admittance, $15 for Carroll faculty and staff and $10 for Carroll students. For tickets and more information, call the Myrna Loy at 406-443-0287. November 4: Carroll College President's Dinner, Campus Center, 5:30 p.m. with social hour followed by the meal and program celebrating the college's loyal friends and sustaining benefactors. November 9: Montana PBS will screen the film Freedom Riders, a production by PBS American Experience, at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre. This kicks off a Montana state tour for the film. Carroll student and Gates Milennium Scholar Rachael DeMarce participated in this past summer's 2011 Student Freedom Ride sponsored by American Experience, and she will offer comments about her adventures as a Native American travelling across America with the original Freedom Riders who fought for civil rights in the 1960s. Co-sponsored by the Carroll Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice. November 17: Dr. John T. Vandeberg presents the next in Carroll's Business Department Lecture Series with a free public talk, "‘HIGH TECH-HIGH TOUCH': Enabling Speed of Light in Fiber Optic Communication Around the Globe," at 4 p.m. in Simperman Hall. Details TBA. Vandeberg is the former president and CEO of CERAC Incorporated. December 1: Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Is Pluto a Planet?" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free. December 1: Carroll Jazz Combo Fall Concert in the Carroll Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. December 12: Carroll Jazz Combo concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free.