Winter / Spring 2007 - University of Arkansas at Monticello

Campus
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
author, lecturer and son
of slain U.S. Senator
and Attorney General
Robert Kennedy, has
become a champion of
environmental causes.
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RFK, Jr. To Lecture March 29
A
uthor and environmental activist Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr. will speak at UAM March
29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center
auditorium. A question-and-answer session will
follow the lecture.
Kennedy’s lecture is free and open to the
public. A reception and book signing will follow the
lecture. No reservations are required.
The lecture is a part of the Winthrop Rockefeller
Distinguished Lectures program, funded this
year by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
Kennedy will lecture from his new book, Crimes
Against Nature and three speech topics including,
“Our Environmental Destiny,” “The Power of Law”
and “A Contract with Our Future.” Following the
lecture, guests can purchase Kennedy’s new book,
Crimes Against Nature, at the book signing and
reception, which will take place in the Spencer Gallery
of the FAC at 9 p.m.
Time magazine named Kennedy as one
of their “Heroes for the Planet” after he
helped Riverkeeper fight to restore the
Hudson River. Kennedy has also served as
senior attorney for the Natural Resources
Defense Council, chief prosecuting
attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and
president of Waterkeeper Alliance.
Kennedy has also worked on environmental
issues in North and South America.
An environmental activist,
Kennedy also aided in reversing the
anti-environmental legislation during
the 104th Congress as well as leading
Reaccreditation
T
he bachelor’s degree program in
social work at UAM has been reaccredited
by the Council of Social Work
Education through 2013, according to Dr.
Vanneise Collins, head of UAM’s School
of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The six-year accreditation was awarded
after the completion of a self-study
and a visit from a team from the CSWE’s
Commission on Accreditation.
“This is a major accomplishment for
our social work program and for Ava
Pickard, the director,” said Collins. “Having
an accredited social work program in
southeast Arkansas it vitally important.”
UAM first began offering a baccalaureate
degree program in social work
the fight to protect New York City’s water supply.
Including his recent book, Crimes Against
Nature (2004), Kennedy has also published The
Riverkeepers (1997) and Judge Frank M. Johnson,
Jr: A Biography (1977). He has also had articles
published in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, the Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone.
Many of his articles were included in anthologies of
America’s best crime writing, best political writing
and best science writing.
A Harvard graduate, Kennedy studied at the
London School of Economics and received a law
degree from the University of Virginia Law School.
He also received a master’s degree in environmental
law from Pace University School of Law.
in 1996 and awarded its first degrees in
1999. The program was initially accredited
by the CSWE in October 2001
retroactively to 1999. There are currently
74 students enrolled in the program.
“I want to congratulate Dr. Collins and
her faculty,” said R. David Ray, provost
and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
“This program provides a broad range of
career opportunities and fills an important
need in southeast Arkansas.”
Graduates of the program are eligible
to sit for the state-administered Licensed
Social Worker exam and can find jobs
in agencies such as the Department of
Children and Family Services, schools,
hospitals, nursing homes and hospice care
facilities, crisis intervention centers and
prison systems.
Man of the Year
ob Ware, vice chancellor for the
UAM College of Technology-
BMcGehee, has been named Man of the
Year by the McGehee Chamber of Commerce.
The award was presented at the
recent McGehee Chamber of Commerce
banquet.
Ware has served
as a part of the
administration
on the McGehee
campus since 1975
when the school
was known as Great
Rivers Vocational
Technical School.
He has served as
Bob Ware
assistant director, director of extension,
director of financial aid, supervisor of
instruction, and chief GED examiner.
Ware became president of Great Rivers
Technical Institute in 2001 and was
named vice chancellor when the institute
merged with UAM in 2003 to become the
UAM College of Technology-McGehee.
Ware holds a bachelor of science degree
in history and political science from
Arkansas AM&N (now UA-Pine Bluff),
a master of science degree in vocational
technical administration from Arkansas
State, and has completed additional study
at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Big Oak Online
AM’s Taylor Library launched
Ufeaturing
its first online exhibit recently,
the traditions of UAM. The
first exhibit tells the story of the Big Oak,
a 300-year-old cherry bark oak which
stood 88 feet tall and was over 20 feet in
circumference.
Future exhibits will feature other
UAM traditions. To view these exhibits,
visit http://www.uamont.edu/library/
newsite/serv/bigoak.html. Alumni are
encouraged to share their stories of UAM
traditions by contacting the library at
heady@uamont.edu or P.O. Box 3599
Monticello, AR 71656.