The 1995-1996 Cedarville College Annual Report

Recognized Faculty + Dr. Donald Callan, athletic director and chair of the Department of Health and Physical Education, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the eighth annual Ohio Professional and Amateur Athlete of the Year Awards Banquet in Dayton, Ohio. + Sandra W. Harner, associate professor of English, was one of 19 professionals elected an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication in 1996. Fewer than 100 have achieved this recognition. + The Novice Debate Association named Deborah Haffey, associate professor of communication arts, the Novice Debate Coach of the Year. Advanced Technology + Cedarville is one of only eight private schools to join OhioLINK, a statewide library resource sharing network. OhioLINK allows students to access six million titles and acquire materials electronically from their residence hall rooms 24 hours a day. + Upgrades to CedarNet, the award-winning campus computer network, continue. 100% of dorm rooms are online and equipped with 486 or Pentium PCs. + More than $180,000 was invested in technology upgrades to existing classrooms. Multimedia carts containing a networked PC, visualizer, video projector, VCR, CD/tape player, and audio mixer provide the latest in high technology instruction. + Ameritech presented Cedarville College with a $25,000 Partnership Award to fund an innovative approach to tutoring, using video conferencing technology transmitted through ISDN phone lines. Academic Accomplishments + Following a grand prize finish in 1995, the 1996 Cedarville engineering team received honorable mention at the Padnos Design Competition. These back-to-back awards position Cedarville as the only school in the country to place twice at the annual competition for environmentally responsible engineering. + Natalie Vandemark was one of 13 students chosen nationally to participate in the prestigious Washington Internship for Students of Engineering. She was the fourth Cedarville engineering student chosen in as many years. + Music major Stephen Estep competed in the prestigious 16th International Bartok-Kabalevsky Piano Competition. + For the fifth consecutive year the Southwestern Ohio Society for Technical Communication chose a Cedarville College professional writing student to receive their scholarship. Philip L. Wittmer outpaced candidates from Wright State University, Miami University, University of Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Technical Institute. + Air Force ROTC Cadet Joshua J. Corner received the Distinguished Young AFCEAN award from the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association. Josh was the only student among the 22 young professionals chosen nationwide. + The addition of physics and physics education majors broadened an already strong science curriculum. "I think the emphasis on technology is one of the outstanding bonuses of attending Cedarville College. Ifound it areal benefit during my internship with Arthur Andersen. Some of the things that Cedarville had been doing since my freshman year were just then being implemented in acompany that is one of the leading accounting firms in the world. My Cedarville experience has put me one step ahead of friends at other colleges and universities who have little or no exposure to Internet technology. They certainly don't have access to a networked computer, provided by the college, in their own room. " G reg Walker, a national merit finalist, valedictorian, and honored athlete, considered schools like West Point and Cornell. He chose Cedarville for its "well-rounded" education. Reflecting on his academic and spiritual development, the senior accounting major says, "I wouldn't want to go anywhere else."