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4 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, May 20, 2009
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Learning Center at
Senior Citizens, Inc. to host lecture
with David Blight
The Learning Center at
Senior Citizens, Inc. will
sponsor a lecture, “Steel and
Velvet Mind and Heart”: The
Paradox of Lincoln’s
Legacies, on Thursday, May
21, at 6pm at the
Congregation Mickve Israel
on Bull and Gordon Streets
at Monterey Square.
The Lecturer for this
event will be David Blight.
David Blight is one of
the nation's foremost author
ities on Lincoln and the Civil
War. Most
recently, in his book, A Slave
No More: Two Men Who
Escaped to Freedom,
Including Their Own
Narratives of Emancipation
(2007), Blight's creative
sleuthing uncovered two pre
viously unknown narratives,
adding to the canon of writ
ing by American slaves.
David Blight
Having won the
Lincoln Prize, as well as the
Bancroft and Douglass
Prizes for his research and
writing on the Civil War,
Blight brings perspectives of
special relevance in this
bicentennial year.
Blight is a professor of
history at Yale University
and director of the Gilder
Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery, Resistance,
and Abolition at Yale.
Blight earned his Ph.D.
from the University of
Wisconsin.
Among his books are
Race and Reunion: The Civil
War in American Memory
(2001) and A Slave No
More: Two Men Who
Escaped to Freedom,
Including Their Own
Narratives of Emancipation.
(2007).
There is no charge for
admission. Funding is pro
vided by the City of
Savannah.
This project is support
ed by the Georgia
Humanities Council and the
National Endowment for the
Humanities and through
appropriations from the
Georgia General Assembly.
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Athletics Department
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History Department
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Athletics Department
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President Obama Launches Office of
Public Engagement:
A New Name, Mission for White House
President Obama
announced a new name and a
new mission for the White
House office charged with
dealing most closely with the
American people.
The Office of Public
Liaison is now the Office of
Public Engagement.
OPE, along with the
Office of Intergovernmental
Affairs, will serve as the
front door to the White
House through which ordi
nary Americans can partici
pate and inform the work of
the President.
The current leadership
will remain to carry out the
new mission and includes
Valerie Jarrett, Senior
Adviser to the President,
Christina M. Tchen, Director
of OPE; and Michael
Strautmanis Chief of Staff to
the Assistant to the President
for Intergovernmental
Relations and Public
Engagement.
Additional staff and
issue areas can be viewed at
the OPE website at
www.whitehouse.gov/ope .
In a video announce
ment about OPE, President
Obama said, “This office
will seek to engage as many
Americans as possible in the
difficult work of changing
President Barack Obama
this country, through meet
ings and conversations with
groups and individuals held
in Washington and across the
country.”
OPE will help build
relationships with
Americans by increasing
their meaningful engage
ment with the federal gov
ernment.
Serving as the front
door to the White House,
OPE will allow ordinary
Americans to offer their sto
ries and ideas regarding
issues that concern them and
share their views on impor
tant topics such as health
care, energy and education.
In addition to its tradi
tional White House opera
tions, OPE will now also
focus on getting information
from the American people
outside the Washington belt-
way through special public
events as well as activities
on the web site.
The office will have a
strong on-line presence,
including blog postings from
OPE staff and other interac
tive elements.
Since the beginning of
the Administration, OPE has
served a large role in devel
oping White House outreach
efforts whether it is a meet
ing with national innovators
in the White House, a com
munity health forum in
Michigan or a town hall
meeting in California.
The President also
announced the release of the
Citizens’ Briefing Book -
the culmination of a project
begun during the transition,
and an example of the inno
vative ways the office will
execute its new mission.
In January, everyday
Americans submitted their
best ideas for dealing with
some of the nation’s toughest
issues.
Visitors to the transi
tion website ranked each
idea and also had the oppor
tunity to provide comments.
The results can be viewed at
www.whitehouse.gov/ope .
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“Chancellor Davis and
the Board of Regents made a
very wise selection,” said
Jones. Bleicken, a
resident of Savannah since
1990, becomes the seventh
AASU president and the first
woman to lead the institution
since the establishment of
Armstrong Junior College in
1935.
As provost, chief aca
demic officer and a member
of the university’s manage
ment faculty, Bleicken’s serv
ice to Georgia Southern
University - an institution
with 17,764 students and
eight colleges — includes
administrative appointments
as: acting provost and vice
president for academic affairs
from July 2004 to January
2005; vice president for stu
dent affairs and enrollment
management from 2001 to
2004; associate provost for
enrollment management and
information technology from
2000 to 2001; acting provost
and vice president for aca
demic affairs from 1998 to
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College of Business
Administration from 1995 to
1998; and acting chair of the
Department of Management
from 1994 to 1995.
In addition, she has
served the University System
of Georgia as a member of its
Health Professions Task Force
(2006), Core Curriculum
Committee (2007-2008),
Graduation Rate Task Force
(2004), Tuition Rate Task
Force (2004) and the Task
Force to Develop eCore®, the
USG’s electronic core curricu
lum (2000).
“We are delighted that
Dr. Bleicken has been selected
to be Armstrong Atlantic's
next president,” said Anne
Thompson, chair of the AASU
Presidential Search
Committee. “She impressed
our committee at every phase
of the search process, and we
are confident that the universi
ty will be in good hands.”
Bleicken’s faculty expe
rience began in 1987 as
instructor for the Department
of Management at Georgia
State University.
Three years later she
joined Georgia Southern
University as assistant profes
sor of management.
Her administrative expe
rience at Georgia Southern
started in September 1994,
when she was appointed act
ing chair of the Department of
Management.
Her achievements at
Georgia Southern include
facilitating the establishment
of the College of Public
Health in January 2006.
She fostered the addition
of three doctoral degrees—
Doctor of Psychology, Doctor
of Public Health and Doctor
of Nursing Practice—
between 2006 and 2008.
She helped to establish
the Center for Online
Learning and enhanced online
graduate degree enrollment
by 53 percent from fall 2007
to fall 2008; encouraged the
growth of external grant
awards from $5.4 million in
2005 to $6.7 million in 2008;
worked to build a team that
has increased first to second
year retention from 76 percent
to 81 percent between fall
2005 and fall 2008; and over
saw an increase of 280,000
square feet of academic space.
Bleicken’s selection by
the USG Board of Regents
and her recommendation as a
finalist by the AASU
Presidential Search
Committee resulted from an
extensive and rigorous
process that was launched in
fall 2008.
The AASU search com
mittee included representa
tives from various areas of the
campus, including academia,
human resources, the student
body, the Alumni Association
and the AASU Foundation.
STEVE HARVEY MORNINGS