96-06-03 Two OSU Faculty Receive Schoen Award

TWO OHIO STATE FACULTY RECEIVE SCHOEN AWARD

     COLUMBUS -- Two Ohio State University faculty members will 
enhance their leadership and administrative abilities with the 
help of the 1996 Kathryn T. Schoen Award.

     Mary Thoesen Coleman of MARYSVILLE and E. Kay Halasek of 
COLUMBUS (43235) will receive their awards and cash honorariums 
at a ceremony June 5. Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee will 
make the presentations at 2 p.m. in his office, 205 Bricker Hall, 
190 N. Oval Mall.

     Coleman is an assistant professor of family medicine.  With 
her $2,000 Schoen Award, she will attend a symposium in Boston 
this summer on providing leadership for health care improvement.  
Coleman is especially interested in developing the use of 
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) to improve medical 
education.  She also will meet with leaders in medical ducation.

     Halasek, an assistant professor of English, received $1,000, 
which she will use to attend a workshop and conference for the 
administrators of writing programs.  The meetings will help 
Halasek prepare to direct Ohio State's First-Year Writing Program 
next spring.  She also will refine a project to survey and 
interview students and faculty about successful college-level 
writing, and to hold a  colloquium on the topic for high school 
officials and university administrators.

     Kathryn Schoen became the first woman vice president at Ohio 
State when she was appointed vice president for educational 
services in 1978.  In more than 20 years of service, she gave her 
students and the university her greatest commitment and priority. 
She was known for giving others, especially women, opportunities 
for professional growth.

     This year, Kathryn Schoen and her husband, Richard, 
continued her tradition of setting an example for others by 
giving a donation to the Schoen Award fund. The Schoens live in 
Leesburg, Fla.
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Contact: Mary Thoesen Coleman, (614) 688-4012
         Kay Halasek, (614) 292-2468.


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:00:35 -0400]
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