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Student Support Services gets new federal grant
From left: Aneka Meier, Sussie Eshun, Sandra Eckard, Maureen McLaughlin, President Robert Dillman, Cynthia Leenerts, Charles Warner, Shannon Frystack, Nancy Van Arsdale and Laurene Clossey.
University honors faculty who published in 2009 Nine faculty members and authors were recognized at the ESU’s sixth annual University Authors’ Reception in November. The yearly event honors university authors whose books were published during the preceding year. This event honored the following authors and their books, published in 2009: n Dr. Sussie Eshun, professor of psychology, Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice, Wiley-Blackwell. n Dr. Nancy VanArsdale, professor of English, Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby, Modern Language Association of America. n Dr. Cynthia Leenerts, associate professor of English, Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, Cambridge Scholars. n Dr. Shannon Frystak, assistant professor of history, Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 19241967, Louisiana State University Press. n Dr. Charles Warner, professor
of communication studies, The Team America Loves to Hate: Why Baseball Fans Despise the New York Yankees, ABC-CLIO. n Dr. Sandra Eckard, associate professor of English, The Ties that Bind: Storytelling as a Teaching Technique in Composition Classrooms and Writing Centers, VDM Verlag, 2009. n Dr. Laurene Clossey, assistant professor of sociology, HIV/STI Prevention on the College Campus: Coping with Controversy, VDM Verlag. n Dr. Maureen McLaughlin, professor of reading, Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Multiple Literacies, Allyn & Bacon. n Dr. Aneka Meier, instructor of German, translator of Lewis and Mary at the Battle of Gettysburg: A True Story by Frederick Easton Walter, Xlibris, 2009. Copies of these books will be permanently displayed in the Stroud Hall lobby, along with the books of ESU authors honored in previous years. Some copies are also available in the University Bookstore.
Student Support Services has been awarded a new $1.3 million grant to continue providing counseling, tutoring, and social-cultural services to students. Dr. Fernando Perez, associate professor of academic enrichment and learning, prepared and submitted the application which was funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of TRIO Programs. The grant award, which will be distributed over the next five years The Department of Education, through a grant competition, awards funds to institutions of higher education to “provide opportunities for academic development, assist students with basic college requirements, and to motivate students toward the successful completion of their postsecondary education.” ESU’s Student Support Services also provides grant aid to participants who are receiving Federal Pell Grants. The goal of SSS is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of participants. ESU’s Student Support Services provides: academic tutoring in writing, mathematics, natural science, social sciences, humanities, reading, and other subjects; advising and assistance in general education course selection; assistance with information on student financial aid programs; benefits and resources for locating public and private scholarships and assistance in completing financial aid applications; education and counseling services designed to improve the financial and economic literacy of students; assistance in applying for admission to graduate and professional programs.