Annual Report 2001   •   Special Issue
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	ANNUAL REPORT
	Excellence With a Global Perspective Ramapo hosted numerous intercultural and international events during the 2000-2001 academic year and continued to receive recognition as an institution that provides “Excellence With a Global Perspective.” September 2000 Ramapo College hosts the first of several Immediate Decision Days scheduled for the fall, giving prospective students an opportunity to apply and receive notice of acceptance in one day. In its second season, the Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts continues to present diverse and thought-provoking attractions from exhibitions to lecture series, contemporary art to masks and mimes, jazz to chamber music, and comedy to improv. With a nod to Internet technology, Ramapo participates in an Online College Fair™ program. Students and their parents logged on to a Web site to chat live with representatives from colleges and universities across the country, view the campus, and learn what Ramapo has to offer in a “virtual Q&A.” This online recruiting tool makes it easier for students and parents to interact with Ramapo representatives. On-campus housing gets a boost with the opening of Maple Hall. The building was designed with furnishings and voice, video, and data for three students in each room. October 2000 The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies sponsors three lectures showcasing new work being done on the Third Reich and the Holocaust. The lectures explored Nazi architecture and the Holocaust, a Polish Jewish boy’s escape and survival, and Polish society and the Holocaust. Arthur C. Ramirez, managing partner of The Christopher Company, a consulting firm he founded, is elected chairman of the Board of Trustees. He has been a member of the Ramapo College Board since 1994. “We are dedicated to maintaining the positive momentum that has developed at Ramapo over the years,” he states. An information technology (IT) concentration is added to the Master of Business Administration program. It addresses the challenge by industry for a new category of information technology professional. The IT concentration complements ongoing MBA programs in finance, management, marketing, and accounting. Thomas Palmer, president of Wyckoff-based DAF products, is elected chairman of the Ramapo College Foundation Board of Governors. A member of the Board since 1994, he previously chaired the College’s two major fundraising events: the Distinguished Citizens Dinner and the Annual Foundation Golf Outing. November 2000 In recognition of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the Community Builders’ Coalition sponsors an Oxfam Hunger Banquet. The unequal distribution of the world’s resources is simulated and guests are delegated to a particular socioeconomic rank, such as a garment worker in Bangladesh or a middle-class corporate worker in the United States. The seating arrangements and menu are assigned accordingly. Dr. Robert A. Scott, president of Adelphi University and president emeritus of Ramapo College of New Jersey, receives the Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Leadership award. Presenting the award on behalf of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies is community activist and business leader, Elaine Adler. The College holds a daylong conference, Latinos in New Jersey: Accomplishments and Challenges in the 21st Century, an exploration of significant contributions and persistent difficulties. New Jersey Assemblywoman Nellie Pou gives an opening address. Latinos in New Jersey is made possible by support from the Ramapo College Foundation. January 2001 Rodney D. Smith, vice president for planning and dean of the Graduate College, Hampton University (Virginia), is named the third president of Ramapo College. Smith earned an Ed.D. and M.Ed. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Fisk University, and a B.A. from Saint John’s University in Minnesota. February 2001 “Learn It, Live It, Love It” is the theme of a month-long celebration of African Ancestry Month presented by the African Ancestry Month Committee. Avon Products Foundation, Inc. presents a $2,000 grant to the Ramapo College Foundation in support of women who are seeking college degrees while raising children. Monica Chammings of Washington, NJ, an international business major, is named the first recipient of the Haband Oaks Scholarship. The Haband Oaks program at Ramapo College is believed to be the largest corporate scholarship endowment at any state college or teaching university in New Jersey. The Ramapo College Foundation kicks off its Benefactors Performing Arts Series with a performance by Celtic fiddler Eileen Ivers. Tyco Capital (formerly The CIT Group) sponsored the series. Dr. Philip Anderson, a professor of physics at Ramapo, is selected as a New Jersey Inventor of the Year for 2001 and is honored at a Hall of Fame awards banquet at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Anderson invented a component of the electronic surveillance system used in the plastic security tags hanging from garments in stores. The College recognizes African Ancestry Month with its first annual reception, African Connections. The celebration includes a trip to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The Walter and Louise Sutcliffe Foundation and the Edward and Stella Van Houten Memorial Trust each provide $20,000 in nursing scholarships. The Sutcliffe Foundation funds up to fifteen scholarships based on economic need and the Van Houten Trust supports up to fifteen nursing students interested in the care of the elderly, children, or the disabled. March 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Shirelles headline the Ramapo College Foundation’s 2001 Distinguished Citizens Dinner. The annual benefit dinner raised more than $153,000 for student scholarships, College programs, and faculty development opportunities. The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of 26 of China’s most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, bicyclists, gymnasts, and live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments, brought their 2,000 year-old tradition of acrobatics to the Sharp Theater. The College celebrates Women’s Herstory Month with several events including a reading by performance poet Staceyann Chin; a lunchtime discussion presented by Dr. Patricia Ard, assistant professor of English, entitled “Slavery in Cuba: Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita;” and a luncheon honoring Ramapo women. April 2001 The college joins more than 2,000 organizations across the United States and Canada as a local host for the Hospice Foundation of America’s Eighth Annual Living With Grief Teleconference. “Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses,” a live-via-satellite video teleconference moderated by Cokie Roberts of ABC News, examined how professionals can better understand and respond to the needs of family caregivers. The Sharp Theater hosts “A Dialogue of Nations Through Poetry,” a poetry and peace celebration co-sponsored by the United Nations. The event featured readings, music, and an open mike. Award-winning author Jamaica Kincaid reads from her work and signs copies of her books at the Sharp Theater. The Ramapo College Alumni Association hosts an art auction presented by Ross Galleries to increase its endowed scholarship fund. Two art education students, Justin Muratore of Westwood and Tenley Marshall of Delaware, NJ, joined professors Mack Brandon and Emily Hartzell in a panel presentation at the Computer Art and Design Education Conference (CADE) in Glasgow, Scotland. They discussed ways that Ramapo and neighboring K-12 public schools work together to integrate new technological art media into the fine arts curriculum through a four-year, federally-funded project called Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers for Technology (PT3). The American Repertory Ballet Company performs Graham Lustig’s modern day version of Cinderella at the Berrie Center. William D. Phillips, a Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology who was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, presents a lecture, “Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping,” at the Sharp Theater. Katherine D. Arose is among the first recipients of the Thomas H. Kean Scholarship. Funded by the Garden State Arts Center Foundation and named for former New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, the scholarship is awarded to one student each year at each of the New Jersey colleges and universities who is pursuing an undergraduate degree in the performing arts. May 2001 Dr. Allan E. Goodman, president and chief executive officer of the Institute of International Education, delivers the commencement address and receives an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Congresswoman Marge Roukema, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity and a member of the House Banking and House Education and Workforce committees, also receives an honorary degree. The President’s Award of Merit, given at Commencement, is presented to Joshua Orwa Ojodeh, Ramapo Class of 1990, and a Member of Parliament in Kenya. Dr. William J. Frech, associate professor of international business and marketing, is selected to join twenty-four European and American professors to lecture in the first Kosovo Summer University (KSU). Jazz performer, composer, and conductor Chuck Mangione brings his signature flügelhorn to the Sharp Theater as part of the Foundation’s Benefactors Series. Joey Dee and the Starliters headline the opening concert in the Minolta Summer Concert Series. Minolta Corporation sponsors the four-concert series with additional support from Hudson Bank, Commerce Bank North, Friends of Ramapo, and McBride Enterprises. Ramapo College and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) receive approval to jointly offer courses leading to a Master of Science in nursing. 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