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OPEN MEETING NOTICE

Stephen F. Austin State University

Board of Regents Special Telephone Meeting

Nacogdoches, Texas

Feb. 22, 2019

Meeting 323

Austin Building 307

The Board of Regents of Stephen F. Austin State University will convene a telephone meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, according to the following agenda:

CALL TO ORDER IN OPEN SESSION

EXECUTIVE SESSION


The board will move to executive session for consideration of the following item:

Consideration of Individual Personnel Matters Relating to Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Assignment, Duties, Discipline, or Dismissal of an Officer or Employee, including but not limited to the president (Texas Government Code, Section 551.074)

RETURN TO OPEN SESSION

Presentation and Board Action on Agenda Item:

Selection of Presidential Search Screening Committee

ESTIMATED ADJOURNMENT OF BOARD MEETING (approximately 5:15 p.m.)

The Stephen F. Austin State University Department of History will host Dr. Beth Barton Schweiger, a historian and 1983 SFA alumna, at 7 p.m. Feb. 25 in Dugas Liberal Arts North, Room 142, on the SFA campus.

Schweiger’s talk, “A Literate South: Why Southern Readers Matter,” will detail how her experience at SFA shaped her career and forthcoming book, “A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation.” According to Dr. Hunter Hampton, lecturer in SFA’s history department, attendees will hear about the importance of literature and literacy in the American South during the years leading up to the Civil War.

“A historical examination of Southern readers provides insight into the lives and minds of common people in run up to the Civil War,” Hampton said. “By focusing on the literature and literacy of Southern readers, we understand Southern culture, vernacular and identity were shaped not only by oral tradition, but also by what they read.”

Schweiger received her Bachelor of Arts in literature and history at SFA. She has traveled the world conducting research and taught at various universities. Among her numerous publications, she has written two other books: “Religion in the American South” and “The Gospel Working Up.”

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Hampton at hamptonh@sfasu.edu or (936) 468-2048.

By Emily Brown, marketing communications specialist for Stephen F. Austin State University.

The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of the documentary “Koo-Hoot Kiwat: The Caddo Grass House” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

In the PBS film, which is directed by Curtis Craven, a Caddo tribal elder and his apprentice return to their ancestral homeland in East Texas to direct the construction of a traditional grass house.

The film is being shown in conjunction with an exhibition of Caddo Nation artists showing through March 24 in The Cole Art Center. “Caddo Contemporary: Present and Relevant” is an exhibition of ceramics, paintings, beadwork, stonework and drawings by seven living Caddo artists. The exhibition is a collaborative presentation of the SFA School of Art and Art Galleries and the Caddo Mound State Historic Site in Alto.

“Caddo Contemporary: Present and Relevant” is sponsored in part by William Arscott, The Flower Shop, Nacogdoches Junior Forum, Humanities Texas and Friends of the Visual Arts. Admission is free.

The film screening is part of the School of Art’s monthly Friday Film Series and is sponsored in part by William Arscott, Nacogdoches Film Festival, Karon Gillespie, Mike Mollot, David Kulhavy, John and Kristen Heath, Galleria Z, Jill Carrington, Jean Stephens, Jim and Mary Neal, Richard Orton, Nacogdoches Junior Forum and Main Street Nacogdoches.

The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E. Main St. For more information, call (936) 468-1131.

Stephen F. Austin State University’s spatial science program now offers a third discipline specialization track, which allows students to explore the broad range of geospatial applications within the field of liberal and applied arts.

“Spatialtechnologies and spatial analysis can be applied in many fields as long as there is spatial data,” said Dr. I-Kuai Hung, Lacy Hunt professor of geographic information systems and remote sensing for SFA’s Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture.

Spatial science majors pursuing the new cultural resources track select a minor from SFA’s College of Liberal and Applied Arts, allowing them to incorporate their knowledge of spatial science technologies in fields such as anthropology, criminal justice, political science and geography.

The program also offers emphasis areas in natural resources and land surveying. Because the field of spatial science is rapidly growing and utilized in a broad range of disciplines, the college of forestry recognized the need to broaden the program’s scope.

“It opens the program up to different types of students who can take advantage of this technology and use it in their discipline,” said Dr. Daniel Unger, Kenneth Nelson distinguished professor of geographic information systems and remote sensing.

Unger added that a background in spatial science technologies is extremely valuable when pursuing future careers, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics notes a faster-than-average growth in careers utilizing spatial science technologies.

Students majoring in spatial science have access to five fully equipped computer labs located in the Forestry Building.

For more information about SFA’s spatial science program, visit atcofa.sfasu.edu.

Story by Sarah Fuller, outreach coordinator for Stephen F. Austin State University’s Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture.

The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music and the Friends of Music Concert Series will present the Buyse-Webster Duo performing in a flute and clarinet recital at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 2, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Leone Buyse is the Joseph and Ida Kirkland Mullen Professor of Flute at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Her husband, clarinetist Michael Webster, is professor of music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and artistic director of the Houston Youth Symphony. Together, they perform in the Webster Trio and the Buyse-Webster Duo. Accompanying them in the SFA recital will be Dr. Ron Petti, director of collaborative piano in the SFA School of Music.

The program will feature Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Leonard Bernstein; Duos for Flute and Clarinet, op. 34b by Robert Muczynski; Sonata for Flute and Piano by Paul Hindemith; “La Bergère Captive” for solo flute by Pierre-Octave Ferroud; “Two Dancers” from Sonatina Casada for Flute and Clarinet by Arthur Gottschalk; and Norwegian Dances, op. 35 by Edvard Grieg and arranged by Michael Webster for flute, clarinet and piano.

Buyse relinquished her position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1993 to pursue a more active teaching and solo career after 22 years as an orchestral musician. She also served as assistant principal flutist of the San Francisco Symphony and played solo piccolo and second flute with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She can be heard as solo flutist on numerous recordings of the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and the San Francisco Symphony for the Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, and Sony Classical labels.

Webster has collaborated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Tokyo, Cleveland, Muir, Ying, Leontóvych, Dover, and Chester String Quartets and artists such as Yo Yo Ma and Joshua Bell, among many others. He has performed in all of New York City’s major halls, across the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He has been associated with many of North America’s finest festivals and performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Aaron Copland and the Boston Pops with John Williams.

Buyse and Webster have presented clinics and master classes across the United States and internationally. While on campus, they will present master classes for flute and clarinet students, and they will conduct an intonation clinic with the SFA Symphonic Band.

Recital tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.