Rose State College News

Rose State College Spring 2010 Great Issues Lecture Series

March 10    Ms. Gena Timberman,  Executive Director of the Native American Cultural and Educational Authority of Oklahoma - Affluence Issues in Oklahoma’s Native American Culture

March 24   Professor Daniel Ratcliff,  Rose State College Director of Environmental Science/Technology Program - Global Warming and Global Affluence

April 7   Mr. Steve Burrage, CPA, Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector - The Federal Stimulus in Oklahoma

All lectures are held  from 3:00 –4:00 p.m.
 on Wednesdays in
The Rose State College Lecture Hall
and are funded by
The Don Reynolds Lectureship Endowment

New Health Sciences Center Opens at Rose State College

More than 400 students from a variety of health-related majors can attend classes in a new, state-of-the-art Health Sciences Center at the Rose State College Campus beginning this semester.
            The new facility, designed by The Benham Companies of Oklahoma City and constructed by Atlas General Contractors of Bixby, is located on the campus of Rose State College in Midwest City, near the intersection of Interstate 40 and Hudiburg Drive. The approximately 44,000 square-foot, single-story building is designed for teaching and training students in the provision of health services using the latest technology.
            Health care students from Rose State spend thousands of hours per semester in area hospitals, clinics and other health facilities as part of their clinical education experience, helping alleviate the shortage of providers in central Oklahoma’s health care infrastructure, said Rose State President Dr. Terry Britton.
            “Oklahoma alone faces a shortage of thousands of health care workers in the coming decade, and this new facility will provide badly-needed capacity for better health care education,” said President Britton.
            The project was made possible by the 2005 Oklahoma Higher Education Capitol Bond Issue.

Rose State College Cybersecurity Garners Grant to Create Mobile Device and Virtualization Capabilities

            Rose State College’s cyber security program is the recipient of a $125,000 National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its program with mobile device access and “virtual computers”—a system that creates images of computers on different servers and allows students to work on them from different locations.
            The system will allow students to replicate the kinds of server environments and situations exploited by hackers— against whom the students are learning to protect.
            Recent reports of hacker attacks on national banking institutions, and the appointment of a White House cyber security coordinator by President Barack Obama underscore the need for constant improvement in the cyber security discipline, said Rose State cyber security program director Ken Dewey.
            “Virtualization will allow Rose State and all CSEC participants access to multiple servers serving virtual images of computer systems of all types from Windows to Unix/Linux,” said Professor Dewey. “This will also allow students to access these systems from their home networks, allowing for expanded distance learning opportunities.”
            The NSF awarded the grant to Rose State through the University of Tulsa. Both TU and Rose State College are part of a statewide consortium of colleges and universities called the Cyber Security Education Consortium, or CSEC.  The virtualization grant is part of a $2.7 million three-year Advanced Technological Education grant awarded the NSF to help reverse the outsourcing and off shoring of high-tech jobs.
            Rose State College is the only community college in the country that offers all six levels of federal cyber security certification.

U.S. Poet Laureate to Visit Rose State College in March

Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate, will be the guest poet March 5 at Rose State College’s annual “Poetry at Rose” event, 7 p.m. in the H.B Atkinson Theatre on campus. 
            Ryan’s reading is to be followed by a reception and book signing. 
            Ryan said her visit is part of her efforts as poet laureate to promote community colleges nationwide.  In a recent interview in Inside Higher Ed., Ryan said that she is a product of community colleges herself, both as a graduate and as a long-time instructor.
             “…At community college, all of my instructors knew my name; I had a personal relationship with them, which is beyond price,” Ryan told Inside. "I’m doing the project…just by shouting from the rooftops, 'I spent my life teaching community college, I graduated from one, and I think they’re great!' "
            “A poet of Ryan’s stature visiting our campus is an honor,” said Rose State President Dr. Terry Britton. “To have the country’s poet laureate here will heighten awareness of the importance of poetry.”
            Ryan's awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997.
            Ryan's poems and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, Paris Review, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, Parnassus, among other journals and anthologies. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2006.  In 2008, Ryan was appointed the Library of Congress's sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Since 1971, she has lived in Marin County, California.
            Admission to the event is free, but seating is limited and reservations are requested. For more information or to reserve seats, contact Dianne Krob, 405-736-0323, or email dkrob@rose.edu.

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