The University of Tennessee at Martin Faculty and Staff Newsletter | February 26, 2018

addendaCavalier to become new provost, vice chancellorChancellor Keith Carver

announced Friday the selection of Dr. Philip Acree Cavalier as the university’s new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Cavalier most recently served as provost of Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, and is expected to assume UT Martin duties effective July 1.

“I am excited to join a community that impressed me, during my campus interviews, as truly energized and moving in a positive direction,” said Cavalier. “I am eager to partner with Chancellor Carver and the faculty, staff and members of the chancellor’s leadership team to advance UT Martin’s commitment to making a profound impact on the lives of all UTM students.”

At Lyon, Cavalier was responsible for working with areas such as curriculum and program development; faculty support and shared governance; student support and persistence initiatives; accreditation; and assessment.

Cavalier holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in English from Northeastern University in Massachusetts and

a doctoral degree, also in English, from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has served in higher education administration since 2004.

“I appreciate Dr. Rich Helgeson (former dean, UT Martin College of Engineering and Natural Sciences) for stepping up to fill the provost position this past year, and I wish him well as he returns to the

faculty in the fall. I would also like to thank Dr. Philip Smartt (search committee chairperson and professor of natural resources management) and the rest of the search committee for their tireless efforts to find the best person to lead UT Martin’s academic areas,” said Carver in a campus message. “I am confident Dr. Cavalier is this person, and I look forward to

welcoming him and his family to campus this summer.”

Cavalier plans to arrive in Martin with his wife, Dr. Carol Acree Cavalier, and youngest son, Elijah, later this summer. The couple’s two older sons, Tobiah and Benjamin, are attending universities elsewhere.

NEW PROVOST – Dr. Philip Acree Cavalier is pictured during his open forum presentation Jan. 25.

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Dr. Angela Ammerman, assistant professor of music, wrote an article titled "¡El Mundo Hace Música!" that was recently the lead feature for the national publication “Teaching Music.” She also gave two presentations earlier this month during the Ohio Music Educators’ Association’s Professional Development Conference in Columbus, Ohio. During these presentations, Ammerman worked with pre-service and practicing teachers to build skills for recruiting and retaining English language learners. She also worked with more than 50 teachers to build more inclusive, engaging approaches to classroom management.

Dr. John Schommer, professor of mathematics, was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications held Feb. 15-17 at the University of Burdwan in Burdwan, India. His talk was titled “Generalizing Normality and Realcompactness with Supports of Continuous Functions.”

Brian Carroll, lecturer of dietetics, and Dr. Amy Richards, assistant professor of dietetics, escorted a group of students to visit with Sen. John Stevens and Rep. Andy Holt in their Nashville offices Feb. 21 as part of Hill Day for the Tennessee Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. (See photo on page 5.)

Dr. Bryan Foltz, associate professor of management information systems, is team coach for the Everett-Stewart Civil Air Patrol CyberPatriot Team, which won first place in the Jan. 20 statewide competition. The team, made up of local middle and high school students, also competed in the national semi-finals Feb. 9. The Civil Air Patrol is the all-volunteer auxiliary arm of the U.S. Air Force. The National Youth Cyber Education Program, of which CyberPatriot is a component, was created by the Air Force Association to inspire K-12 students to pursue careers in cybersecurity and other STEM fields.

Dr. Kurt Gorman, professor of music, recently released his first solo trumpet CD through Veritas Musica Publishing. The recording, titled “Convergence,” includes sonatas for trumpet and piano by composers Wayne Lu and Halsey Stevens, as well as the world premiere recording of Easley Blackwood’s “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 45.” All selections were recorded with pianist Matthew Gianforte, associate professor of music at Murray State University. This project was funded in part by the Ray and Alma Smith Faculty Development Award.Upcomi g deadli e

Maymester and summer 2018 textbook requests are due in the bookstore by March 15. Fall 2018 requests are due April 1. Please submit requests through Faculty Enlight as soon as possible to ensure the best and most affordable options for your students. If you are not using a textbook, select “no text required” under your course names.

For assistance using Faculty Enlight, contact Calista Drone, bookstore manager, at cdrone1@utm.edu or 731-881-7760.

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DiPietro to deliver State of the University address Wednesday

University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro will deliver his third annual State of the University address at 3 p.m., Feb. 28, in the downtown Nashville Public Library auditorium. The event will be available online via live webcast.

DiPietro’s remarks will cover:

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY – UT President Joe DiPietro is shown delivering his 2016 State of the University address in Nashville.

•Developing a multi-pronged UT effort to address the opioid addiction crisis in Tennessee

•University milestones in self-limiting tuition increases during the past three years and for the year ahead

•Record-breaking UT research productivity system-wide

•UT enrollment growth and progress in student retention and graduation rates.

All UT campus chancellors, DiPietro’s cabinet, Nashville-area UT trustees and UT Alumni Association officials will attend the event in person.

DiPietro will also announce

the recipients of the four 2018 UT President’s Awards.

A link to the live webcast will be available at tennessee.edu. The event also will be shared live from the UT president’s Facebook page, and highlights will be shared via live tweeting from @UTSystemNews.

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Online is here for you! Visit our webpage or one of the links below to access our degree programs and course

schedules, general information for new students or about transfer credit, and other

student support services.

Contact an Outreach Center or Our Online Office Today!UT Martin Jackson Center3031 Hwy 45 BypassJackson, TN 38305(731)425-9277utm.edu/jacksonUT Martin Ripley Center315 S. Washington St.Ripley, TN 38063(731)221-8778utm.edu/ripley

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Well you can find powerpoint templates, logos, email signatures and much more at the Office of University Relations webpage.

Click here to explore all the available resources!

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BOBBY SEALE SPEAKS AT UT MARTIN – Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, spoke Feb. 22 on the UT Martin main campus as part of the university’s 18th-annual Civil Rights Conference. Seale co-founded the Black Panthers in the 1960s with fellow activist Huey Newton. UT Martin is one of only two universities nationally to host an annual civil rights conference, and the 2018 event focused on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Deadline extended!

The deadline for participation in the Early Career Faculty Learning

Community as either a mentor or mentee has been extended

to March 9. View more details

online or contact Dr. Bonnie Daniel

at 881.1814.

John Tanner records made available to the public

DONATED RECORDS – (l-r) Rep. John Tanner and his wife, Betty Ann, are pictured with UT Martin Chancellor Keith Carver prior to a reception Feb. 23 thanking the Tanner family for his donation to the university’s Alliene and Jimmie S. Corbitt Special Collections.

UT Martin hosted a reception Feb. 23 to honor John Tanner, former U.S. representative for Tennessee’s 8th District, and thank him for the donation of his Congressional papers to the university’s Alliene and Jimmie S. Corbitt Special Collections. Tanner’s documents have been digitized and are now available online for research use around the world.

Tanner hopes this record of his work with the U.S. House of Representatives and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will help future generations learn from the past.

“I hope this collection of papers and so forth will benefit young people in the future,” said Tanner. “We live in a different time, perhaps, than some of the work that I did through NATO, but if people can look back and see what happened then, it might

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addendaPublished weekly during the academic year and biweekly during the summer by UT Martin, Martin, TN 38238

Dr. Joseph DiPietro – President, University of Tennessee System • Dr. Keith Carver – Chancellor • Erin Chesnut – Addenda Editor UT Martin is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA employer. E05-0425-00-001-18

Calendar•Feb. 26-March 2 – High school art exhibition; Fine Arts Building Gallery; 1-5 p.m. daily•Feb. 26-27 – Vanguard Theatre: “Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike”; Little Theatre; 8 p.m. nightly; admission•Feb. 27 – Wind ensemble side-

You Tell Me•Question – Is Dr. Temple Grandin’s presentation still archived for viewing by those who were unable to attend in person?

•Answer – Yes. Her presentation is archived online through the OVC Digital Network. Please click here to be taken to the viewing page.

Submit your questions to the Suggestion Box link at www.utm.edu.

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UT MARTIN REPRESENTATIVES – Pictured with Rep. Andy Holt (center) during Hill Day for the Tennessee Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics are (l-r) Dr. Amy Richards, assistant professor of dietetics; students Kaitlyn Ritter and Darren Kelm; student Taryn Marter; Brian Carroll, lecturer of dietetics; and students Lindsey Sailors and Olivia Kramer.

by-side concert with Dyersburg High School; Fulton Theatre; 6 p.m.•Feb. 28-March 3 – Women’s basketball at OVC Championship•Feb. 28 – Retirement reception for Dr. Ron Kilgore; Boling University Center, room

206, 2-4 p.m.•Feb. 28 – UT President Joe DiPietro’s State of the University address; live webcast from Nashville (see page 1); 2:30 p.m.•March 1 – Death by Voice vocal competition; Blankenship Recital Hall; 7 p.m.

•March 2 – Last day to drop classes for spring semester•March2-4 – Baseball vs Cincinnati relocated to Marge Schott Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio•March 4-11 – Spring break; no classes in session

give them a better perspective of what happens now.”

Tanner filled the seat vacated by Rep. Ed Jones in 1989 and represented the district until 2010.

“It is our mission to conserve, preserve and make available the historical record of this university and West Tennessee,” said Sam Richardson, university archivist and head of the Corbitt Special Collections. “We here at the Corbitt Special Collections consider ourselves the caretakers of the 8th District and the 8th District’s historical record. We, today, are making public a large part of that history.”

“This collection will bring great interest to researchers who are interested in Tennessee and 8th District politics, as well as national and foreign affairs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries,” Richardson continued, addressing the Tanner family. “We here at UT Martin appreciate your generous donation, and we appreciate that you have trusted us to bring that to the public.”

The Tanner documents can be accessed online through the Paul Meek Library website.