School of Continuing Studies
Volume II, Issue 5 Newsletter of the University of Richmond School of Continuing Studies March 2005
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April 2005

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ACE: Achievements, Congratulations & Excellence

We love to hear about the accomplishments of our Faculty, Staff, Students and Alumni. Please let us know what’s happening by dropping a note to Gretchen Brooks at gbrooks@richmond.edu.

Faculty & Staff

Build It! Members of the Faculty and Staff of the School of Continuing Studies participated in the University of Richmond’s Build It! Program in partnership with the Student Activities office and the Metro Richmond Habitat for Humanity. This program helped to build two houses and give extreme makeovers to three schools in the district. We worked hard and had a great time for a terrific cause. See our pictures below!

Dr. Walter Green, III, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Emergency Services Management, was selected as one of the 40 finalists for the 2005 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards sponsored by the Dominion group of companies. Dr. Green was notified of this honor in a letter from the Honorable Belle S. Wheelan, Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Virginia.

Dr. Harold “Bud” Cothern, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Education program, has just completed the re-designed website for the Metro Richmond Habitat for Humanity. Dr. Cothern, who teaches Technology in the Classroom, worked with the staff for about three months to achieve the kind of site that Habitat needed. You can read the thanks from the Executive Director, Kathy Garvin, as well as view the website at: http://richmondhabitat.org.

Porcher Taylor, III, JD has an article printed in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review entitled “The Business Fallout form the Rapid Obsolescence and Planned Obsolescence of High-Tech Products: Downsizing of Noncompetition Agreements.” This article, written in conjunction with Ann C. Hodges, JD, a Professor of Law at the T.C. Williams School of Law, discusses improving the predictability and fairness of noncompetition agreements.

Congratulations to Debra L. Peters, JD for receiving a grant from P.E.T.E. (Program for Enhancing Teaching Effectiveness) in support of her participation in the ACS teaching Workshop at Rollins.

Lisa Hick-Thomas, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in our Paralegal Studies program, served as the Prosecutor in the nation’s first felony prosecution for illegal spamming. Jeremy Jaynes was convicted in November for using false Internet addresses to send mass e-mail ads through an AOL server. Hicks-Thomas said she was pleased with the ruling and confident the law would be upheld.

Photo: SCS Build It! Group