Moss, Westman Receive Schoen Award

TWO OHIO STATE FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE SCHOEN AWARD

COLUMBUS -- Two Ohio State University faculty members will 
enhance their administrative and leadership abilities as 
recipients of the 1998 Kathryn T. Schoen Award.

     Beverly Moss of COLUMBUS (43224) and Judith Westman of UPPER 
ARLINGTON received plaques during a reception on June 3.  Interim 
President Richard Sisson and Acting Senior Vice President and 
Provost Edward J. Ray presented the awards.

Moss is an associate professor of English and director of 
the University Writing Center.  With her $2,000 Schoen Award, she 
will begin a project titled "Seeing Ourselves in the Profession: 
African American Women Academics in Administration."  Moss 
proposes to conduct approximately 50 interviews with African 
American women administrators and to observe African American 
women academics in their roles as faculty administrators.  Moss 
is particularly interested in how these women are socialized into 
the administrative life of the academy.  She plans to use the 
data to prepare conference presentations and publications.  Her 
goal, in addition to enhancing her own professional development, 
is to make these stories available to African American women 
entering higher education as a profession or graduate and 
professional schools. 

Westman is associate professor of clinical pediatrics and 
associate dean for admissions and student affairs in the College 
of Medicine and Public Health.  She will use her $1,000 Schoen 
Award to participate in a fellowship with the Hedwig van 
Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) 
Program for Women, part of Allegheny University of the Health 
Sciences and its Institute for Women's Health.  The fellows seek 
an active role in changing academic medicine to respond to 
market, societal and technological forces, and will collaborate 
to find strategies for academic health centers preparing for the 
21st century.  Westman also will gain expertise in financial 
management and academic affairs as a fellow in the program.

     Kathryn Schoen became the first woman vice president at Ohio
State when she was appointed to lead educational services in 
1978.  In more than 20 years of service, she gave her students 
and the university her greatest commitment and priority.  She was 
known for giving others, particularly women, opportunities for 
professional growth.  She and her husband, Richard, live in 
Longwood, Fla.

The award recipients were selected this year by Martha 
Garland, vice provost for undergraduate studies; Janet G. Ashe, 
vice president for business and administration; Judith Koroscik, 
dean of the College of the Arts; and Melissa Krygier, assistant 
vice president of the College of Food, Agricultural and 
Environmental Sciences.

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Contacts: Beverly Moss, (614) 292-5763
          Judith Westman, (614) 293-6694