Awards and Public Service
Awards
Undergraduate Admissions Going Green
WSB TV recognized University Admission and Enrollment Services as the Going Green Champion for April 2008. This recognition was for great technology, paper reduction, and conservation. Click here to watch the video.
Bench Marking,
Best Practices Award presented by The Board Of Regents of the University
System of Georgia in Fall 2003 to Joe Head and the
KSU Office of Admissions for six innovations: the
Freshman Admission Predictor (FAP), the High School
Guidance Counselor Service Center, the Electronic
Application & SAT push into BANNER & Imaging,
Prospective Student Information Retrieval Technology,
Registration “Tried” Report, and the
Web based Georgia High School Directory
Innovations in
Technology for Admissions APEX Award presented
to Joe F. Head in April, 2004 by the American Association
of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers at the annual conference in Las Vegas
Public Service
Calligraphy Classes. Joe F. Head has
studied the scribal arts in the United States and
Ireland. He has taught calligraphy classes to interested
community groups as well as through the KSU Continuing
Education Department.
Georgia High School
Directory and Web Page, Joe
F. Head (founder and editor) and Susan Blake (co-editor).
Published as a hard copy edition and an on-line web
page, the directory is an annualcentral listing of
all public and private high schools in Georgia that
featuresGuidance Counselor contact information including
size of school, minority enrollment, senior class
size, ETS codes, street address, phone and web/email
addresses.
Head, Joe F. The
General: The Great Locomotive Dispute. Originally
printed in 1990 by the Etowah Foundation's History
Center, Mr. Head recounts the daring Civil War
adventure of Andrew's Union Raiders' theft of a
Southern locomotive, and the court litigation that
ensued to determine where the historic General
would call home. Illustrated with 27 photographs
and maps. Available at the Etowah Valley Historic
Society online bookstore. http://www.evhsonline.org/bookstore/bookstore.html
“Goizueta Scholarship” written
by Julio Espana and published in September 2002
in the La
Voz del Pueblo. This article sought to
recruit additional Hispanic students to KSU with
the announcement of this new scholarship.
The General,
Joe F. Head has presented over 200 presentations
to local community groups concerning this Civil
War era episode now commonly called "The
Great Locomotive Chase". The PowerPoint presentation
contains photographs of historic sites and documents,
many of which he personally collected. The presentation
focuses on the litigations in 1970 to recover the
engine from Tennessee.
The Legend of Chain Gang Hill, An article and speech describing the existence of a 1940's State and County operated penal system in Bartow County, Georgia. The story involves why such systems arose and how the facility was targeted by Life Magazine and known as Little Alcatraze, but decommissed and later distroyed by fire.
Head, Joe F. "The Legend of Chain Gang Hill," Etowah
Valley Historical Society , Vol. 35, January 2001,
pp. 1-5. |
