President James Appleton was appointed to the board of directors of Redlands Centennial Bank at the annual shareholders meeting in April. He will serve on the asset liability/investment and audit standing committees. Trustee Stanley Weisser was also appointed to the board. Trustee Carole Beswick is the director.

Students and faculty involved in the university's Creative Writing Program were panelists at the Associated Writing Programs conference held in Palm Springs in April. Ten students and English professors Greg Bills, Leslie Brody and Joy Manesiotis took part in the "Where Creative Writing Takes You: An Undergraduate Program Perspective," a look at the university's intensive creative writing program and the value of studying writing as an undergraduate.

Student Services Secretary Julie Cauthron was featured in an article in the San Bernardino County Sun in April. Her husband, Mike, built her a tree house--her childhood dream--for her 50th birthday. The 320-square-foot "cottage in the sky" that sits in a century-old Italian stone in front of their Redlands home is decorated with antiques.

KVCR visited the Communicative Disorders Department this spring to film a segment on the clinical program to be broadcast this fall. KVCR or Channel 24 is an affiliate of PBS.

Students and faculty at the Center for Environmental Studies produced an 18-minute documentary on "Palau: Paradise in Peril" that premiered on campus in May. Environmental Programs Director Monty Hempel led a group of students to Palau over interim. The film was accompanied by a 10-minute travel film about Palau and a 10-minute nature film called "The Edge of Wildness."

Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip Glotzbach wrote a piece on "Conditions of Collaboration: A Dean's List of Dos and Don'ts" that appeared in the May-June issue of Academe, a bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. His position: "Institutional governance should reflect academic values: flexibility, trust, inclusiveness and a respect for reasoned decision making."