Gardner-Webb Brass Festival 
January 19, 2008
Regional public schools have been invited to the main campus to spend the day with nationally
known brass experts. Band directors and teachers accompanying their students will be awarded
CEUs through the NC State Department of Education that will be used for their teacher renewal
certificates.
Institute of Management Accountants Regional Meeting 
February 8-9, 2008
Various speakers
In association with the Carolinas Council chapter of the IMA and Gardner-Webb University’s
School of Business; A CPE MIX – Issues in Accounting including federal income tax issues and
updates, fighting fraud, legal issues, and manufacturing at the speed of lean.
Ethical Caring: Callings, Collusions, and Complexities 
Friday, April 11, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Ronee Smith Griffith, Ph.D., Presenter
This workshop will invite participants to locate internal roots of the “ethical ideal”, the often
unconscious guide to ethical caring and the possible source of unethical collusions. Nel
Noddings’ moral philosophy of caring will be presented as the intellectual foundation for
understanding “caring” in the professional relationship. Research studies will be reviewed
which reveal unconscious motivations in the professional choice. These motivations, for better
or worse, influence ethical reasoning and overdetermine the quality of professional interactions.
Dr. Griffith, founder of the Relational Ethics Institute, is a licensed psychologist who has
specialized in ethics education. She is nationally regarded as an ethicist and practices
psychotherapy with adults in Atlanta and Carrollton, Georgia.
Mathematical Thinking: Developing Understanding 
June 11, 2008
8:30am – 3:30pm
Milton Uecker, Ph.D., presenter
This workshop is for upper elementary and lower middle school teachers, teachers who
remediate, special education teachers, title 1 teachers, principals who want to
understand the importance of manipulatives, curriculum coordinators, teaching
assistants, parents and school board members. Dr. Milton Uecker will assist teachers in
knowing how to build mathematical understanding in the minds of elementary school
students. The focus will be on third through sixth grade – multiplication through prealgebra.
Dr. Uecker holds a masters degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of
Texas and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia. He
has taught math across all of the elementary grades and trained teachers in math
methods for more than 15 years. His dissertation centered on differences in the
problem-solving and computational abilities of young children who had been taught
arithmetic in an activity centered vs. traditional classroom. Dr. Uecker currently serves
as the Dean of the Graduate School at Columbia international University in Columbia,
South Carolina.
Risk Management Basics for Mental Health Professionals 
July 28, 2008
Van Graham, J.D., Presenter
This workshop is for all mental health professionals who are engaged in any form of
independent practice. Because of the nature of such a practice structure, such professionals
open themselves to civil suits and licensing board actions without the cushion an agency offers.
The workshop will focus on the pragmatics of risk management, and will be invaluable to
behavioral health professionals, including graduate students in counseling, nursing, and divinity.
Mr. Graham is a well respected member of the Gardner-Webb faculty and is a national legal
expert on risk management. He is using Assessing and Managing Risk in Psychological Practice,
from the American Psychological Association’s Insurance Trust, as a text for the workshop.
Psychopharmacology Update: Psychotropic Drugs in 2008 
Friday, September 19, 2008
8:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Matthew Joseph, M.D., Presenter
As information in psychopharmacology explodes, clinicians must master increasingly
complex information about new medications, new applications of existing medications,
and the growing potential for adverse effects and interactions. Multi-disciplinary
practitioners are obligated to be increasingly collegial with prescribing physicians and
nurse practitioners. Such collegiality requires facility with medication categories, their
broad indications and the disorders they treat. This workshop is designed to present
such information in a concise, clear, and effective fashion.
The speaker is Matthew Joseph, M.D., Director of Psychiatry Services at Rutherford
Hospital in Rutherfordton, NC. Dr. Joseph is new to the area and is a well known
speaker in the northeast. Funding is being solicited through grant application to drug
companies such as Pfizer or Eli Lilly, and is being coordinated with the Office of
Development.The workshop is appropriate for all behavioral health, nursing, and pharmacy
professionals.
Gardner-Webb Choral Clinic 
October 9, 2008
Coordinated by Paul Etter, Ph.D.
Regional high schools will be invited to the main campus to spend a day with a nationally known
choral concert, concluding with an evening concert. Approximately 200 students and their
teachers will attend the event. Teachers will be awarded CEUs needed for relicensure.
Thomas Lynch, author, essayist, poet 
Thursday and Friday, October 23 and 24, 2008
Dr. June Hobbs has invited this nationally known author to work with the student body and
faculty of the university, and to present to a regional professional and lay audience on his work
surrounding end-of-life issues. The first of his two day schedule will include a writing workshop,
an English department symposium, and a public reading, book signing, and reception. The
second day will include a three hour continuing education workshop on end-of-life issues
and will conclude with a luncheon.
Legal Nurse Consulting 
Spring, 2009
Kathy Lindsey, Ph.D., Presenter
Dr. Lindsey is well known and respected on the Gardner-Webb faculty. She is a legal nurse
consultant and will present basics of the practice in a workshop oriented to nursing professionals.
**Each event is anticipated to award CE credits. The Center for Continuing Professional Education is in
the process of applying for approval from several different professional agencies**