September 24, 1999
September 24, 1999
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for your informationThe new Alumni Drive entrance to campus will be open for traffic following a brief ceremony at 4 p.m. on Sept. 28. New ad hoc committees have been established by Staff Council. The advocacy committee will promote UAF in the community, and the parking committee will investigate parking fees. Contact Irene Downes at fneid@uaf.edu if interested. A UAF LIFE lecture entitled "Self Defense" will be presented by Stan Wright in the SRC balcony from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Sept. 28. A free depression screening for students, faculty, staff and the community will be held Oct. 7 in the Wood Center lobby from noon-4 p.m. and the Downtown Center, 2nd Avenue entrance, from 4:30-8 p.m. Food service has been improved all over campus. New furniture, new menu items and a whole new way of preparing the food, known as "presentation cooking," are brightening the Wood Center, Westridge Cafe and Lola Tilly Commons. New payment options are available through the Polar Express card. Call 6070 for more details. The Polar Express office has moved to 222 Bunnell. Get your Polar Express card Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. ARSC will offer a "T3E Basics and Parallel Programming Flyby" class from 2-4 p.m. Sept. 29 in 7 Butrovich. For more information, go to http://www.arsc.edu/ or call 5102. Alaska Airlines ticket voucher guidelines have been updated.
Call University Relations at 7581 for more information.
Victoria Moessner, CLA, has been invited to give a lecture at Hirosaki University in Japan, on the Russian image of Japan at the beginning of the 19th century. Moessner presented a paper on Russia's 19th century image of Canton at Peking University's international conference in Beijing, China; and co-edited The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robbins 1900, published by UA Press.
grants and awardsThe Interior-Aleutians Campus,
CRA, was awarded a five-year Title III $1.4 million federal grant under
the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian program, to be used for student,
academic and institutional programs.
ScoreboardThe UAF basketball team has signed two new recruits: guard Danny Anaya and forward William Martin, for the new season that begins Nov. 12-13 against Warner Pacific College at the Patty Center. Two former UAF athletes, Shawn Harper and Jane LeBlond,
have been named UAF assistant cross country coaches for the 1999-2000 season.
governance
deadlinesOct. 8, 1999: Deadline for seniors to apply for the Rhodes Scholarship, which pays for two years study at Oxford. Contact Jerry McBeath at 6505 or ffjam@uaf.edu for details. Oct. 15, 1999: Deadline for seniors and graduate students to register and submit an abstract for oral or poster presentations at the National Student Conference on Northern Studies in May 2000. Contact Pavillon De Koninck at aba855@agora.ulaval.ca for more information. Nov. 1, 1999: Deadline to apply or nominate someone for the American Council for Education Fellows Program 2000-2001. Contact the Provost's office at 7096 or fndmn@uaf.edu for more information. Nov. 4, 1999: Deadline to apply for the National Science Foundation
three-year graduate fellowship. For more information, visit http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/dge/grfp.htm,
or email nsfgrfp@orau.gov.
Shuttle ScheduleNenana Express: Nenana Lot to Eielson Building/Signers' Hall
and return
Taku Express: Taku Lot to upper campus and return
For specific shuttle times, consult the shuttle schedule available at
Wood Center, or go online to http://www.uaf.edu/fs/.
from Paul Reichardt
I would like to share with you some information, obtained from a variety of recent sources, about undergraduate students in the United States. Although UAF is, in many respects, not a typical U.S. institution of higher education, I suspect that the national data will tell us quite a bit about our own students. Over the next 10 years the number of high school graduates in Alaska is projected to decrease by 4 percent while the number of graduates nationwide will increase by 9 percent. Over this period enrollments at public four-year institutions are expected to rise by 10 percent, and enrollments at public two-year institutions will increase by 7 percent. Sixteen percent of first-year students at public four-year institutions in 1989-90 did not return for their second year; 64 percent of these students subsequently resumed their education - more than half at their original institution. The best predictor of a first-year student's chances for attaining a baccalaureate degree is the intensity and quality of the secondary school curriculum taken by the student (not grades, not test scores). Approximately 60 percent of the students who earn baccalaureate degrees have attended more than one institution of higher education. During the 1980s, 50 percent of baccalaureate recipients had taken one or more remedial courses. During the 1980s approximately 25 percent of undergraduate students were assigned grades of drop, withdraw or incomplete in more than 20 percent of their classes; these students' collective graduation rate was 7 percent. During 1989-90, classic first-time freshmen were employed for an average of 26 hours per week. I find much of this information to be surprising, and I believe that
it suggests some fundamental questions about the ways in which we do our
business and how we assess our success or failure. I hope these tidbits
initiate a broad discussion about our recruiting and retention of undergraduate
students at UAF, and I intend to follow up with some formal discussions
of the questions that they raise.
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