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By TAYLOR FERGUSONStaff [email protected]
Kevin Evans, special education junior and Student Government As-sociation vice president, is currently working on getting information from the math, science and language labs cen-tralized on one website in order to save students time from having to visit multiple sites. “I feel that it is benefi-cial to students to have all of these resources located in one place in-stead of having to click around a bunch of dif-
ferent links,” Evans said. “Right now, if you go to the Student Develop-ment Center website on the left hand side, you have to go all the way down to the bottom of the page.” Math, language and science are not the only labs offered at IU South-east. “There is also an ac-counting group and communications group that do labs, which many students do not know about,” Evans said. Evans said he also be-lieves it would be benefi-cial for students to know how to become a tutor or supplemental instruc-
tor in the areas in which these are needed. “It’s important for students to know the resources available to them on campus, and, also, the ways they can get involved — that in-cludes tutoring, [Sup-plementary Instruction] and involvement in the centers,” Evans said. Evans said most stu-dents are not aware of some of the rewards that come with becoming an SI or tutor. “Some students don’t know that if you be-come an SI you get $900 a semester for each class you teach,” Evans said. “Tutors get paid $10 an
hour.” Evans said there are not any problems with the current labs; how-ever, there is no central site that directs students to these locations on the web. “Having a central website for resources will give students a one -stop-shop to find out about all of the resourc-es available through the Development Center,” Evans said. Rather than consoli-dating all of the labs onto one of the old sites, Evans said they are working on restructur-
By JENNIFER [email protected]
Tuition rates for the upcoming summer semester at all Indiana University campuses will be discount-ed 25 percent for resident undergraduate students and 9 percent for non-resident under-graduate students. The plan, which was decided by IU President Michael McRobbie, was an-nounced on Oct. 24 and is set to help relieve students of financial stress. According to an IU press release, the plan will also help promote year-round college attendance and decrease the time it takes many stu-dents to earn a degree. The current tuition rate for the fall and spring semesters for in-state stu-dents is $193.80 per credit hour. With the discount, summer tuition cost will be $145.35 per credit hour. For out-of-state students, the cur-rent tuition is set at $530.50, and the summer tuition rate will be $482.05. The tuition discounts include oth-er applicable fees that are charged to students, including the temporary rehabilitation and repair fee and the nursing program fee. “The discount includes all fees like the Student Activity Fee and the Student [Technol-ogy] Fee,” Michael Kerstiens, director of Accounting Services, said. The change in the summer tuition rates should not affect the available amount of summer courses. A committee was formed to help determine the courses available to students and how the university
will adapt to the amount of demand resulting from the discount. “We are currently reviewing the summer offer-ings from last year and attempting to estimate de-mand for summer 2012,” Brittany Hubbard, director of Financial Aid and interim director of the Academ-ic Success Center, said.
The summer tuition plan will be in effect for both the summer 2012 and summer 2013 semesters. “I haven’t heard any word on sum-mers beyond 2013,” Hubbard said. One of the goals of the discount plan will be to improve student attain-ment and make a more powerful sum-mer session. “Attending in the summer helps students take the required courses in fewer years,” Hubbard said. “Continu-ous enrollment can also help students stay focused on their program of study. This is a great opportunity, and I en-courage all students take advantage.” Approximately, a total of 4,600 stu-dents were enrolled in summer classes this year. “Last summer, our official enroll-ment for undergraduates was 1,895 in the first summer session and 2,231 in the second summer session,” Hubbard said. Hubbard said she is glad Indiana
University has announced the plan for the new sum-mer tuition. “Being the director of Financial Aid, I see the fi-nancial strains our students face daily,” Hubbard said. “This is a great opportunity for students to pursue degree completion at a faster pace and lower cost.”
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Kevin Evans, special education junior and Student Gov-ernment Association vice president, explains the process of centralizing various labs onto one website.
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By HANNA [email protected]
The Student Government Association passed a proposal on Oct. 27 that would amend the current faculty policy of how pro-fessors deliver their syllabus to students. Kevin Evans, secondary education junior and SGA vice president, authored the funda-mental syllabus proposal that is currently be-ing reviewed by faculty. “This issue [with the current policy] is that many students do not get their syllabus until the first day of classes,” Evans said. “Getting the student that information is very vital — one, for their success, and, two, we feel that it will be beneficial to the retention rates on campus.” The focus of the proposal is to create a guideline for faculty members to post a fun-damental syllabus on OnCourse, outlining points such as number and type of graded assignments, basis of how the final grade is composed and a representative reading list. “I am not looking for them to post the en-tire syllabus, just the important pieces,” Ev-ans said. The Student Recruitment and Retention Committee is currently looking over the pro-posal and making changes to better fit the fac-ulty and student body. Jay McTyier, program analyst for the Reg-istrar, has been working with IU Blooming-ton on the Course Description Project, which focuses on providing information through OneStart that students will see when viewing the class before registering. “The project was the development of an in-stitutional utility to hold more robust course descriptions for the class bulletin,” McTyier said. Currently, IU Bloomington is the only cam-pus that uses this function available through OneStart. However, IU Southeast will be the first regional campus to use the program if it passes through the Faculty Senate. “It really is a matter of cutting and pasting,” McTyier said. “If you build [a syllabus] in OnCourse, you can copy and paste it to One- Start, and, then, remove the extraneous ele-ments.” Evans is currently working on authoring an executive order that will amend the sylla-bus policy in the faculty handbook. The ex-ecutive order is the first one IU Southeast has seen since 1999. Evans said the SGA has been more focused this year on projects for the benefit of stu-dents. “The SGA has totally rebranded ourselves,
Graphic by Stephen AllenSource: Brittany Hubbard, director of Financial Aid and interim director of the Academic Success Center
This is a great opportunity for students to pursue degree completion at a fast pace and lower cost.
Brittany Hubbarddirector of Financial Aid
and interim director for the Academic Success Center