employers and graduate programs often held a computer science bache- lor of science degree in higher esteem than a bachelor of arts degree,” said Clifton Presser, a professor of com- puter science. A $532,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation enabled the minor in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Hungry for talk of cookies, scrapers and other mechanisms that record Web traffic, Susquehanna Univer- sity, Selinsgrove, Pa., heard in Sep- tember from Lori Andrews, author of I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (Free Press, 2012). Andrews discussed how Facebook and Twitter are “redefining freedom and responsibility” in a free lecture open to the public. It was part of the school’s Common Reading program, which engages first-year students, faculty and staff in a semester-long dialogue related to the university’s annual theme, which this year is free- dom and responsibility.
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D., is raising funds to build a $30 million state-of-the-art science facility and for a $10 million renovation of its Gilbert Science Center, built in 1966. The projects are made possible by a $20 million challenge gift from San- ford Health, the largest donation in the college’s history. Last year chem- istry majors increased by 51 percent, biology majors by 42 percent, and physics majors by 28 percent over the previous five years. Roughly 40 percent of Augustana students are natural science majors, most on the track for graduate or professional school.
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, saw funding renewed by the U.S. Depart- ment of Education for its McNair Scholars program. The $1.1 million
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grant provides $220,000 annually from 2012 to 2017 to prepare first- generation, low-income and under- represented students for doctoral study. Also funded with additional sponsorship from Augsburg, the program helps participants develop the advanced academic skills neces- sary for graduate school admission and successful graduate study. Con- gress created the scholars program
in honor of Ronald E. McNair, an African-American astronaut and physicist who died in the 1986 Chal- lenger space shuttle explosion.
This year students living on and off campus are training therapy and service dogs at Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. Sophomore Mary Kiolbasa, president of Viking Pups, said in a Sept. 20 video interview that
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