Higher education
STEM (science, technology, engineer- ing and mathematics) job creation will outpace non-STEM jobs in the next decade, reports the U.S. Com- merce Department. It’s fitting then that Augsburg College, Minneapo- lis, received nearly $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to fund academic scholarships for stu- dents studying in these fields. Half of Augsburg’s AugSTEM scholarships will go to transfer students. “We hope to collaborate with STEM faculty at community colleges to support more seamless transitions for these stu- dents,” said Rebekah Dupont, coor- dinator of the college’s Lois Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation.
Bob Eubanks, host of The Newlywed Game in the 1960s and 70s, donated more than $170,000 in Western art to California Lutheran University,
Thousand Oaks. He connected with the school through his friend Rick Lemmo, a CLU regent. Pieces from the collection, including works by sculptor Herb Mignery and painters Martin Grelle and Donald Putman, will be displayed until Sept. 15 in the college’s William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art.
Advanced statistics concepts are usu- ally presented visually to students. But Paul Dion, a professor at Susque- hanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., knew that would exclude visually impaired students like Alicia Lalite from the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago (Dion co-developed that school’s doctorate program in man- agement). To help, Dion created dia- grams using a corkboard strung with elastics between different sized pins
representing various data points. Then he and Lalite worked with IBM on a software patch that would help stu- dents use text-to-speech software to navigate menus and options in SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sci- ences). When IBM didn’t have a solu- tion for reading the output from SPSS, Dion, Lalite and Shalini Ramdeo (another West Indies student) helped improvise a way to export it into Excel, which the screen reader soft- ware could read. The method will be published in a paper for AccessWorld, the journal of the American Founda- tion for the Blind.
Happy trails are here for students at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa. The Thiel Equestrian Club, a new student organization, provides Western or English riding lessons to beginner, intermediate and advanced riders at a farm 20 minutes from campus. Mike McKinney, dean of students, said there was “a lot of interest among Thiel students for an opportunity to learn or continue with horseback rid- ing during the academic year.” Since the club is a member of the Intercol- legiate Horse Show Association, stu- dents can compete individually and as a team in equestrian competition.
With less than $1 million needed for a $5.9 million aquatics center, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, broke ground in May. The center will be named the David E.G. and Patricia Miller Natatorium after longtime supporters who matched $1 for every $2 contributed, up to $500,000. The center will boost Luther’s swimming and diving teams with an eight-lane competition pool, technologically advanced starting blocks, a larger deck and a 14-foot-depth diving area. It will also include space for 250 spec- tators and a shallow pool for swim- ming lessons, adaptive physical edu- cation classes and water aerobics.
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