{"id":614,"date":"2014-03-11T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-03-11T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:34:07","slug":"nota-bene-spring-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/nota-bene-spring-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Nota Bene Spring 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PUB Renovation Project pre-design process is continuing on schedule, with architect <\/strong>Perkins+Will hosting the third round of workshops in February, sharing the latest renderings to the student community, and conducting student intercept surveys to gauge reactions.\u00a0 The renderings and latest project plan have been met with favorable responses from student and university leadership.\u00a0 Students will vote on a fee to support the project in early May.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eagle Entertainment, ASEWU and ASWSU<strong> <\/strong>hosted a<strong> Family Game Night at the EWU Riverpoint campus<\/strong> on Friday, February 21, with 102 attendees. We hope this will evolve into an annual event, in our ongoing efforts to increase Riverpoint student programming\u2014particularly those with a family-friendly focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our celebrated annual EWU Drag Show and related event kicked off on Wednesday, February 6<\/strong>, hosted by<strong> <\/strong>SAIL, Eagle Entertainment, and the Pride Center.\u00a0 The 2014 program launched this year with comedian Jeffrey Jay and included the popular and educational \u201cHistory of Drag\u201d workshop, which informed students about the evolution of drag and drag culture, included a historical perspective dating back to the Stonewall Riots.\u00a0 The annual Drag Show charity event took place on Thursday, February 27, had 515 people attend and raised $3,738. All proceeds were donated to the Spokane Aids Network (SAN).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our <strong>firstSTEP orientation <\/strong>dates for summer 2014 are set; new students began registering March 1. \u00a0In order to better meet the needs of our transfer student population, we have two more transfer student orientation dates, bringing our total number of programs to 10 (7 for first-year students; 3 for transfers).\u00a0 Last year, we made significant changes to the program to place a clear focus on academic expectations and student success.\u00a0 Due to strong assessment data and results from our program review, we\u2019ll continue this revised model and work on enhancing opportunities for new students to form important connections with faculty, staff, and current students, as well as creating online\/other opportunities to extend students\u2019 orientation experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Neil Woolf (AVP\/ES) and Toni Habegger (CFO) presented to the Washington State Senate\u2019s Committee for Higher Education<\/strong> on January 30, 2014. The Committee requested information related to EWU\u2019s utilization of the State Need Grant as well as our process for notifying prospective and current students of the available financial aid resources. EWU was selected by the Committee to represent Washington\u2019s regional universities in providing information to the Committee. The Committee commended EWU for its practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Planning is underway.<\/strong> Currently, the SEM Council is identifying available and needed data to inform future strategies. Additionally, an RFP was recently closed to find a vendor to provide market analysis for academic and co-curricular offerings. Working groups surrounding the development of annual plans for recruitment, retention, marketing, academics, and fiscal planning were identified and work will begin on plan development shortly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>On March 22, 2014, the Office of Admissions in partnership with the Community Colleges of Spokane will host the Inaugural Inland Northwest Black and Brown Summit<\/strong>.\u00a0 This intervention program serving young men of color is designed to empower and motivate young men to excel in academics and social achievement. Participants will acquire tools for personal development, acceptance, and academic success. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Financial Aid continues to improve outreach and communication to students and parents:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conducted 11 financial aid outreach events and FAFSA completion workshops for approximately 400 students and parents.<\/li>\n<li>Implemented new net price calculators for freshmen and transfers and posted to the EWU web site.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFinancial Aid News\u201d email, including FAFSA\/scholarship reminders and financial aid tips were sent to approximately 10,100 students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Spring quarter registration is underway with some improvements for notifying students if they have been dropped from a course.<\/strong>\u00a0 Students who have been dropped from a course for one of the following reasons: course cancellation, non-attendance, lack of prerequisite will be automatically notified of the drop via their Eagles email account.\u00a0 Their advisor will also be notified via email.\u00a0 This will help students know their current registration status and keep their advisor in the loop to assist with any problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>The EWU Veterans Resource Center is the recipient of a $5000 grant from The Aurora Foundation.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Aurora Foundation assists colleges and universities who are dedicated to providing a veteran-friendly campus with resources that enable veteran students to succeed.\u00a0 A portion of this grant will be used to enhance our \u201cGot Your 6\u201d program which helps educate our staff and faculty on campus in regards to military culture and student veterans\u2019 needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">EWU received and distributed <strong>$835,025 in tuition and fees from the GI Educational benefits in support of student veterans <\/strong>at EWU for Winter Quarter 2014.\u00a0 This is an increase of $55,000 from Winter Quarter 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This February marked<strong> <\/strong>the<strong> 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Partnership in Employment Career Fair<\/strong>, a collaborative fair with EWU, Gonzaga University, Whitworth University and WSU Spokane.\u00a0 A total of 221 students and alumni attended from EWU, and a total of 464 from all schools combined. EWU accounted for almost half.\u00a0 50 students attended the Partnership Preview networking event on the evening prior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>\u201cSurvivor&#8221; was the theme for this year&#8217;s Library Lights Out event<\/strong>.\u00a0 95 students and 8 Faculty\/Staff joined the festivities that included a Scavenger Hunt, Capture the Flag, Team Builders, Zumba, and more.\u00a0 Highlights of recent LLC activities include the following:\u00a0 alumni panel from exercise science, social excellence leadership certification program set up by SAIL, overnight skiing and snowboarding trip, and students rolled out the red carpet and hosted an academy awards night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUB Renovation Project pre-design process is continuing on schedule, with architect Perkins+Will hosting the third round of workshops in February, sharing the latest renderings to the student community, and conducting student intercept surveys to gauge reactions.\u00a0 The renderings and latest project plan have been met with favorable responses from student and university leadership.\u00a0 Students will &#8230; <a title=\"Nota Bene Spring 2014\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/nota-bene-spring-2014\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nota Bene Spring 2014\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/studentaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}