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Special Announcement

 

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Welcome from the Division of General Studies (DGS)!

It's still early in the semester, and DGS is going back to college. Much of our academic advising of undeclared students is necessarily focused on UNL's Comprehensive Education Program (CEP) and its categories and lists of courses. Course descriptions are plentiful enough in the Undergraduate Bulletin and elsewhere, but course descriptions do not always tell the full story. So we have decided to go to the source for more detailed and specific information: we're going back to class.

Every semester, one or more DGS advisers will, with the permission of the relevant department chairs and course instructors, attend (for about three weeks) lectures and recitation/quiz sections of the CEP courses we most often suggest to our students. These class visits are in no way evaluative; they are strictly informational. We want to see firsthand how courses are taught, in terms of both content and delivery, --how the lectures and recitation sessions complement each other, what technical innovations are being used and to what effect. This semester, one adviser will attend sessions of chemistry 109 and philosophy 106. For future semesters we are considering courses in art history, sociology, physics, astronomy and anthropology, --and would be happy to consider others.

Donald Gregory, Director
Division of General Studies
dgregory1@unl.edu

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Announcements & Events

 

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E.N. Thompson Forum

The E.N. Thompson Forum will present the fourth lecture in its 2006-2007 series on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute will give the Lewis E. Harris Lecture on Public Policy. The Economic Strategy institute is a Washington think-tank influential in the areas of international trade policy and specialized in how key sectors of the U.S. and world economy adapt to change, in particular the effects of globalization. Mr. Prestowitz' latest book, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, deals with the economic rise of Asia and the upcoming rebalancing of the world economic order and its impact on the United States. He is also the author of Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions and the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan relations, Trading Places. Dr. Wes Peterson, Professor of Agricultural Economics, will give a pre-talk beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. A book signing will follow the lecture. On Sunday, February 11, Dr. Patrice McMahon will facilitate a follow-up discussion beginning at 7 p.m. at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M Street, Lincoln.

 

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E.N. Thompson Coordinator

The Office of Undergraduate Studies (OUS) is pleased to welcome to our staff, Marcia White, Coordinator for the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Marcia will be responsible for the coordination and arrangements for the visiting speakers, as well as outreach efforts to the campus and external communities. In addition to her duties in OUS, Marcia also serves as the undergraduate academic advisor in the Department of Political Science.

Marcia served in the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa from 2002-2004. In Fall 2006, Marcia taught two undergraduate courses at Webster University Thailand. She has extensive experience working within the Lincoln community as a professional and has been active in local organizations such as the YWCA, Lincoln Public Schools Foundation, the Downtown Neighborhood Association, UNL Alumni Association and Leadership Lincoln.

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Honors Overnight

The Honors Overnight Event is February 8th and 9th. The Office of Admissions and the University Honors Program will host approximately 150 prospective honors program students from Thursday evening to Friday noon. Current students will host prospective students overnight and attend various activities, such as a dance in Neihardt, game night, opportunity to climb the rock wall in the Rec Center, and hear from the Bathtub Dogs. On Friday morning, prospective students will attend classes with current students.

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CJMC and HLCFPA Join PEARL

The College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts have joined PEARL for the 2007-2008 academic year. Orientation sessions for participants from CJMC and HLCFPA will begin at the end of February, 2007.

Program Excellence through Assessment, Research and Learning (PEARL) is a web-based software program that facilitates and support academic programs' efforts to assess student learning outcomes. PEARL also involves an organizational structure that supports faculty discussions about outcomes assessment, encourages sharing of ideas and methods between programs, and provides feedback to academic programs from trained faculty peer reviewers. PEARL began in 2005 with a partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Studies, College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS), the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR), and Colorado State University. The Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs has provided financial support and the Office of Undergraduate Studies has provided support through the guidance and participation of the University-wide Assessment Coordinator, Dr. Jessica Jonson, in the development and implementation of the organizational structure, tools, and resources needed for implementing PEARL.

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Assessment Associate for PEARL

Jeremy Penn has joined the Office of Undergraduate Studies as an assessment associate for PEARL. He will assist the University-wide Assessment Coordinator, Dr. Jessica Jonson, in developing PEARL's potential and capacity for supporting the outcomes assessment process at the program, college and institutional level. Jeremy is a doctoral student in the Qualitative, Quantitative and Psychometric Methods (QQPM) program in CEHS.

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UCARE Deadline for 2007-08

The UCARE deadline for the 2007-08 academic year is February 9, 2007. Applications are available at http://www.unl.edu/ucare/application/applyucare.shtml.

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Scholarship Reception

 

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Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
201 Seaton Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0683
(402) 472-1185
unlous@unlnotes.unl.edu

 

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Dr. Rita Kean, Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Textiles, Clothing and Design
Jamar Banks, Director of OASIS
Dr. Patrice Berger, Director of NU Honors Program and Professor of History
Dr. Laura Damuth, Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Advisor
Dr. Donald Gregory, Director of General Studies and Associate Professor of English
Gail Hackwith, Administrative Assistant
Dr. Jessica Jonson, University-wide Assessment Coordinator
Jennifer Lantz, Administrative Technician I
JoAnn Moseman, Academic Transfer Coordinator
Jeremy Penn, Assessment Associate for PEARL
Marcia White, E.N. Thompson Coordinator and Political Science Advisor
AnnMarie Williams, Academic Learning Communities Coordinator

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