Lake Campus News
"Lake Campus
branching into Van Wert"
- Daily Standard
"What do
you call a branch program of a college branch campus?
A twig, says Wright State University-Lake Campus
Dean Dan Evans.
Actually, Evans told The Daily Standard, the new
twig program is officially called a satellite program. It calls for college
courses to be taught by Lake Campus professors at Vantage Career Center in Van
Wert.
Lake Campus and Vantage officials are planning
to schedule the classes beginning in fall 2000. Evans said they hope to offer
up to six general education college courses each quarter that would serve
50-100 first- or second-year students.
Students at the satellite campus would not be
able to take all the courses needed to obtain a degree, but the courses they
could take at Vantage would be transferable to other colleges, Evans said.
The Lake Campus has offered college courses at
Vantage and Van Wert City Schools in the past, Evans said, but has never
established a permanent schedule of classes for an entire school year.
This is the first attempt to create a permanent
schedule of Lake Campus courses at a site other than at the Celina branch
campus, he said.
Evans said he hopes the twig will serve Van Wert
County, one of the college's primary service areas for its Lake Campus, in
addition to Mercer and Auglaize counties.
'As we look at the number of students continuing
education beyond high school, what we are hearing is that there is an under
served population in Van Wert County,' Evans said. 'There is not a higher
education institute close by for many Van Wert County residents. We are the
closest and are a half-hour from the southern edge of the county. ... After
discussions with county officials, we found they want more higher education
opportunities for its citizens, and we want to try to fill that need."
"Evans plans to meet in the next few months
with Vantage officials and business leaders who want to send their workers to
college for career advancement. He said they hope to finalize the schedule for
the fall 2000 quarter by early spring 2000.
Plans also include siting a Lake Campus
information office at Vantage that would be staffed by Vantage personnel.
Evans said future plans may include offering
higher-level and more specialized college classes at Vantage using distance
learning, a videocamera and interactive computer system that allows people to
communicate from two different sites. Evans said courses at the Lake Campus
could be videotaped while students at Vantage watch the class and interact
using a computer.
"We want to find the best way to serve that
community and make it convenient for them," Evans said."
"Wright State
Votes for quarters"
- Daily Standard (4-12-00)
"Wright
State University's main campus in Dayton and Lake Campus in Celina will not
switch to semesters after a poll of university faculty showed they do not want
to change from quarters.
Wright State last week surveyed all staff to
find out if they want to change the school calendar year from four 10-week
quarters to three 15-week semesters. The faculty voted 223-120 against the
change.
The change was proposed because most
universities in Ohio operate on the semester system. The University of Toledo
recently changed from quarters to semesters, and Ohio State University
officials reportedly are discussing a similar change."
2000 State Competitive
Events Winners
Business Professionals of America, March 3-4, 2000
* advanced to National Competition in Minneapolis, MN
*Becky Schoenherr
1st - Desktop Publishing
2nd - Administrative Specialist
3rd - Information Processing Assistant
*Jane Archer
1st - Small Business Management Team
2nd - Job Interview/Applications Sills A
5th - Keyboarding
*Lani Stein
1st - Information Processing Assistant
3rd - Presentation Management Team
6th - Administrative Specialist
*Sharon Fiely
1st - Computer-Aided Graphics Presentation
*Jeanette Bachelor
3rd - Administrative Assistant
5th - Office Specialist
*Amy Gengler
3rd - Legal Concepts
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*Adam Wendel
1st - Small Business Management Team
5th - Job Interview/Application Skills B
6th - Verbal Extemporaneous Communications II
*Anita Iliff
1st - Small Business Management Team
*Shana Kerns
3rd - International Business
3rd - Presentation Management Team
4th - Office Specialist
*Jenny Luedeke
4th - Keyboarding
4th - Job Interview/Application Skills B
*Sue Osterfeld
3rd - Medical Concepts
Sandra Collett
5th - Verbal Prepared Communications II |
"Campus
enrollment growth a welcome harbinger of continued success"
-Daily Standard (10-21-99)
"A midst
the negative recent economic news - the extended layoffs at AGCO in Coldwater,
a depressed farm economy, the lingering aftershock of the Huffy bicycle plant
closure - the Grand Lake St. Marys community was ready for some positive news.
It came the other day in the announcement of
record enrollment at Wright State University-Lake Campus.
University officials credit such factors as
growing academic programs, scholarships and student activities for an
enrollment total of 951 students registered for classes at the campus for the
new school session.
That surpasses the previous record of 940
students in 1982 and is a significant increase over last year's total of 788.
It also is a welcome continuation of the reversal of the downward enrollment
trend the campus experienced during the earlier part of this decade -
enrollment bottomed out at 632 students in 1995.
Dean Dan Evans pointed to several factors for the reversal - including the
addition of graduate and undergraduate degrees in various programs, the
creation of public information and marketing offices, and eightfold increase
in the availability of scholarship money over the past five years and an
increased emphasis on student activities that lend the institution more of a
real campus atmosphere.
The increased enrollment and growth in
scholarship funds are welcome indicators of a growing awareness in the
community of the benefits of being home to a branch campus of a healthy state
university. Wright State University-Lake Campus is quietly emerging from
well-kept secret status to that of bonafide community player and leader - one
that offers educational, cultural and economic benefits to this entire region.
The steady enrollment increase the last half of
this decade also is a healthy harbinger of continued growth and success. As
the university moves forward on its planned $12.3 million building project,
and as plans for an adjacent lodge complex advance, Wright State University -
Lake Campus is poised to become an even stronger community - and even regional
- player and leader in the coming millennium."
Attention Lake Campus
Students!
As a student of Lake Campus, you have free use
of the YMCA-Celina site from 6 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday free of
charge.
You must, however, provide a means of
identification! If you do not have a student ID card, then a copy of the
current fall registration can be used. ID cards can be obtained in the library
from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The YMCA now has new equipment like a Football
Table, Pool Table, Ping-Pong Table, and Table Hockey. They have also added a
couple new machines in the PTR room.
