SHSU
Update For Week Of July 10
Agreements Signed With Lee, Hill
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| Hill College President Sheryl Smith Kappus and SHSU's
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs David
Payne sign the joint agreement on July 7. |
Joint admission, reverse transfer and web-based articulation
agreements are the three features of agreements recently
signed by Sam Houston State University and two other colleges.
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs David Payne
and Lee College President Martha Ellis, signed an agreement
June 30 in Baytown.
The same set of agreements was signed by Payne and Hill College
President Sheryl Smith Kappus July 7 in Hillsboro.
Joint admission allows students to attend classes at either
college and SHSU simultaneously, while reverse transfer allows
students to transfer course work from SHSU back to either
college to complete their associate degree.
The online articulation agreements allow Lee and Hill students
to complete course work with the knowledge that they will
be able to transfer the credit to SHSU and apply it to over
40
majors.
The agreements also allow joint admission students to access
their SHSU transcripts and generate trial degree plans via
the Internet, as well as provide students with the SHSU Bearkat
OneCard, grant access to SHSU sports events, provide an SHSU
e-mail account and sufficient disk space on SHSU’s
Internet server and library and computer lab access.
Similar agreements have been signed with North Harris, Montgomery,
Blinn, Angelina, Navarro and Houston community colleges.
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Student Posters To Be Displayed In LSC
Diane Neudorf and William Lutterschmidt, assistant and associate
professors respectively in the biological sciences department,
will host the 2nd annual Research Experiences for Undergraduates
in Field Biology Poster Conference on Thursday (July 21).
The poster presentations will be on display in the Lowman
Student Center from 1:30-3:30 p.m. and will showcase the
research accomplishments of the six students who participated
in SHSU’s National Science Foundation program.
This poster conference is one of the academic activities
outlined in the National Science Foundation program which
helps six students gain research experience over the summer,
according to Lutterschmidt.
Neudorf and Lutterschmidt received
the $151,000
NSF grant to help promote undergraduate research within
the biological sciences.
Students across the country compete for six summer positions
each summer, and those undergraduate students selected
to participate in the program
gain
confidence
in their abilities as scientists through planning, conducting
and being responsible for their own research project under
the guidance of research faculty, Lutterschmidt said.
"This
program helps foster an interest and enthusiasm for pursuing
graduate
studies
in biology and ultimately future careers in science and
research," he said.
For more information on the NSF
program, visit www.shsu.edu/reu or
contact Lutterschmidt at lutterschmidt@shsu.edu or 936.294.1556.
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Grad
Student Receives National Teaching Award
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| Lesley Rakowitz, with
agricultural sciences professor Stanley Kelley, accepts
the NACTA
Graduate Student Teaching
award on June 17. |
Lesley Rakowitz,
a graduate student and teaching assistant in Sam Houston
State University’s agricultural sciences
department, was recently recognized for her ability to “make
learning fun.”
Rakowitz was one of 12 to receive the North American College
and Teachers of Agriculture’s Graduate Student Teaching
award June 17 at its 51st annual conference at Ohio State
University Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, Ohio.
The national award is given based on nominations by faculty
members and supporting documentation, including letters from
faculty members and students whom she has taught, and recipients
are selected by a national committee, according to agricultural
sciences professor Stanley Kelley.
“ I nominated her because of her outstanding abilities in the classroom
and communication and rapport with the students,” Kelley said. “She
also was very unique in the way that she was able to confer the information
over to the students, and her teaching evaluations were very strong.”
In addition, Rakowitz received a lot of very positive student and colleague
comments, with her teacher evaluations stating such things as she “makes learning
fun,” and is a “good lecturer, knowledgeable, and very enthusiastic,” Kelley
said.
“
This past semester, Lesley stepped in to teach both the lecture and lab for our
advanced level meat science course (AGR 376),” one nomination letter said. “Her
overall student evaluations ranked in the upper sixes (out of a maximum score
of seven).
“
Her ranking as an instructor rivaled our top-ranked teaching professors,” the
letter continued. “Comments from her students were all positive, attesting
to her enthusiasm, breadth of knowledge, quality of student evaluation, and
her ability to make the material understandable.”
Rakowitz, who received her bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University,
anticipates receiving her master’s degree from SHSU this August.
In addition, Rakowitz has been hired as a lecturer at SHSU in the fall, which
she will do while returning to Texas A&M to work on her doctorate.
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SAM Center
To Explain Grad School Process
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center
will host a graduate school informational meeting on July
18.
The meeting will be held at noon in the SAM Center, in
Academic Building 4 Room 213.
The program will address a number of questions about the graduate school
application process including financial aid, academic requirements and
the graduate school
time line.
For more information contact Gerri at stdgaj14@shsu.edu or call 294-4444.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
July 10, 2005
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