SHSU
Update For Week Of June 5
SHSU, Navarro College Sign Agreement
David Payne, Sam Houston State University provost, and
Richard Sanchez, president of Navarro College, signed an
agreement
June 1 that will provide services beneficial to students
of both schools.
Features of the agreement include joint admission, reverse
transfer, and online articulation agreements.
Joint admission allows students to attend classes at Navarro
and SHSU simultaneously. Reverse transfer allows students
to transfer course work from SHSU back to HCC to complete
their
associate degree.
The online articulation agreements allow Navarro 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.
Similar agreements have been signed with North Harris, Montgomery,
Blinn, Angelina, and Houston community colleges.
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ExxonMobil,
Affiliates Give University $59,200
Sam Houston State University
scholarships, Annual Fund, departments and others recently
benefited from a matched-gifts donation
of approximately $59,200 from the ExxonMobil Foundation.
The foundation’s Educational Matching Gift Program
matches gifts to higher education on a 3-to-1 basis for donations
given by ExxonMobil employees, retirees,
surviving spouses and directors.
In 2004, approximately $14,800 in gifts were given to SHSU by those affiliated
with ExxonMobil, which was matched with by $44,400.
The majority of the gifts was given to specific and general university scholarships,
but gifts were also given to benefit such things as the Smith-Hutson addition.
“
Supporting education initiatives is of the highest priority to ExxonMobil and
our employees,” said Kenneth P. Cohen, vice president for public affairs,
Exxon Mobil Corporation and chairman, ExxonMobil Foundation. “This commitment
is demonstrated through our matching gift program which provides funds to educational
institutions for improvements and the advancement of learning opportunities.
We commend ExxonMobil employees for their generous contributions and their
support of higher education.”
The ExxonMobil Foundation’s Educational Matching Gift Program’s
combined contributions provided 932 colleges and universities across the country
with
more than $26 million this year. Individual donations totaled $7.7 million,
and the ExxonMobil Foundation matched that number with an additional $18.6
million.
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Band,
Athletes Host Summer Camps For Students
SHSU will serve as host to a number
of summer camps for youth of all ages throughout the summer.
The School of Music will sponsor camps for junior high band,
high school leadership and drumline, orchestra, piano and
choir. More information on
any of these
can be accessed at http://www.shsu.edu/~music/camps.html or by calling
936.294.1360.
In addition, different athletic groups will also sponsor one or more camps
for soccer, volleyball, baseball, tennis and football. More information,
as well
as applications, can be accessed at http://www.shsu.edu/~ath_www/camps.html or by calling the Athletics Department at 936.294.1726.
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Activities To Help
Students ‘Be
Well,’ ‘Get Healthy’
The Recreational Sports Department’s Wellness Programs
will encourage students to “Be Well” with a blood
drive and a variety of activities on Wednesday (June 8).
The bloodmobile will be parked between the Health and Kinesiology
Center and Johnson Coliseum from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with personal
trainers
also on hand
to answer any ‘get healthy’ questions, according to assistant
director of Wellness Programs Tina DeAses.
In addition, fresh fruit will be provided, as well as healthy food
facts.
For more information, call DeAses at 936.294.3658.
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SAM Center To Focus
On Study Skills During Summer
The Student Advising and Mentoring
Center will host its study skills summer workshop series
beginning Monday (June 6).
The four, one-hour sessions will introduce study skills,
as well as discuss procrastination, time management, reading
textbooks,
test taking and
stress management.
The workshop series for the first summer session will be held
through June 27.
A second workshop series, which will cover the same topics, will
be held for the second summer session will be held July 5-26.
For more information, or to register, call 936.294.4444 or drop
by the Student Advising & Mentoring Center, in Academic Building
4 Room 210.
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Old West Photos In Education Center Through July
5
Pictures of famous rider Kitty Canute, cowboy artist Erwin
Smith and others who lived in the times of the Old West will
be on
display in the
Katy and
E. Don
Walker, Sr., Education Center through July 5.
“ Cowgirls and Cowboys of Texas” is a photograph collection of “real
old-time cowpokes, wranglers and hands” in the 19th
Century and early 20th Century from the Library of Congress
archives,
according
to curator
of exhibits
David Wight.
“ We thought it would be of interest to the community; cowboys and Texas
are almost synonymous,” Wight said.
Among the photographs of famous cowboys and cowgirls are
pictures of Theodore Roosevelt wearing a cowboy outfit and
members of
Pawnee Bill’s Wild West
Show, as well as photographs entitled “A bad hoss” and “Branding
cattle on the prairies of Texas.”
For more information, visit the Sam
Houston Memorial Museum Web site or call 936.294.1832.
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of Public Relations at SHSU. For electronic access to SHSU
news see the public relations Web page Today@Sam.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
June 5, 2005
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