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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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GESI adds fall study abroad By Annie Bruce
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU Neal Moglin presents his partner, Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) with cupcakes to celebrate his 59th birthday Monday. City Council heard options for renovation or replacement of the Robert Crown Center.
Council discusses options for renovating Robert Crown By Edward Cox
daily senior staffer @edwardcox16
City Council discussed options Monday to renovate or replace the Robert Crown Center. A subcommittee met to consider the financial costs associated with the pending project, which may
receive an Illinois Department of Natural Resources grant worth $2.5 million. City Council passed a resolution Monday evening to authorize the grant application. Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presented a 30-year projected cost analysis gauging project costs for various options including a renovated facility, a new facility with a separate ice rink and a community
center and replacement facility. Renovating the Crown Center would cost about $17 million. The building would be a gut-rehab project and extend the center’s life for 20 years, Lyons said. Net 30-year costs for a new center range from $44.3 million to $85.2 million. Lyons told The Daily the city » See Council, page 7
The Global Engagement Studies Institute is expanding its global service-learning program to include a Fall Quarter option in India, the Dominican Republic or Uganda. The new GESI program, which was offered only in the summer, will give students the opportunity to spend 10 weeks taking classes and interning at a grassroots organization or nongovernmental organization. Patrick Eccles, assistant director of the Center for Global Engagement at the Roberta Buffett Center, said GESI has been looking to expand the program for years. “We’re really just trying to increase access for students to have a global learning opportunity,” he said. “We really saw the opportunity — in terms of fall being the most popular time for Northwestern students to study abroad — to expand.” Eccles said offering the program in the fall will provide added financial aid benefits to students. “Summer is one of the more challenging times for students to access aid to study abroad,” Eccles said. “With the option to do the program in the fall, students now have access to their full aid packages.” Eccles said 60 to 70 students typically participate in the summer program, which is eight weeks long and offers students six different site
options and two academic credits. The fall program is structured similarly to the summer trips, although it has fewer available sites and offers up to four academic credits. “It’s kind of an all-in-one experience,” Eccles said. “You get an internship. You take classes. You have an opportunity to immerse yourself in another country.” Part of the immersion process includes partnerships with different organizations and communities. Eccles said the growth of the program also stemmed from enthusiasm from these partnerships. “We have ongoing relationships with such strong community partners,” Eccles said. “With them, we obviously pay a lot of attention to the student experience, but we place a lot of importance on integrating student learning with community outcomes and impact.” GESI was started by a group of students in 2005 who wanted a more intensive abroad experience. “It’s really just expanded from there,” Eccles said. “We still have that same student initiative that’s always behind it in terms of what students do with the experience.” Medill junior Joey Lautrup traveled to Uganda with the program last summer. “I think it just taught me a lot that people are fundamentally the same wherever you go,” he said. “Once you got to talk to people and got to really know about them and » See Study Abroad, page 7
Kellogg, Peking U. create new degree By Rosalie Chan
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The Kellogg School of Management announced a new partnership last week with Peking University that will create a new degree program to expand the business school’s network and teach students about China’s role in the global We want to economy. Kellogg definitely Dean Sally educate and Blount and equip leaders Hongbin dean of from across our Cai, the Peking network. University’s Greg Hanifee, Guanghua associate dean of School executive MBA of Manprograms agement, announced the partnership Feb. 17. The program is called the Guanghua-Kellogg Executive Master of Business
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Administration Program. “We want to definitely educate and equip leaders from across our network,” said Greg Hanifee, associate dean of executive MBA programs. The program will begin in September. Applications are currently being accepted. The program seeks applicants who are executives with eight to 10 years of work experience, including Chinese nationals and international executives who either live and work in China or want to learn more about doing business there. During the 22-month program, students will travel between China and the U.S., taking short courses in each location. Based in Peking University’s main campus in Beijing and its facility in Shanghai, the program offers week-long segments to decrease travel time for Kellogg students and faculty. In addition, Peking students will take classes at Kellogg with other students in the global network, and they can take electives at Kellogg’s four other global partner schools. » See Kellogg, page 7
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‘MORE WALKABLE and BIKEABLE’ A cyclist bikes on Sheridan Road. City Council passed a resolution last month that will promote public access to alternative forms of transportation, such as bicycling.
City supports ‘complete streets’ By Kelly Gonsalves
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Evanston joined more than 600 communities nationwide last month that have passed “complete streets” policies to ensure safe and easy passage for pedestrians, cyclists and
public transit users. On Jan. 27, City Council approved a resolution putting into immediate effect the city’s Complete and Green Network Approach, which was developed over the course of the last year by the Evanston Environment Board in conjunction with representatives from the Department of Public Works.
The resolution commits the Department of Public Works to considering both environmental sustainability and ease of public access in all future transportation construction projects. A total of 610 communities across the nation, including Evanston, have » See GREEN, page 7
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