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Friends University Issue 32 Spring 2011
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From the Alumni Office Lisa Henshall lisa.henshall@ hotmail.com
When we were in school, back in the early 2000s, most people had the experience of being a part of the Internet online revolution. We remember when Yahoo! was king, chat rooms worked slowly and if you wanted to download a PDF, well, you could just get it started and then go to bed—it would be ready by morning. Those following in our footsteps at Friends University are multitaskers who move through websites quickly and (surprise) frequently miss whatever it was they had come to find.
• Master of Business Administration • Master of Arts in Teaching • Master of Health Care Leadership • Master of Management Information Systems If you’d like more information about expanding your knowledge at Friends (this time without the evening commute!) check it out at www.friends.edu/online. Not ready to come back to class? Please come back to campus this spring for the 28th annual Easter Egg Hunt. As president of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, I’ll be the emcee of the event.
For them, social media is king. We may have had a paragraph about social media in one or two of our textbooks back “in the day,” but we certainly didn’t foresee Facebook and I know I didn’t see Twitter coming. Perhaps I show my age when I say I have not really warmed up to Twitter yet. Web expert Jakob Neilson said recently, “College students are an important target audience for many Web sites. They’re young, they’re about town, they spend whatever money they have (often online), and they frequently look for many different types of information. For sure, they’re an online generation spending—or squandering— large amounts of time on the Web.” So, it shouldn’t surprise us that Friends has begun to move into the online learning market. (YEA! A little editorial commentary there, sorry.) So far there are two bachelor programs online, but, for grads like us, the exciting ones are the master’s programs:
The Wichita hunt will take place Saturday, April 23 at 1 p.m. If you’ve moved to the northeast part of Kansas, there will be hunts at the Friends’ sites in Topeka and Kansas City Saturday, April 16. For more information, contact the Alumni Office at alumni@friends.edu.
Lisa Henshall, G’04
Alumni Office Alumni Office Friends University 2100 W. University Ave. Wichita, KS 67213 316-295-5900
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Search Underway for 13th University President
December Seniors Honored at Special Luncheon
As you may have heard, Dr. Biff Green, president of Friends University, will be retiring June 30, 2011. The Board of Trustees has launched a national search for the 13th president of Friends University which is expected to conclude by March 1, 2011. To find out more about the presidential search, please visit www.friends.edu/presidential-search.
With the help of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, the Friends University Alumni Association honored those traditionalundergraduate seniors who graduated in December with a special luncheon Dec. 8.
Friends University Offers Hometown Advantage Grant Do you know a high-school senior from Sedgwick County, Andover, Augusta or Rose Hill who is exploring college options? Friends University is offering students from these areas a $5,000 grant toward tuition at Friends University starting in fall 2011. The $5,000 grant is renewable, is available in addition to other scholarships and does not need to be paid back. It is designed to make it more affordable for new students who demonstrate financial need to get an independent college education.
Members of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, University President Dr. Biff Green and his wife, Binnie, and Board of Trustees Chairman Rodney Pitts, G’82, served a tasty Mexican buffet of steak and chicken fajitas, Spanish rice, refried beans, cinnamon chips and all the fixins! Students received words of encouragement from Dr. Green, Mr. Pitts and Wichita Alumni Advisory Board members Marvin Connet, G’82/’84, and Lisa Kraemer, G’10. As they prepared to enter the world as representatives of Friends University, the seniors were urged to remember the time they spent with their classmates and friends. Congratulations once again to this group of graduating seniors!
For more information, call 316-295-5100 or e-mail duncande@friends.edu.
don’t forget Easter Egg Hunt Lenexa – April 16 Topeka – April 16 Wichita – April 23 Commencement Lenexa – May 1 Topeka – May 1 Wichita – May 7
From the Executive Director of Alumni and Annual Fund You may recall that the Alumni Office has been working with the State of Kansas to create a Friends University license plate. On Jan. 4, 2011, the director of vehicles informed us that while they have all the necessary documents to move forward, they would need additional monies from the state budget to produce the plates. At the time of the printing of this newsletter, the director of vehicles stated that they would be meeting with the secretary of revenue in mid-January to work on adding our plate costs to their agency budget.
The Alumni Office anticipates re-grouping with the director of vehicles in mid-February to determine where funding is with our plate request. More information will be posted online at www. friends.edu/kansas-license-plates.
Lisa Tilma, G’01/M’04 Executive Director of Alumni and Annual Fund