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Volume 96, Number 13
New home for engineers
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Studying abroad slowly on the rise Billing system has helped open doors for other programs
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Opus Dean of Engineering Robert Bishop spoke at the dedication of Marquette’s new Engineering Hall.
Engineering Hall provides new space for students, faculty By Matt Gozun benjaminmatthew.gozun@marquette.edu
Marquette dedicated the first phase of its new Engineering Hall on Friday, even as construction continues to fully complete the building by next year. The ceremony was attended by an estimated 700 faculty, students, alumni and other supporters. It included speeches by Opus Dean of Engineering Robert Bishop, university president the Rev. Scott Pilarz and current College of Engineering students. The
presentation was followed by a blessing from the Rev. Edward Mathie and a Jewish prayer recited by executive associate dean of engineering Michael Switzenbaum. “Engineering Hall is a living laboratory,” Bishop said in his introductory address. “Every detail in this building was explicitly designed to both show engineering on display and to foster the generation of creative ideas.” Bishop thanked the more than 3,000 donors who helped to raise the necessary funds for the project. Among them were 10 donations of $1 million or more and an anonymous $25 million starting pledge. The $50 million, 115,000 square ft. building, located on the corner of Wisconsin and North
18th streets, is a far cry from Marquette’s original engineering building, now the Gesu Parish Center. The College of Engineering moved into Haggerty Hall during the 1940s, with the Olin Engineering Center added in 1977. But the two buildings can no longer meet the needs of the college, said associate dean Jon Jensen. “We were simply out of space in the old facility,” Jensen said. “We can’t do half the things over there that we can do over here.” New features include a twostory engineering materials and structural testing laboratory and an enhanced discovery learning lab with 24-hour student access.
for the growth as the expansion of Marquette’s home-billing program--a process that allows the transfer of Marquette aid and scholarships to other universities-to 13 more programs last year. Students now have “a host of proBy Katie Doherty grams to apply for,” Miller said. kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu Some of those programs differ by college, with some selected While Marquette offers more specifically for certain schools. than 60 study abroad programs, Miller said the College of Busiincluding 10 Marquette-spon- ness Administration has many sored or faculty-led trips, only 22 more study abroad options (totalpercent of Marquette graduating ing 21 for undergraduates as well seniors from 2010 as a graduate business said they studied program) because the Students now have overseas, according international business “a host of programs major requires a study to an exit survey. But that low per- to apply for.” abroad component. centage may soon Marquette sponsors change. Terence two of its own overMiller, director of Terence Miller seas programs, in Mathe Office of InternaDirector of OIE drid and South Africa, tional Education, said and many other Jesuit Marquette’s student universities have simparticipation is steadily growing, ilar programs around the world with an 11 percent increase in stu- and allow other Jesuit students to dents who went abroad last year. attend. Miller said that increase looks Miller said the international ofmore significant in comparison to fices from the 28 Jesuit univernew statistics from this fall alone, sities in the United States meet which show a 68 percent increase from last fall semester. See Abroad, page 5 He identifies a potential cause
Post Secret spills the beans with a special presentation
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MU retention rates above par Efforts continue to maintain high graduation rates By Sarah Hauer sarah.hauer@marquette.edu
Marquette has much higher student retention and graduation rates than other colleges and universities across the nation, according to a recent study by Complete College America, an organization working to increase
the number of Americans with college degrees. The study shows that just over half of students who start a fulltime four-year bachelor’s degree program at a public university finish within six years. Alexandra Riley, associate director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, said Marquette has very high graduation and retention rates compared with its peers. Riley said more than 89 percent of Marquette freshman who started in fall 2010 returned in fall 2011. This is much higher
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than other private colleges and universities, where the freshman retention average is 79 percent. Riley said other Jesuit institutions typically have freshman retention rates between 87 and 88 percent. Regarding the six-year graduation rate of students at private colleges, Riley said it is around 64 to 65 percent. She said for other Jesuit institutions, the six year graduation rate is about 76 to 78 percent. Anna Deahl, associate vice provost for academic support pro-
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Frank Warren, creator of PostSecret visited Marquette last Thursday to give students and faculty an inside look on his work. More than 1,000 members of the Marquette community packed the Varsity Theatre to hear the inner workings of his art project, as well as audience members’ personal stories.
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