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Admissions focuses on next year’s enrollment BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER
Now that final enrollment numbers are in, the Office of Admissions is focusing on its goals for next year in the areas of improving recruitment, diversity and financial aid opportunities. “Certainly to recruit a bright, diverse class of students, it really takes a lot of effort throughout the campus,” said Stacey Kostell, director of undergraduate admissions.
The admissions office, the financial aid office and a marketing and communications unit for admissions create their own goals before coming together to collaborate on broad, campus-wide goals, Kostell said. An overview of these goals has been presented to the senate admissions committee and the Senate Executive Committee, or SEC, over the past few weeks. Michael Biehl is the senate admissions committee chair and said the committee acts as a liai-
son between University admissions officers and the Urbana-Champaign Senate. After reviewing the campus enrollment plan goals last week, he said they are “in the spirit of” the University-wide enrollment management plan created by former University president Michael Hogan last spring. “Speaking for the committee, these goals are very detailed, very challenging, and yet they are in line with the expressed
admissions and enrollment management goals that have been previously communicated by the University,” Biehl said. To achieve these objectives, he said administrators and faculty members need to have “appropriate dialogue and maintain ongoing communication efforts in this area.” Kostell said a main enrollment goal is to increase the campus’ outreach and recruitment. She said the admissions office works
to build relationships with Chicago public schools, but they also want to increase their “international presence” to ensure that students who attend the University represent a broad spectrum of nationalities. Although the University is wellknown by Illinois resident students, Kostell said it is important that high school students nationally and internationally are famil-
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Freshman enrollment: 7,000 students Transfer student enrollment: 1,400 students Out-of-state enrollment including international enrollment: 25 percent Increase amount of application: 32,000 applications
SOURCE: STACEY KOSTELL, ASST. PROVOST FOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
See ENROLLMENT, Page 3A
Training classes under way at PTI From slated closure to classes
BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
After two years of contention surrounding the survival of the Police Training Institute, intructors and recruits are now halfway through their fi rst month. Basic training classes began Sept. 10 at the institute, and Michael Schlosser, interim director, said he is pleased to see the PTI open again. “I think everyone realized the importance of our historical academy,” he said. “That very fi rst week, I walk in the classroom and I see all these young, eager students ready to learn about police work — it was a very exciting time for me and a very exciting time for the Police Training Institute.” The institute underwent a few changes and has updated its classrooms’ technology this year. Changes to PTI include remodeled classrooms, access for each recruit to a laptop computer provided by the training board and a University e-mail address and new methods of writing reports and feedback through an online format. Officer Michael Unander of the University Police Department said his classes are better than he expected due to the technological improvements. “Nobody likes to sit through eight hours a day of any kind of classroom,” he said. “(We) have kind of gotten into a lot of interaction and interactive scenarios. It makes it a lot easier to take that information and learn how to put that into practice.” Schlosser said over the past few years, student attendance at the academy decreased, which decreased the PTI’s budget. “A lot of the money we rely on for the Police Training Institute comes from the police recruit tuition to attend our academy,” he said. “Years ago, we would have the class sizes the size of 60 to 90 students.” JONATHAN DAVIS THE DAILY ILLINI
Quincy Wood and Michael Unander practice handcuffing Basia Bardzinska at the Police Training Institute on Monday.
See PTI, Page 3A
November 17, 2010 Police Training Institute slated for closure
September 21, 2011 Western’s facility will not replace Illinois’ Police Training Institute, UI says
December 4, 2011 Police Training Institute urged to remain open after budget problems resolved
March 29, 2012 Training board votes to not recertify UI Police Institute
April 24, 2012 Champaign PTI no longer certified; WIU location takes precedence
May 28, 2012 PTI closure pushed back
July 15, 2012 Police Training Institute to continue operating under UI and Training Board
September 10, 2012 First day of classes for PTI
“I think everyone realized the importance of our historical academy.” MICHAEL SCHLOSSER, interim director
Chalmers apartment fire yields no injuries
Phyllis Wise joins Gov. Quinn for his trip to Brazil
Champaign Fire Department, owner of apartment cooperate in search for the cause
Gov. Pat Quinn began his sixday trip to promote Illinois business and tourism in Brazil on Sunday — but not without mention of the University. Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis Wise joined Quinn on the trip to recruit Brazilian students and represents the University as one of about 30 delegated officials from Illinois businesses, educational institutions and state and local governments. The group is scheduled to make stops in São Paulo, Brasília and Recife. Campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said Wise is accompanying Quinn on this trip because the University has many alumni in Brazil and has relationships with organizations in Brazil. Kaler said because of those
BY MATT RICE STAFF WRITER
Champaign Fire Department officials continue to investigate the cause of a fire that broke out in an apartment at 310 E. Chalmers St. in Champaign on Monday afternoon. Dena Schumacher, the department’s public information officer, said the apartment was empty when the fi re was ignited and no one was injured. Schumacher said a fire alarm was engaged at about 5 p.m. Schumacher said when firefighters arrived, it took them about seven minutes to
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extinguish the flames. The authorities were alerted to the fire when a resident living close to the inflamed apartment noticed flames coming from the air-conditioning unit. Ritu Shah and Nikita Patel, residents of the building and seniors in LAS, said they were alerted to the fi re when they heard a loud shattering of glass and saw large plumes of smoke emanating from the air-conditioning unit of the apartment across the courtyard from them. Michael Gudino, property manager for Kennedy Wilson
BY HANNAH PROKOP DAYTIME ASSISTANT EDITOR
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Michael Gudino, left, property manager at Kennedy Wilson Properties, talks to some of the firemen who responded to the fire in apartment 205 at 310 East Chalmers Street. Properties, the company that owns the apartment building, was on the scene Monday. “We are working with marshals to determine the cause of the incident,” Gudino said. “That’s all we have to say at the
moment.” Schumacher said investigators are still determining the extent of the damage caused by the fire.
Matt can be reached at news@daillyillini.com.
relationships, Wise will be able to help the state government meet and connect with people and organizations that might be able to partner with Illinois to help with the state’s economic development. Illinois is also making an effort to attract more Brazilian students to Illinois universities through the Brazilian government’s Scientific Mobility Program, according to a press release from Quinn’s office. The program provides scholarships for one year of study at universities in the U.S. Illinois companies have already donated to scholarship funds and provided internships to Brazilian students through the program.
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