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The university celebrated it’s 50th anniversary this week with a variety of events including a Founders’ Day Luncheon Tuesday, the showing of the new documentary “Shaping the Future: The University of Southern Indiana” Wednesday and student activities. The week will continue with a reunion of more than 500 AMIGOS from 7-9 p..m. Friday at Rice Library and a three-day multicultural reunion event. In honor of the historical week, The Shield looks back at 50 years of USI history with moments captured by the student-run publication and designated public forum. The week will conclude Saturday with the Party of the Decades!, a formal celebration in the PAC featuring live music.
Faculty concerned about add/drop policy changing by gabi wy news@usishield.com @ShieldsterGabi
Vice President of Enrollment Andrew Wright seemed to be “caught offguard” after faculty members questioned a potential add/drop policy at the Faculty Senate meeting on Sept. 4, said senate chair Rex Strange. “I don’t think (Wright) realized faculty would actually be concerned,” he said. By the first week of the semester, Wright emailed documents containing the new policy to the deans and then to the chairs of specific college’s departments. Strange said he invited Wright to the Faculty Senate within hours of receiving the email. “(Wright) was very eager to meet with us and discuss the matter,” Strange said. “When any new policy comes to bear, issues will come up.” The senate’s reaction consisted not only of questions about the policy, but questions about why faculty was not consulted before a new policy was developed.
During the spring, administration modified a pre-existing policy concerning grade reports without notifying faculty during development. “Since then, the faculty has been very cognizant of administration notifying them (about any changes),” Strange said. Wright presented a policy in which first year students or students with less than 30 credit hours only need an advisor’s—not the instructor’s—signature to drop a class or completely withdraw from the university after the first week of classes. Faculty quickly voiced their concerns with the policy. “Some faculty want to have direct contact with students before withdrawal and offer encouragement,” Strange said. “Some faculty like to know if a student has dropped their class.” He said Faculty Senate decided to send the policy issue to the Student Affairs Committee for investigation and “provide an opportunity for faculty members to promote dialogue.” Strange hopes a new policy will be determined within one month.
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Photos courtesy of University archive’s & Special Collections
1979 King and Queen of Homecoming, Brad Ellsworth and Beth Wannemueller, look proud and happy immediately after their coronation during halftime of the homecoming game with Transylvania, in which the Eagles won 75 to 59 in The Shield’s Feb. 27 issue. 1982 Sargent Rock leads a group of Sig Taus in a family pose prior to a chariot race, during which the fraternity placed second in an April 15 issue of The Shield.
1985
Former Gov. Robert Orr signs the independence bill while others peer over his shoulders in The Shield’s April 25 issue.
1997 Former president H. Ray Hoops steers a plow to break ground on the Liberal Arts Center as faculty pull a rope in The Shield’s Sept. 11 issue. The plow was also used for the initial ground-breaking ceremonies at USI.
Manager hopes for health center’s central location
Photo by alyssa amith | The Shield
Nurse practitioner Melissa Attebury chats with new campus physician Dr. Ward Harbin as she looks at a slide through the microscope in the on campus health center located in the basement of the Health Professions building.
by zackary Willem zmwillem@eagles.usi.edu
The University Health Center is placed in an inconvenient spot said Brandy Sitzman, the health center’s practice manager. “We have a location issue on campus,” Sitzman said. “We are trying to use our small space most efficiently.” In the future Sitzman hopes to have a larger
health center centrally located on campus and easily available to any students and faculty in need of assistance. “I want to work with housing and athletics in the future to see what we can offer them.” Sitzman said. “We really put a focus on what services we can provide students and faculty with, but we are very limited by our size and location.”
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The issue not only poses a problem for the health center, but for students as well. When a student is sick or injured but is unable to utilize the health center due to ignorance of its location, a vital university resource is put to waste. “We are trying to get more information out there to let students and faculty know where we are and that we are here to help,”
Sitzman said. The health center has been a part of the university since its establishment, but is not actually managed by the university. “We are a Deaconess clinic on campus for the sole purpose of treating faculty and staff,” Sitzman said, “though we do work very closely with the College of Health Professions.”
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