Registration has now started for spring 2012. If you have students who are considering transferring to MSU for spring 2012 and they have not been admitted please encourage them to apply now. As long as they have 24 transferrable hours with a 2.0gpa they will be admissable. We want to give them every advantage we can for enrollment so the sooner they apply the sooner they can enroll in classes.
They can apply online at www.missouristate.edu/apply
I begin my travels now. I am focused on helping students who are interested in transferring spring 2012, summer 2012, and fall 2012…and anyone else. I love traveling to the different schools and meeting students, advisors, faculty, etc. This is one of the best parts of my job. Leaving my stuffy (I don’t have good air) and coming to your campuses means that students are being helped to continue thier education. LOVE IT!
Missouri State has had a lot of change over the past few months and that change has led to some great new things happening. Better serving our transfer and incoming first year students. WE really are student focused, we don’t just say that.
If you know of a student who is interested or even if they have no idea where to start let me know or give them my contact information. I will help them in any way that I can.
See you soon on your campus!!!!!
Don’t forget about our transfer advisor resource page http://www.missouristate.edu/admissions/transferadvisorresources
You can view our orientation so you will be more familiar with MSU, you can see how our reevaluation and preapproval processes work and link out to so many more resources.
Missouri State University has received a bronze rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
While 249 higher education institutions are registered as STARS participants, Missouri State is in the first 50 to receive a STARS rating. The data collection was a student-led effort, spearheaded by students Jacob Swett, Hannah Eubanks and Lauren Bansbach. Much of the work occurred in the fall and spring of this academic year under the direction of Dr. Tamera Jahnke, dean of the College of Natural and Applied Sciences, along with the help of students, staff, faculty and administration.
“We’re excited about the opportunity that STARS gives us to have a comprehensive understanding of sustainability at Missouri State,” said Swett, Student Government Association (SGA) president. “The program will not only help us understand and highlight our strengths, but more importantly it will help us identify and target areas that need improvement.”
The project was submitted through the SGA Student Sustainability Commission. The commission, with funding from the student sustainability fee, accepted the proposal and paid the STARS registration fee.
Information about sustainability measures across campus was collected and consolidated into a scorecard, which provides the university with a baseline. Some of the areas Missouri State received points for include Student Sustainability Outreach Campaigns with the Missouri State University Sustainability Commission, residence life Green Games, and having a sustainability fund. Points were also received for tray-less dining, pre- and post-consumer food waste composting and using recycled content napkins. The university also has an integrated pest management plan, an institution-wide stated preference to purchase Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) silver or higher products, and for existing strategies to safely dispose of all hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste and seeks to minimize the presence of these materials on campus, all of which contributed points toward the bronze rating.
The only program of its kind, STARS involves the public reporting of comprehensive information related to a college or university’s sustainability performance. Participants report achievements in three overall areas: education and research; operations; and planning, administration and engagement. Respectively, Missouri State achieved 20.01 percent, 31.20 percent and 43.29 percent of the credits available in each area.
“As a student I am so pleased that the university community came together to complete this project,” said Eubanks, a former member of Students for a Sustainable Future who help launch the effort. (She has since graduated.) “I hope that the outcome will encourage and challenge the administration, faculty, staff and students to pay attention to our effect on the environment as individuals and as a campus and to continue making improvements.”
For more information about the STARS program, visit www.aashe.org/stars.
Student Activities Council, MSU Foundation, Junior League of Springfield, Ron and Janice Penney
Barbara Pierce Bush is founder and president of Global Health Corps, a non-profit organization that aims to improve the quality of health services worldwide and to build a new movement of health leaders. The organization matches talented recent university graduates from America and abroad with partner organizations working in the field of global health. Bush is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur and a fellow of the Echoing Green foundation, which selected Global Health Corps as one of the 14 most innovative social start-ups worldwide.
Prior to starting Global Health Corps, Bush worked for the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Capetown, South Africa, and interned for UNICEF in Botswana. She traveled extensively with the United Nations World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatments to patients with AIDS. Bush is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and is on the board of directors for Covenant House International.
Bush also worked for two years in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
She graduated from Yale University with a degree in humanities in 2004.
Carolyn Jessop will present “Escape from Polygamy: One Woman’s Journey” at 7 p.m. March 29 in the Plaster Student Union Theater.
Dr. Etta Madden, professor of English and a member of the Gender Studies Committee, discusses the upcoming presentation.
At 18-years-old, Jessop became the fourth wife of a 50-year-old community leader. She escaped from the polygamist relationship based in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) with her eight children in 2003. Following her escape, she became the first woman to win custody of her children in a suit involving the FLDS.
Since then, Jessop has written two books, “Escape” and “Triumph: Life after the Cult—A Survivor’s Lessons.” She will discuss various experiences including her relationship with her husband, relationships with the other wives, her growing awareness of life outside the community and her battle to gain custody of her kids.
A book signing will follow the lecture. The event is made possible by a public affairs grant. Co-sponsors of the event are the gender studies program, religious studies department, political science department, psychology department, English department and Drury University’s gender studies program.
Read the news release about Women’s History Month.
I just wanted to take a moment and share this video with you.
Missouri State has taken a difficult process for students and made it user friendly. Students with transfer credit and those who study away have often needed to have credits reevaluated or preapproved for credit. They would have to gather documents and make appointments to see department heads and sometimes it was a painful process. Now a student can submit these requests online. They will need an academic advisor release and advisement but then they can submit thier requests from anywhere online. We are excited about this and think it will be a huge step for oue students and faculty. If you want to see how it works go to these demos:
How to use the Request for Transfer Credit Reevaluation For
http://www.missouristate.edu/admissions/creditreevaluationtraining.htm (3 minutes, 49 seconds)
How to use the Request for Transfer Credit Preapproval Form http://www.missouristate.edu/admissions/creditpreapprovaltraining.htm (5 minutes, 36 seconds)
Do you want to know what a student at Missouri State thinks? Follow Shelby Holmes blog at http://blogs.missouristate.edu/shelbyholmes/ Just another college kid.
Invite your students to check out Missouri State Universit at our Spring Showcase on April 16th. We mailed out invitations to our prospective transfer students but we would like your help in getting the word out. This is a great program where students get to see campus, meet faculty, and so much more. They can even be admitted on site.
Have students check out our website www.missouristate.edu/sc
The event is April 16th 10am to 1pm.
If you are working with students who will complete thier degree this spring or summer and they want to continue thier education at Missouri State University, tell them to apply for admission now. And not only should they apply but they need to have all of thier college transcripts sent now. Even if they have coursework that is not complete.
Our transfer students register for classes at the same time as our current students, so if they want to get the best classes they need to be able to register for classes this April.
So have them apply online at www.missouristate.edu/apply and have thier transcripts sent ASAP.
