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  • SAT Scores, Enrollment Records Shattered This Fall at WCU Western Carolina University is experiencing what Chancellor John W. Bardo characterized as "unprecedented growth" in the institution's 114-year history, both in the total number of students enrolled at the university this fall and in the academic qualifications of those students. "This year, we expect a class of about 1,500 freshmen. The university expects to see growth in the class of more than 20 percent, while at the same time, the current average SAT score is up Il points over last year," Bardo said in his annual state-of-the-campus address Thursday, Aug. 14, at the General Faculty Meeting. "As of this morning, our average SAT is 1023, which is very significantly above the state's average (998), and for the first time above the national average (1020)." Final enrollment numbers will not be available for several weeks. Bardo reminded the faculty that the average SAT score for entering freshmen at Western has increased by 58 points since 1995 - the year before the university launched an ambitious effort to raise academic standards, improve its academic reputation, and increase attention to individual student learning. "The type of transformation you are making in this university is not easy. Very few others have accomplished what you are doing. It also is not quick. Quick fixes just don't work. What you are doing is transforming the institution in real and significant ways," he said. "Colleagues tell me that it takes a minimum of 10 years to change the reputation of a university. And, those are not always easy days to live through. Sometimes it had to seem that there was a lot of work without much return. Well, my friends, it is truly starting to pay off." And the payoff is not just the biggest, brightest freshman class in university history, Bardo said. "Graduate enrollment, continuing student enrollment and distance education enrollment are all up significantly," he said. "It looks now as if we could reach 1,450 to I ,500 graduate students this year. Again, this is unprecedented growth. As a result, we expect a total enrollment, when the data finally settle down, of around 7,600 headcount students. This shatters all previous records, and its implications for the future are profound." In addition, Bardo said, retention numbers - that is, the rate of first-year students who come back to campus for their sophomore years - also are up. "Our freshman to sophomore retention rate looks as though it could be up by several percent year to year. This is a very important change since Western had one of the lowest retention rates in The University of North Carolina system. It also is almost an unheard-of jump in one year." Bardo praised faculty members for their role in making Western a place that more and better students want to attend, and he debunked many of the long-held notions about the university's previous lack of growth. Over the years, those have included Cullowhee's rural location and lack of nightclubs and shopping malls, high school sweethearts gravitating toward the university attended by the significant other, and the wrong brand of items available in the food court. "Well, if our rural location and the effects of gravity are constant, and our fruit drink or chicken sandwich of choice is a constant, and there still are no bars in Cullowhee, what has changed?" he said. "Why are more and better students choosing Western, and why are more of them choosing to stay? The answer is simple - it is you. It is every faculty member, staff member and administrator who raised expectations, focused on students' needs and interests, and went the extra mile to improve the university." Thursday's General Faculty Meeting is among the events signaling the beginning of the fall semester for faculty, who also are in the midst of departmental meetings and other academic gatherings. While members of athletics teams and the marching band already have arrived on campus for practices and residence hall student staffers are already on the job, the bulk of students hit campus beginning Saturday, Aug. 16. Freshmen begin moving in at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, while residence halls open to all students Sunday, Aug. 17. Faculty, staff and student volunteers will be on hand to assist with the frantic moving-in process. The Valley Ballyhoo welcome back celebration will take place on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, with food, "yard toys," games, live music, kayaking demonstrations and information on how students can get involved in campus and community organizations. Classes begin Thursday, Aug. 2L power Outagc Planned AUG. 22 for Little Savannah Arca The facilities management department at Western Carolina University has announced a power outage from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, for off-campus resale electrical customers in the area of Little Savannah Road and Wake Robin Road, west of Blackhawk Road. This outage is necessary to allow crews to do work to relocate the power lines to these areas because of the widening of Little Savannah Road by the N.C. Department of Transportation. For more information, contact Western's facilities management department at 227-7442. CAMPUS NEWS WCU Student Receives Award From National Health Sciences Association Rhonda Decker of Asheville, a senior in the clinical laboratory sciences program at Western Carolina University, is the recipient of a $1 ,500 scholarship award from the Alpha Mu Tau honor society of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Decker, who earned her associate degree at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in 2001 before enrolling at Western, received the award Friday, Aug. 1, as part of a clinical laboratory sciences department pinning ceremony associated with Western's summer commencement exercises. It was presented by Dan Southern, director of Western's clinical laboratory sciences program and president of the N.C. Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Southern accepted the award on Decker's behalf at the national meeting of the ASCLS in Philadelphia on July 23. Decker is the second consecutive Western student to win a national Scholarship from the ASCLS. Tiffany Dillard, a May graduate of Western's clinical laboratory sciences program who is now working at Mission-St. Joseph's Health System, received the scholarship last year. Dillard and Deonna Williamson, also a May graduate of WCU's clinical laboratory sciences program who is now working at Haywood Regional Medical Center, won both of the $500 state-level scholarships awarded last year by the N.C. Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences. "We are proud that the academic excellence of students in our program continues to receive the recognition of our discipline's professional organizations at both the state and national levels," said Southern. For more information about the clinical laboratory sciences program at Western, contact Southern at (828) 227-3512. got news? let us know about it! email us: i
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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