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Calendar
Monday. Aug. 25
What: KU Info Tables
When: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Wescoe Hall, Wescoe Beach and Watson Gateway
About: Informational tables will be set up during the first two days of class to help students find buildings, answer campus questions and provide water.
Tuesday, Aug. 26
What: Guest lecture: Jonathan Kata
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Alderson
Auditorium
About: Journalist and author of "The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster" will talk about the implications of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Wednesday, Aug. 27
What: Hawk Week: Cash Carnival When: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Lobby About: The Student Money Management Services staff will provide a free credit report.
What: Graduate Student Night When: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art About: Graduate students from all departments are welcome to meet at this social event.
Thursday, Aug. 28
ACADEMICS
KUAAP aids international student immersion
MCKENNA HARFORD
@McKennaHartford
This year almost 60 students from four countries China, Russia, India and Vietnam will be the first students to participate in the KU Academic Accelerator Program. The program is a year long, takes place over three semesters and is composed of a fixed curriculum of core classes, as well as courses through the Applied English Center.
"I'd like to see us prepare these students in a substantive way and have them go on to matriculate fully onto the University," said Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer, an academic director of KUAAP.
KUAAP requires students to have a higher level of proficiency in English because, although the program is an academic degree track, it also strives to introduce students to American culture and life on campus.
Participating students will live on campus and have unique opportunities to experience the Universityand American culture through field trips, such as going to away football games and touring the Konza Prairie in the Flint Hills and possibly the Kansas City area later in the program.
["The trips] will tie into the readings, but the program will also introduce students to Kansas, KU, Lawrence,
as well as the state," Cotten Spreckelmeyer said. "We want students to get a sense of the culture, the history, the peoples and the environment of the state."
A main goal of the program is to expand the number of international students at the University. Assistant Vice Provost Charles Bankart hopes that the program will help recruit more international students and ultimately double the international population at the University in six or seven years.
"We've had a steady increase [of international students] over 10 years, but it hasn't increased to the extent we would like," Bankart said.
"We want to establish a good fit between international students and KU, so that they become Jayhawks."
Another goal of the program is to diversify the international population, so the program focuses recruitment in South and Central America, Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.
Currently about half of the international students enrolled at the University are from China, Bankart said.
"We want a diverse population because it is important in infusing classes with students from all six regions," Bankart said.
One main challenge for KUAAP was communicating
the opportunity to a large number of international students in such a short amount of time, which Bankart hopes will not be an issue in the future.
As the program expands over time, Bankart said he hopes to use the feedback of the students to adapt the program so that the curriculum and experiences will expand in the best for the students.
"Quality is paramount both in academics and in student experience," Bankart said. "If we are successful at bringing a positive experience to students then the program will expand by itself."
— Edited by Kate Miller
CRIME
Suspect in student death sentenced
Justin P. Gonzalez, from Mission, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of Nicholas Sardina of Lawrence, according to the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
Sardina, 27, a former University student from Clarence N.Y., was last enrolled in fall 2011 and was a sergeant in the National Guard, according to a Kansan article published in August 2012.
The article also reported that Gonzalez was involved in an altercation at a house party on Tennessee Street that allegedly led to Sardina's death on February 25, 2012.
Amelia Arvesen
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