FRIDAY,SEPT.7,2001
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Honors: Advice across campus
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Lloyd Sponholtz, director of the Mount Oread Scholars Program, attributed the high retention rate to the amount of attention given to the students.
But he and administrators at the Honors Program were quick to point out that their students often have additional advisers in their academic major and chosen school.
"Advising is shared by many people across the campus," Tuttle said.
Tuttle and her staff at the Freshman/Sophomore Advising Center handle an estimated
5,000 office visits each semester.
Programs with small class sizes and consistent advising are the ideal. Tuttle said.
She also said her office has almost doubled in size since its establishment in 1998 in an effort to make personalized advising more accessible.
The most current figures available from the OIRP show a 2.4 percent increase in overall freshmen retention from the class of 1998 to 1999.
Contact Smith at 864-4810
Attendance patterns of entering first-time, fulltime freshman (OIRP report):
1996: 3,546 students entered with 77.8 percent retention after 1 year.
1997; 3,808 stu entered with 77.6 percent retention after 1 year.
1998: 3,702 students entered with 77.9 percent retention
percent retention.
1999; 3,790 students entered with 80.3 percent retention.
Japan: Strengthening ties
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Representatives from the network, KU staff and faculty also attended the ceremony.
"I learned the vision for the future of Japanese students was to make an international experience possible," Carlin said. "TSS wanted students to have an educational environment that's excellent but also to be in a community that's caring."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said it was a great honor for the network to choose the University as its headquarters. He said he saw it as the University becoming a KU United Nations.
"To me, it's a natural outgrowth of programs that are associated with Japan," Hemenway said. "Only great universities will be international universities."
Japan's Consul General Toshiyuki Fujiwara said the office would continue to strengthen the ties between the United States and Japan.
"I've seen many bonds of friendship flourish between the two countries," Fujiwara said. "Through shared endeavors, we can appreciate and understand each other."
Masaru Watanabe, director of TSS International College, interpreted for Junichi Yoneyama, president and chief executive officer of TSS International College. Yoneyama said Japanese students needed an opportunity for higher education outside the country and that would be accomplished through the new office.
"It will be a key part for them to have a global education. This is just a gate," Yoneyama said of the office.
Carlin said that a year ago Christa Hansen, associate director for the Applied English Center, came to her with a proposal for the network to have its offices at the University. One problem was where to find office space, Carlin said. After talking to David Mucci, director of Kansas and Burge unions, space was found on the third floor of the Burge.
Hansen said she expected about 200 to 300 students would come to the United States through the network's study abroad program. She said 44 students were studying at the Center this fall, up from 26 last spring. Its international college originally offered students courses in airline and service industries.
"TSS wanted students to have an educational environment that's excellent but also to be in a community that's caring."
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Riyo Kusazumi, Applied English Center student from Kumanoto, Japan, said she wasn't scared about coming to the University to study English. She said she was excited about the offices opening here.
She said the network's study abroad programs would help Japanese students get to know other students at the University.
"We can help them learn about Japanese culture," she said.
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An Invitation to Graduate and Professional Students From the Graduate and Professional Association (GPA)
Join us for GPA's Annual Picnic and Info Fair September 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Potter's Pavilion (located behind Potter's lake and Carruth O' Leary)
- Complementary Food catered by Kansas Union & Drinks by the Coca-Cola/KU Foundation
- Campus offices, services,and organizations will have information tables,brochures,and representatives
- Freebees include phone cards with 30 minutes free calls by Grad Resources
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