Campus
NEWS Five members of the Southern
faculty for life and work in a global society. Working toward that end, last
community will participate in the
spring Provost Selase Williams con-
national initiative: Polly Beals, director
vened a Global Education Planning
of the Liberal Education Program;
Council at Southern charged with
Bonnie Farley-Lucas, director of Faculty
preparing long-range plans to help stu-
Development and the Curriculum
dents become “competent citizens and
Development Program; Marianne
leaders of our global society.”
Kennedy, associate vice president for
As part of the AAC&U’s initiative,
assessment, planning, and academic
Southern will help lead a high-profile
programs; Sobeira Latorre, assistant
national effort to:
professor of Spanish and associate
• determine essential global
coordinator of study abroad; and Patrick Heidkamp (team leader), assistant professor of
learning outcomes for all students,
geography and chairman of Southern’s Global Education
• refine and share models of global general educa-
Planning Council.
tion curricula that can be adapted by institutions, • provide faculty development opportunities, and
More information can be found at: www.aacu.org/SharedFutures/ global_century.
• develop ways to assess global learning.
s 11,964
outhern’s enrollment climbed for the third consecutive year in fall 2010 to students, including those who are attending full- and part-time.
A
total of
947
new students transferred to Southern from other
colleges and universities last fall — an all-time high and a increase over the previous year.
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13.7%
ull-time enrollment also increased: the number of full-time undergraduate students climbed to 7,494; the number of full-time students overall (undergraduate and graduate) rose to
8,494
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students.
etention rates have improved as well. More than
67%
of students
who began at Southern as full-time freshman in the fall of 2008 have continued to take classes — an all-time high since records of retention rates began to be kept two decades ago.
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he improved retention rate is being credited, in part, to the First-Year Experience program. First implemented in 2007, FYE is designed to help
improve students’ chances of academic success.
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