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THE DAILY EGYPTIAN SERVING THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY SINCE 1916
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VOL. 102, ISSUE 75
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019
SIU creates new scholarships with AIM HIGH grant Emily Cooper | @ecooper212
Jodee Harmon | @jlharmonphotography Abigail Wheetley, Saluki Success coordinator at SIU, shares her story with students in order to help them in their future. One of her classes, held at Faner Hall Jan. 22 introduced the needed tools to help students transition to college.
“Failure is not the opposite of success – it’s part of it”
Failure to fruition: Abigail Wheetley shares story of failure to inspire success Austin Phelps | @austinphelps96
Abigail Wheetley failed out from the university but stayed determined to succeed – she is now teaching with the Saluki Success Program, this time around with two master’s degrees. As part of the curriculum for her University 101 classes, Wheetley openly shares her story of failure
with her students; guiding them to campus resources that she was unaware of during her time in school. “Failure is not the opposite of success – it’s part of it,” Wheetley said. The Beginning Wheetley was raised in Ithaca, New York before moving to Carbondale when she was 16. Her parents both received their master’s degrees from Cornell University and
moved here after her mother had received a job offer at SIU. “I had a very granola upbringing,” Wheetley said. “My mother was the first wave of feminists in the 70s and so she decided to go to school because she thought [...] if she was happy and had a fulfilled life, her children would also be happy.”
Southern Illinois University will be creating two new scholarships for incoming students with the help of a state grant designed to attract and retain Illinois students. SIU will be awarding two new scholarships to incoming freshmen if they meet certain criteria – the SIU AIM HIGH Award and the Saluki Scholars Award – both funded through the AIM HIGH Grant, a $25 million dollar state-funded grant intended to help Illinois public institutions recruit students. $25 million put towards the grant is being split up between Illinois' 12 public institutions, Jennifer DeHaemers, associate chancellor for enrollment management, said. “The amount of money [each school received] or was eligible for in that pool was based on how much [the school was] awarded in 2017," DeHaemers said. SIU received over $1.9 million from the grant, which is expected to be used over the course of five years. “We will keep awarding this as long as the state of Illinois funds it,” DeHaemers said. “If they choose not to fund this creates some challenges for everybody, but we have structured it in a way so that we can best fulfill the promise we are making when we award this scholarship.” Dee Rotolo, Interim Director of Financial Aid, said the goal of this scholarship is to increase enrollment to keep Illinois students going to Illinois schools – hopefully to SIU. “Anytime you’re awarding more money to students to help them pay for the cost, it should increase [enrollment] and bring more students [to the university,]” Rotolo said. Each school is able to set their own criteria to determine how the award could be used best for their institution, Rotolo said. “Some institutions have chosen to put that out there that they [are meeting tuition costs with the grant],” DeHaemers said. “When we look at the data about how much financial aid SIU has been awarding students, we meet 87% of the students’ need – if they fill out a FAFSA and have need.”
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Student health center director named in abuse lawsuit against Ohio State Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz
The director of SIU Student Health Services has been blamed, in a federal lawsuit against his former employer, for failing to protect students from sexual abuse by an Ohio State University doctor in the late 1990s.
The lawsuit, filed by former Ohio State students in November, does not name Ted Grace, director of the SIU Student Health Center, as a defendant. It alleges the late Dr. Richard H. Strauss abused an estimated 1,500 to 2,500 male students from 1978 to 1998 at Ohio State University and claims
Grace knew of Strauss' misconduct and failed to act. Grace declined to comment on his role in the case on the advice of his counsel. Rae Goldsmith, Southern Illinois University spokeswoman, declined to comment. The lawsuit names Ohio State as the defendant and seeks damages to
be determined at a jury trial. Grace served as the director of the Ohio State Student Health Center for 15 years, according to according to an SIU press release from when he was hired in May 2008. Please see LAWSUIT | 2