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OU summer enrollment surges Enrollment increases can be attributed to earlier classes, block scheduling switch ALYSSA GRIMLEY The Oklahoma Daily

Enrollment convenience and classes offered as soon as the spring semester ended, prompted by the OU administration, has increased the number of summer students by 27 percent from last year. Since 2005, the number of students enrolling in summer courses has been falling, according to documents from the Dean’s Council. Reasons behind the enrollment decrease include cost, the length of courses and a limited course selection, according to

documents from the Dean’s Council. In the summer of 2010, the total number of credit hours students enrolled in for the College of Arts and Sciences was 13,329. The current enrollment for summer 2011 is 16,988 credit hours, which is a 27 percent increase, said Kelly Damphousse associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Robin Stroud, assistant to the executive vice president for administration and finance, and Damphousse worked together to address enrollment rates, Stroud said. Damphousse said they are not sure if the new block system implemented this summer is the reason for the increase in enrollment, but the first block of the summer has been popular, OU decided to offer classes as soon as the spring semester

ended because students demanded them, Damphousse said. OU’s administration also worked to increase publicity and visibility for summer courses, Damphousse said. Damphousse, Stroud and other faculty members worked with advisors in order to better communicate what classes need to be offered, Stroud said. The creation of a summer session web site also made it easy for students to find information, according to Stroud. The addition of classNav, a search tool on OU’s summer session website, made it easier for students to find what classes are being offered, Damphousse said. READ FULL STORY ON OUDAILY.COM

FUN IN THE SUN | SOONERS TEACH LOCAL KIDS TO SWIM

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Rendon Chambers, business junior, trains Jacy how to swim Monday during her swimming lessons at OU’s pool. OU offers swimming lessons for local children through the summer. Parents interested in enrolling their children should visit recservices.ou.edu

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New state regent says he values higher ed Lifetime success made possible by higher education, Stricklin says ENJOLI DI PATRI

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Retired Maj. Gen. Toney Stricklin was appointed by Gov. Mary Fallin to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in April and sworn in May 27. Stricklin, who said he values higher education, transitioned from the Army, where he served for more than 32 years, to the business world and now to the regents’ board. “I attribute any success that I’ve had over the course of my lifetime to higher education,” Stricklin said. Stricklin joined the military at 21 years of age from his hometown of Charleston, W.Va. The Army afforded him the opportunity to attend Officer Candidate School Toney in Oklahoma, the Stricklin first step in a long military career that culminated in Stricklin rising to the rank of major general, Stricklin said. Stricklin obtained his bachelor’s of business administration degree at Oklahoma’s own Cameron University in Lawton, where he still resides. Stricklin said he chose to major in business after watching his father throughout his career as an accountant who enjoyed his work and made a good living for his family. His father encouraged him to follow in his footsteps. READ FULL STORY ON OUDAILY.COM

SOONERS ABROAD

Gaylord hosts new program Sooners help clean water Journalism college hosts international students for institute on new media

Students construct limestone channel to treat contaminated water ALYSSA GRIMLEY

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Gaylord College is hosting 20 South Asian students to teach them how to use new technologies to their advantage in their journalistic endeavors as a part of Gaylord’s New Media Institute. Students arrived at OU May 21 and will stay until June 15 as part of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders. Students in the program are from Bangladesh, India, PHOTO PROVIDED Sri Lanka and Nepal. Students from South Asia participating in the Gaylord Prospective participants, College New Media Institute take notes on iPad 2s. selected from their respective universities, were nominated by the U.S. Embassy in their the state department to fund at least one student. “I’m really enjoying this country, and those nomina- the institute, Latham said. The institute’s subject of journalism, so tions were reviewed includes lectures, now I’m planning to get my and finalized by the skill labs, commu- master’s in this,” said Umme U.S. Department of ONLINE AT State. OUDAILY.COM nity service and Mahbuba, a junior from leadership train- Asian University for Women “It’s a very com- » Link: Gaylord petitive process,” New Media Insti- i n g , w h i c h a r e in Bangladesh. streamed live via Editor’s note: Six former s a i d E l i z a b e t h tute’s Facebook t h e i r Fa c e b o o k or current Daily employees Latham, program fan page page, said program are involved with the Gaylord officer for the U.S. d i r e c t o r C h r i s New Media Institute. Department of State Bureau of Educational Krug. READ FULL STORY ON The institute already has and Cultural Affairs. OUDAILY.COM OU received $240,000 from had a lasting impression on

Six OU students, all members of Sooners Without Borders, and one OU staff member returned from a two-week engineering service trip to Potosi, Bolivia on June 2. The students, along with staff and students from St. Francis University in Pennsylvania, spent the trip constructing a limestone channel to treat contaminated river water in Potosi. Rachel Rogers, a member of the small group that made the trip to Bolivia, explained the work the group did while in the country. “We implemented a limestone channel outside of Potosi, Bolivia,” Rogers said. “Water flowing out of mines is contaminated with metals and this flows downstream and adversely affects crops and livestock. The limestone channel we are implementing is part of a larger project which will help filter out metals from the stream.” Despite the technical nature of the limestone filtration system, the work the OU team did was largely physical, Rogers said. “We physically put the limestone into the stream,” Rogers said. “We took samples of the water and cleared out other rocks.” The group’s goal was to make the contaminated stream usable for crop irrigation, Rogers said. This project is a step closer to serving many underprivileged communities, Aissata Cisse, environmental engineering

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Tomas Frias University professor Freddy Llanos helps OU student Kelsey Rays during her trip to Bolivia.

graduate, said in an email. “I felt that this project could be a good way to get started in the developing world because I am from Mali, a developing country where I would like to realize this kind of project,” Cisse said. Engineering physics senior, Dillon Carroll, called the trip an idealistic college student’s dream. “The trip was a chance to put the engineering principles and knowledge I’ve been learning into practice to benefit others,” Carroll said.

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