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“I chose Pacific because transferred to a public school for a while on a baseball scholarship. But I discovered that, when I left Pacific, of the level of comfort I left something that was far better. I came back my I felt during my first junior year. That transition was so smooth — it was as campus visit. I decided if I had never left. “The four-year graduation then and there that Pacific was Pacific is a perfect-sized school to let yourself guarantee is a big plus. That’s try new things. I was an athlete my entire life, but one year less tuition you’ll have the best place for me. It was more then I decided to run for student body president. tailored to my needs — more of a I had never been involved in student government to pay. Pacific will also provide community rather than just a school. before. We’re in a community that’s so supportive you a financial aid package and so close-knit. Even if you don’t win, people will that will cover your cost of After the information session, the admission recognize that you attempted to do it. counselor told me, “I want you to be here, but either I had an internship at the San Francisco district education. They know how hard way, please be in touch. I want to know what you’re attorney’s office just before my senior year. They it is — they will help you figure going to do.” It was almost as if a friendship had been only accept 10 undergraduate students — thankfully out a way.” created, right then and there. I was one. The intern coordinator even said we Because I played baseball, I spoke to the baseball need to get more students from Pacific because it coach and was given the opportunity to walk on to seems like they’re prepared for the real world. the baseball team. I visited several other schools, but What had prepared me was interacting with they didn’t give me the same feeling of support and administrators and professors and developing encouragement that Pacific did. my social and emotional intelligence. Pacific takes you as a freshman and nourishes your academic talents, your experiential learning, and “People at Pacific are there all the other abilities you come in with. And it lets to listen. They’re willing to you run with them. It’s impossible to seclude yourself here, but it’s easy to find what you enjoy doing — and work with you. That’s the outcome of do it. At some schools you feel lost. That’s just not Pacific: people there encourage you to take possible at Pacific. responsibility. They encourage you to speak to a professor or administrator and to share your “The four-year graduation guarantee ideas. At larger institutions, you don’t have a chance to interact with faculty or administrators is a big plus. That’s one year less tuition you’ll unless something bad happens. Here you have to pay. Pacific will also provide you with a interact with them and great things happen.” financial aid package that will cover your cost of education. They know how hard it is, so they will EDWIN LINDO San Francisco, CA help you figure out a way. I actually had more out-of- Business & Pre-Law, 2009 TV pocket costs at public school than I did at Pacific. Go there! The former student body president at Pacific, Edwin After graduating last May and being student body See the wonderful world of Pacific: is now in law school at the University of Washington. president I am now in law school. My road map has go.pacific.edu/2009commencement He plans to combine international law with pro bono changed quite a bit. I started out in international activity and eventually would like to enter politics, with relations and then majored in business — and even an ultimate goal of becoming mayor of San Francisco.
In This Issue Find Us TEACHERS ON TEACHING...2 go.pacific.edu/findus What does student-centered really mean? Four Pacific profs weigh in. ASTRO-JOSE...3 Jose Hernandez ’84 is the first to tweet from space — in two languages. THE CAMPUS LIVING ROOM...5 This publication was produced with the following A new LEED-certified University Center products and services: has something for everyone. Printing: Certified EPA Green Power Partnership and Climate Leaders program, Green-e organization, Forest Apply Now Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody. DIFFERENT KINDS OF SERVICE...6 Electricity: Generated from 100% renewable sources. www.u-pacific.org/freshman/ Community outreach or Olympic Paper: FSC Certified. Inks: volleyball — it’s got roots at Pacific. Printed with vegetable-based inks. President Mom Our new president, Dr. Pamela A. Eibeck, explains the draw of Pacific.
Why did you choose Pacific? As the parent of two college students, including a Pacific represents my ideal of a university. It has a freshman, what is your advice for other parents? strong liberal arts core, with a breadth of excellent The wonderful variety in U.S. higher education professional schools to choose from. It’s similar to provides a breadth of opportunities, and I personally what you can get at a large university, but in a very think that Pacific offers one of the best undergraduate personalized environment in which students and faculty educations available. But you have to see it for yourself. members get to know one another and feel a close part The advice I always give parents is to find a school of the community. that’s in alignment with your student. The best way to determine that is to come to campus, bring their child How did you discover the university? to visit and see if it’s the right fit. The students usually When we searched for school for my son, Will (who know that right fit and feeling immediately. couldn’t decide whether to study engineering or business), we were looking for a university exactly like FAST FACTS Pacific. I saw on the Web site that the presidency was Q Eibeck became the 24th president of the University open, and thought, “That’s just the place I want to be.” of the Pacific on July 1. She’s Pacific’s sixth Will was admitted and planned to come here until I got president since 1924 and the first woman to hold the office. the job. He told me I ruined it for him, so he decided to go to another university. Q She was previously dean of the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas You’re conducting a “listening campaign” in your Tech. She has also been a faculty member at UC first year. What are you hearing? Berkeley and Northern Arizona University. That the faculty and staff are deeply committed to Q Eibeck received bachelor’s, master’s and the students. That is the reason they came here. It’s doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from really powerful. They get energy from interacting Stanford University. An expert in heat transfer, she has done research in engineering education, with students — educating, mentoring and inspiring including ways to attract more women. them as they go through such a transformative time in their lives. Q She is married to William Jeffery, a law Go there! professor. They have four children; the younger More on President Eibeck at two are college students. go.pacific.edu/president Talking Pacific students are at the teaching center of the university’s world. Easy to say, but what does it mean?
Keith Hatschek, associate Susan Sample, associate professor and chair of music professor of political management in the science in the School of Conservatory of Music: International Studies: “It means getting to know the “Student-centered education students on a level where I can requires more of the really gauge their progress and professor. You have to ask provide a variety of indicators what the students know, There’s no so students know how they’re what their experience is, what they need to know, doing. No two students are the same or need the how they will use the material and how best to guide same approach. I also tell students from the first them through the material. We also want them to argument day they’re in the music management program that know how to continue learning on their own. In four I’m going to treat them as professionals. We try years they won’t have the professors, but they’ll still to get the students to embrace the fact that their need to keep learning.” Pacific’s speech and debate team reputation, knowledge and skill set are how they’ll be measured in the field. It’s not just a grade on a book Geoff Lin-Cereghino, ranks in the top five in the nation. professor of biology in the report or a quiz.” College of the Pacific: “I transferred specifically to Pacific because of the Stephen Wheeler, professor of “I use skits, games and speech and debate team,” says Emily Sheldon ’10, who accounting in the Eberhardt hokey demos in my is majoring in political science and gender studies. “It is School of Business: biology lectures to engage one of the powerhouse teams.” “Pacific places tremendous the students, to make The team practices four hours, three times a week value on teaching. This is what the lecture something college ought to be.” they want to come to. Every student wants to feel and is in tournaments 20 out of 30 weekends in the recognized, to be an individual.” school year. “We are always competing, practicing and working on the next big thing,” says Coach Marlin Bates. “That got us to where we are today.” TV Meet Professor Lin-Cereghino and other Pacific faculty: Go there! go.pacific.edu/youtube_teaching Get in touch with Coach Marlin Bates: [email protected] Around Pacific TAKE 5 5. 1. Brubeck Institute for Jazz Studies Five cool spots on campus When jazz icon Dave Brubeck gave his entire The Princeton Review ranks Pacific in the top dozen nationally of archives to Pacific, the University created the its “more to do on campus” list (along with Stanford, Duke and Brubeck Institute. The institute brings in jazz greats like Wynton Marsalis to work with students Notre Dame). Here are students’ five favorite campus spots, as in the institute’s jazz studies major. reported by the Review. 2. Alex Spanos Center Slap on some face paint and cheer on the Tigers. The Spanos Center is home to the basketball and volleyball teams.
Visit Pacific 3. Reynolds Art Gallery go.pacific.edu/visit Pacific’s gallery hosts traveling exhibits spotlighting everything from Ansel Adams photos to Japanese manga.
4. John Muir Collection and Center Muir, the father of the modern conservation movement, was a driving force behind the National Park system and founder of the Sierra Club in 1892. You can see his personal papers in 4. the library’s special collections. 1. 5. Pharmacy and Health Sciences Building Interested in a career in health sciences? This building houses grad programs in pharmacy, speech-language pathology, physical therapy, and pharmaceutical chemical sciences.
2. Why Take 5? Pacific alum and jazz legend Dave Brubeck recorded the first jazz album to sell more than a million 3. copies. You’ve heard his best-known tune, Take 5, in countless films, in restaurants and even in a mash-up with Radiohead.
“Otro ocupado! Vesti a Danny y Christer para sus caminatas. Space innovators Tambien trabaje las camaras Jose Hernandez ’84 is living his dream — in space! del transbordador durante sus caminatas.” When Hernandez, 47, blasted off from Cape Canaveral on August 28 as part of the crew of the space shuttle Discovery, he performed the usual 4:35 AM Sep 5th astro duties. He assisted the pilots and helped the crew suit up, as well as operating the robotic space arm during the 12-day mission.
But he’s also boldly gone where no man has gone before. He’s the first astronaut to tweet from 220 miles above the earth — in English and Spanish.
The California-born son of Mexican migrant workers, Hernandez entered “Space has been great! the University of Pacific as part of the Community Involvement Program and Words cannot describe earned an engineering degree in 1984. He tried for 12 years to become an Go there! this experience! The Follow Hernandez: astronaut before he was accepted in 2004. This was his first space flight. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ take home is our planet shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts128/ Now a member of the Pacific board of governors, he has started a index.html foundation to inspire youngsters to excel in math and science. is very beautiful! Let’s take care of it.”
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Around the pit Hang out with friends, play video games in surround- sound and attend events like comedy shows and karaoke nights. Tasty Bring an appetite! With foods ranging from American classics to pan-Asian cuisine, you won’t get bored.
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It’s a pretty big living room. connecting residential and academic Activities fill the building almost you’re in the liberal arts area. You get a spaces on the north campus with the rest every night. Entertainment includes local chance to interact with everyone at the The 55,000-square-foot Don and Karen of the university. bands and comedians, karaoke nights and University Center.” DeRosa University Center, dedicated just Its two-story atrium serves as the performances by the Brubeck Institute As the University’s first LEED-certified a year ago, is the place where students eat, welcome and information center. There Jazz Quintet. An expanded menu, ranging green building, the center uses less energy play video games in a surround-sound is wireless Internet inside and outside from taqueria and Pacific Rim specialties to and only half as much water as a similar environment, watch Pacific Tiger athletics the building, a full-service pub, a café, a American classics, vegetarian dishes, soups conventional building. Making sure the new and special events on the big screen, work performance area, the bookstore, high-tech and dessert bars, has attracted many more structure is environmentally friendly was on class projects, meet old and new friends conference rooms and a grand ballroom. students to on-campus dining. a top student priority. Its features include and hatch plans to have a party — or Mounted flatscreen televisions feature “It’s pulled everyone together,” says retractable skylights, daylight sensors, a change the world. music videos, news programs and sporting one senior. “When you’re there, you’re mixed-mode heating and air conditioning Named for a former Pacific president events. Outdoor patio seating is available around students you don’t normally see. If system, and a number of recycled materials, and his wife, the traditional red-brick for sunny days, and there’s a fire pit for you’re a scientist, you spend a lot of your ranging from the glass tiles in the restrooms building sits along the Calaveras River, cool evenings. time in the lab; if you’re an English major, to the material from used tires on the roof. Under construction Construction continues on other two major buildings: the $7.5 million Janssen-Lagorio Multipurpose Gymnasium and the $10 million John T. Chambers Technology Center.
Eco-friendly It’s Pacific’s first LEED- certified building. Check out the bathroom tiles made of recycled glass, roofing made from used tires and retractable skylights that make the most of natural light.
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Busy The new building is home base for Pacific’s more than 90 clubs and honor societies.
Clubs at Pacific Here are just a few of the more than 90 clubs at Pacific. Unscramble the words to see the club name.
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TV Go there! Go there! Take a tour: go.pacific.edu/universitycenter See a full list of clubs: go.pacific.edu/clubs Community $ervice Social entrepreneurship is flourishing at the University of the Pacific.
Ties to the world Hunter Tanous ’11 (at left in photo) wants to make a difference. The sophomore from Carmel, Calif., and other students have worked with the Ties to the World national organization to develop a pilot project serving Hogar San Francisco Xavier orphanage in Guatemala. Go there! The orphanage, home to about 90 boys, also operates Learn more about Pacific’s Global Center for Social a school that serves 225 boys and girls from the Entrepreneurship: go.pacific.edu/globalcenter surrounding community. A half-dozen Pacific students traveled to Guatemala to learn about the orphanage, meet the leaders and the children, work to renovate the buildings and explore business ideas to make the orphanage financially co-founder of eBay to multiple Nobel Peace Prize sustainable. One approach: develop cultural immersion winners — and the experiences I have had,” said Nancy. tours to provide revenue for the orphanage and allow “Pacific gives you the tools to effect change in the most With honors the children to apprentice as tour guides. moving and efficient way possible.” For the second year in a row, University of the Summer of caring Up by the bootstraps Pacific was named to the President’s Higher Nancy Huynh ’09 put her passions to work in one busy Pacific is the only university in the U.S. that has a fully Education Community Service Honor Roll. summer. Nancy, an international relations and global operational international microfinance organization “University of the Pacific prides itself in the studies major from Glendora, Calif., interned for both located within the institution. The Katalysis Bootstrap thousands of hours of public work performed Safe Passage, an organization that assists the children Fund provides small loans (an average of $326) to each year by the students, faculty and staff of the poorest families working in the Guatemala City launch small businesses in the poorest countries of here,” said Erin Rausch, director of Pacific’s garbage dump, and Roots of Peace, an Central America: Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Center for Community Involvement. “The scope international nonprofit organization El Salvador. Student interns work in Stockton as well as of the volunteer efforts performed by Pacificans that enters post-conflict countries, with Katalysis partners in Central America. includes everything from painting local homeless clears land mines and reclaims the Katalysis’ distribution network includes 19 shelters to delivering food and medical supplies land for agricultural production. She independent microfinance institutions that serve to people in need in disaster areas and in helped set up new operations for Roots of more than 250,000 low-income clients (70 percent of poverty-stricken regions around the globe.” Peace in Vietnam. them women). The repayment rate is over 97 percent. Launched in 2006, the Community Service “My experience at Pacific is rooted in Katalysis is pioneering a new concept in northern Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a the people that I have met — from factory microfinance organization sustainability: it accepts school can achieve for its commitment to service workers and orphans in Guatemala to the investments as well as donations. learning and civic engagement.
Silver service Jennifer Joines is an Olympic Tiger. member of the 1992 Olympic squad. McHugh was also Joines’s coach at Pacific. The only four-time All-American volleyballer in the Joines has played in 105 international matches with history of Pacific was a member of the women’s team the U.S. Women’s National Team since joining the that battled to a silver medal in the 2008 Olympics in squad in June 2001. She has also taken the court with Beijing, the best U.S. showing in 24 years. professional leagues in Japan, Italy and Russia. Joines, a Milpitas, Calif. native, majored in In a different kind of match, Joines was married communications and business at Pacific, where she to college sweetheart Chris Tamas on Aug. 22 at graduated in 2003. Paso Robles, Calif. Both were AVCA All-Americans The 6’4” middle blocker is the third Pacific women’s at Pacific. Tamas, an assistant coach with the UC volleyball player to have represented the Tigers and Riverside women’s volleyball program, represented the her country at the Olympic games. Jayne McHugh USA in 34 international matches with USA Volleyball Go there! played in the 1988 Olympics, while Elaina Oden was a and is Pacific’s all-time leader in assists. Keep up with Joines’ games and quest for the 2012 Olympic team: www.usavolleyball.org Paying for Pacific Thanks to the first-in-the-nation four-year graduation President guarantee, Pacific students don’t have to spend the five or six Eibeck years it generally takes those enrolled in public universities to get the classes required to graduate.
As a result, tuition dollars are saved, and Q More than 80% The proportion jobs can begin sooner. Many Pacific students of undergraduate students at Pacific who also take advantage of accelerated programs received financial assistance in the 2008- that speed them into the workplace or 2009 academic year. graduate programs in less time than peers at other institutions. Q $22,000 The average financial aid Last year Pacific distributed more than $45 package in the 2008-2009 academic year. million in aid to its students. The university’s financial aid office is filled with friendly, Q 80% The proportion of “gift accessible specialists who go the distance to assistance” — grants and scholarships that help families get the funding they need. do not have to be repaid. Federal work- No specific income level automatically study jobs account for 6 percent of the disqualifies a family from consideration for total and federal financial aid. Family size, number of children student loans for in college, family assets, private K-12 tuition 14 percent. Go there! and other circumstances are also taken into More on financial aid: account to determine eligibility. go.pacific.edu/financialaid Pacific MOVEs Ready for the Real World Compared to those enrolled at other universities, Pacific students have more opportunities to engage in a variety of experiences outside the classroom. And newbies 99 percent say skills they learned through those experiences made them stronger job candidates. The National Survey of Student Engagement reports the following: Participated in or plan to participate Worked or plan to work on a research in a practicum, internship, field project with a faculty member outside experience, co-op experience or of course or program requirements More than 1,000 freshmen — clinical assignment and one Pacific president — Pacific: 84% Pacific: 48% spent a weekend in August helping to get rid of non- native species in the Yosemite National Park, improve West Coast Private Schools: 74% West Coast Private Schools: 33% the trail system in Mt. Diablo State Park, remove National: 76% National: 34% banana slugs in the Marin Headlands, clean the Calaveras River, build up the shores of Sacramento’s American River, work in Stockton community non- profits, and preserve the local habitat, legendary monuments and pristine beaches in the Golden Gate Recreation Area. It’s all part of Pacific’s Mountain Ocean Valley Apply now Experience (MOVE), which encourages leadership, www.u-pacific.org/freshman/ community involvement and environmental stewardship while participants build strong bonds with each other. The first day is filled with hikes, river raft trips and other outdoor adventures; the second focuses on an environmentally friendly project. On Saturday, President Pam Eibeck joined the students on an adventure to TXT Poll: Yosemite National Park as they removed non-native, invasive berries. “MOVE is a very special program at Pacific,” says Campus World Tour Eibeck, whose son, Will, also participated. “That first weekend in college can be a very unnerving one. How many campuses do you plan to visit? Instead of relying on your roommate and a few kids down the hall, you can mix it up with 200 kids on A) none C) 2 your MOVE trip and six to eight people on the hikes. B) 1 D) more Students usually form strong connections that last long past Text UOP and the letter of your MOVE weekend.” Go there! answer to 99158. More about the MOVE program: We’ll report the results in www.pacificmove.org the next issue. A Great School at a Great Price U.S.News & World Report named Pacific one of 50 “Great Schools at Great Prices” for 2009.
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