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SCS Celebrates 25Th Anniversary Education Reform Chris Galvin Committee, Followed with a Staffwriter Description of Yinzercation and Its Purpose Researchers develop robotic Men’s and women’s soccer Memphis Hill releases sidewinder snakes • A5 continue UAA play • A12 Backwards Beginnings • B8 SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan October 13, 2014 Volume 109, Issue 8 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 CUC expansion officially breaks ground Acrobatiq a finalist for $20 million prize CHELSEA DICKSON sciences to create online Junior Staffwriter courses. OLI courses are used by teachers and students na- Acrobatiq, a Carnegie Mel- tionwide and internationally. lon-affiliated online course- Its strength stems from its ware company, has recently ability to constantly evaluate, been named a finalist in the adapt, and improve the de- Bill and Melinda Gates Foun- sign of courses for more suc- dation’s Next Generation cessful learning experiences, Courseware Challenge. Trac- according to the OLI website. ing its origins to Carnegie Based in Pittsburgh’s Mellon’s Open Learning Ini- South Side neighborhood tiative (OLI), Acrobatiq was and New York City, Acrobatiq founded in 2013 and provides is building on OLI’s legacy. individualized online learn- Acrobatiq, a for-profit com- ing experiences for students pany, develops new adaptive tackling introductory uni- online courses using OLI, versity courses. The Bill and Carnegie Mellon, and the Melinda Gates Foundation educational world’s research. launched the Courseware Students must self-monitor Challenge to support science- their learning progress in based learning initiatives that Acrobatiq’s courses and ap- aim to help disadvantaged ply what they are learning to college students with general real-world situations. education classes. Courses are designed to The Bill and Melinda supplement undergraduate Gates Foundation focuses on level classes. As of now, many improving all Americans’ op- of the courses available are portunities for success both math- and science-oriented. in the classroom and in life. Acrobatiq chief executive The Foundation began sup- officer Eric Frank, speaking Abhinav Gautam/Staff Photographer Students got the opportunity on Thursday to spraypaint their mark on the CUC Turnaround, which will be closed as part of an 18-month expansion. porting online education about the courses, reported programs in 2008, prompted that the company will be LAURA SCHERB spoke. Student groups Raasta, ence. This expansion is the op- nition to campus. This build- by the increasing amount of offering 25 new courses, Operations Manager SoulStylz, and Scotch’n’Soda portunity to enhance what we ing is a huge part of that,” research showing the impres- including many in the hu- performed as well. already have,” Murphy said in Gilman said. “I am fortunate sive improvements made by manities and business, by the On Thursday, a modest cer- After the speeches and per- his speech. “A healthy and so- to represent a district that en- students who supplemented summer. emony marked a big occasion formances, the Office of Stu- cially engaged campus.” compasses a booming center their undergraduate courses Frank also said course for the university: the official dent Activities gave students According to Murphy, the of growth.” with online learning expe- design does not widely dif- groundbreaking celebration and faculty an opportunity to expansion is a result of the According to Director of riences. Since 2008, it has fer between science and hu- of the Jared L. Cohon Univer- spray paint a portion of the vision that President Emeri- Student Activities Elizabeth invested more than $60 mil- manities classes. In fact, he sity Center (CUC) expansion. CUC turnaround to com- tus Jared Cohon and current Vaughan, the expansion of the lion in online courseware, ac- said, learning research has The expansion has already memorate the years that it has President Subra Suresh have CUC is going to radically im- cording to its website. proved that the process of begun with construction on served as a Carnegie Mellon for the student experience, as pact campus life through the The Next Generation learning is consistent across the campus parking garage, landmark. well as part of an effort to give massive increase in athletic Courseware Challenge is subjects, languages, and and is estimated to take ap- “I’m very excited about the the Forbes Avenue corridor a and recreational space, a stu- the Foundation’s effort to cultures. He explained that proximately two years. The whole impact that [the expan- “front door.” dio theater, and a new lobby bring this learning technol- the “learn by doing” method completed project will add sion] will have on the student “This is a project that space that will serve to wel- ogy to under-performing is what leads most students 62,000 square feet to the experience,” Gina Casalegno, ties very nicely into our new come visitors to the university. and disadvantaged college to success, hence the ef- building, according to the dean of student affairs, said. Forbes corridor. It really paints “In planning this building, students. Seventeen finalists, fectiveness of these online Campus Design and Facility Casalegno spray painted “My CMU as a place for innovation, we leveraged every possible including Acrobatiq, are cur- courses. Development’s Cohon Center heart is in the CUC expan- a place for everything that space in the building to be rently beginning to receive “It seems like we live in Addition page. sion” on the pavement. CMU is truly about,” Murphy able to accommodate every portions of the $20 million this moment where the Inter- The ceremony celebrated The expansion of the CUC, said. “It’s really exciting, and type of activity. We thought re- prize. The actual winner net is this incredible medium the efforts of a large group which was built 18 years ago, the context is so important for ally strategically about how to will be announced later this to access to education. What’s of people in making the proj- marks the symbolic expansion this project.” maximize every space. There’s year and will work with the been missing is quality. How ect a reality, and the official of what Murphy called the Gilman, who spoke fol- too much happening on this Foundation for three years to do you ensure that a student groundbreaking of the con- “meta-curricular” life of Carn- lowing Murphy, said that the campus to let any space just sit strengthen its product. is able to learn as much or struction. To that end, senior egie Mellon students. project was exciting and im- unused,” Vaughan said. Acrobatiq is a subsidiary more? There has to be robust biological sciences major and “Ten years ago, we saw an portant to him not only as a According to Vaughan, the of Carnegie Mellon’s Open learning,” said Frank. Student Body Vice President explosion of student on-cam- former student, but also as a construction on the building Learning Initiative, which Of course, many peo- Shalini Ray, Vice President for pus involvement. Students use representative of the district. is slated to take approximately was established in 2001. The ple are wary about online Student Affairs Michael Mur- the CUC to recreate, to work “[Carnegie Mellon] is em- 18 months, which would put OLI combines the Univer- coursework’s effect on higher phy, and Pittsburgh City Coun- out, to meet with each other bracing Forbes Avenue; we’re the opening ceremony some- sity’s strength in cognitive education institutions. Frank cilman and Carnegie Mellon and with faculty, and to com- giving a new face to the future tutoring, human-computer alumnus Dan Gilman (DC ‘04) municate their student experi- of Forbes, which will add defi- See EXPANSION, A4 interaction, and data-driven See COMPANY, A3 Herbert lectures on SCS celebrates 25th anniversary education reform CHRIS GALVIN Committee, followed with a Staffwriter description of Yinzercation and its purpose. On Thursday, public edu- “We joined the educa- cation volunteer organiza- tion justice movement back tion Yinzercation hosted the in 2011 when Governor Cor- national launch of The New bett took office and promptly York Times’ columnist Bob cut about a billion dollars Herbert’s new book, Losing from public education,” Ra- Our Way: An Intimate Por- mey said. “These cuts have trait of a Troubled America, in disproportionately affected McConomy Auditorium. our poorest students and our Yinzercation describes communities of color. So our itself on its website as “part schools and kids who already of the grassroots education had the least, now get the justice movement committed least.” to students, equity, and the Kathy Newman, associ- preservation of public edu- ate professor of English at cation as a civil right and a Carnegie Mellon and an- public good.” The group also other Yinzercation Steering hosts a multitude of events to Committee member, then promote their cause, includ- introduced Herbert and Tony ing rallies, demonstrations, Norman, a columnist, associ- and lectures. ate editor, and book review Reverend Richard Free- editor for the Pittsburgh Post- Abhinav Gautam/Staff Photographer man of the Resurrection Gazette. Norman moderated Serkan Piantino (SCS ’04) had a conversation with Dean of the School of Computer Science Andrew W. Moore as part of a celebration of the school’s Baptist Church in Braddock a conversation with Herbert 25th anniversary. Moore and Piantino spoke in Rashid Auditorium on Friday about the future of computer science. kicked off the event with a about his book, public edu- speech about the importance cation, and social justice MARIE BREMNER York office Serkan Piantino versation. Technology has antino, who oversees Face- of public education. movements. Junior Staffwriter (SCS ’04), who spoke as part created so much potential for book’s engineering office in “We are at a crossroads,” Much of the discussion re- of the School of Computer Sci- data interaction, and with Manhattan, said. Freeman said. “And we be- volved around the Yinzerca- In this age of Big Data, dig- ence’s (SCS) 25th anniversary that comes great potential “When you are learning lieve that the way through tion movement.
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