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University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well Profile Campus News, Newsletters, and Events Fall 1996 Profile: Minority Alumni Mentorship Program gets boost from American Express grant University Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/profile Recommended Citation University Relations, "Profile: Minority Alumni Mentorship Program gets boost from American Express grant" (1996). Profile. 2. https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/profile/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus News, Newsletters, and Events at University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. It has been accepted for inclusion in Profile yb an authorized administrator of University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Profile----------- A DIVERSE LOOK AT THE UNIYERSITY OF l\IINNESOTA, l\lORRIS University of Minnesota, Morris Volume I, Edition 1, Fall 1996 Welcome to the first edition of Profile, a publication produced Minority Alumni Mentorship Program gets by the Office of University Re lations at UMM in cooperation boost from American Express grant with the UMM Office of Alumni JUDY RILEY University Relations Relations and the Office of the Thanks to leadership from Chancellor. alumni and funding from the American Express Minnesota Philanthropic Pro Since its inauguration as an un gram, minority students at the Univer dergraduate liberal arts institu sity of Minnesota, Morris will benefit from the wisdom, advice, and career tion, UMM has matured, be connections of their alumni counter coming an institution of out parts. reach. While still serving west A grant awarded by the Ameri central Minnesota, we have con can Express Minnesota Philanthropic tinued to grow as a global insti Program will help the UMM Alumni Association, the MSP Alumni Associa tution. Thus, we continually tion, and the Offices of Alumni Rela have new stories to share and tions and Minority Student Programs at new audiences to reach. the University of Minnesota, Morris to establish a Minority Alumni Mentorship Profile will offer a diverse look Program. The program will utilize vol unteerresources to link minority alumni, on a broad range of topics about American Express employees, and cur the University of Minnesota, rent undergraduate minority students to AMERICAN EXPRESS DIVISION vice president Bill Bel.dichek, Maddy Maxeiner, and Morris. In the words of alum facilitate their success in completing Bill Stewart with local American Express representatives Mike Kloubec and Jim Delaney. Dennis Gimmestad ('73), " ... re college and achieving successful ca ally we have a multifaceted cli reers. The Minority Alumni entele - alums, friends, current Mentorship Program will translate the ful both to American Express and our impetus for this grant actually came UMM staff, University admin encouragement and support of success alumni volunteers for creating this stu from UMM alumni that work for both istration, the area community ... " ful UMM minority alumni into a con dent resource." Maxeiner also serves as the corporate and field offices of the Each edition will hopefully tinuum of assistance ranging from the UMM director of alumni relations. company. We are happy io support this present news from UMM that mentoring to career networking. Alumni William Stewart, director of excellent program." employees of American Express have the UMM Minority Student Program, The American Express Min gives each facet of our reading been helpful in the planning of this and Tom Mahoney, director of UMM nesota Philanthropic Program focuses audience something to sink their program, and will continue to serve in Grants Development, also facilitated the on programs that "support economic teeth into. volunteer capacities as the program is grant proposal. Says Stewart, "This independence and responsibility through implemented. award demonstrates that a difference each stage of life." Minneapolis based UMM assistant to the chancel can be made in the lives of students of American Express Financial Advisors, We will share with you UMM lor for external- affairs Madeline color through this collaboration of the acquired by American Express in 1984, news of the present as well as Maxeiner, who wrote and submitted the business community, the University, and is a 101-year-old company that pro our vision for UMM's future. grant request, said, "We are pleased that both the UMM and MSP (Minority Stu vides financial plans and the products We invite your comments in the American Express Philanthropic Pro dent Program) alumni." and services to implement those plans to each edition through our You gram has chosen to fund this project. Morris representatives for nearly two million clients through nearly Thanks to their support, our minority American Express Financial Advisors, 8,000 financial advisers nationwide. Said/tcolumn(tumtopage 11). students will gain valuable help from Mike Kloubec and Jim Delaney, ex (Maddy Maxeiner contributed to this minority alumni to succeed at UMM pressed their pleasure in working with article.) As in our previous publication, and in their early careers. We are grate- UMM and the mentorship program: 'The UMM to You, we will include class notes about our_ alumni so that you can keep in contact Opening day of classes marks 37th year with each other through the Enrollment shows increase in student transfers pages of this publication. Approximately 558 new freshmen as valedictorians or salutatorians, the state and region," commented Rodney And now, we present the first and 94 transfer students stepped onto Morris "We are very pleased that UMM Oto, director of admissions and financial aid issue of Profile ... soil as a new crop of students joined those continues to attract top students from around 37TH YEAR continued on page 2 returning to class September 25 at the Uni versity of Minnesota, Morris. Says UMM Chancellor David Johnson: "One of the most interesting as pects of this year's entering class is the large --In these pages-- number who are transferring from other in stitutions. An increased number of transfer students fit into Morris' strategic plan very •Conversation well. They enter classes which are the least with ... Chancellor David likely to be oversubscribed. Johnson comments page 3 ''They bring experience and per spective from having been in other institu tions. I hope their numbers will continue to •35 Years of Cougar increase." foothall page 5 On an average, incoming fresh men ranked in the top 15 percent of their high school graduating classes. Fifty per • Alumni gatherings ... photos cent of new students are from the top I 0 pages 13-14 percent of their high school class (30 percent in the top 5 percent). The average ACT (American College Testing) score is 25. NEW FACULTY Front: Susan Bernardin, Mark Gilbert, Yimin Yang, Barbara Burke, Thirty-seven entering freshmen graduated Margaret Beth Cherne, Julie Patterson-Pratt. Back: Heather Hoehn, James Derrick Head, Ty Buckman, John Hartman, Charles Deutch. clipping~ 37th YEAR continued from page I Chancellor's Advisory Council The third meeting of the current at UMM. "We clearly understand the com Chancellor's Advisory Council took petition for these students and know that it is place at UMM on October 25. Mem not by chance that many end up at UMM. bers of the CAC are Ted Almen, We continue to be a very good buy for many Kerkhoven, editor and publisher ofthe who are interested in a high quality educa Kerkhoven Banner; Russel Fischer, tion." Milbank, S.D., resident vice president In addition to incoming students, ofthe Milbank Insurance Co. r.mdpresi the UMM and Morris communities wel dent of the South Dakota Insurance come 22 new UMM faculty and academic Alliance; Richard Gandrud, president staff members. "This year's 'class' of new faculty is the largest, the most diverse and of The Eagle Bank, Glenwood; Vernae one of the most exciting in UMM 's history," Hasbargen, executive director of the said Samuel Schuman, UMM vice chan Minnesota Rural Education Associa cellor for academic affairs and dean. tion, Alexandria; Cheryl Iverson, In the Division of Education, NEW FACULTY front: Nancy South, David Wuolu, Paula O'Loughlin. back: James Willmar, parent educator and former Wellness and Sport Science: Kenneth Carson, Heather Hoehn, Golam Farooque. editor of the labor publication West Crandall, assistant football coach, head track Central Area Union News; Audrey coach, lecturer, B.A., Fort Hays (Kan.) State Kaines, executive director of the West University, M.A., Pittsburg (Kan.) State Central Community Action Program, University; Heather Hoehn, head coach women's volleyball and softball, lecturer, sin-Superior, M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois; Paula O 'Loughlin, assistant profes Alexandria; Audrey Krebs, B.A., Bucknell University, Lewisville, Pa., Minnesota; and Julie Patterson-Pratt, assis sor, political science, B.A., Smith, College, Breckenridge, high school teacher and M .A., Muskingum College, New Concord, tant professor, theater, B.A., Midland Northampton, Mass., Ph.D. expected, Uni Wilkin County Commissioner; Lowell Ohio; John Parker, head football coach and Lutheran College, Fremont, Neb. versity of Minnesota; and Go/am Farooque, Larson, executive director of the West lecturer; Fredrick Reed, assistant football The Division of Science and assistant professor, economics, B.S., M.S., Central Initiative Fund, Fergus Falls; coach and