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CEDAR CREST COLLEGE THE CRESTIAD Thursday, February 18, 2016 | VOL. 101 No.4 OMIGOD YOU BARBIE’S #OSCARSSOWHITE NEW GUYS IT’S BODY Lack of diversity in OPENING NIGHT Oscar nomnations OF LEGALLY stir controversy BLONDE page 4 page 7 page 8 Cedar Crest’s Cedar Crest launches strategic plan nursing BY REBEKKAH program on PARSONS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF the rise BY JAMIE WOJCIECHOWSKI edar Crest Col- CEDAR CREST COLLEGE IS A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE C PRIMARILY FOR WOMEN DEDICATED TO THE EDUCATION OF THE NEXT STAFF WRITER lege is currently in the GENERATION OF LEADERS. CEDAR CREST COLLEGE PREPARES STUDENTS FOR LIFE IN A process of a strategic GLOBAL COMMUNITY BY EDUCATING THE WHOLE STUDENT AT ALL STAGES OF LIFE AND EXPERIENCE. Another year goes by plan which started on as the nursing program Aug. 31 that is going to at Cedar Crest is praised. “strengthen what we do THE ASPITION OF OTHERS In 2015 Cedar Crest grad- well as well as add new, uates consistently scored innovative ideas to the above the state board college” said co-chair, mandated pass rate with ACADEMIC TRANSFORMATIONAL INVESTMENT IN A COLLEGE OF Gaetan Giannini. EXCELLENCE STUDENT EXPERIENCE TOMORROW’S EDUCATION GREATER IMPACT a NCLEX pass rate of 96 STUDENT Global Thought Leader Enhanced Reputation percent . For those of you in Adult and Traditional Leaders Able to Navigate and Increasingly Diverse, There are four major STAKEHOLDER Shape a Complex World Further-Reaching Institution and Distinction of parts of the plan: the Education for Women the College who do not know much about this, the average col- Board of trustees, the FINANCIAL Strategic Investments Investments in the Increase in Net Tuition Investment in Marketing RESOURCES in Academic Programs Student Experience Revenue / Increased and Brand Expansion / lege pass rate, according planning team, theme Fundraising Increased Fundraising to the National Council of teams and the commu- INTERNAL Leveraged Innovative A College-Wide Paradigm Intentional Development Learning Environments Strategic Recruitment PROCESSES for Student Engagement and Retention Activities and Sharing of State Boards of Nursing, is nity. The strategic plan and Practices Across a Diverse Population Institutional Stories 87 percent in a baccalau- was then split into vari- Educational Spaces and Campus Spaces Focused Enhanced Natural Campus Centers INFRASTRUCTURE Technology for Evolving on Student Success Environment and that Serve Local and reate setting. This is excit- ous steps. Academic Needs and Engagement Physical Campus National Communities ing news for current junior “The strategic plan Increased Number of Intentionally Designed Regional, National and A Culture of ORGANIZATIONAL Signature Academic nursing students Brittney is important because CAPACITY and Integrated Student International Pipelines for Enterprising Experts Programs Engagement Experiences Enrollment Growth in Higher Education Billmeyer, she said, it drives everything at “It’s more than just a the college” said Giannini. PHOTO | MARKETING DEPARTMENT like Blaney Hall, using the pil- Shown above is the strategy map that pass rate. It’s a standard “The strategic plan drives Cedar Crest plans to follow. lars to separate the four main of nursing. Cedar Crest programming and the direc- themes of the plan. “The Aspi- clude: Academic Excellence, Trans- doesn’t have classes of tion of the future. We are us- ration of Others” is found at the formational Student Experience, In- students who can pass a ing this to be a model of 21st top because that’s what the plan vestment in Tomorrow’s Education, test. Students who leave century women’s colleges.” will focus on. The themes range and A College of Greater Impact, as Cedar Crest leave with the The big picture of the plan areas across campus and in- depicted in the map. confidence to take care is laid out in a map shaped of patients in any setting. See STRATEGIC, page 2 We can advocate, ques- tion, and critically think. That’s what this 96 per- MBA influences changes on campus cent means to me.” In January of 2016, the BY MIRANDA ALVAREZ Cedar Crest College Nurs- STAFF WRITER ing Program was ranked number eight in the “Top 10 Up and Coming Nurs- Upon coming back ing Schools in the East from winter break there was for 2016”. The methodol- a lot of excitement over the ogy behind the ranking renovations in two class- was a point system with rooms located in Curtis Hall; each category worth one there were rumors of white point. The system was board walls and new technol- based on innovative and ogy. When the classrooms instructive methods, use opened up, students and of cutting-edge techno- faculty were impressed by the logical resources, recent new aesthetic of these rooms, facility additions/reno- pointing out that they were vations, related student unlike anything Cedar Crest organizations and societ- ies, flexible track option, has done before. The reno- istration. PHOTO | JULIANA WALL Students sit in math class while working in the community connections vation of these classrooms The MBA program, which was the renovated rooms. The whiteboard walls and and a “wow” factor. Cedar stemmed from the desire to added this year, has been thriv- televisions provide new ways of learning. Crest had a score of six to create an environment which ing. With classes filling up and earn the eighth spot, with matched the enthusiasm gaining momentum quickly in behind Cedar Crest’s new the fall semester, the program See MBA, page 2 See NURSING, page 2 Master’s in Business Admin- 2 NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2016 Cedar Crest saddened by loss of business From MBA, page 1 professor Michael Donovan found it necessary to invest in creating a space just as exciting BY REBEKKAH PARSONS that his father really enjoyed work- as the program’s growth. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ing on campus, “I think what made The updated classrooms do in fact ABIGAIL ORMISTON Dad unique is that he was never feature walls which have been cured MANAGING EDITOR searching for a dream job, he was searching for how he could make a in order to work as white boards Cedar Crest College is saddened difference in the job he had. I think and these fun new walls have been by the passing of Michael Donovan, he found a lot of joy in the positive paired with very appropriate car- associate professor of business. impact he could have on students at Cedar Crest.” peting, which after taking a second Donovan was a loved member of glance actually portrays a repetitive the Cedar Crest Community and Ned Donovan told us how his father possessed a passion for education. loved helping people and was more design of the alphabet. He was a friend and a mentor on than just a professor, but a coach, a On the technical side, the class- campus. Donovan was also involved friend, and a father. room includes a monitor which al- around the Allentown area. He published many articles and was a member of the Chamber of Com- lows the professor and students to “Michael was a professor of unpar- project their work in order to better alleled passion. The outpouring merce, Allentown City Council, the of support from individuals upon American Sociological Association, share with the entire class. The up- whom he had an impact is a testa- the Institution for Management Ac- dates that seemed most exciting to ment to his level of engagement countants, the American Produc- tion and Inventory Control Society, the Dean of the School of Adult and with people from many walks of PHOTO | MARKETING DEPARTMENT Graduate Education and professor life. He will be deeply missed by the American Political Science As- Gaetan Giannini were the pods and all of his colleagues, students, and sociation of Urban Affairs Associa- the community of Allentown” said Crest in August of 2004. He was in- tion. how collaborative the space has Carmen Ambar, President of Cedar terested in making improvements Donovan received his B.A in Polit- been made. Featuring individual Crest College. in the urban region and possessed ical Science from Bowdoin College a desire to improve the lives of in Maine and his M.B.A from Co- desks arranged into a honeycomb “He was always smiling and was like shape the classroom truly nur- happy. He also had patience with residents who face poverty and lumbia University Graduate School me regarding my language and I discrimination in the surrounding of Business in New York. Donovan tures group work and discussion. learned a lot from him” said Ahmed area. was also a certified management The addition of the MBA program accountant. Alammred, freshman accounting “Professor Donovan believed in and the classroom innovations are student who had Donovan for his being diligent and he personified Prior to coming to Cedar Crest the concept by being a person of Donovan had an extensive resume just the beginning of changes here Business as a Social Process class. at Cedar Crest College. In regards Donovan was a loved member of action as in the Nike motto of “Just as he had a career at the Bank of the college community and can be do it!”.He thoroughly researched Boston where he worked with mu- to the MBA program, the Business remembered for his wisdom. each issue followed by a plan of nicipal and international banking. Department is working on adding In a press release, Cedar Crest re- action to accomplish what he de- He worked as an industrial engi- termined needed to be done then neer at Data General Corporation new concentrations and certificates flected on this with one of his most in studies having to do with data an- known quotes, “I am diligent at put- went ahead to do it” said Ibolya Ba- and was the general manager of ting one foot in front of the other.

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