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UTutnews.utoledo.edu NEWSSEPT. 9, 2013 VOLUME 14, ISSUE 4 Education innovator Salman See you at Music Fest 2013! Khan to kick off distinguished Special section features interviews lecture series Sept. 17 with Reel Big Fish, Josh Gracin, The White Panda and The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts! By Jon Strunk Psyche up for the UT-Eastern Washington game at the pep rally! globally renown education Ainnovator will launch The University of Toledo’s Jesup Scott Honors College Distinguished Lecture Series Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. in UT’s newly renovated Doermann Theater on the third floor of University Hall. Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to bring a top-tier education to anyone with Khan an Internet connection. Khan Academy has College, to flip classrooms — having a library of more than 3,000 web videos students listen to lectures prior to class and Read about everything slated ranging from algebra and chemistry to art then completing interactive activities during just for Rocket fans at the history and economics. class time with a professor’s assistance. free, public extravaganza, “People like Salman Khan are the A hedge fund analyst, Khan walked which will take place inspirations for the innovative approaches away from Wall Street and began what Friday, Sept. 13, from we are taking at The University of Toledo became Khan Academy as a simple effort 3 p.m. to midnight in the as we make sure the education our students to provide tutoring for his niece. As grassy field south of the receive keeps pace with rapid societal word spread and the videos became more changes UT graduates will face once and more popular, Khan found himself Memorial Field House. they begin their career,” said Dr. Scott working with people like Microsoft founder Complete coverage in a Scarborough, provost and executive vice Bill Gates to find new ways to enhance special section, pages 7-10. president for academic affairs. education across the nation. Scarborough pointed to plans, particularly in the Jesup Scott Honors continued on p. 2 Canaday Center holds papers of Nobel Student academic gains up as UT Peace Prize nominee continues strategy to diversify collegiate populations By Casey Cheap By Jon Strunk he papers of Betty A. Reardon, a significantly, it facilitates reflection upon world-renowned champion of peace and preparation to strive toward alternatives T he University of Toledo’s strategic Cruickshank, vice president for enrollment education and a 2013 nominee for the Nobel to violence.” push to attract higher performing management and online education. “We Peace Prize, are preserved and available to The Reardon collection consists of T students as it strengthens the Jesup Scott knew the cost of more academically well- researchers in the Ward M. Canaday Center publications, unpublished manuscripts, Honors College and diversifies the student prepared students would be short-term for Special Collections in The University of curricula, reports, scholarly presentations populations that make up its fall 2013 enrollment dips. Today’s numbers fall Toledo’s Carlson Library. and correspondence related to her work and first-year class continues to bear fruit, in line with our budget and enrollment “Peace education is a complex field activism for peace, disarmament and gender UT officials announced last week as they projections.” because the world is complex,” Reardon equality. released 15-day census numbers. Across all campuses, UT enrolled said. “One of the goals of peace education “Betty Reardon is an example of how “We’re very pleased to see increases 20,782 undergraduate and graduate students is to equip people to think critically about one person can start a movement to change in GPA and ACT scores among our first- this semester. A total of 21,501 were those complexities and their implications the world,” said Barbara Floyd, director year students as well as higher first-year to enrolled at this time last year. in war and other forms of violence. Most of the Canaday Center. “Preserving her second-year retention rates,” said Dr. Cam continued on p. 4 continued on p. 2 SEPT. 9, 2013 NEWS University partners with online Kahn portfolio company to bolster continued from p. 1 job prospects During his 2012 annual address to • Business strategy expert Richard the University community, UT President Rumelt Monday, Jan. 13; and By Tobin J. Klinger Lloyd Jacobs touted Khan as an education • Arizona State University President game-changer who “will be recognized in Michael Crow Monday, March 10. echnology has touched nearly subsequent decades, perhaps centuries, as All lectures will take place at 7 p.m. Tevery facet of modern life in the real innovator in teaching and learning.” in Doermann Theater, and speakers will one way or another. Communicating. “Knowledge is now fluid, moveable, take audience questions. Visit utoledo.edu/ Dating. Driving. Shopping. Now a mercurial and exists in cyberspace,” Jacobs honorslecture to order tickets and learn partnership between The University said last September. “Khan’s transmission more about the speakers. of Toledo and Seelio is infusing a new and bring the typical resumé to life in a digital of knowledge freely and for free will have “I remember when I was in college technology into the way students present way. tremendous transformative power. the impact that lecture series with the themselves in a job hunt. “The thing that excited me most about “Already the great universities of the leading minds of the day had on me and Beginning this fall, students in the Jesup Seelio was not just the ability to showcase world are emulating him,” Jacobs said my education,” Scarborough said. “A Scott Honors College and the College of a student’s work, but rather the way that it at the time, urging UT to embrace these distinguished lecture series sponsored at Communication and the Arts will have access encourages students to start preparing from transformations and help lead the effort. the University-wide level is something that to Seelio, an online portfolio technology day one to market themselves,” said Lawrence Khan is the first of four guests who will top-tier universities provide to their students that enables users to showcase their J. Burns, vice president for external affairs. speak during the 2013-14 academic year as and to their communities, and UT is proud accomplishments, provide immediate access “The University of Toledo is truly on part of the Honors College Distinguished to offer the same for Toledo and northwest to projects and publications, demonstrate the leading edge of preparing students to enter Lecture Series. Also speaking will be: Ohio.” connections to collaborators, and provide the job market with a body of showcase-ready • Political consultant James Carville potential employers with a multidimensional work that will help them convey their abilities Monday, Nov. 18; look at their portfolios. and identify a role that matches their skills and “The University of Toledo is focused on interests,” said Moses Lee, Seelio’s co-founder helping our students take their degrees into the and CEO. “We are excited to be a partner in Student academic gains marketplace and earn their dream jobs,” said this effort.” Dr. Scott Scarborough, provost and executive Use by the Honors College and the continued from p. 1 vice president for academic affairs. “The College of Communication and the Arts will Seelio partnership is another example of how begin soon as a pilot for the University, with we are enhancing the student experience and the technology expected to be particularly “The University of Toledo — like all 67.4 percent, we’re doing a better job of long-term value of a UT degree.” advantageous to students in these areas, with a public higher education institutions — is matriculating all student populations once Coupled with the University’s potential expansion to other colleges based on facing a new paradigm,” Cruickshank said. they enroll.” relationship with Intern in Ohio, an online the success of the partnership. “As we look at state funding models, it is no More than 270 students enrolled in matching technology, Seelio will enable For more information about the portfolio longer about how many students you recruit; the Jesup Scott Honors College this fall, an students to demonstrate the work they technology, visit seelio.com. it is about how many students you graduate. increase of some 50 students and a trend UT performed in an experiential learning setting Everything we are doing is to adjust to this officials expect to continue. new paradigm.” “We’re enrolling higher numbers of As the number of direct-from-high- high-ability students both in the Honors school students declines in Ohio and across College and across the University. These the Midwest, Cruickshank said UT is students will retain and graduate at higher working to rebalance its portfolio of student rates, and their success is what will get subpopulations. the attention of prospective students as “We’ve seen increases in international well as leaders across the community and student populations, out-of-state student throughout our region,” said Dr. Scott populations and in our online programs,” he Scarborough, provost and executive vice said, adding that seven years of marketing president for academic affairs. in Michigan has resulted in a jump of “We’re creating a habit of success that nearly 130 students from fall 2012 to fall will build upon itself and become stronger 2013. “And with our retention rate up to with time,” he added. GREEN DAY: Students, from left, Chase Helmick, Deion Johnson, Marcus Blocher and Mackenzie Parsons chatted recently on Centennial Mall. They are four of UT’s 20,782 undergraduate and graduate students who are enrolled this semester.

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