EXPANDING HORIZONS 4 Purdue Campaign Gets Closer to 2008 Goal, but Work Still Remains
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October 23, 2008 United Way update EXPANDING HORIZONS 4 Purdue campaign gets closer to 2008 goal, but work still remains. Emergency plans 5 University, employees share responsibility to be prepared for a crisis. Flu shots 7 Appointments can be made through online registration system. NSF awards 9 Nine Purdue researchers win Faculty Early Career Development awards Online at www.purdue.edu/per Special forum on economy A special President’s Forum will fea- ture a panel of University experts on current events in the financial market and the effect on the University’s en- dowment and retirement programs. Presentation and Q&A. 9-10:15 a.m. New Orleans study tour by BCC ensembles ABOVE: New Orleans resident and Monday, Oct. 27. PMU ballroom. longtime social activist Jerome Smith sets stage for growth; performance Friday addresses Purdue students at the Treme Community Center in New Or- great things to do Students fresh from an intense pact of Hurricane Katrina on the leans. The students were on the Black exposure to the African-American Retention of African American Art Cultural Center’s field research tour in November culture of New Orleans, set against and Culture.” during October break. 5 the backdrop of hurricane recov- Viewing of landmarks, mu- Since hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit ery, will interpret their experience seums and hurricane-stricken n Vote on Nov. 4 as an informed the Gulf Coast in August and Septem- creatively Friday evening. neighborhoods was a part, Thomas ber 2005, dozens, probably more than voter. What could be greater? Be The BCC Coffee House will says, but students also collected 100, Purdue groups have learned and grateful you can vote. Be proud to present dance, drama, poetry oral histories, met with scholars to served there through student organi- do it. Be there. A vote center will be and song from the Black Cultural discuss issues and participated in a zations, University Residences teams, located in Purdue Memorial Union. Center’s four performing arts en- panel discussion with survivors of campus ministries, the School of Nurs- n This is basketball season. This is sembles. The event, free and open Hurricane Katrina, who included ing and many others. Purdue. You know what to do. to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in two Xavier University students who n Learn a sustainability practice that Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. were displaced after the storm. you can apply to your job, work- “Our field research tours are In a group journal during the Also traveling were members place or commute — and apply it. immersive and involving, and that tour, Sabrina Reed, a senior in of a scholarly ensemble, the BCC Black Thought Collective, which is n Get up to tempo on the numerous inevitably shows in the students’ mass communications, wrote, “I no campus and local music events artistic responses,” says Renee longer see New Orleans as a Mardi new this fall. on the schedule, especially as Thomas, BCC director. Gras day on Bourbon Street. I see Friday’s BCC Coffee House the semester winds down and the Students in the ensembles it as precious stone that can be lost. is in association with the student holiday season picks up. participated Oct. 10-14 in BCC’s The rich culture and heritage of the organization Black Student Union. expedition to New Orleans. It was people in New Orleans is still alive The presentations by ensemble n Let your Thanksgiving excesses be the sixth consecutive year in which after Katrina. Their survival speaks members are, by nature, early in generosity, not eating. Help with BCC has conducted such an event measures of strength, courage and responses to a powerful experi- a community or religious group’s at October break, each time making freedom to keep living.” ence. On Dec. 5, BCC’s Cultural meal or other project. it a focus of the semester’s pro- The four performing arts Arts Festival will showcase perfor- grams, the Cultural Arts Series. ensembles are the Jahari Dance mances built on the entire semester Calendar, pages 14-15 or For the New Orleans tour and Troupe, the New Directional Play- of study and reflection. That event https://calendar.purdue.edu this semester, the theme is “What ers, the Haraka Writers and the will be at 7 p.m. in Loeb Playhouse, the Water Washed Away: The Im- Black Voices of Inspiration. Stewart Center. 2 CAMPUS DIGEST October 23, 2008 Córdova: Purdue strategic plan targets top 20 national ranking Purdue has set its sights on being SAT scores of incoming freshmen lent student, compared with the create new partnerships to grow our among the top 20 public universi- are up 13 points overall for fall peer mean of $39,254 and the Big sponsored programs even more.” ties in the nation, President France 2008, with scores in math, reading Ten mean of $34,013. State appro- For institutions without a A. Córdova told the Board of Trust- and writing at 598, 554 and 545, priations for 2006 were $7,600 per medical school, Purdue ranks ees at its Sept. 26 meeting. respectively. Purdue also ranks well student, compared with $8,950 for eighth in the nation for National Currently, as ranked by U.S. among the Big Ten institutions the Big Ten and $9,590 for peers. Science Foundation research and News & World Report, Purdue is in the number of National Merit Research funding has increased, development expenditures for 26th among public institutions. scholars, she said. Purdue has 87 of but there is opportunity to do science and engineering. Purdue’s When compared with all universi- these scholars enrolled compared more, Córdova told trustees. national rank for non-science and ties — both public and private — with the Big Ten mean of 57.8. “We have a lot of momentum engineering expenditures is third, Purdue ranks 66th and will strive For fall 2007, 85 percent and quality,” she said. “We have compared with eighth for peer and to be in the top 50. of freshmen returned for their new leadership, and now we have to Big Ten institutions. The board, meeting at Indiana sophomore year, compared with University-Purdue University Fort a peer mean of nearly 94 percent Wayne, heard details of the metrics and a Big Ten mean of close to 91 that will serve to measure progress percent. Almond appointed interim EVP for the University’s strategic plan. Purdue compares well in the James Almond, vice president for ness Affairs. He became assistant The trustees in June approved the area of faculty instruction, Córdova business services and assistant director of investments in 1992, six-year plan with three overall said, with a 13.8-to-1 ratio of full- treasurer, has been named interim assistant comptroller in 1995 and goals: launching tomorrow’s lead- time equivalent students to full- executive vice comptroller a year later. He was ers, discovery with delivery and time faculty — better than peers president for busi- promoted to his current position meeting global challenges. and other Big Ten institutions. ness and finance in 1998. “The function of our strategic To succeed in its missions, and treasurer, The executive vice president for plan is to focus our attention and Córdova said, the University must effective Nov. 1. business and finance and treasurer resources in areas that are central have adequate financial resources, Almond will serves as the University’s chief to our progress,” Córdova said. including state appropriations, serve while the financial officer and reports to the One goal is to raise the academ- tuition, endowment income, gifts University con- president and Board of Trustees. ic profile of freshmen and increase and research dollars. ducts a national The executive vice president the retention and graduation rate In 2006 Purdue’s expenditures search for a suc- is responsible for a $1.9 billion of undergraduate students. The were $27,834 per full-time equiva- Almond cessor to Morgan budget and will supervise and R. Olsen, who has been named have responsibility for all financial executive vice president, treasurer affairs; business services; human and CFO at Arizona State University. resource services; physical facilities; Former U.S. ambassador to join Purdue “Jim will help ensure a smooth auxiliary enterprises, including the Carolyn Curiel, a former White University’s new strategic plan, will transition as our search committee residence hall system; internal audit House speechwriter, U.S. ambas- bring faculty together from across works to fill this position, which is functions; and will supervise the sador and most recently a member the disciplines to research chal- so critical to the successful opera- information technology enterprise of The New York Times editorial lenges and assess potential solu- tion of the University,” said Presi- jointly with the provost. board, has been tions. While specific areas have not dent France A. Córdova. The position also will oversee appointed senior yet been identified, many themes Almond joined Purdue in 1983 financial relationships with af- adviser in the of- emerged from strategic planning as a project administrator in the filiated corporations and provide fice of the Purdue workshop groups, including energy, Office of Contract and Grant Busi- liaison with legal counsel. president and the environment, global climate clinical professor change, science education, food of communication. safety and security, and health-care Curiel, a Pur- science and engineering. due alumna, will The institute may incorporate fill a previously global affairs as part of its agenda, Curiel Inside Purdue is published 10 times a year by the Office of University Periodicals for the vacant adviser’s as another goal of the University’s faculty, administrative/professional and clerical/service staffs of Purdue University.