Welcome back! What RUr goals this semester? Tweet us @RUTorch January 21, 2014 @RUTorch www.rutorch.com /RooseveltTorchNews Volume 70 Issue 16 What did you do for MLK Day? he Illinois Indiana Regional Organizing Network (IIRON) held Hope in the Age of Crisis Sunday to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and Tcarry on his work of organizing for justice. Mass incarceration, environmental justice, corporate accountability and worker justice were discussed at the event. Roosevelt student Dylan Amlin, part of the IIRON Student Network, advocated for students to attend. Torch staff members and contributers attended the event. The multimedia and full story they gathered from the event can be found at: www.rutorch.com Roosevelt partners with Gardner Institute to study student experience By Samantha Reid increasing retention rates and and educational philosophies. It don’t have much of a say in cur- year’s budget.
[email protected] building up the student body of is then up to the committees to riculum or student services, but The Gardner Institute’s work the university. study student surveys and data, these student surveys give them doesn’t end at the end of this Along with nine other uni- Foundations of Excellence fo- coming to conclusions and mak- the power to influence major year when the committees have versities nationwide, Roosevelt cuses on nine specific principles ing recommendations based off change. given their final reports, however. University has partnered with in determining the improvements of the available information. Part of analyzing the effective- Consultants from Foundations the John N. Gardner Institute to be made.