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University of North Dakota UND Scholarly Commons Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special University Letter Archive Collections 9-17-2004 Volume 42, Number 4: September 17, 2004 University of North Dakota Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.und.edu/u-letter Recommended Citation University of North Dakota, "Volume 42, Number 4: September 17, 2004" (2004). University Letter Archive. 318. https://commons.und.edu/u-letter/318 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at UND Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in University Letter Archive by an authorized administrator of UND Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University Letter - September 17, 2004 Home Submit Article Search Subscribe Unsubscribe ISSUE: Volume 42, Number 4: September 17, 2004 TOP STORIES • President Kupchella will give “State of the University” address Oct. 13 • UND posts record enrollment with 13,187; up for seventh straight year; most ever enrolled for academic credit EVENTS TO NOTE • Former professor will speak on Arab culture • Locally made movie opens Sept. 17 at Empire • PPT holds Friday seminars • Barn dance set for Sept. 18 • Tour de Forks, Sharon Lambeth walk/run, set for Sept. 19 • Lotus Center holds intro to meditation • U community invited to learn about new community engagement program • Graduate committee meets Monday3 • Doctoral examination set for Matsimela Diop3 • From space to seniors: faculty lecture will focus on bone changes in microgravity • Master Chorale holds “Just Desserts” fundraiser concert Sept. 21 • Reba McEntire tickets will be auctioned online • Fall leadership workshop series planned • All invited to attend third annual Beyond Boundaries Conference: Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning • Writers Conference in Children's Literature set forSept. 24-25 • Space studies will host star parties • Reba McEntire to play at the Ralph • On Teaching discussion meets Sept. 29 • Ticket prices announced for Minnesota Wild game at the Ralph • Family Connections Conference will focus on children with special needs • U2 workshops listed for Oct. 4-8 • Agenda items due for Oct. 7 U Senate meeting • Incubus will play the Ralph ANNOUNCEMENTS • Applications sought for administrative internship program • Public scholarship proposals sought • Proposals sought for Frank Wenstrom research scholars • Committee named for nursing dean search • Correspondence study is now correspondence and online studies • Review info for 2005-2007 academic catalog • Fall faculty study seminars available • Please return campus quality surveys • New issues of North Dakota Quarterly focus on Hemingway, Lewis & Clark, fiction • Airline ticket policy revised • Psychological Services Center will offer social skills groups • Parking and traffic office lists changes; welcome to all faculty, staff, and students https://apps.und.edu/uletterarchive/uletterOld/09172004.html[7/26/2019 4:02:28 PM] University Letter - September 17, 2004 • Training offered for drivers of large passenger vans TOP STORIES President Kupchella will give “State of the University address Oct. 13 President Charles Kupchella will give his annual “State of the University” address at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in the Memorial Union Ballroom. UND posts record enrollment with 13,187; up for seventh straight year; most ever enrolled for academic credit The University of North Dakota has posted its highest-ever enrollment of 13,187 for the 2004-05 academic year, according to Registrar Nancy Krogh. She said this year’s total student credit hours of 174,492 — the most in UND’s history — exceeds last year’s record-setting number by 1,482. The enrollment marks the seventh straight year of increases, said Krogh: 2004: 13,187; 2003: 13,034; 2002: 12,423; 2001: 11,764; 2000: 11,031; 1999: 10,590; 1998: 10,369*. “We are elated at this growth, which keeps us on track with our strategic plan. The enrollment targets we set are being met; we’re on schedule,” said UND President Charles Kupchella. UND’s enrollment has climbed by nearly 2,600 students since 1999, when Kupchella became UND’s tenth president. Starting that year, Kupchella led the University through a strategic planning process that identified 14,000 students - 12,200 on campus and 1,800 distance education students - as the University’s target enrollment. Kupchella said the University is “about where we want to be at this time with on-campus students.” To grow much more in terms of on-campus students, he said, would mean adding more of everything, such as faculty, classroom space, and residence halls. UND will continue to expand the number of distance education students. The University has more than doubled its distance education programs (from eight to 21) in the past ten years, according to Dr. James Shaeffer, dean of continuing education. Shaeffer said his division, which coordinates workshops, conferences, and similar learning opportunities, serves an additional 10,500 people who are not included in UND’s official third-week count. Dr. Bruce Smith, dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, said his college also teaches about 300 students which don’t show up on UND’s final enrollment “snapshot.” These aviation students are part of UND’s partnerships with other institutions of higher learning. UND’s strategic plan also called for changing the mix of students at UND to more graduate students. That shift, which is happening, will help the University as it grows its research enterprise, said Kupchella. “I am very pleased with the growth in the Graduate School. This fall we have 516 doctoral students - 136 more than we had last year. As we continue to add doctoral programs, that number will increase and those students, and the master’s level students, too, will help us build an even greater research capacity.” Overall, the Graduate School grew by 151 students to 2,045, compared to 1,894 graduate students last year. Dr. Robert Boyd, vice president for student and outreach services whose division is responsible for marketing UND to prospective students, also is happy with this fall’s numbers. He added, though, that sustaining the numbers will be a challenge, given declining numbers of college-age students in North Dakota. But, he said, the University intends to continue to expand its efforts at niche marketing, especially with respect to out-of- state and international students. These efforts, he added, mesh nicely with the state’s priority of rebuilding its population base. Back to Top EVENTS TO NOTE https://apps.und.edu/uletterarchive/uletterOld/09172004.html[7/26/2019 4:02:28 PM] University Letter - September 17, 2004 Former professor will speak on Arab culture “Screens of Contention: Arab Television and Cultural Transition,” will be presented by Marwan Kraidy, former communication faculty member, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, in Room 3, Gamble Hall. He will address the impact that Arab news media and other television programming has on Middle East culture. Dr. Kraidy teaches in the division of international communication at the American University in Washington, D.C. His research addresses globalization, technology and the media, cross-cultural communication, and media and culture. His lecture is co-sponsored by the English lecture series and Pi Sigma Alpha (political science honor society). – Paul Sum, political science and public administration. Locally made movie opens Sept. 17 at Empire The new North Dakota-made movie, Miss Mystic, begins a five-day limited theatrical engagement at the Empire Arts Center Friday, Sept. 17. It will show twice nightly at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. through Tuesday, Sept. 21, with an additional 2:15 p.m. bargain matinee Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $7 evenings and $5 at matinees. Half of all proceeds directly benefit the Empire Arts Center. Miss Mystic is the latest production by Christopher Jacobs, creator of the North Dakota crime thriller Dark Highways (which premiered last November in Grand Forks and played earlier this year at festivals in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas). Two years ago he completed the tongue-in-cheek supernatural fantasies The Threat of the Mummy and Vengeance of the Sorceress. Jacobs is a senior lecturer in film for the University English department, movies editor for the High Plains Reader, and a part-time projectionist at the Carmike 10 cinemas in Grand Forks. Miss Mystic was made entirely in North Dakota, mostly in Grand Forks, with additional scenes shot in Lakota and Devils Lake. The movie’s soundtrack includes five original songs from the latest CD by Grand Forks rock band Whisky Sam. Parts of four songs can be heard in the background during scenes set in the North Dakota Museum of Art coffee shop and a fifth plays under the closing credits. The story of Miss Mystic blends straight drama with some dark comedy, suspense and a touch of the supernatural in a unique variation on the popular body-switching theme. It develops a twist that Hollywood has not tried, which Jacobs describes as “something like Freaky Friday meets Double Indemnity.” A teenage girl is astounded to learn the truth about her parents, but she’s in for a bigger shock when her eccentric fortune-teller grandmother known as “Crazy Katy” decides to swap bodies with her. The girl must convince her younger brother who she really is and figure out a plan to regain her own body. Meanwhile, the grandmother now in her body plots to get her out of the way permanently, to avoid any chance of switching back! Along the way, complications develop when long-suppressed family secrets come to light, calling into question everyone’s true intentions. — Christopher Jacobs, English. PPT holds Friday seminars Pharmacology, physiology, and therapeutics will hold a Friday seminar series at 3 p.m.