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Spring15 Our COMMUNITY Santa Clara University Meet Chris Shay Chris Shay joined SCU in November 2014 as assistant vice president for university operations. Among his primary responsibilities are campus The Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building, which opens in summer 2016, will include outdoor displays and an interaction space. planning, projects and facilities; parking and transportation; and sustainability. During more than 2020 Vision Takes Shape a decade at Stanford, Chris worked Integrated Strategic Plan guides SCU’s growth, increases on-campus residency on creating new educational, arts, science and medical buildings. Santa Clara University has always strived to summer of 2016. It will include a gallery, outdoor provide the highest level of education to students sculpture garden, and arts interaction space and He also spent three years as a while maintaining a close relationship with the will be open to the public. The dramatic addition, foreign service officer coordinating surrounding community. This commitment along with existing facilities for the University’s operations at the U.S. Embassy to “Good Neighbor planning” will become many live performances by students and guests, increasingly important in the coming years as completes an arts quadrant on the northwest in Vietnam. the University implements the Santa Clara 2020 corner of campus. As the University shares Integrated Strategic Plan. To meet the goal of increasing diversity and additional information regarding The Integrated Strategic Plan encompasses access, the Integrated Strategic Plan calls for construction and renovation six goals: an increase in undergraduate enrollment by • Imparting a transformational Jesuit education 600 students, to a total of 6,000. This increase plans, Chris will be the main point is the result of careful consideration as the • Fashioning a more humane, just, and of contact for the community. University balances the aspirations of thousands sustainable world Any neighbors with questions of applicants with the available resources. • Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship By building two new residence halls and should feel free to reach out to in service of humanity additional parking and recreational facilities on him at [email protected]. • Advancing contemporary theological studies, campus, SCU will achieve its enrollment target education, and ministry while ensuring a positive environment for the • Increasing diversity, access, and affordability entire community. • Enhancing Santa Clara’s reputation and In later phases, the plan includes state-of-the-art national visibility facilities for the School of Law and a cluster of The first major achievement is the construction of buildings in the center of campus for STEM- the Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building, related disciplines. The 21st-century atmosphere at the corner of Franklin and Alviso streets. This will foster the collaborative skills necessary for world-class facility is scheduled to open in the working in Silicon Valley and beyond. WWW.SCU.EDU 1 SCU EMS Team Volunteers for Night Shift As emergency responders, students help their own providing them with a little bit life: being confident, being able of kindness and support.” The to go into a situation and take squad adds 10 to 15 students control, dealing with a huge each year through its interview range of individuals when they’re process and a certification class. at their worst,” Rosen said. “That has been really powerful and has “Our biggest values are kindness given me a lot of insight into why and integrity, so we’re looking I want to be in medicine and for people who are excellent what kind of medical professional EMTs but who also value treating I want to be.” patients with kindness and compassion,” Rosen said. “Kate is very focused and has a great drive to accomplish When they aren’t on a call, EMTs the things that she need to can do schoolwork or sleep in accomplish,” said Jillandra the group’s office at Cowell Rovaris, director of the Cowell Center. Rosen, from Salem, Ore., Center. “She’s very organized took the EMT class her first year and task-oriented, and I think in at Santa Clara and was chosen this position you need to be for the squad at the end of that those things.” year. She remembers being “completely terrified” on one of Rosen said the experience has her first calls, helping a student confirmed her belief that she Students on the SCU EMS team help make the call “between big sick and who had gotten into a fight off would like to go to medical little sick,” director Kate Rosen says. campus and then returned school. She is a double major in covered in blood. She was in biology and public health, with a Every night from 5 p.m. to give oxygen, but they are not awe of the way the veteran minor in chemistry. 8 a.m., the first responders to allowed to perform medical EMTs took control. “If I went medical emergencies at Santa interventions such as starting into that situation now, as a The squad has a support team Clara University are student IVs or giving medication. more experienced EMT, I would of administrators, including two volunteers. Santa Clara University be able to do the same thing,” San Jose fire captains who EMTs on duty carry radios, Emergency Medical Services Rosen said. review calls. EMTs also can consists of 35 students who all cell phones and pagers so consult with the Cowell Center have basic Emergency Medical Campus Safety Services can As director, Rosen oversees a and counseling Technician certification. “At least dispatch them. Calls range student leadership team that center staff. three of us are on duty every from students who have the includes training officers, a night,” said Kate Rosen, a junior flu, to those who have been statistician and an operations who is the SCU EMS director injured playing intramural sports, officer. She also works with for 2014–15. “There is always to intoxicated students. the heads of other student medical attention available organizations and members of “Our biggest job is determining on campus.” the University’s administration. the difference between ‘big sick’ “It’s given me so many skills that and ‘little sick,’” Rosen said. “We To become certified, students are invaluable for the rest of my must have 150 hours of assess the patient and determine classroom training and pass both whether they need immediate a written exam and a skills test. medical care or can wait until Director Kate Rosen, The EMTs can perform initial morning. Sometimes it’s also just a junior, looks talking with a person and for “kindness and assessments, control bleeding or integrity” in SCU EMS team members. 2 WWW.SCU.EDU COMMUNITY CALENDAR Earth-saving Begins at Home Spring15 Try these sustainability tips in your everyday routine APRIL BASEBALL Stephen Schott Stadium The Broncos move into the heart of their West Coast Conference schedule with series against Gonzaga (April 24–26) and BYU (May 14–16). Friday and Saturday games begin at 6 p.m., Sunday games at 1 p.m. SOFTBALL SCU Softball Field The Broncos face WCC powers Pacific (April 25–26) and BYU (May 1–2). Doubleheaders Saturday and single games Sunday. For tickets and event information for all SCU sporting events, visit SantaClaraBroncos.com. Photo Caption Here. MAY SCU students receive an extensive education in sustainability. 1 FACULTY RECITAL SERIES Music Recital Hall | 7:30 p.m. Santa Clara University is a leader among higher-education institutions An evening with Teresa McCollough, SCU professor of music in sustainability—with extensive renewable-energy initiatives, a and internationally known pianist. commitment to becoming “climate neutral,” and more than 700 classes incorporating the message of sustainability. What can each 8-16 THE RIVER BRIDE household do to reduce its own impact? Here are some tips from Fess Parker Studio Theatre the Center for Sustainability on Campus: A performance of Marisela Treviño Orta’s Amazon fairy tale, Save Energy and Water which won the National Latino Playwriting Award. Tickets $5–15. Visit SCUPresents.org for dates and showtimes. • Purchase and plug in a smart power strip to easily turn off all electronics and appliances with the flip of a switch. (Unplugging 11 LEADERSHIP CRISES IN SILICON VALLEY: appliances when not in use eliminates phantom loads, also known A WAY FORWARD as vampire energy.) Benson Center | Noon–1 p.m. • Swap out incandescent light bulbs with a compact fluorescent Ann Gregg Skeet and Kirk Hanson of the Markkula Center for (CFL) or LED light. Applied Ethics discuss current issues. • Wash clothes in cold water. • Air dry about 50 percent or more of laundry instead of using an May 29 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST electric or gas dryer. thru Louis B. Mayer Theatre June 6 Students perform the classic. Tickets $5–15. • Wash FULL loads of dishes and clothes. Visit SCUPresents.org for dates and showtimes • Shower in five minutes or less, which saves both energy (from heating up the water) and water. One minute off your shower June IMPORTANT MOVE-IN/MOVE-OUT DATES can save 1,024 gallons of water a year! 8-30 June 8–11: Finals Week June 11: Residence halls close for • Turn off your computer and monitor at the end of the day. summer (non-graduating students) June 13: Undergraduate commencement June 14: Residence halls close for summer Reduce Waste (graduating students and University Villas residents) • Avoid using one-time-use containers such as bottled water, June 30: Off-campus student leases typically end takeout containers, and plastic bags. Sept. 13–20 Fall Arrivals • Keep a reusable water container with you. For ticket and event information and a complete list of arts and • Opt for a fabric or canvas tote bag when shopping.

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