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Multicultural Week at ASU offers film, food, more
The International Student Association and the Student Activities
Board will host Multicultural Week festivities. This year's theme is
"Unity Through Diversity." The week kicks off Tuesday, March 13, at
5 p.m., with a reception outside the Student Union Auditorium. At 6
p.m., Cultural Night begins, and students, dressed in their
country's traditional garb, perform dances, skits, and songs
highlighting their cultures. Movie Night,
Wednesday, March 14, features a 7 p.m. screening of "Lago Raho Munna
Bhai" in the Mockingbird Room of the Student Union. This
award-winning comedy depicts a former thug's struggles to imitate
the values and morals of Mahatma Gandhi. The Multicultural Food
Festival will be held Thursday, March 15, at 5:30 p.m. in the ASU
Ballroom, on the 3rd floor of the Reng Student Services Center,
which is connected to the Student Union. For details, call ext. 2329
or 2055.
Nominations sought for 2007 Diversity Excellence Award
The Office of Diversity looks forward to recognizing
individual students, student
groups, faculty members, faculty groups, administrators, academic
departments, and academic units
who have demonstrated the highest commitment to enhancing excellence
through diversity. These units and individuals are eligible for the
2007
Diversity Excellence Award.
Qualifications for the award include developing programs to enhance
diversity, recruiting/retaining students, faculty, and staff from
underrepresented groups, mentoring junior faculty and staff,
developing and implementing learning activities that prepare
students for a diverse and global society, and supporting research,
service, and scholarship that reflects diversity. The deadline for
nominations/applications is March 28. Nominations/applications and
other documentation may be submitted to Dr. Glen Jones Jr. in the
Office of Diversity, Administration Building, Room 201.
Board of Trustees approves facility, tuition proposals
During its meeting Friday at
the ASU-Newport campus, the ASU Board of Trustees approved several
resolutions that will benefit student recruitment and services.
Also, Chancellor Potts told the board that he plans to appoint a
broadly-based committee of constituent representatives to study the
Indian mascot issue. Resolutions will authorize: a $5 per credit
hour fee to fund a student recreational center; a 4.8% increase in
room and board rates; and a bond issue to fund construction of two
residence halls (including one for Honors College students), the
recreational facility, and major maintenance for residence halls.
Two resolutions provide for out-of-state tuition waivers to students
who meet certain academic criteria, and another removes the two-year
waiting period for ASU-Jonesboro graduates and dependents who are
not Arkansas residents to enroll at in-state tuition rates. New
programs approved for ASU-Jonesboro include a bachelor of science in
radiologic sciences with an emphasis in magnetic resonance imaging,
and a bachelor of applied science.
Delta Blues Symposium XIII approaches
The
turbulent decade of the 1960s provides the theme for this year’s
Delta
Blues Symposium, the 13th edition of the annual conference that brings scholars,
students, performers, and artists from all over the nation to the
Arkansas State University campus in order to examine the Delta, consider
its problems, and celebrate its culture. Sponsored by the Department of
English and Philosophy, with assistance from the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences, the symposium will take place Thursday-Saturday, March
29-31. Watch for more details.
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