October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments
Enrollment continued its steady decline at Trinity Western University this fall, with an eight per cent drop in undergraduate students. There has been an overall decrease of six per cent, including graduate studies and Global Learning Connections, according to the recently released Fall Census.
“This is the most severe decline,” said Corwin Koch, Vice President of enrollment management. “It’s significant,” he added, “but it’s not like the bottom’s falling out.”
There are 2,033 undergrads enrolled this year — 178 less than last year. This is significantly less than the 2,507 undergrads attending in 2003, which was TWU’s highest year of enrollment.
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Trinity Western University is celebrating its A+ rating for overall quality of education. This rating comes from the recent Globe and Mail University Report Card, which surveys 43,200 students from universities across Canada, asking them to rate their universities on matters such as class size, residences, quality of teaching, and food services.
There were many reasons to celebrate upon last week’s release of the report, but food services received a ‘D’ grade. Not only is the grade the lowest TWU received, but it is also the second year in a row Sodexho, TWU’s food service provider, received this mark.
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On October 22, the Laurentian Leadership Centre held an elegant reception in celebration of its fifth anniversary. The doors were opened to program alumni, current supervisors, donors and other dignitaries associated with the centre.
As the guests arrived, current LLC students greeted them, and invited them to mingle and enjoy punch and gourmet hors d’oeuvres. After an interval of socializing, the guests were entertained by what Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham, Director of the LLC, referred to as the “Famous Five”: a small student choir comprised of Irene Cadrin, Amy Mochar, Chris Anquist, Adrian Reimer and Norm Van Eden Petersman.
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While many will be cramming for midterms and furiously writing papers, this reading break one group of Trinity Western University students will be flying to the Golden State. For the first time during a fall reading break, TWU will be sending a team to San Francisco, from November 9-14. A team first went to the area last spring with Habitat for Humanity.
The sudden interest in sending teams to Northern California stems from former Global Projects intern Andrea Bonilla, who traveled there last spring break. She went to scout different organizations that would “challenge university students,” said Kara Bergstrom, Coordinator of Global Projects and Service, who is also a team member.
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The Culture Regeneration Research Society (CRRS) has donated $100,000 to Trinity Western University to establish the Faith, Hope and Love Canadian Scholarship.
The money will benefit Chinese students, Canadian and International, studying in the fields of Nursing and Education. Beginning in fall 2008, two $2,500 grants will go to TWU undergraduate students each year — one within the Education program, the other within the nursing program. Students are chosen based on their academic standing and financial need.
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Last week, a big name came to the small class of Trinity Western University’s Laurentian Leadership Centre. Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Margaret Amoakohene, visited to speak to the class.
Amoakohene has been the Ghanayan ambassador for 15 months. In the history of the program, the former university professor is the first with such a role to speak to those at the LLC.
“We invited her in to talk about the role of being an ambassador, and how her faith affects her role,” said Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham, director of the LLC.
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As of October 16, Robson now has six plasma screen televisions, one in each lounge. The change is due to $10,000 donated anonymously for this purpose.
Kelvin Gartley, Director of Community Life, says that the request was specifically for Robson to receive six TVs, complete with a fully-paid one-year subscription to satellite cable.
According to Gartley, “Students will appreciate watching TV in their own building.”
Robson residents Beth Douglas and Emily Lynch both welcome the change. “[It is a] blessing to have a place where we can watch TV,” said Douglas. “Robson just has a big lounge out there, and it’ll be good for our hall to watch movies together.”
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VANCOUVER (CUP) – Professors at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University are conducting a new type of brain-imaging study that could offer an alternative treatment for depression.
Mario Liotta, an SFU psychology professor, and Kalina Chrisoff, a UBC psychology professor, are working together with the help of UBC students to custom-design the new study. The technology allows a person to see the reactions his or her brain has in response to different kinds of introspective thoughts while they are in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner.
