OSU/NOC Gateway Students Say Program is Successful

Dr. Gail Gates, OSU Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Education, says increasing enrollments, as well as student performance and positive feedback indicate the OSU/NOC Gateway program is a success.  Responding to a recent survey, Gateway students said they were highly satisfied with the Gateway coursework and that NOC courses prepared them to succeed at OSU. Surveys were completed by 248 students or 56 percent of the students who began taking courses at NOC in Fall 2003.  Nearly all of the students who participated in the survey (96 percent) had taken remedial math at NOC in Fall 2003.  Of the respondents, 91 percent said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with overall instruction in the Gateway program. Eighty-eight percent gave the same responses for the quality of self-paced instruction, and 84 percent said the same about computer-based instruction. Sixty percent of the respondents said they were “well prepared” or “very well prepared” for OSU math courses as a result of taking the NOC courses. “We are delighted that students are telling us the Gateway program is preparing them to succeed at the university level,” said OSU System CEO and President David Schmidly. “The primary reason for this partnership was to provide access and success for Oklahoma students who want to come to OSU. Our partnership with Northern Oklahoma College is doing just that.”

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OSU’s Colvin Center Named One of Six Top Centers in Nation

The National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association has named OSU’s Colvin Center one of the top collegiate sports facilities in the nation. Kent Bunker, Colvin Center director, said the OSU facility received the association’s Facility of Merit Award at a recent national conference. The association represents almost every public and private college and university in the nation. The honorees are chosen by a group of architects and student collegiate recreational professionals, with the top centers chosen on the basis of functionality, attractiveness of the architecture and facility, programming, adaptability to student needs and wise use of budget dollars. The newly renovated center offers students 240,000 square feet of recreational space. The facility is state-of-the-art, with a cardio-theater, indoor running track, indoor golf facility center, dance studies, multiple gyms, weight rooms, a climbing wall, a renovated indoor swimming pool and a new outdoor pool. You can read more at http://www2.okstate.edu/pio/colvin05_gonzales.html

Campus Life Director Recognized

The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) has honored Dr. Kent Sampson, OSU Director of Campus Life. The Association’s Commission on Administrative Leadership honored Sampson with a Director’s Award for Exceptional Service to the commission and the association. Sampson has served as the vice chair of the commission for three years.

‘The Other Family Doctor’ - OSU Veterinary Health Sciences Center hosts Open House

The OSU Center for Veterinary Health Sciences Open House is scheduled April 15-16. This year’s theme is “Veterinarians. . . the Other Family Doctor.” Lot of things are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m.  to 4 p.m., Saturday. They include tours, animal-related demonstrations and lots of children’s activities, including a parade of purebred dogs. You can find all the details at http://www2.okstate.edu/pio/vetohouse05_huffer.html

OSU SportLines

•  OSU alumnus Mark Snyder was named Head Football Coach at Marshall University today in Huntington, West Va. 

·        Women’s Track & Field competes today against the best of U.S. and international teams at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.

·        Men’s Tennis defeated Tulsa yesterday, 4-3, improving to 16-5. 

·        Softball lost both games in its doubleheader against Texas A&M yesterday, falling to 28-15 and 3-6 in Big XII.

·        Women’s Tennis lost to OU in Stillwater yesterday. The Bedlam rivals battled for five hours before OSU fell 4-3.

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