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October 24, 2006
News Briefs
Director of Diversity Integration position filled
A new administrator joined the Office of Student Affairs last Monday when Dr. Gordon Nakagawa became the new Director of Diversity Integration position.
The position was created as a way to assign the university’s diversity initiatives under the responsibility of one senior official. The Director will serve the entire university by working with Admissions, Faculty Development, Human Resources, the MISA Office, Faculty Recruitment, Disability Services, and the schools’ affirmative action officers.
Nakagawa was selected to fulfill this role after a long search process spanning several months. According to Nakagawa’s curriculum vitae, he has over 25 years experience in education and an ability “to bring diverse groups and individuals together to support a common cause or shared agenda.” In this case, the shared agenda is providing and receiving upper level education.
Look for a more in-depth look at the director of diversity position and Nakagawa the Oracle's next issue.
Journalism Certificate application deadline looming
Applications for the Certificate of International Journalism program are due on Nov. 7. The program is open to students with sophomore standing or first-year students in their second semester.
The program requires six courses to be taken at Hamline and two internships, one in the United States and another while studying abroad at one of the program’s five partner universities.
Application are available online at www.hamline.edu/cla/acad/depts_programs/international_journalism/index.html
Forum updates campus
The six Strategic Planning Framework Leads updated a crowd of 80 people in Sundin Hall, the majority of which was comprised of university faculty and staff. Few students were in attendance last Wednesday for the lunch-hour forum. The sleads gave brief updates on their teams’ progress. The leads said they are still in the process of defining the scope of their framework, and each lead presented a web-like diagram mapping what their framework had pinned down thus far.
Prof. Jeni Keil’s framework had a tough time pinning down their scope, Keil said.
“It took us a full meeting to convince ourselves that we weren’t the budget committee,” Keil said.
The next Strategic Planning Forum is tentatively set for Nov. 17, Strategic Planning Team chair Ed Butterfoss said. The forum will be an “expo,” in which more concrete progress will be presented.
In other news, the Strategic Planning page preceding the secure login page now has an explanation of the login process.
HUSC charters Katrina network
At the HUSC meeting on Oct. 17, the Katrina Response Network became a charted organization.
In its second week of consideration, there was heavy debate over the group’s name. Some feared having the word Katrina in the title might turn people away or limit the group’s longevity. Many countered saying Katrina in the title does not change the group’s mission, which is to serve as a relief group to any crisis or disaster.
After a short speech by the group’s president Tony Wilson, one HUSC attendee said she had never heard anyone speak so compassionately at a HUSC meeting.
The Katrina Response Network will be sponsoring an event this Thursday in Sundin at 7 p.m.
Posted by dwright at October 24, 2006 10:36 AM
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