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MBA Program redesigned OSU’s master of business administration program has been redesigned to incorporate significant curricular innovations that emphasize the role of technology in business. The program will enroll its first students in September. Students with the required prerequisite classes can complete the program in nine months. The program also can be completed on a part-time basis. Admission to the new program is open to qualified students with OSU undergraduate business degrees as well as to students with non-business undergraduate degrees. MBA program Engineering enrollment, research funds surge Just two years into a 10-year, $180-million "Passion for Excellence" campaign to build its College of Engineering into one of the nation’s top-25 engineering institutions, OSU has been ranked the 23rd largest engineering school in the nation. According to a report by the American Society for Engineering Education, OSU’s engineering undergraduate enrollment jumped nine places from last year. The ASEE report, which compares 345 engineering institutions, also ranked OSU 35th for the number of engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded, up from 40th last year. Research funding at the college is up 34 percent since the campaign was launched and 20 percent in just the past year. This includes grants that are bringing several world-class research centers to the OSU campus, such as a $4.8 million Tsunami Simulation Research Center; a $5.5 million Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center, one of only five such centers nationwide; and the $1.6 million Kiewit Center for Infrastructure Technology, which will open on campus this fall. Tuition to rise 9.1 percent Annual tuition and fees at Oregon State University will increase 9.1 percent this fall to $3,987. The increase includes a tuition increase of 4 percent for resident undergraduates and 5 percent for nonresidents, a $90 annual energy surcharge, and increases in incidental, health service, and technology fees. The energy surcharge fee was added to ease the burden of rising energy costs confronting the university. Last year, OSU’s energy bill caused a shortfall of $1.3 million. Risser
named to OMSI board Alumni Fellows award winners The OSU Alumni Association has announced the Alumni Fellows award winners for the year 2001. They are Peter Johnson, ’55, founder and owner of TEKMAX Inc., a worldwide leader in battery plate enveloping and automated transfer equipment; Zelma Long, ’65, owner of Long Vineyards and Zelphi Wines and former CEO of Simi Winery; and Gregory Merten, ’68, Hewlett Packard vice president and general manager. The Alumni Fellows will be honored during Homecoming week at a special ceremony on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. in the CH2M HILL Alumni Center. The December Oregon Stater will feature profiles of the Alumni Fellows. OSU Cascades Campus readies for fall opening Momentum is building at the Oregon State University Cascades Campus in Bend as it readies for a fall opening. The Oregon legislature allocated $7.2 million for the campus, applications are rolling in, and a class schedule has been issued with 160 course offerings, including distance education courses. Construction is under way on the first new building for the campus. In addition, faculty and staff have been hired and a CEO or campus executive officer is being recruited. Henry Sayre, a distinguished professor of art history at OSU and a leader in the development of academic proposals for the new campus, has been named the new associate provost for academic and student affairs. Linda Johnson, the director of OSU Central Oregon Programs, has been named associate provost for community relations and administration. "We’re really getting ready to go," said Johnson. "Despite the short time that we have to get programs up and running and start the new institution, so far everything seems to be moving along quite well. We’re offering a pretty robust curriculum for the first year." Classes begin Sept. 17, a week earlier than at the Corvallis campus, to coincide with the Central Oregon Community College schedule. Grand opening activities will be held Sept. 15-16 to celebrate the launching of the new campus. New Media Communication program It has been 10 years since OSU announced it was closing its popular journalism and broadcast media programs in the wake of budget cuts triggered by a property tax relief initiative called Ballot Measure 5. For years, OSU officials have sought to resurrect those programs, while at the same time acknowledging that the Internet and technology have vastly changed mass media. Mission accomplished. This fall, Oregon State will formally unveil its New Media Communication program under newly hired director Joel Thierstein. The program actually began a few years ago when students could get minors in one of three strands: print media, telemedia and multimedia. More than 120 students flocked to the program and the demand for more classes — and majors — is expected to intensify. Unlike the former journalism program, OSU’s New Media Communication program will begin as a hybrid effort taught by faculty in speech communication, English, computer science and art, though it likely will evolve into a department within a few years. Developing partnerships with business, crafting the curriculum, and building the program into a full major are the main goals of Thierstein, former director of telecommunications at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Business dean to return to teaching After a decade of leading OSU’s College of Business, Donald F. Parker is leaving the post of dean to devote more time to research and teaching. Parker, who joined the university in 1991 as the Sara Hart Kimball Dean of Business, will spend a year’s sabbatical researching university and business management issues before returning to the classroom at OSU. A search to replace Parker is under way; Sabah Randhawa is serving as interim dean. During his tenure, Parker noted there has been a substantial expansion of student scholarships, increased faculty development support, and significant academic innovations made possible by private gifts, as well as reaccreditation of the college by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. Near record enrollment projected for fall OSU enrollment projections for fall 2001 indicate it will be another great year, said Bob Bontrager, director of admissions and orientation. He projects 3,200 new freshmen and a total enrollment of about 17,600. "This is close to the highest numbers ever at OSU," he said. OSU recorded its largest enrollment, 17,689 students, in the fall of 1980. Last year’s fall head count was 16,777 and included 2,800 freshmen. Bontrager said enrollment this year was up in almost all categories. He does not anticipate a problem housing students. 
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most creatures, the Webworm has misgivings about anything that robs
her of excuses by making difficult things easier and procrastination
less plausible. Then she does whatever it is and wonders why she didn’t
make the effort sooner. OSU alumni who visit our recently upgraded Web
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