| AU continues Peace Corps tradition
The Peace Corps is peppered with Eagles. American University ranked fourth last year among medium-sized colleges and universities in percentage of undergraduates who volunteer in the corps. AU’s 34 volunteers represented .58 percent of the university’s undergraduates, placing the school above Brown, George Washington, Yale, and James Madison. Georgetown was the top medium-sized school (defined as having between 5,001 and 15,000 undergraduates) with .87 percent. AU has a long history of providing the corps with volunteers. Since it was founded in 1961, 663 AU alumni have joined the organization, making the university the 53rd-largest producer of volunteers. Robert Pastor, AU’s vice president of international affairs and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, said the university is extremely proud of the contribution its students and alumni have made. For the 20th year in a row, the University of Wisconsin took the top overall spot, with 104 volunteers. The University of California at Berkeley continues to be the all-time best producing school, with more than 3,000 volunteers. Kogod ad campaign wins award
You probably saw them on the walls of Metro subway cars last year. The Kogod School of Business’s “Where are you going?” ad campaign caught the eye of many commuters and would-be MBA students, and now it’s caught the eyes of a panel of judges that highlight excellence in the advertising industry. Kogod recently received the Gold award in the twenty-first–annual Admissions Advertising Awards. Its D.C. Metro Transit Card campaign won in the Outdoor/Transit Billboard category. Judges for the Admissions Advertising Awards, presented by the HMR Publications Group, consisted of a national panel of healthcare marketers, advertising creative directors, advertising professionals, healthcare consultants, marketing professors, and the editorial board of Admissions Marketing Report. The campaign was developed in concert with the Solomon Says agency in Atlanta. “They developed a great concept for us that we used for about a year,” said Lauren Medway, Kogod’s marketing manager. “We also used it in our print advertisements, to try and recruit graduate MBA students. We were happy with the creative [plan] they developed for us. A lot of people saw it, and we got a lot of response.” Faculty Senate resolution stresses ‘integrity’ for new trustees
“Integrity” should be a key characteristic for new members of AU’s Board of Trustees, declared the Faculty Senate in a sense of the senate resolution last Wednesday. The resolution, which stated that “the most important criteria” for board membership should be “fundamental integrity, reputation for exemplary moral character, and uncompromised values,” passed by a vote of nine to seven. Debate centered around whether the resolution was merely stating the obvious and whether the issue should be left up to the senate’s recently formed governance committee rather than the full senate. In a report from that governance committee, Faculty Senate chair Tony Ahrens informed senators that the trustees have agreed to extend faculty nonvoting participation to eight board committees. This move, Ahrens stressed during the meeting and in a recent facultywide e-mail, should be seen as only the first steps “to begin the fulfillment of [the board’s] commitment to greater participation by the community.” Additionally, Ahrens revealed that the board has announced the process for nominating new trustees, which is covered in detail on the governance update Web site: www.american.edu/governance/index.cfm. WAMU makes transcripts available
Missed an important piece of information on Kojo Nnamdi’s midday show? Couldn’t find a pen in time to jot down a phone number or Web site that Diane Rehm mentioned on her show? Just want to revisit a revealing interview with a fascinating personality? Not a problem. Soon you’ll be able to order written transcripts of three WAMU favorites. The station has signed a contact with Soft Scribe of Falls Church, Va., to transcribe The Diane Rehm Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and Metro Connection. “WAMU public radio is listener supported, so we have to keep a very close eye on our expenses,” said WAMU director of business administration Carey Needham. “Soft Scribe provides a cost-efficient means of serving our audience and supporters with a high quality, accurate product.” Soft Scribe provides immediate and accurate transcripts for a broad array of projects, ranging from large volume, publicly distributed information to customized, confidential material. Soft Scribe’s nearly 100 transcribers work around the clock, throughout the year, to provide immediate project turnaround. Listeners will now be able to order transcripts by logging onto www.wamu.org, or by calling 1-800-871-7072. |
