Monthly Highlights
September 2008
EARLY INDICATORS SHOWED INCREASED DEMAND this fall. Early orientation and registration sessions attracted 2,000 students, or 67 percent more than last year's attendance of 1,200; applications for admission were completed by 7,897 new students, compared to 6,215 last year, an increase of 27 percent; and financial aid applications were up 23 percent. On the first day of classes, credit registration was up 15 percent at 10,275 students, compared to first-day figures from last year. Official enrollment figures are not reported until later in the term when most students have stopped adding, dropping or changing classes. The enrollment increase made the front page of the Register-Guard on September 25. See http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/story.csp?cid=131005&sid=105&fid=35
A $1,068,000 THREE-YEAR GRANT was awarded to Disability Resources from the Department of Education for Project ShIFT, Shaping Inclusion through Foundational Transformation, a national demonstration research grant to improve the quality of higher education for students with disabilities. Using national expertise, the project will provide social model education, technical training and support related to universal design of instruction for staff and faculty in various colleges around the nation.
THE MID-VALLEY VETERANS CAREER AND BENEFITS FAIR was held at Lane on September 20. Sponsored by the Oregon National Guard and Lane, more than 500 veterans and active soldiers from Lane, Douglas, Linn, and Benton counties and their family members attended. They met with employers and service providers from 50 businesses and agencies.
LINDA SCHANTOL was named Outstanding Classified Employee of the Year at all-staff in-service on September 23. Linda is an administrative coordinator in the Language, Literature and Communication division and has been at Lane since 1998.
EMT GRADUATE MARA SOLANO was named EMT-Intermediate Student of the Year by the Continuing Education Department. The award will be presented at the Oregon EMS Conference in Bend on October 10. Mara is a native of Spain.
LANE SCULPTURE INSTRUCTOR LEE IMONEN was one of five Northwest artists chosen to participate in the forest art installation, Natural Cycles: A Celebration of Art in the Forest, on the Trillium Trail at Tryon Creek State Park in Portland. His work is called the Source Series and has three pieces, Picket Fence, Pine Box, and Lumber Unit, each made from a single salvaged or windfall tree. Half of each log will remain in its natural form, while the other half will be reconfigured and emerge into an object that would typically be made from that wood. The 775 acre Tryon Creek State Park is located at 11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd. in southwest Portland.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, Marketing and Public Relations, September 2008.