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NSAC E-Bulletin
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August 9, 2004 --- Week 191
NSAC Students Receive Scholarship
Awards
Two of Engineering's recent graduates have been awarded
scholarships from Dalhousie University. Jennifer Pryor (2004) has
been awarded the Nova Scotia Women in Engineering Scholarship, valued
at $6,000 for 2004/05. This scholarship is renewable for another
$6,000 in 2005/06 depending on satisfactory progress in her program.
Nicholas Stewart (2004) has been awarded the Schlumberger Undergraduate
Scholarship in Engineering valued at $1,000. Jennifer and Nicholas
are both working around the engineering department this summer.
Please join us in congratulating these students on their success!
First Year Advising System
Taking Shape
Across Canada and the US, the greatest attrition of
post secondary students occurs in the first year of study. In fact,
it has been shown that losing up to 25 percent of your incoming
class is very much 'normal.' While one might think of the “Christmas
graduate”, studies have shown that students leave university
for many reasons – personal, financial, ‘lack of fit’,
poor academic preparation and study skills, or because they don’t
have a firm academic or career goal. It is interesting to note that
academic preparation is not even one of the top three reasons why
students opt to withdraw or do not return. This troubling trend
shows the need for NSAC's first year advising system, called the
RMS Advising System.
Our first year advising system, in keeping
with the times and expectations of students and parents, needs to
be more than just a 'take-this-course-this-semester' advising system.
Offering the services to help our students adapt to, and succeed
in, their first year is important to our educational mandate. With
short notice, but lots of enthusiasm, Dr. Hicks and his team have
agreed to support the implementation of a new first year advising
system that includes, but is not limited to, academic advice. Lynn
Crosby has agreed to work with Judy
Smith and the Registry to
organize the advising system. Faculty members have already been
invited to get involved. Please respond to Lynn
Crosby. More information on training advisors and implementing
the new RMS Advising System will follow shortly.
International
Coffee Expert to Give Presentation
Dr. R. Naidu, an internationally recognized virologist and coffee
expert, will be hosting a presentation on Wednesday, August 11.
He is the Director of the Indian Coffee Board and the Indian Coffee
Research Institute. The title of his presentation is "The
Coffee Industry in India and the R&D Perspectives" and
it will run from 10:00-11:30am in Haley, AS 200. Previously,
Dr. Naidu was the Director of the Indian Cardamom Research Institute
and Senior Scientist at the Indian Horticultural Research Institute.
He has traveled extensively to all the continents and coffee growing
countries. The presentation is being coordinated by Dr.
Raj Lada.
International's
Open House Prize Winner
The winner of the NSAC International Open House draw was Trevor
Fredeen of Truro. To enter the draw, each person had to successfully
identify 10 countries where NSAC has international projects or from
which we recruit students, by finding these on a map of the world.
Trevor is entering Grade 4 at Valley Elementary. His favourite country
is Canada but he would like to visit France again and travel to
Costa Rica. Trevor won a globe for his extraordinary knowledge!
Trevor Fredeen, grade 4 student in Truro,
with his prize
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