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Show , '2E10 VOICEOFDIXIE 0 ft EA (I CD DIXIESUNNEWS.COM DO, 9'7 WEDNESDAY i FPJ epr-Jr-Nr- , L:: I r: - 'J:t4'Ir'tz 1101-11a- lIT 1: itarrattla220 M:il!'A.73 L',,( :L; , VOLUME 57 NO. 3 r I! i:1 i I a .a , alumnus Jenz Bunnell takes a look inside U.S. politics as an intern for Congressman Chris Steward for a semester. DSU , - ' ' H - ;1,vj '' F ; 1. ,,,t , n i.''e 1,-- )i 1 , ''l ,,, n 0K f 0 ,, il ,........., . -- i '.' i 0' z ' , 4 I 1 Z 'i I t , Lli ,,,,., - ,, 1 ' C - ; 7.1 1111 ,,,,, r al . ,s t - ,,Audent ServicE s ,- - 4- ,.,7t, '1 ...,,rt .i i t'S.-- i I', t t ; ',".: oe ,, CI I e ) i 4 1 ! , ,I ,) ' "(, ' t I :, 1., , ..), Ili -, till , - 1,'.),,, I . . a t D k A :,,..1k,.., Ilk.,, r,,11.. 11.1 , it 04. AM,44t41. t )i ,...., 11.- -, ki , I- PI i i ,,,,, balance from summer semester, your loan will not carry over," Scoville said. Being purged isn't necessarily permanent, though. In fact, Dilley said 144 students have as of Aug. 29. "We want to work with each student individually to ensure that there is a plan in place to cover tuition, both now and in the future," Dilley said. "And the university does offer a payment plan option for students who do not have the funding to cover their entire account balance at the beginning of the semester." Scoville was one of the 144 She said her students experience was fairly easy and only took about 20 minutes. "The woman I talked to was esgr(;:e v C'Ll -) r 4LT1 fliDco714, A Pk Ti) posters in every bathroom stall on campus. Darlene Dilley, the vice president of enrollment management, said students had received several notifications that their accounts needed to be paid by the first week of classes and that administrative withdrawal for nonpayment is a common practice among colleges and universities across the country. ,Tatum Scoville, a junior psychology major from Layton, was dropped from her classes this semester due to overdue summer tuition and said she personally didn't feel like she'd been given very good notice. "There was the typical email sent out that included my Dixie State tuition bill, but nothing that said 'if you don't pay your sera - super supportive and understanding," Scoville said. "The arrangement I made was a perfect solution for me, and I don't think I'm going to have any future problems this year with the financial aid office." Approximately 316 students but this may didn't provide opportunities for other students. Dilley said: "Students who have paid their accounts gain access to classes that may have been full with seats taken by students who haven't paid or do not plan to attend. The university benefits by better utilizing and allocating resources to support students." Students who wish to enroll in the payment plan can access the program online or contact Assistant Bursar Lisa Howard. ll, Hvstliti '11:flumes II D 435-652-78- BY RYANN HEINLEN ;4i 4,10,14 4i I I AvereeRHeinlen does not currently teach any of the theory classes. Most of his work is done within the simulation lab; students use mannequins and equipment in the simulation lab to create a environment with the feel of a real hospital room, he said. "It's a very safe type of environment for students to learn, and include learning, making mistakes and learning some more," Brereton said. He said the first day of classes was a mixture of excitement and nerves as these students are the first to go through the program. "These students are the first to have the opportunity to start and complete with a bachelor's degree, which hasn't been available to them," Brereton said. high-fideli- DixieSunAdsDixie.edu 435-652-78- fax: 435-656-401- 9 -7- 77-7 i !) k441.7-- : '11,!1 0 i 0 14tAIP. C As Dixie State University continues to evolve, more and more programs and degrees are becoming available to students. rjrST Ryann Heinien, Editor-in-Chi- Abby Doman, News Editor Al lie Kittell, Sports Editor Logan Stott, Features Editor Kelly Seaton, Opinion Editor Tanner Livingston, Multimedia Editor Kaitlynn Latham, Photo Editor Valerie De La 0, Design Editor Autumn Nuzman, Copy Editor Erin Hakoda, Social MediaAd Manager Madison Anderson Samantha Berge Ariel le Cabrera Monique Chavez Stephanie Du Par Jonathan Holland Jess Johnson Katrina Keller Ashlyn Searcy Emma Van Lent and vice president of academic affairs, said: "There were three things that happened on the first day of the new semester, three firsts. Our first graduate class was taught this morning, the first engineering program started, and then the Bachelor of Science in Nursing launched its first cohort of students." DSU is growing in a multitude of areas including academic programs and infrastructure, he said, and the institution is in a period of "significant growth and exploration." First graduate classes Pamela Cantrell, the director of curriculum and graduate studRhiannon Bent, Adviser ies, was hired last year and was set to help Nate Staheli, departThe Dixie Sun News is distributed each Wednesday during fall and spring chair of accounting, by ment semesters as a publication of Dixie State University, the communication "shepherding the Master of Acdepartment, and Dixie State University Student Activities. DSU administrators do not countancy proposal through the approve or censor content. The student editorial staff alone determines its news covapproval process." erage. The unsigned editorial on the opinion Cantrell said all of the tireless page represents the position of Dixie Sun News as determined by its editorial work paid off when the board of board. Otherwise, the views and opinions Dixie in Sun of News are those trustees approved the program. expressed the individual writers and do not necessarily "It was just the most exciting reflect the opinions of Dixie Sun News or any entity of the university. thing to think that this was going to be our very first graduate '1 program, that we will now be a ,t(J:4;14c10(010P j graduate institution," Cantrell , "DSU granted $1.75 milsaid. lion for Innovation Plaza She said the process for the article was written first master's degree to become project" Holland. 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Cantrell was tasked with writing the policies for the graduate level, and a lot of the policies stemmed from the need to establish processes and systems on campus, she said. Cantrell said other policies will cover graduate assistantships that will allow graduate students to assist or teach under- graduate courses. "In the first place, the policies have to establish a new entity on campus, which was the Office of Graduate Studies," Cantrell said. "We had to set out all of the governance for how that was going to happen." Cantrell said she remembers the day when all of the hard work paid off. The day the board of trustees was set to review the proposal, a group had "arranged quite a celebration" that would be visible from the Zion Room in the Jeffrey R. Holland Centennial Commons building, she said. "They released lots of balloons and the balloons just came up and we looked out the windows and saw those balloons coming up, so it was quite a cel- ebratory moment," Cantrell said. "Everyone stood up and just clapped; some of us cried. It was just really a moment." Cantrell also said there are four graduate degrees currently in development including Master of Technical Writing and Digital Rhetoric, Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, Master of Applied Kinesiology, and Master of Athletic Training. First BSN Nursing cohort Along with the first graduate class, the first Bachelor of Science in Nursing cohort began classes in the Russell C. Taylor Health Science building, and 48 students were accepted into the cohort. Dean Brereton, assistant professor of nursing, said he Was hired on to aid in the expansion of the program. Brereton works with a lot of the clinical aspects of the nursing program, he said, and he low-stres- s, ty ce "But I think there is a little nervousness with that because no one has been through that before, so no one can share with them what to expect; we don't even know what to expect." One of the first 48 students, Jessica Romo, a junior nursing major from Fontana, California, said on the first day of school students were awestruck and nervous. Romo said after being fitted for their scrubs Lacourse spoke to the students about being a part of the three firsts to happen at DSU and reminded the students to be proud of their part in DSU's history, she said. Romo said the application process starts with finishing general education courses, passing selected courses such as pathophysiology and nutrition, having a certified nursing assistant SEE FIRST PAGE 2 . |