Show B sift- - Sftr vatnvr ta g ifjt OUnrnr C D fltSBMlB araannati© &8B !r-- Bam l!Bk fltttntfrir feto Ghmrati I President challenges CEU community to recruit by Barry Maxfield staff writer The question of recruitment and retention at CEU is a hot topic with many opinions being expressed by students faculty and staff President Grace Sawyer Jones Dean Gundlach and Todd Olsen Ufl2ar he BDACgame 3 ght againitUVS jflsgsBini offered clarification fjifiEIflilSS3 4'£J323E& jc52SI SMI CMME) ESGETfJEHD Gornfflomm hisbebi (QsgSH 3& HS3?fr '& qgmtiw® TTr t & ) on the college's policies concerning this hotly debated issue Dr Jones states that recruitment and retention are not really problems rather challenges the school must face The emphasis during her administration will be to make recruitment a standard practice campus wide with the involvement of everyone Dr Jones chairs the recruitment committceerroncously reported to have been chaired by Dean Gundlach Todd Olsen who administers the high school relations office says the responsibility for recruitment is a campus-wid- e effort where all be involved must departments is "There a fine line between recruitment and retention which is the responsibility of all departments on this campus" Olsen who makes the initial contacts with prospective high school students and who also oversees the scholarship program at the college says ail departments must work to recruit and retain students Dean Gundlach who chairs a recruitment subcommittee agrees that recruitment and retention is a campus wide effort Other members of the subcommi ttee are Mary Bowers and Todd Olsen Gundlach's subcommittee has the responsibility to see a challenge through to resolution The responsibility of his committee is broadbased allowing the subcommittee to tackle any portion of the recruitment challenge he feels needs to be addressed "One area that we have looked at is scholarships and a second area is having the professors do recruitment themselves" he added A challenge this college faces is funding "If you look at the majority of proposals that came from the committee last year many need a lot of dollar bills" Gundlach said CEU students Bryan Bernard and Ryan Drummond spend their weekend repelling off a balcony photo by Cristy Vaughn - "thus we are dealing with a situation where we don't have an increasing budget I am trying to deal with areas I don't have to throw a lot of dollars at That is my main concern What can we do right now with the finances that we currently have" An example of the subcommittee's work involves CEU athlete killed in car accident Freshman volleyball player Kymberleu "Kym" Brown was killed the afternoon of Feb 1 3 when her car swerved into oncoming traffic and hit a diesel head-o- n at the top of rrice Canyon on US 6 at 1 :55 pm Brown was a setter for the Lady Eagle's volleyball team She came to CEU from Wasatch I Iigh Schixil in 1 leber City She was named to the team in volleyball her junior and senior years scholarships The concern is about departments that have no scholarships "If we are to expect professors to recruit for their own departments we have to give them something to recruit with" he added Also the subcommittee felt it was a fairness problem as there are 10 or 11 departments without scholarships "so we looked at what scholher senior year and named to the arships these departments could a felt have we that starting point honor mil would be that each one of these She was an accomplished pianist scht could four rtmcnts have depa singer artist and liked the outdwrs so that's ten departments "Everyone loved Kym She was not is That withfournewscholarships just a great athlete she was always sweet She was the most positive person for 40 new scholarships the school" on the team sometimes she was the one who kept our spirits up after we Gundlach emphasizes that it is an had lost a few games in a row 1 don't think there was a more decent player incorrect assumption on behalf of on the team" said an emotional volleyball coach Brent Martindale the Eagle that recruitment is per"This is an enormous loss to me as a coach and person Volleyball is formed only through the office of important but insignificant right now We just lost an incredible person" he high school relations "What about continued the high my efforts to recruit "Kym was (me of those people that everyone loves We are establishing a school relations are the front people scholarship in her name to be presented to a volleyball player that can keep but there are all sorts of depart- her legacy her team spirit and positive attitude" For information cm ments that do their own recrui- donating to the scholarship fund contact CEU's volleyball program 1 ler funeral was ting" Monday in I leber City CEU President Grace Jones asked Gundlach also clarifies the issue that campus flags be lowered to half staff that day in honor of Brown of student involvement in the re- ASCEU provided transportation in the Eagle bus for about 25 students to cruitment process "When I walked attend the funeral About 50 students attended the funeral where almost on the committee last year I took 2 000 people packed her stake center She is survived by parents Alan and see challenge page 4 Carol Iie Brown a brother and three sisters All-Sta- te |