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Show Your News PAGE A3 MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005 Campus prepares for accreditation visit U of U president receives Affairs states, "what are we says Worthington, "they will SC 206b. Aside from student input, doing, how well do we do it, also tell us we need to imAssistant News Editor the evaluators will be look- what we need to improve, and prove our assessment proAfter ten years it is again ing at faculty, library, gover- what is the plan to succeed in cess, simply because they have told every other school accreditation time at UVSC. nance, the institution's plan- improvement." These standards are what the same thing." While hundreds of committee ning and goals,finance,and The accreditation team is give school's credibility, as members, faculty, and board educational program. well aware of these issues, Dr. Alene Harrison, UVSC's Worthington says "accreditamembers have been feverishly working to have a success- Director of Accreditation, has tion is the currency of higher and as Harrison says, "They ful evaluation this year, many been working for the past two education. It is also assurance are spelled out on pages 16 students are unfamiliar with and a half years to prepare the to other institutions, the busi- and 17, and we are working self-study that "documents ness industry, the commu- on them." the accreditation process. In spite of these needed imOn Monday students can how the school has met the nity, and the parents and the provements Harrison has voice their opinions in front a of the accreditation commit"It is very good to have your positive outlook on the _ . ._ , , visit. She hopes that the tee and learn about the purself-perception verified by evaluators win "find the pose of accreditation. same Accreditation is necessary people that do your same strengths that we r r because it makes UVSC eli' found, because it is very good to have your selfgible for funding in federal fikind of work every day." perception verified by nancial aid, college programs/ people that do your same services, research, construckind of work every day." tion, and it also creates the -Dr. Alene Harrison After the evaluators option for students to transfer Director of Accreditation spend two days on camcredit to other universities. pus, they will spend Accreditation is divided into two different sections. The standards set by NWCCU" students, that the education Wednesday morning compilfirst is a self-study or evalu- (Northwest Commission on of the institution is credible, ing their ideas, and will presand meets at least minimum ent their basic findings and ation that all the departments Colleges and Universities). need to complete, and the This self-study is hundreds standards." Worthington also outcome at noon in the Ragan second is an on-campus as- of pages long, and is comple- states that those standards Theatre, the meeting is open sessment visit that 12 evalua- mented by "unit self studies are high, and are not always to the public and is simply a briefing of ideas; no questors will conduct during April which each different section achieved. of the school also wrote" 4-6. Some suggestions for im- tions will be answered. provement from the 1995 The final decision of The student session, where Harrison said. the evaluators will be quesThese studies have been accreditation are bound to UVSC's accreditation wiD be tioning students about educa- reviewed by dozens of staff reappear this year. Several made on June 17. For more tional programs, student ser- members, faculty and even of those weaknesses include information on UVSC's acvices, and the likes/dislikes students to assure the valid- "the student to advisor ratio, creditation visit the website students might have about ity of the studies which con- the need for more volumes at http://www.uvsc.edu/acthe campus, will take place tain, as J. Karl Worthington, and staff for the library, and creditation. management," on Mon, April 4 at noon in Associate VP of Academic enrollment Autumn Nielson New laws effect driving rights till July 1st. Aoki, who was looking into Further frustrating Aoki is purchasing a car, is rethinkthe chunk of time he will have ing any interstate road trips to wait before he can receive he may have plan™}. a driving privilege card. LeIt is not as if Aoki were unfagal residents without Social miliar with Utah traffic laws; Security cards who don't al- he took a driver's education ready have a license won't be course at Timpview High eligible for the privilege card School during a year he spent "License cont'd from page A l Trooper Brooks with the Nevada Highway patrol said the privilege cards don't grant the right to travel the Silver State's roadways. "That's only [for] Utah," he said. UVSC ethics award ingier Professor of Compara-^ tive Law and Jurisprudence* Editor-in-Chief at George Washington Law* University of Utah presi- School. He came to the U; dent Michael Young received with the goal of raising the; the annual Excellence in Eth- prominence of the school's' ics award from the UVSC national reputation. Center for the Study of Ethics Young spoke at length about last Thursday night. atrocities throughout the Young, who was made pres- world that he had witnessed • ident of the U last year, ac- firsthand. "The tragedies; cepted the award, "on behalf at Darfur in the Sudan are; of all the people I've worked merely the tip of a horrible; iceberg," Young said. "These , alongside over the years." Past winners of the Excel- are incredibly complex issues that are just lence in Ethnow getting atics award have tention." included Jon Young's Huntsman, the 7 accept this Dali Lama, Bill daughter re- Vegor Pedersen Pope, and Pa- award On behalf Of cently returned; from an LDS mission in Ja-1 pan, and he1 | ing the award worked With Over said he was Young spoke , „ struck at how about some of the years. important the his experiences freedom of reliwhile in pubgion is throughlic service. An -Michael Young the world. expert in Japa- y f JJ p r e s i d e n t out "She was able nese law, he to share things has served in ^ — ^ — that are imporseveral capaci- ^ ^ - ^ ^ — — ^ ^ — tant to her and that is a gift,"' ties for both the United States Young said. He said his work and the world at large. has been to insure religious Young served as the Ambassador for the Trade and freedoms to everyone. "It is an incredibly complex Environmental Affairs unissue," Young said. "Some der President George Bush, countries, particularly the as well as being the lead attorney during the treaty that Islamic countries, depend as an exchange student. reunited West and East Ger- heavily on the dominant religion to provide infrastructure'. He currently uses public many. transportation and his bike "[Young] has done a tre- that wouldn't otherwise ex-. to get around. But he wants mendous amount of work in ist. When other religions en- > to get behind the wheel. the area of religious freedom ter the picture it can disrupt • "The bus is ok but I want to at the international level," that balance. We always need drive." said Brian Birch, associate to do what is best for people, For information on Bills director of the Ethics Center. determining what that is can; 223 and 227 go to www.drivBefore his tenure at the U, be difficult." erlicense.utah.gov. Young was Dean and Lobmeia Atkinson. 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