Students produce Spanish version of campus news

Veronica Lopez is the executive producer of UVSC's student broadcast team, and this year she has added the occaisional Spanish news show. There is a very nice story about it in today's Herald

UVSC launches Spanish language broadcast
(Daily Herald, November 26 2007)

Particularly interesting are the multitude of anti-immigration, and some downright xenophobic, posters in the Herald's forum.

The Salt Lake Tribune picked up an AP version of the story:

UVSC launches spanish language television broadcast
(Salt Lake Tribune, November 26 2007)

Today On Campus: Thursday • 11/15/07

5TH ANNUAL HUNGER BANQUET
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Grande Ballroom
$5

AUTOMOTIVE CAR CARE CLINIC
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sparks Automotive Building
Free

UVSC CHESS TOURNAMENT
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
SC 213b
Free

PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENT: "WHY WE NEED A DEPARTMENT OF PEACE"
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
SC 206C
Free

EXECUTIVE LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS: LEW CRAMER, PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER OF UTAH
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Ragan Theater
Free

ART FOR LIFE EXHIBITION AND AUCTION
11:00am - 7:00pm
Woodbury Art Museum, 2nd Floor University Mall
Free
http://www.uvsc.edu/museum

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From Kabul to Orem

If you travel the halls of UVSC for any length of time chances are you will run into Najib Niazi. Right after 9-11 he worked as a teenage interpreter for journalist Scott Carrier in his home country of Afghanistan. Fast forward six years and both Niazi and Carrier find themselves at UVSC.

Escaping the atrocities of war
(Daily Herald, November 11 2007)

If you get a chance, stop by the Integrated Studies office and strike up a conversation with Najib.

For a much more in-depth article on Najib Niazi and Scott Carrier check out this City Weekly article from earlier this year:
Stranger in Zion
Najibullah Niazi helped a journalist get the story of his career. Four years later, that story put a target on Niazi’s back.
(Salt Lake City Weekly, January 25 2007)

UVSC helps train dental hygienists in Ghana

There was a cool little story in today's College Times about UVSC's Dental Hygiene department's new program that helps provide training for prospective dental hygienists in Ghana.

UVSC professor establishes Ghana's first dental hygiene program
(College Times, September 17 2007)

Second year students in Kristen Kinateder-Mecham's program correspond via e-mail with students in Ghana. "In class at UVSC, we discuss some areas that we want to assess the students in. We'll come up with short-answer questions and give them to the Ghanaian students and see how they are understanding the concepts," said Kinateder-Mecham. "They [UVSC students] are learning the material very well because they're trying to help someone else understand it."

Kinateder-Mecham also travels to Ghana to do training sessions and brings books donated by students at UVSC. She is also working to establish an exchange program with the country.

UVSC Student Spends Summer with First Lady of Mexico

Press Release from UVSC's College Marketing Department:

Melina Jones, a political science major and senior at UVSC, from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, was recently given the experience of a lifetime. She had the opportunity to spend the summer doing an internship in Mexico City assisting First Lady, Margarita Zavala de Calderón.

Jones’s duties consisted of assisting the First Lady, translating, attending scheduled meetings and events and organizing and doing office work at Los Pinos, the official residence of Mexico’s First Family and offices of Mexico’s President and First Lady.

The core issues the First Lady focuses on are adoption, immigration, and more specifically, immigrant children.

Jones first arrived in Mexico City at the beginning of July, and was there until August 22. Along with assisting the First Lady in Mexico City doing numerous duties, Jones had the opportunity to travel to Canada with Calderón as her personal assistant to the North American Summit Conference in Ottawa, Canada, which took place from August 18 to 21.

“It was a wonderful experience,” said Jones, commenting on the trip. “I learned so much working with her.”

It was such a great experience, in fact, next summer Jones is planning on returning to Mexico City to do her senior internship at Los Pinos and work with The First Lady once more as her assistant.

Within the next year, Calderón will visit UVSC and speak.

UVSC experiences big bump in summer enrollment numbers

Summer classes at colleges have never been terribly popular. For some reason students find other things to do outside the classroom. But this year UVSC has posted some impressive, albeit preliminary, numbers for their summer programming.

Summer 2007 Enrollment Data, Institutional Research (as of July 12, 2007)

On average (between the two most popular summer blocks) almost 900 more students attended summer classes this year. It could be that the school's policy of charging in-state tuition for everyone (including international students) has convinced some scholars to drop the tanning lotion and pick up the textbook.

Perhaps this trend will continue as the state's new residency rules take effect. In theory out-of-state students could come to UVSC fresh out of high school, take a full semester load of credits during the summer at in-state prices, then stick around Utah and work until the next summer. Then they can apply for permanent residency (as long as their parents don't claim them as dependents) and start paying tuition like a Utahan. In other words, savvy out-of-staters could attend UVSC without the outrageous penalties their older brothers and sisters faced.

For more info on the new residency requirements check out http://www.uvsc.edu/students/residency/