2008 Woodie Awards
Program focuses on faculty-student relations
Hannah Whitsel, Staff Writer
Issue date: 11/14/06
Last Updated: 12/26/07
Since then the program has been tabled and discussed again and again with little progress until recently.
If implemented at Whitworth, the program might allow freshman an opportunity to get to know the faculty.
"As a freshman, approaching a professor can seem daunting, but a Dine With the Mind program would give me more courage to approach them and get to know them on a more personal basis," freshman Jochelle Schatz said.
The program at Wheaton gets increased response by class, with upperclassmen using the funds more than freshman, Ivester said.
At its meeting last Wednesday, ASWC senators and representatives reported that students interviewed in a recent constituency report expressed support for a Dine With the Mind program.
"The majority favored the program," Baldwin-Jenkins representative Corey Newman said.
Zerkel proposed that ASWC form a committee to better research the program already in place at Wheaton.
"I would use this program more than I might have last year, now that I'm more comfortable with my professors, and I am establishing ongoing relationships with them. We need more details about the program," Zerkel said.
The committee was put to a vote and passed by the Assembly. Zerkel will head the committee.
The proposal was tabled again until the committee provides more research. A vote is expected this Wednesday.
"Whitworth is already known for the faculty's willingness to be available to the students when the students want/need to talk, Hixson said. "So therefore we thought that this program would simply help to increase the students desire to more fully utilize their professors as education tools."
If implemented at Whitworth, the program might allow freshman an opportunity to get to know the faculty.
"As a freshman, approaching a professor can seem daunting, but a Dine With the Mind program would give me more courage to approach them and get to know them on a more personal basis," freshman Jochelle Schatz said.
The program at Wheaton gets increased response by class, with upperclassmen using the funds more than freshman, Ivester said.
At its meeting last Wednesday, ASWC senators and representatives reported that students interviewed in a recent constituency report expressed support for a Dine With the Mind program.
"The majority favored the program," Baldwin-Jenkins representative Corey Newman said.
Zerkel proposed that ASWC form a committee to better research the program already in place at Wheaton.
"I would use this program more than I might have last year, now that I'm more comfortable with my professors, and I am establishing ongoing relationships with them. We need more details about the program," Zerkel said.
The committee was put to a vote and passed by the Assembly. Zerkel will head the committee.
The proposal was tabled again until the committee provides more research. A vote is expected this Wednesday.
"Whitworth is already known for the faculty's willingness to be available to the students when the students want/need to talk, Hixson said. "So therefore we thought that this program would simply help to increase the students desire to more fully utilize their professors as education tools."
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