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Women’s Conference set for April 1

Life coach Connie Sokol and Salt Lake Community College President Cynthia Bioteau will keynote USU-CEU’s 32nd annual Women’s Conference from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 1 in the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center. Theme for the conference is “Movers and Shakers” and it features 12 workshops on topics applicable to today’s women.

The workshops include “Look-ing Better, Feeling Better” by Dr.

K a r e n Radley, “Living a Glu-ten-Free Diet” by Sha n ny Wilson, “ D e a t h by Choc-olate” by Jeanette Pa rke r, “ C a n -ning 1010: Your Garden in a Jar” by Colleen Marsing, “Quilting 1010” by Jan Guptill, “Sleep…What’s That” by Nataniel Wood-ward, “Movers and Shakers in Politics” by Laurie Pitchforth and Christine Watkins, “Getting Organized When You Don’t Have Time” by Carol Sokol, “Wills and Trusts for Women” by Christian

Bryner, “Cooking Greek: Bak-lava” by Pam Cha and “Herbal Gardening” by Hillary Gordon and Tammy Hansen.

The morning keynote is Dr. Bioteau who has served as president and CEO of SLCC since 2005, the first woman to hold the position. She has over 35 years in the education, mental health and business fields and has converged the expertise and attributes of all three into her passion for acces-sible and critical education for all community members. She created the Women’s Business Institute at SLCC to provide programmatic and financial support to women entrepreneurs.

In 2010 she received the YW-CA’s Outstanding Achievement Award in Education, the Salt Lake Chamber’s Athena Award and was recently named by the Utah

Business M a g a -zine as one of the 100 Most In-fluential People in Utah.

Pres-i d e n t Bioteau is known for her passion for positioning the com-munity college at the core of economic and workforce develop-ment and building partnerships with business, industry, educa-tion, community and governmen-tal agencies. Her experience as an educator and administrator has helped her serve in educational, mental health and community-

based institutions throughout the eastern U.S., most recently in North Carolina. She has ad-dressed national audiences on the importance of community colleges to regional and national economic development and recov-ery at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Among her many professional honors, Dr. Bioteau received the 2002 Boston Public Schools Higher Education Partnership Service Award and the 2001 Outstanding Developmental Program in New England Award. Her contemporary publications include: Critical Transformations: Essays of Voice for Nontraditional Adult Learners; Beyond the Open Gate: Influences on Student Suc-cess; The Community College as a Catalyst for Change; Creating the

As USU-CEU’s Eagle news-paper was officially inducted into the Utah Press Association this past year, its presence was felt immediately when the newspaper earned three first-place awards, three second-place awards and three third-place awards Saturday at the press association’s annual convention in St. George.

Eagle Sports Editor David Osborn Jr. won first place for Best Sports Column for his “Next on the Tee” series. Second place went to the Emery County Progress’ Gary Arrington for his “Sports Stuff” columns.

The Eagle won the Best Website

Design created by Les Bowen, former Eagle editor. The Emery County Progress won second.

The final first place award brought mixed emotions to the staff. But, heck, a first place plaque is worth its weight in gold, right. The Eagle staff won Screw Up of the Year for the photo of a USU-CEU student in a black T-shirt with the words “I have a Ph.D. ” printed on the front as he ate in the cafeteria.

The Eagle’s Homecoming photo page brought the staff a second place finish in the Best Photo Page category with Mt. Pleasant’s The Pyramid earning

USU Eastern was the only institution of higher education snubbed by the legislature in terms of build-ings and/or one-time funding. Administrators hoped for the long-standing request for an art and education building to replace its music and theatre buildings that are listed as some of the state’s most dan-gerous in terms of how much their structures have decayed.

In a combined statement by USU Eastern theatre in-structors Grady McEvoy and Dr. Corey Ewan, they wrote, “It is always disheartening that we are constantly over-looked. It would be helpful if they would even give us planning funds to truly get the process started and allow us to formulate a concise plan of attack. Given where we are now, it is unlikely we will be considered until the college enrollment doubles, we find external funds to help match or at least incentivize the legislature to look our way, and we can show community support via fund raising and outcry.

“We struggle compet-ing with other institutions because we have so little to offer in terms of money. We have a great deal to offer in terms of opportunity, quality, potential and program ad-vancement given the merger with USU. The powers that be, apparently do not consider quality, potential or opportu-nity in the funding process. They will always rely on numbers and the bottom line. Our institutional numbers look like growth is happen-ing but we are still struggling compared to others around the state. Perhaps part of our struggle is the fact that our facilities are constantly in the news about how run down and poor they are.

“Yes, these facilities need to be replaced; however the work we do is outstanding and we will continue to do what we do best. Produce theatre at the highest level possible given the resources we have. The one thing which may change this would be complete failure of the Geary Facility and according to the state experts, it is not that unlikely that we would lose the Music building and/or the Geary Theatre in a natural disaster situation. We can only hope no one is in the building.”

The legislature agreed to fund seven buildings and a land purchase in its state-funded building proj-ects. This included a $31.6 million Davis classroom building for Weber State University in Layton. The 110,000-square-foot build-ing will add 30 classrooms, essentially doubling Weber¹s Layton campus.

They agreed to provide $25 million for a State Hospital consolidation, $14 million for a USU Business Building Addition, $10 mil-lion for a Tooele Applied Tech college campus, $12.8 million for a Washington County Veteran¹s Nursing Home and a Utah County Nursing Home, $5 million for an Archives and DATC Warehouse and $3 million for Salt Lake Community Col-lege Herriman land purchase. This totaled $101,216 million.

Lawmakers offered bonds for several state building projects, including the U of U South Jordan Hospital which will be purchased for $66 million, U of U Healthcare Medical Service Building $25.9 million, U of U Athletic Center expansion $20 mil-lion, and U of U Ambulatory

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Kelli Burke-Gabossisenior editor

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Students can now obtain a bachelor’s degree in business at USU-Eastern.

With a business degree, students can pursue business careers. “Business majors make it possible for students to gain employment by ap-plying for a job with another company or create their own job,” stated Dan Allen, an associate professor in the management department at Huntsman School of Business for USU.

According to Allen, small businesses rep-resent more than 99 percent of all employers. They provide 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs annually. They are 53 percent home-based and 3 percent franchises. They account for 97 percent of all U.S. exporters of goods. They produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.

Allen teaches general business courses: marketing principles, operations management fundamentals, marketing research and develop-ing entrepreneurial competencies. He has owned several businesses before he became an educator.

All business students are required to take a core set of courses. For the business degree, students need the following classes: ACCT 2010, ACCT 2020, BUS 3110, BUS 3400, BUS 3500, BUS 3700, BUS 4880, ECON 1500, ECON 2010, ECON 3400, MATH 1050, MATH 1100, MHR 2050, MIS 2100, MIS 2200, PSY 1010, SOC 1010 and STAT 2300.

“We would like to encourage more business majors to stay here and get four-year degrees. Students who have enjoyed the many advantages of CEU may continue their business education

No new building again

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Think how cool it would have been when you were in elementary school to see, smell and touch actual body parts of humans and animals. Students in the Carbon School District elementary schools got to do just that, thanks to USU-CEU biology associate professor Tyson Chappell, Ph.D.

Chappell took some of his students to all Carbon District elementary schools for the USU Eastern Elementary Biological Science Exploration from March 7 – 10 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

While Jon Krum, Ph.D., had the original idea, Chappell planned the event. He has taught at the

Bachelor’s in business available at USU-Eastern

1,300 elementary students learn biology 1010

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Students continue to have to reach deeper into their pockets as the burden of paying for higher education shifts from mostly state support to student support. At USU-CEU, tuition and fees will go up almost 10 percent for the 2011-12 academic year.

Chancellor Joe Peterson con-sulted USU-Eastern students about the components of student costs at the Truth in Tuition hearing on Wednesday, March 16 from 2:30 to 3 p.m.

The legislature made a 2 percent cut to higher education this year. “We’re going to have to make pain-ful reductions. And we don’t know yet what they will be or where they will be,” stated Peterson.

Among the main discussions were tier-one increases where the board of regents approves a per-centage common to all institutions. The increase is projected to be five percent in Utah. Tier-two increases are proposed by the institution. They vary by institution and are projected to be four percent for USU (including USU-CEU)

Last year, general student fees were $200 per semester. They are estimated to increase to $225 per term.

Peterson explained reasoning for tuition increases, as well. The college receives tax money from the state and tuition dues from stu-dents. The ratio for USU-Eastern is approximately 20 percent tuition costs, 80 percent taxes. This means that for every one dollar a student pays in tuition, the state contributes four dollars. According to Peterson, this ratio of state funding is the highest in Utah.

Last year, tuition increased 8.9 percent. It will increase 9.7 percent this year. These numbers are not unusual compared to other universities and colleges around the state. Peterson mentioned that

Dr. Cynthia Bioteau Carol Sokol

Truth in Tuition hearingUSU-Eastern tuition set to go up 10%

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Eagle editors: Kelli Burke-Gabossi, Jessa Love Adams, David Osborne Jr., Mae Goss and Carlie Miller.

photo courtesy Jon Krum

Jessica Lester, Casey Olsen, Thai Phi, Josiah Safley and Jonathon Watterson are students in Jon Krum’s biology 1620 class who participated in a service-learning activity over spring break. They went “bear denning” with the Department of Wildlife Resources personnel to check on vitality of a she bear and change the radio collar with one that had fresh batteries and was larger in size.

photo courtesy Tyson Chappell

Kelton Wells shows a group of elementary students what a human brain looks like.

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