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Thursday, March 25, 2010
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T.S. McBride, Rebecca Hoeffner & Melissa Boughton News Editors
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Mayborn halts
search for dean
By Shea Yarborough
Senior Staff Writer
UNT's first attempt to find a
new dean for the Mayborn School
of Journalism ended in failure due
to alack of qualified candidates.
Several of the committee
members appointed to lo
candidates said they
want someone with
vision. The school needs
a dean who can put it
on the map, said Nann
Goplerud, interim chair
for the department of
news.
"We want to play
NANN
GOPLERUD
with the big boys," she said, who would be a great dean for
tion committee.
"Well, I'm the interim dean, I'm
not the new dean," he said.
Sheri Broyles, search committee
member and interim chair of the
department of strategic communi-
cations, saidher hope was that all
;pmmittee members would
have an open mind
about all the candidates
who applied.
"I would hope the
rest of the committee
had an open mind to
say let's look at all the
candidates we get and
see if we have a person
naming universities like the
University of Missouri and the
graduate program at Columbia
University.
But UNT Provost Wendy
Wilkins was unimpressed by the
applicants.
"The pool of candidates was
not sufficiently large or strong,"
she said.
The provost's office and the
search committee decided to
start a new search with a new job
posting next fall, Wilkins said.
"Until we complete a search
and have a dean selected, the
school will have interim leader-
ship," she said.
The Mayborn Schoolbecame a
college in fall2009, prompting the
searchforadean, said Mitch Land,
interim dean for the college. Prior
to that, the journalism school was
a department of the College ofArts
and Sciences and had a chairman
instead of a dean.
Land, a UNT alumnus, was
the department's chair. Although
he is the interim dean, he is not
necessarily a shoe-in for the
permanent position, he said,
directing questions to the selec-
us,"Broyles said.
The committee has not limited
itself to candidates with academic
experience. The door is open for
a "star" to walk through, Broyles
said.
"Like WalterCronkite," she said
"I know he's dead, but if someone
with understanding of journalism
and the essence of who we are,
then that would be an alterna-
tive."
Having a founding dean already
in place would be ideal because
there is the possibility the school
and the university will miss out
on donations because there isn't
leadership, Goplerud said.
"Does it stop us in our tracks?
No," she said. "We have good
people here and we're going to
keep moving ahead."
The ability to raise funds,
knowledge of public relations,
advertising and the vast areas of
j ournalism are a few of the require-
ments the new dean will need,
she said.
"We need someone who can sit
at the table with the provost and
the other deans and hold his or
her place there," she said.
Exchange students visit UN
By Krystle Canto
Staff Writer
Four UNT exchange
students from the Universidad
de Magallanes in Chile are
participating in a semester-
long exchange program for
English education majors
from Chile.
The program was created in
2009, but exchange students
are just starting to participate
this year. It lets students go
abroad to study English and
other subjects and immerse
themselves in American
culture. All participating
students receive scholarships
for the program and have a
two-year English teaching
requirement when they return
to Chile.
"This exact exchange
program just started this year
basically," said Christopher
Anderson, program coor-
dinator and UNT research
assistant professor. "The idea
is that four UMAG students
come here and four UNT
students go there."
Though UNT students have
been going to Chile to do
research and earn credit since
2006, they weren't part of the
study abroad program for the
Universidad de Magallanes,
Anderson said.
"We are now looking for
students that want to do the
exchange part," Anderson
said.
The four exchange students,
David Solsona, Vanessa
Mancilla, Mario Ovando and
Sebastián Moya, all English
education majors, said the
program was a good oppor-
tunity.
"Our government gives a
scholarship and we decided
to apply, at the same time
our university had an agree-
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Photo by Augusta Liddic/Photographer
Juniors Vanessa Mancilla, Sebastián Moya, Mario Ovando, and David Solsona, are visiting from the University of Magal-
lanes in Chile to study English education at UNT, After the spring 2010 semester they will return to Chile to finish their
degrees so that they can teach English in their country.
ment with UNT this year, so
we are the first people coming
here from the southern most
place of the world," Moya said.
"Afterwards we have to give back
in some way, by teaching classes
for two years."
Solsana said that is the point
of coming to UNT.
"That is why we came here,"
he said. "This scholarship is
mainly for teachers of English
in our country."
Moya agreed.
"In Chile, we are teachers of
English, so we study education
and English backhome," he said.
"We are only taught academic
English, so this is a very good
opportunity to get immersed in
the culture and the conception
of the language."
Moya said the exchange
students were adjusting to life
at UNT.
"We had our cultural shock
for a week, 1 think, but now it's
great," he said. "Everythinghere
is like the movies, we wentto see
the basketball play, cheerleaders,
the band and the stadium. Credit
cards are here, cars everywhere,
no pavement."
The students are still getting
used to the idea of needing a
car in Texas. In Chile, they were
used to walking everywhere.
Car culture is not as big
in Chile as it is here Solsana
said.
"I don't know about the rest
of the United States, buthere in
Texas everything is so spread
out, you have to have a car," he
said. "We don'thave cars, so we
have to walk everywhere and
there aren't a lot of sidewalks
here so you have to walk in the
grass. When people go by in cars
they look at us strange because
we are walking in the grass."
None of the students' imme-
diate family members were
directly affected by the recent
earthquake in Chile, but they
said it was hard to watch the
news on TV and not be able to
do much about it.
"For me, it was very shocking
to see the images and see your
country destroyed and you
are so far away you can't do
anything," Mancilla said. "It
was frustrating. 1 think it was
the worst. It was sad."
Mancilla said that given the
fact that so many people died,
the loss of housing is just a detail
to her.
"It has two sides, because
we live far away in the south
of the country. So our close
family, they're all ok," she said.
"I have some aunts and uncles.
They five 40 minutes away from
the epicenter. They lost their
homes. The important thing is
that they're OK."
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