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Prabath Boteju, ComputerMinds president, Dr. Robert Minter, dean of the school of business,
and Dr. Thomas Bell, professor of management information systems, finalized TWU's partner-
ship with ComputerMinds.
ComputerMinds, TWU
partner for IT classes
Shawn R. Poling
NEWS EDITOR
\ new partnership
between Texas Wesleyan and
ComputerMinds Inc. will
offer courses in informatior
technology training and cer-
tification for a variety of dif-
ferent computer applications,
including Web development.
Cisco, Microsoft and
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"This partnership bene-
fits the university and
ComputerMinds," said Allen
Henderson, senior vice pres-
ident and provost of
Wesleyan. "ComputerMinds
offers the certification and
training, while the university
provides the higher-educa-
tion credits."
Most of the courses will
be held in Bedford at the
ComputerMinds headquar-
ters where the company
began in 1998. Since that
time, the company has
acquired clients such as
Bank of America and the
Federal Aviation
Administration.
The courses are mainly
geared toward professionals
who are already in the field
but want to further their edu-
cation. New technological
advancements are made
every day (more than six dif-
ferent versions of Windows
have been made available in
the past four years, and more
are on the way), and not
keeping up could render a
professional as obsolete as
last year's computers, educa-
tors said.
Additionally, changes in
law also bring about the need
to stay up to date.
"Wilh Sarbanes-Oxley.
with H1PAA, you have an
increased need for people to
stay current in the technolo-
gies that are affected by these
changes," said Prabath
Boteju,, president of
ComputerMinds, on the
company Web site.
The extra benefit of the
partnership to professionals
is that it will provide more
than a refresher course.
"Because
ComputerMinds will be
affiliated with Texas
Wesleyan, professionals whe
take the courses can now
earn continuing education
crcdits in their field," saic
Dr. Robert Minter, dean o
the school of business.
But they in no way dis-
courage non-professionals
from taking the courses
Certification is one of the
ways college graduates car
set themselves ahead of theii
peers in the job market.
"Given the volatility o
the information technologies
market, a certificate of com-
pletion can be invaluable,'
said Dr. Thomas Bell, pro-
fessor of management infor-
mation systems.
According to the office
the office of communica-
tions, the new partners wil
also be working with the
Texas Workforce
Commission, the veteran
department and area schoo
districts to help create new
programs for job-seekers
veterans and college-bounc
high school students.
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way.
The Web site will feature sections for
poetry, prose, short fiction, short non-fiction,
black and white photography and any other
art form that can be submitted electronically.
In addition, there will also be a section
entitled "Leg 0' Mutton," which will feature
the comedic submissions. Smeller came up
with the idea.
"As an organization, we decidcd to go
for a more academic title, but we also
thought that "Leg O' Mutton was too funny
not to put somewhere."
Although the Web site is not yet active,
submissions are already being accepted until
March I. Members of the Wesleyan commu-
nity can submit up to five entries for every
section, and should include a short biogra-
phy along with their submissions. All entries
need to be sent to
wesleyanramage@,hotniail.com.
"It's exciting to run a project like this,
which should endure for many years to
come," said Fowler.
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Committee opens design to freshmen for chance to win $50
Shawn R. Poling
NEWS EDITOR
Here at Wesleyan, many events and pro-
grams are held to help welcome and acclima-
tize new freshmen into their new college lives.
Freshmen orientation, the freshmen mentor-
ship program, and the "Meet Your Match"
picnic are just a few festivities that cater to the
new students.
A new addition to this list is the pin
design contest. This is a chance for current
students to design a Wesleyan-themed pin for
the next year's incoming freshmen. It's also a
chance to win $50 for being selected.
"The idea for the class pin developed
from the Freshmen Orientation Committee
who thought it might help spark a sense of
belonging to, and perhaps bonding to,
Wesleyan," said Glynn Mathis, director of the
Academic Resource Center.
Last year's pin for the class of '09 was not
decided upon through a contest. The commit-
tee instead brainstormed what they wanted on
the pin and chose the best design from sam-
ples that were created by the Lapel Pin
Company, who will also make the new pins.
This is the first year an actual contest will be
held to determine the design.
Originally, the designs were to be submit-
ted by the class of 2010, but because of time
constraints last year's freshmen will be the
ones eligible to submit their visions. That
way, the pins will be ready to distribute during
the "pinning ceremony," which will take place
after the first of four new freshmen orienta-
tions that will take place June 13.
"We thought that having a freshman stu-
dent design the pin would encourage the cur-
rent freshmen to become involved with the
incoming class and make the pin a little more
meaningful," said Mathis, "especially since a
student designed it an not an unseen pin com-
pany."
The deadline for design submissions is
April 21, and they should be given to Mathis
in the ARC, which is located on the first floor
of the library. Each design must include the
traditional Wesleyan flame, the Wesleyan
logo, the school colors and, last but not least,
the words "class of 2010."
The winner of the contest will receive
$50, an announcement in the Wesleyan Flame
and other venues as appropriate. But the win-
ner will not be the only person involved to
walk away with something valuable.
"We will present each incoming freshmen
with their class pin, formally inducting them
into the Wesleyan class of 2010," said Mathis.
Innocence, from page 1
region where the crime was
committed. Those crimes that
took place in North Texas
will be given to Texas
Wesleyan and UTA, who,
combined, have 40 students
participating.
"We spent the spring lay-
ing the foundational work,"
said Short, "We still aren't
getting too many letters yet,
but UH and tech get about 20
or 30 a day."
Fort Worth's Mike Ware,
lawyer of criminal justice,
leads the North Texas wing of
the program.
"I think there are a lot of
problems with the system,
and I think this is one way to
correct it. I'm not maintain-
ing the prisons are full of
innocent people, because
they're not. But if its one-half
of one percent, that's a lot of
innocent people," said Ware.
In the past year, the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals
urged the Texas Legislature
to help fund the project.
According to a Dec. 18 arti-
cle in the Fort Worth Stcir-
Telegram, the Texas
Legislature has since set
aside $800,000 to be given to
University of Houston,
University of Texas, Texas
Tech University and Texas
Southern University over the
next two years. Each school
will get $200,000.
According to Short,
many states including West
Virginia and North Carolina
have innocence networks, but
so far there is no national net-
work.
The Wesleyan students
are required to perform 30
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hours of pro-bono work in
order to graduate. The time
spent investigating the cases
will be counted for the 30
hours.
"We're still new," said
Short "The letters should start
to come in."
U.S. News, from page 1
components: the proportion of classes with
fewer than 20 students (30 percent of the fac-
ulty resources score) and the proportion with
50 or more students (10 percent of the score).
"Faculty salary (35 percent) is the aver-
age faculty pay, plus benefits, during the
2003-04 and 2004-05 academic years, adjust-
ed for regional differences in the cost of living
(using indexes from the consulting firm
Runzheimer International). We also weigh the
proportion of professors with the highest
degree in their fields (15 percent), the student-
faculty ratio (5 percent), and the proportion of
faculty who are full time (5 percent)."
Student Selectivity is the next component
of the score and is 15 percent of the cumula-
tive. Fifty percent of the selectivity score is
the test scores of the enrollees on the SAT and
ACT tests. Forty percent of the score is the
portion of freshmen who graduated in the top
10 percent of their high school classes for all
national universities and liberal arts colleges
and the top 25 percent for institutions in the
master's and comprehensive colleges cate-
gories. The final 10 percent is the acceptance
rate or the ratio of admitted students to appli-
cants. All data for this comes from the fall
2004 entering class.
Financial resources equate 10 percent of
the cumulative score. U.S. News compared
the spending per student on instruction,
research, student services and related educa-
tional expenditures in the 2003 and 2004 fis-
cal years. The reported reasoning for this is
that a college with generous per-student
spending indicates that a college can offer a
wide variety of programs and services.
Graduation rate performance is five per-
cent and only used with national universities
and liberal arts colleges. Here they measured
the difference between a school's six-year
graduation rate for the class that entered in
1998 and the predicted rate for the class.
Alumni giving rate is the last five percent
of the entire score with the score coming from
the average percentage of alumni who gave to
their school during 2002-03 and 2003-04.
U.S. News totaled all scores and then the
final scores were rescaled so that the top
schools were reassigned the value of 100 and
the other schools' weighted scores were cal-
culated as a proportion of that top score.
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