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Hill News Special Edition - St. Lawrence in Transition

rmberm06 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:49:22 -0400

It is hard to overstate the formidable and urgent task that Dan Sullivan faced when he became the 17th president of St. Lawrence University in July 1996.

To strengthen the university and its competitive standing, he needed, among other things, to increase fundraising, increase the number of students applying for admission, increase the number of entering students, improve graduation rates, and renovate an aging physical plant and construct new facilities, including a student center, student townhouses and a state-of-the-art science center.

Fox Makes a Full Circle

rmberm06 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:45:37 -0400

Gary Feldkamp, one of Culver-Stockton College’s physical plant employees, remembers a day when he went to work with a cold. Sometime during his daily routine, Gary ran into the college’s president, Dr. William Fox. As the two men greeted one another Fox noticed that Gary wasn’t feeling well and he told Gary to “feel better.”

Faculty: Balancing Teaching and Research -- Salaries Lag Behind Our Comparison Schools

jfhous06 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:52:24 -0400

At a recent talk with students in a class, President Dan Sullivan told a story about Dwight D. Eisenhower’s early experience as the president of Columbia University. Apparently at his first faculty meeting, Eisenhower began by saying, “Fellow employees of Columbia University…”
Suddenly, I.I. Rabi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist leapt to his feet and said, “Mr. President, we are not employees of the university, we ARE the university!”

Building Projects Must Tread Lightly

rmberm06 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:50:53 -0400

Before President Dan Sullivan’s arrival in 1996, no new buildings had been constructed on campus since 1972.

St. Lawrence Then and Now: Alcohol Use Continues to Cause Trouble on Campus

jfhous06 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:49:03 -0400

“I was thoroughly shitfaced last night,” a St. Lawrence junior, who asked to remain anonymous, recently recalled with a guilty smile. “We pre-gamed over at Whitman, played card games and ripped about five shots of Barton’s (vodka), ‘cause it’s cheap and gets the job done. Then we walked to a (SLU) party off campus. I played like five or six games of Beirut and had a couple of beers in between. Headed to the Tick Tock around midnight. This is where things get patchy. I danced a bunch and think I made out with a rando’ in the back bar!

Integrating Athletics with Academics

jfhous06 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:45:41 -0400

St. Lawrence athletes are experiencing a new kind of achievement that stretches well beyond the win or loss column. By the time they graduate, their academic performance is equal to their non-athlete counterparts, university figures show.
Comprised of 32 teams, athletics encompasses about a third of the student body at St. Lawrence and the university says they are completely representative, participating in a wide range of student activities and choosing majors in every field.

A Commitment to Socioeconomic Diversity

jfhous06 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:42:58 -0400

St. Lawrence University regularly provides approximately 80 percent of its students with financial aid, which is often a decisive factor in choosing a school.
Mary, for instance, a sophomore from New Hampshire, said she had applied to more than a dozen schools. Although St. Lawrence was on her list, she worried about its remoteness and relatively small size, and there was no way she could afford its tuition, room and board, and fees, which now runs about $50,000 a year.

The Budget May Be Priority Number One

jfhous06 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:38:41 -0400

Binders packed with graphs and statistics about St. Lawrence’s finances fill the bookcases in Kathryn Mullaney’s office. One graph that jumps out illustrates a success story. It shows a steep upward curve for the growth in the university endowment’s market value, which rose from $50 million in 1984-85 to a $269 million peak in 2006-07, and then a small drop to $245 million last year.

University Fined $21,000 by State

jfhous06 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:06:40 -0400

St. Lawrence University was fined $21,100, for failure to correct a series of fire code violations on campus. The third fire code inspection in February came after two previous inspections. Over the 60-day period the university failed to correct the violations resulting in the recent fines.

Lee North Up in Smoke

jfhous06 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:58:59 -0400

A heat lamp that was being used to grow marijuana and basilin a closet of a Lee dorm room caused a small fire when the lamp fell overearly Wednesday afternoon.

The fire was contained inside the wardrobe in the room and noone was hurt; however, over 150 people were evacuated for at least two hours.Fire Chief Michael Dalton said the fire was accidental.