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Friday, May 3, 2013 [augiemirror.com ] Vol. CI No. 21
Reply date passes, freshman enrollment lags
MEGAN RAPOSA
m lraposa 11 @ole.augie.edu
Enrollment for the incoming fresh-man
class is down 13 percent from where
it was this time last year, according to vice
president for enrollment Nancy David-son.
"We are running behind," she said.
May 1 marked the national candidates
reply date by which many students are
expected to have notified their college
of choice about their intention to enroll.
Additionally, deposits from incoming
students are running behind last year's
numbers as well, after the deadline for ac-ceptance
of financial aid awards was ex-tended
to May 1, according to Davidson.
"For students in our region, I think a
lot of them know they have flexibility," she
said. "This class has been a little behind
all year long so the fact that they're not
finished with their decisions at this point
is not a huge surprise."
With low enrollment numbers, the
college has to plan accordingly to make
sure its needs are still met.
"When we have fewer resources, we
will all need to tighten our belts a bit,
of course," academic dean Susan Has-seler
said. "However, we have enough
flexibility in our current structures to
absorb some fluctua-tion
in enrollment and
to continue to offer
strong programs for
our students."
The budget for the
college has already
been set for the 2013-2014 academic year
based on projected enrollment. If the tar-get
enrollment is not met, the college will
have to adjust, according to Davidson.
"Everybody that manages a budget has
been asked to be good stewards of tuition
dollars," she said.
In addition to offering flexible dead-lines
for students hoping to enroll, the
college will continue working to recruit
by sharing ideas across academic depart-ments
to come up with creative ideas to
communicate with prospective students,
Hasseler said. Davidson remains optimis-tic
about enrollment efforts next year.
"By the time the final numbers are re-leased
for the class of 2017, our staff will
be well on the way to enrolling the class of
2018," Davidson said.
Everybody that manages a budget has
been asked to be good stewards of tuition
dollars. Nancy Davidson
COLLEGE TO PAY ITS RESPECTS LATE FINALS
CAUSE
CONFLICT SARA WEINREIS
sjweinreis09@ole.augie.edu
Glenda Sehested's photograph will hang forever in
the Madsen Center to help the Augustana commu-nity
remember her always. They will remember her
not only as a brilliant professor, but also as a mentor,
a friend and an advocate of gender equality.
Sehested was set to retire in May after teaching in
the sociology department for 39 years, but she took
an early leave after being diagnosed with advanced
pancreatic cancer in November. She passed on Mon-day
morning at age 64.
"Glenda came to Augie expecting to teach a few
years and then pursue a career in research:' said her
brother Ken Sehested. "Then she fell in love with
teaching and with the Augustana College vision, col-leagues
and students."
Born in Marlow, Okla., Sehested grew up in Sny-der,
Tex., received her bachelor's degree from Baylor
University in Waco, Tex., her master's from the Uni-versity
of Iowa in Iowa City, and her Ph.D. in sociol-ogy
from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
She began her teaching career at Augustana in
1974, while her colleague professor Susan Schrader
came in 1978, getting to know Sehested for 35 years.
"In many ways, I think she was a mentor to me, as
I think she was to many," Schrader said. "I really ad-mired
the way she was able to instill critical thinking
EMILY WEBER
eaweber10@ole.augie.edu
Cameron McCue and Caleb Sander-son
will be graduating this spring from
high school and will look out into the
crowd and know one member of their
family is not there. Their sisters, Besty
McCue and Tabby Sanderson will not
be attending this significant moment in
their brother's life. Instead, they will be
taking finals.
Because the semester ends in the
fourth week of May, many students at
Augustana will miss important events
and opportunities or will have to rear-range
their finals. The last day of finals is
May 23 and Augustana commencement
is May 25.
Some students are missing out on
internship opportunities. Junior Tabby
Sanderson was told not to apply by a hos-pital
internship administrator in Moor-head
because she would be unable to
be there for the full internship. Instead,
she found a job working at a camp in
the Black Hills, but still has to leave the
See FINALS, page 9
See SEHESTED, page 9
Sociology professor Glenda Sehested had her retirement
portrait hung early, prior to her death Monday, April 29, 2013.
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