[Vision2020] The UI Friday Letter from UI President White (January 6, 2006)

[Tom Hansen]

Copied and pasted below is today's (January 6, 2006) UI Friday Letter from
UI President White.

 

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University of Idaho

Office of the President

Moscow, Idaho 83844-3151

Phone: 208-885-6365

Fax: 208-885-6558

 

The Friday Letter

A Newsletter for University of Idaho Alumni and Friends Jan. 6, 2005

 

Dear Friends,

 

I'm in Washington, D.C. to participate in the U.S. University Presidents
Summit on International Education. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings are co-hosts of the
summit.

 

The Secretaries have called for strengthening international education
opportunities for our students so they can compete in the global arena. 

The Secretaries also understand the need for the government to work
collaboratively with higher education to invest in educating U.S. students
who can work in fields of international interest.

 

For many U.S. higher education institutions, including the University of
Idaho, a meaningful international perspective is introduced into the lives
of our students by attracting foreign students and scholars to our campuses.
To be more successful, we must actively market U.S. higher education
programs abroad, reach out to underserved populations, and better understand
visa and regulatory processes. Also, more and more U.S. students spend part
of their college career studying abroad. Key investment in these programs to
increase student access to worldwide learning will strengthen the
international education for Americans. The opportunity to collaboratively
develop a shared national vision on international education with the federal
government is a wonderful goal with which to be associated.

 

The University mourns the death of student Martina Sojkova Clark, who died
Dec. 27 from injuries she received in a vehicle accident near Harvard. A
memorial service will take place at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 14 at the Seventh Day
Adventist Church in Moscow. The family suggests memorials be made to any
program of choice to benefit children. Sojkova Clark was a native of the
Czech Republic, and a student in the College of Education. Her husband,
Ryan, is a student at the University of Idaho.

 

Tim White

President

 

Here's the latest news from the University of Idaho:

 

Jim Chacko '75, who holds a doctoral degree in natural resources, has been
chosen to receive a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award. With the award,
Chacko will return to his native India to teach a graduate-level course in
aquaculture and fish pathology at Sree Narayana College, Kannur University,
in the state of Kerala, and will lecture at universities throughout India.
He founded the aquaculture program at Unity College in Unity, Maine, in
1985, and has taught there for 20 years.

 

Nancy McDaniel has been named acting director of alumni relations and the
alumni association. An alumna with a degree in journalism, McDaniel worked
in alumni relations early in her career. She currently serves as associate
director of development, and she will continue in that capacity during the
term of this new appointment. McDaniel replaces Harold Gibson, who has
resigned to take a position in New York. The university plans a national
search in the spring for permanent leadership, and hopes to have the new
director in place by summer 2006.

 

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Take care, Moscow (you, too, Vandals).

 

Tom Hansen

 

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

 

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