COLLEGE NEWS
- Industry-faculty research relations workshop
- Another Teaching With Technology seminar planned
- More than 5,600 visit ISU Research Farms in '95
- Deadlines & Reminders
COMMUNICATIONS KIOSK
- An instance/incidence/incidents of similar words
INFOGRAZING
- NCA accreditation team to visit March 31-April 2
- A college education pays for those with patience
EXTERNAL VOICES
- The future role of the university
MARGINALIA
- Answers are immanent/imminent/eminent
C O L L E G E N E W S
INDUSTRY-FACULTY RESEARCH RELATIONS WORKSHOP
Establishing and maintaining successful industry-faculty research
relationships will be the focus of the next Successful Grantsmanship
workshop. "Industry-Faculty Research Relations" will
be held 7-9 p.m., Monday, March 25 in the Campanile Room, Memorial
Union. Presenters from industry, the faculty and the ISU Office
of Intellectual Property will speak. Pre-register by March 20
with Carla Persaud, 4-9376, cpersaud@iastate.edu, or Kathy Kuehl,
4-1242, kkuehl@iastate.edu. The workshop is the fourth in the
Successful Grantsmanship series sponsored by the Iowa Agriculture
and Home Economics Experiment Station and the College of Veterinary
Medicine.
ANOTHER TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR PLANNED
The March 15 "Teaching with Technology" seminar in the
Brenton Center has been filled. Another seminar will be scheduled
later in the semester. The seminar, for agriculture faculty and
staff, will explain educational technology available in the center
and how to use it. For more information: Jeanette Drewry, 4-1862
MORE THAN 5,600 VISIT ISU RESEARCH FARMS IN '95
In 1995, 5,636 people visited ISU's Research and Demonstration
Farms during field days or at other times. Seventeen field days
were held at 10 different farms around the state.
DEADLINES & REMINDERS
March 15: Foreign Travel Grant applications due, 122 Curtiss
March 21: Livestock Production in Iowa in 2020: Swine and Beef
- Lauren Christian, Iowa Pork Industry Center, and Allen Trenkle,
animal science, 4:10 p.m., 2050 Agronomy (sustainable agriculture
seminar)
March 24: Dept. of Animal Science Centennial, Scheman Building,
4-5961
March 28: The Role and Potential for Site-specific Farming in
Agriculture in 2020 - Grant Mangold, editor, Ag/Innovator Magazine,
4:10 p.m., 2050 Agronomy (sustainable agriculture seminar)
C O M M U N I C A T I O N S K I O S K
AN INSTANCE/INCIDENCE/INCIDENTS OF SIMILAR WORDS
Sound-alike words often pose a threat to the unwary. For example,
which of the three choices is correct in these sentences? See
"Marginalia" for answers.
1. The (instance / incidence / incidents) of cholera decreased
markedly after the health-education campaign.
2. They settled down to work only when the deadline was (immanent
/ imminent / eminent).
I N F O G R A Z I N G
NCA ACCREDITATION TEAM TO VISIT MARCH 31-APRIL 2
The North Central Association accreditation team will visit ISU
March 31-April 2 to evaluate how well the university prepares
its students. Besides their more formal meetings, team members
often stop to speak informally with faculty, staff or students
they encounter on campus.
COLLEGE EDUCATION PAYS FOR THOSE WITH PATIENCE
The data suggest that, over a lifetime, the value of the college
degree is both indisputable and increasing. Some researchers have
predicted an increasing number of college graduates working for
high school graduates' wages. But MIT and Harvard researchers
say that although the median wage for a 23-year-old college grad
was only slightly above that of a high school graduate of the
same age, the difference widened quickly by the time the two had
reached age 30. The researchers' message to college graduates
and their anxious parents: Be patient. (From a Washington Post
story that ran in the Feb. 25 Omaha World-Herald. The MIT-Harvard
study was published in the December '95 issue of Monthly Labor
Review, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Statistics magazine.)
E X T E R N A L V O I C E S
THE FUTURE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY
"In the past, people came to the information, which was stored
at the university. In the future, the information will come to
the people, wherever they are. What then is the role of the university?
Will it be more than a collection of remaining physical functions,
such as the science laboratory and football team? Will the impact
of electronics on the university be like that of printing on the
medieval cathedral, ending its central role in information transfer?
Have we reached the end of the line of a model that goes back
to Ninevah, more than 2,500 years ago? Can we self-reform the
university . . . ?" Columbia University professor Eli Noam,
in the Oct. 13, '95, issue of Science.
M A R G I N A L I A
ANSWERS ARE IMMANENT/IMMINENT/EMINENT
Answers to the two sound-alike examples in "Communications
Kiosk" above are: 1. incidence 2. imminent. Instance means
a case or occurrence of something. Incidence: the rate or range
of occurrence or influence of something. Incidents: occurrences
or events. Immanent means inherent. Imminent: likely to occur
at any moment. Eminent: distinguished.