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business, health, education,
environment, agriculture, community
development and information
technology. Find out how you can
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with Campus Representative
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TAMU Career Center
John J. Koldus Bldg. • Ste. 209
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■ November 6-7
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that they weren’t doing well,
we can stop.”
Frank Ashley, director of
admissions, said counselors at
targeted schools he visits advise
students not to bother applying
to A&M unless they are in the
top ten percent.
Estrada asked the Regents
to consider automatically
accepting all students who
graduate in the top 25 percent
of the 253 target schools.
“We know quite well what
we can and cannot do from the
Hopwood decision,” Estrada
said. “This is not race-based.
Whatever change we make,
we’ll make sure it’s fair and
equitable and not disadvantag
ing to others. This plan would
reward the hard work of students
and enrich the pool of academi
cally prepared, economically
disadvantaged students.”
If the plan had been in
effect for Fall 2001, 202 stu
dents from the target schools
who had been denied would
have been eligible for automat
ic admission, Estrada said. The
number of students applying
from target schools would
increase if they knew they
would be automatically admit
ted, he said.
“It was our understanding
that you wanted us to revisit the
role that A&M played in admis
sions and broadening the diver
sity here,” Executive Vice
President and Provost Dr. Ron
Douglas told the regents. “This
is one possibility that we’re
looking at, and I think it’s the
most promising. We have to be
able to explain why some stu
dents are admitted and why
some students aren’t.”
The regents will hear more
about the top-25 percent
admission proposal in upcom
ing meetings.
In other business, Bowen
made the case to regents for an
u
We know quite
well what we can
and cannot do from
the Hopwood
decision.
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— Joseph Estrada
associate provost
for enrollment
Academic Enhancement Fee,
formerly known as the excel
lence fee, to help offset
A&M’s $6.2 million budget
shortfall. Bowen projected a
continuing deficit into fiscal
year 2006. His request for an
Enhancement Fee would pre
vent cutbacks in faculty and
services that would otherwise
balance the shortfall, he said.
“The big problem is not the
$6.2 million deficit,” Bowen
said. “The big problem is that
we need to enhance the academ
ic quality of our University.”
Bowen said even with cur
rent spending, the student-to-
faculty ratio is too high, the
University has too great a
reliance on non-tenure track
faculty and many college
deans want to limit undergrad
uate enrollment because of
quality concerns.
Options for the proposed
Enhancement Fee include an
increased rate by $30 per credit
hour for all incoming students
beginning in Fall 2002 or
increasing rates equally for all
students.
Bowen said the University
of Texas is planning the same
kind of increase, and subse
quently, the fee should not
deter future applicants.
“This is really the start of
the conversation,” Bowen said.
“There are very few things we
(the University) do that we do
not need to do. Are our aca
demic programs under stress? I
can’t prove this.”
The Regents also renewed the
employment contract with A&M
System Chancellor Howard D.
Graves and named Nancey W.
Dickey the president of the
System Health Science Center and
vice chancellor for health affairs.
Dickey’s appointment is
effective Jan. 1, 2002. Until
then, Dickey will remain as
interim dean of the College of
Medicine, a position she has
held since Aug. 21, 2000.
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head injuries,a
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shoulder, on the passenger;
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vehicle was struck. Smith sat:
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the patrol car and pushed it '
the passenger van, then cor;
ued pushing the vehicles
about 200 feet - veering:
feet away from 1-10 traffic to
The trucker, Scott Ashley,
of Mesa, Ariz.. allegedlytoldc!
cers he dozed off, Smith sat
Ashley was not immediati
cited, he said.
Van driver MicalahO'fe^
of Las Cruces was transi
to Memorial Medical Ceite»
Las Cruces. She was in slate
condition, house administrat:
Mary Sletten reported.
Van passenger DonaldSzela;
19, of Las Cruces was listed'
fair condition Sunday atib
Beaumont Hospital in El .Pas
Texas, Smith said.
Hanker had graduated lai
June from the state policeaca:
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