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Division Description
The Division of Student Affairs consists of several units that together, provide all the necessary and complementary services related to
the needs of students. The services promote college and career readiness, first year success, career and job development, college transition and adjustment, student engagement, and academic success.
Admissions and Records Office: The mission of Hawai'i Community College's Admissions & Records Office's mission is to support student success through practices and policies that are Fair, Accurate, Service-oriented and Timely (F.A.S.T.).
Career and Job Development Center: The mission of the Hawai'i Community College Career and Job Placement Center is to assist and
support students and prospective students in clarifying and planning purposeful career and educational goals through the use of informational
resources and career counseling and to enhance employability via assistance with job preparation—resumes, job search and interviewing
skill development.
Counseling, Advising and Support Services Center: Through encouragement and with respect and integrity, counselors inform and
empower a diverse group of students to reach their educational goals and to enrich their communities.
Financial Aid Office: To assist current and prospective Hawai'i Community College students in funding their educational goals through
quality customer service and efficient, timely, and accurate processing in accordance with federal, state, and institutional regulations,
guidelines, policies, and procedures.
First Year Experience: To promote first year student success by connecting students with campus resources, academic support and campus culture.
GEAR UP: The mission of the Hawai'i Community College GEAR UP Program is to significantly increase the number of low-income
students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education by encouraging academic success, facilitating the transition
from K-12 to higher education and increasing access to financial aid resources.
Running Start: The Running Start Program is a unique partnership between the University of Hawai'i System and the Department of
Education. Its mission is to provide an opportunity for academically qualified public high school juniors and seniors to early enroll in college
classes and earn both high school and college credits.
Ha`awi Kokua Program: The Ha`awi Kokua Program Mission is to promote equal opportunity
for individuals with disabilities, by facilitating their full participation in their regular courses and activities that are offered at Hawai'i
Community College to gain the maximum benefit from their educational experience.
Hālaulani Transfer Success Center: Promotes the successful transfer of Hawai'i Community College students to a four-year baccalaureate university by providing a nurturing, supportive center environment based on Hawaiian culture, language, protocols and practices as the foundation through which the students, faculty, and ʻohana are inspired to achieve their highest levels.
Information Center: Promote and provide accessibility to higher education by offering a convenient one-stop location which delivers
current, accurate information and services to prospective individuals, groups, and private/public sector organizations via web, mail,
telephone, tours, workshops, in person, printed material, and individualized service .
Student Life Program: The Student Life Program empowers students to achieve academic success, develop leadership skills, and demonstrate social responsibility through positive, culturally-relevant co-curricular activities and learning opportunities.
UH Center - West Hawaii Student Affairs Office: Provides effective, meaningful and quality support services to diverse learners of the West Hawai'i community to increase meaningful access, retention, persistence, graduation and obtain a career.
Demand Indicators | Program Year | |||||
10-11 | 11-12 | 12-13 | ||||
1 | Annual Headcount ALL Students | 4,649 | 4,754 | 4,424 | ||
2 | Annual Headcount NH Students | 1,928 | 1,964 | 1,875 | ||
3 | Actual Percent Change from Prior Year ALL | 11% | 2% | -7% | ||
4 | Actual Percent Change from Prior Year NH | 15% | 2% | -5% | ||
5 | Annual Headcount of Recent Hawaii High School Graduates | 546 | 514 | 488 | ||
6 | Percent of Service Area's Recent High School Graduates | 25% | 25% | 24% | ||
7 | Annual Headcount of Students 25-49 Years Old | 1,714 | 1,301 | 1,204 | ||
8 | Annual Headcount from Underserved Regions | 4,212 | 3,286 | 2,960 | ||
9 | Annual Headcount in STEM programs | 961 | 555 | 339 | ||
10a |
Fall Semester Registration Status |
New Students | 1,101 | 1,115 | 988 | |
10b | Transfers Students | 284 | 274 | 252 | ||
10c | Continuing Students | 1,701 | 1,834 | 1,793 | ||
10d | Returning Students | 329 | 335 | 306 | ||
10e | Home Campus Other | 400 | 359 | 324 | ||
11a |
Spring Semester Registration Status |
New Students | 326 | 386 | 300 | |
11b | Transfers Students | 169 | 127 | 105 | ||
11c | Continuing Students | 2,478 | 2,545 | 2,274 | ||
11d | Returning Students | 163 | 116 | 144 | ||
11e | Home Campus Other | 361 | 371 | 385 |
Efficiency Indicators | Program Year | ||||
10-11 | 11-12 | 12-13 | |||
12 | Pell Participation Rate ALL Students | 62% | 65% | 65% | |
13 | Pell Participation Rate NH Students | 68% | 70% | 69% | |
14 | Number ALL Students Receiving Pell | 1,990 | 2,163 | 2,016 | |
15 | Number NH Students Receiving Pell | 952 | 1,016 | 970 | |
16 | Total Pell Disbursed ALL | $7,096,174 | $7,440,656 | $6,829,490 | |
17 | Total Pell Disbursed NH | $3,475,592 | $3,528,755 | $3,265,540 | |
18 | Overall Program Budget Allocation | $1,591,220 | $1,707,286 | $1,748,397 | |
19 | General Funded Budget Allocation | $1,186,471 | $1,215,852 | $1,142,839 | |
20 | Special/Federal Budget Allocation | $305,207 | $26,676 | $27,765 | |
21 | Cost Per Student | $342 | $359 | $395 | |
Achieving the Dream | AtD Fall Cohort | ||||
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |||
22 | FT AtD Cohort (ALL) complete 20 credits first year | 271 | 310 | 304 | |
23 | FT AtD Cohort (NH) complete 20 credits first year | 115 | 139 | 125 | |
24 | PT AtD Cohort (ALL) complete 12 credits first year | 128 | 138 | 150 | |
25 | PT AtD Cohort (NH) complete 12 credits first year | 53 | 45 | 55 |
*Data element used in health call calculation | Last Updated: March 14, 2014 |
Effectiveness Indicators | Program Year | ||||
10-11 | 11-12 | 12-13 | |||
26 | Persistence Fall to Spring ALL Students | 74% | 72% | 70% | |
27 | Persistence Fall to Spring NH | 72% | 73% | 68% | |
28 | Degrees & Certificates Awarded ALL | 405 | 452 | 552 | |
29 | Degrees & Certificates Awarded NH | 153 | 164 | 210 | |
30 | Degrees & Certificates in STEM ALL | 67 | 57 | 62 | |
31 | Degrees & Certificates in STEM NH | 17 | 10 | 18 | |
32 | Transfers to UH 4-yr ALL | 143 | 195 | 209 | |
33 | Transfers to UH 4-yr NH | 56 | 74 | 88 |
Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) |
Survey Year | ||||
2008 | 2010 | 2012 | |||
34 | Support for Learners Benchmark (Percentile) | 80 | 90 | 70 | |
Means Summary All Students ( 1 = Not at all/Rarely, 2 = Sometimes/Somewhat, 3 = Often/Very ) | |||||
35 | Academic Advising | ||||
Frequency | 1.75 | 1.80 | 1.79 | ||
Satisfaction | 2.25 | 2.20 | 2.22 | ||
Importance | 2.54 | 2.50 | 2.56 | ||
36 | Career Counseling | ||||
Frequency | 1.53 | 1.40 | 1.51 | ||
Satisfaction | 2.14 | 2.10 | 2.16 | ||
Importance | 2.41 | 2.30 | 2.48 | ||
37 | Job Placement Assistance | ||||
Frequency | 1.32 | 1.20 | 1.29 | ||
Satisfaction | 1.91 | 1.80 | 1.82 | ||
Importance | 2.22 | 2.10 | 2.25 | ||
38 | Financial Aid Advising | ||||
Frequency | 1.72 | 1.80 | 1.90 | ||
Satisfaction | 2.04 | 2.20 | 2.22 | ||
Importance | 2.49 | 2.40 | 2.54 | ||
39 | Student Organizations | ||||
Frequency | 1.43 | 1.30 | 1.42 | ||
Satisfaction | 2.04 | 2.00 | 2.05 | ||
Importance | 2.13 | 1.80 | 2.13 | ||
40 | Transfer Credit Assistance | ||||
Frequency | 1.45 | 1.50 | 1.38 | ||
Satisfaction | 2.07 | 2.10 | 2.00 | ||
Importance | 2.26 | 2.20 | 2.28 | ||
41 | Services for People With Disabilities | ||||
Frequency | 1.33 | 1.30 | 1.35 | ||
Satisfaction | 2.09 | 2.00 | 1.94 | ||
Importance | 2.24 | 2.00 | 2.25 |
*Data element used in health call calculation | Last Updated: March 14, 2014 |
Last year, there was a decrease in enrollment at HawCC across the board. Compared to 2011-12, there was a 7% decrease in the general enrollment. This was 2 percent more than the decrease in Native Hawaiian headcount. High school enrollment also saw a drop of 1 percent, which is not significant since the high school enrollment trend hovers around 24-25%.
On a more positive note, completion of 12 credits by part timers in the AtD cohort increased by 12 going from 138 to 150, and the Native Hawaiian cohort added 10 more students, increasing from 45 to 55. Graduation saw an increase in degrees and certificates awarded to all students, up 552 from 452. The Native Hawaiian cohort also increased their conferral from 164 to 210. Lastly, transfer from HawCC to UH jumped from 195 to 209, an increase of 14 students. This is similar to the Native Hawaiian cohort with 88 students.
The numbers show that while the enrollment has gone down, student success is very palpable at HawCC. The graduation and transfer rates continue to go up. College and career readiness and activities are strongly pushed to support enrollment, retention, and persistence. In addition, career and job development are another area supported by grants to ensure students are meeting their goals.
Various units in their report discuss their own program plan to meet the goals of the Division and HawCC.
ARO/Transcript Evaluator Personnel/ APT A/$38000 + Fringe (44%). The current position is funded until October 2015. Experience has shown it can take awhile to get positions funded, so the writer is starting now. Without this position, the ARO will not be able to process transcript evaluations and prior learning assessment credentialing in a timely manner. PLA and Transcript Evaluation support system initiatives in completion and reverse transfer.
ARO/Student Employment Personnel/APT A $15000. Due to the reduction in B-Budget funds, the ARO must rely on its Transcript & Fees account to pay for B-Budget items. In the past, the R&IDM relied on the Transcript & Fees account to fund summer student employment. The Admissions & Registration Office relied on the Tuition & Fees account. Both offices used nearly $15,000 for Summer 2013 student employment. Without the student employees, the ARO will not be able to provide services in a timely manner. It will take much longer to process applications, transcript requests and evaluate transcripts for transfer credits. Also, without the student employees, the R/ARM will need to focus on service delivery and will not be able to focus on creating the SOP, which she is planning on complete during the summer.
Counseling/Starfish Coordinator and Distance Learning Counselor/Faculty. The current ratio between counselors and students is 1:458 (3,208 students/7 counselors including the W. Hawaii counselor). CAS recommends a ratio of 1:300. The number of distance learning and hybrid classes grows each year, but online counseling service to distance learners is not provided. Many part-time students are distance learners. There is a UH system mandate to support part-time students and to expand distance learning support.
Student participation in services can be strengthened. Distance learning modules related to academic advising, retention, transfer, and other counseling related services would increase student participation. Developing and maintaining a Laulima based module and supporting website materials requires many hours of work. The ability to train faculty in academic advising is a weakness. This is partially due to the difficulty of attending time and location specific trainings, Distance learning modules related to academic advising training for instructional faculty would increase faculty participation. Developing and maintaining a Laulima based module and supporting website materials is time demanding. Starfish on line early warning system is designed to support persistence, but it requires coordination. A full time coordinator position exists at Leeward Community College.
Counseling/Academic Advisor Personnel/APT A $38000 + Fringe/(44%) X2. One of the APT advisor positions is currently a Perkins funded position working with Career and Technical Majors. The other is a temporary position that works with LBART and other majors. Both need to be converted to permanent, general funded positions. One of the most utilized services in CASSC is to help with new student academic advising and enrollment. Many of the Strategic Plan Action Strategies in Goal A (Promote Learning and Teaching) tie directly to appropriate enrollment. This includes A1.2c strategy of identifying barriers to financial aid. One of the greatest barriers to receiving financial aid and enrollment persisting is incorrect enrollment. Advisors help with identifying and helping revise enrollment that is off PACE. This probably raises student satisfaction (S3).
Academic Advisors are necessary to help meet UO1 and address W1 and W2. They support faculty through direct communication (answering questions about advising) and classroom visits that demonstrate STAR and other advising tools and stratgegies. They channel students to counselors and to other resources on campus, and they are utilized in a number of ways in student reach out efforts. They gather and help maintain data for assessment. Academic advisors free counselors to perform other duties such as working with special populations and responding to early warning systems (starfish). Duties such as conflict resolution, appeals, student conduct intervention, and first aid for suicide and other crisis situations are time consuming tasks. They are easier to perform if some of academic advising needs are lifted.
Counseling/Department Training Budget/$4000 Strategic Plan Alignment/New Strategy. Recognize the unique training needs of CASSC faculty and staff that are needed to retain leadership and ensure qualified and effective personnel. Training costs are directly related to maintaining S1,2 &3 (broad perspective, adaptability and student satisfaction). They are most strongly tied to W3 whose narrative outlines the broad scope of needs. Training needs in Laulima development are necessary to address W2, W3, UA1, UA3, as are other outlined training needs. Expand Distance Learning support as indicated by program/unit review analyses with consideration for technical support staff and online course development assistance for faculty.
Career and Job Development/Center Center Assistant Personnel/APT A $38000 + Fringe (44%). Assist with the coordination, operations, and budget for the CAJDC and to assist with the supervision of student workers.
Career and Job Development/Center Space. Expand location of current CAJDC or relocate to a larger facility with a nearby office for counselor. Career and Job Development Center Computers, tables, printer and chairs for 12 additional computer terminal stations. Equipment $24,000 This addition would allow CAJDC to service 23-- instead of the current 11 students-- at a time.
FAO/Shredder Equipment/$10,600. Due to the high volume of shredding done by financial aid office the previous shredder is completely worn out and does not function well.
FAO/Supply Cabinet Equipment/$2500. Existing 2 supply cabinets are broken and requesting another supply cabinet for providing additional storage for office supplies and other provisions. As our volume has increased we need more space. Currently stuff is all over our office.
FAO/High Volume Printer Equipment/$1500. Replace dying 11yr old HP printer in the front office used by all student workers to print documents for students who walk-in.
HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua/Mental Health Counselor/Personnel.The presence of a Mental Health Counselor on the Manono Campus will be able to service the students on lower campus, act a resource to the students who require immediate attention, and be a resource to HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua to assist with attaining diagnosis and/or documentation needed for students to request accommodations. Mental health counselor could work in collaboration with HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua to make recommendations to what strategies and/or interventions would work best for specific students.
HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua/Training Personnel/$10000. Support the training and conference need to develop and update the center and the campus's skills and knowledge when it comes to disabilities accomodation, student success, adaptive technology, and effective programs and initiatives. HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua's staff is all relatively new and would benefit from additional trainings to meet the need of the ever changing SWD populations. In an effort to cut costs and increase efficiency, disability providers must stay abreast with the developments in assistive technology and resources. It would be greatly beneficial to attend annual trainings to learn about recent developments and strategies and to investigate cost effective resources that can better service the SWD population.
Halaulani Transfer Center/Transfer Center Coordinator/Personnel. Development of Transfer Center
Halaulani Transfer Center/Transfer Center Counselors (2)/Personnel. Development of Transfer Center
Student Life Program Center/Coordinator APT A/$38000 + Fringe. Assist in Center programming, supervision, procurement, and communication.
Student Life Program/Conference Center Space. Space for meeting, programming, and communication internally and externally.
Student Life Program/Student Employee/Personnel $26,000. In lieu of having a staff person, funding for 2 student employees would allow for greater delegation of duties. The unit does employ students using other funding sources, but those funding sources are limited as they require student employees to meet financial criteria. Student employees funded by tuition and fees would be less costly than an APT staff person and would allow for a greater applicant pool and potentially better qualified applicants.
For the 2012-2013 program year, some or all of the following P-SLOs were reviewed by the program:
Assessed this year? |
Program Student Learning Outcomes | |
1 |
The Admissions & Registration Office will process admission applications in a timely manner. |
2 |
The Counseling, Advising & Support Services Center will develop and implement an academic plan based on major requirements, interests and skills. |
3 |
The Financial Aid Office will provide information to current and potential students via orientation, phone, email and walk-in, including automated forms of communication and more user-friendly website. |
4 |
CASSC SLO 2: Develop and implement an academic plan based on major requirements, interests, and skills. |
5 |
The Information Center will disseminate information and provide assistance to current students via the various media outlets: e-mail broadcasts, posted information, in-person and social media. |
6 |
The Information Center will provide pre-admissions information to prospective students through outreach into the community (and beyond) or for those who come to the campus. |
7 |
Career and Job Development Center - Students will master academic, occupational, and general employability skills in order to obtain, create, maintain, and/or advance in employment. |
8 |
The Financial Aid Office will update and maintain Financial Aid web site to provide financial aid information and policies, loan information, scholarship information, student employment information, deadlines, and forms. |
9 |
Hā'awi Kōkua Counselor for Students with Disabilities will educate faculty to the issues and characteristics of students with disabilities to incorporate teaching strategies that will improve the success rate of this population. |
10 |
The Student Success Center will facilitate transition into college by coordinating a variety of first year experiences. |
11 |
The Student Life Program will assess: By visiting the Kau Wa`a Center, students will be able to identify at least one resource and/or service. |
12 |
CASSC SLO 3: Identify strengths and community resources to develop a plan to address academic and personal challenges. |
13 |
FYE: Provide a New Student Orientation to all First Year students. |
14 |
FYE: Provide activities that cultivate a sense of place and community for First Year Students. |
15 |
Assessment and accountability is the cornerstone of E 'Imi Pono. The Records & Internal Data Management will use ongoing and systematic evaluation and planning to refine its processes and improve services to the Kauhale. |
16 |
Hā'awi Kōkua Program will increase campus awareness of disability issues, interventions, technology, and classroom strategies that promote student success. |
17 |
Hā'awi Kōkua will provide support, workshops, activities, and accommodations to eligible students to promote student success. |
18 |
Hālaulani Transfer Success Center: Conduct career goals and transfer activities in Hilo and Kona for 30 (Hilo) and 20 (Kona) students. |
19 |
The Student Life Program will provide and support a variety of workshops and activities to promote student engagement and success. |
20 |
The Student Life Program will support a community-based event to provide students with place-based learning. |
21 |
UH Center-West Hawaii: The DSA Counseling in WH will continue to collaborate with public secondary schools to encourage highly motivated and academically and/or vocationally talented high school junior or seniors to enroll at HawCC and get credit for both college and high school credit. These students will have the choice to participate in the Running Start Program or Early Admit Program. |
Admissions and Records Office: Timely manner was re-defined in January 2012 as "applications for the Fall semester will be accepted within 14 calendar days and applications for the Spring semester will be accepted within 7 calendar days."
The CASSC Comprehensive Unit Review did not define outcome success in the manner and detail described above. Based on a wholistic overview (advising materials were developed and placed on line; faculty who attended training evaluated it favorably; the percent of continuing student who enrolled early was slightly less, not more; the complicated process of assigning advisors to advisees ran into technical and other difficulties. Evaluation fair.
For CASSC SLO 2 and 3: Success was defined as students on academic probation in Fall 2013 persisting to Fall 2014 (successfully completing Spring 2014 classes). A comparison between students who participated in a highly structure one hour counseling session (standard questions and rubric evaluations) and students who did not participate show only a slight variation in success. Evaluation poor because it was a strategy that demanded high effort but showed only slight improvement in persistence.
Financial Aid Office: Above previous year's baseline (54% Web Satisfaction and 77% Over All Satisfaction of FA Services)
HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua: UO #1 - During the Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 school year, a total of 43 individuals participating in the "In Their Shoes" training which teaches acknowledging and respecting people with disabilities. This program provides a convenient resource to faculty and staff in higher education with ADA based information and sensitivity training to enhance their understanding and comfort level in working with individuals with disabilities. The majority of individuals who participated in this training stated that they benefitted from this training.
The offering of the web-based training and response was "fair." It would be optimal if 2 different trainings would be offered per semseter to increase awareness and resources to incorportate Universal Couse Design and techonological resources to benefit the entire student population. It is hoped that there would be at least 75% participation by faculty and staff.
UO #2 - 100% of stduents who provided documentation were assessed for accommodations. In Fall 2012, a total of 136 students were provided accommodations. In Spring 2013, a total of 148 students were provided with accommodations. For the 2012 - 2013 school year, of the total of 252 students were identified in the Fall, 186 (72%) students returned for Spring 2013. If the 71 students that did not return, 9 (4%) students graduated or transferred.
HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua would like the retention rate for it's students to increase to at least 85%. To increase the rate additional workshops on and activities to assist with coping skills and teaching learning strategies will be offered to it's students. Also, support groups for remedial classes in Math and English will be implemented to ensure that it's students are able to pass these "gateway" courses sucessfully and promoting student success.
Halaulani Transfer Success Center's expectation is to meet the minimum goal of 50 students.
Student Life: Because we have been working to refine outcomes, we are starting by determining the baseline measurements.
1. Activites:
a. Achievement lies in 2 areas: number of activities and participation.
b. Determining baseline for number of activities. Estimated baseline: 5 events.
c. Determining baseline for participation. Estimated baseline: 50 people.
2. Leadership Training:
a. Achievement is determined by the attainment of leadership skills, number of trainings, and participation.
b. Leadership skills:
Excellent = 85% attain skills
Good = 65% attain skills
Fair = 40% attain skills
Poor = 15% attain skills
c. Determining baseline for number of trainings. Estimated baseline: 5 trainings.
d. Determining baseline for participation. Estimated baseline: 30 total participants.
3. Community-based project:
a. Achievement is determined by 2 areas: having the event and student participation.
b. Having the event:
Excellent = the event happened
Poor = the event did not happen
c. Determining baseline for participation. Estimated baseline:
Excellent = 90 % CSO participation
Good = 75% CSO participation
Fair = 50% CSO participation
UH Center-West Hawaii: 2012-13 is baseline year.
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Admissions and Records Office: Assessment was performed on data gathered from StuPool wherein the application date was compared to the acceptance date to determine the number of days from receipt to acceptance.
CASSC: Statistics for the number and percent of continuing students who were enrolled for the following semester by the end of their current semester came from HawCC Data Facilitator, David Loding.
Statistics for the comparitive analysis between probation students who engaged in the one hour, structure counseling session and those who did not came from three different sources. One source came from the Data Facilitator's master student list for Fall 2012. One source was Counselor's recording and scoring of individual counseling sessions recorded in SARS. One source was STAR (looking up each of the 123 students on probation STAR reports and then recording additional information). The combinned records were placed on one Excel chart and the software was used to explore correlations and compare groups.
CSSCE data was taken from the Hawai`i Community College website publication of CSSCE results.
Financial Aid Office: An online survey was developed to assess walk-in services, phone services, printed information services, workshops and web site information. Students rated the services on a five point scale from Excellent to Poor.
FYE: Orientation attendance, pre and post-tests and surveys.
HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua: Information gathered for data reporting came from demographic data collected from the student population. From the application/intake process and ongoing monitoring of students information such as disability type, type of accommodation, and # of students enrolled/retention rate is collected and maintained in their individual files as well as in a central database updated weekly.
Information on the effectiveness and satisfaction of the accommodations provided/services rendered is collected through end of the semester evaluations sent to service providers, students, and instructional staff. These surveys are sent out following every semester to ensure that HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua is providing a high quality of service to it's students.
Data is also collected from the sign in computer recording the use of the technology lab. From this resource information about the traffic that moves through the lab can be maintained.
Halaulani Transfer Success Center: The student satisfaction survey for the workshops was not in place during this reporting period. However an assessement instrument is being developed and will be employed in Spring 2014.
Student Life Program:
1. Activities:
a. Calendar of activities
b. Student sign in sheets at activities
c. Evaluation of the activity, when possible
2. Leadership Training:
a. Calendar of trainings
b. Pre-Post test completed by students
c. Student sign in sheets
d. Evaluation of the training completed by students
3. Community-based project:
a. Scheduling of the event
b. Sign in sheets for CSO members
c. Evaluation of the experience
UH Center-West Hawaii: Student participation.
Admissions and Records Office: It was determined that applications for Fall 2012 were accepted in, on average, 15 days. Applications for Spring 2013 were accepted in, on average, 5 days. The outcome was achieved for Spring 2013. The outcome was not achieved for Fall 2012. Kamaaina applications received in Fall of year prior inflates processing time.
CASSC: The most important result of this assessment is a more clear definition of the CASSC unit and of which strategies are working and which are not. What is needed to improve weaknesses and to maintain strengths is now better understood. Just how much external factors can directly and sometimes immediately afftect our unit are now more apparent.
Financial Aid Office:
Survey Questions |
Positive Response |
Negative Response |
No Response |
Last Year's Baseline |
Current Year's Baseline |
Web Services: |
How useful is the Financial Aid web site to find information about the financial aid programs, policies, and application procedures? |
40% |
59% |
55% |
54% |
40% |
Telephone Services: |
Courtesy of the person(s) |
55% |
44% |
37% |
57% |
55% |
Knowledge of the person(s) |
55% |
44% |
37% |
51% |
55% |
Helpfulness of the person(s) |
52% |
47% |
37% |
54% |
52% |
Walk-in Services: |
Courtesy of the person(s) |
72% |
27% |
22% |
64% |
72% |
Knowledge of the person(s) |
72% |
27% |
22% |
58% |
72% |
Helpfulness of the person(s) |
68% |
32% |
23% |
61% |
68% |
Overall Evaluation Of Financial Aid Services: |
Your experience with the financial aid process |
65% |
34% |
0% |
73% |
65% |
Your understanding of the financial aid policies |
72% |
28% |
0% |
74% |
72% |
Your experience with the financial aid personnel you have spoken to or met with |
67% |
32% |
0% |
75% |
67% |
Your overall assessment of the financial aid services |
69% |
31% |
0% |
77% |
69% |
TOTAL: 61 Responses |
Please indicate the reason(s) |
Telephone Services |
Walk-in Services |
Last Year's Average (Baseline) |
Current Average (Baseline) |
Check on application procedures |
37% |
53% |
60% |
45% |
Check on status of aid request |
61% |
70% |
74% |
65% |
Seek information on student employment |
21% |
23% |
16% |
22% |
Seek information on student loan(s) |
24% |
17% |
25% |
20% |
Request forms |
16% |
34% |
30% |
25% |
Discuss award package or denial |
18% |
19% |
37% |
18% |
Other |
16% |
11% |
8% |
13% |
TOTAL: 61 Responses |
FYE: FYE achieved its Unit Goals of providing a New Student Orientation to all first year students, providing an Orientation for families of first year students, and providing activities that cutivate a sense of place and community for first year students.
HAi¿½'awi KÅi¿½kua appears to be functioning "fairly" despite the changes in staffing and practices over the past semester. In addition, students who request accommodations/services are being assessed and evaluated. Data such as the average length of time it takes to receive accommodations are not yet reported but hoped to be reported in next year's annual report. It appears that SWD struggle with remedial classes in Math and English and based on verbal reports seems to create anxiety and poor confidence resulting in a choice not to return. SWD need to be reinforced and assisted with building skills and confidence so that they are able to be successful. Additional resources need to be developed to increase their success rates in these classes.
There has not been any additional training opportunities for instructional faculty/staff other than the web-based program. Even with this resource, it does not provide an ongoing evolving learning tool for staff to increase their awareness of disability issues. Additional trainings that are relevant to the instructional staff need to be researced and developed so that it can be implemented.
Student Life Program:
1. Activities: Supported 20 activities, some of which had multiple offerings, such as orientation. Some activities did not have sign in sheets; participation ranged from 10 students to 350+ students. Provision of activities was achieved, but evaluation of activies is needed.
2. Did not assess.
3. The Cards of Love event was the community-based project. Students were asked to make holiday cards that were given to Easter Seals. Scheduled for the week after Thanksgiving, a total of 240 cards were collected along with stuffed animals. This event was a collaboration with the Human Services class. CSO members supported this event but were not active participants and, therefore, did not evaluate the experience.
UH Center-West Hawaii: 75 Middle and High School students attended a Campus Orientation and Tour. 112 completed credits via Running Start.
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Admissions and Records Office: By the end of the Fall 2013 semester, the ARO will have developed its Unit Outcomes and assessment strategies. The assessment strategies will be implemented during the Spring 2014 semester and the data gathered will inform the ARO's Annual Unit Review for 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.
CASSC: The next step is to create a more detailed action plan for the CASSC unit based on this document and other student services unit reviews.
Financial Aid Office:
FYE: Comprehensive evaluation of historic data and data collection will need to be more thoroughly developed, and data reports will need to be centralized with FYE coordinator.
#1 - Ensure that all eligible students who requested accommodations will be assessed for need and those who qualify will be provided appropriate accommodations. (Data will include # of students requested, # of students eligible, # of students received/granted accommodations.) To develop an academic support group for Math. (Data will include # of participants, math class breakdown, placement tests, success rate, duration of participation, and self reporting including what they learned and what they got out of it.
#2 - Collaborate with faculty and staff to assess training needs and areas for improvement (Data will include # of responses, areas of need, Faculty and Staff demographics including which departments and reported student need.
Halaulani Transfer Success Center: Assessment surveys will be employed for all workshop activities and classroom visitations. Large group activities will be assessed through the teachers/facilitators. The Student Satisfaction Survey will be refined and employed in a manner that maintains confidentiality and anonymity for the students. Finally, the viability and usefulness of the career and passion survey will be assessed in Spring 2014.
Student Life Program: Consistency with assessment is needed, and the unit is developing an event evaluation form that will provide the necessary data we need to better assess the strategies.
UH Center-West Hawaii: With focus on and GEAR UP funding for College and Career Readiness, a stronger collaboration and more activities are planned with middle and high schools on the West Hawai'i area.


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Well, This is One Way to Clean the Inside of a Plane: Go Green! Right, Southwest?
Southwest Airlines had its Media Day today, so expect myriad deep-think pieces in coming hours about the Love Field-based carrier's newfangled "Green Plane." Um, which is ...? Well, here's the press release that inventories all the "environmentally friendly interior materials" being used, among them Flor carpet panels, a "Life Vest Pouch" and "Passenger Seat Rub Strips," which aren't nearly as kick-ass as they sound. Then there's the time-lapse video above, which plays better if you turn down the sound and crank up -- you guessed it -- "Yakety Sax." Maybe American Airlines (oh, poor American Airlines) oughta try the same thing -- if nothing else, it'd guarantee at least one clean plane in the fleet.
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Originally written by Josh Shepherd (Bergerjacques) for the Bad Movie Message Board roundtable, "The Reagan Years." Holla at him at the BMMB.
As an avid reader of movie reviews, and a fan of the soap opera that was Siskel and Ebert, I have tried to approach movies with an informed eye, seeking out the quality big budget feature, the hidden cult gem, the rare outstanding indie, and, of course, a little skin. I like to think that my taste in film is generally impeccable and that peers may regard me a reliable source of information on quality movies. This is a sin of conceit, I know.
On occasion, though, I have walked the plank and allowed my judgement to be swayed by the artwork on the box (those usually featuring surgically-enhanced females in panties so scant one must wonder how the fabric managed not to get sucked up some orifice when they walked.) And I have been burned more often than rewarded. But the rewards, when they come, usually more than justify raking through the slag. But never before have I entered Video Warehouse with the intent of seeking out a bad movie. I must admit, it was fun.
Given our encompassing theme, The Reagan Years, I entered the store in a reflective mood. The Reagan Era. My teenage and college years, those Reagan Years. Eight years of a bizarrely intolerant brand of patriotism when we encased our heads in the same rose-tinted plastic wrap as our president and possibly suffered the same mental damage due to a lack of oxygen to our brains. This was the era where we put Libya and Moammer Quadaffi in their place by bombing their ass. Then we invaded our sinister neighbor to the south, Grenada. In the meantime, Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers and said it was a proactive step in union-management relations.
This was the decade where Bruce Springsteen would write a song critical of our nation's government and the populace would embrace it as an up with USA anthem. So much for the taste and intelligence of the masses. It is, however, a great song and almost single-handedly rescued popular music from the clutches of Michael Jackson and Boy George.
On a positive note, this was finally the decade where we as a nation apologized for the lousy treatment of our Vietnam veterans in the late 60s. How did we accomplish this task? Well, apparently we practiced mass denial. In our collective mind, we decided we could have kicked every Vietnamese ass but for the involvement of politicians and bureaucrats. To prove this hypothesis, Cannon films and Golan-Globus sent Sylvester Stallone to the Phillipines where he ingested steroids, took on an entire army of slumming asian actors - AND KICKED THEIR ASS! (Oddly, throughout the entire series, I never once saw Rambo eat one thing that would make a billy goat puke, despite a certain, ahm, guarantee about such action from Richard Crenna, you lying bastard.)
This movie set off an entire trend in straight-to-video productions. So when I entered the video store in search of a title appropriate to the Reagan Years, I knew what I wanted. Something about recovering MIA-POWs in Vietnam. Specifically, I wanted Chuck Norris in Missing in Action. That series, I think, encompassed everything "b" about the Reagan Era. At least I hoped it would. Alas, in the action aisle, all three Missing in Action titles were gone. Rented, no doubt by some "Walker, Texas Ranger" fanatic who had not the courtesy to consider that someone may have wanted them for something important.
In defeat, children, there is always an opportunity for a Bob Ross happy little accident. I didn't get Chuck Norris. I got better. Thank you Cannon films. Thank you Golan-Globus, you Michael Bays of the 1980s. At my darkest moment, you delivered unto me a film of such impeccable "b" pedigree that it re-affirmed my belief in a higher deity - and its taste in film. For lo, there upon the next shelf was the hallowed name, DAVID CARRADINE, and a movie called: P.O.W.: The Escape.
Four days before a peace treaty will be signed ending the Vietnam War, the army calls in ace military man, Colonel Jim Cooper (David Carradine), to liberate American prisoners of war from a hell ish Vietnamese prison camp. In a modestly unique twist to the standard Missing in Action story, Cooper must extract these American POWs before the peace treaty is signed. If he fails, these American soldiers will be officially listed MIA and, with a Copperfield-like flourish, "poof" disappear.
This won't happen though, because Cooper's motto is: "Everyone goes home."
POW has all the makings of a quality Rambo rip-off. Not only do we have Carradine, but during the opening credits, we learn that everyone's favorite gravel-voiced Asian is our villain - MAKO!!
Before the action starts, we get early foreshadowing of the use of symbolism in this picture. Now there are four ways in which a movie uses symbolism. They are: Subtle, Profound, Heavy-Handed, and Sledge. With regard to POW, director Gideon Amir apparently bought the deluxe, John Henry model.
In a brief pause in the credits, Colonel Cooper shares a personal moment with Private Teague, whom Cooper has noticed fondling a cross on his chest. It's cool, Cooper says. I pray everyday, too. Just part of being an American. Meanwhile, viewers will note that not only is Teague an unabashed Christian, he's the only African-American in the picture so far. That pretty much cancels his chance of survival after the first action scene.
Five minutes into the assault on the empty prison camp, Cooper realizes that nobody has returned fire and yells "F**k." Apparently, f**k translates to "we're f**ked" because the Americans stop shooting and Vietcong soldiers suddenly bust in for a surprise attack (Clever Vietcong soldiers) and release a hailstorm of gunfire. Oddly, they all must have aimed at Teague because nobody else gets even a scratch scrambling toward the helicopter to get away. Cooper, super-soldier as he is, jogs nonchalantly toward the Chopper, shaking off mortar fire Col. Kilgore style, then notices Teague isn't among the platoon.
"I'm going back," he says.
"Because no one gets left behind!" That, you see, is Cooper's motto.
In a moment of inspired editing, Carradine manages to evade hundreds of Vietcong soldiers (as well as thousands of bullets), locates Teague, and is packing him through the jungle taking out an average of two VC with each bullet he fires. Its only when Teague dies and Cooper rolls him for the gold cross that he's captured and taken to the real hellish VC prison camp run by
B-movie fans may also applaud the appearance of Steve James as the African-American soldier meant to offset the fact Golan-Globus killed off the first African-American actor within fifteen minutes of his appearance. I don't think I'm acting the spoiler role to tell you that, besides Carradine, James is only other soldier absolutely guaranteed to walk through this war without a scratch.
I went through the first fifteen minutes of movie in detail because, as we discover, the liberation of the POW camp plot is all just prologue. This is the real story: Evil Vietnamese officer Mako fears getting stuck in Vietnam after the peace treaty is signed. He's got stolen gold and family in Miami to support. All he has to do is get Carradine across the Vietcong border as his prisoner, then alternately surrender to Carradine and be taken into American territory where, presumably, he will be shipped to Miami to live among the rich and famous. Apparently that's what the US does with all its prisoners of war. Manuel Noriega, for example. Confused yet? Just wait.
Carradine refuses to go along with Mako's scheme unless the rest of the POWs are taken along. "Everybody goes free." That's his motto. Someone is going to have teach Cooper consistency.
The POWs, meanwhile, are a pretty faceless lot. The key characters are James and the guy with mixed up values, Sparks. He's the guy who only cares about himself. Just so you don't get the idea a screenwriter had anything to do with this script, the minute you're introduced to Sparks, someone says the line, "Watch out for Sparks. He'd sell his own grandmother/buddy/family/dog to save his own hide." Oh yeah, Sparks is a villain, too. But he's a redeemable villain.
The first meeting between Cooper and the POWs naturally result in Sparks picking a fight. Carradine does the slow motion Shao-Lin thing on Sparks and says (Twice!), "I'm getting too old for this s**t."
Having thus won the respect of the other soldiers, because nothing commands respect like a good beating, Cooper continues to negotiate with Mako. Finally, after Mako kills a handful of American soldiers in cold-blood as a demonstration of his power, he declares Cooper the winner. "All right. You win. They all go."
Twice during this movie, the writers had an opportunity to turn the whole genre on its ear by having Americans and Vietnamese forge an uneasy alliance against both armies to escape. You could see the script edging toward that angle, only to have the moment ruined by Americans killing Asians with bloody abandon. One wonders why they have such hostility toward one another. In nearly every instance of conflict, I came to one of two conclusions: either the Vietcong have the worst aim of any standing army in the world or they have a peculiar obsession with shoulders and legs. Mako shoots point blank at Sparks in one scene and misses completely, lending credence to the notion that the best way to avoid being shot by Vietnamese is to stand directly in their aim.
The entire mid-section of the picture involves Mako and Sparks playing keep away with the gold while Cooper leads his band of soldiers toward freedom. Several times, as Cooper watched soldiers in his command die, (one death was an apparent rip off of a scene from Deliverance, if you can believe it), he decides to leave them behind. So much for his darn mottos.
One interesting tidbit of learning we get. Jimi Hendrix was a veteran. According to Carradine, he served with the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles. Hooyah!
Oh yes, at this point, a new storyline begins. Discovering some fellow soldiers on their way toward freedom, Cooper learns that an army platoon is pinned down by the Vietcong army and will likely be killed or taken prisoner. Except now they won't be, because, dammit, "No one gets left behind because everyone is free and gets to go home." Now THAT'S a motto!!
In the next action sequence, soldiers are crawling back to bunkers nursing shoulder and leg wounds. They're pinned down and hundreds of Vietcong are advancing. Until suddenly, Cooper personally flanks the entire Vietnamese regiment and shoots all of them. I mean, all of them.
Then, assisting his fellow soldiers on board a truck to escape, he makes sure to grab the tattered US flag and - remember, this is a Reagan Era flick - drapes himself in it while still shooting Vietnamese corpses. Flames of destruction climb high in the daylight, Carradine stands in his Stars and Stripes toga and the entire group of liberated American soldiers "spontaneously" sings Proud Mary.
You might think this was the end. But we still have the unresolved story between Mako and self-centered Sparks.
In a Hanoi brothel, Sparks sees himself in the mirror as a Vietnamese hooker waits for him to undress. This is the obligatory naked breast scene. It is also the scene where Sparks gets ashamed of himself and begins his process of redemption. He takes the only piece of gold he has left, the cross Teague was wearing at the beginning of the picture, and clasps it around his neck, making him the movie's Christ figure. Yeesh. Gives me the willies just writing it.
The born again Sparks barely makes it five minutes before obligated to sacrifice himself for the rest of the platoon by diving, with arms outstretched no less, on a grenade. He does, however, get himself draped with the American flag just before the credits roll. (Incidentally, Mako dies by being impaled in the side with a spear like object. I almost thought he was the Christ figure.) Everybody say, poor Mako.
So what's the moral of this movie: You want to live through a war, better keep your religious beliefs to yourself.


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Lap 496 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 6: Jeff Gordon gets the lead coming off Turn 4, just as the caution comes out for David Reutimann's stalled car. Lap 494 -- Jeff Gordon gets a run between Turns 3 and 4, but Jimmie Johnson keeps the lead off the corner. Lap 493 -- It's the same up front. Jimmie Johnson leads, Jeff Gordon runs a very close second. Lap 490 -- Ten laps to go. Jeff Gordon is still right there on Jimmie Johnson. Lap 487 -- Jeff Gordon is on Jimmie Johnson's bumper for the race lead. Lap 483 -- Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have both been told that they need to save fuel. Lap 480 -- There are 20 laps remaining, and Jimmie Johnson is about to catch Greg Biffle and Marcos Ambrose to lap them. Lap 475 -- Twenty-five laps to go. Jimmie Johnson leads Jeff Gordon by nearly a second. Lap 469 -- Jimmie Johnson dives under Tony Stewart going into Turn 1 to put him a lap down. Lap 466 -- Tony Stewart, in 15th place, is the next car in danger of going a lap down to leader Jimmie Johnson. Lap 462 -- Jeff Gordon doesn't appear ready to press the issue up front just yet. Lap 456 -- Jeff Gordon is closing on Jimmie Johnson for the lead, just as Dale Earnhardt Jr. takes third from Clint Bowyer. Hentrick Motorsports cars are now 1-2-3. Lap 453 -- Clint Bowyer is running third, 4.7 seconds behind leader Jimmie Johnson. Lap 450 -- Fifty laps to go. Jimmie Johnson's lead is now about 7/10ths of a second. Lap 447 -- Dale Earhardt Jr. gave Brad Keselowski a shot a couple of laps ago, and this time, he is able to take over fourth place. Lap 445 -- The gap between first and second is now about half a second. Lap 439 -- Brian Vickers goes a lap down in Turns 3 and 4, and that allows Jeff Gordon to close to within about 6/10ths of a second of leader Jimmie Johnson. Lap 436 -- Jimmie Johnson asks if Brian Vickers is still on the lead lap, and in fact, he is. Vickers is the last car on the lead circuit, in 16th place. Lap 432 -- Jeff Gordon has cut into Jimmie Johnson's lead by a few 10ths of a second. Lap 430 -- Seventy laps to go. Lap 427 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. moves into the top five with a move past Denny Hamlin. Lap 425 -- Jimmie Johnson's advantage over Jeff Gordon is now up to 1.6 seconds. Lap 422 -- Brad Keselowski is working on Denny Hamlin for fourth place. Lap 417 -- Jeff Gordon trails Jimmie Johnson by a little more than a second. Lap 415 -- Jimmie Johnson's spotter this time tells him to take it easy on his brakes. Lap 411 -- Brad Keselowski scrambles past Ryan Newman for fifth place on the backstretch. Lap 409 -- Jimmie Johnson's most recent victory was at Kansas last fall. Lap 402 -- Jimmie Johnson's spottter tells him to save his tires. He's also going to be fairly close on fuel. Lap 400 -- There are 100 laps to go. Clint Bowyer takes third place from Denny Hamlin. Lap 397 -- Jeff Gordon is keeping Jimmie Johnson in his sights, running about 4/10ths of a second back. Lap 393 -- Jimmie Johnson finally clears Denny Hamlin for the lead, and Jeff Gordon follows him into second place. Lap 390 -- Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin are slugging it out door to door for the lead, and Jeff Gordon is right behind them. Lap 388 -- Jimmie Johnson gets a fender under Denny Hamlin in Turn 2 and then in Turn 4, but it doesn't stick yet. Lap 386 -- Throw a blanket over leader Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon. This could very interesting very quickly! Lap 382 -- Ryan Newman has moved into fifth place. Lap 378 -- The top-three cars -- Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon -- are all over each other for the lead. Lap 374 -- Jimmie Johnson is right on Denny Hamlin's rear bumper for the race lead. Lap 370 -- Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon are still side by side for second place. Johnson clears for the spot off Turn 2. Lap 368 -- GREEN FLAG: Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth are the top five on the restart. Hamlin clears for the lead off Turn 2. Lap 362 -- The leaders are on pit road. As he exits his stall, Jimmie Johnson stops, thinking a lug might have been left loose. Lap 361 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 5: Travis Kvapil has spun in Turn 2. Lap 360 -- Jimmie Johnson has six previous wins at Martinsville. Lap 356 -- Jimmie Johnson moves under teammate Jeff Gordon for the lead. Lap 354 -- Carl Edwards reports a problem with his transmission ... and then tells his crew chief, Bob Osborne, "April Fool's!" Lap 348 -- Jimmie Johnson is closing on Jeff Gordon for the top spot. Lap 346 -- Jeff Gordon has won seven races here. Could an eighth grandfather clock be headed his way? Lap 337 -- Brian Vickers goes up the track between Turns 3 and 4, but doesn't hit anything. Lap 333 -- Don't start engraving the trophy just yet, but Jeff Gordon has clearly been the class of the field today. Lap 331 -- Jimmie Johnson clears Dale Earnhardt Jr. for second place. Lap 329 -- GREEN FLAG: Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer are the leaders. Gordon clears for the lead going into Turn 1. Earnhardt gets under Johnson to try to take second. Lap 323 -- The pit are open, and Jeff Gordon leads the field in. Brad Keselowski will be penalized for speeding on pit road. Lap 321 -- There's still a lot of cleaning substance on the track at the entrance to pit road in Turn 3, from where Kasey Kahne's engine detonated. That's why pit road is still closed. Lap 319 -- The pits are still closed. Lap 317 -- Cole Trickle is now the leader, with Stroker Ace running a close second. April Fool's!!! Lap 315 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 4: Kasey Kahne blows an engine on the backstretch, and then spins on pit road. Lap 313 -- Jimmie Johnson goes to the outside of Clint Bowyer for second on the backstretch. Lap 309 -- Bobby Labonte is having a decent run in 11th place. Lap 307 -- Move Jimmie Johnson to third place. Lap 300 -- Jeff Gordon's lead over Clint Bowyer is now 1.9 seconds. There are 200 laps to go. Lap 294 -- If any of the three Hendrick Motorsports cars currently in the top five win here, it will be the 200th victory for the organization. Lap 291 -- Jimmie Johnson is now running in fourth place. That's three Hendrick Motorsports cars in the top five -- leader Jeff Gordon, third-place Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Johnson. Lap 287 -- Jeff Gordon's last short-track victory came here at Martinsville in 2007. Lap 280 -- Jimmie Johnson tells his spotter to let Matt Kenseth know that he'll be passing along some driving tips the next time they come to Martinsville. Lap 276 -- Jeff Gordon's lead over Clint Bowyer is already more than 6/10ths of a second. Lap 274 -- Marcos Ambrose, Carl Edwards and David Gilliland go three wide off Turn 4 ... and they all survive! Lap 271 -- GREEN FLAG: Jeff Gordon, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Matt Kenseth and Brad Keselowski are the leaders on the restart. Bowyer stays the outside of Gordon for most of the lap, but Gordon clears for the lead coming off Turn 4. Lap 267 -- Aric Almirola and Bobby Labonte pit under the caution. Lap 263 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 3: Juan Montoya spins. Jest before the caution, Clint Bowyer takes second from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Lap 262 -- Clint Bowyer led 91 laps here last spring before finishing ninth. Lap 257 -- Clint Bowyer has taken a couple of peeks to the inside of Dale Earnhardt Jr. for second place, but so far, nothing doing. Lap 255 -- GREEN FLAG: Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Clint Bowyer, Matt Kenseth and Brad Keselowski are the leaders on the restart. Gordon easily clears for the lead going into Turn 1. Lap 251 -- NASCAR is using the caution to give the track a good sweeping. Lap 250 -- The race has reached the halfway point. Lap 247 -- Several of the lead-lap cars are pitting. Lap 244 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 2: The caution is out for Dave Blaney's accident in Turn 2. Lap 241 -- After the round of stops, the top five are Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer and Matt Kenseth. Lap 240 -- Kasey Kahne's car is beginning to show some smoke. Lap 238 -- Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth are stopping. Lap 237 -- Clint Bowyer, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards are in. Lap 235 -- Denny Hamlin hits his pit stall. Lap 234 -- Jeff Gordon is making his stop. Lap 233 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ryan Newman, Greg Biffle and Regan Smith are on pit road. Lap 231 -- Kasey Kahne and A.J. Allmendintger are pitting. Kahne thinks something may have broken on his car. Lap 229 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets a run on Jeff Gordon coming off Turn 2 to take the lead. Lap 227 -- Jeff Burton and Paul Menard are pitting. Lap 225 -- Something is reported dragging underneath Clint Bowyer's car. Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. are on pit road. Lap 220 -- Kasey Kahne goes by Denny Hamlin for third place. Bobby Labonte pits to begin a cycle of green-flag stops. Lap 220 -- Don't look now, but Dale Earnhardt Jr. is now second on the leaderboard. Lap 217 -- NASCAR is giving crews an extra person to go over the wall for the windshield and driver. Lap 212 -- Some of the drivers leader Jeff Gordon raced against in his debut here include Rusty Wallace (who won that day), Davey Allison, Darrell Waltrip, Harry Gant and -- yes!!! -- Dick Trickle. Lap 207 -- Ryan Newman has reported debris on the track from Kurt Busch's car. Running in 17th place, Newman is about to be lapped by leader Jeff Gordon. He couldn't have an ulterior motive for reporting debris, could he? Lap 205 -- Kurt Busch has another tire problem, and slides very high in Turn 2. Lap 203 -- David Reutimann is off the pace, and there's a small flame showing under the right rear of his car. Lap 194 -- Jeff Gordon made his first Cup start here at Martinsville on April 25, 1993. He started third and finished eighth that day. Lap 189 -- The top five are currently Jeff Gordon (who else?), Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne and Clint Bowyer. Lap 185 -- Jeff Gordon's lead over Denny Hamlin is now about 2.3 seconds. Lap 179 -- Many laps down, Kyle Busch comes back onto the track. Lap 176 -- While Jeff Gordon cruises up front, Denny Hamlin has a lead of about a second over third-place Dale Earnhardt Jr. Lap 172 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. slides under Clint Bowyer for third place in Turn 3. Lap 171 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. is right on Clint Bowyer's bumper for third place. Lap 166 -- Jeff Gordon's spotter tells him to take care of the car, and the four-time champion responds with a quick, "10-4." Lap 163 -- Denny Hamlin is having to work to get around Juan Montoya's lapped car, which has allowed Jeff Gordon to open his lead back up 2.3 seconds. Lap 159 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s second-place finish here last year was his best-ever result here at Martinsville. Lap 150 -- There are 22 cars on the lead lap. Regan Smith is the first car a lap down. Lap 144 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. is closing in on Clint Bowyer for third place. Lap 140 -- Joooooooon-yer!!! Dale Earnhardt Jr. is now up to fourth place. Lap 138 -- Denny Hamlin has cut a couple 10ths of a second off Jeff Gordon's lead. Lap 130 -- Jeff Gordon's spotter tells him that Denny Hamlin has not gained on him, adding, "You're doing good, bud." Well, yeah, you might say that! Lap 127 -- Denny Hamlin has taken over second place from Kasey Kahne. Lap 122 -- Another car not performing as it usually does here is Jimmie Johnson's. He's in 20th place. Lap 120 -- Denny Hamlin has picked up his pace from earlier. He's now shown in third place, two seconds behind leader Jeff Gordon. Lap 115 -- Jeff Gordon has picked right back up from where the left off before the caution. His lead over runnerup Kasey Kahne is more than 1.5 seconds. Lap 109 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. gives Aric Almirola a little payback and retakes the eighth position. Lap 107 -- Aric Almirola shoves Dale Earnhardt Jr. out of the way for eighth place. Lap 105 -- GREEN FLAG: Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski and Clint Bowyer are the top five on the restart. Jeff Gordon easily clears for the lead going into Turn 1. Lap 99 -- The leaders are on pit road. Ryan Newman will be penalized for speeding at the entrance, and Jimmie Johnson for speeding at the exit to pit road. Lap 97 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 1: Kyle Busch has spun between Turns 3 and 4. Lap 95 -- Look for pit stops to start in thirty laps or so, if there's no caution before then. Lap 91 -- Kasey Kahne is running third, 2.3 seconds behind leader Jeff Gordon. Lap 87 -- Jeff Gordon's issues are no more, evidently. He's now 1.1 seconds up on second-place Brad Keselowski. Lap 84 -- Kasey Kahne goes to the high side of Clint Bowyer on the backstretch for third place. It looks like Bowyer just pulled over to let him go. Lap 80 -- Jeff Gordon's lead over Brad Keselowski is getting bigger again. It's now back up to nearly 8/10ths of a second. Lap 77 -- There's not been any chatter on Jeff Gordon's radio the last couple of laps, so he's either dealing with the problem or it's gone away. Lap 73 -- Jeff Gordon's potential problem has allowed Brad Keselowski to close to within just 5/10ths of a second. Lap 71 -- Hoping for a caution, Jeff Gordon's crew thinks that there might be debris on the backstretch. Lap 69 -- Jeff Gordon thinks he might have a tire going down. He's told that if he needs to come in, to do so. Lap 66 -- Jeff Gordon's spotter tells him that he has a lot of traffic ahead of him. Lap 64 -- The margin between first and second has stabilized at about 3.4 seconds. Lap 59 -- Kasey Kahne takes fourth place from Kevin Harvick. At the same times, Kurt Busch blows a tire on the frontstretch, but there's no caution. Lap 56 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. is running in eighth place. He finished second here last fall. Lap 53 -- Brad Keselowski jumps under Kevin Harvick for second place between Turns 1 and 2. Lap 51 -- Kevin Harvick is losing touch with Jeff Gordon. The gap between them is now 3.2 seconds -- half a straightaway. Lap 47 -- In four Sprint Cup starts here, Brad Keselowski's best finish here is a 10th. Lap 45 -- The top five are currently Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick Brad Keselowski, Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne. Lap 43 -- Jeff Gordon's cushion over second-place Kevin Harvick continues to grow. It's now up to more than two seconds. Lap 41 -- Or not. Brad Keselowski has moved past Clint Bowyer for third place. Lap 38 -- Clint Bowyer is going to be making a move on Kevin Harvick for second place any time now. Lap 35 -- There's another amazing stat for Jeff Gordon here. Just once since 2005 has he finished outside the top five. Lap 30 -- Jeff Gordon has opened up a 1.3-second lead over Kevin Harvick. Lap 24 -- Since 2003, Jeff Gordon has just one finish outside the top 10 here at Martinsville. Lap 21 -- Move Jeff Gordon up to second place ... no wait. Move him into the lead, past Kevin Harvick. Lap 18 -- Denny Hamlin isn't having a Denny Hamlin-like day at Martinsville. He's dropped from third on the starting grid to seventh. Lap 16 -- Jeff Gordon wrestles third place away from Clint Bowyer. Lap 14 -- Kasey Kahne isn't losing touch with leader Kevin Harvick. He's less than a car length behind. Lap 11 -- Coming off Turn 2, Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon power their way past Denny Hamlin for third and fourth place. Lap 9 -- Leader Kevin Harvick won here last fall and Saturday's truck race. Think he has this place figured out? Lap 6 -- The first few three or four cars are separated by at least a car length or so. Lap 1 -- GREEN FLAG: The race goes green at 1:16 p.m. ET. Here we go! Kevin Harvick clears off Turn 4 for the lead. 1:15 p.m. ET -- The fuel window is 125-135 laps. 1:14 p.m. ET -- Pit-road speed is just 30 mph. 1:12 p.m. ET -- The pace car gets the field back in motion. 1:11 p.m. ET -- The field has rolled off pit road for the start of the pace laps, but it then stops on the backstretch. 1:09 p.m. ET -- The NASCAR tower asks if drivers are ready to participate. It's time to put on their big-boy drawers and go racin'! 1:08 p.m. ET -- "The King," Richard Petty, gives the command to fire engines. 1:06 p.m. ET -- It is soooooo good to hear MRN legend Barney Hall back on the air! 1:02 p.m. ET -- Two F-18s from VFA-31 Tomcatters NAS Oceana do the fly-over. C'mon ... bucket list! I've got my helmet and flight suit all ready! 1:01 p.m. ET -- The national anthem is sung by the Virginia Tech Regimental Band, nicknamed the "Highty Tighties." If this race was sponsored by Hanes, could we call 'em the "Tighty Whities"? 1 p.m. ET -- After the presentation of colors by the Virginia Military Institute Regimental Honor Guard, Dr. Bob Hylton of Martinsville Raceway Ministries gives the invocation. 12:55 p.m. ET -- Five minutes to the invocation and national anthem. 12:33 p.m. ET -- Actor/musician Gary Sinise was scheduled to be the grand marshal, but he was involved in a car accident this week. He's OK, but Lieutenant Dan won't be giving the command to fire engines -- Richard Petty will. 8:23 a.m. ET -- Kasey Kahne is on the pole for the second time this season after turning in a lap of 97.128 mph during qualifying. It's the 24th pole of Kahne's Sprint Cup career and his first in 17 races at Martinsville. Kevin Harvick, winner of Saturday's Camping World Truck Series event, will start second. Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman are third through fifth. Brian Vickers, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon and Joey Logano are slated to roll off sixth through 10th.


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The Sweetland-Rackham Workshops on Writing series, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School and held in the Fall and Winter terms, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing. Previous topics include: Writing Persuasive Personal Statements, Academic Writing in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Effective Writing Plans and Goals, and Writing Your Way Through the Dissertation, and Academic Writing in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Disciplines.
Previous Workshops
Workshops are co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School.
Grants and Fellowship Workshop for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
This workshop will provide an overview of writing grant and fellowship applications in the sciences. We will start with an overview of resources to identify funding opportunities, and move through meeting application requirements, how to develop and write components of a proposal, and how to avoid common errors in proposal writing, finishing with the reviewer's perspective when evaluating proposals.
Academic Writing in the Social Sciences & Humanities
This workshop is designed to help graduate students identify and meet the challenges of academic writing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. This workshop will offer practical suggestions on how to:
- Contextualize, frame, and test an effective argument
- Strengthen the structure of an argument
- Identify writing conventions in your discipline
- Situate your work within the existing scholarship of your field
- Write with clarity and precision at the level of sentence, paragraph, and section
- Solicit and respond to feedback from advisers and peers
This workshop will be useful for Social Science and Humanities graduate students writing seminar papers, dissertations, conference papers and articles.
Writing for Blogs and Digital Media
Writing for blogs and digital media is an essential skill for today's writers. Whether you are writing for a blog or some other form of digitally created and shared piece of writing, there are many issues you should be aware of--from creating compelling and convincing posts that resonate with your target audience, to navigating the shifting waters of authorship and publication. Most important, you should become familiar with how text and images work together, how links can be effective, and how content achieves a purpose. Come to this workshop to begin exploring and understanding these contemporary aspects of writing.
Writing Persuasive Personal Statements
This session considers personal statements as a form of argument and focuses on their underlying rhetoric. The workshop will:
- Review examples of calls for proposals and decode their language to see more clearly how best to respond
- Construct general principles about audiences for statements of purpose and how to write to meet their needs
- Offer tips on easy ways of preparing to write and enrich the statement
- Share exercises on how to conceive of the statement as an argument
- Consider what UM statistics say about why proposals are rejected
- Review a list of things (and words) to avoid in statements of purpose
This workshop will be useful for any graduate student applying for fellowships, grants, or other opportunities whose applications require some form of statement of purpose. It will not address how to identify grant or fellowship opportunities.
Academic Writing in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Disciplines
This workshop will provide an overview of writing at a professional level in the sciences. The information discussed will apply equally to journal papers, dissertations, and other graduate level writing. We will cover drafting and revising techniques, discuss how to best target your audience, go over the structure of scientific writing, and focus — at a sentence and paragraph level — on what your reader needs from your writing.
Effective Writing Plans and Goals
Balancing the demands of writing with the array of other graduate school responsibilities—planning discussion sections, building syllabi, grading, acting as a research assistant, reading for classes, being a diligent citizen of your home department, etc.—can seem overwhelming. The good news is, it can be done, and it can be done reasonably. This workshop focuses on how to develop productive academic writing habits. The purpose is to instruct participants how to plan a project, set goals, and meet them, and students should leave the workshop with their own writing plans in place. We will discuss specific approaches to:
- Understanding your individual writing needs
- Determining appropriate form and scope of projects based on purpose, audience, and time constraints
- Breaking projects into manageable stages
- Setting reasonable, achievable goals
- Time management (especially working effectively with limited time)
- Moving back and forth between research and writing
- Moving back and forth between projects
- Building in accountability
- Making the most of peer groups
- Incorporating feedback for revision
Writing Your Way Through the Dissertation
While the dissertation is the final achievement of your graduate education, writing the dissertation is a process few face without struggle. Little prepares graduate students for the enormity of writing these extended and original academic arguments. This workshop will consider how writers can better manage writing their dissertations, and in fact, use writing as a way through the whole process. The workshop will offer strategies that address writing practice, work routines, and divisions of labor. This workshop will also present approaches to writing issues that dissertators in particular encounter, including: clarifying dissertation expectations, audience and working with committees, and the expanded role of revision for dissertators. The workshop is intended for writers from all disciplines who are in the midst of writing their dissertations and in search of strategies and approaches that can help advance their writing practice.
Topics include:
- clarifying expectations of a successful dissertation
- audience and working with committees
- reflective mapping strategies
- best writing practices for dissertators
Beyond Plagiarism: The Role of Citation Norms in Establishing Scholarly Credibility
While proper citation of sources is required of any writer who wants to avoid plagiarism, academic norms regarding citation and source use are complex and extend beyond law and ethics. This workshop offers a quick overview of key ethical concerns, followed by a more in-depth exploration of the role of citation practices in establishing scholarly credibility. Distinctions between plagiarism and copyright violations will be noted, but the workshop focuses more on how to situate one's own research in a broader rhetorical landscape (how to position one's work in an academic field) than on how to avoid breaking laws. This workshop will be most useful for graduate students in any discipline who are beginning to think about disseminating original research, whether at conferences or for publication. It will not address technicalities of copyright law in science or engineering fields. Topics addressed:
- Law vs. ethics vs. credibility
- Varieties of plagiarism
- Effective use of paraphrasing
- How to signal your own research contributions through strategic use and citation of sources


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It can be argued that players from Czechoslavkia and the Soviet Union have transformed the NHL.
But how those players escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to enter the west is a tale of intrigue.
Tal Pinchevsky goes through this history of how the Cold War collided with the coolest game on ice in his book, Breakaway.
Watch the video for his full interview with Mutsumi Takahashi.


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Lovely Apartment with Terrace
Спальные места4
Ванные комнаты1
Площадь55 м²
Этаж №(с лифтом)
- Кухня
- Стиральная машина/сушилка
- Лифт в здании
- Возможность проживания семьи/детей
- Балкон/терраса
- Можно с домашними животными
- Интернет
Краткое описание жилья
Адрес | Cihakova, 190 00 Prague, Чешская республика |
Тип жилья | Квартира |
ID жилья | 15SNEHZO |
Процент подтвержденных запросов брони | 87% |
Время ответа | Несколько часов |
Календарь обновлен | Вчера |
The apartment is 55 m2 with a terrace of 13 m2 and is located on the 4th (top) floor of a building from the 1930's. It consists of entrance vestibule, lounge/diner with kitchen corner, lounge and dining furniture is in leather and light oak style. Kitchen corner has electric hob, oven, dishwasher, coffee maker, kettle, fridge, microwave and has all necessary china ware and cutlery along with pots and pans.
The lounge has 2 leather sofas, conference table, and side lamps. There is an LCD wall mounted TV Satellite with many English language channels, a DVD player and a mini HIFI system. The dining table can seat 4 persons. The apartment has internet connection and WIFI.
The bedroom has double bed, night stands, large chest of drawers and various lamps, mirror etc (wardrobe is built in)and also a small double bed, the shower room is spacious and has shower cubicle, W.C., sink and a washing machine. The terrace has a table and 4 chairs.
Behind the apartment building is a large park, small river and wooded recreation ground. Street parking is available in the area.
The large shopping mall, 'Galerie Harfa' is 3 minutes walk away, and there are numerous local markets, bars and restaurants all within 100 meters of the apartment house.
The apartment is located 300 meters from the metro station Ceskomoravska. Nearby Metro: Českomoravská (Line B); Nearby Tram: U Svobodárny (Lines 15, 19).
This apartment is ideally suited for families with children, offering nearby parks, playgrounds, and adventure activities and the traveller looking for cost effective accommodation.
Правила Проживания
No Parties.Карта
Цены |
Цена за 2 гостей | 782 руб. за одну ночь/ дополнительная ночь |
Подробности |
Заезд после | 15:00 |
Заселение до | По договоренности |
Отъезд до | 10:00 |
Политика Отмены Брони |
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All previous reviews are correct and the pictures speak truth: we (4 adults) spent 4 nights in this warm and welcoming flat. 2 toilets were convenient, the generous living room invited us to chill after sigtseeing. Flat is clean and well equipped for 4 people. If you are sensitive to street noise, you might want to close the windows at night, or have another beer. We do not fancy blankets and sheets for bedding, continental quilts seem more hygienic, yet there were enough blankets! Communication with our host Andy was easy and fast. His advice to leave the car at Mr.parkit was good (14€ per day), you don't need a car. Safe neighbourhood with tram and metro (5 min. walk) nearby, nice restaurants, cafes and pubs in walking distance. Taxi (AAA) from Old Town ( Burg) to flat was just 8€ ! At every corner you will find convenience stores where you can buy water, coffee, bread...
We can definitely recommend this flat!
Very nice apartment. All you need for some days in a beautiful city. Andy (owner) is very helpful. Reply to mail very fast.
The choice of this apartment was reallly perfect for us. Exactly as nice as in the pictures, a very helpful and nice host plus very good communications with tramway, metro and a shopping centre close. Very nice area with not too many Tourists but still quite Close enough to the old town. In short: very good value for the money. When we go back to Prag some day, there´s no doubt we will try to rent this place again.
We had a very good stay. in this apartment. It is very confortable and well located in a quiet area. Very easy to reach the city center by public transportation (tram n. 22 and metro at Namesti Miru's stop), some restauranst and small supermarket very nearby.
2 floor apartment, good for 2 coouple or a family. The only note, just few more towels, would have been better, expecially if you stay for many days , but there is the washing machine in case you need
I recommend
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We had a wonderful time in Prag in a wonderful apartement that was located close to all main places. Andy gave us helpful hints where to go, where to Park the car for free and where to enjoy the more original Prag apart from the crowded places.
We really enjoyed. Thank you, Andy
It was all super!!! Very friendly!!!! Thank you!!!
The appartement is good situated and has everything you need.
Andrew is a perfect host, friendly and very helpful
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Outlook Warren Buffett says his eyesight isn't so good these days, but even if it were fine, he doesn't think he'd be seeing too many green shoots. Even Lord Mandelson, unreconstructed optimist though he appears to be, sees no more than "green seedlings".
The Labour-dominated Treasury Select Committee has meanwhile dismissed the Chancellor's forecasts of economic recovery by the end of year followed by a rebound to above trend growth of 3.5 per cent from 2011 onwards as unrealistic. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research also challenges the Chancellor's assumptions and forecasts the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. Hardly anyone, it seems, is prepared to predict a return to sunnier times any time soon.
Yet the stock market is roaring away as if already bathed in glorious spring sunshine. Are stock market investors as deluded as the Chancellor, or are they right to see reasons for hope? Nobody can foresee the future, and as every former chancellor will tell you, most economic forecasts, both official and independent, turn out to be bunkum.
The latest Cips survey data – on past experience a remarkably accurate lead indicator – seems to confirm the stock market's optimism. If Cips is right, then the contraction is already bottoming out and the economy may be starting to recover by the end of the year. All that policy action was bound eventually to have some effect, and it now seems possible it will kick in rather more quickly than once thought. The Chancellor may not turn out to be quite as unrealistic as the Treasury Committee supposes.
All the same, it's a steep hill he has to climb to reach those forecasts. So deep has the contraction in the economy already been that it will need to stop shrinking altogether for the remainder of the year, or alternatively rebound very sharply in the final quarter, for the Chancellor to stand any chance of meeting his forecast of a 3.5 per cent fall for 2009 as a whole.
Further out, the forecasts look even more challenging. True enough, past experience is that growth does indeed rebound sharply after recessions, but this is a very different kind of recession from almost any other of the post-war period. The current downturn results not so much from a classic inflationary boom but from a financial crisis. Go further back into history and you find that recessions caused by banking implosions tend to be deeper and longer-lasting, while the recovery is slower.
We'll see. What is undeniable is that the sheer size of the debt overhang that now needs to be worked off, both public and private, will crimp growth for years to come. Assuming consumer demand recovers at all, and that's a big if given rising unemployment and continued constraints on the banking sector's ability to lend, it's soon going to be hit by higher taxes. Demand in the economy will be further undermined by real cuts in public spending as the Treasury attempts to re-establish its grip on the public finances.
As yesterday's Treasury Committee report notes, even on the Chancellor's own forecasts for public borrowing and national debt, we are staring at the worst fiscal outlook since the Second World War. As it happens, the Treasury has a better record of forecasting the economy than it does the public finances. Only sometimes is it too optimistic about growth. Yet it almost invariably proves too optimistic about borrowing, particularly in a downturn. Outside analysts such as the National Institute and the Institute for Fiscal Studies think the deficit likely to be significantly worse than the Chancellor's already calamitous forecasts unless addressed by much steeper tax rises and cuts in public spending than forecast in the Budget.
Britain will emerge from the current recession with a structural deficit of some 10 per cent of GDP and national debt rising within five to six years to around 100 per cent of national income. Of the developed economies, only Japan is in worse shape. It took years of pain to put the public finances back on the straight and narrow after the last recession of the early 1990s, and back then the structural deficit – that is borrowing which is not going to disappear once the economy returns to growth – was only 4 per cent.
The causes of this extraordinary deterioration are now wearily familiar. Essentially the Government conned itself into believing it had found the Holy Grail of non-inflationary, permanent growth and had thereby brought about an end to boom and bust. At the same time it manipulated to destruction the fiscal rules it had designed to ensure prudent conduct of the public finances. The figures were fiddled and the duration of the cycle was adjusted to suit. Then finally the Treasury mistook the windfall profits of the housing market and financial services industry as a permanent addition to the tax base and spent accordingly. With the golden rule now blown away, to be laughably replaced by something called the "temporary operating rule", the only thing holding the Government in check are the disciplines of the gilts market, and even here the markets are being prevented from properly imposing corrective medicine because of the Bank of England's programme of "quantitative easing".
All this is piling up the most terrible problems for the next government. The greatest punishment the electorate could serve on Gordon Brown is not to throw him out, but to re-elect him, for he would then be condemned to having to clear up his own mess as his party tore itself apart in disgust around him.
The reason why national debt of the humungous proportions now being accumulated is so dangerous to the country's future is that once established it means nothing further can be borrowed to finance investment.
It also means that a very substantial proportion of the money being raised from taxes goes into servicing the debt, rather than paying for vital public services. Like the individual who has borrowed too much on his mortgage and credit card, the nation becomes condemned to working merely for the benefit of its creditors. By the time the bankers have been paid, there's nothing left for the loft extension, going out and overseas holidays.
Fortunately, all is not entirely lost. Countries can and do recover from similarly serious states of over-indebtedness. There are more reasons for hope than all this gloomy analysis might suggest. By assuming a substantial permanent loss of economic capacity as a result of recession, the Treasury may have been more gloomy than it needs to be about the size of the structural deficit. Nor is the financial services industry quite the dead parrot it is generally portrayed as. First into the downturn, the banking sector ought to be the first out again, and whereas it seems unlikely the City will return any time soon to the levels of tax generation seen during the boom, recovery may be faster than assumed.
Signs of that recovery ought to be apparent in first-quarter figures today and tomorrow from Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland. Impairment charges continue to rise at an alarming rate, but underlying profitability is recovering fast. Banks are coining it in many areas of wholesale markets.
These observations may be hard to reconcile with reports that the US Federal Reserve's stress testing of bank balance sheets has revealed a need for an additional $34bn of new capital at Bank of America alone, but in fact such capital raising is only part of the catharsis that needs to occur before banks can start operating properly again. Though many companies are still finding it desperately difficult to secure credit on decent terms, the capital markets do seem finely to be healing themselves. This is a necessary precursor to wider economic recovery.
There seems little justice in banks, now widely depicted as a form of original evil, being the first to feel the warm winds of economic spring, but for better or worse, the City remains Britain's most successful and innovative industry and it is obviously important to the nation's future health that it is not completely trounced in the regulatory backlash now underway.
Despite the bank-bashing tone of the political rhetoric, the Government gets this better than you might think. A Treasury-sponsored report due to be published today on the competitiveness of the City will reaffirm the Government's commitment to nurturing and encouraging this industry. If nothing else, ministers see the City as a vital source of revenues with which to rebuild the public finances.
Danny Gabay, director of the economics consultancy Fathom, calculates that in the two decades since Big Bang, the City has added approximately a quarter of a percentage point annually to overall GDP growth. That adds up to quite a chunk of growth. The "greedy bankers" tone of the policy debate risks significantly impairing that contribution. Undermining the success of the City would be like ripping up the railroads after they were built because in addition to delivering progress in public transport they also gave rise to some robber barons. Nobody would be the richer for destroying the City, least of all the now virtually bankrupt public sector.
The main threat, on the other hand, comes not from the UK Government, but from Europe. Europe has little cultural understanding of these industries, so only sees their flaws and bad points. In Paris and Berlin, political leaders are determined to use the crisis to impose a long-sought crackdown. Oversight plainly needs improving, but it is vital to Britain that the baby isn't thrown out with the bathwater.


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I suppose they sing 'Oh Come, All Ye Fatful'... |
I mean, what happens to mushrooms when they go mouldy? Hmmmm? Some sort of recursive process, whereby they grow mushrooms on them?
Mushrooms don't go mouldy, they just give each other piggybacks. |
And, yes, 'Yoghurt - what more can happen?' is an excellent t-shirt slogan...


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When you become a part of Army ROTC, you're not just working toward a diploma, but an even brighter future as a leader alongside other motivated Cadets. But make no mistake, you're a student first. You'll have a college schedule like your fellow students, but you'll also receive classroom and field courses that will challenge and excite you. Beyond that, you can take part in events and activities with fellow Cadets that will make your college experience even better.
See how interesting college can be when you're a part of Army ROTC. You'll be a college student first and foremost, just like the rest of the student body, but there's a key difference: you'll have even more opportunities to succeed.
These opportunities include Field Training Exercises (FTXs) in the spring and fall where Cadets build their teamwork and leadership skills. Cadets also participate in Physical Training (PT) on a regular basis to keep up their strength and endurance.
In addition, each battalion has its own unique calendar of events and activities.
Learn more about Events and Activities


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