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From Front
February 12,2010
KELSI WILLIAMSON Chief Photographer
Drew Corbin, sophomore marketing major from Beaverton, Ore., and Drew Peters, fresh-
man exercise science major from Frisco, take down Luke Cochran, senior finance major
from Round Rock.
MOBILE LEARNING
Faculty: Exploring the iPad
Continued from page 1
have multimedia and in-
teractive modules.”
Apple will release
the iPad at the end of
March, and Saltsman
said the leadership
team hopes to get the
iPad into faculty hands
as soon as possible. >
As far as getting
the iPad into students’
hands, Saltsman said
there is no plan to mass-
distribute iPads to next
year’s students or to
stop the Mobile Learn-
ing Initiative.
“Before we would ever
make a decision to move
to another device, it would
be done after a focused
and very intentional study
of the value of those de-
vices in the educational
setting,” he said.
The main purpose of
Friday’s meeting, Salts-
man said, is to allow fac-
ulty to understand what
the iPad really does and
how different depart-
ments envision it as an
educational tool.
Scott Perkins, direc-
tor of research, said fac-
ulty participation will
help everyone, under-
stand how learning on
a digital textbook or an
e-book reader compares
to reading a traditional
textbook or article.
“We don’t really
know, yet, in quality of
learning or quality of
reading comprehension
exactly how that’s going
to work,” Perkins said.
“We are excited and op-
timistic to see, but we
have to look at it and
work on it and conduct
the studies to find out.”
While the iPad has
advantages and disad-
vantages when com-
pared to the iPhone and
iPod, Perkins said the
iPad could be the fu-
ture of the classroom as
schools shift from pa-
per to electronics. How-
ever, as of now, he said
they are focused more
on undergraduate mo-
bile saturation.
“While we saturate
the undergraduate cam-
pus with iPhone and
iPod touch devices, we
want to have a few fac-
ulty begin piloting and
tinkering with the next
kind of device to see
what our uses might
be,” Perkins said.
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commitment to the high-
est standards of academic
success, service, leader-
ship and character” and
possess “temperament,
experience, intelligence
and personal values to be
servant leaders in a Chris-
tian campus culture,” ac-
cording to the scholarship
requirements at www.acu.
edu/admissions.
The applicant must be
an undergraduate student
entering ACU with fewer
than 14 credit hours, the
scholar must have a high
school GPA of 3.5 or high-
er, an SAT score of 1360,
excluding written portions,
and an ACT score of 31 or
above. The applicant must
also submit a high school
transcript and a one to two
page resume explaining
church, school and com-
munity involvement and
leadership. In addition to
these requirements, appli-
cants must be invited to
participate in an on-cam-
pus interview and write a
timed essay immediately
following the interview,
a prerequisite added just
this year.
Margaret Moore, sopho-
more youth and family
ministry and secondary ed-
ucation major from Hous-
ton, was such an applicant
in Spring 2008 before being
awarded a full Presidential
Scholar Award. Moore said
she applied because she
needed the financial aid
but was struck with ner-
vousness when she began
the interview process.
“I felt like because there
were so many other people
there for the interviews,
there was no way I was
going to measure up to
everyone,” Moore said. “I
thought, ‘There’s no way
I’m more qualified than
these people. How are they
going to judge this?”’
Moore said she knew
a limited number of stu-
dents would receive the
scholarship, and she
made efforts to connect
with her interviewer.
“Everyone else had to
meet the same require-
ments I did,” she said. “We
were all the same.”
Two years later, students
are beginning the interview
process for the Presidential
Scholar Award effective in
the fall. Those participat-
ing in this year’s interview
were invited to one of five
interview dates, the first
of which was Monday; the
next four dates are Friday,
Monday, Feb. 22 and March
1. Students will be notified
if they have received half,
full or no award by April 2,
Lavender said.
Lavender said the num-
ber of recipients for half
and full scholarships vary
each year, but the univer-
sity is able to maintain a
fairly consistent number.
“On average, we award
25 to 30 halves and 25 to
30 fulls,” he said.
Lavender said the
scholarship application
was created last summer.
The admissions office set
the interviews cap, based
on the number of intervie-
wees and the available in-
terview rooms in the Bob
and Shirley Hunter Wel-
come Center. Applications
had to be postmarked by
Jan. 15, but Lavender said
the cap was met two days
prior to the deadline. Stu-
dents who were not invited
to continue the process or
who could not be reached
will still be invited explore
what ACU has to offer -
should they decide to at-
tend ACU in the fall with-
out the scholarship.
Moore said she was
informed of alternative
scholarship opportuni-
ties, given her scores and
qualifications, had she
been rejected for the Pres-
idential Scholar Award.
“I know that the SAT
scores qualified you for
other scholarships, so I
knew if I didn’t get this, I
could still get at least half
tuition paid,” she said.
“Other people who were re-
jected got offered another
scholarship that wasn’t as
much, but it was still some-
thing for making it to the
interview process.”
Moore said she also
knew of denied applicants
receiving a voucher that
would go toward funding
a Study Abroad program
of the student’s choice.
Although other scholar-
ships and vouchers do
not replace a Presidential
Scholar Award, Moore
said she appreciates the
university’s efforts.
“It’s saying, ‘You still are
a really great student, and
we still want you here,”’
she said.
Lavender reiterated the
university’s desire to keep
students involved and ac-
tive in the ACU experience
and expose them to oppor-
tunities on campus.
“We had much more de-
mand than we had the ca-
pacity of handling,” Laven-
der said. “We have invited
them to a special Honors
preview day on Feb. 26,
and we’re hoping lots of
them will come visit cam-
pus that day.”
contact Rodriguez at
sar06g@acu.edu
CULTURE
Year: Celebrating the tiger
Continued from page 1
“It is the biggest Chinese
holiday; companies shut
down, and families are to-
gether for 15 days.”
The celebration is not
just for Chinese citizens;
it is a tradition in several
Asian countries, espe-
cially those with large
Han Chinese popula-
tions. Many people who
speak Chinese or simply
enjoy the culture cel-
ebrate the holiday.
ACU students will be
ringing in the new year
at the Hillcrest Church
of Christ on Saturday.
People will be present to
help translate and teach
visitors about Chinese
culture, which will in-
clude playing Igo, a tra-
ditional Chinese board
game. This part begins at
4 p.m.; dinner and a more
informal party will follow
at 6:15 p.m. Although the
event is organized by the
Chinese Students’ and
Scholars’ Association,
anyone interested in Chi-
nese culture or the New
Year celebration is wel-
come to participate.
The date of the holi-
day changes every year
because the Chinese cal-
endar is based on the lu-
nar year. The celebration
begins the first day of the
new moon and ends the
day of the Lantern Festi-
val, which coincides with
the full moon. This forms
a 12-year pattern in which
each year is named after
an animal. Depending on
the year a child is born, he
or she is believed to have
the characteristics of that
year’s animal. As Valen-
tine’s Day approaches,
for Chinese students, the
year of the mouse is end-
ing, and the year of the
tiger is about to begin.
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