Yup, that's right. "Affordable Success" is the motto of Fort Hays State University, better known as FHSU. For years this college has been ridiculed by others for their slogan as a school that just hands out degrees. This has hurt many graduates in their job seeking voyage. We briefly touched on this topic in class Thursday after I brought up The Hays Daily News' front page article, "FHSU ranks in upper tier" by Will Manly, found in th September 6, 2007 edition.
The article begins by saying how FHSU scored in the top 10 percent of most improved students. "The Collegiate Learning Assessment, conducted by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education, ranked FHSU higher than 90 percent of other colleges and universities assessed in improvement in writing, critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills." From what I understand from the CLA website, the test focuses on real-life situations in which the students have to explain how they would handle the problem.
I am not going to lie. My first thoughts on the "Affordable Success" motto were not positive. I kept thinking how tacky it made the university sound! BUT... it does speak true. FHSU's tution is considerably lower than other universities in the state and obviously from this article they are producing graduates with the smarts to succeed. The motto is short, sweet, and to-the-point. Maybe we should be less worried about how it makes us look and a little more focused on changing everyone's thoughts about us!
Fort Hays State University created a brochure outlining their plan to fulfill the promise of Affordable Success. Their idea is to translate vision into results.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
UPDATE... VERDICT IS IN ! !
WAHOO! Yes, i said wahoo. Friday, September 7, 2007, the St. Rita nursing home owners were found not guilty. with about 3 weeks of trail, then 4 hours of deliberations, the jury returned with their decision.
Quoting from the article, "There were a lot of mistakes made, and it should have been a lot of people answering for it," The Associated Press quoted one juror, Kim Maxwell, as saying "So why just these two people?"
WOW the justice system made me proud. (and yes there was sarcasm in my type.) I am proud that emotions were put aside and rational decision making took hold.
Well done jurors of St. Francisville!!!
Quoting from the article, "There were a lot of mistakes made, and it should have been a lot of people answering for it," The Associated Press quoted one juror, Kim Maxwell, as saying "So why just these two people?"
WOW the justice system made me proud. (and yes there was sarcasm in my type.) I am proud that emotions were put aside and rational decision making took hold.
Well done jurors of St. Francisville!!!
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