Campus and community briefs
Proposal for tuition increase forum planned
All are invited to attend and comment at a public forum to discuss a proposed second-tier tuition increase at Utah State University. The forum will be at noon Friday in the Sunburst Lounge on the second floor of the Taggart Student Center.
USU is proposing a second-tier tuition increase of 4 percent for current students and 6 percent for students enrolling for the first time in the summer of 2004. The increase in tuition would provide an estimated $1.8 million to support USU’s academic mission in three critical areas.
The university would devote $200,000 to student initiatives such as service-learning implementation, supplemental instruction, an increase in the number of depth courses and an increase in the number of sections in bottleneck courses. A total of $1 million would enhance university libraries, and the remaining $600,000 would be used for salary compensation and to cover fuel and energy deficits not funded by the Utah Legislature.
Scholarships for USU employees available
The Professional Employee Association Scholarship Committee is accepting scholarship applications for the 2004-05 academic year. PEA will award six $800 scholarships.
The scholarships are available for current Utah State University professional employees or a family member of current USU professional employees.
For detailed instructions, eligibility requirements and applications, visit the PEA Web site at www.usu.edu/usupea/scholarships/scholar_menu.htm.
Application packets are also available at several locations, including the Admissions office (Taggart Student Center, Room 102), the Registrar’s Office (TSC, Room 246) and at the Eccles Conference Center, Room 103.
The scholarship submission deadline is Friday, March 19, and scholarship recipients will be notified by Friday, April 23. Contact Betsy H. Newman, 797-5834, with any questions.
Science and religious crisis is lecture topic
Professor Menachem Fisch will be a guest lecturer at Utah State University Monday, Feb. 23, in a talk titled “Science, Judaism and the Religious Crisis of Modernity.”
Fisch speaks at 2:30 p.m. in the Business Building auditorium. The lecture is free.
Fisch is a professor at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv. He is known as a leading thinker on the relation between Judaism and modern science. His book, “Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture,” is a major contribution to the field, according to Richard Sherlock, professor of philosophy at USU. Fisch has also completed important work on Victorian science in England. He is the author of three books and has more than 40 articles and reviews.
The lecture is sponsored by the department of languages, philosophy and speech communication and is underwritten by a grant from the Templeton Foundation.
For information on Fisch’s lecture contact Sherlock at 797-1244.
MoTab director set to speak at interfaith event
“The Effect of Music on the Family,” will be examined through musical numbers and remarks at the American Mothers of Utah Interfaith Service Feb. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Logan Tabernacle.
The keynote speaker will be Craig Jessop, director of the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Special music will include the Logan Institute “New Horizons” choir, directed by Steve Schank, a vocal solo, “Via Dolo Rosa,” and a combination group and audience rendition of “This Is My Country.”
The USU Air Force ROTC will lead the audience in a patriotic tribute, joined by Boy Scouts with a parade of flags. Pastor Kevin Skidmore of the Logan Church of Christ, Brenda Anthony, Utah Mother of the Year 2003, and Sheri Egbert, Utah Young Mother Representative 2003, will give remarks.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is no cost for this interfaith service.