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Thirty May Join Student Body
Oberlin
is likely to add 30 students to the College’s total student
body next year, College President Nancy Dye said at Tuesday’s
College Faculty meeting.
These additional students, many of whom will be paying full tuition,
will help allay some of the College’s financial woes. Tuition
is the College’s largest source of revenue for the College’s
operating budget.
Dye stated that not all of these additional students will be paying
full tuition, but that “it’s important to pay attention
to our need sensitivity policy.”
She made a similar statement at Tuesday’s College Faculty
meeting.
“Given the fact that Oberlin aids a large part of its student
body, “ Dye said, “we have to pay attention to tuition
revenue, because tuition [pays for much of] financial aid.”
—John
Byrne
Alumni
Site Redesigned
OBIE
Web, the College’s new and improved alumni website, debuted
early this year sporting a “fresher and more news-oriented
content,” said creator of the site and New Media Director
John Appley.
The old alumni site design “was showing its age” he
stated, and from the growing concerns of the College Alumni Association
as well as the Office of College Relations, a new design arose.
Focus groups conducted with alumni gave OBIE Web designers an idea
of what alumni wanted changed about the old design. This site now
features faculty, student and alumni profiles, an off-campus events
calendar, links to the Oberlin Alumni Magazine and Oberlin Conservatory
Magazine sites.
It also contains information on volunteering and donation opportunities,
as well as a heading labeled “Fun Stuff,” which includes
desktop wallpaper and electronic postcards.
“We wanted to tell alumni more about students and the new
faculty that has come on,” said Appley. “It’s
a behind the scenes look” he stated, at the College and its
components.
The old alumni website was rarely, if ever, updated yet OBIE Web
has plans to update weekly bringing in a stream of constant and
fresh information specifically geared towards College alumni.
OBIE Web can be accessed from the College’s homepage, or directly
at www.oberlin.edu/alumni/.
—Rachel
Decker
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