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Wednesday, October 22, 1997

University of Waterloo -- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Waterloo's very own lottery

A lottery aimed at raising as much as $40,000 for UW scholarships is to be launched Monday as the "Dollars for Scholars Raffle". Tickets are $60 apiece, with no more than 1,000 to be sold, says Ian Williams, chair of the senate committee on scholarships and student aid.

Ticket sales run October 27 through December 8. First prize is $2,500, with the winner to be drawn December 15. After that there will be eleven more draws, each for $1,000 -- one a month, on the third Monday of the month, January through November 1998.

Tickets are available at the development office in South Campus Hall (phone ext. 2988) and there will be a network of ticket sellers across campus, Williams says. "And we'll want to reach alumni," he added.

Sharing the good fortune

I've now had time, like other staff and faculty members, to read the information circulated a few days ago by organizers of the UW United Way campaign, and here's some of what I noticed:

A letter from Helen Kilbride, the retired staff member who's chairing the campaign again this year: "We are a generous campus community, albeit that our participation percentage decreases every year. Won't you rejoin us and spare a few dollars every month from your pay cheque?"
Comments from several United Way volunteers across Kitchener-Waterloo, including one who says, "By giving both of myself and by a donation to the United Way, I can support those agencies that bring value back into the lives that have lost it. My parents gave me the gift of caring for my community and, by example, I will give this gift to my sons. It makes us all stronger."
A list of the agencies supported by the United Way campaign, from Anselma House to the YWCA, via the Canadian Mental Health Association, Focus for Ethnic Women, K-W Counselling Services, Lutherwood, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, St. John Ambulance, the Social Planning Council, Woolwich Interfaith Counselling Centre and a few dozen others.

"The life you are changing," United Way donors are told, "may be your own."

Yes, but this is ridiculous

There couldn't have been a better week for this headline in the Washington-based Chronicle of Higher Education:

Canadian Universities See U.S. as a Fertile Recruiting Ground
Sure it's cold up there, but
prospective students are wooed
by low tuition and safe campuses

Sure it's cold up here -- high of 4 today in Waterloo, according to the latest Environment Canada forecast -- and there's a four-letter word for that white stuff speckling the ground. But Canadian universities have some hot prospects, the Chronicle says in its current issue:

Demographic trends, coupled with fast-rising education costs, have put pressure on universities to recruit actively for top students. With sharply rising tuition in most regions and a reduction in government support, institutions have an added incentive to recruit and retain the right mix of students. Paradoxically, Canadian universities now find that they must both compete and collaborate with each other. In the process, some of them see the United States as a potentially lucrative market.
Although their promotional budgets are small by the standards of some U.S. institutions, Canadian universities have developed advertising and marketing campaigns aimed specifically at U.S. high-school students. They also have set aside more funds for scholarships and have established administrative structures designed to weave together heir activities in enrollment management, recruitment, fund raising, and alumni relations.
"We're where the American universities were 10 years ago," says Anne Roussell, executive director of McGill's Recruitment and Liaison Office. "We're late bloomers. Five or six years ago, we didn't look at recruitment as a business." . . .
Officials estimate that some 20,000 Canadian students are pursuing degrees at U.S. colleges and universities but only about 3,000 Americans are doing so in Canada. . . .
The Canadian universities say they have three main selling points: lower costs, at least in comparison to private institutions in the United States or to tuition for out-of-state residents at major state universities; campus safety; and internationally recognized degrees.

A couple of things happening

Visits by teacher education representatives continue. Today in the multipurpose room of the Student Life Centre: the University of Toronto at 9:30, Windsor at 10:30, York at 11:30, Nipissing at 2:30, Lakehead at 3:30.

"The Colour of Fear" is to be screened today at 7, tomorrow at 2:30 and Friday at 10:30 in the Arts Lecture Hall, as the first in a series of films on social justice issues sponsored by UW's peace and conflict studies program. Says a flyer: "This extraordinary film presents the intimate and emotionally-charged interactions among eight people of diverse ethnic backgrounds as they uncover racial stereotypes, challenge each other's attitudes, and search for ways out of the spiral of racism. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to stay for a discussion period following each screening."

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY October 22, 1970: UW's senate refuses a request to cancel classes for a day for a program of workshops and talks about the Vietnam war.

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