IUP Central Calendar

May 2001

In This Issue
Eberly College of Business Receives Accreditation
Admissions Office Now Part of Planning and Analysis Unit
Parking Garage Spaces For Rent

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Eberly College of Business Receives Accreditation
The Eberly College of Business and Information Technology has received an official letter from AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) stating that the College has achieved accreditation.

"This is an outstanding achievement and a justified testament to the quality of the faculty, staff, student body, and programs of the Eberly College," said Dr. Robert Camp, Dean of the College.

At the annual meeting of AACSB International member schools, the Association publicized the list of schools which had been newly accredited and the list of schools which had been reaccredited. The overall list was quite impressive, since the reaccreditation list included MIT, UCLA, and Northwestern.

There were 23 candidate schools in our cohort that were up for initial accreditation two years ago. Out of that cohort, three were accredited based on the first review, seven were deferred (Eberly College and six others), and 13 were asked to withdraw. I was told at the conference that only three of the seven deferred schools were actually accredited at the end of the deferral period. So, out of 23 schools in our cohort class, only six were apparently accredited. This just reinforces the fact that the standards are relatively high and not so easily attainable, Dr. Camp explained.

A celebration of the accreditation is in the planning stages for the fall semester.

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Admissions Office Now Part of Planning and Analysis Unit
IUP President Lawrence K. Pettit has announced that he has transferred the Admissions Office from Academic Affairs to the Planning and Analysis unit within the President's Office.

Dean of Admissions, Bill Nunn, now reports to Dr. Harold "Pete" Goldsmith, Interim Executive Director of Planning and Analysis. Pettit explained that this move will integrate the enrollment management function with the overall planning operation, and it will shift the workload in Academic Affairs.

"Admissions will get more day-to-day supervision and support, and at the same time the Provost and Vice Provost will be able to turn more attention to the increasingly important task of attracting federal funding for new IUP program initiatives," Pettit said.

Pettit also said that "...as the university's aspirations and agenda have grown, the added workload has fallen disproportionately on Provost Staszkiewicz and his staff in Academic Affairs. The transfer of Admissions should provide some relief there as well as providing more sustained leadership for the admissions function."

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Parking Garage Spaces For Rent
A total of 150 spaces in the IUP Parking Garage, located off Grant Street, will be available for rent to members of the IUP community—students, faculty, administrators and staff— starting in Summer 2001.

These spaces, located on decks two and four of the garage, will be available starting June 3 (Summer Session I) and continue through the end of Summer Session II (Aug. 15). Cost for Summer I and Summer II space rental is $85.

Persons interesting in renting a space are asked to send their name, phone, permanent address and e-mail address to Campus Police, University Annex, marked with "Attention, Bill Montgomery" by May 25. Applications can also be sent by e-mail to billmont@grove.iup.edu  In order to distribute the spaces fairly, if applications outnumber the number of available rental spots, rentals will be assigned on a lottery basis. Those persons successful in securing rental spaces will be notified by telephone or e-mail by May 30.

These 150 spaces also will be available for rent for Fall 2001-2002 and Spring 2001-2002. Persons obtaining a space for either the Fall or Spring 2001-2002 semester will also receive the space for the Summer 2002 sessions.

Cost for one semester for 2001-2002 (which includes Summer I and Summer II 2002) is $170; cost for both Fall and Spring semesters 2001-2002 (which includes Summer I and Summer II) is $332.

At this time, only rentals for Summer I and Summer II will be assigned. However, persons interested in purchasing rental spaces for the Fall and Spring 2001-2002 semesters should apply by Aug. 17, 2001.

In the event that the demand for spaces outnumbers the 150 spaces available for the Fall and Spring 2001-2002 semesters, applicants will be chosen on a lottery basis. Successful applicants for the Fall and Spring 2001-2002 semesters will be notified by Aug. 24, 2001.

"This program is being done on a trial basis," said Bill Montgomery, director of campus safety and chairman of the IUP Parking Advisory Committee. "Members of the Committee will study the program after a year and make recommendations to the vice president for administration and finance and the Senior Staff about continuation or modification of the parking garage rental space program," he said.

Persons receiving a rental space will be required to observe the rules and regulations of the garage, including no entrance or egress from midnight to 6 a.m. Persons with rental permits will be permitted to leave their vehicles in the garage in their rental spaces on an overnight basis.

If University officials decide to continue the program after the 2001-2002 year, persons who have purchased a rental space for the 2001-2002 Fall and Spring semesters will be permitted to renew the rental agreement for that space without having to re-apply.

For more information about the program, persons should contact Montgomery or visit the IUP campus police Web site at www.iup.edu/police/.

In other parking issues, starting for the Fall 2001 semester, beginning Aug. 27, parking ticket fines will be $10 and boot fees (for persons with three or more outstanding tickets) will be $30.

"The State System recently reviewed parking fines for all 14 universities and recommended that parking fines be increased," Montgomery said.

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