From the Industrial Designers Society of America website: \ University of Oregon’s Department of Product Design set SAIL in summer 2017 with a new addition to week-long programs designed to help high school students explore career paths. A product design undergraduate student in UO’s College of Design taught the next generation…
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Dear CAS Colleagues, In case you haven’t heard, I want you to be aware of an innovative fundraising campaign currently underway that will benefit two CAS programs. The campaign, called DuckFunder, is a crowdfunding approach that aims to attract lots of small gifts (and even some large ones) for very…
In the NYT here: LOS ANGELES — If you go by the odds, Sierra Williams shouldn’t be in college, let alone at a highly selective school like the University of Southern California. Many kids in her low-income neighborhood here don’t get to or through the 12th grade. Her single mother…
about SAIL’s recently concluded crowdfunding campaign, and explains the process for starting your own UO Advancement approved “Duckfunder campaign”, By Greg Bolt, here. SAIL raised $17,500, and after the match that’s $35,000. You can still give to SAIL (and still get it matched by a very generous alumni donor) by going to https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1540/foundation/2col.aspx?sid=1540&gid=1&pgid=408&cid=1095 and entering “For…
Over the target with 101 donors so far. All donations are still matched, and will go to student scholarships. Donate here:
SAIL is UO’s largest faculty led volunteer program. Faculty teach low-SES and first generation HS students in free week long summer day-camps on the UO campus, to show them what college is like and how they can succeed at it. Last summer we had 10 camps, 200+ students, and ~100…
SAIL is UO’s faculty volunteer led program to encourage low-SES first generation students to go to college, by bringing them to campus for free summer day-camps on different academic subjects. They meet a lot of faculty and undergraduate mentors, and come back every summer during HS for a different camp, so by…
On the other hand we are better than other Oregon publics. Diane Dietz has the report in the RG here.
The NYT has some good news and bad news on education, here. First, in case you’re a professor wondering if what you do makes a difference, it does. College matters more and more: College has become virtually a precondition for upward mobility. Men with only a high school diploma earn about…