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Anytime, AnywhereColumbia

College

T H E C O L U M B I A C O L L E G E A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E

1001 Rogers St.Columbia, MO 65216

Non-Profit OrganizationU.S. Postage

PAIDColumbia College

Address Service Requested

Join us forReunion WeekendApril 15, 16, & 17

a f f i n i t yT H E C O L U M B I A C O L L E G E A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E

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Alumni Reunion Weekend

We are excited to welcomeback all Christian College alumnae and Columbia Collegealumni for the 2011 ReunionWeekend!

Weekend highlights include:

• Class Socials (1931, 1941, 1951, 1961 and 1971)

• Master Artist Series

• Alumni Awards Dinner

• History & Traditions Showcase

• Special recognition for Golden Anniversary class

is April 15, 16, 17, 2011

2011

Distinguished Alumni Award

Michael Sawyer ‘74

Professional Achievement Award

Franette Iwanski ‘04

Columbia College Service Award

Judith Cunningham ‘64

Alumni

Award Recipients

Be there!

For more information or to register for the weekend, visit the Events & Recognition section at www.columbiacollegealumni.org.

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“Don’t measure your affinity for Columbia College,

just live it and share it with others each and every day!”

− Dale Coe Simons ‘65

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Letter from the

Dale Coe Simons ‘65

President

Martha Eberhard ‘00

President-Elect

Lollie Zander Reed ‘68

Secretary

Clint Herbert, Jr. ‘88

Treasurer

Kerri McBee-Black ‘93

Immediate Past President

Carol Winkler ‘93

Alumni Trustee

Ex-Officio Members

Michael Kateman

Executive Director of Development,

Alumni and Public Relations

Susan Davis

Senior Director of Alumni Relations

Board of Directors

Lynne Stuver Baker ‘64

Tanya Clatterbuck ‘00

Jonathan Dudley ‘10

Marjorie Thomas Gutelius ‘69

Bill Johnston ‘82

Bill Leeper ‘04

Lana Le Mons ‘09

Janette Nichols ‘02

Penny Pitman ‘65

Suzanne Pomeroy Ready ‘81

Johnette Van Dien ‘09

William “Bill” Wright ‘09

Columbia College Alumni Association Board of Directors

Dear Alumni of Columbia College,

It is my honor to write a letter to all alumni for every issue of affinity. My first letter for this issue was written and ready to hand-deliver to Columbia College’s Public Relations department, who produce affinity.On my way via airplane to our January board of directors meeting inColumbia, all flights to Columbia were cancelled due to inclementweather and here I was stuck in Memphis, Tenn.!

As I sat in Memphis International Airport making decisions to cancel the board meeting since most out of state people could not arrive in Columbia, two of my Illinois board members, Johnette Van Dien ‘09 and Lana Le Mons ‘09, walked up to me!

Stranded in the airport, the three of us bonded with conversations about our families, our jobs and our aspirations for the board, our experiences at and with Columbia College. It dawned on me then thatthe three of us know each other because of Columbia College − even though we attended in differentdecades, in different cities and on different schedules. We were given the chance to share our genuineAFFINITY for Columbia College and we weren’t just talking about it, we were feeling it! It was real!

Then it dawned on me that this is what establishing the tradition of Ivy Chain on each Nationwide Campus would mean for all alumni. And finding a way for Ivy Chain to be experienced for all of our online students would make this feeling of affinity even stronger. Sharing our affinity is wonderful at Reunion Weekend coming up in April and at Homecoming in October. And most importantly, just getting together with other alumni in any place at any time makes this affinity experience grow.Through all of these events and experiences, the spiritual Ivy Chain connects all of us for always.

In closing, I must tell you that our Texas board member did make it to Columbia, so Suzanne Ready ‘81will get an award at the February board meeting for “THE ONE WHO MADE IT.” Don’t measure your affinity for Columbia College, just live it and share it with others each and every day!

Most sincerely,

Dale Coe Simons ‘65President, CCAA [email protected]

Board President

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Representatives:

Athletics - Ryan McDannold Faculty - Tonia Compton ‘99 Student Government -

Nationwide - René Massey ‘01

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The Online Campus is Columbia College’s

largest campus, with 290 individual courses,

21 degrees including four master’s degrees

and nearly 21,000 students.

The current leaders of the Online Campus from left to right: Mike Randerson, vice president for Adult Higher Educaiton; Ernie Wren, assistant dean for AdultHigher Education and of the Online Campus; and Dr. Gary Massey, dean for Adult Higher Education.

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Myth 2: Online courses

are cake.

The instructors

Undergraduate GPAs by venue, end of August 2010 term

Day 2.95

Evening 3.02

Nationwide 3.02

Online 2.67

Nathan Miller*, a senior course review specialist who also teachesMusic Appreciation and Music of the United States online, says, “I have found online teaching to be a rewarding experience. At first I was concerned that I would miss the ‘stand and deliver’ facet of in-seat teaching and the student participation... In an in-seat class of 20 students, five may contribute consistently, 10 on occasion and the remaining five will rarely engage in course discussions, making it hard to tell if they are getting it. In an online course, every student is required to participate in course discussions, which often results in interesting insights. “

Peggy Wright, assistant professor of biology, has also displayed keen insights in her human biology course. This hands-on online course was offered for the eighth time in January 2011. How hands-on? About halfway in, her students are required to dissect a real, well-preserved sheep’s heart that’s part of a home lab kit. Wright says she wanted to make the online science experience as equivalent to that which on-campus students would experience.

Myth 4: Anyone

can learn online.

Some myths die hard. Some students are simplynot suited for online education. You have to have a certain amount of discipline and self-motivation since you’ll have to juggle courseworkwith job and family responsibilities. Onlinecourses demand a great deal of individualized work,and you have to manageyour schedule to meet classrequirements rather than attend at a specific time of the week.

Again, more study needs to be done, but research to date shows that older students do better in an online environment, perhaps because they aremore focused and less likely to be distracted by the 24/7 circus that is the Internet.

*Miller was recently promoted. He is now the director of special projects for Adult Higher Education.

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Myth 2: Online courses

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Uncle Sam says

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Day 2.95

Evening 3.02

Nationwide 3.02

Online 2.67

That crystal ball nearly shattered when the college first examined it in the late 90s, however. Many college leaders were skeptical at best about adopting new technology, especially Internet learning. “We really did not have a full understanding of how online worked,” says Mike Randerson, vice president for Adult Higher Education. “Stanford, MIT, Harvard all had an online presence and reputation − who would seek out Columbia College?”

The answer was and wasn’t a surprise: the college’s own students. Columbia College had only to provide accessible education to the large number of enrolled students, such as working adults and military servicemembers, not able to take classes because of time and geographical constraints. This has held true for a decade. Currently, says Randerson, about two-thirds of Columbia College Online Campus students previously took or concurrently take an in-seat class at a Columbia College campus.

There was another, more compelling factor. Life in the military is anything but stable, with frequent deployments, so online education is a necessity. And the U.S. military, through Education Services Officers(ESOs) at military bases throughout the country, informed existing on-base education institutions that they had to provide some online

Myth 6: There’s more academic

dishonesty online.

If a student is predisposed tocheat, they’re going to cheatno matter the setting. It’sjust harder to do so online.

If three students turn in apaper or test at the same time,for instance, the instructorwill know right away and be far more likely to checkthese documents for similarwording or themes. And thisinstructor has a powerfulally: the Columbia CollegeOnline Campus useswww.turnitin.com, a servicethat uses three differentsoftware systems with access to (according to their website) more than 135 million archived studentpapers, 90,000 journals, periodicals and books and13.5 billion Web pages tocheck for plagiarism.

This service benefits students, too. Students maysubmit a paper to Turnitinand receive feedback on sentence structure, themeand originality within minutes. Once they hit submit, though, the papercan’t be recalled.

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