Sophomore student organizations senator Brandon Tracey was elected Student Government Association (SGA) speaker of senate Wednesday night by an 11-6 vote. Tracey will replace outgoing speaker Brenton Burke, who beat out Tracey to become SGA vice president.
Patrick Fuery, chair of the English department, has been granted $250,000 from the Australian Research Council for a research project focusing on the experiences of returning military personnel.
Raymond Sfeir, vice chancellor for academic administration, received an email May 8 informing him that Chapman’s past exams had been posted on an online test database.
University Program Board (UPB) is ending the semester with a surplus of $24,364.
More than 200 Chapman students, faculty and administration donned in red clothing crowded into the Wallace All Faiths Chapel Thursday evening to remember Barbara Mulch’s persistence, warmth and dedication to students. Mulch, 77, dean emerita and director of fellowships and scholar programs, died unexpectedly April 29 at St.
Bryce Anderson, newly appointed Student Government Association (SGA) director of public relations for the 2012-13 academic year, resigned, after two days in office, to become one of three account executives for Chapman’s National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team May 4.
A club on campus is waiting to hear whether the 50 T-shirts it had printed with the Student Government Association (SGA) logo will be paid for by SGA. Chapman Rotaract, a service club new to campus this year, printed the T-shirts without funding approval from SGA, then requested the $351.
Chapman will celebrate the largest graduating class in its history with more than 1,700 students receiving degrees from the university’s seven schools and colleges at commencement May 18 and 19. This is the third consecutive year the colleges and schools will hold their own ceremonies featuring keynote speakers chosen specifically for their graduating class.
Students walking through the Piazza last Thursday and Friday may have noticed water bottles decorated as innocent penguins. But what passersby didn’t see was the motor oil that filled the cute penguins’ plastic insides. Facilities management removed more than a dozen of the bottles from the fountain in the Piazza 10:30 a.
Huell Howser’s latest gift to Chapman, a house sited upon a small volcanic cone, will offer students a location for desert field trips, film sets and artist retreats. Howser donated “The Volcano House,” a space-age house between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in Newberry Springs, Calif.
Chapman Greek Life will grow by two next year – fraternity Phi Delta Theta will start recruiting in the fall and sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma in the spring. Sorority Pi Beta Phi has been approved to start a chapter on campus, but its arrival date is unknown.
Student Government Association (SGA) senate voted unanimously to approve a budget of $292,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year Wednesday. SGA President Chris Joondeph and Vice President Brenton Burke decreased their proposed budget by $48,000 after learning last year’s budget had been padded with money from SGA’s reserve fund.
Faculty, students and critically acclaimed author Luis Rodriguez, best known for his memoir on gang life, read passages from books banned by educational institutions across the country. The event, held in the Piazza Thursday, was meant to address issues of censorship and oppression in literacy education.
Chapman will celebrate the largest graduating class in its history with more than 1,700 students receiving degrees from the university’s seven schools and colleges at commencement May 18 and 19. This is the third consecutive year the colleges and schools will hold their own ceremonies featuring keynote speakers chosen specifically for their graduating class.
Student Psychological Counseling Services temporarily removed its link to ULifeline, a mental health self-evaluation website, from Chapman’s website. The removal occurred when Chapman began updating its website this year. An upgraded version of ULifeline, which gathers information about emotional issues such as depression and anxiety, should appear on Chapman’s website this summer, said Jeannie Walker, director of psychological counseling services.
Barbara Mulch, 77, dean emerita and director of fellowships and scholar programs, died unexpectedly April 29 at St. Joseph Hospital after suffering a stroke the previous evening. A memorial service will be held in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel 6 p.
Students cheered and eagerly waived cash at the stage as performers strutted down the red carpet in fishnet stockings, stilettos and unitards in front of a crowd of more than 100 people. Drag queens, men in womens clothing, and one drag king, a woman in mens clothing, performed in the show.
President Jim Doti is one of the 10 highest-paid private university presidents in the nation, making $1,542,270 in 2009. The amount is well above Doti’s base compensation because of a retention bonus from the Board of Trustees exceeding $840,000 meant to keep Doti at Chapman for at least five years.
Patrick Fuery, chair of the English department, plans to refocus Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences to be more research-oriented when he becomes dean in September. He said he plans to create an interdisciplinary research program called Chapman Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASH) and a Ph.
Students on the first floor of Argyros Forum migrated to the front of the Student Union to escape an egg-like odor that permeated the building Thursday afternoon. Facilities management has not identified the cause of the smell that lingered on the first and second floors of Argyros Forum for several hours.
Chapman is drawing up plans for a 140,000-square-foot building to replace the Argyros Forum parking lot and tennis courts on North Center Street. The building, which will house laboratories, classrooms and faculty offices for Schmid College of Science and Technology, will likely break ground in 2014 and be completed in two years, wrote Kris Olsen, vice president of campus planning and operations, in an email.
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