Fall 1991
Volume III No. 1
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Moving day!
Campus welcomes 687 newcomers
Stetson is welcoming 687 new students to
campus this fall, 473 as freshmen and 214
ttansferring from othet colleges.
Academic standards remain high. Dean of
Admissions Linda Glover said 81 percent of
this year's freshmen ranked in the top third of
theit high school classes, compared to 76
percent in 1990. Thirty-six percenrhave high
school grade point averages of at least 3.5,
compared to 35 petcent last year.
Eighty-one percent of the new students are
Floridians. Women outnumber men, as they
have for the past three years. Ten percent ate
ftom ethnically diverse groups.
The distribution of subjects: those planning
to majot in elementary education, math,
psychology, and instrumental music performance are up significantly. In the School of
Business Administration, more students are
choosing a nonspecific program.
Freshmen need time to decide what they
want to do with theit lives, English Professor
Mike Raymond rold parents in an orientation
session. Don't pressure students to choose
"pte-law, pre-med, pre-rich," he said;
encourage them to "learn how to learn."
"College is a great place to explore, to try
things, to reach beyond one's grasp, to make
decisions about values and lifestyles, to test
choices, to get a sense of self," Raymond
said. " You need to start letting them go."
Don't expect too much of collegians,
Raymond warned. Parents need to understand
that at Stetson, which "takes pride in holding
down grade inflation," a C grade means
average work. Students may have gotten
through high school successfully by using
only part of their brains, he warned, "but you
are paying us big bucks to test them."
Fund honors Dr. Colwell
A memorial scholarship fund has been
established in memory of English Professor
Carter Colwell. It will provide a need-based
art and sciences scholarship for minority
students, pteferably from Volusia County.
Dr. Colwell, who died from cancer August
23, was the 1980 winner of the McEniry
Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Donations to the fund should be sent to:
Catter Colwell Scholarship Fund, Stetson
University, Campus Box 8279, DeLand, FL
32720-3777.
Stetson ranked
#3 in South by
U.S. News
Stetson is ranked in the top three universities
in the south, and first in Horida, in the 1991
U.S. News & World Report list, "America's
Best Colleges." Stetson tied with Berea
College in Kentucky for third place, behind
Wake Forest University (1) and University of
Richmond.
The rankings are the tesult of a study of
over 1,000 schools that combined statistical
data with the results of a U.S-. News survey of
academic reputations. Statistics, provided
largely by the schools themselves, measured
selectivity of the student body; financial
support for a high-quality, full-time faculty;
overall financial resources; student satisfaction as measured by the school's ability to
graduate the freshmen it admits; and standardized test scores.
Stetson has been included in every U.S.
News ranking since the survey began in 1985.
It was fourth last year, behind Berea.
Campus Life programs
Help new students 'connect'
With 'rush' by Greek organizations postponed
until the end of January, Stetson has taken the
second major step in a program designed to
help new students better connect with all
phases of campus life. The first was the
Stetson Experience course begun last fall.
"Deferred Rush supports a solid unification
of the Greek system, and an elimination of the
pressures usually encountered by new
students faced with the need to make an eatly
decision about Greek affiliation," explained
Dean of Campus Life James Beasley. "It
permits new students to experience the whole
tange of social opportunities on campus
before making commitments to a specific
organization. It also promotes participation in,
and identification with, the all-campus
program of co-curricular education."
Rules were developed with the help of representatives of fraternities and sororities.
For your calendar
Fall "91 Semester
Fall Phonathon
Parents Weekend
Thanksgiving
Yule Log Lighting
Fall Commencement
Christmas
Winter Term
Homecoming
Spring '92 Semester
Spring Break
Sept. 4-Dec 13
Oct 747
Oct. 25-27
Nov. 28-Dec. I
Dec 3
Dec. 15
Dec. 15-Jan. 5
Jan. 6-29,1992
Jan. 17-19
Feb.3-May 14
Mar. 16-22
