Daily Bulletin

Monday, December 9, 1996

A million dollars from alumni

The development and alumni affairs office is responsible for the program, which employs 50 student callers. The students contact UW alumni for donations five evenings a week. "Mail-call" means that letters are sent beforehand to alumni to say that students will be calling to seek donations.

"This is the first time ever we have broken one million in a term," says development officer William Rowe. "This is a one-term record." He credited the student callers for the success of the program: "They do all the leg work. We've had a couple nights where callers have made up to $10,000 in donations," and on one "Super Sunday" a record total of $114,000 came in. Rowe said that by Monday of last week the program had raised exactly $1,001,000 from over 5,500 alumni during the fall term.

Said Rowe: "We call on behalf of all the faculties, schools and colleges at the University of Waterloo -- this term, we covered groups from each faculty, school and college." When contacting alumni, the students mention the priority projects as set down by the departments, faculties and colleges. "Although most people give to one of these projects, many alumni wish to give to other causes and programs within the university community," Rowe added. "The alumni can designate their gift to wherever they choose."

Tomorrow, a learning "showcase"

A panel on Evaluating the Impact of Learning Technologies begins at 9 a.m. in Davis room 1302. Joining moderator Gary Waller, associate provost (academic and student affairs), on the panel will be Paul Beam of English, Claudio Canizares of electrical and computer engineering, Alex Penlidis of chemical engineering, and Jane Webster of management sciences.

"The showcase is an excellent opportunity for both faculty and students and other people to pick up ideas about the potential for interactive multimedia to address instructional challenges," says Tom Carey, associate director of learning technologies at TRACE. "It will be an opportunity to see how instructors are using multimedia to deal with specific problems and explore how these solutions are being used in teaching and learning."

Another panel at 10:45 a.m. will look at Making Online Content (and Online Students) Come Alive. Moderated by Jay Black, associate provost (information systems and technology), its panelists will be Terri Meyer Boake of architecture, Mieke Delfgaauw of urban and regional planning, Richard Hughson of kinesiology, and Jim Robinson of environment and resource studies.

Beginning at 1:30 p.m., there will be a display of innovations in learning technology in Davis room 1301. "Waterloo faculty members and staff will be demonstrating multimedia and World Wide Web applications that have been developed for use in teaching and learning," Carey said. "Applications range from scientific animations to interactive instruction modules to full courses on the Internet."

Annual meeting on pensions

Meanwhile, there's another opportunity today for individuals to ask questions about their "Pension and Benefits" statements, distributed recently. That information session runs from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1304. There will be a final meeting of the same kind on Thursday at noon in St. Jerome's College room 221.

Local volunteers are wanted

• Health promotion volunteers for people "interested in public speaking, planning workshops or editing a newsletter", for an agency whose audience is mostly in public and high schools. Listing 052-1803.
• Marketing and public relations volunteer for an association that provides support to stroke survivors and their families -- someone to "help recruit new members and coordinate a newsletter". Listing 100-1796.
• Administrative assistant for an agency that provides support to cancer survivors and their families, someone to "handle correspondence, write reports and prepare materials for meetings", three hours a week. Listing 097-1779.

CAR

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