Mellon Foundation Awards Grant for Senior Experience
Lawrence has been awarded a $350,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the implementation of its new Senior Experience program.  Designed as a "bookend" to Lawrence's nationally recognized Freshman Studies program, Senior Experience will be phased in over the next three years and when fully implemented will engage every graduating senior in a project that demonstrates proficiency in the student's field of study.  Read more.

Help Lawrence Reach You in an Emergency
Students, faculty, and staff are strongly encouraged to provide a cell phone number to Lawrence so that in the event of a campus emergency, the LU Alert system can reach you in the most expeditious way. Contacting members of the Lawrence community via cell phone and text messaging is the preferred method of notification. Faculty and staff can click here to register a cell number (on campus only).  Students can use the Voyager system to update their preferred telephone number.  The system's next annual test is sheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 14.

David McGlynn Conducts Reading from his New Book
Assistant Professor of English David McGlynn will read from his first book of short stories “The End of the Straight and Narrow,” Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Main Hall, Room 201.  The reading is free and open to the public.  Read more.

Kaleidoscope Concert:  A Musical Buffet
The talents of nearly 350 Lawrence music majors will be on display in the second Kaleidoscope Concert Saturday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. More than a dozen student groups will perform a non-stop musical extravaganza, featuring repertoire from chamber music to jazz, choral to opera, rhythmic Brazilian percussion to grand orchestral masterpieces. A limited number of tickets are available through the Lawrence and PAC box offices.  Read more.

Cannes Award Winner Next Up for Tournées Film Series  
The month-long Tournées film festival continues Oct. 16-18 with three screenings of Delwende ("Delwende: lève-toi et marche").  Winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, this mother-daughter tale set in Burkino Faso examines some traditional customs in Africa and the role women play in exposing the injustices perpetrated against them. The film, in French with English subtitles, will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium, with an informal, faculty-led discussion following the Saturday show.  Read about the series.

Lawrence Digital Collection Featured on Library Web Site
Lawrence’s digital image collection, “Art of the Poster,” has been selected as one of four featured "Collection of Collections" for October by CONTENTdm. Lawrence’s collection includes more than 160 digital images of historic posters dating from 1890 to 1918. Designed by artists well-known for the work in other media, these posters helped bridge the gap between “high art” and popular visual culture.

New Partnership Brings Premium Milk to Campus
Lawrence has entered a partnership with Red Barn Family Farms, a new Appleton family-owned dairy company, to serve its premium brand of milk in both of the college's dining halls beginning Oct. 6. All of the milk is rBGH free and is sourced from small area farms that are certified by the American Humane Association.  Read more. Watch a TV news story on it.

Lawrence Cited by CASE for Fundraising Efforts
Lawrence not only enjoyed a record-breaking fundraising year, but its efforts were rewarded with a 2008 Circle of Excellence Award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.   Although not a factor in the CASE award, Lawrence raised a record $31.4 million in gifts and donations in fiscal year 2007-08, an increase of 47 percent over last year’s total.  Lawrence was cited for "overall improvement" for educational fundraising in CASE's private liberal arts category based on information from 2005-2007.  Read more.  

Syverson Helps Craft Admissions Recommendations
Vice President for Enrollment Steve Syverson served on a commission convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling that released recommendations calling for colleges and universities to be less reliant on standardized test scores in the admissions process at a national meeting in Seattle. Syverson spoke recenlty with the New York Times about the commission’s report. 

News and Highlights Continued