• A new, eight-minute video highlights the global education mission of Fairleigh Dickinson University. The video features interviews with faculty, students and administrators and emphasizes the global traditions and activities distinguishing the University. The video is primarily intended for use by the president’s office, University advancement and enrollment management; but any member of the University community can request a copy. A VHS tape or DVD is available by contacting Art Petrosemolo, associate vice president, communications/marketing, 201-692-7030.

• A University committee working closely with the Follett Higher Education group (bookstore), has helped create a new line of clothing and merchandise that features the new University identity. Clothing ranges from simple T-shirts to high-end fashion and outerwear. A special new program with Boathouse Sports (Philadelphia, Pa.) has made the same high-quality outerwear being worn by University coaches and athletes available to students, faculty, administrators, alumni and friends at both the Metropolitan Campus and College at Florham bookstores. A direct-mail piece featuring the new line — with FDU students and administrators as models, will be mailed to alumni in September.

• The division of student affairs (Metro) will take part in a Walk for Breast Cancer on October 19. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, the fund-raising event will start in Overpeck Park, Leonia, N.J. Anyone interested may contact Amy Boyd, psychological counselor/substance abuse educator, student counseling/psychological services (Metro), at 201-692-2174.

• The Metropolitan Campus Academic Resource Center, in conjunction with the Silberman College of Business, is implementing a unique, new program intended to help ensure the success of first-year business majors. The program will focus on practicing and perfecting study skills, as well as on reinforcing concepts presented in class.

• The Metropolitan Campus will be hosting a regional conference, Preparing Students for Careers in Mathematics, on Friday, October 3. The program, funded partly by the National Science Foundation, is intended for mathematics and computer science teachers at the secondary level. The conference is put together by Peter Astor, mathematics (Metro) and the Office of Enrollment Services.

• Chung-Hsien Tsai, MS accounting student (Metro), scored the highest grade in New Jersey on the May 2003 CPA exam. According to Robert DeFilippis, accounting (Flor), the national passing rate for students who take all four parts and pass all four parts in one sitting, as Tsa did, is 10 percent.

September 2003

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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

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Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.

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