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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wittenberg among best in community service
Wittenberg University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for “exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth” by the Corporation for National and Community Service. This is the third consecutive year the university has received the designation. Wittenberg was among five Ohio and 83 national colleges and university to make the honor roll.
Wittenberg students are required to complete 30 hours of community service and complete a paper on that service in order to graduate.
“Wittenberg has a long-standing tradition of community service,” said Kristin Collier, Wittenberg’s director of community service. “We are proud to receive this recognition and believe it is a true reflection of the positive impact our students have made in Springfield/Clark County and the commitment across campus to engage students in the community.”
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Ruckus online music service shuts down
Ruckus Network, an online music service that provided more than 200 colleges with a free and legal alternative to illegal file swapping, abruptly shut down on Friday, Feb. 6.
Area colleges signed up with Ruckus included Wright State University and the University of Dayton.
“We did shut down the service, and we are closing down the company,” a Ruckus official said to the Chronicle of Higher Education. “We had a pretty good audience, but ad dollars are much fewer and farther between than they were six months ago, and with an ad-supported music service like ours, it became an equation that wouldn’t compute.”
The recording industry has long pressured colleges to hook up with Ruckus, or something like it, the Chronicle reported. When Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, testified in 2007 at a Congressional hearing on “Piracy on University Networks,” he named Ruckus specifically as something colleges should provide.
A new provision in the Higher Education Act renewed by Congress last year requires colleges to offer alternatives to illegal downloading. Where they will turn now remains unclear.
A recording industry spokeswoman blamed illegal downloading on campuses for killing Ruckus. But the Ruckus official told the Chronicle that the company’s biggest competitors were free but legal options, including online radio services such as Pandora and free music videos on YouTube.
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Should Ohio pay graduates to stay?
Ohio Senate Republicans, this week, introduced a bill to provide incentive for Ohio college students to stay in or return to the state after graduation.
Senate Bill 5 would allow Ohio residents graduating from colleges in-state or out-of-state to enter a lottery that would award 300 applicants downpayment assistance between $2,500 and $10,000 based on degree level.
Winners would have one year to use the award and must stay in the state for five years.
Proponents of the bill say it would stem the state’s brain drain and prop up the housing market.
What do you think?
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TIME Magazine managing editor to address Witt class of 2009
Wittenberg University’s class of 2009 has chosen Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME Magazine to deliver the university’s 164th commencement address on May 16.
Stengel was named managing editor of the award winning news magazine in 2006. It has a worldwide readership of 25 million and TIME.com draws 6 million unique visitors a month. In addition, Stengel manages TIME’s other brand extensions including TIME Style & Design and TIME For Kids.
“We are excited that Mr. Stengel has accepted our invitation to serve as our Commencement speaker,” said Andrew Tomko, senior class president from North Olmsted, Ohio. “Throughout his career, Mr. Stengel has helped, in keeping with TIME’s mission, to ‘explain the world to people.’
“Who better to address our class at this historic time in our world than the person who in many ways has consistently passed on his own light of leadership, integrity and knowledge to ensure that we understand, contemplate and engage ourselves in the issues and events that affect us all.”
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