OWU - Ohio Wesleyan
New Leader, New Journey
By ohwesleyang (07/03/2008 11:20 AM) Tags: transformation, exciting, new president
The Ohio Wesleyan campus community extended a warm welcome to president Rock Jones as he joined Ohio Wesleyan July 1.
Here is an excerpt from his letter to the Wesleyan community:
"While the heritage of Ohio Wesleyan is great, the future is even brighter. Today we embark together on a new journey. This journey
... MORE »Surprising Insights from the Social Sciences
By ohwesleyang (07/02/2008 1:39 PM) Tags: fundraising, experiment
Given the racial make-up of our alumni body, here is something relevant (not to be taken seriously) to the selection of the Alumni Relations search.
BLONDES MAY OR may not have more fun, but it does look like they raise more money. An analyzed data from an experiment that recruited
... MORE »Six decades of Civic Youth
By ohwesleyang (07/02/2008 12:35 AM) 
For Larissa Anderson, the Ithaca Youth Bureau brings back many fond memories of summers swimming at Cass Park and working outside in the sun with children half her age. Since she was 14, Anderson has been a part of the Ithaca Youth Bureau. Her first job was acting as a junior counselor at Cass Park.
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Does Ethical Behavior Pay?
By ohwesleyang (06/29/2008 10:44 AM) Tags: ethics, consumer behavior, social responsibility
For corporations, social responsibility has become a big business. Companies spend billions of dollars doing good works—everything from boosting diversity in their ranks to developing eco-friendly technology—and then trumpeting those efforts to the public.
But does it pay off?
The Wall Street Journal
... MORE »Want To Get Your Way? Just Use "Because"
By ohwesleyang (06/29/2008 09:53 AM) Tags: psychology study, because
I recently came across the results of an interesting study conducted by Ellen Langer and her colleagues. She got total strangers waiting in line to use a copy machine to let her go ahead of them by making several requests. The research team decided to test the power of the word "because.
... MORE »Another Inappropriate Announcement by the Chaplain's Office
By ohwesleyang (06/27/2008 10:47 AM) 
Anyone reading the Ohio Wesleyan catalog and its brochures will notice the starting point of the institution's mission: “the University is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles...and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general.”
In pursuit of th
... MORE »Big Paycheck or Service? Students Are Put to Test
By ohwesleyang (06/27/2008 10:18 AM) Tags: social service, washington monthly, activism, dilemmas
Ohio Wesleyan is all about being a well-rounded individual and helping out the greater world, but college is mad expensive and cashing in with high-paying jobs after graduation is not only tempting, but necessary for a lot of debt-saddled new alums. This college ambition has not go
... MORE »Fighting For Equal Time
By ohwesleyang (06/24/2008 12:20 AM) Tags: equality, religion, faith, ACLU
The Liberty Council launched in May its annual “Friend or Foe” Graduation Prayer Campaign. The group and the campaign seek “to educate and, if necessary, litigate to ensure that prayer and religious viewpoints are not suppressed.” This highlights that we should ask an important question: could a push for r
... MORE »Accepted at 18 Colleges, Picks Harvard
By Aristotle's Son (06/19/2008 1:26 PM) Tags: child genius, accepted at 18 colleges, Lukasz Zbylut, over achiever, snubbed by MIT, selected by 18 schools
New York teenager Lukasz Zbylut, who emigrated from Poland only five years ago, applied to seven Ivy League schools — and was accepted by every one of them.
Now he’s thrilled to further his education at his “dream school” of choice — Harvard. What, Yale wasn’t good enough for him? H
... MORE »Admissions Update
By ohwesleyang (06/16/2008 08:54 AM) Tags: admissions update
According to David Robbins more than 3,600 U.S. applications (up 12% from last year) and 616 international applications (up 8.5% from last year). This is more than 4223 for this year.
For comparison, Denison has 5313.
So, let's hope that the admissions rate goes down as a result of ~10% more applications. T
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