| Board Talk |
| School’s Out for Summer? |
While it's a fairly common experience to be asked what you do for a living, I'm always struck by the amount of people whose response to my statement that I am a student services provider in a school of public health at a University includes the sentiment, “so you have the summers off?” Or, “well, it must be a lot less busy without the students around.” This clearly indicates a belief that some sort of neutron bomb goes off on May 15th, wiping out all of the students, leaving the administrators with clean desks and the physical structures intact. For most of us in the student services world, this view is far from reality. A cohort of students graduates, but another is left behind and still another is knocking at the door to come in and this group has just as much right to a great experience in our schools as the last group had. So, we take a day or two off after commencement to count the wrinkles that appeared since the last opportunity we had to look in the mirror and we show up for work the next day and start all over again. Such is the nature of the business. [ Continued ]
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| Looking Forward |
| Mark Your Calendars for the Fourth Annual ASPH Student Services Workshop, Friday, November 6, 2009 |
 If you work directly with applicants and students on your campus, don't miss this opportunity to learn and share with a network of enrollment management professionals and faculty from ASPH-member schools who are leaders in admissions, student affairs, and student services.
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| Exhibits, exhibits, exhibits! |
The recruiting season has begun and SOPHAS schools are exhibiting at a number of upcoming events across the country this spring/summer. In most cases, the exhibit fee is covered by ASPH and general recruiting materials are provided for SOPHAS schools wishing to exhibit at these events. In exchange, the schools agree to provide information about all 40 CEPH accredited schools. These exhibits are a wonderful example of the schools working together for the greater good! [ Continued ] |
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| Spotlight on Public Health Partners |
| The APHA Student Assembly Wants You! |
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Are you looking for opportunities to network with students and young professionals from around the country? Would you also like to gain leadership experience through national initiatives? Then, the American Public Health Association (APHA) Student Assembly is for you.
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| Idealist.org |
 Being able to integrate hands-on public health practices into daily life, having exposure to real-world health issues and the chance to learn how to confront and deal with those issues across cultures, and seeing theories played out in real life, in real time, and for long enough to see a project through does not have to be the stuff of fantasy. Rather, it is a real opportunity provided by Peace Corps Master’s International (MI). [ Continued ]
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| International Perspectives |
| Join the World Grad School Tour for the Fall 2009 Recruitment Tour of India |
 QS World Grad School Tour will be recruiting in 46 cities around the world this fall through a series of graduate recruitment fairs. These recruitment fairs are focused primarily on attracting candidates interested in earning a master's or a doctoral degree in all disciplines. The India World Tour provides a particularly strong pool of applicants who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in the public health sciences. For ASPH schools of public health, the QS World Grad School Tour is prepared to organize special Public Health Forums in selected cities in India. [ Continued ]
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| SOPHAS and ASPH Data Stats |
| SOPHAS and ASPH Data Stats |
 When SOPHAS was launched, one of the most anticipated benefits was the potential for applicant data. Data from cycle two has been analyzed, providing second annual snapshot of the SOPHAS applicant pool as well as a look at the beginning of trend data.
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| New DOE Requirements on Race and Ethnicity Reporting |
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Only recently have we begun to really internalize and address the new race and ethnicity requirements for the collection of federal education data of US Citizens and US Permanent Residents. In 1997, the Office of Management and Budget published the new standards but it was not until 2007 that Department of Education published final guidance in the Federal Register (72 Fed. Reg. 59267). The onus of reporting the data will ultimately lie with our home institutions. However, because admissions offices are the first “official” arm of the institution to collect this data, we are also the first to implement collection methods. [ Continued ]
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| SOPHAS Electronic Review System |
| Earlier this calendar year, Liaison International, the vendor serving the Schools of Public Health Application Service (SOPHAS) launched a new feature which provides a paperless way to review applications. Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) was part of a subcommittee of schools providing specifications for this feature and fully took advantage of it upon release. This article will examine the paperless review from Harvard's perspective, but first, here is a brief description of how it works.
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| Book Review |
| The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream |
 John Zogby, well known for his political polls, does not always get it right, as he is the first to admit. Zogby polls indicated a Kerry win in 2004. On the other hand, he accurately and precisely predicted popular vote counts for the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. This book, published during the 2008 primary campaign, includes polling results that would be presciently predictive of an Obama victory. It also contains much information of value to those, including graduate admissions professionals, who wish to market to the young voters who were an important component of Obama's campaign message of change.
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| Funded Proposals |
| Funded Proposals: ASPH/APHL Pathways to Public Health Careers and Internships |
 ASPH and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) are pleased to announce ten funded proposals for career day events and undergraduate internship programs. Six of the ten funded proposals are from ASPH-member schools. Dr. Harrison Spencer, ASPH President and CEO, said, “The Pathways to Public Health career day events and undergraduate internship programs will help address the public health workforce shortage that threatens our country. ASPH is proud to partner with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and CDC to help introduce undergraduate students to public health and recruit a new generation of public health leaders.” [ Continued ]
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| Academic Integrity and Public Health |
| Academic Integrity and Public Health |
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All of my considerations of the word “health” these days tend to depart from a recollection of its origins in the Middle English and Old High German words that meant “whole” or “sound.” This root of the word is still quite vibrant and alive, especially for those of us who are familiar with the curricula and research interests within public health. Once we begin to pursue health within the boundaries of a specific discipline or area of study, we quickly find that the boundaries are not impermeable, they fall away. One thing is linked to another, until we see that all of our health concerns are interconnected: our bodies, our society, our environment, even the weather patterns of the planet. In short, to take a serious interest in “health” is nothing less than to take a serious interest in the “whole.” [ Continued ]
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