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BAYANIHAN COORDINATOR APPLICATIONS ARE OUUUUTT!!!
If you’re interested to help community students get to higher education, participating in SP Advancing Community Empowerment, & be part of PTSP board!?
FILL IT OUT, FILL IT OUT!!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hcGNfDzPBmBElXzMqgxUcXAsIe1aNx6ko6Ci1ULQR8U/edit
DUE DATE: MAY 26 (Saturday)
DUE DATE: MAY 26 (Saturday)
DUE DATE: MAY 26 (Saturday)
DUE DATE: MAY 26 (Saturday)
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PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR THE NEW PTSP SHIRT(:
Fill out the Google Doc: CLICK HERE
So it is $10 for crew neck and $12 for v-neck!
DO IT NOW(:
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SAVE THE DATE: MAY 12, 2012
We will be holding an ALUMNI MIXER on Saturday, May 12 at 7p.
To our general members: this is a great opportunity to meet and network with alumni. They have great wisdom, gained through experience, that can help you achieve your goals. Also, they’re pretty awesome people to get to know.
It will be held at either the Colony or the Safehouse. This information will be announced once it becomes available.
PTSP board will provide refreshments!
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Spring GM #2
Thank you to all who participated in ourHungry Games!!!
I hope y’all got something out of it!(:
Announcements:
1. WE ARE TAKING ORDERS FOR PTSP SHIRTS! Please fill out the Google Doc if you want one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJsdFZsYmhBcVZ0a0dWYzlJYUdkZXc6MQ#gid=0
2. SPACE Internship for Spring Quarter is due this Friday!
3. It is NOT too late to turn in PUNO Mentorship Applications4. If you live in the dorms and have swipes to spare, please DONATE for Student Empowerment & Networking Day (SEND) on May 11! This is an annual event we hold for accepted transfers.
If you have any questions, please ask a board member. We all will be more than happy to give you the info you need(:
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WE ARE TAKING ORDERS FOR PTSP T-SHIRTS!!! →
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SPACE INTERNSHIP FOR SPRING 2012
http://www.facebook.com/events/340468979323923/
Its finally here! SPACE Internship for Spring is here!
What is this internship, you say?
Well… There are weekly meetings on Tuesdays where you get to meet new people and discuss about about various topics, ranging from access issues about college to more culturally relevant topics.
The best part is that you get to go to one of our sites, high school sites or community college site, to work with the students and get a feel for the LA and South Bay community!
CH-CH-Check this video out!
made by the interns themselves Winter 2012!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIawJFGCSIA&list=UULUQZgalsA77C6eBoM2TqVA&index=1&feature=plcp
Applications are due Friday of Week 2 (4/13) at 5:59pm either in the SPACE cubicle 106D or online at space.intern@gmail.com.
Applications are below:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8ppa646np1l5k23
GOT Questions?! contact Kim, Josh, Annalou or any SPACE Staff member! :DThis is great opportunity to know more about yourself, your community, and to volunteer! The application is due April 13!!!
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Sit-In for Transfers
http://www.facebook.com/events/286540631418550/?notif_t=event_invite
We are organizing a sit-in outside Matthew Kahn’s classroom on Monday to protest the article he wrote on March 3rd, in which he states that UCs should accept fewer transfer students on the basis that they won’t be as successful and in turn won’t donate as such money back …to the school. If you haven’t read the article here is a link to the original post (he has since revised his post):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AVh67NKy4UdkJ%3Awww.csmonitor.com%2FBusiness%2FGreen-Economics%2F2012%2F0306%2FHow-student-transfers-hurt-public-universities+How-student-transfers-hurt-public-universities
Come join us if you think that transfer students don’t “water-down” the classrooms. Come if you think that transfers are just as valuable as four-year students. Come if you want to show Kahn that what he said is not okay.
And even if you can make it, spread the word and invite people to join.This will be on Monday, March 12, 10:30am-12:00pm in Dodd 121
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What a UCLA professor has to say about transfer students
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Green-Economics/2012/0306/How-student-transfers-hurt-public-universities
As a professor at a leading public university, I have a strong stake in helping UCLA identify new sources of revenue. While we can chant “China, China, China”, I believe in a diversified revenue stream. Due to political pressure, public universities will not be able to continue to sharply increase tuition. Federal grant dollars from NSF and NIH will soon start to decline. How will $ continue to flow to Universities?
Schools such as Harvard and Stanford have figured out that if you offer young people an excellent education that some of them will be successful and in later life will give back large amounts of $ because they remember the role that the university played in shaping their life. Other Alumni will give big bucks because they want their kids to have a shot at “legacy admissions”. Regardless of the motivation for giving, a school’s stock of past graduates represents an excellent source of donations.
Public universities such as UCLA have been slow to tap into their graduates to make “the ask”. Many of these graduates took for granted that the Great California would provide them with a “free, high quality education” and they are aware that their children will not receive extra consideration for admissions even if they make a big gift.
With these points on the table, permit me to make a new more controversial point. Schools such as UCLA are hurting their donation prospects by admitting too many transfer students. If I’m reading this table correctly, UCLA admits roughly 3,000 transfer students a year. Many of these students will stay at UCLA for 2 years and earn a degree and leave.
Why does this concern me? Two big reasons. Consider the case where UCLA only enrolls students who will spend 4 years in Westwood in the College. Loyalty takes time to build. If you spend 4 years in wonderful Westwood, learning and being part of the social network — you will have stronger roots to the community than if you are a “transient” who drops in for 2 years and then leaves. UCLA needs loyalty from its graduates and I’m not sure if so many transfer students achieve this.
Now, I must apologize for being an elitist. UCLA offers a stronger education than the Community Colleges who export the students to UCLA. While there are always exceptions, the typical student who transfers to UCLA is unlikely to be as prepared for the classroom as students who spent their Freshman and Sophomore years at UCLA. Why? Peer effects and having access to better graduate students as teaching assistants for the classes. I agree that it is possible that Community College professors may be better teachers of “Intro Stats”, “Intro Biology” than UCLA research faculty but doesn’t have to happen. When I taught at Columbia University in the 1990s, I gave excellent Econ 101 lectures and I know that Greg Mankiw does the same at Harvard with Ec 10. A good Department Chair will assign serious teachers to intro classes. It is not a fact that Community Colleges teach better than Research Universities. Again, with better peers in the room and better teaching assistants — UCLA can and should do a better job teaching Freshman than any Community College.
If spending your first two years at College at UCLA makes you a more educated student than the typical community college student who transfers to UCLA, then in junior and senior classes which mix the two groups — the average skill level falls as we increase the count of transfer students. This is the same as adding cold water to hot water, the average temperature declines. Such a watering down of the class, means that the Professor has to make the class simpler and sacrifice rigor. This lowers achievement and learning and students will be less likely to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and UCLA loses out on future donations from grateful giants in their fields.
If you view this as a “harsh” statement, then you are implicitly assuming that all universities are perfect substitutes but this raises the issue of why anyone would transfer if all schools are equal.
If UCLA seeks to offer an excellent education, and to collect greater donations after graduation from grateful loyal alumni then we should reduce the % of transfer students to a much lower number. I am not saying that this number should be 0 but 3,000 a year is too high.
So, my proposal has costs and benefits. The cost is that it would reduce the option value of attending Community College as some of the best students from such colleges would not get into UCLA. The benefit of this proposal would be that UCLA undergraduate classes could be more challenging and greater loyalty and community social capital would be built up as students spends 4 years as undergraduates and in the long run UCLA would have a larger endowment that then could be used to offer greater financial aid to poorer households.
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PTSP-BruinWalk is coming to life!
We’re going to try to break it down into professors that people recommend and don’t recommend. We’re not going to actually put your comments of the professor on the website, but you will be able to explain yourself to a curious individual. Its for the sake of privacy and such. We’ll see… If you have any suggestions, let us know!
So please fill out the form!(: Here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG5lcU9mM2tLeTVKT2daWWxQRDVOUnc6MQ
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