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The Office of Career Development (OCD)
provides vocational guidance, education,
and personal support to students and
alumni as they engage in the career
development process and chart their path
toward lifelong career achievement. This
year, Career Development offered a new
series of online videos and automated
tutorials on a variety of career topics;
a modified workshop schedule was
implemented; a Facebook page was
created to help with promotion and
advertisement of events, and there are
now 90 individuals who “like” OCD’s
page and receive notification of events
and helpful tips; a newsletter, “Catching
up With Career Development,”
focuses on a new topic each month and
corresponds to the information board
in Nazareth Hall; and the online career
development system, Focus2, continues
to assist students with their search for
a major, career, and self-assessment.
Highlights from the Dean of Students
Office include the Commuter
Connections program under the
supervision of the Assistant Dean of
Students; it continued into a second year
with a marked increase in the number
of events offered. This academic year
also saw an increase in commuter and
off-campus students grow to 48 percent
of the CuS student population. The
Commuter Assistant and Chair of the
Commuter Council worked closely with
the Assistant Dean in the planning,
promotion, and implementation of
the first Commuter and Off-Campus
Student Week held in April 2011.
The Sophomore year experience
(Sye), also under the auspices of the
Dean of Students Office, continued
into a second year and followed the
model established in the pilot program
to meet the development needs of the
sophomore student population. The
Assistant Dean of Students and the
Director of Career Development worked
together to provide leadership for the
Sye program. Several students who
participated in the pilot program were
involved in planning, presenting, and
facilitating sessions at the Sye escape
weekend retreat held in October.
Residence life and Housing (RlH)
has continued to cultivate areas that
were developed during the previous
academic year. From the addition of
Housing Operations personnel to the
implementation of the “I AM an Iu
Resident” accountability campaign, the
expansion of the programs and services
offered by RlH has been at the forefront
of SDe’s accomplishments this year.
Student Health Services continues to
provide first-class health care to the
Immaculata community, while also
presenting appropriate educational
programming that is individualized to
the population and focused on health
promotion and disease prevention. Some
key accomplishments this past year
include: providing hand sanitizers and
hand washing information/education to
the Iu community in the cafeteria on
Oct. 15, which was Global Hand
Washing Day; the annual Fall Health
Fair on Nov. 4; collaboration with
the Iu Student Dietetic Association,
Residence life and Housing, and
Athletics to organize Stamp Out
Hunger 5K Run/1 Mile Walk on Nov.
13; institution of the 100 Miles for
Health program, combining exercise
and giving back to the community; and
the initiation of “Soap Notes,” monthly
newsletters designed to educate the
community on various health topics.
finAnce And
AdministrAtion
In the 2010-11 fiscal year, Finance
and Administration saw continued
growth and improvement. While
conducting daily business is still the
primary function of the F&A area, some
notable developments during the year
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Finance and Administration
included construction and dedication
of the new baseball stadium in time for
the men’s baseball team to play its first
home game at Immaculata. The design
of the Admission and Financial Aid
Center was completed and construction
began in April. The construction of the
loyola Hall parking lot was completed,
and four modular classrooms were
installed outside of loyola Hall.
The Vice president for Finance and
Administration secured a commitment
from Jack Brennan, Chairman emeritus
and Senior Advisor of The Vanguard
Group, to visit and speak at Immaculata.
Finance and Administration also helped
organize and contributed to the fundraiser
for the Duffy’s Cut research project.
Implementation of the main components
of Ceridian, a web-based payroll software
product, was completed, along with
implementation of a process to comply
with new Direct loan regulations. The
first required 403(b) audit was completed
without any major findings. A budget was
prepared with a projected surplus in excess
of $1 million, and recommendations
were made that the university begin
contributing to dependent health care
coverage, plus a suggested increase
in the university’s tIAA/CReF
contribution rate to 8 percent. In the area
of information technology, there was an
upgrade to MACnet to accommodate
current and future multimedia
requirements, providing a more flexible,
stable, reliable, less expensive, better
performing network and It resources.
New websites for Duffy’s Cut and the
Mighty Macs were created in support
of university marketing efforts.
Barnes & Noble introduced “NookStudy,”
a free, downloadable program that is a
comprehensive e-textbook reader and
study solution that gives students the
tools to study across all content and
formats. The bookstore began a textbook
rental program providing a significant
up-front savings for the students,