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Summer renovations continue into fall
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JAKE PRATER Asst. News Editor | @JakobLPrater
ver the past four months, campus has undergone many construction projects, some longer than others and some that were worked on over the summer. The main project being upgrades and renovations in Martindale Hall. “The current project most impactful to students is probably the upgrades to the third floor of Martindale Hall,” Scott Kuhlemeyer, director of capital programs wrote in an email to the Missourian. The upgrades will repurpose 4,260-square-feet of the floor into laboratory space, faculty offices and storage rooms for the School of Health Science and Wellness. Planning for Martindale’s renovation began last fall, and construction began late this summer, and according to Kuhlemeyer, will be completed this spring. This is Martindale’s first renovation in nearly 40 years. The Board of Regents approved the upgrade last March for no more than $1.3 million, $1 million from private donors and the remaining $300,000 from the capital budget of the University. There are other smaller renovations on campus as well. These include stair replacement in Bearcat stadium, improvements to the family room in the Mable Cook Recruitment and Visitors Center, refinishing and painting in the Lamkin Activity Center and campus-wide work on water, lighting and electrical infrastructure. There’s also ongoing absorber removal in the Chiller Plant, Station, Dieterich Hall, Lamkin Activity Center, Millikan Hall and Roberta Hall.
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Candidate profile to be built from input sessions, kicks off search
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The construction continues at Martindale Hall after renovations began late this summer. The on-campus construction includes upgrades in Garrett-Strong, Lamkin, McKemy and more.
SIDNEY LOWRY Managing Editor | @sidney_lowry
Northwest’s presidential search firm, Anthem Executive, visited campus Aug. 22 and Aug. 23 and held nine sessions with faculty, students, alumni and the community to gain input before starting to look for presidential candidates. Just a few weeks after confirming the 15-person Presidential Search Committee, Michael Ballew and Mike “JR” Wheless from Anthem Executive heard about qualities and characteristics the different
groups wanted to see in presidential candidates. Ballew said around 50 percent of the time they conduct a search there are input sessions, but many times it’s job descriptions that are developed and then they meet with the Board or committee to help with a profile for a candidate. “The combination of the meetings and the online survey gives an opportunity for everybody connected with campus, and whatever format or form that you are to be able to have a say,” Ballew said.
Supplies missing from new spirit store SIDNEY LOWRY Managing Editor | @sidney_lowry
As the first week of classes started, students were picking up books in order to prepare for the upcoming semester, but some weren’t able to get fully ready. At the beginning of July, the former Bearcat Bookstore run by Barnes and Noble for 38 years, transitioned to new owners with Student Body. With the semester starting just a few short weeks after, everyone started to get to work moving things into the new space right away. As Student Body started preparing for people to come back to campus, students started going to the newly renamed Bearcat Shop not only for Northwest apparel, but for supplemental course instruction and found that some titles were missing. Assitant Vice President of Student Affairs Rose Viau said the new store got a list of what supplemental texts Barnes and Noble provided over the years, but it wasn’t all that was needed. “We got those ordered, and they ordered everything that they had on the list, and so now we’re finding out just the list wasn’t complete,” she said. An email was sent out to faculty with an urgent request asking them to send in a list of the texts needed to the bookstore manager email so it could start acquiring the needed material. In the meantime, faculty was asked to provide all the course material for their students if it was not provided by Textbook Services. Faculty was asked to send in their lists by Aug. 19, and Viau said they went to work right away compiling a list of the missing titles and ordering them as soon as possible. “We can’t go back and control it, but they’re working really hard to make sure that everybody has what they need,” Viau said. “And we’ve communicated with all faculty, so that they know, so that if all the students in a class don’t have the lab manual that they need, they’re going to be able to know pretty quick that’s the reason why, and they need to send their information in.” Viau said titles were already being ordered and have started coming in quickly, so depending on the material, students shouldn’t have to wait much longer to get their supplemental text.
The two said that common feedback over many of the 50-minute sessions was for a candidate to be transparent, be able to build trust, be approachable and support diversity, equity and inclusion among many other traits. “This has shown a true commitment by your board of directors and by your search committee, that they want to hear what the constituents have to say, and what all constituents have to say,” Ballew said.
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