1993-1994 Cedarville College Annual Report

T o enhance the students' learning, the College, through strategic planning, has continued to buJd state-of-the-art faciLties, including the Engineering/Nursing/Science Center which opened in 1992. An important value-added feature that comes with a Cedarville College education is CedarNet, the campuswide computer network. CedarNet provides students with computer skills which benefit them both whJe they are on campus and after they leave. These skills enhance hireability and serve graduates well in a technologically advanced environment. Cedarville College continued to manage enrollment for the 1994-95 school year. The 2,378 students who started classes fall quarter l 994 came from 48 states and several foreign countries and numbered I 00 more than those who enrolled fall term 1993. Retention was significant in this record enrollment. The College clearly continued to attract top students, as well. "Co111ing to a smaller school 1 I thought 1 'How could these students compete with st•tdents going to state schools?' But I don 1 t think that any of the universities I have been associated with can say they have as high a rate of amptance of people going to medical school as we have at Cedarville. I have recommended some candidates from Cedarville as the best of any I have ever known at any school with which I've been associated. Cedarville candidates have an ethical basis that is realb1 i111portantfor the medical school environment. 1 ' Leading in Campus Networking • The third phase of CedarNet, completed during summer 1994, connects 95 percent of the dormitory rooms to the campuswide computer network through computer workstations in the rooms. Students also have access ro the network through public labs on campus. • CedarNet links over 1,200 cornpmers and features 100 software packages, mcluding multimedia instructional tools, as well as access to the "information superhighway" via Internet. • Cedarville and The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges co-sponsored a semmar on campus for 85 representatives of 22 Ohio colleges and universities to learn about campus computer networking. "I wanted to come to the United States togo to another Christian college, but they didn 1 t effer computer programming. When I got to Cedarville I really learned a lot. We learn about equipment and programs to usefor our projects. The professors are really great. Like Dr. Rotman-if I go into his effice and he's working on something else, he spends his time to help me. I do11 1 t even need tomake an appointment with hi111 1 and he1s the 111ai11 man 011 this campusfor all the computer concerns." Virgil Voduvo, junior computer information systems major from Alexandria, Romania, consults with Dr. David Rotman, diredor of computer services and assistant professor of computer informolion syslems. Dr. Joseph Francis, assistant professor of biology, laugh! al lhe University of Michigan Medical School before coming lo Cedarville in 1992. Bringing Academic Potential • Nearly 2,000 applications came in for fall quarter 1994, and the College enrolled 59 1 freshman with an average ACT of 24.4. • 15% of incomi11g freshmen were valedictoriam or salutatoriam of their high school classes. • 26% were in the top IO percent of their higli school dasses. • 8 were national merit and national achievement Finalists or semi-Finalists. • 58 were President's Scholars, scoring in the top two percent in the nation on the ACT or SAT rests.