Summer grads, tentative Dec. grads invited to celebration

HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University's summer graduates and tentative December grads are invited to attend Graduation Celebration on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 3 and 4.

The event, which will be in BE5 of Memorial Student Center, gives students the opportunity to purchase caps and gowns, class rings, announcements and other items to commemorate graduation.

They also can meet with representatives from the Office of the Registrar, the Marshall Bookstore, Jostens, Alumni Relations, the MU Graduate College, Career Services, the Office of the Bursar, the Campus ID office and Financial Aid.

Hours are from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The first full fall commencement is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5. For more information, call the Office of the Registrar at 304-696-6410.

Invisible Children documentary screening set for Nov. 2

HUNTINGTON -- The Marshall University chapter of a group called Invisible Children is sponsoring a screening of a documentary about child-soldiers in Uganda at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in the Don Morris Room in the Memorial Student Center on MU's Huntington campus.

Brittney Withrow, president of Invisible Children at Marshall University, said young children are being kidnapped and trained as soldiers in Uganda by a group opposed to the government called the Lord's Resistance Army. She is hoping 250-300 students will attend the screening, which runs for about 40-45 minutes and is free and open to the public.

The Marshall University chapter of Invisible Children was started in 2007 with a main goal of informing people about the situation in Uganda and raising money to help address it.

For more information on Invisible Children and its programs, go to www.invisiblechildren.com, or contact Withrow at 740-579-6390.

Marshall announces top 10 scoring seniors on Collegiate Learning Assessment

HUNTINGTON -- Last spring, 107 Marshall seniors voluntarily took the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a test that measures students' critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving and written communication skills.

Dr. Mary Reynolds, director of assessment at Marshall, said the CLA is an open-ended test in which the students do a lot of writing and solve real-world problems.

"As a group, Marshall's seniors' performance on the CLA last spring was outstanding," Reynolds said in a news release. "After adjusting for incoming ACT/SAT scores, mean performance of Marshall's seniors was better than that of seniors at 89 percent of other participating institutions. We are very proud of the accomplishments of our students and their professors."

The following 10 students scored the highest on the test. They are listed in alphabetical order with their hometowns, majors and colleges: Robert D. Brumfield of Lesage, Economics, College of Liberal Arts; Kassandra D. Friedman of Barboursville, Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; Ashley R. Deem Hager of Mineral Wells, W.Va., Print Journalism, W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Daniel B. Hager of Hurricane, Management, Lewis College of Business; Alicia K. Hess of Hedgesville, W.Va., Finance, Lewis College of Business; Rachel Huff of Dillsburg, Pa., Communication Studies and Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; William Koch of Elkins, W.Va., Accounting, Lewis College of Business; Angelina Lowers of Chester, W.Va., Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; Miriam Katherine Reasons of Huntington, Public Relations, W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Emily Vargo of Scott Depot, W.Va., Environmental Science, College of Science.

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