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WELLNESS
CENTER: Construction has begun on UND’s
$20 million, 106,000-square-foot Wellness
Center, scheduled to open in 2006 on the banks
of the English Coulee.
Funded entirely with student fees, the building
will be second only to its neighbor, the Ralph
Engelstad Arena, as the single-largest structure
ever built at UND. It has been designed to
provide active learning opportunities in the
multiple dimensions of wellness: physical,
spiritual, intellectual, environmental, social,
occupational, and emotional. Amenities will
include more than 300 pieces of cardio and
weight equipment, a suspended running track,
three wood-floor courts, a multipurpose court,
a dividable group exercise room, a Pilates/yoga
studio, five assessment rooms with state-of-the-art-equipment,
a meditation lounge, nutrition bar, demonstration
kitchen, massage studio, and much more. Personal
training, fitness assessment, nutritional
analysis, and wellness coaching will be among
the services offered. The Center will be open
to all students, as well as faculty and staff
who purchase memberships. More than 3,000
visits a day are anticipated.
Currently, some 150 students from a variety
of disciplines work and do internships at
the Interim Wellness Center in the Hyslop
Sports Center. When up and running, the new
Center is expected to employ 350 students
and to serve as the catalyst for more graduate
study and research in the areas of fitness
and wellness, and other related areas.
Rendering provided by the architects, Hastings
& Chivetta of St. Louis, Mo. |
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HIGH
MARKS: After being out in the world for three
years, 92 percent of the respondents to a nationally
administered survey of the class of 2001 rated UND as
excellent or good. Moreover, 87 percent said they would
still attend UND if they could begin again, and 74 percent
would recommend UND to others without reservation.
The findings are from an Alumni Outcomes Survey
conducted by the American College Testing Program (ACT)
for the North Dakota Higher Education System.
UND outperformed its national peers on satisfaction
ratings of 10 of 13 aspects of college life. The five
highest degrees of satisfaction were with class size
relative to the course, quality of the program in the
major, overall quality of instruction, general condition
of buildings and grounds, and variety of courses offered.
In the opinion of the respondents, UND did less well
in meeting the needs of physically challenged individuals,
acceptance of different sexual orientation, and multicultural
content of courses.
The respondents are doing well in their careers.
More than half reported earning $30,000 to $49,000 annually,
compared to 33 percent of alumni nationally at colleges
with more than 10,000 students.
More information on this and other institutional
research about UND can be found at :
www.und.edu/dept/datacol/index.html
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| Twenty-six
new town homes are nearing completion on the
Bronson Property on the north side of the
campus. Located near the Ralph Engelstad Arena
and the Wellness Center now under construction,
the town homes are but one component of the
development of a “university village”
concept for the area. A number of commercial
entities are joining the Barnes & Noble
University Bookstore in the area, including
a mini-mall, a bank, a sports-theme restaurant,
and a gas/convenience store. Still more projects
are on the drawing board. |
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LEWIS AND CLARK: The University was
among the sponsors that brought the exhibition “Rivers,
Edens, Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of
America” to the North Dakota Museum of Art on
campus from Nov. 14, 2004, to Jan. 9, 2005. Mounted
by the Library of Congress, the exhibition includes
original documents and materials from its collections,
as well as other items on loan. Among these are Indian
artifacts from the National Museum of the American Indian,
botanical specimens collected on various western expeditions
from the National Museum of Natural History and the
New York Botanical Garden, artist and naturalist Titian
Peale’s drawings made as a member of the Long
expedition from the collection of the American Philosophical
Society, and the Sitting Rabbit map and a Winter Count
attributed to High Dog from the North Dakota Historical
Society.
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