Challenge - Spring/Summer 2012 - Tiffin University
Challenge - Spring/Summer 2012 - Tiffin University
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40 | SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2012</strong>0 | CHALLENGE<br />
Technology<br />
Virtual Student Orientation Program<br />
TU deployed a virtual student orientation program that,<br />
starting with the school’s distance learning population, will<br />
allow the <strong>Tiffin</strong> staff to be more efficient and effective and to<br />
provide more convenience to it students.<br />
The university partnered with technology and marketing<br />
solutions provider Hobsons to customize the program with<br />
school-specific needs and answers to provide student online<br />
orientation with 24/7 availability. Hobsons’ online system<br />
allows students to walk through customized and school- specific<br />
orientation steps for such procedures as registration,<br />
scheduling, financial services, advisors’ meetings, health care,<br />
and campus familiarity.<br />
The program will help staff members as well as students<br />
in providing convenience in addressing questions that<br />
specifically concern TU, such as attendance policy, resources,<br />
programs, and services.<br />
TU Mobile App Launched<br />
<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> launched TU Mobile, a free application to<br />
help iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, and Blackberry devices<br />
connect with the <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> campus from anywhere<br />
in the world.<br />
The app is currently available for<br />
download at the Apple iTunes App<br />
Store , the Android Market, and is<br />
available to view through a mobile<br />
browser at http://www.tiffin.edu/m.<br />
TU Mobile allows students, parents,<br />
alumni, employees, and friends<br />
to access:<br />
• News, including official<br />
<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> media releases and<br />
athletic news.<br />
• Events, featuring access to TU’s academic calendar<br />
and current list of public lectures, performances, student<br />
activities, and many more campus events.<br />
• Directory, including contact information for all <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> campus departments.<br />
• Campus Map, featuring a list of buildings and places<br />
of interest.<br />
• Athletics, including access to game schedules and<br />
scoring results for TU Dragon sports.<br />
• Admissions, information for future students including<br />
tuition, TU FAQs, and campus visit schedule form.<br />
• Photo Gallery, featuring photographs of the TU campus.<br />
• Giving to TU, providing access to TU’s secure, online<br />
giving form.<br />
• Weather, providing access to up to date weather forecasts<br />
for <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio.<br />
To learn more about TU mobile visit www.tiffin.edu/mobile.<br />
Faculty<br />
Hurwitz Named Liaison of the Year<br />
Award<br />
Dr. Steven Hurwitz, TU’s Professor<br />
of Psychology and Criminal Justice,<br />
was selected by The Washington<br />
Center for Internships and Academic<br />
Seminars to receive the <strong>2012</strong><br />
Liaison of the Year Award in recognition<br />
of his dedication and support<br />
of The Washington Center on <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>’s campus.<br />
The Liaison of the Year Award Dr. Steven Hurwitz<br />
recognized Dr. Hurwitz’s efforts to<br />
recruit, screen, monitor, and debrief students who participate<br />
in the Center’s internship programs as well as demonstrate his<br />
wholehearted commitment to ensure qualified students have<br />
access to The Washington Center’s significant life-changing<br />
opportunity.<br />
“Steve, you have been a model in so many ways,” said<br />
The Washington Center’s Senior Vice President Dr. Eugene<br />
Alpert, “as an energetic, creative, and dedicated liaison at<br />
your institution, you have made the most out of the financial<br />
support for your students and utilized the aid to enhance<br />
the national visibility of your students. Washington Center<br />
recruiters who visit your campus are always energized by your<br />
enthusiasm and concern for your students. “<br />
The Washington Center for Internships and Academic<br />
Seminars is an independent, nonprofit organization serving<br />
hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States<br />
and other countries by providing selected students challenging<br />
opportunities to work and learn in Washington, D.C., for<br />
academic credit.<br />
Student Testimonial on Dr. Steven Hurwitz<br />
Sean Szpak, a Homeland Security and Law Enforcement<br />
major said, “Dr. Hurwitz deserves this honor. I have had the<br />
great fortune to have him as a professor and as my liaison for<br />
the The Washington Center (TWC) program. Dr. Hurwitz has<br />
a very approachable personality and will do whatever he can<br />
to help students succeed in and out of the classroom.<br />
Since my freshmen year, Dr. Hurwitz has mentored and<br />
prepped me for TWC. Each time I would go to his office, he<br />
would give me any advice, paperwork or any other items I<br />
need to help me gain admittance to the program. Going to<br />
Washington was a major goal of mine and Dr. Hurwitz helped<br />
me make that a reality.<br />
I was the first student from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> to do an internship<br />
with the U.S House of Representatives: Office of the<br />
Sergeant At Arms/ The United States Capitol Police. When<br />
Dr. Hurwitz contacted me with the news, I could tell he was
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