DELHI HORIZONS - SUNY Delhi

Management. WebCT is an on-linecourse management system that offersa wide range of tools that allowstudents to learn via the Internet.Student Schedules—A review of thecurriculum, new courses and strongacademic advising increased theaverage course load for full-timestudents to 15.9 credit hours persemester, compared to 13 per semesterin Fall 2000. This new emphasis oncredit load increases the ability ofstudents to graduate on time.Faculty Writing and Research—Thenumber of creative works in print byDelhi faculty and staff continues togrow. Assistant Professor KirbyOlsen’s Gregory Corso: DoubtingThomist was published by theSouthern Illinois University Press.Associate Professor Lynn Domina’spoem, “The Museum of the Living andthe Dead” appeared in The ChristianCentury. Assistant Professor LinneaGoodwin Burwood wrote three entriesfor the Encyclopedia of AmericanSocial Movements. AssociateProfessor Kathryn DeZur’s book reviewof Katherine Eggert’s Showing Like aQueen: Female Authority and LiteraryExperiment in Spenser, Shakespeare,and Milton (University of PennsylvaniaPress, 2000) will appear in Clio: ADelhi’s international student contingency includesseveral students from the Western HospitalityInstitute in Jamaica, pictured here at the college’sfirst Multicultural Fest.Journal of Literature, History, and thePhilosophy of History.Meeting/ExceedingEnrollment GoalsFive consecutive semesters of enrollmentincreases have helped make Delhi one ofthe State University’s great success stories,and put the college on its waytoward meeting its objective of sustainedoverall growth in both full- and part-timestudents. With 2,405 students in Fall2002, enrollment has reached its highestlevel since 1989. Factors contributing toDelhi’s strong enrollment position include:Bachelor’s Degrees—A total of 205students enrolled in baccalaureatedegree programs in Delhi this fall,which represents a 189 percentincrease over the past two years.Nursing—Partnerships, WeekendCollege and special recruitmentinitiatives combined to help Delhi meeta regional need for trained nurses.First-time students enrolling in nursingprograms increased from 35 in Fall2001 to 102 this year, pushing totalenrollment in nursing programs to 194students. Key projects included: thePartnership for Nursing Opportunitieswith Bassett Healthcare and HartwickCollege; “Stay Close…Go Far,” a jointmarketing initiative developed with theDelaware County Rural HealthcareAlliance; the launch of a new class ofstudents in Weekend College; and thedelivery of classes at Fox Hospital inOneonta and the Robinson TerraceNursing Home in Stamford.International Students—Agreementswith the Western Hospitality Institutein Jamaica and Human InternationalUniversity in Japan helped attract 36international students to Delhi this fall.4 ANNUAL REPORT