Dean Allen spoke about the many ways the college’s faculty have taken cuts in their own luxuries and how Allen has taken significant deductions in his own travel time to be able to pinch pennies and help the college be more economical. He said he feels confident about the abilities of the college to produce students who provide positive values and worthwhile occupations to society. He talked about how he had been at a convention elsewhere in the country days earlier and that deans of notable schools on the East Coast were seeking his advice on how to operate their college after seeing a display of CHASS’s new magazine, Liberalis.

Philosophy professor Charlie Huenemann dons the new Student Giving Campaign t-shirt at the first Student Giving Campaign in October. Students can pay $5 to receive the shirt. The proceeds to back to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS) scholarship fund.

”This is just another example of how our students value one another and are willing to give to others so everyone gains a solid and exceptional education while here,” CHaSS Dean John Allen has previously said about the campaign. “I am very proud of our students who stepped forward to help others, which in turn will help us all as we face the challenges of the future.”

Look for a third CHaSS Student Giving Campaign to arrive by the end of the semester!

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USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences to conduct second Student Giving Campaign Event Wednesday

LOGAN—For the second time during this semester alone, the student council of the USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS) will be holding a marketing event to give students the opportunity to give back to the university and college that provides so much to them. The CHaSS Student Giving Campaign will continue Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the east side of Old Main, on the USU campus. The CHaSS Council will be providing free hot chocolate and information to learn about why it is important for students to financially give back to the college. Students will be given the opportunity to donate whatever amount they choose to future scholarship funds from the college. They can pay $5 for a CHaSS Student Giving Campaign t-shirt to account for their donation.
“I am a big believer in starting a habit of giving while you are young,” said CHaSS Senator Erika Norton. “The CHaSS Student Giving campaign gives students that opportunity and they know that every dollar donated goes directly back to students in the form of a scholarship. I am excited for the upcoming event and know it will be successful because of the giving nature of the students in our college.”
Wednesday’s event is a follow-up to a successful CHaSS Student Giving Campaign launch. Behind the efforts of members of the CHaSS Council, the launch took place Mon., Oct. 18 at the Taggart Student Center patio on the USU campus.
The primary purposes behind the event were numerous. Besides the opportunity to receive a free cookie, USU students were given the opportunity to pick up information about how to receive one of two $500 scholarships, effective next semester. The students were required to write a 500-word essay about why a liberal arts education is important.
“The College of Humanities and Social Sciences senator and council have begun another new tradition for our college,” said John Allen, dean of the college. ”This is just another example of how our students value one another and are willing to give to others so everyone gains a solid and exceptional education while here. I am very proud of our students who stepped forward to help others which in turn will help us all as we face the challenges of the future.”
More information can be seen at the college’s official website, www.chass.usu.edu.

All the universities in Utah are having a competition to see who can get the most signatures.  ChaSS Council has teamed up with a couple of other groups in the last week or so to give students the opportunity to sign the petition.  On Friday the 28th we were in the TSC giving free popcorn to those who signed, and at the Howl we were able to get at least 2,000 signatures by rewarding supporters with a free drink.  Pictures of this very successful night will be coming soon!

If you have not yet signed this petition please do!  Help USU win this competition, and more importantly, support your fellow students and the future of higher education in Utah!  To learn more about this call to action, or even to sign the petition online visit http://www.educationfirstutah.org/index.php/education-first.

Behind the efforts of members of the CHASS Council, the launch event garnered approximately $300 in just more than three hours’ time. The event was held Monday, Oct. 18 at the Taggart Student Center patio at the USU campus in Logan, Utah.

The primary purposes behind the event were numerous. Besides the opportunity to receive a free cookie, USU students could pick up information about how to receive one of two $500 scholarships, effective next semester. The students are required to write a 500-word essay about why a liberal arts education is important.

Visitors to the campaign tent could also pay a minimum of $5 for a Student Giving Campaign t-shirt, which funds go towards the college’s scholarship fund.

“The College of Humanities and Social Sciences senator and council have begun another new tradition for our college,” said John Allen, dean of the college. ”This is just another example of how our students value one another and are willing to give to others so everyone gains a solid and exceptional education while here. I am very proud of our students who stepped forward to help others which in turn will help us all as we face the challenges of the future.”

More information about the scholarship and campaign can be found at http://chass.usu.edu/htm/student-giving/student-giving-campaign-2011/.

Look to the blog and at the USU CHASS homepage at http://chass.usu.edu/ for more information about future CHASS events and Student Giving Campaigns and how you can be involved in the college!