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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

College Application Essay Sample

The new issue of the magazine, “College Xpress,” has a nice sample of a good admission essay – and it’s even from an Oregon school, Willamette!
Here’s the link, and it’s on page 18. There are also copies of the magazine in the office – and we will make copies of the essay to add to the samples in the Forms Drawer.

http://www.carnegiecomm.com/media/uploads/file/cx_fall_2014.pdf

WOU Creative Arts Day

Finally a day for your art students.  WOU is pleased to announce our first annual Creative Arts Day on November 21, 2014.  We have spent over a year designing a day for high school art students that would be a day of being artists, actors and musicians.  In keeping with our mission of serving Oregon and its students, there will be no charge to students, counselors or teachers to attend this event, parking is also free.

I am thrilled at the quality and breadth of the hands-on workshops that will be offered to your junior and senior students.  Seniors will also have the opportunity to bring a completed application for admissions and receive an answer the same day.

Please inform your students and teachers of this event that covers all four academic departments (dance, fine arts, music and theatre) within the WOU Creative Arts Division. 

More information regarding program registration and workshop descriptions are available at www.wou.edu/creativeartsday


9:00-10                 Registration at Werner University Center
10-11                     Welcome and admission and financial aid/scholarship presentation (Pacific Room)
11-11:50               Workshops
12-12:30               Lunch with WOU students and faculty
12:30-1                 Tour of WOU Creative Arts facilities
1-1:50                   Workshops
2                            Closing comments and admission decision
2:15                       Campus tour (optional)                


Workshops (all hands-on events)

ART DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS: Drawing or Image Transfer, Monotype Printmaking, Steampunk Sculpture, Expressive Digital Images, Art Press Relief Tiles 

DANCE DEPARTMENT WORKSHOP:  Hip Hop Dance

MUSIC DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS: Blues Jam Session, and Hit Record!

THEATER DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS: Stage Combat! Breathing Life Into Shakespeare, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”


Thank you



Dave  McDonald
Associate Provost
Western Oregon University