From cbrown at osrhe.edu Tue Apr 6 13:50:45 2010 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia (OSRHE)) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:50:45 -0500 Subject: [Okepas] UPDATE TO State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition Program 2010 Message-ID: Much has changed since my note to you on March 9. Due to some technical issues related to the total EPAS program, EPAS Scholars will be handled in a different way than we had planned. This note will explain the process as we NOW expect it to unfold. The EPAS Scholars mailing will not be sent out from ACT. Our office will be handling it. We will email the EPAS Scholar certificates in pdf to "EPAS coordinator" as given when you ordered the EXPLORE and PLAN tests last summer/fall. The names and content area will already be merged into pdf form and ready to be printed. This will be done for EVERY EPAS school whether or not you have emailed us. We hope to get these out within the next 3 weeks. Please email us at epas at osrhe.edu ONLY If you need the certificates BEFORE April 30, 2010. Please do not email me as it will delay your request if I am out of my office. If you do not have adobe you can get a free version at http://get.adobe.com/reader/. If the 2009-2010 contact person is no longer at the school or district please provide new contact information to epas at osrhe.edu . We appreciate your flexibility in adapting to our change in the EPAS Scholars program. Our goal is to serve students and schools and to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and natural resources. Thanks for your support and leadership, Cindy ________________________________ From: okepas-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:okepas-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Brown, Cynthia (OSRHE) Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:19 PM To: okepas at lists.onenet.net Subject: [Okepas] State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition Program2010 Oklahoma Colleagues: Oklahoma EPAS Scholars 2010, now in its tenth year, is a State Regents' program aimed at recognizing students for their collegiate preparedness as early as the eighth grade. We encourage you to consider the delivery of these certificates at a special event in your school-either by giving them as part of your awards ceremonies this spring, or through other special venues. The mailing should be arriving by the end of March from ACT. We have asked ACT to address the mailing to the person who was listed as the EPAS Contact for this year's EXPLORE and PLAN assessment materials. * PLEASE NOTE: We are not printing the certificates this year. A black line master will be enclosed in this mailing for your use. If you would prefer to have the electronic version of the certificate along with the electronic file of your roster and specific instructions for doing a merge function just email us and ask for it: epas at osrhe.edu . Please do not email me as it will delay your request. This year's Oklahoma EPAS Scholars' roster includes your students who scored at or above the College Readiness Benchmark in any subject area on the EXPLORE or PLAN test. These scores indicate whether students, based on their performance on EXPLORE or PLAN are on target to be ready for first-year college-level work when they graduate from high school. The College Readiness Benchmarks for the subject areas are: EXPLORE PLAN English 13 15 Mathematics 17 19 Reading 15 17 Science 20 21 Thank you for your support of students through EPAS and for your leadership on your campus. Cindy Cynthia Brown, Ed.D. Director of Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 405-225-9156 "What if we had fail-safe schools that treated the failure of a single child as equally tragic as a nuclear meltdown, chemical spill, or an airplane crash?" "Three Musts for Bolstering Student Achievement" by Vicki Urquhart in Changing Schools, Summer 2008 (Vol. 58, p. 1-2) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20100406/47fb22c6/attachment-0001.html From sbourbeau at osrhe.edu Tue Apr 6 08:39:49 2010 From: sbourbeau at osrhe.edu (Bourbeau, Sharon) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:39:49 -0500 Subject: [Okepas] Campus E-Clips has a new look! March edition now available Message-ID: We are proud to unveil the newly designed Campus E-Clips newsletter with our March edition. It is now available at http://www.okhighered.org/newsletter. Enjoy! March 2010 highlights: * Former East Central University President Bill Cole Dies * OSU Launches Branding Success Campaign * Southeastern's Student Union Named in Honor of Glen D. Johnson * SWOSU Grad to Represent Harvard at Nobel Laureate * State System Sees Record Spring First-Time Enrollment * And more... visit www.okhighered.org/newsletter. To receive future e-mail notices of new issues of the Campus E-Clips online newsletter directly, subscribe to the Campus E-Clips listserve at http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/campus-news/. Sharon Bourbeau Communications Specialist II Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3603 405.225.9182 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20100406/2ced4862/attachment.html From mruder at osrhe.edu Tue Apr 6 14:38:14 2010 From: mruder at osrhe.edu (Ruder, Marie) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:38:14 -0500 Subject: [Okepas] UPDATE TO State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition Program 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There seems to be a problem with the email link in this message. It is correct on its face but when you click on it, it leaves out a letter. Please use this one: epas at osrhe.edu If you still have problems you may contact me directly at mruder at osrhe.edu and be careful that spell check doesn't change my name to murder. Thanks Marie Ruder Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Phone: 405-225-9320 mruder at osrhe.edu ________________________________ From: Brown, Cynthia (OSRHE) Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:51 PM To: 'okepas at lists.onenet.net' Cc: Lousch, Cari; Higdon, Matt; Ruder, Marie; Autry, Valarie Subject: UPDATE TO State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition Program 2010 Importance: High Much has changed since my note to you on March 9. Due to some technical issues related to the total EPAS program, EPAS Scholars will be handled in a different way than we had planned. This note will explain the process as we NOW expect it to unfold. The EPAS Scholars mailing will not be sent out from ACT. Our office will be handling it. We will email the EPAS Scholar certificates in pdf to "EPAS coordinator" as given when you ordered the EXPLORE and PLAN tests last summer/fall. The names and content area will already be merged into pdf form and ready to be printed. This will be done for EVERY EPAS school whether or not you have emailed us. We hope to get these out within the next 3 weeks. Please email us at epas at osrhe.edu ONLY If you need the certificates BEFORE April 30, 2010. Please do not email me as it will delay your request if I am out of my office. If you do not have adobe you can get a free version at http://get.adobe.com/reader/. If the 2009-2010 contact person is no longer at the school or district please provide new contact information to epas at osrhe.edu . We appreciate your flexibility in adapting to our change in the EPAS Scholars program. Our goal is to serve students and schools and to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and natural resources. Thanks for your support and leadership, Cindy ________________________________ From: okepas-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:okepas-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Brown, Cynthia (OSRHE) Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:19 PM To: okepas at lists.onenet.net Subject: [Okepas] State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition Program2010 Oklahoma Colleagues: Oklahoma EPAS Scholars 2010, now in its tenth year, is a State Regents' program aimed at recognizing students for their collegiate preparedness as early as the eighth grade. We encourage you to consider the delivery of these certificates at a special event in your school-either by giving them as part of your awards ceremonies this spring, or through other special venues. The mailing should be arriving by the end of March from ACT. We have asked ACT to address the mailing to the person who was listed as the EPAS Contact for this year's EXPLORE and PLAN assessment materials. * PLEASE NOTE: We are not printing the certificates this year. A black line master will be enclosed in this mailing for your use. If you would prefer to have the electronic version of the certificate along with the electronic file of your roster and specific instructions for doing a merge function just email us and ask for it: epas at osrhe.edu . Please do not email me as it will delay your request. This year's Oklahoma EPAS Scholars' roster includes your students who scored at or above the College Readiness Benchmark in any subject area on the EXPLORE or PLAN test. These scores indicate whether students, based on their performance on EXPLORE or PLAN are on target to be ready for first-year college-level work when they graduate from high school. The College Readiness Benchmarks for the subject areas are: EXPLORE PLAN English 13 15 Mathematics 17 19 Reading 15 17 Science 20 21 Thank you for your support of students through EPAS and for your leadership on your campus. Cindy Cynthia Brown, Ed.D. Director of Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 405-225-9156 "What if we had fail-safe schools that treated the failure of a single child as equally tragic as a nuclear meltdown, chemical spill, or an airplane crash?" "Three Musts for Bolstering Student Achievement" by Vicki Urquhart in Changing Schools, Summer 2008 (Vol. 58, p. 1-2) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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