Free Concert Series by UVI Music Camp Students Continues in Emancipation Garden Students participating in UVI’s annual Summer Music Camp are performing a series of free concerts in July and August on St. Thomas. The concerts – which are open to the public – will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., primarily on Wednesdays in Emancipation Garden. The camp is under the direction of UVI Music Professor Austin A. Venzen. It has attracted students from junior and senior high schools on St. Thomas and Anguilla. Prof. Venzen encourages members of the community to show support for the budding musicians and to be treated to wonderful music by attending the free concerts.
Emancipation Garden Concert Series schedule:
· Wednesday, July 25 – 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
· Thursday, July 26 – Special Concert – time/venue to be announced
· Wednesday, Aug. 1 – 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
UVI Offers English, Math Placement Tests in July for Incoming Freshman Students UVI will offer English and math placement tests in July for incoming freshman students who plan to enroll in the University’s Fall Semester, which starts on Aug. 20. All students with SAT college admissions scores below 490 on the math test or below 500 on the English tests (both reading and writing), or those with ACT test scores below 20 in math or below 21 in English, are encouraged to take these tests in order to avoid being required to take no- or reduced-credit developmental courses.
Students who pass the placement tests this month will enjoy the benefit of being registered early. They may also find a greater choice of course offerings and class schedules that better fit their personal needs. Students who wait to take placement tests in August, just prior to registration, risk the chance that some classes they wish to take may already be filled.
Math and English tests are scheduled on the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix on Monday, July 23, and Thursday, July 26, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. On St. Thomas, tests are slated on Tuesday, July 24, and Thursday, July 26. Math tests will run from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; English tests are set for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A news release, including access to free test preparation resources, is available from the UVI homepage – http://www.uvi.edu – and from this direct link.
CES Staff to be Featured on Good Morning V.I. Program ‘Water, Water…’ Early risers can catch a repeat of the Good Morning V.I. episode "Water, Water…What’s Safe to Drink" when it re-airs this weekend on TV2 at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22, respectively. The “Water, Water” episode features interviews with UVI’s Cooperative Extension Service (CES) staff. Good Morning V.I. is produced by the V.I. Christian Ministries. Weekend segments of the program – aired each Friday, Saturday and Sunday – focus on community issues. In the past, the university has been featured with presentations on general agriculture, the CES Healthy Homes and Asthma and Mold programs, and the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. CES will share information about future re-airings of these programs as it becomes available. For more information contact Extension Agent Dale Morton at 693-1086 or send e-mail to dmorton@uvi.edu.
UVI Summer Bridge Program Sets Public Closing Ceremony for July 25 More than 100 college-bound students enrolled in UVI’s 2012 Summer Bridge Program will participate in a joint, videoconferenced closing ceremony on Wednesday, July 25. The session, which is open to the public, will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the first-floor conference room of UVI’s Administration and Conference Center on St. Thomas and in the UVI Great Hall on St. Croix.
The five-week residential program brought the students to UVI’s campuses for classes in reading, writing, mathematics and college success. According to the St. Thomas Program Coordinator Jennifer Palmer Crawford, the aim of the program is to assist students to jump start their college education by passing out of UVI placement tests. It also eases the transition from high school to college through the early introduction to college and campus life.
In addition to the academics, the students, 55 on St. Thomas and 52 on St. Croix, also participated in a variety of field trips, including visits to various businesses on St. Croix and to UVI’s Etleman House observatory and V.I. Ecotours on St. Thomas.
For more information on the Summer Bridge Program, call 693-1499 or send e-mail to jpalmer@uvi.edu on St. Thomas, or St. Croix Program Coordinator Shari Wiltshire at 692-4003 or send email to swiltsh@uvi.edu.
Virgin Islands Native Trees Workshop Set July 26 at UVI’s St. John Academic Center UVI’s Cooperative Extension Service will conduct a workshop on native trees of the Virgin Islands at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, at the UVI Academic Center in Cruz Bay, St. John. Dr. Gary Ray, a former UVI biology professor, and Extension Agent Dale Morton will be the presenters. Subjects to be covered include the usefulness of native plants, recognition of well-known traditional uses for trees and the potential for landscaping and commercialization of native resources. The workshop is free and open to the public. For more information contact Dale Morton at 693-1086 (e-mail: dmorton@uvi.edu) or Carmen Wesselhoft at 693-1587 (e-mail: cwessel@uvi.edu).
Do You Know This Week’s ‘We Are UVI’ Contributor Can you identify this week’s “We Are UVI” contributor? For the answer, visit the “We Are UVI” Golden Jubilee blog at: http://weareuvi.blogspot.com. The blog features people sharing their CVI/UVI stories from the past 50 years. New submissions are added each week. This one was posted Sunday, July 15.
It joins stories from Sinclair Wilkinson (’72), Rafe Boulon, Jr. (’76), Carmie Thompson (’10), Frank Mills (’67), James Rakocy, Arah Lockhart (’78), Utha Williams (’82), former UVI President LaVerne Ragster, Marthious Clavier (’02,’08), John Lucas, Maxine Nunez, Rosary Harper, Yegin Habtes, Gloria Callwood, Laurent Javois (’76), Helen Dookhan (’79, ’84, ’98), Curtis Gilpin (’80), Carolyn O’Neal-Morton (’85), Ali McClean (’93), Constance Gumbs (’87, ’91), Malcolm Kirwan (’67), Sharleen Fahie (’86, ’93), Sam Hall Jr., Richard Lippke, Randy Brown, Paul Flemming (’95, ’98, ’99), Kishma Allen (’09) and Lawrence Lewis (‘73).
