Suttie, Malcolm pick up Pronghorn awards

trevor.kenney — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:54:02 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns women's rugby team has yet to play a conference game but with such a dominant effort in pre-season play, it still netted Lynn Suttie a Pronghorn Female Athlete of the Week award.

Suttie, a prop, set the tone for the Horns in a 43-0 rout of ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary Dinos. The Horns head into the Canada West schedule as four-time defending champs and three-time defending national champions. They are, however, without eight players from the title years and Suttie will be counted on heavily as a key runner.

The Pronghorns open their Canada West schedule this weekend with road matches against ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Victoria and UBC.

Andrew Malcolm picked up the Male Athlete of the Week honours, working hard for the Horns men's soccer program in a pair of weekend losses.

A consistent offensive threat, Malcolm has eight shots on goal in four Canada West starts.

U of L gets high marks

trevor.kenney — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:20:39 +0000

Student satisfaction gets top grades at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, according to the results of a Maclean's magazine poll.

In areas such as class size, student/professor interaction, overall quality of education and student satisfaction, the U of L ranked consistently high. Maclean's magazine posted the results of the 2008 Canadian ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Survey Consortium (CUSC) poll on its website Thursday, and the results for the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge show high marks ranging from 96 per cent to 87 per cent on seven indicators of student satisfaction. More than 12,000 students participated nationally.

The U of L scored best in the area of class size, with 96 per cent of respondents either very satisfied or satisfied with the average size of classes.

Following is a breakdown of the seven indicators and where the U of L scored, in terms of percentage.

2008 Canadian ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Survey Consortium results

How satisfied with the average size of your classes?
96% Very Satisfied/Satisfied

Most of my professors encourage students to participate in class discussions
95% Agree Strongly/Agree

Most of my professors are reasonably accessible outside of class to help
students
94% Agree Strongly/Agree

How satisfied are you with the overall quality of the education you have
received at this university?
94% Very Satisfied /Satisfied

My learning experiences at this university have been intellectually
stimulating
92% Agree Strongly/Agree

At this university, professors treat students as individuals, not just
numbers
87% Agree Strongly/Agree

Improvement needed on teaching ability
36% None/Very Little

All participating universities and their respective rankings can be found on the Maclean's Website.

The CUSC was created in 1994; it is a Canada-only survey, and is in large part about student satisfaction. In 2008, 31 institutions took part, including two universities — UBC and the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of New Brunswick — that surveyed multiple campuses.

Surveys were sent to a random sample of approximately 1,000 undergraduates at each university. Institutions with fewer than 1,000 undergrads surveyed the entire cohort.

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge also measures student satisfaction through a variety of additional surveys.

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