USD Magazine Summer 2006

Plagiarism can be an easy temptation for some students. USD has opted to combat that urge by using Turnitin.com, an electronic tool to discourage and detect cheating. An uptick in aca- demic integrity cases reported in the 2004-05 school year prompt- ed a test of the system, which was deemed successful when cheating declined. With an eye toward bulking up graduates’ prospects, USD will launch a full-time MBA program in the fall. The focus will be on devel- oping leaders with a strong ethical framework while also fostering the best analytical business practices. A prestigious faculty award was recently bestowed on Vince Salyers of the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, who was selected as regional first prize winner of the Elsevier’s Faculty Award for Nursing Excellence. Salyers will receive a cash award, a major donation to the charity of his choice and an honorary plaque. Let the fun begin: The summer camps office at the University of San Diego offers 12 sport-specific camps for youth, two sessions of their famous All-Sports Camp, two adult tennis camps and a master’s swim camp. USD alumni receive a 5 percent discount to any camp in 2006. Camps begin June 9 and end Aug. 5. Go to usdtoreros.com or call (619) 260-2999. [ etc . ] Fabulous prizes await the winner of the USD Magazine photography competition. Newly revised rules allow students and employees who are alumni to submit photos that epitomize key university values. Find an entry form on page one of this issue of the magazine or at www.sandiego.edu/ photocontest.

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS Schoo l of Leader sh i p and Educat i on Sc i ences bu i l d i ng i s Dean Corde i ro’s l ongt ime dream by Krystn Shrieve faculty and students doubled,

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on a $36 million, 80,000-square- foot building for the school. Cordeiro lights up when she talks about plans for the two-story building that will open west of Copley Library in Fall 2007. “This is beyond belief for me,” Cordeiro says. “I’m so glad we’ll finally be together. For some of my colleagues, it’s been 20 years in coming. I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven.” Cordeiro’s well-worn copy of the building plans represents the possibilities of both the school as well as the building. The first floor opens onto a sala , or living room, with a moveable, raised platform where speakers can address a large forum. That floor also features a 190-seat auditorium, a tiered classroom, an executive training classroom, project rooms, state-of-the-art classrooms with the latest tech- nology and much more. The second floor includes additional classrooms, faculty office space and a reading room. The new building will allow SOLES to continue strengthening its four areas of focus — educa- tion, leadership, counseling and marriage and family therapy. “This is recruitment season for new faculty,” Cordeiro says. “After I talked to one person about what our plans are, she said, ’I can’t believe everything you’re doing. Elsewhere, schools of ed feel so last century, but this feels like the future.’”

hen Paula Cordeiro joined USD in 1998 as dean of what is now the

and they were spread across cam- pus; some in AlcaláWest, some in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and some in Serra Hall. So Cordeiro adapted. She got a golf cart to visit colleagues. She scheduledmeetings across campus for her burgeoning faculty. She began hosting monthly dinner- with-the-dean events that students referred to as“Pizza with Paula.” But finally, after years of finding ways to work effectively with her students and staff, Cordeiro was overjoyed to break ground in April

School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the school was housed in Harmon Hall, a building so small that two portable trailers housed the overflow from the school’s 15 faculty members and 500 students. Over the years, the school increased in numbers and added areas of focus and study. It created new centers and new ways to reach out to the community. It changed locations and even its name. In time, the number of

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