Q=《留學》雜誌
A=愛達荷大學國際市場與招生主任Mary Ellen Brewick
愛達荷大學的國際市場與招生主任Mary Ellen Brewick接受《留學》記者的採訪
Q: UI has won many honorary titles, such as one of the best public universities in USA, top 100 of most valuable public universities, one of the best environment friendly universities. In your opinion, why it can do the best?
A: I think that we stand out because of the personal attention, that our students receive, the relationship that they have with their faculty and those relationships open up so many opportunities for our students to participate in research, and in the classrooms , and you know, we live in every day and we have an intimate relationship with faculty the people know one and another , and we care about our environment and we care about our students in the humans who we work with. And in the just we very care about them personally, that make the research valuable, which is because that we understand the facts of our own students and that involved other factors. You see the faculty and student rate is 16:1, I think the students are surprised when they work with others who know the research and the new researcher, and new scientist, and here are young people thinking. Besides, we have small class room, and we in the classroom have men and women, that are Americans and other countries people. In the classroom, every one is learning together. I think it is really important.
Q: UI is located in the city which is top 30 of most intelligent cities in USA, how to judge that it is a city with more intelligence? It focuses on science and research, medicine or green economy, is right?
A: Yes, that is correct. Many young people are living in the Moscow, and work in the University of Idaho. So we also have hospital in towns we have many doctors, people are choosing to live in Idaho, who are very educated. The students coming are to study in the friendly environment, so it makes a wonderful college town.
Q: What influence UI has from the intelligent city and academic air?
A: It means the connection between our university and city is very close. If the city has a problem, they will come to the university to ask help. And the same for the university, if we have changed the university, if we have really cool research, that we need to practice, the city is working with us to try something new.