[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 30 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Pease] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PEASE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Rose-Hulman 
Institute of Technology at Terre Haute, IN. Rose-Hulman recently 
received the 1997 Theodore Hesburgh Award from the American Council on 
Education, which honors exceptional faculty development programs 
designed to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning. Additionally, 
the institute received a certificate of excellence for its development 
of faculty interdisciplinary teams who recited the integrated, first-
year curriculum in science, engineering, and mathematics. This 
innovative program has a national impact on undergraduate engineering 
education and will likely affect many other levels of learning in the 
engineering field as well.
  The State of Indiana is proud to be home to such an extraordinary 
educational facility. Rose-Hulman has a reputation for excellence, as 
evidenced by the fact that 90 percent of its freshmen return, 75 
percent of them graduate, and 30 percent go on to graduate school. Its 
admission standards have resulted in the average SAT scores of Rose-
Hulman students being the highest of any college or university in the 
State of Indiana; 90 percent of its freshmen place in the top 10 
percent of their high school graduating classes.
  The student-to-faculty ratio is 12 to 1, which is further evidence of 
the exceptional standards and focus on teaching and learning in this 
institution; 95 percent of the remarkable faculty at Rose-Hulman hold 
the Ph.D. degree.
  These and other factors have placed Rose-Hulman among our Nation's 
finest educational institutions, a model for the Nation and the world 
in teaching, research, and service, and a deserving recipient of the 
1997 Theodore Hesburgh Award from the American Council on Education.

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