Supplement to WISR Catalogue for the period:

July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007

This one-page supplement updates WISR’s 57-page catalogue for the period July 1, 2004 – June 30, 2006.

There are no substantive changes in tuition, admissions, financial aid, degree offerings, degree requirements, methods of instruction, resources, status of the WISR as an institution, or policies of WISR.  However, The following minor updates may be noteworthy and of interest to some:

1. At the current time, students are not required to pay $2.50 of every $1,000 of tuition into the California State Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF).  At a future date, the State may again require WISR students who live within California and who are not receiving tuition monies from outside agencies such as the Department of Rehabilitation to pay into this fund.  For more information about STRF, see pages 21-22 of the catalogue.
   
   
2. Dr. Nazreen Kadir has joined WISR’s faculty:

NAZREEN KADIR: Executive MBA, Golden Gate University, 1990. DBA, Golden Gate University, 2004. Dr. Kadir is a Biotechnology/Intellectual Property Consultant, Clinical and Research Scientist, Educator, and Social Activist. She is editor of the book entitled A Low-cost Approach to PCR (Oxford University Press) which describes a highly-successful program to teach individuals with limited resources in Latin America how to adapt and use sophisticated molecular biology laboratory techniques employing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), used in gene splicing. Dr. Kadir has 30 years of multidisciplinary scientific research, strategic management and policy experience in healthcare. She also spent 15 years as a staff research scientist/manager with a multinational corporation. In 1989, she received the Miles Science Award for Functional and Immunochemical Characterization of Recombinant Factor VIII. At WISR, her work with students and on special projects focuses on Natural Sciences and Public Policy. She is from Guyana where she did a clinical sciences internship (1966-68).

3.  Some of the information in the catalogue about current students and alumni is three years out of date.  The information about students and alumni on pages 23-42 of the catalogue still provides useful illustrations of the work and community involvements of WISR alumni and students.  WISR’s web site, including the sections entitled “Catalogue,” “Newsletter”and “Publications” does provide some more recent information on some of our students and alumni, including some links to student papers, theses and professional publications.