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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

WARNER TALKS IMMIGRANTS
By Bob Gibson of the (Charlottesville) Daily Progress
A House-passed immigration bill in Congress is not the answer to the nation's problem of how best to deal with its 11 million to 13 million undocumented immigrants, U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, R-Alexandria, said Monday...All Americans share some responsibility for the nation's failure to enforce its immigration laws the past 20 years, Warner said in answer to a Winchester student's question in Professor Larry J. Sabato's class.

SCHOOL OF NURSING RECEIVES NEW BUILDING
By Marcus Washington of WCAV-19 / April 8
Saturday officials from the University of Virginia's School of Nursing broke ground where their new education building will stand
(Video available.)

LOCAL GROUPS READY FOR DEADLY BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
By Sarah Barry of The Daily Progress
[...] At local hospitals, the working group responsible for health and medical mass care and support is making sure there are enough beds and supplies to care for a surplus of patients. "We review our surge capacity on a fairly regular basis, and we look at what prescription drugs we have in place," said Marge Sidebottom, the director for emergency preparedness for the University of Virginia Health System.

LOCAL AND NATIONAL SUPPORT OF THE JOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND EFFORTS GROWS EXPONENTIALLY AS CONGRESSMAN WOLF SPONSORS FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH REGION AS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
By PR Newswire / April 10
Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-10) today announced plans to introduce legislation to create a four-state National Heritage Area, known as The Journey Through Hallowed Ground, that spans the region following US Route 15, starting in Gettysburg, PA, and ending at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, outside Charlottesville, Va....The region has...13 National Historic Landmarks; Revolutionary War sites; one million acres on the national register; dozens of National Trust "Main Street" communities and historic downtowns; Native American historic sites; African American historic sites; and, two world heritage sites: Monticello and the Rotunda and the University of Virginia.

MILLER CENTER OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN THE NEWS

U.VA. HISTORY PROFESSOR NAMED FIRST DIRECTOR OF NIXON LIBRARY
By Christopher Lee of The Washington Post
A University of Virginia history professor with expertise in presidential recordings will be the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the National Archives announced yesterday. Timothy Naftali, 44, an associate professor and director of the Presidential Recordings Program at Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, will take over at the facility in Yorba Linda, Calif., on Oct. 16, said Allen Weinstein, the archivist of the United States.

FEDERAL DIRECTOR OF NIXON LIBRARY NAMED
By Erica Werner of The Associated Press

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS IN THE NEWS

EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION WINS 2006 AMERICAN EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD
By PR Newswire / April 10
The American Education Research Association announced yesterday that EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil and Eugene M. Tobin is the recipient of the prestigious 2006 Outstanding Book Award. The book was originally published in April 2005 by the University of Virginia Press and will be released in a paperback edition on April 30, 2006.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

YOU WANT IT CLEAN? YOU CLEAN IT!
By Lisa Belkin of The New York Times / April 9
[...] Forty years after feminism promised to free women from drudgery, we
are still talking about housework, and we are still talking as if it were
all about women...Authors, like New Yorker writer Caitlin Flanagan, are writing books about it (hers, out this month, is "To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing our Inner Housewife"). Academics like those at
the University of Maryland and the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA are studying it.
(The first found that women have squeezed working hours out of their day by
reducing the amount they sleep and the amount of housework they do, while
the second found that working women were happiest in marriages in which
husbands earned more, even if wives did more housework.)

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

FRANK MCCUE
McCue, a hand specialist and professor emeritus at U.Va., was quoted today in a Boston Globe article headlined:
OUT: CRISP HAS BROKEN KNUCKLE; NO TIMETABLE GIVEN FOR RETURN
By Chris Snow of the Boston Globe

GUIAN MCKEE
McKee, a policy professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article headlined:
TENT CITIES SPUR FRUSTRATION ON GULF COAST
By Patrik Jonsson of The Christian Science Monitor / April 10

JONATHAN MORENO
Moreno, a bioethicist who served as co-chair of a panel that wrote a recent National Academy report, was quoted today in a Pittsburgh  Tribune-Review article headlined:
PITT TIGHTENS STEM CELL OVERSIGHT
By Jennifer Bails of the Tribune-Review

TIMOTHY NAFTALI
Naftali, associate professor of history and director of the Presidential Recordings Program at U.Va.'s Miller Center for Public Affairs, has been named the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He was featured in an article in today's Washington Post headlined:
U-VA. HISTORY PROFESSOR NAMED FIRST DIRECTOR OF NIXON LIBRARY
By Christopher Lee of The Washington Post

FIRST FEDERAL NIXON LIBRARY HEAD IS NAMED / TIMOTHY NAFTALI, A COLD WAR HISTORIAN AND EXPERT ON PRESIDENTIAL RECORDINGS, WILL OVERSEE RELEASE OF THE LAST TAPES, AMONG OTHER DUTIES.
By Christopher Goffard of the Los Angeles Times
    
FEDERAL DIRECTOR OF NIXON LIBRARY NAMED
By Erica Werner of The Associated Press

ROBERT M. O'NEIL
O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, was quoted today in a (Charlottesville) Daily Progress article headlined:
CENTER NAMES MUZZLE WINNERS / BUSH, BLOOMBERG, HECKLERS CITED
By Liesel Nowak of The Daily Progress

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, director of the Center for Politics, was cited today in a (Charlottesville) Daily Progress article headlined:
WARNER TALKS IMMIGRANTS
By Bob Gibson of The Daily Progress

U.S. IMMIGRATION PROTESTS FILL STREETS, SEEK REFORMS
Shannon D. Harrington of the Bloomberg News Service / April 10

WHY 'LEAKER IN CHIEF' CHARGE HARMS THE PRESIDENT
By Linda Feldmann of The Christian Science Monitor / April 10   

MARGE SIDEBOTTOM
Sidebottom, the director for emergency preparedness for the Health System, was quoted today in a (Charotttesville) Daily Progress article headlined:
LOCAL GROUPS READY FOR DEADLY BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
By Sarah Barry of The Daily Progress

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

JOHN LEO LAWSON
Lawson, 48, a rheumatologist practicing in Washington, died March 28 at his home in Arlington County after a heart attack. He received a prestigious Echols scholarship to U.Va. and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University. His obituary was featured in yesterday's Washington Post headlined:
OBITUARIES / JOHN LEO LAWSON, PHYSICIAN
By The Washington Post / Monday

CAVALIER DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

STUDENTS PROTEST IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION

HARVEY HEARS BLACK STUDENT CONCERNS

MOCK TRIAL TEAM WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

THE YIN OF TAX LEGISLATION: U.VA. LAW PROFESSOR RETURNS FROM INFLUENTIAL POLICY POSITION

CITIES HAVE MADE GAINS ON SUBURBS SINCE THE 2000 CENSUS, U.VA. STUDY SHOWS

U.VA. RESEARCHERS PART OF COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO DEVELOP DRUG DELIVERY THAT'S RIGHT ON TARGET

This weeks' featured publication is VIRGINIA.EDU.

UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

ACC ALTERS TOURNAMENT
By Roanoke Times staff reports
The ACC has changed the seeding procedures and format for this month's [lacrosse] tournament in the wake of Duke's decision last week to cancel the rest of its men's lacrosse season... Second-seeded Maryland will face third-seeded North Carolina on April 28 in Baltimore, with the winner facing top-seeded Virginia there on April 30.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

WELCOME TO ADMISSIONS LIMBO / UNSURE HOW MANY ACCEPTED STUDENTS WILL ATTEND, SOME COLLEGES PLAN TO RELY MORE HEAVILY ON THEIR WAITING LISTS THIS YEAR
By Elizabeth F. Farrell of The Chronicle of Higher Education
As admissions officers face increasingly unpredictable groups of applicants, the waiting list has become a vital tool to guarantee manageable class sizes. As public and private colleges nationwide receive greater numbers of applications, admissions officials find it more difficult to predict how many accepted students will enroll. Officials at many colleges use waiting lists to manage the size and the characteristics of freshman classes.

CAREER PREP VS. LIBERAL ARTS
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed
Placement experts gather to talk about strategies for improving their efforts - despite skepticism from some professors.

HOUSE BILL WOULD REQUIRE STATES, NOT EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TO SET CRITERIA
FOR NEW GRANTS
By Stephen Burd of The Chronicle of Higher Education
[...] A bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last month to renew, or reauthorize, the Higher Education Act includes a little-noticed provision -- quietly inserted by Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, the Republican chairman of the House education committee -- ... that would ease the criteria the federal government is to use to award [Pell Grants] ... [in response to] concerns that conservative activists have raised ... Mr. McKeon's proposal would make clear that it would be up to states -- rather
than the Education Department -- to decide which of their high-school programs are to be deemed rigorous. It would also clarify that students who are home-schooled or who attend private high schools would be eligible for the awards.

FEDERAL PANEL HEARS IDEAS ON THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE AND GAUGING RESULTS
By Kelly Field of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Meeting for a second day here on Friday, the secretary of education's
Commission on the Future of Higher Education heard from a dozen speakers
about ways to increase accountability in higher-education and ease the
transition between high school and college.

ACADEMIC QUALITY INFLUENCES WHERE HIGH-ACHIEVING STUDENTS ENROLL, SURVEY
FINDS
By Eric Hoover of The Chronicle of Higher Education
High-achieving students say that broadening their intellectual capabilities
is more important in college than preparing for a career, and that the
quality of specific academic programs influence their college choice more
than an institution's overall reputation, according to a report scheduled
for release today. The report, "High-Achieving Seniors and the College
Decision," is based on a survey that attempted to reveal how different
factors affect the application and enrollment decisions of students who were
admitted to multiple institutions.

LAWSUIT IS FILED OVER SAT-SCORING ERRORS
By Karin Fischer of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The first lawsuit has been filed against the College Board and its
contractor, Pearson Educational Measurement, over scoring errors that
affected more than 4,400 students who took the SAT last October. The
lawsuit, filed late Friday in a state court in Minnesota, was brought on
behalf of an unidentified high-school senior in Dix Hills, N.Y. The lawyers
who brought the case are seeking class-action status to allow any student
who took the test in October, except those who received falsely high scores,
to join the lawsuit.

LET THE LITIGATION BEGIN
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed

Commentary: POINT OF VIEW / Creating a Culture for Innovation
By Arthur B. Ellis. professor of chemistry at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, on detail as director of the National Science
Foundation's chemistry division through June 2006 / April 14 issue
There is widespread recognition that the United States' once-heralded
capacity for innovation is in serious trouble.... I propose that colleges
and universities provide an opportunity for all undergraduates to conduct
research — to create knowledge. The purpose of such an approach is not for
every student to become a scientist or technologist. Rather, it is to create
a stronger culture for innovation by immersing all students in
intellectually stimulating projects.

FEDERAL PANEL FLOATS PLAN TO OVERHAUL ACCREDITATION / COLLEGE LEADERS DECRY
REPLACING REGIONAL BOARDS WITH A NATIONAL SYSTEM
By Burton Bollag of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Accreditors and some college groups are aghast at a proposal to eliminate
regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body.
The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month by
the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
The news came just as the chairman of the commission allayed another concern
of college officials by publicly promising that a mandatory test of college
students would not be among the panel's final recommendations.
    
WILL ‘VOLUNTARY’ ACCOUNTABILITY WORK?
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed

SURGE IN LATINO ACTIVISM
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed
Just a stone’s throw from the populous city of Juarez, Mexico, the
University of Texas at El Paso is home to thousands of Hispanic students —-
many of whom are first-generation Americans and are the first in their
families to attend college. Nearly three out of four students at UTEP are
Hispanic, and it’s common for some to commute across the border. So it’s no
surprise that immigration is a regular topic of discussion.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

COLLEGES GIVE ATHLETES MIXED MESSAGES ABOUT SPORTS AND ACADEMICS, SCHOLARS SAY
By David Glenn of The Chronicle of Higher Education
College athletics programs should learn to think in more sophisticated ways about how their internal cultures influence attitudes about the relative value of sports and academics, several scholars said at a session here [San Francisco] on Monday during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

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