Tuesday, June 27, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

EDITORIAL: EDUCATION A GOOD START
By The Daily Progress / June 26
It’s a far cry from a new campus for a new college with new programs, as supporters had desired. But Virginia’s New College Institute is a place to start for addressing education and economic development issues in depressed Southside....Five colleges and universities, the University of Virginia among them, will cooperate in bringing six new educational programs to Southside next fall. The institute's director says he hopes that eight to 10 more programs could be added the following year.

PICKING UP THE PACE / UVA RESEARCH PARK SHOWS STEADY, RELIABLE GROWTH
By David Hendrick of The Daily Progress / June 26
In 1985, a panel of experts commissioned by the University of Virginia suggested that the development of an "office research park" would be essential to furthering the school's mission. The following year, the UVa Real Estate Foundation purchased 54 acres off Fontaine Avenue for $3.3 million.  One year after that, the foundation spent $5.2 million to purchase 525 acres of woodlands fronting U.S. 29 in the northern section of Albemarle County.

CAMP KESEM OFFERING YOUTHS SUPPORT
By Michelle Bostic of The Daily Progress / June 27
The magic of summer camp is being customized this year for a special group of kids, thanks to students at the University of Virginia. Camp Kesem, whose name means "magic" in Hebrew, will be coming to Charlottesville, offering a free week of overnight camping to children of cancer victims.
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STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

SOMDEV DEVVARMAN, ANDREW DOWNING, MARKO MIKLO
Devvarman, a second-year on the men’s tennis team who placed second in the nation last month at the NCAA singles tournament, won the singles title of the Roanoke Valley Invitational Tennis Tournament and won the doubles with teammate Downing. Miklo, the No. 5 player for the Cavaliers this past season, placed second in singles, as detailed in a Roanoke Times article headlined:
TOP SEED SWEEPS OPEN TITLES / SOMDEV DEVVARMAN WINS THE SINGLES TITLE AND
TEAMS WITH UVA TEAMMATE ANDREW DOWNING TO WIN THE DOUBLES
By John Fridley of the Roanoke Times/ June 26

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

ROBERT E. DAVIS
Davis, associate professor of environmental science, was cited in a commentary in a Philadelphia Inquirer commentary headlined:
AL GORE'S PROPAGANDA MELTDOWN
By Joseph Bast for the Philadelphia Inquirer / June 27

ROBERT EMERY
Emery, professor of psychology and author of "The Truth About Children and Divorce," was quoted in an article in the Washington Post headlined:
WHO SAYS THERE'S NO EX IN FRIENDSHIP? DEFYING DIVORCE STEREOTYPES, SOME FORMER SPOUSES HAVE PAIRED UP AGAIN AS PALS
By Stacy Weiner for the Washington Post / June 27

DR. BANKOLE JOHNSON
Johnson, chief of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, was cited in an ABC News report headlined:
NEW HELP FOR ALCOHOLICS
By ABC News / June 26

PATRICK MICHAELS
Michaels, director of the state climatology office, was cited in a commentary in a Philadelphia Inquirer commentary headlined:
AL GORE'S PROPAGANDA MELTDOWN
By Joseph Bast for the Philadelphia Inquirer / June 27

GORDON PUTNAM
Putnam, chaplain and coordinator of support services at the UVa Cancer Center, was quoted in an Ivanhoe News Wire article headlined:
EXPLAINING TO KIDS YOU HAVE CANCER
By Ivanhoe Newswire / June 27

LARRY  J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a Newhouse News Service article headlined:
FRUSTRATED PROTESTERS SAY WASHINGTON ISN'T LISTENING
By Stephen Koff for Newhouse News Services / June 26

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

HOWARD BELL
Bell, who received a law degree at the School of Law, was featured in  a Model D Media (MI) article headlined:
ALIGNING THE STARS IN TECHTOWN
By Dennis Archambault of Model D Media / June 27

CLAUDIA EMERSON
Emerson, who graduated from U.Va. in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English and won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was featured in a Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star article headlined:
POETIC JUSTICE
By Jordan McDaniel for the Free Lance-Star / June 27

SCOTT FLOWER
Flower, who received a bachelor of science degree in finance from U.Va., was featured in a PRNewswire press release headlined:
SCOTT FLOWER JOINS BANK OF AMERICA EQUITY RESEARCH AS AIR FREIGHT & SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ANALYST
By PRNewswire / June 26

CHARLES H. MAJORS
Majors, a graduate of the School of Law, was featured in a press release headlined:
MAJORS NAMED NEW VEDP BOARD CHAIRMAN
By the Virginia Economic Development Partnership / June 26

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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

WAITING ON THE COLLEGE BOARD
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed / June 27
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing on Monday issued a statement asking why the College Board has not released the findings of an audit it promised would identify any more changes needed in the wake of SAT scoring errors that have embarrassed the organization and upset many test takers.

A STINGING FIRST DRAFT
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed / June 27
U.S. commission's preliminary report says higher education's glory days may be over without "substantial" changes.

DRAFT REPORT FROM FEDERAL PANEL ON HIGHER EDUCATION TAKES AIM AT ACADEME
By Kelly Field of The Chronicle of Higher Education / June 27

PANEL'S DRAFT REPORT CALLS FOR AN OVERHAUL OF HIGHER EDUCATION NATIONWIDE
By Karen W. Arenson of The New York Times / June 27

REPORT DISPUTES NOTION THAT BOYS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IS IN DECLINE
By Jennifer Jacobson of The Chronicle of Higher Education / June 27
Despite the widespread notion that boys underperform academically, compared to girls, and that the failure of schools to prepare them better may account in part for the gender gap on college campuses, boys are hardly in crisis in American education, according to a report released on Monday by Education Sector, a Washington-based think tank.

AT MEETING OF COLLEGE LAWYERS, TALK OF THE PROFESSION'S BIBLE, LOSING ARGUMENTS, AND DIMWITTED QUOTES
By Jeffrey Selingo and Goldie Blumenstyk of The Chronicle of Higher Education / June 27
College lawyers and others interested in the legal issues of higher education convened here this week for the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and they were treated to a host of discussions that illustrate how their jobs have become infinitely more complex as their institutions have become legal minefields.

AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CHANCELLOR ADVISES FIRING AUTHOR OF SEPT. 11 ESSAY
By Kirk Johnson of The New York Times / June 27
The interim chancellor at the University of Colorado said on Monday that Prof. Ward L. Churchill, whose comments about the victims of Sept. 11 prompted a national debate about the limits of free speech, should be fired for academic misconduct. Professor Churchill, 58, was immediately relieved of his academic and research duties as a result of the chancellor's recommendation, but will continue as a paid professor pending a decision by the Board of Regents. The chancellor, Phil DiStefano, emphasized in a news conference at the university's Boulder campus that Professor Churchill's essay about Sept. 11, in which he compared some World Trade Center victims to the Nazi henchman Adolf Eichmann, had nothing to do with the recommendation to dismiss him.

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