Tuesday, July 11, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

PREVENTING CANCER
By Rob Capriccioso of Inside Higher Ed / July 11
Cervical cancer is one of the few cancers that a vaccine has a good shot at preventing. As a result, college health officials this week will consider guidelines that many hope will lead to the vaccine being made available to students quite soon. ... "This is the biggest preventive tool we've ever been handed," says James C. Turner, who heads up the Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases of the American College Health Association. He's worked in the college health field for over 20 years. Turner, who directs the Department of Student Health at the University of Virginia's Elson Student Health Center, expects that the American College Health Association will vote this week to create guidelines to help college health systems nationwide administer the vaccine. The UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA has already helped almost 30 students receive the vaccine since the CDC's recommendation, and Turner says that many parents have been interested in helping their daughters get the vaccine.

RESEARCH ON HIGHER ED GETS A BOOST
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed / July 11
At a time of great fulmination about the future of American higher education and colleges' ability to successfully educate the country's growing numbers of low-income and academically underprepared citizens, the U.S. Education Department is establishing a new national research center to study just those topiics. The National Research and Development Center on Postsecondary Education, which will be housed at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College, will be the nation's only federally funded research center on higher education. ... The Columbia center's partners are MDRC, the CURRY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, and professors at Harvard University and Princeton University.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

CERTIFICATION = QUALITY?: AN ELITE TITLE IS DEBATED FOR WHETHER IT HELPS TEACHERS BE MORE EFFECTIVE
By Carol Scott of the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press / July 10
And two College of William and Mary education professors, who studied fifth-grade teachers in three school districts in North Carolina, … found that being nationally certified doesn't necessarily mean students will score higher on tests. … National Board certified teachers are above-average in how they interact with students and how their students score on standardized tests, said Thomas Ward, one of the professors who did the study with University of Virginia and University of North Carolina researchers.

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

ISAAC WOOD
Wood, a student at U.Va., picked June 22 as the day the Virginia legislature would break the budget stalemate. His pick was featured in an article in the Washington Post headlined:
THE RICHMOND REPORT / A WINNER CLAIMS HIS PRIZE
By Michael Shear of The Washington Post / July 10

FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

ELIZABETH TEISBERG
Teisberg, professor at the Darden School of Business, co-authored an article in The New Republic headlined:
INFORMATION IS THE BEST MEDICINE
By Elizabeth Teisberg and Michael Porter / July 6
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FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

SAMUEL BODILY
Bodily, professor at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in a segment on National Public Radio headlined:
ENRON FOUNDER KENNETH LAY DIES OF HEART ATTACK
By Scott Horsley of National Public Radio / July 5

MICHAEL MANN
Mann, a U.Va. climatologist, is mentioned in a Roanoke Times editorial headlined:
WARMING THEORY IS HOT AIR
By Dennis T. Avery for the Roanoke Times

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, professor of politics and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics, was featured in an article in the Washington Post headlined:
THE RICHMOND REPORT / A WINNER CLAIMS HIS PRIZE
By Michael Shear of The Washington Post / July 10

MICHAEL SCHILL
Schill, professor at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in an article on TheStreet.com headlined:
ASK THE STREET: PREFERRED STOCK
By Simon Constable and Gregg Greenberg of TheStreet.com / July 7

ELIZABETH TEISBERG
Teisberg, professor at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in an article in Employee Benefit News headlined:
AUTHOR: EMPLOYERS ARE FEEDING THE HEALTH CARE BEAST
By Robert Whiddon of Employee Benefit News / July 6

JAMES C. TURNER
Turner, director of student health and head of the Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases of the American College Health Association, is quoted in an Inside Higher Ed article headlined:
PREVENTING CANCER
By Rob Capriccioso of Inside Higher Ed / July 11

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATOR OBITUARIES IN THE NEWS

FORMER U.VA., VIRGINIA TECH AIDE DIES / TOM FLETCHER, 69, SUCCUMBS TO PANCREATIC CANCER AFTER FIGHTING THE DISEASE FOR OVER A YEAR
By Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times
Tom Fletcher, whose recruiting prowess was invaluable to football staffs at Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia Tech, died Monday morning in the Russell County community of St. Paul. … His first college job was at Virginia, where he was instrumental in recruiting the first Cavalier football class to include African-Americans.

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

RICK BRYANT
Bryant, who earned a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture in 1979, was featured in a Centre Daily Times article headlined:
ARTS FESTIVAL Q&A FORUM
By Centre Daily Times staff reports

MICHAEL S. KUN
Kun, a graduate of the School of Law, was featured in a PRNewswire press release headlined:
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ATTORNEY MICHAEL S. KUN JOINS EPSTEIN BECKER & GREEN'S L.A. OFFICE
By PRNewswire / July 10

SHERRI P. NADEAU
Nadeau, who received a master's degree in accounting and tax from U.Va., was featured in a Business Wire press release headlined:
TECH DATA PROMOTES SHERRI P. NADEAU TO SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES
By Business Wire / July 10

DON ROSENBERG
Rosenberg, who founded the Record Exchange chain right after graduating in 1979, was featured in a Roanoke Times article headlined:
RECORD STORE'S 'LAST DANCE' / ONE OF THE ROANOKE VALLEY'S LAST SMALL RECORD STORE CHAINS IS SET TO CLOSE.
By Duncan Adams of the Roanoke Times

ELEANOR F. SMALLEY
Smalley, who has a master's degree and a doctorate in administration from U.Va., was featured in a Winchester Star article headlined:
SMALLEY'S CONTRACT EXTENDED / SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN: NEW CCHS 'MOVING FULL STEAM AHEAD'
By Daneesha R. Davis of The Winchester Star

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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

PROPOSED VOLUNTARY ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM WOULD RELY ON 'MEANINGFUL BUT MANAGEABLE' MEASURES
By Kelly Field of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 11
Public universities and the associations that represent them should work together to develop a voluntary accountability system that would allow prospective students, their parents, and policy makers to compare similar institutions, the associations suggest in a paper scheduled for release today. The draft paper, which was written by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges with input from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, calls for consensus on a "meaningful but manageable" set of measures that would include student surveys, measures of student learning, and "consumer data" on net costs, transfer and graduation rates, and postgraduate employment and earnings, among other things.

AT 'CAMPUS OF THE FUTURE' MEETING, COLLEGE OFFICIALS LEARN HOW MUCH MONEY WILL MATTER
By Jeffrey Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 11
More than 4,000 college financial officers, planners, facilities managers, and other officials have gathered here [in Honolulu ] this week for the first-of-its-kind joint meeting of three higher-education associations: the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, and the Society for College and University Planning. The meeting, dubbed "the Campus of the Future," is focused on discussions about what will be the key issues and trends in the coming decades. The opening session brought together four experts who laid out the issues they expected to occupy the time of college officials in the future. Money, of course, was one of them.

ACCOUNTABILITY PROPOSAL EVOLVES
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed / July 11
State college groups flesh out plan for members to make public a "bundle of information" about learning climate and student outcomes.

IMPACT OF RACE AND CLASS ON COLLEGE ADVICE
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed / July 11
A new study suggests that race and class have an impact on the advice high school students receive on where to go to college. A Drexel University professor analyzed the responses of more than 1,700 guidance counselors to student profiles with information about academic performance, race, class and other factors. The professor, Frank Linnehan, found that - irrespective of academic performance - counselors were more likely to recommend community colleges to middle-class students than to upper-class students. Another finding: For middle-class students with lower academic performance, the guidance counselors were more likely to recommend that black students attend community college than they recommended that approach to comparable white students.
    
RACE AND FAMILY INCOME OF STUDENTS INFLUENCE GUIDANCE COUNSELORS' ADVICE, STUDY FINDS
By Eric Hoover of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 11

AT GATHERING OF COLLEGE FUND RAISERS, HOT TOPIC IS SPELLINGS COMMISSION'S DRAFT REPORT
By Erin Strout of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 11
College presidents and others who are attending the annual meeting of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education this week have expressed concerns about a number of issues, including a draft report recently issued by the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education. ... The commission's draft report calls for, among other things, overhauling the federal student-aid and accreditation systems, easing the process of transferring credits between institutions, and using tests to measure the "value added" by a college education (The Chronicle, July 7).   The secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, created the commission last September to devise a "comprehensive national strategy" on higher education's future.

CAMPUS PLANNERS HAVE A TECH-SAVVY GENERATION'S NEEDS TO CONSIDER
By Scott Carlson of The Chronicle of Higher Education  / July 11
Technology has actually become so advanced that architects and college planners don't have to design around it anymore. Now they have a tougher job: They have to go back to designing college spaces around people.  ... As most know, they're also deeply engaged with technology. But technology has gotten so small and portable that it makes fewer demands on space design, said the session's leaders, Shirley Dugdale, director of learning environments at the design firm DEGW North America, and Philip Long, senior strategist for academic computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So buildings designed for the new generation of learners should be designed around their needs, they said. Some spaces should be flexible, with movable furniture that allows students to spread out. There should be ample space for writing and working, and there should also be a good deal of natural light, which is coveted by students.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

LET THE GUYS WIN ONE
By John Tierney of the New York Times / July 11
Why is it so important to cling to the myth behind Title IX: that women need sports as much as men do?
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