Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

RAM HEALTH EXPOSITION SMASHES PREVIOUS RECORD OF PATIENT ENCOUNTERS
By Stephen Igo of Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News
The Remote Area Medical (RAM) Health Expedition's seventh foray into Wise County this past weekend smashed all previous records in free health services provided to all-comers at the county fairgrounds. The RAM Health Expedition has been staged in the county since 1999, and every year the previous year's records have been topped. The seventh RAM over the weekend set another record, with 7,917 patient encounters recorded during the three-day event that ended Sunday, compared to just over 6,380 last year. Early estimates of the value of medical, dental and eye services provided were at more than $1.26 million, nearly equal to last year's $1.3 million estimate. "I heard comments from several people that this was the best organized they'd ever seen it," said local RAM coordinator Teresa Gardner, executive director of St. Mary's Health Wagon. "I just credit that to a lot of committed volunteers who work year after year together, and I guess we're getting pretty good now at what we do."

DIVERSITY SPECIALIST NAMED INTERIM AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS DEAN
By The Associated Press for the (Hampton Roads) Daily Press / July 31
Maurice Apprey, a University of Virginia professor of psychiatric medicine and the medical school's former associate dean for diversity, has been appointed interim dean of African-American affairs, school officials said Monday. Apprey, 58, replaces M. Rick Turner, who retired after serving in the position since 1988. A search is being conducted for Turner's permanent replacement.
    
INTERIM DEAN ANNOUNCED / APPREY REPLACES TURNER
By Staff of The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress
    
STATE BRIEFS / U.VA. INTERIM DEAN FOR BLACK AFFAIRS NAMED
By Staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
METRO BRIEFS
By Staff of the Washington Times
   
DIVERSITY SPECIALIST NAMED INTERIM AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS DEAN
By Staff of WRIC-TV ABC-8 Richmond
 
DIVERSITY SPECIALIST NAMED INTERIM AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS DEAN
WAVY-TV NBC-10 Portsmouth
  
DIVERSITY SPECIALIST NAMED INTERIM AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS DEAN
WVEC-TV ABC-13 Hampton Roads

CEOS NAME TOP BUSINESS SCHOOLS / DARDEN IS NO. 14
By Staff of Chief Executive Magazine / July 31  

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

CLAUDETTE DALTON
Dr. Dalton, assistant professor of medical education and anesthesiology and assistant dean and director of U.Va.'s Community-Based Medical Education, was quoted in a Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News article headlined:
RAM HEALTH EXPOSITION SMASHES PREVIOUS RECORD OF PATIENT ENCOUNTERS
By Stephen Igo of the Kingsport Times-News

BANKOLE JOHNSON
Dr. Johnson, chairman of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, was quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times, which was carried by numerous other newspapers around the country, in an article headlined:
WAS IT ALCOHOL OR ANTI-SEMITISM TALKING? DOCTORS DISAGREE ON WHETHER MEL GIBSON'S ALLEGED COMMENTS REFLECTED ACTUAL BELIEFS.
By Thomas H. Maugh II of the Los Angeles Times
   
ABC DROPS PLANS TO WORK WITH GIBSON ON MINISERIES
By Allison Hope Weiner of The New York Times

ANNA KING
King, a recreation therapist with U.Va.’s Health System, was quoted in a Charlottesville Daily Progress article headlined:
GROWING FROM SEEDS TO FLOWERS / SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN USE DANCE AS THERAPY
By L.E. Andres of The Daily Progress

PETER RODRIGUEZ
Rodriguez, associate professor of business administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, was quoted in an article in MSNBC.com headlined:
THE NO-SHOPPING TREND / WHY SOME CONSUMERS JUST SAY NO TO NEW PURCHASES
By Chris Penttila of MSNBC.com / July 31

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, professor of politics and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics, was cited in a Savannah (Ga.) Morning News article headlined:
THE WORLD IS THEIR CLASSROOM / SMALL CORE OF ACADEMIC EXPERTS ON POLITICS AND WORLD AFFAIRS REACHES WIDER AUDIENCE THROUGH MEDIA
By Larry Peterson of the Savannah Morning News / July 31
   
VOTING ACT OVERSHADOWS RACE DEBATE / DEMOCRATS WEIGH DILUTING DISTRICTS OF BLACK MAJORITIES
By Joseph Williams of the Boston Globe / July 31

JAMES SAVAGE
Savage, professor of politics, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article headlined:
MORE COLLEGES FISH FOR FUNDS / FEDERAL EARMARKS FLOW TO SCHOOLS, MOSTLY FOR R&D. CRITICS SAY THEY'RE A WAY TO OBTAIN MONEY WITHOUT COMPETING FOR IT
By Gail Russell Chaddock and Patrik Jonsson of The Christian Science Monitor

JERRY STENGER
Stenger, research coordinator with the State Climatology Office, was quoted in the Charlottesville Daily Progress article headlined:
AREA LOSING ITS COOL / HEAT INDEX COULD REACH 109 DEGREES TODAY
By Liesel Nowak of The Daily Progress

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

SARA A. AUSTIN
Austin, who received a bachelor's degree from U.Va. in 1987, currently serves as president of the York County (Pa.) Bar Association, and was named a 2005 Super Lawyers' Rising Star, among Pennsylvania's top 2.5 percent of up-and-coming under-40 lawyers, was featured in an article in the (York County, Pa.) Daily Record headlined:
SOUTHERN GAL, 'SUPER LAWYER'
By Staff of the Daily Record / July 30

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS  

MAURICE APPREY APPOINTED AS INTERIM DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY'S OFFICE
OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL TO PERFORM TONIGHT AT U.VA.'S JPJ ARENA: IMPORTANT
PARKING UPDATE

U.VA.'S DEPT. OF ATHLETICS CERTIFIED BY NCAA

This week's featured publication is E-NEWS ONLINE.

HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE NEWS

GROWING FROM SEEDS TO FLOWERS / SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN USE DANCE AS THERAPY
By L.E. Andres of The Daily Progress
The recital was the culmination of five weeks of dance therapy at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center. Three children took their places on the stage, smothering small giggles and big grins as they waited for the musical cues that would turn them from seeds into flowers.

UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

UVA ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH GRAY TELEVISION
By J.W. Stehle of WCAV-TV CBS-19 / July 31
The University of Virginia athletics department announced on Monday plans to broaden its television partnership with Gray Television. The agreement reached by the two parties enables Gray to become the flagship television partner for Virginia Athletics. Gray Television's three stations in the Charlottesville area - WCAV-CBS19, WVAW-ABC16, and WAHU-FOX27- will continue as the home of "Cavalier Sports Weekly" for the next five years. Gray will also now carry the "Cavalier Weekend Preview," which highlights the upcoming weekend's events for Virginia Athletics, on each of its stations during newscasts on Thursdays and Fridays. Additional programming, including football & basketball season previews, fall and spring Olympic sports previews, and post-season shows will also air on the Gray stations.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

MORE COLLEGES FISH FOR FUNDS; FEDERAL EARMARKS FLOW TO SCHOOLS, MOSTLY FOR R&D. CRITICS SAY THEY'RE A WAY TO OBTAIN MONEY WITHOUT COMPETING FOR IT.
By Gail Russell Chaddock and Patrik Jonsson of The Christian Science Monitor
Call it a parallel universe. Ever since the 1980s, college presidents wanting to bulk up research facilities with public dollars had two options. They could compete for them through established peer-review systems. (It helped to be Harvard.) Or, they could do an end run around the peer-review system and get a friendly member of Congress to write the project directly into the budget of a federal agency. (It helped to have a home-state senator on an appropriations committee.) Academic earmarks jumped from $15 million the first year of the Reagan presidency to $336 million in fiscal year 1989, the year he left office. By the 1990s, academic institutions rivaled defense contractors as consumers of lobby services to win federal earmarks - and helped define a new lobbying specialty in Washington's K Street corridor: "directed appropriations."

'ENGAGEMENT' AND THE UNDERPREPARED
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed
Practices that immerse students in learning help minority and academically at-risk students more than others, two studies find.

STATES EXPAND TUITION BENEFITS FOR VETERANS / COLLEGES ARE OFTEN STUCK WITH THE BILLS AS LAWMAKERS PASS POLITICALLY POPULAR LEGISLATION WITHOUT ADDITIONAL FUNDS
By Anne K. Walters of The Chronicle of Higher Education
[...] During the most recent legislative session, which ended in most places in July, six states, including Florida, Washington, and Wisconsin, joined the ranks of those that waive or reduce tuition at public colleges for veterans from the regular military, National Guard, and reserves. ... While lawmakers get the credit for passing such politically popular legislation, in many states the colleges are the ones stuck with the bill. Not all states provide extra appropriations to public colleges to pay for the tuition of veterans, and even if they do, the dollars typically don't keep pace with rising costs.

EDUCATION DEPT. ACCUSED OF MISREADING LAW
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed
The U.S. Education Department has exceeded its legal authority in restricting access to new federal grants for low-income students to those enrolled in degree programs, the American Association of Community Colleges charged in a letter to Secretary Margaret Spellings Monday.

MOBILIZING THE CAMPUS RIGHT
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed
At Young America's Foundation conference, college students trumpet conservative ideas and take aim at "liberal hostility."

PHILANTHROPY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

UPDATES ON BILLION-DOLLAR CAMPAIGNS AT 22 UNIVERSITIES
Compiled by Jason M. Breslow of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The 22 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $610.5-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available. The campaign with the largest gain in the last month was Brown University, with $73.1-million. The 22 universities -- each with its most recent total, last month's increase, the original goal, and the planned completion date -- are as follows:
* Brown University, $742-million as of June 30 (increase of $73.1-million in the last month); the goal is $1.4-billion by 2010.
* The California Institute of Technology, $1.123-billion as of June 30 (increase of $3.1-million in the last month); the goal is $1.4-billion by 2007.
* Dartmouth College, $735.2-million as of June 30 (increase of $12.6-million in the last month); the goal is $1.3-billion by 2009.
* The Johns Hopkins University, $2.241-billion as of June 30 (increase of $40.8-million in the last month); the goal was $2-billion by 2007.
* Michigan State University, $1.165-billion as of June 30 (increase of $33-million in the last month); the goal is $1.2-billion by 2007.
* New York University, $1.727-billion as of June 30 (increase of $50.3-million in the last month); the goal is $2.5-billion by 2008.
* North Carolina State University, $950-million as of June 30 (increase of $15-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2008.
* Purdue University, $1.396-billion as of June 30 (increase of $42.9-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007.
* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, $678.1-million as of June 30 (increase of $2.9-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2008.
* Texas A&M University at College Station, $1.291-billion as of June 30 (increase of $39.8-million in the last month); the goal was $1-billion by 2006.
* The University of California at San Diego, $900.3-million as of June 30 (increase of $11.6-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2007.
* The University of Chicago, $1.552-billion as of June 30 (increase of $1.2-million in the last month); the goal is $2-billion by 2008.
* The University of Kentucky, $909.9-million as of June 30 (increase of $13.9-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2007.
* The University of Miami, $1.154-billion as of June 30 (increase of $3-million in the last month); the goal was $1.25-billion by 2007.
* The University of Michigan, $2.182-billion as of June 30 (increase of $30-million in the last month); the goal is $2.5-billion by 2008.
* The University of Missouri at Columbia, $694-million as of June 30 (increase of $49-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2008.
* The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $1.805-billion as of June 30 (increase of $55.2-million in the last month); the goal is $2-billion by 2007.
* The University of Pittsburgh, $962-million as of June 30 (increase of $16-million in the last month); the goal is $2-billion by 2014.
* THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, $932.8-million as of June 30 (increase of $38.9-million in the last month); the goal is $3-billion by 2011.
* The University of Washington, $1.790-billion as of June 30 (increase of $52.5-million in the last month); the goal is $2-billion by 2008.
* The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.765-billion as of July 5 (increase of $8.1-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
* Vanderbilt University, $1.236-billion as of June 30 (increase of $17.6-million in the last month); the goal is $1.25-billion by 2008.

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