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• University of Phoenix Forms National Research Center and Names Advisory Board Charter Members

  - 2008-05-05

  PHOENIX -- University of Phoenix today announced the formation of a research unit, the University of Phoenix National Research Center NRC, to drive continued significant and innovative research initiatives in teaching and learning among adult students in higher education. The NRC will be directed by scholar Jorge Klor de Alva,...

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• Remarks by the President and First Lady in Honor of Thomas Jefferson's 265th Birthday

  - 2008-04-14

  WASHINGTON -- East Room 6:05 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for coming. Please be seated. Welcome to the White House. Laura and I are so honored you are here. I welcome members of my Cabinet, members of the United States Senate, folks who work in...

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• Dr. Courtney H. Lyder

  - 2006-12-14

  DR. COURTNEY H. LYDER has been selected to chair the University of Virginia's President's Committee on Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and be director for diversity initiatives for UVa's Medical Center and School of Nursing. He earned a joint degree from Beloit College and a bachelor's, master's and doctorate from Rush University...

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• On the retirement of Joseph M. Jadlow as secretary-treasurer of the Southern Economic Association

  - 2006-04-01

  Remarks by William R. Johnson, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia For nearly three decades, Joe Jadlow has been the organizational glue and institutional memory of the Southern Economic Association. Some participants at the SEA meetings in Washington in November 2005 were not yet born when Joe began his...

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• Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education

  - 2005-07-01

  Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education Charles William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, Eugene A. Tobin, University of Virginia, 2005; 472 pp; $27.95 William Bowen, former president of Princeton University (N.J.) follows his 1998 analysis of affirmative action, The Shape of the River, with this new title, co-authored...

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• A Brookings Briefing: Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education

  - 2005-04-13

  News Advisory: Socioeconomic class differences in higher education remain one of the most long-standing barriers to ensuring access and opportunity for all Americans. Panelists at this briefing will discuss this challenge and data put forth by authors William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin in their new...

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• Dumas Malone

  - 2005-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

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• University of Virginia panel recommends diversity officer, collaboration with HBCUs

  - 2004-10-21

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. A committee that was formed after racially tinged incidents at the University of Virginia recommended recently the creation of an officer for "diversity and equity" who would report to the president. The panel also recommended the development of an academic program on issues of equity and...

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• University of New Haven

  - 2004-05-01

  Steve Kaplan will leave the chancellor's position at the University of Virginia at Wise to become president of the University of New Haven CT ...

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• In Memory Of: W. Hunter Robbins

  - 2004-04-01

  W. Hunter Robbins, 92, retired chairman of the board at Union Bank & Trust Company, Greensburg; director of First Bank and Trust, Batesville; and president of Milan State Bank, died Jan. 28. An alumnus of the University of Virginia, he also was a farmer.

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