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• Executive Council Election Information 2006-2008 VOTE

  - 2006-04-01

  By virtue of offices already held, Dr. John D. Light will hold the office of Past President and Dr. Karen Nicholson will hold the office of President for the 2006-2008 Biennium. President-Elect Pamela Kramer (Ed.D. in Elementary Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Professor of Education, Department of Early Childhood &...

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• UT Dallas Professor's Paper Among Most Influential in 50-Year History of Journal Management Science; Description of 'Bass Model' Makes Publication's 'Top 10' List.

  - 2004-05-03

  Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, May 3 AScribe Newswire -- Members of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences INFORMS have voted a landmark paper describing a method to predict consumer product sales, written by Professor Frank Bass of The...

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• Texas Colleges Starting to Slash Classes.

  - 2003-02-02

  By Linda K. Wertheimer, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 2--AUSTIN, Texas--The University of Texas at Austin will hire fewer professors, forcing students to scramble more than usual for the classes they want. At Texas Woman's...

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• Plan Calls for Dallas-Area Colleges to Share 25 Superstar Research Professors.

  - 2002-12-14

  By Linda K. Wertheimer, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 14--AUSTIN, Texas--A group of 25 superstar professors would come to work for two, and possibly three, North Texas universities as part of a plan to build up the University...

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• Ophthalmologist joins Lancaster, Pa., Eye Doctors Team.

  - 2001-12-05

  Lancaster New Era, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 5--Dr. Edmond H. Thall has joined Eye Doctors of Lancaster as an ophthalmologist with the sub-specialty ophthalmology team. Thall previously was associate professor of vitreoretinal diseases and director of refractive surgery at The...

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• Controversial University of Texas Professor Graglia at It Again

  - 1999-12-09

  SAN ANTONIO -- A University of Texas law professor engaged in a debate over affirmative action again has stated his opinion that minorities are less qualified college students. Professor Lino Graglia made headlines two years ago by saying Blacks and Hispanics cannot compete academically with Whites. "Obviously, Blacks...

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• Mischief makers: the men behind all those anti-affirmative action lawsuits - includes news analysis on court decisions that affect diversity in higher education

  - 1997-12-25

  When a group of Republican state lawmakers last summer mounted a public campaign to find potential plaintiffs for a class-action lawsuit against the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policies, Jennifer Gratz responded immediately. Gratz, a policeman's daughter and former high school homecoming queen, had been rejected by Michigan in...

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• Black/Brown coalition fights back - University of Texas minority students

  - 1997-10-30

  Austin -- In a recent speech at the University of Texas, the Rev. Jesse Jackson counseled a spirited crowd of several thousand chanting students to "turn a minus into a plus" as they thought about how to respond to the comments of UT law professor Lino Graglia who said blacks...

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