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Bucknell's President Proposes 10-Year Plan at Inauguration

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A number of leading figures in education reform, including Ted Sizer, will gather at Smith College Nov. 3 - 4 for the premiere of "'Only'A Teacher," a documentary examining the changing role of the American teacher from the mid-1800s to the present.

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"Baseball's Future: Competitive Balance and Labor Relations" will bring together eight leading figures in sports economics, journalism and management to discuss ways to restore competition and avoid labor strife in America's pastime.

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More than 80 years after it was written, Carl Sandburg's 1918 prose poem "Prairie" is being reinterpreted in musical form, thanks to the efforts of another Illinois native son whose artistic ambitions have taken him far from his prairie roots.

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A literary giant of 20th century American literature and native son of Illinois will be celebrated Oct. 28 at the University of Illinois Library.

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President and CEO of HotJobs.com, and some 40 other Bucknell alumni, parents and friends who are in the forefront of the New Economy will participate in a symposium on the university campus.

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A presentation on health issues among college men by a national authority in the field is part of an ongoing effort by Saint John's University to counter alarming trends in the status of men's health.

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Vanderbilt is helping to ensure that the Holocaust is not forgotten by sponsoring a two-and-a-half-week lecture series that remembers this grim period in history. This year the focus is on the arts.

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The U of Arkansas psychology department will host the Memory and the Self Symposium, Nov. 10-11. Renowned scholars in cognitive and social psychology will present papers. Science news reporters and editors are welcome to attend.

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Launching October 12, an innovative program, take the lead!, will empower 33 high school students from around the country to address social issues in their own communities.

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Ursinus students will have a close brush with the High Italian Renaissance, as a New York painter recreates his own version of Raphael's famous masterpiece, "The School of Athens," using Ursinus students, faculty, the college's dean and president as models.

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The role of colleges in redevelopment of their host cities is the subject of a community development summit hosted by Connecticut College Sept. 21-22 with participating institutions such as University of Notre Dame, Bates College and others active in downtowns' revitalization.

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Why is there so much corruption in America? Or, is the real question, why isn't there more? On Sept. 12 at Colgate University, a panel of experts will debate questions about corruption and how limits are set.

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The past and future of women's history will converge when the "Agents of Social Change" conference, which marks the official opening for research of eight collections of 20th-century women activists, gets underway at Smith College.

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Hofstra University will present "The Leadership Difference: Rating the Presidents" on October 11, 2000. This symposium will feature in depth discussions by scholars from around the country who will evaluate presidential performance and reputation.

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Hofstra University will host a retrospective on Robert Anderson, best known for writing Tea and Sympathy, on October 26 and 27, 2000. The conference will not only feature the participation of Anderson but a number of famous playwrights, authors and actors, including Edward Albee and others.

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A new leadership summit for high school juniors,"take the lead!," will bring 30 promising young women to Mount Holyoke College during the height of the New England fall foliage season for an extended weekend of workshops and activities, October 12-15.

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On September 16, hundreds of entering Mount Holyoke College students will spend the day learning about western Massachusetts's Pioneer Valley region, as part of a new orientation program designed to foster connection.

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Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel will receive the honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Michigan on Sept. 5. Havel will participate in a panel discussion titled "Globalization's Intellectual Challenge."

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Williams College will honor eight distinguished scientists at its Fall Convocation on Sept. 23. Dr. Rita R. Colwell, director of NSF, will give the principal address. The college's science center will be dedicated in the afternoon.

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The Tuck School of Business is pleased to announce that Robert E. Rubin will address the centennial class of 2000 at their investiture ceremony on June 10. Mr. Rubin will also be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Dartmouth President James Wright.

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The members of the University of Michigan Medical School's 150th graduating class will embark on their medical careers June 9 with the words of the nation's genetic research leader, Francis Collins, echoing in their ears.

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Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, North Carolina Governor James Hunt, former Ga. Governor Zell Miller and UVA president John Casteen are among those scheduled to speak at a University of Georgia conference focusing on financing and accountability of public higher education.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning environmentalist E.O. Wilson to keynote Connecticut College graduation, May 27.

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Benjamin S. Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon and author, advised the Ursinus Class of 2000 that success is about using your God-given talents, developing them to the extent that you lift up and become valuable to the people around you.

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Actress Uta Hagen, glass artist Harvey K. Littleton and former Cargill chief executive officer Ernest S. Micek will deliver the "Charge to the Graduates" at University of Wisconsin, Madison, ceremonies May 20-21.

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The Medical College of Wisconsin will honor a leading national advocate for the health and safety of children, two of its trustees and three distinguished faculty members at its 87th commencement exercises on May 20.

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Lewis University is honoring Philip J. Rock, chairman of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, best known for his service in the Illinois State Senate where he held the position of president and majority leader longer than anyone in the state's history.

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Actress and School for the Arts alumna Olympia Dukakis will receive an honorary degree at Boston University's 127th commencement exercises on May 21; Tom Wolfe will deliver the BU commencement address.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a six-time Olympic medalist in track and holder of world and Olympic records, will give the address when DePauw University awards more than 500 bachelor's degrees in its 107th Commencement on May 20.

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Thomas R. Reardon, President, AMA, told Colorado State University graduates that no matter what your field of study, your success is only going to be found in others, in serving others, in finding the good and the right and the noble in your situation and, then, in sharing it with another person.

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Robert A. Skotheim, president of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., will speak at Gustavus Adolphus College's commencement.

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George Tenet, the U.S. Director of Central Intelligence; U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and composer Philip Glass are among the featured speakers at Johns Hopkins University commencement ceremonies May 24-25.

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Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, a Democrat from Maine who recently brokered the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland, will deliver the address at Emory University's 155th commencement on May 15.

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Broadcast journalist Bill Moyers and opera legend Barbara Conrad, both University of Texas at Austin distinguished alumni, will highlight the University's May 20 evening commencement ceremony.

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Sworn in two years ago as the 16th Surgeon General of the U.S., David Satcher will address the candidates for professional degrees when he delivers University of Maryland Baltimore's commencement address on May 26.

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W. Ian Lipkin, a 1974 graduate of Sarah Lawrence, a physician and molecular neurobiologist will address the graduating class at Sarah Lawrence College's 71st commencement on May 19.

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As one of the nation's foremost advocates for enhancing the lives of future generations through health and social service programs, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala will be the guest speaker at New York University School of Medicine's Commencement Day Exercise on May 11.

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David Neff, executive editor of "Christianity Today" and "Books & Culture" magazines, will deliver the Samford University commencement address on May 20.

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Vermont's U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders -- the country's only Independent representative in Congress -- will address 44 graduating seniors at Marlboro College's 53rd Commencement on May 14.

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Approximately 2,000 Hofstra University students will take part in commencement activities, May 21 and 22. Speakers include Maurice R. Greenberg, Cy Coleman, Hon. Richard Conway Casey, Jeffrey Lyons, John H. Marburger III, and Raymond A. Jansen.

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University at Albany Professor John Delano, a nationally known geochemist who is working with NASA to investigate the origins of life, will be the featured speaker at UAlbany's 156th undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 21.

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Rodrigo Rato, deputy prime minister of Spain and minister of the economy and Haas MBA from the class of 1974, will give the commencement address at this year's Haas graduation ceremonies on May 21.

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Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, innovative dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, and political and civil rights advocate Elizabeth Martinez at the College's 128th commencement on May 29.

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Best-selling author Tom Wolfe will deliver the address at Boston University's 127th commencement exercises Sunday, May 21, at 11 a.m.

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The Rev. William J. Byron SJ, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Ethics at Georgetown University and rector of the Georgetown Jesuit Community, will deliver the commencement address at Saint John's University at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 21, in the Saint John's Abbey Church.

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Dead Man Walking author and anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, broadcast journalist Bill Kurtis and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson will deliver addresses at the five graduation ceremonies of DePaul's Commencement 2000 weekend June 10 and 11 in Chicago.

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Marsha Johnson Evans, national executive director of Girl Scouts of the USA, will deliver her commencement address, "Your Best Foot Forward," at the College of Saint Benedict on Saturday, May 20, at 2 p.m. in the Clemens Field House of the Haehn Campus Center.

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The Anderson School announced today that NASDAQ president Alfred Berkeley has been chosen as this year's speaker for commencement on Friday, June 16.

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Melanie Zeck, a Kokomo (Ind.) senior, will relate how values learned from "Sesame Street" characters can guide college graduates in a speech she will give at Indiana State University's 129th commencement on May 6.