On what I know is a foreboding, but challenging note, your generation will have to find an energy replacement for oil, or by 2050; you will be facing an economic, political and social barrier unknown since the dark ages. -- Rand Araskog
Expanding educational and sports opportunities for girls and women around the world is the theme of the 50th anniversary conference of the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW), a conference expected to draw 100 of the world's most influential women in sports and physical education to Smith College July 7
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Confronted with a population of more than 92,000 institutionalized children and thousands more roaming the streets, a team of 14 Romanian child welfare officials came to the University of Illinois at Chicago to learn how to improve the quality of child care services in their country.
It's sort of like "Road Rules" with a purpose. That's how two new University of Delaware graduates describe their plans to live in some of the country's poorest areas over the next six months, filming their journey along the way.
Industry experts say the demand for nuclear engineers has exploded over the past two years, and college students taking this career path will have jobs waiting for them when they graduate.
Lani Guinier, Houston Baker and Stanley Fish are among more than a dozen prominent guest speakers who will present public talks as part of the 1999 Summer Session of the School of Criticism and Theory, (SCT) hosted by Cornell University beginning June 14.
Officials from the Dominican Republic and Cornell University will celebrate the construction start of a multipurpose facility -- a biodiversity laboratory for undergraduate students and a distance-learning center for scholars of that Caribbean nation -- in ceremonies set for June 18 in the Punta Cana region of the Dominican Republic.
Why is talk about TV superheroes forbidden at a Montessori school? Why would a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year old child? Why do girls often lose out to the their big brothers in the fight for time on the family computer?
Washington State University has established a connection to the next generation communications network known as Internet2. This very-high-speed network is a collective effort of more than 150 U.S. universities, the federal government and private industry.
To help entering freshmen, the University of Virginia's Northern Virginia Center and HRD Press are offering "Surviving the First Year of College: Myth vs. Reality" free.
Francois Clemmons' talents as a singer and a musician make him a valued instructor at Middlebury College in Vermont.
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University have been awarded $450,000 from the Bush Foundation for an innovative new program to enhance student learning.
As a women's college Smith has a particular commitment to summer programs that forward the educational prospects and achievements of girls and women. This highlights eight unusual programs and events taking place at Smith this summer.
Purdue University is taking steps to fill the high demand for professionals in the wood products industry with the creation of a new major -- wood products manufacturing technology.
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. and Birmingham business leader H. Corbin Day, chairman of Jemison Investment Co., will be honored during graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has taken a major role in the digital dissemination of geographic data in being named the Clearinghouse Node for Maryland in the National Data Infrastructure framework.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in upholding a law allowing some parents to use state vouchers to send their children to religious schools, challenges "a sound constitutional and moral consensus" that goes back to the 1920s, according to a University of Illinois scholar.
A truly effective program to deal with school violence usually requires a change in a school's culture -- a change that is often resisted, according to an Ohio State professor and author of a new book on dealing with violent youth.
Magnet schools, developed in the 1970s as an alternative to mandatory busing, have achieved much of what they were designed to do but have also contributed to segregation by social class and a dimishment of communities, Vanderbilt researchers say.
An anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the school but in the communities in which the students reside.
Comedian Bill Cosby delivered the final lecture to Colgate University's Class of 1999, and when he had finished his address to the college's 178th annual commencement he hugged and greeted each of the 677 members of the class individually.
University at Albany Dean of Undergraduate Studies John Pipkin will be the featured speaker at the University at Albany's 155th undergraduate commencement ceremony Sunday, May 23. He replaces poet Maya Angelou.
A dearth of social workers in Georgia schools means that important links between schools, homes and communities aren't being established. Links that could prevent the sort of tragedies that have occurred in Littleton, Colo., Jonesboro, Ark., Paducah, Ky., and, most recently, Conyers, Ga.
Bishop John R. Kinney will deliver the 1999 spring commencement address to the College of Saint Benedict graduating seniors on Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m., in the Clemens Field House in CSB's Haehn Campus Center.
Rand V. Araskog, retired chair and chief executive of ITT Corporation, will deliver the commencement address at Gustavus Adolphus College at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30 on the college's Hollingsworth Field.
Mount Holyoke College will celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 162-year history.
Former U.S. Vice President and ambassador to Japan Walter F. Mondale will be guest speaker at St. Olaf College's 110th annual commencement Sunday, May 23.
Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt urged the Classes of 1999 to commit themselves to "enlightenment" in the form of knowledge, new ideas and service to others. In his farewell remarks during Commencement ceremonies on May 14, Wyatt described the shared sense of community, purpose and vision that characterizes a Vanderbilt education.
Diane M. Capstaff, executive vice president at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., will be the speaker at the Monday, May 24, Commencement exercises of Boston College's Graduate School of Management.
The latest research in how children learn and how teachers can improve classroom instruction will be highlighted June 11-13 when the annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition is held at Carnegie Mellon University.
Graduation speakers at The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada (May 19-20, 1999) include soprano Wendy Nielsen; Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc; Justice Louise Arbour, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals at the International Court in The Hague; and Edward F. (Ted) Boswell, retired chairperson of E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd.
In the same way the graphical interface replaced text commands on the personal computer, a graphical Web search tool being developed at the University of Illinois promises to make searches of the Internet more user- and education-friendly.
Former Sen. George Mitchell, Chairman of the Irish Peace Negotiations, Offers Address at Fordham's 154th Commencement. Magician David Copperfield to Receive Honorary Degree.
Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs and White House Correspondent for NBC News who covered Jesse Jackson's recent visit to Belgrade, will deliver the Samford University Commencement address. Mitchell will speak during 10 a.m. exercises Saturday, May 22, at Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center Complex Arena.
Fox News Anchor Paula Zahn will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduate commencement ceremony at Quinnipiac College at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 16.
"When will my child start to read?" In answer to that, a professor of language and literacy at Purdue University says the important things for parents to remember is that every child is different, and teaching him or her to read is not the exclusive domain of teachers.
On May 29, 571 students in University of Colorado Health Sciences Center schools and programs will graduate during commencement exercises, which begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Bookstore Quadrangle on campus.
Virginia Feigles of Milton, Pa., decided four years ago that a quarter of a century of wrapping perms was plenty. The hair dresser decided to learn how to build roads and sewerage systems instead and enrolled in Bucknell's College of Engineering.
G. Denise Lance has spent her 30 years showing everyone around her what is possible -- including typing term papers with her toes, managing Web sites and earning a Ph.D. in special education at the University of Kansas. Denise has cerebral palsy.
John F. Kennedy Jr., magazine editor and advocate for the disabled, will speak at Washington College's commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23 in Chestertown, MD.
Best-selling author Iris Rainer Dart and six honorary degree recipients, including three Nobel Prize winners, will be the headliners at Carnegie Mellon University's 102d commencement, 11 a.m., Sunday, May 16 in Gesling Stadium, where more than 2,100 degrees will be conferred.
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt--a leading advocate of the European Monetary Unit (EMU) and an influential voice in European politics and economics--delivered the 1999 commencement address at Rice University on Saturday, May 15, which was broadcast live on the Web. (RealAudio segment now available)
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will deliver the address at Boston University's 126th commencement exercises Sunday, May 23. Rev. Also receiving honorary degrees will be Dr. Ray Hammond, a physician, clergyman, and chairman of the Ten Point Coalition, James Carlin, businessman and chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education; actress and alumna Geena Davis; and Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of The George Washington University.
Dr. Lee S. Shulman will will deliver Drury College's commencement address Sunday, May 16, aat the college's 125th anniversary celebration.
Former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who began the peace process that led to the historic Good Friday peace accord reached in Northern Ireland last year, will be the speaker for the 1999 undergraduate commencement at the University of San Diego on May 30.
Congressman Lane Evans of Illinois will return to his alma mater to speak at Augustana College's 139th Commencement.
Jesuit father and President of Catholic Charities USA, Fred Kammer, S.J., will be the keynote speaker at the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law commencement on Saturday, May 15, at 10 a.m. in the Morris Jeff Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park.
In a study of the U.S. and Canadian labor markets, a Stanford Business School economist argues that education--with a focus on supplying better-educated labor--is the key to undoing income inequality.
Among the Johns Hopkins seniors who graduate May 27, there are some who have overcome far more than the academic challenge of college. For four students, their diplomas symbolize a resolve to reach this day, no matter how grueling the path.
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