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| Faculty, Staff, and Student Activities, Awards and Appointments |
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| Hamline and Drury Inaugurate New Presidents |
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| New ANAC member presidents who assumed their responsibilities last summer were formally inaugurated during October. Hamline University held inaugural festivities for new president Linda N. Hanson on October 7. Drury University’s inauguration of president John Sellars was held October 28.
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| Linda N. Hanson |
John Sellars |
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| Quinnipiac President Recognized; Ithaca President Rappels |
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| John L. Lahey |
At a ceremony at the city council chambers in New York City, Quinnipiac University president John L. Lahey was recognized earlier this year by the Irish Heritage & Culture Committee of the New York Department of Education as its “Man of the Year.” Leahy has gathered at Quinnipiac what is believed to be America’s most extensive collection of art and literature from Ireland’s Great Famine.
In a November 4 ceremony, president Peggy R. Williams, a hiking and biking enthusiast, inaugurated the new indoor climbing wall at the Ithaca College Fitness Center by being the first person to rappel down the wall.
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President Williams inaugurates the indoor climbing wall
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| Drury SIFE Team Places Second in World; Evansville Students in “Top 20” in Global Business Simulation |
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| Drury's SIFE team celebrates at the 2005 competition. |
For the third time this decade, the Drury University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team placed high in World Cup competition, finishing second to the University of Zimbabwe. Forty-five teams competed, demonstrating projects they developed using business and entrepreneurial principles that also provide public service. One project consisted of a networking and consulting service to eight Ozark region start-up clients who generated $65,000 in revenue during the eight month project.
A team of University of Evansville students placed in the top twenty (out of 9,204 teams) in the world in an online simulation competition, “The Business Strategy Game,” in which students simulate the management of an international athletic footwear company.
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| Valparaiso National Leader in Student Fulbright Awards; Hamline Professor Awarded a Fulbright |
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In having six students selected for Fulbright awards in the past two years, Valparaiso University tied with another campus for most students at Carnegie Master’s institutions receiving Fulbright recognition in the past two years. Hamline University professor Van Dusenbery has been named a Fulbright Scholar for research at Lyallpur Khalsa College in Jalandhar, India, for the 2005-06 academic year.
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| North Central and Belmont Professors Author New Books; Ithaca College Writing Professor Honored
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Ann Durkin Keating, C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History at North Central College and co-author of the highly acclaimed 2004 Encyclopedia of Chicago, has a new book, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age, published by the University of Chicago Press. Belmont University literature and writing professor Joy Jordan-Lake has authored Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe, published by Vanderbilt University Press.
Ithaca College writing professor Fred Wilcox received the 2005 Chapel of the Four Chaplains Humanitarian Award in a September ceremony sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans of America. Wilcox’s 1983 book Waiting for an Army to Die called attention to the health effects on troops of exposure to Agent Orange. He has given innumerable lectures on Agent Orange and presented data to Congressional committees.
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| Former Federal Election Commission Chair Returns to Capital; Drury Names VP for Administration |
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Bradley A. Smith, 2004 chairman of the Federal Election Commission, returned to the faculty of the Capital University Law School this fall after serving on the Commission since his 2000 appointment by President Clinton. Capital law students named Smith professor of the year in 1999-2000. He is the author of Unfree Speech: the Folly of Campaign Finance Reform, published by Princeton University Press in 2001.
At Drury University Ken Johnson is moving from dean of the college of graduate and continuing studies to vice president for administration. Johnson replaces Raymond “Rusty” Worley, an active member of the ANAC CFO affinity group, who was recently named executive director of the Urban Districts Alliance.
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| Sunset on the Belmont University campus. |
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