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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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The foundation will be forced to issue fewer scholarships in the 2010-11 academic year because of a diminished endowment, a university official said.
Court Overturns $2-Million Verdict for Former Coach at U. of Louisiana-Lafayette
The coach, one of the few African-Americans in big-time college football, was fired after three losing seasons. He sued, saying he had been dismissed because of his race.
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January 4, 2007
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Maverick in History and Women's Studies, Dies at 65
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a leading scholar in women’s studies, founding director of the Institute for Women’s Studies at Emory University, and a professor of humanities there, died on Tuesday at the age of 65 (see obituary in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Her 1988 book, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (University of North Carolina Press), won several prizes for women’s history. In the latter part of her career, she turned away from radical roots and became a well-known conservative public intellectual, opponent of abortion, critic of what she saw as the politicization and specialization of the academic humanities, and convert to Roman Catholicism.
In 1998 she and her husband, the historian Eugene D. Genovese, helped found the Historical Society as an alternative to what they said was the overspecialization and fragmentation of history represented in the established historical organizations and their journals. She was the first editor of The Journal of the Historical Society and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2003.
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