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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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Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
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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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February 19, 2008
Cass Sunstein to Leave U. of Chicago for Harvard
One of the nation’s best-known legal scholars and political theorists will be joining the Harvard Law School faculty in the fall, its dean, Elena Kagan, announced today.
Cass R. Sunstein, a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School, will head a new program at Harvard on risk regulation. The program will study how law and policy deal with 21st-century hazards such as terrorism, climate change, and occupational safety.
“Cass Sunstein is the pre-eminent legal scholar of our time — the most wide-ranging, the most prolific, the most cited, and the most influential,” Ms. Kagan said.
Mr. Sunstein said he was looking forward to the challenge.
“The nation and the world are facing many unanticipated problems, and policy makers must find ways to protect people from risks without creating unanticipated side effects,” he said. “Our goals are to improve our sense of what the law is now doing — and to see how it might do better.”
Mr. Sunstein is also a regular contributor to The Chronicle Review, writing in recent years about the polarization of extremes fostered by the Internet; F.D.R.’s 1944 State of the Union address, which Mr. Sunstein called the greatest speech of the 20th century; and the importance to democracy of being exposed to multiple viewpoints. —Katherine Mangan
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