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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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December 1, 2008
Australian Composer Wins U. of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music
Brett Dean, an Australian composer, has won the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the university announced today. The award, which is given by the Grawemeyer Foundation, carries a cash award of $200,000.
Mr. Dean, who is artistic director of the Australian National Academy of Music, was honored for “The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” a four-movement concerto for violin and orchestra that was commissioned by symphony orchestras in Stockholm and Cologne, Germany. The composer conducted its premiere in 2007 in Cologne.
The Grawemeyer awards, created in 1984 by Charles Grawemeyer, a University of Louisville alumnus, honor creative works and ideas in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Winners in the other award categories — education, improving world order, psychology, and religion — will be announced later this week.
More information about the Grawemeyer Awards and Foundation can be found on the organization’s Web site. —Charles Huckabee
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