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January 5, 2007
College news
WOOSTER, OH — The College of Wooster board of trustees has named an administrator at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, as Wooster’s next president. Grant H. Cornwell, vice president and dean of academic affairs at St. Lawrence, will assume his new post as Wooster’s 11th president on July 1. He will succeed R. Stanton Hales, who is retiring after 17 years of service to the college, including 12 years as Wooster’s president.
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HASTINGS, NE — Hastings College associate professor of Religion and Philosophy Daniel G. Deffenbaugh has published a new book titled Learning the Language of the Fields: Tilling and Keeping as Christian Vocation. Released by Cowley Publications, the book is about a Christian view of ecology and environmental stewardship, connecting ecology with ritual and spirituality and community. A member of the Hastings College faculty since 2001, Deffenbaugh is a specialist in ecological theology and ethics and has authored many articles and book reviews on those subjects.
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Eckerd College has been recognized as one of PC Magazine’s 2007 Top 20 Wired Colleges. The technology publication teamed with The Princeton Review, a well-known test prep and educational services company, to find the nation’s most high-tech campuses. The list of top colleges was published in an issue of the magazine last month, where extensive profiles of the top 20 schools are available, as well as all 240 schools that completed The Princeton Review survey, which includes such Presbyterian-related schools as Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, and Centre College in Danville, KY. On the site users can also build charts to compare up to 10 schools, and view the original survey.
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CLARKSVILLE, AR — University of the Ozarks has announced a $2.96 million gift from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation of Fayetteville (AR) that will endow the maintenance and operations of the university’s Walker Hall, a 34,000-square-foot, teacher education and communications center that opened on campus in 2002. The new Walker Hall Excellence in Teaching Endowment Fund will provide a portion of the annual financial resources necessary to keep the high-tech facility in top condition with state-of-the-art technology and programming. A $7 million gift from the Walker family in 2001 funded the construction of Walker Hall.
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BRISTOL, TN — Elizabeth Lee Dollar, assistant professor of theatre at King College and chair of the school’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts was recently presented a Certificate of Merit for Directing by Region IV of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The certificate recognizes a faculty member for exemplary work in a production entered in the yearlong national theatre education program. Dollar was nominated for the award by outside respondents who last October judged a performance of the school’s “All in the Timing.” |
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