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January 8, 2008
College news
SAN ANTONIO, TX — Time magazine has named Trinity University football’s “Miracle in Mississippi” as the No. 1 sports moment in 2007. The miracle play took place in Jackson, MS, on Oct. 27 as the Tigers beat host the Millsaps College Majors 28-24. Trinity won the game with a 60-yard play — which consisted of 15 laterals — before junior wide receiver Riley Curry crossed the goal line for the victory with no time on the clock. The crucial win kept the Tigers in the race for the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title, which Trinity later shared with Millsaps. Listed in Time’s Top-10 Sports Moments section, the Trinity play beat out Barry Bonds’ 756th home run and the Appalachian State football upset of Michigan. Click here to view the Time article and a video of the play.
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Eckerd College launched an informational sustainability Web site recently. The site, “illustrates Eckerd’s commitment to both minimizing its ecological footprint and maximizing environmental awareness and green practices,” according to a press release on the school’s Web site. Eckerd's sustainable endeavors includes the Presidents Climate Commitment that addresses climate change; the hands-on, student-run recycling program; the participatory Yellow Bike program designed to increase bicycle use on campus and decrease automobile traffic; and the annual weeklong Visions of Nature /Voices of Nature environmental film festival. The sustainability site offers in-depth explanations of its green endeavors. Information will be updated regularly as campus initiatives are implemented.
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WAUKESHA, WI — Construction has started on a new 264-bed residence hall at Carroll College. The four-story, 66-unit residence hall at 324 W. College Ave. is being built by Clysmic Properties, owned by local developers William and Alan Huelsman and James Tarantino. The property is the site of the former Clysmic Spring, which operated during Waukesha’s famous Springs Era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Water from the spring was shipped to New York by tanker car, bottled and served in fine city restaurants. The dorm’s construction completion date is Aug. 1. Carroll students will occupy the building beginning in fall semester 2008.
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JACKSONVILLE, IL — Illinois College is among a select group of institutions chosen to take part in a pilot program designed to improve the way that math and science are taught to Illinois junior high and middle school girls. The three-year, $325,000 project comes in response to the Illinois Board of Higher Education’s No Child Left Behind initiative that will enhance the teaching techniques of mathematics and science teachers and student teachers. Illinois College received $40,000 in the first year of the program to implement a training program involving teachers in grades four-through-eight from six area school districts. The collaborative project is led by the Associated Colleges of Illinois and enlists six ACI member colleges and universities who are partnering with their local high-need K-12 schools. Illinois College faculty members Patricia Kiihne, Doris Robinson and Brent Yoder accompanied area middle school teachers to the initial program training session last month in Chicago. The program, Kiihne said on the school’s Web site, is a comprehensive response to two inter-related problems: the shortage of teachers equipped to nurture the math and science interests of girls attending high-need K-12 schools and the overall shortage of teaching professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. |
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