Journal-News, Monday, Jan. 31
As rapidly changing technology brings modifications in the way companies do
business, Miami University's Hamilton campus is working to help keep them
up to speed by offering a Business and Industry Center.  The center is a
component of the office of continuing education at the Miami Hamilton
campus.  Quotes Karen House (director, continuing ed and conference
services), director of the center, and Kathleen Weber (program manager,
continuing ed) and includes a photo of House and Weber at the center.
And:
With enrollment up from 2,673 students last fall to about 2,800 now,
officials at Miami University's Hamilton campus are focusing on how they
can react to the increasing number and needs of students.  Mentions Miami's
involvement with the learning center being brought to Union Township by the
Voice of America Project and says plans are in the works for a possible
expansion of the campus.  Quotes Jack Rhodes (executive director, Hamilton
campus).
And:
After spending the last seven years creating exhibitions at the Fitton
Center for Creative Arts, Nelly Bly Cogan is retiring.  Cogan got into arts
administration after she came to Oxford and took a job as an assistant to
Miami University's dean of the School of Fine Arts and then worked at the
Miami University Art Museum, developing programs for the Friends of the Art
Museum.  Mentions that Phil Joseph (art), then head of the fine art
department at Miami Hamilton, had organized the first two exhibitions in
the Fitton Center before Cogan came on board.

Journal-News, Saturday, Jan. 29
Four video productions by Miami University staff members have received
Communicator Awards.  All four videos were produced by Craig Rouse (media
productions).

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, Jan. 29
Claire Boge (music) received the E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award.
And:
Attorney and civil rights activist Morris Dees will speak on "Teaching
Tolerance" at Miami University Tuesday.
And:
Information about two new classes offered by Miami University's office of
continuing education.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, January 30
Civil rights lawyer Morris Dees speaks Tuesday at Miami's Hall Auditorium.
Free tickets are available 6-8 p.m. Monday at Hall.
And:
Calendar listings for Miami music department undergraduate artist
competition at 8 p.m. Wednesday; Sheela-Na-Gigs/Nancy Spero exhibit at
Hiestand Galleries; Salavado Dali, Off the Wall, Melvin Edwards and
McGuffey exhibits at the art museum; and lecture listings for Melvin
Edwards and Morris Dees.
And:
"Looking Ahead" list includes Feb. 25-27 performances of The Drinking Gourd
at Miami's CPA.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, Jan. 28
Television column mentions Rick Ludwin (alumnus), NBC vice president, when
talking about a proposed new series.

Dayton Daily News, Saturday, Jan. 29
"Around Town" column says 26-year-old Chris McGuire, a former Wright State
and Miami University basketball point guard, is the athletic director for
the Dayton Boys and Girls Clubs and, as coach of the flag football team,
took 16 boys who are 12 and under to the national championship game in
Orlando, Fla. where they won in the last seconds.

Dayton Daily News, Sunday, Jan. 30
Listing of Miami Hamilton continuing education courses.

Elsewhere in education:

Journal-News, Saturday, Jan. 29
Beginning Tuesday, Northern Illinois University will entrust eight students
from a Finance 445 class with $220,000.  The class is part of a new program
that allows students to manage the investment of a $20,000 gift from the
Treasury Management Association of Chicago along with $200,000 in NIU
Foundation assets.

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