WCPO-TV (Ch. 9), Saturday, April 1
Featured Dennis Walsh (journalism) discussing a Web project he coordinates
that teams up high-school students from Summit Country Day and Cincinnati
Public Schools' Hughes Center. The students are creating a Web site that
highlights Cincinnati's link to the Underground Railroad. The National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center, both high schools, Miami and the Urban
League are co-sponsors of the project, which is funded by a grant from
Cincinnati Bell.
Dayton Daily News, Monday, April 3
Editorial about the dismissal of a sex-discrimination suit against Miami
University filed by student-athletes after the school cut three men's
sports says, if Athletic Director Joel Maturi wants to do his students--all
of them--a favor, he'll embrace the spirit as well as the letter of Title
IX. Other Ohio public universities who have complied have learned the
program imparts the subtle but crucial benefit to men of demonstrating what
they'll face in the work force and the world:a place that's increasingly
less male, not more so.
Dayton Daily News and The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, April 3
Ohio State, Cincinnati, Miami and Ohio universities have banned popular
music software from being downloaded onto computers connected to their
network systems because they say it creates traffic jams. Dayton Daily
News quotes Richard Little (university communications).
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, April 3
Officials at Miami University Middletown have announced that the campus has
joined with Miami University-Hamilton and three area cable systems to
broadcast "Workplace Essential Skills," a series of 24 half-hour programs
that teach basic communications and math skills and show viewers how to
apply for a job, into area homes. Quotes Rod Nimtz (assistant executive
director, Middletown campus).
Journal-News, Sunday, April 2
Expectant mothers get a full cardiovascular workout three times a week by
taking part in the Moms-in-Motion program at Miami University's
Recreational Sports Center. The classes are taught by Jackie Huff (water
fitness coordinator, rec center) and nurse Cheryl Moore.
And:
Arts column includes a talk by Edna Southard (curator, art museum) on "The
Art of Women," Canadian Brass performance at Miami Thursday, Stephen
Lippard presenting the Ritter Memorial Lectures, Stephanie Nash (music)
conducting concerts by the Men's Glee Club and the Choraliers, concert by
Miami jazz ensembles, open auditions for summer theatre productions and
Miami Poetry Slam, which is hosted by student affairs.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, April 1
This weekend, Miami University is producing Benjamin Britten's "Albert
Herring," a comic opera set in 1900 in a fictional English market town.
Quotes Pamela Fox (dean, School of Fine Arts), artistic director Mari
Opatz-Muni (music) and Judith Delzell (chair, music).
And:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam will speak on "The Culture
of Celebrity" at 9 p.m. Monday in Hall Auditorium.
The Middletown Journal, Tuesday, March 14
Column by James Ewers (student affairs) about the Middletown school
district being in a state of academic emergency says our schools can only
be as strong as we are and calls the community to take more responsibility
for the children and their achievements.
Dayton Daily News, Sunday, April 3
Arts column includes Canadian Brass performance, Hiestand Galleries exhibit
of paintings by the finalists in Miami University's first Young Painter's
Competition and "Through a Lens: The Photographic Image" exhibit at the art
museum.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, April 2
Calendar items for Canadian Brass (plus photo), "The House of Yes,"
Hiestand Galleries exhibit of paintings by the finalists in Miami's first
Young Painter's Competition and art museum exhibits.
Elsewhere in education:
Dayton Daily News, Sunday, April 3
There is a wave of faculty retirement hitting universities across the
nation and replacing the retirees is being complicated by the budget crunch
of the late 1980s and early '90s, in which many schools had to impose
hiring and promotion freezes.
The Cincinnati Post, Friday, March 31
The Cincinnati-based Scripps Howard Foundation, seeking to increase
diversity in American Newsrooms, has committed $2.3 million to be given
over five years to Hampton University in Hampton, Va. to develop its
journalism and communications program.
And:
Editorial about a new question on applications for federal tuition aid or
loans that asks if the student has ever been convicted of any illegal drug
offense says this question could have the effect of shutting down higher
education and vocational opportunities for the very students who most need
it. The question was added at the request of Congress, which is 1998
decided to withhold college aid, beginning in the next school year, to
students who have recently been convicted in state or federal court of
possessing illegal drugs.
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Faculty/staff newspaper: http://www.muohio.edu/report/
Electronic calendar: http://www.muohio.edu/calendar/
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