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Pulitzer Center 2013 Student Fellows Announced - The Pulitzer Center and its Campus Consortium partners are pleased to announce the nearly two dozen students selected to receive international reporting fellowships this year. The fellowship recipients will report on a range of global issues from around the world and be mentored by Pulitzer Center-supported journalists and staff over the course of their projects. The reporting fellowships are awarded to students who attend colleges and universities that are part of the Pulitzer Center's growing Campus Consortium educational initiative.. Depending on the arrangements with each educational institutions, one to two students are selected as fellows. A unique arrangement with the College of William and Mary incorporates a seminar in which up to a dozen students work on individual reporting projects, generally without a travel element.

Most of the students undertake their reporting during the summer, but several already have begun their projects. Catherine Schurz is a Guilford College senior studying criminal justice and political science in the pre-law program who undertook her reporting project in London in spring 2013. She is examining the case of convicted murderer Gary Dobson. Dobson was one of five suspects accused in the 1983 stabbing death of an 18-year-old black man by a group of white teenage boys in a racially motivated attack. The suspects were found not guilty. The High Court of the United Kingdom reversed double jeopardy in 2003, allowing two of the original suspects, including Dobson, to be tried twice for the same crime. Both were found guilty this time. From March to May 2012 Cate was an intern at the visiting center of Belmarsh Prison in London just months after the conviction.

Elon University senior journalism majors Kassondra Cloos and Rachel Southmayd completed their project in January 2013, reporting from an organic, sustainable farm in Cuba. Before the fellowship, Cloos interned for Al Jazeera English and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs in Washington, DC. One of her pieces from the Pulitzer Center reporting project was published in the Huffington Post. She is now has working at The Gazette in Colorado Springs. Southmayd has held senior reporting and editor positions at Elon's student newspaper, The Pendulum, and internships at The Coastal Point, 60 Minutes and the Cape Cod Times. She also freelanced for Delaware Beach Life magazine.

University of Chicago junior Yiqing "Linda" Qiu took a semester abroad to study in Botswana in spring 2013 and is now exploring the "Diamond-Cattle-Water Paradox." She will look into Botswana's water usage and management policies to examine a limited water supply faced by the country due in part to livestock production and its four profitable diamond mines. Qiu, an international and environmental studies double-major, is a news production intern at GabzFM and serves as news editor for The Chicago Maroon.

Among the students undertaking reporting during summer 2013 are two Davidson College juniors Jonathan Cox and Adrian Fadil. Cox is a political science major who will travel to Andhra Pradesh, India to report on the effects of a highly publicized Aarogyasri Public Health program that intends to make health care affordable for the rural poor. This trip will be his second to India. Cox also spent 14 years living in Romania and has traveled to Europe, Mexico, and Turkey. Fadil is a junior English major whose proposed a project will take him to the West Bank to report on the effects of Israeli occupation on Palestinian farmers. Fadil spent fall 2012 farming throughout the region. He also has spent time in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain, France, England, Egypt, and Cyprus.

Loyola University Chicago junior Shirley Coenen will trek south to Chile to report on the volatile relationship between the government and Chilean youth who are demanding change in their country. Coenen is an international studies and journalism double major and an intern at El Instituto Cervantes. She also is assistant news editor for The Loyola Phoenix and has written for USA Today College.

Senior Devon Smith studies history at Westchester Community College. She will report from northern Ireland, an area rife with tension and segregation, on conflict between religious communities and "peace walls" that physically separate these communities by religious belief. High Point University junior Henry Molski will be nearby to cover Scotland's debate over whether to secede from the United Kingdom. On September 18, 2014, Scottish citizens – from 16-year-olds on up – will vote on the issue. Molski, a communication major with a concentration in journalism, serves as a sports and organizations editor and staff writer for the Campus Chronicle and an admissions ambassador for the University. He is a Dean's List scholar, Presidential Scholar and treasurer of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

South Dakota State University graduate journalism student Melisa Goss will examine human trafficking in Cambodia, writing victims' stories as well as documenting the methods used to acquire slaves and current efforts to prevent this exploitation. Goss has a Bachelor of Arts in theology and philosophy from the University of Sioux Falls and has written freelance pieces for The Christian Century, Throne Publishing and BizNOW magazine. She has also spent time in South Korea.

Eleanor Klibanoff, a junior political communication major at The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs, will travel to El Salvador and Nicaragua to report on women's healthcare and the effect of the countries' abortion laws. After abortion was made illegal in 2006 maternal health has declined and the number of mothers under age 15 has risen 48 percent. Klibanoff has interned for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and for The Nicaragua Dispatch. She is a member of GWU's University Honors Program.

Nicholas Swyter, a sophomore at the University of Miami double-majoring in broadcast journalism and international studies, heads to Panama to report on the controversial construction of the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam. Flooding caused by the dam may displace more than 36,000 indigenous Ngobe-Bugle in the semi-autonomous region. Swyter has served as a MetroTV News intern in Indonesia and reported for the King's College of London international politics journal. He is a contributing blogger to the Huffington Post.

Brandice Camara is pursuing a master's degree in human development with concentrations in social justice and nonprofit management from Saint Mary's University in Minneapolis. She will journey to Guinea to study its state of maternal and child health, which is among the worst in the world. Camara will focus specifically on the Donka hospital in the capital city of Conakry. She writes that "newborns suffering from malnutrition, HIV, malaria and vitamin deficiencies crowd a small ward where one incubator is used to sustain the life of multiple babies, simultaneously." Camara works with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities and has served as program coordinator for Hands Across the World Catholic Charities La Cruz Community Program.

As the world's population continues to expand and bring with it larger economies, water rights issues, hydropower in particular, come to the forefront. On the banks of the Kosi River, between Nepal and the Indian border state of Bihar, conflict over rights to its water has dragged on for decades. Photographer Steve Matzker, who graduated from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in December 2012, will report from the Kosi during its flooding season. Matzker, who also earned a degree in liberal studies from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in 2003, is the 2013 recipient of the John H. White “Keep in Flight Award” and was named 2013 runner-up Student Photographer of the Year from the Illinois Press Photographers Association. Matzker will be paired for the reporting project with Jennifer Gonzalez, who also received her bachelor of science in journalism with a specialization in photojournalism from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in December 2012.

The Wake Forest University fellow, Jawad Wahabzada, plans to visit Rio de Janiero, Brazil to explore the 2014 World Cup-sponsored relocation efforts in the region and their effects, especially on children of the favelas, or shanty towns. Wahabzada has worked on documentaries in Afghanistan, India, and United States, including his project on child laborers, "Children of Kabul." His work has been featured on CNN International, CNN Heroes and NPR, and screened in film festivals in Canada, Russia, Denmark, Finland and the United States. Wahabzada is a senior studying communication, film production and religion at Wake Forest.

Three students – two from Boston University and one from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – will combine their international reporting projects with work at the Pulitzer Center's Washington, DC, office during the summer. Varsha Ramakrishnan, a master's in public health candidate at the Bloomberg School, is a physician from India who is majoring in health in crisis and humanitarian assistance. Her project will focus on dowry violence in India, with reporting from district hospitals in the states with some of the highest reported violence of this kind: Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. The two Boston University students will also undertake reporting projects focused on global health issues as part of their fellowships. Lusha Chen, a senior with a focus on broadcast journalism at the College of Communication, has had internships at UNICEF's media section in New York, WDHD-TV's public affairs/program services section in Boston, and China Central Television's "Insight Program"in Beijing. Kerstin Egenhofer, a graduate student in the School of Public Health, came to Boston University from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she received her undergraduate degree in anthropology along with a Five Colleges Certificate in African Studies.

As part of a pilot program, the Pulitzer Center is partnering with the University of Pennsylvania's Africa Center to provide support for two students' reporting projects this summer. Diksha Bali, a junior studying English (creative writing) and economics (operations and information management), will travel to Ghana through UPenn's Africa Center and report on issues related to the growth of rural communities, such as waste management. Bali has been a public speaking advisor at UPenn's Communication Within the Curriculum program and project implementation intern at The Student Leadership Project, a start-up at Kipp West School. Bali also has been a staff writer and general assignments reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. Luke Messac will spend time in Malawi reporting on the effects of health user fees at hospitals and health centers, especially on the rural poor. The country has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, but its ongoing economic crisis has helped to keep the debate over fees alive. Messac graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he was a Truman Scholar. He is working toward his MD/PhD in history and of science at UPenn. He is a Gamble Scholar and student editor of The New Physician, and he sits on the board of trustees at the American Medical Student Association.

Telling ‘Advantage’ for Chinese Applicants - Wake Forest University is launching a new programme for
Chinese high school students intended to help “bridge the gap” between the Chinese and US educational systems and provide students with “incontrovertible” video evidence of their academic readiness, which Wake Forest will send to college admissions offices on their behalf.

“Our notion was by going to the high schools and providing exposure to Western-style pedagogical
practices, we’ll both have a better sense of who’s applying, at least in some cases, and we’ll have a head start on integrating students once they’re here,” said Rogan Kersh, Wake Forest’s provost.

American colleges have struggled both with validating the credentials of the increasing numbers of applicants from China - the number of Chinese students in the US has increased by 139 per cent in five years, and the heavy involvement of agents in the application process has brought with it concerns about fake transcripts, essays and letters of recommendation - as well as with helping students adjust to American classroom practices once they arrive. Intensive English or pathway programs frequently cover acculturative academic content, such as oral presentation skills or citation practices, but Wake Forest wants to bring that content to Chinese students before they graduate from high school.

Ann Cunningham, an associate professor of education at Wake Forest, has spearheaded the development of what’s called the Wake Forest Advantage curriculum, which focuses on four core learning skills - academic research and inquiry, academic discourse and communication, exploring US college and university culture, and refining individual learning strategies - and emphasises collaboration and reflection.

Wake Forest has partnered with the company EdisonLearning, and will be offering the curriculum in several formats. It will offer a two-week intensive summer academy, taught by its own education faculty and teacher education alumni and students; it will employ and train local teachers to deliver the curriculum in an after-school setting; and it will train instructors at partner high schools to teach the content during the normal school day. In the latter case, Wake Forest enters into a financial relationship directly with the high school; otherwise, the 72-hour summer academy costs $1,500 (£970), while students who take a 90-hour after-school programme pay $2,500.

One key difference is that students in the after-school programme, but not the summer academy, produce a “digital portfolio” that Wake Forest will distribute directly to US admissions offices upon their request. The student-created DVDs will show the students engaging in common Western-style classroom practices – such as giving presentations, debating with classmates, and working in groups - as well as reflecting on those experiences. A team of school teachers in North Carolina will evaluate the videos, which will be placed in envelopes sealed with gold, silver or bronze stickers to indicate the students’ level of preparedness for a US classroom.

“Just having a course like this under their belt is going to be a good sign for a university admissions office,” Dr Cunningham said.

However, Parke Muth, a consultant and former director of international admissions at the University of Virginia, questioned the value both to students and to admissions officers given that the only evaluative grade is a colour-coded seal. “For $2,500, you get a star,” he said. “That to me just isn’t worth it.” By contrast, he said, a signed letter from a Wake Forest faculty member describing the student’s progress in the classroom would be much more valuable to admissions officers.

“This sounds like a really good money-making venture potentially,” Mr Muth said.

Professor Kersh, the Wake Forest provost, maintained that profit isn’t a main motive behind setting up the programme. “It’s much more important that we have a clearer sense of who these applicants are, and that we can at least in a small way help prepare them for the very different college and university experience in the US. If it winds up being more lucrative than we imagine that certainly would be nice, but that’s not what we’re modelling or expecting,” he said. The programme has been piloted at the Dulwich College International High School Programme, in Jiangsu Province, China. The intensive academy will be run for the first time this summer and Wake Forest hopes to enter into partnerships with up to five high schools this autumn.

“These [types of] programmes really are designed to ensure student success,” said James Cross, associate provost and senior international officer at Champlain College, in Vermont. Champlain also has a presence in Chinese high schools: it offers a one-year bridge programme at Datong High School in Shanghai which focuses on English language skills and American classroom and university culture. Students are granted conditional admission to Champlain pending successful completion of the programme.

“There are other benefits to this – branding and the like. But more Chinese students do want to come to the United States, and those schools that want to accept them want to make sure they’re quality students who can be successful in the classroom. That really is the bottom line,” he said.
Source : www.timeshighereducation.co.uk

Why Students lag in financial literacy - The Wall Street meltdown of 2008 and the ensuing recession did little to help make high school seniors In real terms, that might mean that students might have difficulty understanding the impact of a poor credit rating, the relationship between consumer spending and higher unemployment or how inflation can eat away at pay raises.
Students’ scores of economic literacy changed little between 2006 and 2012, suggesting that the national discussion about the millions of jobs that were lost and homes that were foreclosed didn’t translate to

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Internship Hunt, Students choose Boston for Jobs - Due to the various types and sheer number of
internship opportunities in Boston, students come to the city to get a taste of their desired careers.

“There’s a great number of schools in the Boston area [and] there are many fine employers looking for the best talent,” saidJames French, assistant dean for career services at the Boston University School of Management. “We have an excellent relationship with the companies in the area, but also across the country and across the world, and employers know the quality of our students and are very much attracted to them.”



French said in the BU Feld Career Center, he helps connect students with business internships in the city. (see HERE)

“In the past 12 months, 230 employers have visited us to meet our students,” he said. “They’ve posted over 1,600 jobs and some of those are internships and others become permanent jobs.”

Cesare Grieci, manager of staffing and employee relations at American Students Assistance, said ASA started seeking younger interns who could provide more insight on how students are dealing with educational loans and debt.

“In the beginning we started hiring the upperclassmen who were toward the end of their college years,” he said. “But we found that we weren’t giving ourselves enough exposure to the people entering into school.”

French said students who get the best internships have high academic standing but also know how to interact in social situations.

“Being very prepared for interviews, knowing how to interact with a potential employer, knowing how to behave and how to be productive all show that you can add value [to the company,]” he said.

Some students said they came to BU specifically for its internship programs and opportunities.

Morgan Perry, a College of Communication junior, said she transferred to BU because there were several internships in the city for her major. (see HERE)

“I was attending school at the University of Pittsburgh and realized that there were not as many opportunities for internships in my field there,” she said. “Not to mention that [BU has] one of the best communication schools in the country.”

Perry said she completed two internships and plans to intern for Digita in Boston this summer.

“My internship at Digita was really competitive to get, but my two other internships were less competitive because they are smaller companies,” she said. “Getting an internship in Boston has been relatively easy, [so] long as you are persistent and not too picky.”

Chloe Conceicao, a College of Fine Arts sophomore, said her previous internship at Mazda helped her gain valuable experience in the workforce.

“It makes you take responsibility because you have to be there on time every day,” she said, “and you don’t leave until you get your work done.”

Source : dailyfreepress.com

Detailed Overview Kenyon College 2013 - Kenyon is one of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges, a small school where academic excellence goes hand in hand with a strong sense of community.We bring together 1,600 young men and women to study with nearly 200 professors on an exceptionally beautiful hilltop campus in central Ohio. Their curriculum is rooted in the traditional liberal arts and sciences, and enriched by interdisciplinary programs. We set high academic standards and look for talented students who love

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Collaboration is Key to School Success - The lack of diversity on the Abilene Independent School District’s board of trustees’ was frequently brought up by the community during the four-plus months the board took to fill its Place 7 vacancy.

With all six current board members being white in a district where 41.6 percent of its students are Hispanic, 40.2 percent are white and 12 percent are black, the need to address the ethnicity issue was pushed to the forefront.

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American Liberal Education (The Decline and Fall) - Liberal education once stood for something grand Conservatives have complained of this for decades, with little effect. A slew of books over the past 25 years have exposed what goes on in the ivory towers, from Allan Bloom's treatise "The Closing of the American Mind" to Dinesh D'Souza's polemic "Illiberal Education." But none had provided a careful, in-depth study of a single school until the National Association of Scholars (NAS) this week released its 360-page report "What Does Bowdoin Teach?"

and good: the study of the arts, humanities and sciences with the aim of improving the mind through the acquisition of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. But some of America's most elite colleges and universities have all but abandoned this goal. Instead, many selective schools favor the faddish, the politically correct and the dogmatic, all the while proclaiming their devotion to promoting "critical thinking" and tolerance.

Bowdoin College is a small private "liberal arts" school in Brunswick, Maine. Its admissions standards are demanding. Bowdoin accepts fewer than one in five who apply (though the school admits about a third of black and other "underrepresented" applicants to satisfy its commitment to "diversity"). The cost of tuition, room, board and fees for the school's roughly 1,800 students is hefty: $56,128 for the 2012-13 academic year, a sum that exceeds the annual income for half of all American households. (See HERE)

The school was founded in 1802 and boasts a distinguished cast of graduates, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and U.S. President Franklin Pierce. But as the report's authors, Peter Wood and Michael Toscano, demonstrate, Bowdoin is not the school it once was. Nor does it provide the education, I venture, that most parents who send their children there believe they are getting, nor one most donors to the school's nearly $1 billion endowment would approve.

Bowdoin requires all freshmen to take a first-year seminar, which is supposed to provide the gateway to the "critical thinking" skills the college purports to value. Among the 35 courses from which students must pick, easily half are either frivolous or, worse, tendentious exercises in identity politics. The titles alone tell the story: "Fan Fiction and Cult Classics," "Beyond Pocahontas: Native American Stereotypes," "Racism," "Fictions of Freedom," "Sexual Life of Colonialism," "Prostitutes in Modern Western Culture" and "Queer Gardens," to name a few. The latter course "examines the work of gay and lesbian gardeners and traces how marginal identities find expression in specific garden spaces." One can only infer that the college deems such knowledge a necessary building block to every student's intellectual development.

Wood and Toscano do more than catalogue the obvious excesses of the modern academy, however. Wood brings his training as an anthropologist to the examination of campus life and culture, painstakingly researching the college's records, including minutes of academic meetings, to reveal how Bowdoin's mission changed over the past 40 years. In a series of appendices and within the actual report, the authors document the decision-making process that has transformed Bowdoin into the school it is today. (see HERE)

The study also looks at the college's implicit promotion of sexual promiscuity and the "hook-up" culture among students, which begins during first-year orientation. A play called "Speak About It," which all incoming students must attend, includes what its authors say are autobiographical sketches from current and former Bowdoin students. The play depicts graphic on-stage sexual encounters between heterosexual and gay couples -- complete with simulated orgasms. Paradoxically, the Bowdoin community also seems obsessed with preventing sexual assault, which administrators seem to believe is rampant on campus despite the low incidence of reporting alleged attacks.

If Bowdoin were unique in its abandonment of traditional liberal education, this study might be of no more than passing interest. What the authors found at Bowdoin, however, exists to some degree at many if not most elite colleges and universities. This study deserves widespread dissemination and discussion -- first among Bowdoin's alumni, donors and the parents of current and potential students. But anyone interested in the future of higher education in America should take note.

Our colleges and universities shape the next generation of leaders and citizens, for better or worse. And the country's most elite schools will influence disproportionately who we become as a nation and a people in the future. What has happened to Bowdoin College should matter to all of us. Examiner Columnist Linda Chavez is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

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Programs foster Israel education in North America 2013 - An ​"Israel Throughout The Year" The eucalyptus tree tale is just one of the many stories that are the focus of a new curriculum developed by Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center for Jewish Education, with support from Dr. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz from Bal Harbour, Fla. As the 65th Israel Independence Day approaches, JNS.org takes a look at two recently launched programs, the Lookstein Center’s “Israel Throughout The Year” and the Israel Institute in Washington, DC, both of which work to educate and engage scholarship about Israel.

“I think there is a negative prejudice and attitude towards Israel in the press and in the universities,” Rabbi Yonah Fuld, educational director of the Lookstein Center School of Education at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, told JNS.org. Five years ago, the Lookstein Center “set out to create a curriculum” about Israeli history meant to be “charming and

program educational booklet. JNS.org looked at programs fosterin Israel education in North America for Israel Independence Day. Credit: Lookstein Center.

Israeli spy Eli Cohen worked for the Mossad in Syria, he suggested that Syrian soldiers plant eucalyptus trees near army fortifications in the Golan Heights. He told Syrian officials this would make Israel think the area was unfortified and would help Syrian soldiers stationed there survive the heat. Shortly after, he conveyed the locations of the trees to Israeli officials, helping the Israeli army know exactly where the Syrian bunkers were.

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Strategic Approach to Dealing Lith Education Budget Shortfall - Faculty, staff and students at With its draft Letter of Expectation from Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education in hand, the college knows its operating grant will be roughly $40.4 million, down from about $47 million last year.
Lethbridge College got a budget update last week at two town hall meetings.

At the town halls, people wanted to know how the college would balance its budget and whether it would dip into reserves. "We were clear about what our goal is, which is to submit a balanced budget to our board," said Paula Burns, president. The college will not be doing across-the-board cuts but will take a strategic approach to position the college in the new post-secondary reality. Burns said she couldn't yet say whether the budget cuts will mean job losses but that could happen.


Even before the letter arrived, Burns said the college was looking at its strengths and how it meets the need of the economy, both provincially and regionally. Her vision of the college is that it will be a leader in transforming the education system (see HERE).
"We are going to be a big part of the move toward whatever it's going to look like, which is very unclear at this point," she said.
Burns said she wasn't surprised by anything in the letter and added she believes there's plenty of room for consultation and for the college to provide leadership in defining itself and how it contributes to Campus Alberta.
Faculty at Lethbridge College are well aware of the possibility of job losses, even though that has yet to be finalized.
"It's very clear that administration wants to have a fairly collaborative process in which faculty members also contribute ideas to how the college could manage such a massive cut to their operating budget," said Rika Snip, president of the Lethbridge College Faculty Association.
The draft letters of expectation sent to all post-secondary institutions talk about reviewing the programs being offered to build on existing institutional strengths while advancing the Campus Alberta system and offering programs that employers and students want. The letters also talk about reducing program duplication.
"We're a comprehensive community college. As the system moves to creating these specialized centres and trying to reduce duplication they're also going to reduce access for students because there are going to be fewer programs, students are going to have to move. It will be more competitive because there will be fewer programs," Snip said.
Faculty also have concerns about the consequences of the budget cuts.
"It seems to me the government has decided that the professions are all too highly overpaid and particularly college administrators are too highly paid so we can darn well take a cut. What it means, though, is that the cut will be carried by particularly casual faculty and programs that are small," Snip said.
Casual faculty have no collective agreement and program cancellations could lead to further job losses.
"For those who remain the implications suggest that we will have larger classes and that faculty therefore will be forced to figure out ways to manage their workload with a higher student load," she said.
Snip said faculty are feeling generally disappointed in the government that, on the one hand, wants post-secondary institutions to educate people for the workforce and the economy but, on the other, doesn't want to pay for it.
The Lethbridge College Students' Association also came forward with concerns about the Letter of Expectation (see HERE).
"The thing with these mandate letters is once they're signed it gives the government a lot of leeway in making these decisions, possibly to the detriment of students," said Dillon Hargreaves, LCSA president.
The LCSA doesn't support the government's intentions for the post-secondary education system. Hargreaves said the government will be evaluating programs offered and deciding what programs will be offered where. And if students have to leave home anyway Hargreaves predicts they'll head right out of province.
Source : www.lethbridgeherald.com

First Female Hispanic to Chair APCEF - The American College of Prosthodontists announces that its American College of Prosthodontists Education Foundation (ACPEF.) David A. Felton, D.D.S., M.S.D., F.A.C.P., will serve as Vice Chair. Dr. Garcia was confirmed as the new Chair of the Foundation at its February meeting effective immediately, with a term through February 2014.
Immediate Past President Lily T. Garcia, D.D.S., M.S., F.A.C.P, has been confirmed as Chair of the

In addition to serving as Chair ACPEF, Dr. Garcia was appointed Chair-Elect of the Board for American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and is the recipient of the 2012 Hispanic Dental Association (HDA) Women’s Leadership Award. Dr. Garcia is Professor of the Advanced Education and External Affairs in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (see HERE). An accomplished author, Dr. Garcia has published numerous articles and abstracts. She has edited several dental textbooks, served as a reviewer and editorial board member for several scientific journals, and co-authored the text Osseointegration and Occlusal Rehabilitation. Dr. Garcia is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and Fellow of the ACP. Dr. Garcia maintains a practice limited to prosthodontics. Dr. Felton is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Prosthodontics.

The ACP is the only prosthodontic specialty organization whose membership is based solely on education credentials. ACP members must be in or have completed an ADA-accredited advanced education program in prosthodontics.

The mission of the ACPEF is to secure and steward resources with the aim of advancing prosthodontics. As a catalytic agent for prosthodontics, the ACPEF provides funding to support education, research and growth of the specialty and discipline of prosthodontics.

The American College of Prosthodontists is the professional association of dentists with advanced specialty training who are the experts in the restoration and replacement of teeth to create optimal oral health, both in function and appearance including dental implants, dentures, veneers, crowns and teeth whitening. To learn more about prosthodontists and prosthodontic procedures or to find a prosthodontist near you visit http://www.gotoapro.org. The ACP is a proud sponsor of the Ad Council’s first oral health campaign in its 70 year history, the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives. The ACP is committed to educating the public about preventative, proactive simple habits honed early in life.

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University of North Carolina Sexual Assault Scandal Raises Questions About Colleges' Policies - Although research suggests that a quarter of college women will become the victims of sexual violence during the course of their education, very few cases actually make it to law enforcement's attention. The federal government's announcement this week that it will investigate complaints that a North Carolina university mishandled complaints of campus-based sexual assaults may be a sign that the traditional culture of silence surrounding rape on campus may be showing cracks.



USA Today reports that the U.S. Education Department will investigate a discrimination complaint charging that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill failed to respond properly to sexual assault cases on its campus. A letter from the Department's Office for Civil Rights notes that the decision to investigate "in no way implies that OCR has made a determination with regards to the merits of the complaint." The university says it will cooperate fully with the investigation.

According to The Huffington Post, five women filed the complaint in January, stating that UNC fails to provide assault victims with adequate resources or impartial hearings and investigations. They also claim the university pressured plaintiff and former Assistant Dean of Students Melinda Manning to underreport campus-based sexual violence cases. UNC has denied Manning's allegations and hired a consultant and former prosecutor to help reform its sexual assault reporting policies.

Another woman named in the complaint is Landen Gambill, the UNC sophomore who, according to The Washington Post, made national headlines last week after the institution threatened to expel her for "intimidating" her alleged rapist. Gambill reported her rape to the UNC Honor Court last spring, but the court questioned its merit because she did not immediately leave her boyfriend and because she was clinically depressed -- a point Gambill said was directly related to her abusive relationship. After the court dismissed her case, Gambill went public with her story, which led to the university charging her with an honor code violation. The incident inspired days of student demonstrations and, ultimately, the federal complaint.

College rape -- and the underreporting of it -- is a growing problem in the United States. According to The Washington Post, the University of Montana was recently investigated for allegedly failing to protect sexual assault victims, and Princeton University has come under fire for not publishing a survey that indicated nearly one-third of its female students had been assaulted in some way. A 2010 report from the Department of Justice found that one in four college women will be victims of rape before they graduate, and campuses with more than 6,000 students "average one rape per day during the school year." Yet fewer than five percent of these cases are reported to law enforcement by colleges.

That may be changing. Yesterday President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act into law. The Washington Post reports that the act includes a new piece of legislation called the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, which requires colleges to report all cases of dating violence, sexual assault or stalking in their annual crime statistics. Institutions are also required to provide victims with awareness programs and support services. Whether the new law will impact how colleges investigate and report sexual violence cases on their campuses remains to be seen.

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Here is the list of the Best Universities In Louisiana, United States :

Located in the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, has more than 11,000 students, of which 4% are foreigners from 100 countries. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various specialties. It has 11 academic divisions: College of Architecture, School of Business, School of Engineering, School of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, School of Social Work,

It is located in Hammond and has a student population of more than 14 people, among which stands out 1% of international students who use hosting services and advice. It also has more than 600 programs in the following academic departments: Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, Communication, English, Industrial Technology, Mathematics, Art, Theatre, Business, Management, Sales and Finance, Psychology, Psychology, Music, History, Political Science.

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Located in the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, has over 15,000 students enrolled, of which 1% are foreigners from over 40 countries. Among the services in its 645 ofercen academic departments are hosting plans for international students, scholarships, work and special counseling. It has the following colleges: Management (Accounting, Finance, Management, Sales, Hotel Management, Tourism, Master in Business Administration, Management and Sales), Education, Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Marine, Electrical); Arts (Antroplogia, Drama, English, Communication, Languages, Geography, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology), Science (Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, Physics).

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Phone: +1-504-280 6000
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Great Tips Study In USA 2013 - If you are planning to study in USA be prepared to have an experience of a lifetime.  USA is the land of opportunities, because of its cutting-edge technology, mega bucks and for life, as you want it to be.

A US education is like a coal mine investment which at the end yields you a high rate of profit for many many years. USA, an ideal destination for acquiring higher education offers a mind boggling range of universities with highly sophisticated and enlightening educational environments. Access to internationally renowned faculties makes them world leaders. An American education offers phenomenally
higher returns over one’s investment, not only economically but also socially and culturally.

Dr Mary Anne Saunders -Executive Director from Kent State University says

“USA offers a wide range of degrees which are globally recognized. Under "liberal arts philosophy" undergraduate degrees are quite flexible and vast number of academic options to choose from. For postgraduate and masters programs -Top University in US provide outstanding research infrastructure and facilities. The students get theoretical, practical and applied aspects of an area of study. The campuses are multicultural that prepare the students to be global citizens”.

Karan Barabde who pursued his Masters in Mechanical Engineering passed out from University of Southern California says “Professional guidance from my counselor helped me make my American Dreams come true”

According to 2012 Open Door’s Report - The number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by 6.5% to 764,495 during the 2011/12 academic year.

Financing a post-secondary education abroad is no easy task but fear not,as there are a number of resources to assist you . Over 20% of non-US students receive most of their academic funding from a US college or university through variety of programs. Many of them offer partial scholarships or full scholarships, fee waivers, graduate/research/teaching/student assistant scholarships etc.
International students also have the option of taking up well-paying campus jobs, working 20 hours a week on regular term and full-time during summer vacation. On completion of the course, students have the authorization to work for 12 months to 29 months known as OPT (Optional Practical Training) depending on their field of study. Good job opportunities will be available to students particularly with degrees in healthcare, teaching, business, finance, hotel management, accounting, technology, engineering, mathematics etc. as these are fields with great demand in a recovering economy.

Even after this if, your vote is not cast for a US education, here is the clincher, some Top University in US have started accepting 15 years of education over 16 years. These universities accept 15 years for study in the field of Business, Hotel Management, Psychology, Computer Science, etc. This not only benefits the student by saving time but also helps them start earning early.

If you are apprehensive that you have missed the bus, do not fret, for many American universities are still open for admissions to their fall sessions beginning August/September 2013. All you have to do is to prepare your documents well. It’s a good time for starting applications for fall 2013 (September) intake. An early application will help students to bag most of the scholarships available, which universities offer to lure talent and brains. It is a good time to visit your counselor to initiate this process.

Head to USA and harvest the best crop of the ongoing economic upswing. We are committed to earnestly and correctly guide you at each and every step to help you reach the destination.

Sushil Sukhwani
Director, Edwise