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Virginia College Cafe Closes At School In Mobile

After two years in business The Café at Virginia College has closed due to a lack of walk in business and because the campus at the Mobile Festival Centre needed more space, according to the school’s president.

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Press-Register

Working For The Common Good: Public Universities To Showcase Community Partnerships And Economic Development Initiatives

Fritz Erickson, Ferris State University’s provost, likes to joke that he could spend hours talking about an initiative at Ferris that aims to get Hispanic students from West Michigan to go to college.

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MLive.com

U Of Wisconsin Tries To Stop Plans To Redevelop Apartments Near Campus

UW-Madison is seeking to block a pair of property owners from razing two campus-area apartment buildings and replacing them with a single, larger apartment building, arguing the properties should be reserved for eventual university use.

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Wisconsin State Journal

U Of Central Arkansas, Higher Education Major Players In Local Economy

Further findings of the University of Central Arkansas’s recent economic impact study indicate that higher education institutions are powerful players in local commerce.

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Log Cabin Democrat

Study: U Of Central Arkansas Turns $1 Into $5.30 For Grads

A University of Central Arkansas graduate will receive a cumulative $5.30 in higher income on each dollar invested at the school, a recent study indicates.

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Log Cabin Democrat

Greater Miami Chamber Honors Miami Dade College President

Miami Dade College’s president started there as a student and rose through the ranks. He has built the college into a model hailed by U.S. presidents.

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The Miami Herald

Hopkins President: University Has Moral Obligation To City

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels told the Baltimore Development Corp. board Thursday that the academic powerhouse has a moral obligation to "share our bounty" with the city.

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The Baltimore Sun

Speed Puts Community Colleges Front And Center

Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Co. is a high-tech job shop, crafting super-precise parts for machines used in everything from robotics to aerospace to oil exploration. Macomb Community College lies a few miles down the road in this Detroit suburb.

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AP via The Boston Globe

Scoring Big With New Football Teams

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In an era when many schools are dropping team sports, a growing number are bucking the trend by taking to the gridiron.
Ron Schachter
University Business, March 2012

The University of Texas at San Antonio campus is dominated by modern cream-colored buildings with dark red tile roofs and acres of parking lots, testimony to 40 years of serving largely as a commuter school for students from the surrounding area.

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