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Marin college presidents' shuffle This week College of Marin President Frances White announced her retirement at the end of the current school year - a year before her contract is scheduled to end.
Marin college presidents' shuffle
This week College of Marin President Frances White announced her retirement at the end of the current school year--a year before her contract is scheduled to end.
Al Gore crusades against global warming
The solution to climate change includes windmills, along with solar and geothermal energy, Gore told The Chronicle in an interview.
Preview: Barbara Ehrenreich in San Rafael
Y2K be damned. Since the dawning of the 21st century, Americans have become obsessed with the power of positive thinking.
Wesleyan to bring in two president candidates
30 for on-campus interviews. The candidates are Richard Hanson, president of Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa, and Fletcher Lamkin, an independent consultant in university financial management.
Music News: The Pandora Effect
LAST THURSDAY, Dominican University of California in San Rafael hosted a very different kind of town hall meeting.
Congressional Internship Program gets underway at Panetta Institute
Twenty-five college students arrived Sunday at the Panetta Institute for Public Policy to participate in the eleventh annual Congressional Internship Program, a semester long public service experience created and sponsored by the Panetta Institute.
11th annual internship program begins at Panetta Institute
Twenty-five college students arrived Sunday at the Panetta Institute for Public Policy to participate in the 11th annual Congressional Internship Program, a semester long public service experience created and sponsored by the Panetta Institute.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea Film Screening at Dominican...
The National Parks: America's Best Idea Film Screening at Dominican University of California on September 17, 2009 Date: September 10, 2009 Contact: John Della Osso , 415-464-5135 On Thursday evening, September 17 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes National Seashore Association and Dominican University of California ...
Julius Caesar: Barry Kraft plays the title role, Jay Karnes plays Brutus and William Elsman is Mark Antony in Marin Shakespeare Company's season-closing production of Shakespeare's historic drama of tyranny, rebellion, assassination and its messy aftermath.
Dominican honored for Katrina assistance
Dominican University of California is one of 637 colleges to be honored Saturday as the Loyola University of New Orleans class of 2009 dedicates a sculptural bench to pay tribute to schools that took in displaced students in the semester after Hurricane Katrina.
New term brings Dominican University increased freshman enrollment
On Monday, the first day of class, students crowd the computer section of the library at Dominican University in San Rafael.
Theater review: 'Twelfth Night' 1960s remix
Twelfth Night, or All You Need Is Love: Comedy. By William Shakespeare. Adapted and directed by Lesley and Robert Currier.
"What's the resemblance between the illegal art trade, the funding of terrorism by charities and smoking pot in a Dutch coffee bar?" Edgar Tijhuis, a criminologist who teaches at VU University in Amsterdam, paused and looked expectantly at a dozen students listening raptly.
I 'm no businessperson. Driven more by creativity and social justice values than profit-making urges, I have never been observed anywhere near the corporate ladder, and have no desire to attain rungs thereupon.
Today: Center Stage: Marin Shakespeare's "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Center Stage: Marin Shakespeare's "The Importance of Being Earnest" Posted 7/2/2009 5:00:00 AM The Marin Shakespeare Summer Festival features Oscar Wilde's witty comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest." It's the tale of the British upper classes that follows the follies of two young eligible bachelors when they court two young women determined to ...
College, yes, but not where these graduates had planned
Menlo-Atherton High School senior Rachel Brown had expected to be in Manhattan at this time next year as she finished up her freshman year at New York University, where she'd been accepted and had planned to major in English.
Find out more about Robert: Robert has more than 30 years of experience in interfaith relations, specializing in Christianity and biblical Judaism, particularly from a messianic perspective.
California vets' plans thwarted by semantic glitch
Scott Lowe enlisted in the infantry -- the "dirtiest job there is" in the Army, he says -- completing two Iraqi tours in which he dug up weapons caches, found improvised explosive devices and rounded up insurgents.
Catholic College Commencement Scandals Increase in 2009
In the Spring of 2009, at least 12 Catholic colleges and universities hosted scandalous speakers and honorees at their commencement ceremonies, according to The Cardinal Newman Society's annual review.
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