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officePatricia Paredes, M.A. Executive
Director Jim Conditt Assistant Director Lynn Prince Director
of Operations executive boardDr. Charles
Cotrell, Chair President, St. Mary's University Dr. Steve Kinslow,
Vice Chair President, Austin
Community College District Dr. Juliet Garcia, Immediate Past Chair President, The
University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College Dr. Max
Castillo President, The University of Houston - Downtown Dr. Ana
Guzman President, Palo Alto College Dr. Cary Israel President,
Collin County Community College District James Spaniolo,
J.D. President, The University of Texas at Arlington Dr. George
Wright President, Prairie View A&M University
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Texas Campus Compact Welcomes new Advisory Council
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 It is with great pleasure that we announce the
formation of The Compact's inaugural Advisory Council. The Council has been established to
serve as a consultative and advisory body to provide valuable input to The
Compact on matters related to its mission, objectives and goals, and
programming. The Council will
convene twice annually, here in Austin, providing advice on how to best attract
corporate participation and new member campuses, as well as how to enhance
existing programming initiatives and partnerships.
Congratulations to: Irene Arellano, Service Learning
Coordinator, Teaching, Learning &
Technology Center
Texas Tech University; Dr. Philip Cohen, Dean, Graduate School and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, The
University of Texas at Arlington; Dr. Terry Hockenbrough, Service
Learning Coordinator, The University of Texas at Dallas; Karen Meaney, Associate
Director, Teaching, Learning & Technology Center, Associate Professor,
Health, Exercise & Sport Sciences, Texas Tech University; Cynthia Medina, MSW, Director, Service
Learning & Volunteerism, Our Lady of the Lake University; Dr. Juan Munoz, Vice
Provost & Associate Vice Provost, Texas Tech
University;Barry Silverberg, President & CEO, TANO, Director, Austin Community College, Center for
Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations; Dr. Maria Perez Straus,
Ed.D.,Director of Instructional
Initiatives,Houston Community
College
System;Dr. Shirley Theriot, Director, The Center for
Community Service Learning, The
University of Texas at Arlington; Joe
Zavaletta, Esq., Director, Center for Civic Engagement, The University of Texas
at Brownsville and Southmost Texas College.
Patricia Paredes
M.A.
Executive Director
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America's Colleges and Universities Celebrate Earth Day
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 Yesterday, colleges and universities around the country held events
to commemorate Earth Day. Activities ranged from a student
sustainability fair at Colorado State University,
where students learned steps they can take to live a more sustainable
lifestyle, to organized tree plantings, recycling and clean-up
projects, and educational presentations on the environment and global
warming. A "Community Earth Day" was held at Loyola University Chicago,
where leaders and the general public from surrounding communities were
invited to campus in an attempt to raise awareness about environmental
problems while highlighting the environmental initiatives of local
businesses and organizations. At some institutions, such as Scottsdale Community College and the University of North Texas, Earth Day became Earth Week and was the occasion for week-long events.
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Links Facebook with Low GPA
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It was probably just a matter of time until someone, somewhere, found a
statistical correlation between the highly popular social networking tool,
Facebook, and lower grades. A pair of Ohio researchers found just such a
link, based on a survey. A pair of Ohio researchers presented their
research April 16 in San Diego at the annual meeting of the American
Education Research Association. They surveyed 219 students at Ohio
State University, including 102 undergraduate students and 117 graduate
students. Of the participants, 148 said they had a Facebook
account.
The findings: College students who use Facebook spend less time
studying and have lower grade point averages than students who have not
signed up for the social networking Web site. However, more than
three-quarters of Facebook users claimed that their use of the site didn't
interfere with their studies.
"We can't say that use of Facebook leads to lower grades and less
studying-but we did find a relationship there," said Aryn Karpinski,
co-author of the study and a doctoral student in education at Ohio
State.
The report underscores the age-old distinction between correlation
and causation:
"There may be other factors involved, such as personality traits,
that link Facebook use and lower grades," she said. "It may be that if
it wasn't for Facebook, some students would still find other ways to
avoid studying, and would still get lower grades. But perhaps the lower
GPAs could actually be because students are spending too much time
socializing online."
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University of Texas Receives $30 Million Challenge Grant From Gates Foundation
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The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences has announced a $30 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Awarded as part of a $120 million capital campaign, the grant will
help fund construction of a 234,000-square-foot complex featuring
state-of-the-art laboratory space, classrooms, faculty and graduate
student offices, a two-hundred-seat lecture hall, and some two dozen
discussion areas and seminar rooms. Research on issues including
climate change, genetics and DNA, safer and more fuel-efficient cars,
and cybersecurity will benefit from "research clusters" throughout the
building - large collaborative laboratories surrounded by faculty,
graduate student, and visiting researcher offices. The building complex
will be named the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex in
honor of the gift.
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Sincerely, 
Lynn Prince,
Director of Operations,
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