Life News (Education)

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A list of Spring 2000 commencement speakers at several colleges and universities across the nation.

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United States Congresswoman Diana DeGette, a 1979 Colorado College alumna, will speak during Colorado College's 2000 commencement ceremony scheduled for Monday, May 22, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on campus.

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Helen Thomas, White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, will deliver the commencement address for the University of San Francisco's College of Arts and Sciences on May 19.

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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Commencement 2000, May 13.

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United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, will give the address May 20 at Southern Methodist University's 85th annual commencement ceremony.

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John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., a leader in Internet networking, will deliver Wake Forest University's commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 15.

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Herbert W. Boyer, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who co-founded Genentech, Inc., the company considered the pioneer in the field of biotechnology, will be the main speaker at the University of Pittsburgh's 2000 commencement ceremonies, April 30.

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Geraldine Laybourne, the CEO of Oxygen Media and among the most prominent women in both the management and creative sides of media in the U.S. today, will deliver Vassar College's 136th commencement address on Sun., May 21.

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Kevin O'Connor, CEO and co-founder of DoubleClick, the world's first web advertising network, will speak at the Spring Commencement of the University of Michigan College of Engineering on Sat., April 29.

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The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi A. Annan, will be the principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame's 155th Commencement on Sun., May 21.

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Legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite, award-winning actress Julie Andrews, and underwater explorer Robert Ballard will be among the speakers for the 2000-2001 season of Southern Methodist University's Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series.

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Gerard 't Hooft, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, will present "A Confrontation with Infinity" at Boston University's Metcalf Science Center on Tues., April 25, 2000.

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Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, will deliver the commencement address at her alma mater, Agnes Scott College, on Saturday, May 13, at 9:30 a.m.

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The first clearing house for information and research on early childhood education will be housed at Ball State University.

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A textbook by Purdue professors borrows a page from dimestore romances to teach basic economic principles; "Life, Love and Economics" follows two college graduates and the economic decisions they make as they meet, marry, take jobs and raise children.

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Members of the Purdue Students Against Sweatshops have agreed to end their hunger strike, and the university has agreed to undertake provisional membership in one or more sweatshop monitoring groups by Sept. 30, provided the organizations meet certain criteria.

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Michele Tolela Myers, President of Sarah Lawrence College, offers opinion and insight into the recent trend of distance learning and "e-education" programs, as proposed by Michael Milken and Michael Saylor.

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The "math wars" will come to a head next week at the National Council of Teachers of Mathmatics conference with the official release of the revised "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics," an updated version of the 1989 reforms.

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To better prepare tomorrow's environmental decision-makers, the New England Aquarium is hosting a one-day workshop for law students to train them to make sound ecological choices and establish solid legislation, based on evaluating balanced scientific information.

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Having computers in their residence hall rooms has provided academic and personal benefits and made them the envy of their friends at other universities, say Ohio University freshmen.

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More than 125 Ohio Wesleyan students spent their spring break participating in seven community service trips all over the world, building homes for the needy, visiting homeless shelters, and working in teenage daycare centers.

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Go to college in Illinois. Collect $590,000. That's how much more a bachelor's degree at an Illinois college or university provides the average student over a lifetime compared with the earnings of a high school graduate, according to a University of Illinois study.

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Even as March Madness reaches its climax, two Arkansas sociologists report that universities with highly successful basketball programs experience reduced graduation rates as a result of their athletic prowess.

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One of the country's most highly regarded and longstanding women's studies programs turned 25 this year; the program, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is home to some of the country's most outstanding scholars.

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A new series of virtual study guides, produced and published by educational service www.thinkwell.com, are web-based interactive textbooks, which offer complete courses on pre-calculus, college algebra, and calculus.

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A nationwide program to keep at-risk children out of trouble -- Families and Schools Together -- has cut a swath of success through the tangled thicket of poverty, drugs and social isolation.

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The 10th Annual Purdue University Bug Bowl on April 15 and 16 will be filled with as much action, including cricket spitting and roach racing, as a Boilermaker football game.

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Students in Cornell's School of Hotel Administration take over every aspect of the world's oldest and largest teaching hotel, Hotel Ezra Cornell, where they wine, dine, house and cater to some of the biggest names in the hospitality industry.

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Geography students at Colgate University help U.S. Census officials cover a seven-county expanse with 6,200 square miles, 144 cities and towns, four national halls of fame, and one American Indian Reservation for Census 2000.

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The National Association of Social Workers, Maryland Chapter, has selected Gust Mitchell as Social Worker Educator of the Year; it has also selected Pamela College as the Social Work Student of the Year.

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Deborah Daro will deliver the 10th Louise Ranier Makofsky Lecture in Child Welfare, and Myra Hettleman will be honored with the 10th Annual Louise Ranier Makofsky Award in Child Welfare.

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Female engineering students start out in college less confident than their male peers, according to a recent Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network survey.

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Smith College panelists will join stand-up comic-turned-talk-show-host Bill Maher in staging a mock version of "Politically Incorrect," in order to discuss race relations, multiculturalism and campus diversity.

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Cornell students will spend their spring break (March 23-25) stabilizing the isolation ward, a neglected, historically important, building on the island between lower Manhattan and Jersey City that once was the gateway to America for millions of immigrants.

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University of Wisconsin leaders said they were pleased with the Supreme Court's decision that public colleges and universities can use money from student fees to finance the campus groups of their choosing.

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Eighty-one percent of parents with children in elementary, middle and high schools want their kids to receive daily physical activity, but only 44 percent of them are receiving it, reports a survey commissioned by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.

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Students learn about the many creative ways women balance work, family and life through a unique motherhood panel of real moms as a part of their women's psychology class at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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An average increase in stricter standards results in a 3 to 7 point jump in the high school dropout rate, equivalent to up to 65,000 more dropouts a year, report Cornell University and University of Michigan economists (Economics of Education Review).

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Bucknell engineering students are developing tests to help a fledgling York snowboard manufacturer produce better boards, including ones that may go faster and ones for certain groups of riders such as women.

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Edward Y. Hartshorne, a U.S. government official, is credited with helping to root out Nazi sympathizers from Germany's universities in the U.S. Occupied Zone following World War II.

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A national survey issued today finds that English teachers are not prepared to cope with the diverse students who make up the language arts classrooms across the nation.

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Colorado State University students are taking an unusual approach in the Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2000; the team has ignored a trend to use heavier, less-powerful, four-stroke engines and instead is sticking with an improved version of the century-old, two-stroke engine.

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A new approach to providing robotics and automation labs for students at remote sites is being developed by a WSU engineering professor; he can simultaneously deliver his WSU Vancouver laboratory course to students at the WSU Pullman campus and to Boeing students in Seattle.

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Science students at Connecticut College take a spring break research "TRIP" to Belize that's not a vacation; they will conduct research in rain forests and coral reefs.

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Unlearning incorrect information is a major step in improving learning, say two University of Illinois professors; before presenting new material, teachers should use a quick diagnostic probe to help locate hidden "icebergs" of misinformation.

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The first computer software that can convert voice commands into mathematical expressions has been developed by a Southern Methodist University professor; the software can recognize virtually all mathematical symbols and equations.

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Phillip Bowman, professor of urban planning and policy and African-American Studies, has been appointed director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Boston University's Institute for the Study of Economic Culture hosts "A Conference on the Uses and Misuses of Science in Public Discourse" (April 1 and 2), which will explore the role of science in keeping citizens informed as it covers topics such as failed drug policies, science in the courts, and how social sciences affect the family.

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University of Missouri-Rolla students are learning the same kinds of lessons on campus that corporate executives seek from such management gurus as Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey and Tom Peters.

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Jen Shillingford, Chair of Health and Physical Education at Ursinus, is hoping to create a ripple effect that will bring a new wave of female coaches into the world of girls' and women's sports.