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Education is Precious: A Profile of Dr. M. Lee Pelton Born in Wichita, Kansas, M. Lee Pelton, the 22nd president of Willamette University, received his undergraduate education at Wichita State University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1974, with a double major in...- Posted June 24, 2011
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Steve Harvey’s Books to Behinds Program It’s 8:15 on a foggy Thursday morning in L.A., and Steve Harvey, the morning disc jockey on The Beat 100.3, is riled. His customary honey smooth Southern style drawl has turned to an evangelist’s...- Posted June 23, 2011
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Caring Enough to Learn In 1997, the City of Little Rock hosted a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the integration of Central High School. Many of the locals voiced discontent and suggested it was inappropriate to revisit...- Posted June 23, 2011
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The Ron Brown Scholar Program In June 2001, as tens of thousands of college students across the nation receive a handshake and a diploma, fourteen especially remarkable young people will graduate from prestigious universities like Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Stanford...- Posted June 23, 2011
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Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and their Students Scattered across the deep south from Texas to Florida, a small group of distinctive institutions of higher learning have survived and prospered since the middle of the last century. Their stories tell of astounding...- Posted June 23, 2011
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Energy independence, jobs within reach Fuel prices got you down? Need a job? Well, prepare to unlearn everything you’ve learned about domestic energy production. Don’t ever let another green “warmer” tell you, “We can’t drill our way out of...- Posted June 23, 2011
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Taking the Temperature of Diversity in the Workplace You’ve probably never heard of a company called Johnson Controls. But it’s likely that a component on the seat or instrument panel of your car was made by Johnson, or that you’ve been inside...- Posted June 23, 2011
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Be Your Own Boss Consider a Career Owning Part of a Proven Concept as a Franchisee When considering career options, many of us know we’d like to be in business for ourselves but are unsure of exactly where...- Posted June 23, 2011
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Becoming an Employer of Choice However, in the new millennium, workers will change jobs and move into entirely different industries and careers an average of nine times. A nuclear physicist might open a modeling school. A kindergarten teacher may...- Posted June 23, 2011
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High Impact Diversity Training What is diversity about? Change? Work and family issues? Experience? Different points of view? Age? Assumptions? Race? Gender? Sexual orientation? Disability? Personal style? Orlando-Ward Associates, based in San Diego, with offices in New York...- Posted June 21, 2011