Vanderbilt opens $169M critical care tower
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 9:42 am
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is cutting the ribbon on its 11-story critical care tower today. The $169 million building has 141 new acute-care inpatient rooms and 12 surgical rooms will immediately house VUMC’s surgical intensive care, neurological intensive care and medical intensive care units.
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VU brings the value
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Vanderbilt checks in at 17th on Kiplinger.com’s latest list of the best values money can buy at private universities. It appears like one quick way the university could move up is to cut prices: Of the schools above it, only Columbia’s total cost (before financial aid) is higher.
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Tennessee’s booming private colleges
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 12:58 pmThe organization overseeing the private colleges and universities in Tennessee says their enrollment rose by almost 6 percent in the past year.
“This is an exciting time for TICUA institutions and students attending our member campuses,” said Dr. Claude Pressnell, Jr., President of TICUA. “In tough economic times, as the demand for higher education continues to grow, TICUA member institutions remain committed to educational opportunity and choice by ensuring that a quality education remains affordable to the citizens of Tennessee.”
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Meharry received $5.7M in stimulus funds
Posted on October 22, 2009 at 11:45 amMeharry Medical College has received $5.7 million in funding from the $4.35 billion made available by the National Institutes of Health through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The money will expand the school’s research on health disparities, including research on women’s health, cancer and HIV/AIDS.
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Belmont hires sports marketing director
Posted on at 9:41 am
Jimmy Frush is the new director of athletics marketing for Belmont University. Before serving as director of the Mustang Club for Southern Methodist University and holding various other athletics-related positions, Frush was a pitcher for the Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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A few more docs
Posted on October 21, 2009 at 7:18 amThere were slightly more medical school applicants and available first-year slots in 2009 than the year before, but the ratio of applicants to seats was flat at roughly 2:1, says the Association of American Medical Colleges. However, there were about 350 more first-year students in ‘09 thanks to some new schools and expanded programs.
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Lamar’s three-year plan
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 8:14 am
Tennessee’s senior senator says a year-round calendar would boost the efficiency of higher education.
At a university usually other than the faculty cost, the highest cost is the cost of the facilities. If you can get the cost of the facilities down, most educational institutions can operate very well.
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Fisk a good place for B/C students
Posted on September 25, 2009 at 12:14 pm
While the premise is very laudable, we’re not sure this is a list most colleges would want to be a part of: At a D.C. conference, Fisk was one of a number of universities lauded for their flexibility in working with high schoolers whose GPAs aren’t setting the world on fire.
“We do like the B-C students because they are the ones that are actually going to work harder because they feel appreciative that they’re able to get in a four-year college,” he said “So we make them aware of that, and make sure they work as hard to ensure that they stay.”
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Vanderbilt helps launch online science news channel
Posted on at 2:16 am
A group of university administrators has officially launched Futurity, a Web news station dedicated to scientific research news they say is being cast aside by most media organizations.
“Futurity is a direct link to the research pipeline. If you want a glimpse at where research is today and where it’s headed tomorrow, Futurity offers that in a very accessible way,” said Lisa Lapin, assistant vice president for communications at Stanford University, who helped develop the site. “Today’s online environment is perfectly suited for this type of direct communication.”
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VU investments spared worst of market crash
Posted on at 12:49 am
Vanderbilt investment chief Matthew Wright says his team ended its fiscal year down about 16 percent, some 12 points better than the S&P 500 did in the year ended June 30. Early this year, Wright said the torrid market action of last fall had sucked 16 percent out of Vanderbilt’s endowment, which includes other assets.
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Trevecca launches IT degree
Posted on September 16, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Trevecca Nazarene University this week launched a 17-month bachelor’s program in computer information technology. The course work will be split evenly between the classroom and online and students will meet once a week.
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VU political science chair dies
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 11:27 am
Neal Tate, a former University of North Texas professor who led the rebuilding this decade of Vanderbilt’s department of political science, has died.
Bruce Oppenheimer, professor of political science and acting department chair, said that Tate was simply a first-rate person and friend who demonstrated great leadership. “Neal contributed a huge investment of his time and effort the past six years to guide our department. For example, the number of political science faculty increased by two-thirds under his watch.”
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Former Belmont president dead at 95
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Herbert Gabhart, who led Belmont for more than two decades and has been a chancellor of the university since 1983, died this morning.
When he arrived at Belmont College in 1959, the school’s enrollment was 360 students. When he retired as president in 1982, Belmont’s student population had grown by 500 percent to more than 2,000. He oversaw a budget increase from $480,000 to $8 million, and the campus also saw physical expansion with the addition of nine new buildings, including the Massey Performing Arts Center, Wheeler Humanities building, Hitch Science building, the library, and more. Belmont also expanded academically by adding many majors and degrees, including music, nursing, business and more.
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FiledBy finds traction in Cambridge
Posted on September 9, 2009 at 2:23 pmFiledBy, the publishing promotion portal launched this past spring by a veteran of Ingram Book, has hooked up with England’s Cambridge University to set up sites for more than 100 authors from its publishing arm.
Tennessee’s booming education biz
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 11:03 am
As usually happens in a recession, colleges and universities around the country are seeing strong enrollment growth. Early numbers show that Tennessee’s higher-ed campuses are welcoming almost 19,000 more students than last year.
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