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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Sinclair board approves new budget
The Sinclair Community College board of trustees approved an operating budget on Wednesday, July 1. The $117 million annual budget meets the growing educational needs of the community while constraining expenses, according to college officials.
Recognizing Sinclair’s 15 percent enrollment growth for the year, as well as significant state budget challenges, the board adopted a restrained budget that results in a net increase in full-time personnel costs of only 0.4 percent, according to a media release.
Additionally, the board approved $2.2 million in special scholarship and student support for the coming year to further ease student economic issues. The board also initiated a new rainy day fund for use in what could be prolonged state economic strife.
“We know that more and more citizens are turning to us for help as they retool in this transitional economy, and we know that our employees are being asked to do much more to serve this increasing number of students with fewer resources,” said Kathy Hollingsworth, Sinclair board chair.
Employees were awarded a 1 percent across-the-board salary increase, according to the release.
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UD Rivers Institute receives $180,000 grant
The University of Dayton Rivers Institute received a three-year, $180,000 grant in June from the McGregor Fund to develop a new river leadership program.
The funds will support the development of a multidisciplinary curriculum to form civic leaders who are committed to the community, and good stewards of rivers and other natural assets.
The UD College of Arts and Sciences sought the grant on behalf of the Rivers Institute, an initiative to protect and preserve water resources. The institute is administered by the university’s Fitz Center for Leadership in the Community.
Coordinators plan to tap expertise from all academic areas of the university to focus on the Great Miami watershed and the Great Miami River in Dayton as assets that generate communal, economic, aesthetic and ecological vitality in the region.
The river system is “one of the region’s untapped assets,” said Don Pair, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The Rivers Institute and the proposed leadership curriculum can be key resources for re-energizing Dayton and addressing its economic needs, Pair said.
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Fleisch’s book going global
Good news just keeps coming for Daniel Fleisch, Wittenberg University associate professor of physics.
The best selling author received world-wide attention early this year when he traveled 700 miles on Christmas day to make sure a Canadian man, who had received a flawed copy of his book, received a new one in time to give as a present to his nephew.
Now the book is going global.
“A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations,” will be published in Korean and Chinese complex-language editions.
The English-language edition of the book, now in its eighth printing, has been a No. 1 best-seller in the areas of waves and mechanics, electromagnetic theory and mathematical physics, while it has also reached as high as No. 4 in the physics category on Amazon.com.
A Japanese version of the book was published in April.
“When I received a copy of the Japanese edition last month, I was humbled and gratified to see the amount of work that Cambridge Press and the Japanese publisher put into the translation of the text, equations and figure labels of my book,” Fleisch stated in a Wittenberg release. “To think that they’re about to go through the process again in order to make my book available to people in the most populous nation on Earth is truly overwhelming.”
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