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Quality - (October 14, 2009)
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, like all educational institutions across the nation, is facing challenging budget prospects. How can we maintain academic quality and integrity during these budget challenges?
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Service - (March 20, 2009)
Service is the third responsibility of tenured and tenure-track faculty members – in addition to the teaching and creative/scholarly research functions that I addressed in previous blogs.
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Teaching - (March 4, 2009)
Professors teach and students learn (although many professors recognize how much we learn from our students and that's where our own "experience" comes in).
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Partnership with Oak Ridge will breed more success - (January 20, 2009)
Beginning this spring, The University of Alabama in Huntsville will welcome a team of professionals from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to their new office on the university's campus.
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Research and Scholarship - (January 8, 2009)
Within the UA System, the Board of Trustees recognizes the role of ongoing scholarly research by requiring that faculty salaries be broadly divided into 60 percent for teaching 20 percent for research and 20 percent for service to the institution and the profession.
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Wilson Hall Renovation - (December 12, 2008)
As you may have read recently in the Huntsville Times, the UA System Board of Trustees recently approved the go-ahead for the renovation of Wilson Hall and if you have been in the vicinity you'll know that this process is now underway.
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Campus Master Plan - (December 11, 2008)
One of the most important things for university to do is to ensure that it plans its future infrastructure needs carefully and coherently. We are approaching the end of our current 5-year master plan, and we have achieved almost everything that was laid out in that document.
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Research universities hold the key to Huntsville's future development - (November 3, 2008)
IntelCell recently introduced InQ, a precision instrument designed to increase the precision and consistency of cell growth in laboratory experimentation. This remarkable technology, which will change the way biological and medical research is conducted, was developed by Dr. Amy Bishop, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Then, the collective support of Biztech and the Huntsville Angel Network helped InQ get to market.
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Financial Impact in Current Fiscal Year - (October 26, 2008)
It is clear that the forthcoming academic year will bring yet more financial challenges for the university. Because of the recent national financial paroxysms, state income taxes and sales taxes will be less than last year leading to further budget cuts. Inevitably we will face proration as the state budget picture becomes clearer.
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Convocations and Commencements - (September 5, 2008)
For most of its 40 years of independent existence UAHuntsville was a commuter campus. Students drove to campus, took classes and left, as if it were a community college or effectively a post-secondary high school with grades 13-17
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What's happening with campus buildings? - (August 18, 2008)
Last year we opened the Shelby Science and Technology Center, which is now up to speed and offering the finest science classrooms, labs and enhanced research space.
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First Year Reflections - (August 5, 2008)
So I'm no longer the new president. I can't use that excuse any more. Many things have changed on campus in my first year and the changes will continue.
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Inaugural Remarks - (April 11, 2008)
Lets talk about the real reason we are here; the future of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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Higher Ed Day! - (March 12, 2008)
As a life-long educator, I realize there is not a more effective teaching tool than hands-on learning. This holds true with most any individual and any experience. It was quite true for me during a recent trip to Montgomery for Higher Ed Day.
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The role of athletics in a research university - (January 25, 2008)
I attended the NCAA meeting in Nashville, Tenn., in mid-January. No other event that I have attended as UAH president has brought together so many diverse people interested in the education of students: presidents from major and minor, public and private universities, current and past sporting icons, faculty representatives, athletic directors, student representatives and many others.
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Early observations about UAHuntsville - (July 16, 2007)
So I've been at UAHuntsville for a short period of time, most of the time listening to the thoughts of others as I meet with them to learn about this university, but I managed some time at the fitness center trying to work off the hours of sitting in meetings.
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