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UC approves plan for furloughs, other cuts
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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University of California leaders on Thursday approved a furlough plan aimed at reducing the effects of $813 million in state budget cuts. The Board of Regents voted 20-1 to force more than 100,000 employees to take up to 26 unpaid days by Aug. 31, 2010.
Tags: UC Board of Regents, UC Berkeley, University of California Regents, honorary degrees, pay cut, world war, regents voting, war ii, awarded honorary, million budget
Microsoft couple are awarded honorary degrees
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Bill Gates was awarded an honorary degree at Cambridge University yesterday in recognition of his work as a philanthropist and businessman. The Microsoft chairman â believed to be the world's richest man with an estimated fortune topping £20 billion...
Tags: Cambridge University, University of Cambridge, Billionaire Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation, honorary degrees, honorary doctors, Melinda Gates, gates foundation
Hillary Rodham Clinton surprises Yale graduates
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Graduates celebrating commencement at Yale erupted in cheers as Clinton was introduced. In keeping with Yale tradition, the names of honorary degree recipients are a closely held secret, although word began trickling out Sunday of Clinton's participation.
Tags: Yale University, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, honorary degrees, received honorary, alma mater, law school, Christopher Buckley
Obama heads West for Arizona commencement
Asu :: India | 6 months ago
Credibility White House aides say Obama will note the great opportunities the graduates have, and talk about the importance of being involved in their community after they leave school. While some 9,000 students will collect diplomas, Obama won't. University officials...
Tags: Barack Obama, Obama Urges Graduates, Obama Welcomed, Arizona State University, honorary degrees, presidency barack, ASU Graduates Have, presidency obama, commencement address
Winfrey collects honorary degree, speaks at Duke
Durham :: NC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Oprah Winfrey urged graduates at Duke University's commencement to "stand proudly in your own shoes while you help others stand in theirs." Winfrey also collected an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the university in Durham, N.C., on Sunday.
Ashcroft's honorary degree protested at Mo. campus
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility A Missouri university's decision to award an honorary degree to former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is drawing protests from some students and faculty members. Ashcroft will receive the award and deliver the graduation speech Saturday at Truman...
Tags: honorary degrees
Chicago Tribune: Catholic response
South Bend :: IN :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Catholic response Countless editorials, articles and comments regarding the overwhelming Catholic response to President Obama 's untimely invitation to give the commencement address to and receive an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame have...
Tags: Catholic New World, Catholic Church, University of Notre Dame, Barack Obama, honorary degrees, catholic response
ASU naming scholarship after Obama
Asu :: India | 7 months ago
Credibility Arizona State University will name a scholarship program for President Obama, who will address graduating seniors next month, school officials said Saturday...Crow, sought to defuse the controversy that enveloped the campus over whether the U.S. president...
Tags: Barack Obama Scholars, Arizona State University, scholarship program, Michael Crow, honorary degrees, ASU, president obama, naming scholarship, president barack, asu naming
Washington gives degrees to WWII students
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The University of Washington presented honorary degrees to 450 Japanese-Americans whose college careers at the school were cut short by World War II. Former Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta said in the keynote speech Sunday it was "never too late...
Tags: University of Washington, honorary degrees, Seattle Times
Interned Coeur d'Alene man gets UW degree
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Idaho — Norman Sato doesn't harbor bitterness about what happened to him and his family in 1942. He doesn't complain about being forced to leave college, his home in Seattle and surrender pretty much all his belongings during World War II. But he didn't...
Tags: world war, war ii, honorary degrees
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