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Murray State University is halfway through the spring semester and, MSU President Bob Jackson says, is looking forward to a semblance of normalcy on the horizon. He joins WKMS News Director Rachel Collins to chat about vaccines on campus, potential impacts of a Kentucky employee pension bill and the need for more federal stimulus funding.
Jackson noted on-campus COVID-19 vaccine clinics for university faculty, staff and graduate assistants are taking place this week, and more received the vaccine even ahead of those clinics. By the end of this week, he said, he believes most of the faculty and staff who wanted a vaccine will have received it. In light of that, he said the university is holding off on looking into policies regarding vaccine requirements for faculty, staff and students.
Jacksonville native first major female American diplomat
Tom Emery, Journal-Courier
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Kneeling before the tomb of a Danish war hero of 1895, Ruth Bryan Owen, first diplomatic minister of the United States, places a wreath and an American flag before the headstone of the patriotic shrine. The flag of Denmark flies overhead as a Danish Red Cross nurse (right) watches the ceremony.Getty Images Show MoreShow Less
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Eleanor Roosevelt is pictured with her house guest, Ruth Bryan Owen, the U.S. minister to Denmark, in October 1934 on the South Grounds of the White House. Owen is the daughter of William Jennings Bryan.George Rinhart | Corbis via Getty Images Show MoreShow Less
Wealthy UT-Austin alumni supporting Eyes of Texas threatened to pull donations, emails show
Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune
March 1, 2021
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The Texas Longhorns had just lost to rival Oklahoma for the third time in a row this time after a quadruple overtime.
The bruising loss was quickly overshadowed when then-Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger stood alone on the field for the playing of the university’s alma mater song The Eyes of Texas, a postgame tradition. The rest of the team, who typically stay to sing the song with fans at the end of games, had retreated from the field.
For many University of Texas at Austin students who had spent months protesting and petitioning the school to get rid of The Eyes of Texas, it was gutting to see the student leader seemingly taking a stand. (Ehlinger later said he was only lingering alone on the field to talk with coaches.) The song played to the tune of I’ve been working on the railroad was historically p
A real gut-punch: university professors protest funding cuts, added class loads in proposed pact
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Protesters gather outside at Southern Connecticut State University to call attention to a new contract between the Board of Regents and the professors that the professors say will harm students, cut funding and remove academic freedoms.Elizabeth Newberg
Students and faculty at regional state universities are calling on the Board of Regents to walk back recent contract proposals that, they say, threaten to gut the universities.
The proposals include larger class sizes, increased course loads and less department and library funding.
The proposals could also curtail academic freedom by making it easier to fire faculty and harder to appeal those firings, students and faculty said.
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