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Nominations are due no later than Friday,
Feb. 1. All nominations will be reviewed by the RAA Teaching Award Committee
and sent to the RAA Executive Committee for approval. Recipients will
be honored at the RAA's Annual Awards Dinner on Friday, June 7, 2002.
1/22/02
Environmental Impacts
To Be Examined in Town Hall Meeting
Carl McDaniel, professor of biology at Rensselaer, will moderate a town
hall meeting on the "Environmental Impacts of Population and Resource
Consumption" Feb. 4 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Assembly Hall, SUNY
Albany. The event is sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation and
Center for Environment and Population (CEP), with local cosponsors Campus
Action, Environmental Advocates of NY, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood,
and the Women's Studies Department at SUNY Albany. A discussion will
follow the presentation.
Contact Julie Starr at jstarr@nwf.org
or call (802) 229-0650, or go to
http://www.nwf.org/population/
unpopulationreport.html. 1/22/02
Lecture on Rising College
Costs
Concerned about the high cost of tuition at colleges today? Noted expert
and author Ron Ehrenberg will explain some of the reasons behind the
costs in a lecture titled "Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So
Much," on Friday, Jan. 25, at 3:45 to 5 p.m.
Ehrenberg, the Ives Professor of Economics
at Cornell University, explores the causes of this tuition inflation
in his book of the same title, drawing on his many years as a teacher
and researcher of the economics of higher education and as a senior
administrator at Cornell University. Ehrenberg discusses a wide range
of topics, including endowment policies, admissions and financial aid
policies, the funding of research, tenure and the end of mandatory retirement,
information technology, libraries and distance learning, student housing,
and intercollegiate athletics.
The lecture, sponsored by the Department
of Economics and the Division of Finance, will be held in Room 214 of
Amos Eaton. Light refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. 1/22/02
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