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College Executives Advocate Cost Containment, Public Support
College executives urged more support for public colleges and universities as well as innovation and cost containment for all higher education during a debate at the National Press Club on April 27. William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, opened by agreeing with the debate proposition, “The business model of higher education is broken.” Higher education is not meeting the nation’s need, he said, because the proportion of young adults with two- or four-year degrees is still the same, 39 percent, as it was three decades ago. The country needs to raise the proportion…
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Weiner Public News Joins 5K as Sponsor
Weiner Public News has become a sponsor of the National Press Club's Beat the Deadline 5K. The 5K Committee would like to thank Club member and loyal 5K runner Robert Weiner for his generosity and looks forward to seeing him cross the finish line on July 17! Here is recent coverage of the race: Washington Examinerhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/It_s-bee… Policitohttp://dyn.politico.com/click/index.cfm?cat=23 Want to add your name to the growing list of 5K sponsors? Contact committee chairwoman Jessica Brady at [email protected] .
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Bankers Assn., BB&T, Weiner Public News Sponsor 5K
The American Bankers Association, BB&T and Weiner Public News are the newest sponsors of the Club's 5K. The Beat the Deadline 5K, the Club's annual race, raises money for the diversity scholarship and the training programs of the Club's nopn-profit arm, the Eric FriedheimNational Journalism Library. If you are interested in adding your name to the list of supporters, please mail 5K Committee Chairwoman Jessica Brady at [email protected] .
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Women Serving on Submarines Is Right, Says Navy Secretary
Assigning women to serve aboard submarines “is absolutely the right thing to do -- and it's going to make us a better Navy,” said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus in a Luncheon speech April 30. The former Mississippi governor and U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, soon to observe his one-year anniversary in the Navy's top civilian post, made the remark on the day the service began selecting the first group of women to perform submarine duty. Although the Navy announced its intention to lift the ban on females in submarines in February, Congress had until April 30 to intervene. Noting that the Navy has…
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Panel Discusses Emerging Climate Science Challenges
The nascent science of climate geoengineering must get federal funding to increase its credibility as a solution for addressing global warming, a panel of experts said at a Newsmaker press conference April 16. Geoengineering refers to the intentional manipulation of the Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming. House Science Committee staff member Chris King, journalist/author Jeff Goodell and Sam Thernstrom. head of AEI's geoengineering project, detailed challenges facing the issue. Thernstrom posed six questions. The questions looked at what geoengineering is, why it…
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Cook Has an Artist's Eye
With a pepper in her left hand, Violeta Urteaga deftly goes to work with her pairing knife. A few moments later, a tulip emerges ready to join a color-rich display aimed to whet the appetite of luncheon guests at the National Press Club.Urteaga has worked for nearly eight years at the Club preparing salads and cold-cut platters for the restaurants and banquet services that have been praised by members and guests for their aesthetic appeal. Urteaga's creative eye and skilled hands turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, according to Executive Chef Susan Delbert. "The roses she carves from…
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Levin Stresses Middle Class Benefits in Tax, Trade Policy
New House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin, D-Mich., said he is focusing on the middle class as he leads the panel in formulating tax and trade policies. One of the major items on the committee agenda is addressing tax cuts approved during the Bush administration that are set to expire this year. As Congress begins those talks, Levin hopes to help Americans that he asserts President George W. Bush left behind. Levin told a luncheon April 19 that people in the top 1 percent of earners garnered two-thirds of the increase in national income during the last economic expansion, from…
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Club Welcomes 24 New Members
The Board of Governors approved 24 new member applications at its meeting on Monday, April 19. Active:Misha McK - Misha & Friends Media, Inc./ABC 7, Cooking Up a Better Life With Misha/Host; Jorgen Ullerup - Jyllands Posten, Washington Correspondent; Giles Whittell - The Times of London, Washington Bureau Chief Active Non-Resident:Carl Hersh, Miami, Fla. -Close-Up Productions, Inc.,Videographer, Producer; Thomas R. Greve, Hillsdale, N.J. - Summit Business Media - Credit Union Times, Publisher Active Non-Resident 65+ Reinstate:John S. Day, Bangor, Maine - Bangor Daily News, Retired…
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Wolf Trap, VIP Travel, Sysco, State Dept. Federal Credit Union Added as 5K Sponsors
The National Press Club: Beat the Deadline 5K is proud to announce more sponsors! Thanks to Wolf Trap, VIP Travel, Sysco and the State Department Federal Credit Union, who join a growing list of supporters whose generosity benefits the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library and the 5K run/walk, which will be held on July 17. To become a sponsor, please contact Jessica Brady at [email protected] .
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Corn-Waste Fuel Market Needs Gov't Help, Ethanol Maker Says
Creating a viable market for fuel derived from the leftovers of a corn harvest will require Congress to extend tax breaks for ethanol and increase the amount of the alternative fuel allowed in gasoline, according to the head of one of the industry’s leading companies. “We need to have better market access and more stable government policy,” said Jeff Broin, chief executive of POET, a South Dakota-based ethanol producer, at an April 21 Newsmaker press conference. The day before his National Press Club appearance, Broin’s company applied for a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy to…
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