|  Mission:
Possible
Nursing students
extend a helping hand to inner-city homeless
Two of
the area's venerable institutions, TU and the Helping Up Mission,
are partnering to provide critical health-care services to one of
Baltimore City's most vulnerable populations... [more]
So
they said...
Quotes
worth noting from contemporary and historic sources
"The challenge of
social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to
make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place."
Marian Wright Edelman,
founder and president, Children's Defense Fund
 Calling all staff
Register
online now for TUSC Staff Development Day
What? 11th annual TUSC Staff Development Day
This year's conference,
Get TUFF, Towson University's Fear Factor, will deliver successful
strategies for dealing with significant changes in your professional
and personal world. You'll enjoy a day of learning, collegial fun,
good food, door prizes and a little entertainment thrown in for
good measure.
When? Thursday,
October 28
Where? University
Union
How? Go
to http://pages.towson.edu/sdc
More questions? E-mail Phil
Butler for additional information.
Recent
Media Highlights
China debuts as
an economic powerhouse
United Press International,
October 1
UPI senior business correspondent
Shihoko Goto spoke to Steven Phillips, Department of History, in
connection with that China's appearance as an observer at the Group
of Seven (G7) meeting. Phillips said China's leaders are determined
to have it treated as a great power. "In this sense, he added,
"China has gone from an outsider... to an insider, a power
that wishes to compete within the exisiting framework today."
Economists optimistic regardless
of Nov. 2 victor
The Sun,
October 1
President Robert L Caret
addressed about 300 executives at the Greater Baltimore Committee's
September 30 business outlook conference. According to Sun
writer Jamie Smith Hopkins, Caret warned attendees about two work
force development problems he sees: rising demand for higher education
at a time of dwindling state support and falling interest in math
and science among students even as the need for workers in those
fields grows.
University
rolls out the welcome mat
Towson Times,
September 29
Loni Ingraham spoke to
Ellen Stokes, University Marketing, and County Executive Jim Smith
about the Rivalry & Rivalry community event planned for October
9. Smith praised President Robert Caret for creatng the dynamic
that made the joint celebration possible. "We're trying to
celebrate the reality that we have a major university in our back
yard," he said. "That's a feather in our cap." The
Sun, WJZ-TV and WBAL-TV also covered the day's festivities.
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