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Association of American Colleges & Universities, annual meeting
2013-11-14 21:59:00| American School & University
Location Grand Hyatt Hotel Washington, D.C., DC United States See map: Google Maps The theme of this year's AACU annual meeting is Quality, E-Quality and Opportunity: How Educational Innovations Will Make—or Break—America’s Global Future For more information go to www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM14/
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VIDEO: Spotlight on India's universities
2013-10-27 08:31:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
India is trying to stop its brightest students leaving to study abroad, as Neil Heathcote reports.
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UK universities urged to pull cash from fossil fuel giants
2013-10-26 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An international campaign to urge large institutions to dump fossil fuel investments reaches the UK this week, following rapid success in the US. The year-old divestment campaign, Fossil Free, has grown even faster than similar efforts that once targeted apartheid, tobacco and arms manufacturers. It now aims to focus attention on the 5bn invested in coal, oil and gas by the endowment funds of UK universities. The move comes as financial giants such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs are...
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2 universities honored for sustainable energy upgrades
2013-10-23 21:59:00| American School & University
Cornell and Texas A&M receive 2013 Global District Energy Awards read more
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Are our universities fossil-fuelled?
2013-10-22 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week, the social and ecological justice NGO Platform published an update to their 2003 report Degrees of Capture, exploring the ways in which universities support the fossil fuel industry. This new report -- produced in conjunction with 350.org, People and Planet and Fossil Free UK -- also follows a recent update of Scientists for Global Responsibility's work on military research and development. It considers where the universities put their money in terms of investing endowments in the fossil...
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