9/20/01
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Preliminary UNI statement regarding proposed state budget cuts
University of Northern Iowa President Robert Koob says today's budget proposal, if passed, would have a devastating effect on the university. The new proposal, when added to previous cuts earlier this year, would mean a total budget reduction of $12 million to $13 million for UNI in one fiscal year. UNI does not plan to take any action until after conferring with the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. ###
Contact:
Robert Koob, president, (319) 273-2566
James O'Connor, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
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9/20/01
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Contact:
David Zarifis, director, UNI Department of Public Safety, (319) 273-2712
James O'Connor, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
Bomb threat at UNI business building
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- At approximately 2 p.m. today, the University of Northern Iowa Department of Public Safety received an anonymous phone call saying that there was a bomb in the Curris Business Building. UNI Public Safety, the Cedar Falls Fire Department and Cedar Falls Police Department responded. The building was evacuated and is being searched. The incident is under investigation.
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9/20/01 3:10 p.m.
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Contact:
David Zarifis, director, UNI Department of Public Safety, (319) 273-2712
James O'Connor, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
Note to editors: Update to earlier story.
Bomb threat at UNI business building -- all clear
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- At approximately 2 p.m. today, the University of Northern Iowa Department of Public Safety received an anonymous phone call saying that there was a bomb in the Curris Business Building. UNI Public Safety, the Cedar Falls Fire Department and Cedar Falls Police Department responded. The building was evacuated, thoroughly searched and reopened. Classes will continue as scheduled. The incident is under investigation.
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9/20/01
Following is a story lead and the University of Northern Iowa sources who can best address this topic. Feel free to contact the sources directly.
UNI professors available to discuss recent military developments
On Wed., Sept. 19, the first deployment order for U.S. Air Force troops and equipment was signed.
Several professors at the University of Northern Iowa are well-versed on the possible ramifications of this situation.
Military response
Charles Means, associate vice president for academic affairs, is a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve and serves as the Navy's emergency preparedness liaison. He can explain standard military response to regional emergencies.
Charles Means, associate vice president, and Navy emergency preparedness liaison, (319) 273-6205
Americans mistake Sikhs for Muslims
Louis Fenech, associate professor of history, says members of the Sikh culture have been attacked nationwide because, like many Arab Muslims, they wear turbans and beards. He explains the vast differences between the two cultures, and offers suggestions about why they've been confused.
Lou Fenech, associate professor, history, (319) 273-2268
Gwenne Culpepper, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
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9/20/01
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Contact:
Jeannie Steele, professor, UNI Office of Education for Democracy, (319) 273-6052
Kurt Meredith, assistant professor, UNI Office of Education for Democracy, (319) 273-6022
Gwenne Culpepper, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
Grant funds UNI educational democracy program in Central and Eastern Europe
CEDAR FALLS -- The Orava Project at the University of Northern Iowa recently received $272,000 from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to continue democratization of education in Central and Eastern Europe.
According to Kurt Meredith, assistant professor in the university's Office of Education for Democracy, the funding will help take educators to Slovakia to observe the highly successful work done there. It also will support outreach efforts, allowing travel to Central and Eastern Europe to help educators there understand how the Slovakia project might apply to their situation.
In 1994, Meredith and Jeannie Steele, professor in the Office of Education for Democracy, submitted a grant application to USAID to teach democracy in the Slovak Republic, which had been under communist rule until the so-called Velvet Revolution in 1989. Through this project, eventually named the Orava Project after a region in the Slovak Republic, Steele, Meredith and a cadre of other educators both Slovak and American, have worked to diffuse a democratic educational model across Slovak society.
Meredith and Steele authored all the materials for the program, and have trained core individuals who deliver the teacher in-service program. To date, more than 10,000 educators have been involved in the project. Further, says Steele, the project has grown to include all aspects of the Slovak educational system and is now spread across the entire country.
"It’s very exciting, because there are so many people now who have a great deal of skills and can share those skills with people around the world," explained Steele. "We hope to continue in this kind of work. It doesn’t seem right to stop."
Steele and Meredith also are working with publishers to develop additional written materials that can be made available to other geographic areas, in the context of teacher in-service. The teacher education component of the reform model is now being used, under the direction of Steele and Meredith, in 25 nations of Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. More than 12,000 educators in Slovakia alone have been helped through the program.
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