Tsunami Toll Across Asia Surges After Indian Ocean Quake
Emergency reports list 4,448 dead in Indonesia and 6,090 in Sri Lanka with over a million displaced. Casualties span India, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives, and Bangladesh. US officials promise aid as aftershocks follow a 9.1 magnitude quake off Sumatra.
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Sri Lanka
Thailand
State Department
Noel Clay
United States
Clay
Banda Aceh
Indonesia
Aceh
Sumatra
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
India
Malaysia
Maldives
Bangladesh
Asia
Patong
Phuket
Funding Fights for Community Colleges Spawn Petition Drive
The Texas Association of Community Colleges gathered 1 000 signatures from leaders across the state to urge restored funding for workforce development and employee health insurance costs at OC and other colleges including UTPB. Lawmakers face pressure to align state funds with past university levels and consider a 36 million tuition revenue bond for a science and technology center, with 12 million more from local gifts and the Permanent University Fund.
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Gipson
Texas Association of Community Colleges
Telvista
Saulsbury Electric
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Watts
UTPB
Buddy West
West
Howard College
Midland College
Texas Coordinating Board of Higher Education
UTPB seeks new science building amid budget talks
UTPB plans a convocation center and multi purpose facility while urging continued funding for the JBS Leadership Institute and the Center for Energy and Economic Diversification. Watts notes high classroom use and growth justify a new science and technology building southeast of the Dunagan Library to ease Mesa Building pressure as Austin budget talks loom. UT System enrolls about 178,000 with UTPB at roughly 3,300 students.
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Dunagan
Watts
Mesa
UTPB
Austin
Texas
Endowment and Grants Drive Growth at UTPB and OC
In 2004 Watkins Endowment surpassed 110000, with funds from friends and family. The Roden Center for Entrepreneurship opened in November at the Mesa Building funded by Jan and Ted Roden. Odessa College received multiple grants including a 1.25 million EDA grant for a new business and technology center in Andrews and a 3,345,661 Title V grant with the College of the Southwest. Tuition rose for OC to 48 per hour and for UTPB to 14 more per hour, per semester.
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Gary Watkins
Watkins
UTPB
Jan and
Ted Roden
Mesa Building
Rodens
Odessa College
Federal Economic Development Administration
Andrews
College of the Southwest
U.S. Department of Education
Telvista
UTPB Expands Faculty and Programs as Tuition Plans Grow
UTPB plans a 5 percent tuition rise for fall 2005 to fund ten new faculty members and two additional student advisers. In 2004 the university added degrees including social work, public administration with leadership focus, Spanish, and an industrial technology proposal. Odessa College moves to new teaching degree and hires a new student services VP Bill Thallemer led OC Single Parents Day and daycare project. Parker Downs reconfiguration shifts athletes to Century Commons and opens space for daycare and health clinic.
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UTPB
Odessa College
Bill Thallemer
Parker Downs
Century Commons
VA Clinic Contract Delayed Amid Change at Top
Llamas questioned the contractor naming delay, linking it to no clear reason, while Hanslik notes the advisory panel cannot begin without the contractor guiding the study. With Principi's resignation, Jim Nicholson becomes VA secretary designee, serving as ambassador to the Holy See. The VA hospital reports 20 inpatients and over 500 outpatients daily, and officials remain optimistic, planning to carry on.
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Llamas
Hanslik
Federal Advisory Committee
Principi
Jim Nicholson
Holy See
Vatican City
Rome
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