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Friday, October 31, 2008
Edison Community College lauded for new campus landmark
The Emerson Center at Edison Community College in Piqua was named among 10 notable new buildings on community college campuses by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the leading U.S. newspaper for the academic world.
The Emerson Regional Center of Excellence was highlighted among “new campus landmarks” on Friday, Oct. 31, in a “Community College” supplement in the Chronicle.
“The 35,000-square-foot, $5.9-million building angles, prowlike, into a campus lake, creating an iconic entry to the college,” the Chronicle said. “It houses the institution’s Center for Nursing, as well as a 20,000-square-foot library.”
“Among the sustainable elements are vegetated swales to capture storm water and let it percolate down to the water table; masonry walls designed to collect solar energy; and overhangs that shield the building from direct summer sunlight while allowing winter sunlight to enter.”
Edison was among six higher-education institutions that won awards in 2007 from the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Architecture for Education. It earned a citation for the Emerson Center, designed by the Collaborative, Inc.
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Educators open wallets for Obama
Greetings. I’m Kelly Mori, health and higher education reporter for the Springfield News-Sun. I’ve joined the On Campus blog to periodically share some thoughts on what’s happening in higher education while giving some face time to Wittenberg, Cedarville and Urbana universities and Clark State Community College.
Now, on to the title of today’s blog.
It might not be a surprise to hear that academe favors Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain. However, The Chronicle of Higher Education has been able to quantify that assumption with some interesting campaign contribution numbers from the Center for Responsive Politics.
According to the Chronicle, college employees have donated $12.2 million to Obama’s campaign compared to $1.5 million to McCain. It’s the widest spread since the Center started keeping track in 1992.
A good example is the the University of California where employees donated the most to both candidates but certainly not equally, with $40,000 going to McCain and $778,000 to Obama.
Why the difference? The Chronicle is a subscription site so I can’t link you to it but here are some highlights: Some cite dissatisfaction with the current administration and a professional connection to Obama, who taught constitutional law as a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Democrats stated Obama “sees issues in shades of gray and appears to grasp policy nuances,” the Chronicle said.
Many of McCain’s donations came from business, law and medical schools. The Republican’s more than 20 years of experience in the U.S. Senate, compared with Obama’s first term, was the deciding factor for many McCain supporters. In today’s Ohio Politics blog, William Hershey talks about the spending side of things. Read Bill Hershey’s blog on candidate spending.
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