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Articles in June, 2004 issue of University Business

• Lewis & Clark College was embarrassed last year with the news that President Michael Mooney lost $10.5 million of the school's endowment in an unauthorized oil-processing company investment that went sour
• Is thin in? Will the 'new' thin client contain spiraling campus computing and support costs, or is it just the 21st century's dumb terminal?
  by Matt Villano
• This projector has built-in 'help'
• More than a camera
• DirectConnect: consultants, dealers, services & products
• The conference center as competitive edge: in the New World of custom business-curriculum offerings, facilities planning and management is critical
• 802 what? New wireless technologies are just around the corner
• Thomas Hearn, who has been president of Wake Forest University since 1983, will retire in June 2005
  by Jean Marie Angelo
• No wires needed
• Seven-pound projector
  by Alana Klein
• DeZired handhelds
• Receiving a commission: new construction projects are investments in the future, and building commissioning insures that all will go according to plan and promise
• On puppies and therapy
  by Kathy Grayson
• Trudie Kibbe Reed will become president of Bethune-Cookman Cortege
• The wasted years: college presidents say that changing the culture of drinking on campus has been their gravest challenge. Whether they are up to the task is another question altogether
  by Jean Marie Angelo
• Spirit of St. Louis: for Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton, growing the university cache means building cachet along the way
  by Jean Marie Angelo
• The other office suite
• Changing times call for changing solutions; developing a university's larger vision is not just an academic question
  by David Fales
• Coming and going through the campus front door: the value of a showcase hotel goes beyond room-nights
• Making college affordable: schools lift financial burden from low-income students
• Reaching out to Hispanic families; develop a realistic communication model, and your school can build a richly diverse campus
  by Howard Greene
• Systemized eLearning
• FileMaker takes it to the next level
  by Alana Klein
• Get on schedule
• Dining under the tent
• Peralta's four sites upgrade with HP's adaptive-campus network
• John Petersen, provost at the University of Connecticut, will be the new president of the University of Tennessee, beating out 46 other applicants who were part of the university's most public and costly search
• What's new in campus computing? Mobility and security lead the charge
  by Tim Goral
• A question of gender: a handful of schools are reaching out to the growing populations of transgender students, but faced with housing shortages and other challenges, accommodating them isn't so easy
  by Alana Klein
• Serving students better
• Dealing with redundancy: will universal education in a free-market economy survive?
  by James Ottavio Castagner
• Realizing the dream campus: with expert help, adding a facility and dining plan to the institution's overall master plan brings your dream campus one step closer to reality
• NCAA pushes academic reforms: now athletes must really make the grade
• Cutting the best financial aid deal; parents negotiate mortgage rates, so why not student aid?
• Lectern for large audiences
• Keeping tabs on alumni
  by Alana Klein
• Better manage your Web content
• Catering to the client: new-millennium universities now see their student diners as valued customers, not captive audiences
• Making a list, but not checking it—ever: was the effort to list foreign students all for naught?
• G. David Pollick has been named president of Birmingham-Southern College
• Virtually perfect: universities are finding new ways to capture, store, and retrieve content for their online courses
  by Joseph C. Panettieri
• Enhance your annual fund response; here, from our marketing pro: No-fail strategies for optimizing those fundraising efforts
  by Bob Sevier
• Making the grade
• First impressions: climbing enrollments, increased retention and lifelong connection are linked to the quality of the campus' facilities
• The University of Washington went for almost two years without a permanent president
• Where should financial aid report? Organizing for enrollments? Think carefully about optimum linkages before you set structure
  by Kathy Kurz
• Tote that whiteboard
• Presentations with Pizzazz
  by Alana Klein
• Events calendar
• Yale gets fresh
• File-sharing solution: yale finds a way to cope with growing media files
• Molly Robb Shimko, director of Development and Media Relations for Seton Hall University
• Taking presentations to new heights
• Studio-quality-sound notebooks
  by Alana Klein
• Savvy surveillance
• Customer service begins at home
• Rethinking student affairs practice
  by Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti
• The University of Buffalo has picked Satish Tripathi to be provost
• Presenting … audio and animation
• The E-textbook solution
  by Alana Klein
• A new transformation
• Behind the green machine: sustainability is socially responsible and economically viable