Eleven Globe University – Eau Claire students recently received $1,000 scholarships to help pay for their tuition, books and other school-related expenses. Western Dairyland, a community action organization that works to improve the quality of life for all, awarded 39 scholarships through its RENEW program. Great Lakes Loan Services bestowed $50,000 for the scholarships.

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GU-Eau Claire Students Receive $11,000 in Scholarships

Students at GU-Sioux Falls were busy during Fall Quarter 2009 giving back to their communities through service-learning projects.  Several groups of students from the Strategies for Success classes worked together to raise funds and sponsor a family for Christmas. Through their projects, students raised more than $300. For part of their service-learning project, these GU-Sioux Falls students invited community members to have their pets’ photos taken with Santa to raise money for a local family in need

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GU-Sioux Falls Students Help a Family in Need

Each year, MSB-Shakopee participates in the Shakopee Kids Voting event, which prepares and motivates future voters with curriculum and hands-on voting experience on Election Day.  A different student group at MSB-Shakopee adopts a voting precinct each year for Election Day while the staff copy, collate and staple 4,500 candidate guides a few weeks ahead of time

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Another Year with Shakopee Kids Voting

During fall quarter 2009, students at MSB-Rochester completed a service-learning project with the Channel One Food Shelf. One group of students organized a food drive on campus, while other groups volunteered at the food shelf. The food drive involved determining how to effectively promote the drive, where to set up collection boxes, and how to deliver the collected food to Channel One

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MSB-Rochester Students Channel their Skills to Help Others

Globe Education Network (GEN), including Globe University, Minnesota School of Business, Utah Career College, Benchmark Learning, and Minnesota School of Cosmetology, held various fundraisers January 18-29 for Haiti earthquake relief efforts. All combined, 21 campuses and the GEN headquarters office contributed $17,908.06 to the American Red Cross to help serve the people of Haiti

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Globe Education Network Raises $17,908.06 to Help Haiti

Today, J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement in response to recent attacks against the New Israel Fund and its president, Naomi Chazan: J Street is gravely concerned about escalating threats to the character of Israel’s democracy – including vicious, new attacks on organizations defending its democratic values and on individuals exercising their basic democratic rights. This weekend, an organization called Im Tirtzu launched an outrageous campaign viciously attacking New Israel Fund President and former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan in a style reminiscent of propaganda from the darkest days of recent Jewish experience, depicting Chazan with a horn on her head and holding her personally responsible for the contents of the Goldstone Report. Im Tirtzu’s political leanings are clear

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J Street Responds to Attacks on New Israel Fund

On December 12, 2009, Minnesota School of Business-Richfield hosted a healthy living fair for the benefit of students, staff and community members. Over 130 students participated in projects to raise awareness of the benefits of a healthy, active, substance-free lifestyle. Many more stopped in to see the displays.  The health fair was held as part of students’ Personal Development class and extended learning beyond the classroom.

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Health Fair at MSB-Richfield Promotes Healthy Living

On November 19, 2009, the MSB-Plymouth campus opened its doors to the community for a health fair themed “Health=Life.” Health fitness specialist (HFS) students and Carrie Rowell, HFS coordinator, in collaboration with massage therapy and medical assistant students, organized the event. Students, instructors and community members learned more about healthier living at the Health=Life Fair at MSB-Plymouth.

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Plymouth Campus Hosts “Health=Life” Fair

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Melissa McGowan 530-898-6105 2010 Local Government Leadership Development Program Prepares Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges The Northern California Local Government Leadership Institute is accepting enrollments for the 2010 Leadership Development Program, a newly-updated, five-course series designed to help local government employees cultivate leadership skills and become more effective and proactive leaders and managers. The Leadership Development Program, now in its sixth year, has served more than 250 local government leaders throughout California

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2010 Local Government Leadership Development Program Prepares Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Tanya Komas Concrete Industry Management program 530-898-4487 Concrete Industry Management Students Help Create 9/11 Firefighters Memorial Students from California State University, Chico’s Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program will help build a memorial next week to honor firefighters who lost their lives in the 9/11 disaster in New York City. Seventeen CSU, Chico students attending the annual World of Concrete trade show and conference in Las Vegas will help erect two eight-foot towers inscribed with the names of 56 fallen firefighters on a special reflective concrete exterior. The captain of the firehouse at 48th and 8th Streets in New York will be traveling to Las Vegas to witness the building of the memorial at the World of Concrete event.

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Concrete Industry Management Students Help Create 9/11 Firefighters Memorial

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Jim Postma Department of Chemistry 530-898-5159 Inventor of LIPITOR to Speak at Chemists’ Gathering Synthetic organic chemist Bruce Roth, Ph.D., synthesized the compound that would eventually be marketed as Lipitor as a researcher for Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis. Roth will address the Northern California Subsection of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at a dinner on Friday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m

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Inventor of LIPITOR to Speak at Chemists Gathering

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Gateway Science Museum Announces Grand Opening Feb. 27 The Gateway Science Museum at California State University, Chico, dedicated to the exploration, discovery and celebration of Northern California, announced today that its Grand Opening will be held on Saturday, Feb

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Gateway Science Museum Announces Grand Opening Feb. 27

Update: 15 activists were arrested this afternoon while protesting in Sheikh Jarrah, per Haaretz . Today, J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement: J Street is deeply concerned by recent actions taken by Israeli authorities in response to protests and dissent in Jerusalem and the occupied territories. Last week, 17 political activists were illegally detained by police in Sheikh Jarrah, where growing numbers of Israeli and Palestinian activists are holding weekly protests against settler takeovers of long-time Palestinian family homes in East Jerusalem.

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J Street Responds to Sheikh Jarrah Arrests

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement: J Street applauds Israel’s immediate and meaningful response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti last week.  We are proud of and grateful to the many Israelis who have risked their own lives to save those in dire need of medical attention and other emergency services. Israel’s swift response to another nation’s needs speaks to the very best of the values underpinning the Jewish tradition and the best of what that country represents as the national home of the Jewish people

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J Street Applauds Israel’s Response in Haiti

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Christina Pantera Student Project Manager, CSU Chico 925-963-5416 Catalyst Blitz Build Ends With Celebration The approximately 200 volunteers who have worked on the 2010 CSU, Chico Annual Winter Community Service Project, Catalyst Blitz Build, have been invited to attend a celebration Sunday, Jan. 24, marking the project’s completion

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Catalyst Blitz Build Ends With Celebration

WASHINGTON – JStreetPAC, the country’s first and only pro-Israel, pro-peace political action committee, announced its first Congressional endorsements of the 2010 cycle, backing 41 candidates – matching in its first wave of endorsements the number it backed in the whole 2008 cycle. These endorsements kick off a new election cycle for JStreetPAC, which distributed more money to candidates than any other pro-Israel federal political action committee in the 2008 cycle, according to FEC reports.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Melissa McGowan, Continuing Education 530-898-6105 CSU, Chico to Host 8th Annual Children in Trauma Conference: What’s Behind a Child’s Rejection of a Parent?

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CSU, Chico to Host 8th Annual Children in Trauma Conference: What’s Behind a Child’s Rejection of a Parent? Is it Abuse, Alienation, and/or…

As the desperate situation in Haiti continues, we at J Street are moved by the outpouring of support and aid from around the globe – including from Israel, which sent a 220-member rescue team to assist with the relief effort.  We wanted to make sure to provide some ways in which you can support the disaster relief efforts as well. We’re pitching in what we can and hope that you’ll take a moment to do the same.  Repair the World has put together a list of a few organizations doing emergency relief work in Haiti: American Jewish World Service · Through grants and on-the-ground service, AJWS works around the world to alleviate hunger, poverty and disease

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Israel Sends Rescue Team to Haiti

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Christina Pantera Student Project Manager 925-963-5416 Related news: Blitz Build celebration planned Jan.

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Catalyst Blitz Build a Major Volunteer Effort Involving Public, Private Partnerships

A few weeks ago, we drew your attention to students who are fighting against coal power on their campuses: University of Kentucky students voted against the building of a “Wildcat Coal Lodge” dorm that was sponsored by Alliance Coal, and in Massachusetts, students slept out in the cold on the Boston Commons to register their support for a bill that would power the state with 100% clean energy. This week, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education follows up on the issue, noting that “scores of institutions are grappling with coal's problematic public image and very real environmental impacts,” as students pressure the administration to find alternatives and federal legislators become more receptive to cap-and-trade limits on carbon dioxide pollution. The article also notes that the President's Climate Commitment, with its ambitious GHG reduction targets, is incompatible with burning coal

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Finding alternatives to coal on campus