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Dominic
Tarantino, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, has agreed to serve as chairman
of the University's new fundraising campaign, which is now in its planning
phase.
The Koret Foundation has pledged $3.25 million to reconstruct Kendrick
Hall, the law school's home for the past 40 years. The law school complex
(encompassing both Kendrick Hall and the Zief Law Library) will be named
the Koret Law Center.
The University will open a new center for public service. $2.2 million
has already been pledged to the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service
and the Common Good.
USF invited 865 students to graduate at its fall commencement: 485 graduate
students and 380 undergraduates.
USF will launch a new on-campus visual arts program for undergraduates
in the fall. A joint degree program with the California College of Arts
and Crafts (CCAC) is being discontinued after a 5-year contract recently
expired.
U.S. Ambassador to Greece Tom Miller will speak at USF on Tues. Jan 15
on career opportunities and life in the foreign service.
Robert Kennedy Jr. will visit USF Feb. 28-March 1. The USF School of Law
will present him with the school’s Marshall Madison Award. Kennedy
is an environmental attorney and will speak at a joint USF-Commonwealth
Club event on Feb. 28.
Prompted by the state's energy crisis, the University has cut power consumption
by 15% since fall 2000.
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