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Columns::August 20, 2001

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Actress funds new center at Emory
Emory University’s new Jane Fonda Center, funded through a $2 million gift from the actress to the School of Medicine, has officially opened.
The goal of the new center is to advance scientific knowledge locally and globally about infancy, childhood and adolescence and to disseminate new information and strategies for risk reduction and healthy transitions to adulthood.
Fonda’s gift also will endow a chair in adolescent reproductive health in the department of gynecology and obstetrics.

UMass continuing-education instructors vote to unionize
Instructors in the continuing-education program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston have to voted to unionize.
Approximately 87 percent of UMass’s continuing-education instructors voted earlier this month to join the Faculty Staff Union, an affiliate of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the National Education Association.
The new union, which will represent about 400 members, will seek to bring pay for teaching continuing-education courses up to the levels offered in the regular programs. Adjuncts get a minimum of $4,300 per course in the regular program, but just $3,100 for the same course in the continuing-education division.

--Juliett Dinkins



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