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Professor pledges $1 million to UWF
A faculty member at the University of West Florida has pledged $1 million to the UWF Foundation for the university’s College of Business Scholastic Excellence Awards endowment fund.

The gift from Bob Kimball, an associate professor of marketing and economics, will be funded through annual gifts and, if necessary, through Kimball’s estate plan.

It will be used for scholarships to juniors and seniors with the highest grade point average in each area of the UWF College of Business.

With anticipated matching gifts from the state of Florida, the endowment fund is projected to grow to at least $1.6 million.

Kimball earned his doctorate from UGA.

Evergreen State faculty form a union
Faculty at Evergreen State University, a four-year public university in Washington, voted recently to form a union according to The Olympian, a Washington paper.

Fifty-five percent of the faculty voted in favor of forming the union, which will represent full-time professors at the university.

Professors who voted in favor of the union cited more control over benefits and salary as reasons for voting yes. Evergreen State University is one of six four-year public institutions in Washington where faculty have unionized.
—Andrea Sarisky

 
 
 


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