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alumni stories: 3 news summaries

Die-Hard Gator Alums May Find Final Resting Place at UF

Dedicated Gators want to spend eternity on campus

Mar 5, 09 12:15 PM CST
(Newser) - University of Florida alums who want their final resting place to be somewhere on the campus of their alma mater will likely get their wish, the Gainesville Sun reports. A bill that cleared a Florida Senate committee today would allow any of Florida’s state universities to build a columbarium—... More »

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Florida • Florida Gators • cremation • University of Florida • college • alumni • ashes

Facebook, MySpace Derail Alumni Magazines

New generations of grads find keeping in touch easier over web

Jun 2, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once upon a time, the college alumni magazine was an invaluable resource. Keeping up on old friends and enemies was as easy as flipping to the “class notes” section. But that once-mighty column now looks antiquated next to the constant updates offered on Facebook or MySpace, and it’s... More »

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social networking • MySpace • Facebook • college • university • universities • alumni

 Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B 

Needs cash to compete with Ivy League

May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump... More »

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Oxford University • donor • Harvard • Cambridge University • Princeton • endowment • Yale • Buckingham University • Higher Education Funding Council • alumni

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