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Dan Lineback captured this October sunset in Carolina Beach, NC. Submitted by Julie Lineback. (In Focus features a photograph submitted by a UWG faculty or staff member. E-mail your photo and caption information to the Campus Chronicle photographer.)

News 12 in Augusta reports that the Medical College of Georgia is reducing personnel budgets for several programs by $276,000 and is putting another $173,000 and14 jobs and programs on the potential chopping block.

http://www.wrdw.com/politics/headlines/63805152.html

About half of the qualified student nursing applicants were turned away this fall from the University of Florida, Florida State, Florida A&M and Florida International universities.

http://www.tallahassee.com/article

While more and more colleges are creating profiles, fan pages and Twitter feeds, the question of how influential they actually are in recruitment and fundraising remains remains largely unanswered.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/09/socialmedia

PBS and NPR are now posting taped interviews and videos of talks by academics, joining many other providers of online lectures.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/PBSNPR-Add-to-Trove-of

Forced out, a chief academic officer struggles to understand what went wrong.

http://chronicle.com/article/Reflections-of-a-Failed-Dean

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University Social Club:

There are still plenty of Fridays left to meet and greet colleagues this semester. See you there.

- Friday, Oct. 23: Meet at the Irish Bred Pub on Adamson Square.
- Friday, November 6: Social at the Irish Bred Pub.
- Friday, Nov. 20: Social at the Irish Bred Pub.
- Friday, Dec. 11: Social at Tim and Barbara Chowns’ home.

University Social Club lunches take place in the Food Services Building (Z 6). Drop in any Monday or Thursday between noon and 1:30 p.m. at a designated dining room for a special price of $5.71.

*If you would like to be added to the listserve, e-mail either Sylvia Shortt or Susie Fishman-Armstrong.

• Homecoming ’09 promises to be a historic event in the life of UWG! For the first time in our 103-year history, all “home” football games this fall will be played on campus in the new stadium. To find out what activities are scheduled for the Homecoming Weekend, click here. Please keep in mind that this schedule is tentative and subject to change as plans and events continue to develop.