Word: outreaching
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Otis Gaddis '01, one of the founders of Soul Food, a ministry to black students on campus, and a founder of last year's week-long Christian outreach program Jesus Week, says the divisions arose less from differences in faith than from a lack of communication...
...business school does several things very well. Its use of teaching technologies is cutting-edge; its physical plant is run with Disneyworld-like efficiency; its alumni outreach programs inspire a loyalty measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. But if the business school wants to be a true leader and play a "CEO" role in education, it would recognize that at the heart of true leadership in education is the imperative to enlarge students' beliefs of what is possible. The business school's beliefs seem shockingly narrow: to increase profitability and win the corner office...
EDUCATION Outreach...
Ever since, Bush has made the nickname his signature gesture of outreach. There is scarcely a legislator left in Texas who hasn't been renamed by Bush. His staff members, from the "High Prophet" (Karen Hughes) to "Big Country" (Joe Allbaugh) to "Boy Genius" (Karl Rove), were all tagged years ago. Members of the press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known...
...work of FFL proves that a commitment to education, outreach and resources and support for women in need does not depend on pro-choice or pro-life labels. Like the early American feminists who opposed abortion, FFL seeks to address systematically the root causes of the problem, and has in the past fought for the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Violence Against Women Act, stronger child support enforcement and the elimination of child exclusion measures in welfare reform. In doing so, it has worked with groups such as Planned Parenthood of America, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action...