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24-February-2000 
00092 
 
    College News 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities 
(APCU) will hold its annual Presidents' Conference in Atlanta March 16-19. 
    The conference brings together the presidents of Presbyterian-related 
colleges and universities and international guests for presentations and 
discussions of diversity and its impact on higher education. 
    Agnes Scott College, a Presbyterian-related liberal arts school for 
women in Decatur, Ga., will serve as host. Events will take place at the 
college and at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown Atlanta. The 
program's theme is "A World of Diversity: Racial Ethnic Diversity; Cultural 
Diversity; and Religious and Ideological Diversity." 
    The Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities consists of 
66 higher-education institutions related to the Presbyterian Church 
(U.S.A.), working to enhance the church's mission in higher education. 
Additional information on the conference, featured speakers and the 
association can be found at http://www.apcu.net. 
 
 
HASTINGS, Neb. -  Dr. Richard E. Hoover, the 13th president of Hastings 
College, has announced that he will retire on March 1. 
    The executive committee of the Hastings Board of Trustees is expected 
to ask the full board to accept Hoover's retirement and name Vice President 
Phillip Dudley acting president. Hoover said he and his wife, Elaine, had 
been considering retirement for several months. 
    "Hastings College is preparing to develop its next five-year strategic 
plan," Hoover said. "It is a natural time for new leadership to be present 
for planning and implementation." 
    Hoover became president of Hastings College in October 1995. He is 
credited with having greatly expanded opportunities for students and 
improved the quality of the college's liberal-arts program. During his 
first year, he led the campus community in the creation of a strategic plan 
and a campus master plan of goals and objectives. 
 
 
DANVILLE, Ky. - Centre College is one of four sites chosen to host general 
election debates in 2000, according to a recent announcement in Washington 
from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Centre will host the 
only vice presidential debate of the campaign, scheduled for Oct. 5 in the 
school's Norton Center for the Arts. Presidential debates are scheduled for 
Oct. 3 in Boston, Oct. 11 in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Oct. 17 in St. Louis. 
Additional details are available online at Centre's World Wide Web site: 
http://www.centre.edu. 
 
 
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College has received a $36,000 grant from 
an anonymous donor to enhance its church-relations efforts. 
    Westminster recently reaffirmed its covenant agreement with the Synod 
of the Trinity (PC (U.S.A.). The college expects to use the funding to 
create four church-relations student internships, support additional choir 
performances at nearby churches and expand continuing-education programs 
for church youth, lay leaders and clergy. 
    "This grant will help us expand our outreach to churches in the 
community," said the Rev. William Maloney, Westminster's church-relations 
director. 

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