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19-June-2000
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	College News

	by Evan Silverstein

CARLINVILLE, Ill. -- Blackburn College President Miriam Pride was named
recently to fill the elected position of president of the Association of
Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU) – an organization of 68 U.S.
colleges and universities with ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She
will serve from July 1 to June 30, 2001. The president's responsibilities 
include convening the national meeting of the APCU and executive committee
meetings. Pride also will represent the association at a variety of official
activities.
	"My new role with the APCU is an honor," Pride said. "It's a real testimony
to how far Blackburn has come that I can be selected to serve as president
of the APCU – especially considering where Blackburn College was 10 years
ago. It's notice to the academic community ... that Blackburn's sister
institutions see us as a healthy, strong institution."

ALMA, Mich. -- Alma College President Alan J. Stone has announced that he
will retire next year after nearly 13 years at the school. His retirement
will be effective June 30, 2001, Stone said during a May 6 meeting of Alma's
board of trustees.
       Stone said Alma enrollment has risen from 1,000 to 1,400 students in
the past 12 years; the grade point average of enrolling students has gone up
to 3.5 from 3.3; and new students' average ACT score has risen from 24 to
25.5. Moreover, he said, four-year graduation rates have increased  and
annual giving to the school has gone from $3 million to nearly $4.5 million.
	Stone said that he and his wife Jonieta have enjoyed their tenure at Alma
College and are proud of their many successes. Before coming to Alma in
1988, Stone served as president of Aurora University in Aurora, Ill., for 10
years.

	
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- The North Carolina Association of International
Educators, an organization with about 150 members, has presented its Award
for Excellence in International Education to Warren Wilson College.
	 Warren Wilson was honored for "significant achievement in the
internationalization of the college curriculum; in providing international
opportunities to the students ... and for increasing the diversity of its
student body through recruitment of international students." The award was
presented March 24 during the association's annual meeting at Meredith
College in Raleigh.

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