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Academic units must develop
plans to meet new guidelines
The University's colleges, major departments and other academic units have
between now and early November to develop and submit comprehensive four-year
plans for making sure that their general education courses conform to the
new general education program.
Two receive University's highest
honor
Robert D. Hume, the Edwin Erle Sparks professor of English, and Alexander
Wolszczan, distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics, have been
named Evan Pugh Professors, the highest honor Penn State bestows on a faculty
member.
Court rules in favor of Penn
State in Hershey tax case
The University's status as an instrumentality of the Commonwealth that is
immune from taxation was upheld June 12 in a decision written by Judge Rochelle
S. Friedman of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. This decision rejected
an appeal by Dauphin County and the Derry Township School District of a
Dauphin County trial court's earlier decision that they could not include
The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center on their tax rolls beginning in 1993.
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