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45,390 For the second time in as many years, W&L has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The honor roll highlights the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and in placing students on a lifelong path of civic engagement. According to data compiled by W&L’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness, 1,278 W&L students engaged in 45,390 documented hours of community service during the 2011-12 academic year.
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What is there to do? There are 134 undergraduate student organizations at W&L, from Americans for Informed Democracy to Turkish Generals. Explore the options at wlu.edu/ x29453.xml.
Where do students live? Quite a few live off campus, judging from a recent study that determined that students occupy 37.4 percent of all rental units in Lexington. See the story on pp. 6 and 7 about residence life on campus.
Thirteen members of the W&L faculty have been named to endowed professorships—two each in the School of Law and the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, and nine in the College. 2
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Volume 87
Number 2
Spring/Summer 2012
Julie A. Campbell ED ITO R
Louise Uffelman M ANAG I N G ED ITO R & L AW ED ITO R
Brian Laubscher S P O RTS ED ITO R
Jennifer Utterback CL A S S N OTE S ED ITO R
Patrick Hinely ’73 Kevin Remington U N I VER S IT Y PH OTO G R APH ER S
Larry Boetsch ’69 Julie Cline Julie Grover Jeff Hanna David Hanson ’00 Michael Hanson ’03 Porter Hovey Peter Jetton Campbell Massie Laure Stevens-Lubin Sarah Tschiggfrie CO NTR I BUTO R S
Denise Watts Mary Woodson G R APH I C D E S I G N
Mary Woodson D I R EC TO R O F P U BLI C ATI O N S
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