Working with the next 36, a group of entrepreneurs who recently completed a Rotman-affiliated program, the school has devised a video essay to capture some of the spontaneity of a live interview.

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They are William Mitchell College of Law and Vermont Law School, which is not affiliated with the University of Vermont.

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Now that patient satisfaction scores are influencing reimbursement, hospital administrators are "extremely interested" in communication training, says Richard Frankel, a developer of the model who is now a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine and its affiliated Regenstrief Institute.

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Shantou University, a state school he has generously funded, is running five affiliated hospitals and an influenza research center and received grants for 196 medical research projects last year.

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Other universities, such as Stanford University, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University, are affiliated with UNext, a privately held company that has just started a degree-granting online university focused on business training.

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Another upside to owning property in a college town--even for those home owners who are not affiliated with the nearby college or university--is that the local school districts may have a diverse student population because of the academic community.

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Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches has been keeping up on attempts by creationists affiliated with the Lousiana Family Forum (LFF) to interfere with the inclusion of evolutionary biology in public high school science textbooks.

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