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<description>Campus News at St. Mary's University: Promoting and Instilling awareness of St. Mary's traditions, rich history and successful alumni. </description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forbes Names St. Mary's National, State Leader]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forbes magazine has named St. Mary&rsquo;s University 15th in the nation and first in Texas for helping women succeed in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Forbes_Names_St._Marys_National_State_Leader]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Receives Presidential Award]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Corporation for National and Community Service today named St. Mary&rsquo;s University one of just six colleges and universities to receive this year&rsquo;s Presidential Award, recognizing St. Mary&rsquo;s as a top institution in the nation for volunteering, service&ndash;learning and civic engagement.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Receives_Presidential_Award]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Recognized for High Graduation Rates]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New reports released today by The Education Trust examine the graduation gaps between whites and minorities at colleges and universities nationwide. With a 57.1 percent graduation rate of Hispanics and a 58.4 graduation rate of whites, St. Mary&rsquo;s University is identified on the &#147;Small Gaps&#148; list.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Recognized_for_High_Graduation_Rates]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. News Ranks St. Mary's 4th for Quality & Value]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In issues that starts hitting newsstands August 20, U.S. News & World Report, for the second year in a row, has ranked St. Mary's University fourth in the West in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=U.S._News_Ranks_St._Marys_4th_for_Quality__Value]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[International Student Scholarship Fund Established]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Starting in the fall 2009 semester, 10 qualified undergraduate international students attending St. Mary's University will have access to a new scholarship to help pay for their tuition, books, room and board.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=International_Student_Scholarship_Fund_Established]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's professor takes Argentina by storm]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gwendolyn D&#195;&#173;az's 2007 book "Women and Power in Argentine Literature" was translated and released in Argentina this week.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_professor_takes_Argentina_by_storm]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Graduates are Prepared for Job Market]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When 381 St. Mary's University's undergraduate and graduate students walk across the stage Saturday, May 9, they will be armed with more than just a diploma from one of the best schools in the West. They will also be well prepared for the tight job market.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Graduates_are_Prepared_for_Job_Market]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[ITESO Agreement Strengthens Ties with Mexico]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a move that will extend and strengthen St. Mary&rsquo;s University&rsquo;s international curriculum and educational connections to Latin America,  University officials today inked an agreement with a respected technologyoriented university in Mexico.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=ITESO_Agreement_Strengthens_Ties_with_Mexico]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T Foundation Gives $250,000 Grant]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The AT&T Foundation has awarded St. Mary&rsquo;s University a $250,000 grant that will be used to update classroom and distancelearning technology, as well as assist with efforts to modernize historic St. Louis Hall.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=ATT_Foundation_Gives_$250000_Grant]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Earns Top Tier Ranking In USNews Report]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University has earned a top tier ranking in U.S. News & World Report&rsquo;s &#147;America&rsquo;s Best Colleges&#148; guide for the 13th straight year.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Earns_Top_Tier_Ranking_In_USNews_Report]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[School of Business Listed Among Nation's Best]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bill Greehey School of Business at St. Mary&rsquo;s University has been rated as an outstanding business school by The Princeton Review and will be listed among the best in the nation this fall.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=School_of_Business_Listed_Among_Nations_Best]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[ST. MARY'S DEDICATES GREEHEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University dedicated the Bill Greehey School of Business at a ceremony Tuesday, March 7, in honor of the Valero Energy Corp. chairman who made an unprecedented $25 million donation to the University late last year.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=ST._MARY’S_DEDICATES_GREEHEY_SCHOOL_OF_BUSINESS]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[GREEHEY GIFT LARGEST IN ST. MARY'S HISTORY]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Alumnus and longtime benefactor Bill Greehey (B.B.A. &#180;60), chairman and CEO of Valero Energy Corp., has given a $25 million gift to St. Mary&#180;s University to endow the School of Business and Administration. The cash donation is the largest single gift in our 153year history, and the biggest ever given to any San Antonioarea college or university.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=GREEHEY_GIFT_LARGEST_IN_ST._MARYS_HISTORY]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Hesselbein to Speak at Spring 2006 Commencement]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nonprofit leader Frances Hesselbein will be the keynote speaker at St. Mary&rsquo;s University 154th Commencement Exercises on May 13, 2006.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Hesselbein_to_Speak_at_Spring_2006_Commencement]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Students Selected as Gates Scholars]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ten St. Mary&rsquo;s University students recently were named Gates Millennium Scholars for the 20052006 academic year.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Students_Selected_as_Gates_Scholars]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Class Space Offered to Displaced Students]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University is reaching out to those college students academically displaced by Hurricane Katrina.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Class_Space_Offered_to_Displaced_Students]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Registers Katrina Affected Students]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University has registered six students, including two law students, from Hurricane Katrina devastated universities in the New Orleans area, as of Friday, Sept. 2.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Registers_Katrina_Affected_Students]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Class Space Offered to Hurricane Students]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University is reaching out to those college students academically displaced by Hurricane Katrina.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Class_Space_Offered_to_Hurricane_Students]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Alumni Gifts Included in ExxonMobil Grant]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University is among 80 colleges and universities in Texas to receive grant money from the ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gift Program.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Alumni_Gifts_Included_in_ExxonMobil_Grant]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Student Gets Free Southwest Airlines Travel]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[DALLAS &#150; St. Mary&rsquo;s University senior Marissa Ximenez of Floresville is among 44 national winners of the  &#147;D&#225;ndole Alas a Tu &#201;xito/Giving Flight to Your Success&#148; travel program award for college students, sponsored by Southwest Airlines and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). Ximenez is a psychology major.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Student_Gets_Free_Southwest_Airlines_Travel]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Ranked High in U.S. News & World Report]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. News & World Report&rsquo;s 2006 edition of &#147;America&rsquo;s Best Colleges&#148; guide has ranked St. Mary&rsquo;s University No. 3 for best value among colleges and universities that offer a full range of undergraduate and master&rsquo;s level programs in the Western part of the nation. St. Mary&rsquo;s was also ranked No. 14 for academic reputation. It is the 12th consecutive year for St. Mary&rsquo;s to be ranked in the top 25 percent of the more than 1,400 colleges and universities listed annually by the national news magazine.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_Ranked_High_in_U.S._News__World_Report]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[St. Mary's is a 'College with a Conscience']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University, a beacon of educational opportunity and personal transformation for 153 years, is in select company among 81 Campus Compact member institutions featured in a new Princeton Review/Random House guide book on the nation&rsquo;s best colleges fostering social responsibility and public service.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=St._Marys_is_a_College_with_a_Conscience]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[9 St. Mary's McNair Scholars to Notre Dame]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&rsquo;s University will send a school record nine undergraduate students to the eightweek McNair Scholars Program at the University of  Notre Dame beginning June 12, to advance their aspirations for earning a doctoral degree.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=9_St._Marys_McNair_Scholars_to_Notre_Dame]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Obit: Ben Biaggini [BS '36], 19162005]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[BIAGGINI, Benjamin Franklin  Born April 15, 1916, in New Orleans, LA. He attended St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, graduating summa cum laude. While there he was vice president of the Rattler Club, captain of A Company ROTC Cadet Battalion and president of the Student Council. He began his 47year railroad career in 1936 with Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana (the former Texas & New Orleans Railroad) as a rodman in Ennis, Texas. Ben, as he was known to all when he moved to San Francisco with his family in 1956, was then vice president, Southern Pacific Company. In 1964 he was named president and director, Southern Pacific Company. From there he also became chairman and chief executive officer. He continued to lead Southern Pacific until his retirement in 1983.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=Obit_Ben_Biaggini_[BS_36]_1916_2005]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[SIFE Team Advances to Nationals]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For the second straight year, St. Mary s University will be sending a Students In Free Enterprise team to the SIFE National Championship in Kansas City, Mo., on May 2224.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.stmarytx.edu/news/top-stories/index.php?headline=SIFE_Team_Advances_to_Nationals]]></link>
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