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Academic Senate to urge to Board to postpone implementation of background checks

September 22, 2015

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The newly approved background check policy is expected to be implemented in less than two weeks, but the Academic Senate might put it on hold. Teresa Barnes, professor of history, presented a resolution at the Academic Senate meeting Monday asking the senate to urge the Board to postpone the impleme...

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Illinois celebrates modern mapmaking with International GIS Day

November 19, 2014

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The practice of mapping started approximately 16,500 years ago in central France, where prehistoric people painted the stars in cave walls. These were humanity’s first mapmakers. Since then, cartography and map mediums have evolved from cave walls to clay tablets and finally from paper to digital f...

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Urbana accepts revised agreement with geographic tool consortium

By Eli Murray

February 6, 2014

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Police officers in Champaign County have a unique tool at their disposal. When they receive a call about a disturbance, they can enter the address into a database that connects officers to an array of information about the destination, such as names of property owners, or directions to the site. This “Geog...

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