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Campus News
The Clarion | March 4, 2011
Students attend Salzburg seminar on global citizenship
Four Brevard College students recently
attended the Salzburg Global Seminar on Global
Citizenship in Salzburg, Austria.
Brevard College students Kevin Manion,
Margaret Whitman, Harmony Whitt and
Kimberly Williams were chosen to join
students from other small private colleges in the
southeastern United States for an intensive week
of study, exploration and interaction.
The purpose of the program is to provide an
intensive seven-day international experience
for participants to explore pressing issues of
global concern and to view such issues from
a perspective both literally and figuratively
outside the borders of the United States.
“I had no idea that one short week could
change how I saw the world,” said Whitman,
a junior history major from High Bridge, N.J.
“The concept of a global community and the
importance of general humanity were stressed
greatly during the week. “
“I gained a genuine sense of connection to
the fact that we as human beings have more
commonalities than differences,” said Williams,
a senior wilderness leadership and experiential
education major from Melbourne Beach, Fla.
Manion, a senior wilderness leadership and
experiential education major from Syracuse,
N.Y., said the group was encouraged to "look
beyond only the concerns within our country’s
borders.” He added that he personally felt
inspired to continue to educate himself regarding
global issues and to “become a more productive
citizen of this world we all share.”
Whitt, a junior business and organizational
leadership major from Candler, said that her
experience left her feeling a responsibility
to share what she learned as well as to be
Professors promoted,
granted tenure by board
The Board of Trustees granted tenure and
promotion to associate professor to Betsy
Burrows, Kathryn Gresham and Kyle Lusk
according to an e-mail from President Drew
Van Horn, Wednesday.
The tenure process is a long one, generally
beginning the summer before. Tenure is like a
permanent job contract for college professors.
Academic tenure in particular is intended
to protect teachers and researchers when they
oppose popular opinion, openly disagree with
authorities, or spend time on controversial
subjects.
The board also granted promotions from
associate professor to professor to Barbara
Boerner, Jennifer Frick-Ruppert and James
Reynolds.
an advocate for others
around the world whose
voices and stories are
never heard.
“I am very pleased
that our students
were able to have this
experience, and I look
forward to their sharing
their experiences with
others on campus in the
coming months,” said
John Hardt, Brevard
College’s vice president
for academic affairs and
dean of the faculty. “I
have been privileged
myself to participate
in similar programs of
the Salzburg Global
Seminar, so I know
firsthand some of what they were able to leam
and experience.”
The Salzburg Global Seminar was established
in 1947, as a way to educate the next generation
of world leaders. The students studied and
lived at the Schloss Leopoldskron, an 18th
century baroque estate that has been completely
retrofitted to accommodate modem technology.
The terrace of the Schloss was featured in a
memorable scene in the 1965 film “The Sound
of Music.”
The program is underwritten in part by the
Mellon Foundation, as part of the Mellon
Fellows Community Initiative Program, which
Brevard College students Kimberly Williams, Harmony Whitt, Kevin Manion
and Margaret Whitman recently attended the Salzburg Global Seminar on
Global Citizenship in Salzburg, Austria.
has earlier supported Brevard faculty to attend
similar programs in Salzburg. Each Brevard
student received a $500 grant from Brevard
College to help pay travel expenses. All other
expenses related to the experience were paid by
the Mellon Foundation grant.
The seminar was created to “make students
more aware of global issues and of what it means
to be a ‘global citizen’, more discerning in their
assessment of information pertaining to world
affairs, and more understanding of America’s
place in the world as well as of non-Americans’
perception of the U. S., ” according to the official
Web site.
Feature photo:
Students John
McGuire and Matt
Kilpatrick siftthrough
leaves to build worm
habitats.
Worm farming is
part of an Ecology
lab to test how the
worms react to
different types of
food.
The students
made 15 worm
habitats in total and
introduced different
types of food.
The worms were
placed in a dark cabinet in the ecology
lab where they will be monitored for the
remainder of the semester.
At the end ofthe semesterthe students
will measure different aspects of the
habitats such as biomass, weight,
difference in habitat volume, length,
count, etc.