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X VOL. 62, ISSUE 3 I WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, 2015 I THEBLUEBANNER.NET The city of London from an aerial view Photo by Gray Barrett- Contributor Can you afford to study abroadP EMMA ALEXANDER nalexand@unca.edu - News Staff Writer Studying abroad while in college is an opportune time to have unique ex periences and reflect on their lives, students say. Many assume they can not afford it, said Cara Gilpin, study abroad ad viser at UNC Asheville. “It depends on an in dividual basis when we are talking to students to make this happen,” Gil pin said. “I think a lot of students come in with the assumption that it’s go ing to be a lot more, and I feel like the exchange pro grams are designed to be more comparable in cost.” UNCA offers ex change, non-exchange and faculty-led pro grams, Gilpin said. “Exchange programs are programs that are recipro cal in nature, so students pay their tuition and fees here and either pay room and board as if they are here as well, or they will pay that abroad,” Gilpin said, “So those are very comparable in cost to what it would be if they were here,” The majority of facul ty-led programs are paid through UNCA, as well. Gilpin said non-exchange programs require the stu dent to pay a program fee instead of a tuition fee, and the cost for these will vary. UNCA held study abroad fairs in September and Jan uary. The fair in Septem ber included affiliates of UNCA which offer more opportunities and support for non-exchange pro grams. The January fair focused on this summer’s faculty-lied programs, said Bonnie Parker, study abroad director. “I’ve been here since 2006 and I’ve worked in international education for a long time,” Parker said. “We help to create new partnerships, new contacts for the univer sity and students, advise students in programs, work with different de partments' at UNCA, get word out to students and campus community and help with scholarships.” Students participating in UNCA’s exchange programs may use all types of financial aid, in cluding federal, state, UNCA grants,' scholar ships and loans. Students can use financial aid in summer or winter facul ty-led programs as well. Students studying abroad through programs other than exchange programs may use federal and state grants, scholarships and loans. These programs include ISEP-Direct or other outside programs. UNCA institutional schol arships and grants cannot be used for these pro grams, according to in formation from UNCA. “Students should talk di rectly to the financial aid office because they may qualify for things after they apply for FAFSA,” Gilpin said. “We also have some scholarships that we can advise students about. We have a few that are region ally-based, so you would get the scholarships just for going to that particular lo cation, it’s not need-based.” Gilpin said she recom mends exchange programs instead of the non-exchange programs to students con cerned about financial aid. The main difference in cost between exchange programs and UNCA would be travel-related expenses such as airfare, avisaandpersonalexpenses. SEE ABROAD ON PAGE 6 “Poemumbles” fills BMC Museum TIMBI SHEPHERD jshephe3@unca.edu - A&FAsst. Editor The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM-i-AC) saw one of its largest-ever opening receptions Friday night at the unveiling of its new exhibition “poemum- bles: 30 years of Susan Weil’s poem/images.” The event celebrated the reopening of the BMC- M-t-AC gallery space at 56 Broadway, where the organization recently com pleted the first phase of its plan for renovation and expansion downtown. According to BMC- M-i-AC, its mission is “to preserve and continue the unique legacy of educa tional and artistic innova tion of Black Mountain College for public study and enjoyment.” Susan Weil is one of the many influential experimental artists who emerged from Black Mountain. Her aptly-titled “poemumbles” illustrate the college’s understated, but sweeping, legacy. “I hope this show is rep resentative of that big, big story, which is a poem a day, every day for the past 30 years,” said Rachael Inch, Susan Weil Studio archivist and administra tor and UNC Asheville alumna ’ll. Inch co-curated the exhi- poemumbles I thirty yi'.;.-, o(.v.’tri ,,-;t Photo by Spectators admire Susan Weil’s listed as curators of the show.” Butler said. “One flew to New York because he really loved [Weil’s] work, realized the person who should curate it was sitting there in the studio. eph(^ - A&F Asst. Editor poemumbles. physically present at the opening reception, but she joined in the celebration via Skype. A laptop floated around the gallery space and allowed Weil to wit- SEE MUSEUM ON PAGE 8 OLLI highlights Black History Month EMILY OSTERTAG eosterta@uhca.edu - News Staff Writer For the first time, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville hosts its own series to cele brate Black History Month, as part of their commitment to inclusion, according to members of the organiza tion’s inclusion committee. “When people see how far everything has come — they remember the lunch counter sit-ins and they remember those things that happened 50 years ago, and we elected an African-American pres ident — everybody kind of pats themselves on the back and thinks everything is over, and it just isn’t. I think certainly when you have instances like Fer guson or Staten Island, you recognize that it’s not over, but it’s a really dif ferent struggle now, and trying to figure out how we can all be a part of the solution is part of what we’d like to work on,” said Catherine Frank, exec utive director of OLLI. OLLI at UNCA exists as a separate organiza tion and a department of the university, Frank said, providing lifelong learn ing opportunities to Ashe ville residents over 50. SEE OLLI ON PAGE 5
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