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What do you do with a What Graduates Have to Say about
"My education in peace and Global Studies forged within me a commitment to civic engagement. This commitment led me to a career in municipal government as a community development professional. By learning the importance of community networks and making connections, my PAGS education has placed me in a unique position to use the public sector as a catalyst for community change." Kyle
Grady - 2001 "My degree in Peace and Global Studies has been the single most valuable resource for my classroom. It has enabled me educate young people about the importance of global thought and peace studies. The knowledgeable and caring PAGS faculty encouraged me to pursue a career that centers around social change, activism, and justice. The rigorous PAGS curriculum provided me with a strong foundation for teaching peace in my own classroom." Ann Gray Liversidge - 1990 "It helped to shape my philosophy of peace and activism that I've had for many years."
"Especially since Sept. 11th, the ability to bring social and economic analysis into the pulpit and into our educational events has been critical. I am so grateful for my PAGS training--particularly my understanding and exposure to U.S. foreign policy issues and their historical roots."
"At FLAG, we use a number of advocacy strategies, including education, back-up support of lay advocates, technical assistance, and litigation. My experience in the PAGS program prepared me to see the value of each of these to help individuals and effect systemic change."
"The PAGS program prepared me for graduate school, taught me what it means to be an active participant in the daily process of living in a democratic society, provided me with a circle of friends and mentors whose work and lives and spirit I hold in the highest esteem."
"My PAGS studies have been a great asset to me these past 2 years as my work in Human Resources often involves conflict-resolution and mediation, even in an Ashram! I have drawn from many books we read, including Getting to Yes and The Different Drum. In light of recent events, my studies on the Jerusalem program have been very helpful. As a former elementary school teacher, I am working on creating a module on "Tolerance" to offer in local high schools with a Middle East History segment to help young people understand the current world crisis. I will be drawing from many of Gandhi's and King's writings as well as from my personal experiences in Israel/Palestine. I hope to begin a conversation of discovery with the kids rather than offer them a pre-fabricated belief system. "My conviction that peace is created from the inside out is affirmed on a daily basis. I look forward to integrating the work I do here with future work in the peace and justice community, offering meditation to others as a means of rejuvenation."
"As a relatively new parent I feel like PAGS and the values I already had that lead me to chose a PAGS major have been very influential in decisions I make as a parent ... the ways we treat our children and behave in front of them influence how they are in the rest of the world. "I think PAGS influenced my decision to pursue librarianship because I feel that literacy and information are tools for empowerment… I also think that in a more general way PAGS influenced my way of thinking and acting. I tend to feel a need to work for positive social change, deal with conflict, contribute to a more positive world, not just accept the status quo. Basically to be a part of positive change in whatever situation I am in whether it be a social, work, political or family setting…"
"In the legal field, there is ample opportunity to be faced with conflicts! Having a background in Peace and Global Studies, particularly in areas such as conflict resolution, has been very useful in my legal work to assist employees to resolve conflicts in their workplaces through informal methods, mediation, settlement talks or court room litigation. PAGS also tends to attract students who are committed to social justice and building community and I am happy to report that many of these bonds continue well beyond college." "The skills that PAGS professors taught me that I use every day are: critical thinking, conflict resolution, research skills, resourcefulness, communication skills, and perhaps most importantly my PAGS professors imparted on me confidence that I am intelligent, capable, creative, trustworthy, and special."
"My involvement with the Peace Studies program at Earlham provided the foundation for academic and activist work in the international arena, particularly with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, human rights, and conflict resolution."
"Because of its comprehensive nature, its emphasis upon critical thinking and upon analyzing structural causes, and its emphasis upon combining the historical, the philosophical, and the political, The Peace & Global Studies Program can give students ways of understanding a world that might rarely seem to make sense otherwise. My training in PAGS prepared me well to enter the graduate program in Latin American History at the University of Texas at Austin, which was the top-rated program in the country for this field. " I chose to serve as director of the Border Studies Program on the Mexico-U.S. border because this kind of teaching "in the field" allows me a special chance to help students see the connections between what they are witnessing in the present moment and historical events long ago. If there was ever any question as to the value of a degree in PAGS, I should think that the present historical moment, the open-ended "War on Terrorism," would put such questions to rest, for PAGS students understand the need for multifaceted rather than uni-dimensional responses (i.e., military action alone) to the problems that can give rise to acts of terrorism, and it will be just these kinds of responses that can bring about sustainable peace. "Be assured that although it is rarely addressed in the mainstream media, PAGS majors are quietly engaging with the world wherever they may be in order to try to facilitate transitions to social justice and stable peace." |
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Amy
Spears — Class of 1997
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Earlham College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |