March 30, 2005
Earlham Legend Landrum Bolling Honored for Distinguished Service to Education
The international Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has selected Earlham President Emeritus Landrum R. Bolling as the recipient of the organization’s 2005 James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education. Presented annually for more than 50 years, the award recognizes individuals and organizations for their “extraordinary service to education of national and/or international significance.”
March 21, 2005
"Following the Ancient Thread:" Latest Watson Fellowship Winner Will Study Andean Textiles, Techniques
“Textiles tell stories… our hands speak a language of their own [and] weaving hands can speak across warp threads as well as words can communicate across vocal chords,” says Earlham senior Sandy Hartmannsgruber, an art and German double major who, as the College’s latest recipient (and fourth in five years) of a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship, will soon embark upon a 12-month journey to study 4,000 years of pre-Columbian and contemporary textiles in the Andean mountain regions of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
March 04, 2005
Bloomberg News: Bennett Says Affluent Colleges Cutting Low-Income Costs Means Little for Most Students
Responding to the recent announcement by Yale University that, like Harvard earlier, it will reduce or eliminate charges to families of admitted students having incomes of less than $60,000 per year, Earlham President Doug Bennett told Bloomberg News higher education reporter Liz Willen that while “this is terrific news for the relatively small number of low-income students who gain admission to Yale… it does nothing to advance the cause of making higher education accessible and affordable to all students.”
March 01, 2005
WIPB-TV (PBS): Arabic Language Teacher Seeks to Spread Peace Through Communication
The more people communicate, the less opportunity there is for conflict and war, says Jordanian Muslim Khulood Kittaneh, who joined Earlham’s teaching faculty this year as visiting instructor in Arabic and who recently shared some of her experiences both in and out of the classroom with a television crew from WIPB-TV, Indiana Public Broadcasting, in Muncie. “Through educating people, through open time just to discuss and interact, this is the way you can help other people and spread peace,” Kittaneh said (video link included).