July 31, 2006
BBC World Service Radio: Jawad Joya on "Overcoming Life's Obstacles"
The unflagging spirit of Earlham third-year student Jawad Joya ‘08 — who grew up poor, illiterate and a victim of polio in Kabul City, Afghanistan — recently captured the attention of BBC Radio interviewer Fred Dove, who spoke with Joya from Afghanistan as part of a special series of Outlook reports on “overcoming life’s obstacles” (this is a large audio file and may take some systems an extended period to download).
July 30, 2006
The New York Times: Earlham Among "Hidden Gems" in Higher Education
In a special Sunday section report — “Off the Beaten Path” — New York Times national correspondent Randal Archibold examines a select group of 20 U.S. colleges and universities, including Earlham, that many higher education experts consider “on equal or near-equal footing” academically with brand-name institutions like Harvard, Yale, Stanford or Penn, and which in many cases “are more three-dimensional.” According to Archibold, the message of those same experts to prospective college students contesting for admission to one of “the usual suspects” is pay less attention to prestige and more to “fit,” or the marriage of interests and comfort level with factors like campus size, access to professors and instruction philosophy. Of Earlham, a recipient of the 2006 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, Archibold writes that “a global perspective permeates the curriculum; students must be proficient in a foreign language by graduation.” Additionally, he observes, “Earlham also does well in the National Survey of Student Engagement, which sets benchmarks to measure student involvement.”
July 27, 2006
Inside Higher Ed: "Scholar of Peace in the Line of Fire"
“We spend most of our time listening to the news to be able to know where the bombings are so we can know who is caught under fire and what we can do to help,” Earlham Professor of Peace Studies Saoud El Mawla tells editor Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed, describing his and his family’s current situation under bombardment in Beirut.
July 26, 2006
Governor Honors Alumna as One of Tomorrow's Leaders
Earlham alumna April Crowe ‘05 says she never expected to receive an award from Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and the Indiana Humanities Council for her work with the AmeriCorps national service program. But then, she never imagined taking a job with the Indianapolis Police Department, either…
July 15, 2006
South Bend Tribune: "Leaders Pressure Sudan to End Genocide"
Earlham’s Monteze Snyder, McDaniel chair of business and non-profit management, was among roughly two dozen Indiana religious, education and political leaders meeting by teleconference with Sudan’s ambassador to the United States, Khidir Ahmed, to try to bring pressure of the Sudanese government to end the three-year-old armed conflict in the country’s Darfur region that has so far claimed the lives of some 250,000 people. The meeting was organized by State Sen. John Broden of South Bend, who indicated that if Sudan’s leaders fail to make progress toward ending the violence, he will propose to the Indiana General Assembly in December a bill to divest the state from investments in companies doing business in Sudan. A member of the Society of Friends, Snyder told reporter Dan Gangler of United Methodist News Service, “Our deepest concern is keeping peace in Darfur and related regions. The [proposed] sanctions are viewed as a way of dealing with the consequences if the support of peace and peacekeeping efforts are not reached.”