November 17, 2006
"Full Court Press" Pays Off for College
In time for International Education Week, NAFSA: Association of International Educators is out with its annual Profiles of Success, calling Earlham’s wildly popular off-campus programs a “garden of international offerings.”
November 16, 2006
The Poet and the Prime Minister
Kathy Taylor’s first book of verse was just published in Curacao, where the professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies is a frequent May Term visitor. Grateful that much of the volume is written in native Papiamentu, the nation’s chief executive was among those recently wishing the author well.
November 14, 2006
USA Today: "College Gets Lowdown on How Students Do"
“Assessment” is the new darling of U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings’ Commission on the Future of Higher Education — in which case, writes national higher education reporter Mary Beth Marklein, Earlham has little to worry about. President Doug Bennett also is quoted in Marklein’s edition-leading article “Should Government Take a Yardstick to Colleges?”
November 13, 2006
"On the Ground" in Iraq
Scott Waldman ‘97, a reporter and photographer for the Erie (Pa.) Times-News, spent the first weeks of November embedded with the U.S. Army’s 329th Medical Company in Iraq, providing coverage from the war zone through articles, pictures, audio and video clips and a daily blog.
November 09, 2006
South Bend Tribune: From Peace House to East Africa
Third-year student Taryn Kincaid writes how her experiences last semester at Peace House in Indianapolis and this fall in Tanzania have helped her discover “my role in the global context.”