Honors Wednesday Memo
Opportunities and Information for Honors Students
edited by Brad Rentz
Volume 3, Issue 19
January 29, 2019
Message from Dean Jeff Vahlbusch
An Honors student I knew years ago said it best: "University life is rich with possibilities, but many students miss them. Pursue four years of extra- and co-curricular activities as educational opportunities, as things that teach you what you lack: it's like getting a second bachelor's degree, mostly free" (Ryan, 1999, paraphrased).
Every Honors Wednesday Memo abounds in carefully selected opportunities for intellectual, personal, and professional growth. Today's Memo offers chances to grow in: leadership, interpersonal relations and problem-solving, public speaking, art and its usefulness, travel and teamwork, solution-seeking for climate change, the power of counseling, and training in diversity, inclusion, and implicit bias.
And here's an additional opportunity, one I mentioned in an Honors email last week: App State's Alternative Service Experience (ASE) still has spaces in most of its spring-break programs. Find program descriptions here (https://ase.appstate.edu/driving-domestic) and, if you're interested, go to the ACT office (PSU) 134 right now.
In future Memos: AHA! Study Breaks, Honors College Vanguard applications, the Honors College Fall course catalogue and preview, summer and fall jobs in the Honors College, and, of course, Cookies.
Yours always,
Jeff
The photo above features Honors Students studying in the Honors Library in October 2019. Photo by Callie Matthews.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Emerging Leaders Application
Emerging Leaders is a 7-week cohort program designed for first- and second-year students interested in personal growth, leadership development, and building networks with other ASU leaders. The program runs from February 5 through April 1 from 5 to 6:30 in the Student Union. To learn more and to register, visit our website.
Opportunity to Work with Artists in Prison
In cooperation with the Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution, students can lead weekly art activities through the Penland School of Craft. Applicants must be 21 or over and must attend the information session on Thursday, January 30, 2020. For more information, click here.
Join College Advising Corps
Appalachian College Advising Corps is looking for service-minded, motivated, and high performing young professionals to work in schools to support high school students in making post-secondary education a reality. There will be an information session held on February 4, from 5 – 6 pm in the Watauga River room of the Student Union. To learn more about the requirements and process, visit our website.
Residency by the Dance Company A.I.M.
On Monday, February 3, A.I.M. is coming to Appalachian for outreach and discussion-oriented events before their performance on Wednesday, February 5 in the Schaefer center. For a complete list of their events, and to learn more about their performance, click here.
NCHC Grand Canyon Semester
The Grand Canyon Semester is an integrated learning experience in the humanities and sciences through which each student comes to understand the environmental and social challenges confronting society in the 21st century. The semester lasts from August 20 through December 7. The application deadline is February 17. For more information, visit our website.
Stay in the Know…
Climate Action Planning Public Forum
On January 31, from 1 to 2 pm in the Blue Ridge Ballroom of the Student Union, students can participate a public forum for the upcoming climate action plan. This is an opportunity for members of the community to weigh in with their knowledge, suggestions, and solutions for the climate crisis. For more information on this forum, click here.
Biology Seminar Series
On Friday, January 31, from 3:00 to 4 pm in Walker Hall, room 103A, there will be a discussion from Dr. Becky Sanft exploring mathematical modeling in Biology. Dr. Sanft will discuss how she approaches teaching the principles of mathematical modeling in interdisciplinary classes through the use of case studies and wet labs. To learn more, visit our website.
The Counseling Center is Here to Help
The Counseling and Psychological Services Center provides group and individual counseling services and referral services to help support the mental health of Appalachian State students. They also offer consultation to faculty and staff, as well as outreach/prevention programming to the campus community. If you, or a fellow student, needs to the assistance that the Counseling Center can provide, click here.
Counseling Center’s Consultation Program
The Counseling Center is offering a new program called "Let’s Talk." Let's Talk is a free, confidential, and informal consultation service. Counselor consultants are available in the Student Union on Wednesdays (New River Room 100) and Thursdays (Elk Knob Room 165) from 1-3 PM. For more information on the services, the counseling center offers, visit our website.
Student Organization Meeting
The Appalachian Student Chapter of the American Correctional Association (ASCACA) is pleased to invite undergraduate and graduate students of all majors to attend the first membership meeting of the Spring 2020 semester and consider joining this active, educational, and fun student organization. The organization meets once a month on Wednesdays in 110 Anne Belk Hall. To learn more about this organization, click here.
In the Honors Spotlight
Dr. Dana Powell’s Honors seminar examines Native American genocide
The photo above features Dr. Powell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
In Dr. Dana Powell's Spring 2018 Honors seminar, Native Americans/Indigenous Studies, students got first-hand experience using the Visual History Archive (VHA) of genocide studies at the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation. Dr. Powell is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, whose research focused on the Native American Navajo/Diné Nation was recently awarded a Cornell University Society for the Humanities (SOH) Fellowship for the 2019–20 academic year.
For the complete story on this unique Honors seminar, click here.
Honors Alumnus Clark Streets Pursues M.S. at the London School of Economics
The photos above are of Clark Street and wall at LSE campus submitted by Clark Streets.
Honors Alumnus Clark Streets is currently working towards his Master of Science in International Migration and Public Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). Streets graduated from Honors at Appalachian in May of 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science with a minor in Spanish. After graduation, he did an internship with Democracy North Carolina, a nonpartisan organization in Durham, NC. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Madrid to teach English at a primary school called El Olivar.
To read more on this story, visit our website.
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