Registration is now open for the 2014 Friends Association for Higher Education and Friends Council on Education joint conference at Haverford College from June 12th through 15th. It’s the first time in eight years that educators from pre-K through college will gather together with a concern for Friends testimonies in education. Our theme is “Exploring Right Relationships.”
Registration is open: “Exploring Right Relationships”
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April 5, 2014 · 2:39 pm2014 Quaker College Fair
Registration is now open for the 2014 Quaker College Fair. It’ll take place on Saturday, May 17th from noon til 3 pm. at the Arch Street Meetinghouse in Philadelphia.
We begin with a discussion of the query “How can the college experience shape and nourish all aspects of who I am and what I can be?” Panelists include Sarah Willie-LeBreton, professor of sociology and anthropology at Swarthmore College; Hallie Ciarlone, college guidance counselor at Delaware Valley Friends School; and Luke van Meter, recent Haverford College graduate. There will be time for audience participation and questions.
Following the panel discussion, high school students and their families can visit with representatives from Quaker colleges. New this year, we’ll also have information on special opportunities for Quaker students, including student leadership programs and scholarships.
Register now for the Quaker College Fair.
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John Woolman and International Relations
Announcing one of the plenary sessions at the 2014 FAHE-FCE joint conference at Haverford College:
“Consider the Connections of Things”: John Woolman and International Relations
Michael Birkel, Shan Cretin, and Diane Randall
Saturday, June 14 – Founders Great Hall – 7:30-9:00 p.m.
How does the inward life of worship and the outward life of ministry for peace and social justice live in today’s world among Friends?. We will consider the document “Shared Security” (a collaboration of Friends Committee on National Legislation and American Friends Service Committee for reimagining US foreign policy) as read in the company of the 18th-centuryQuaker mystic and social reformer John Woolman.
Michael Birkel teaches religion at Earlham College and has written on Quaker spirituality and, more recently, interfaith understanding.
Shan Cretin is General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.
Diane Randall is Executive Secretary at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Washington, DC-based Quaker lobby in the public interest.
Registration opens March 17th. Please join us!
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The value of a liberal arts education
Rebecca Chopp and Dan Weiss, presidents of FAHE members Swarthmore College and Haverford College, speak today on WHYY Philadelphia’s Radio Times on the value of a liberal arts education. They’ve just edited the book Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts. Listen online .
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Quaker Higher Education, Fall 2013
FAHE is pleased to announce the latest edition of Quaker Higher Education. This issue of QHE features articles that attempt to take a step back and think about why we teach, how we teach, and what our teaching is meant to do for our students. All the essays in this issue grew out of presentations at the June 2013 conference of the Friends Association for Higher Education at Malone University.
Jay Case (Malone University) opens this issue, as he did the conference, with an appeal to consider our students as both thinking and desiring beings, with perhaps the thinking part being less important than we would like to think. He charts a way forward through the demands and expectations of our materialistic and utilitarian society by contextualizing our educational work within the Quaker spiritual and intellectual traditions.
Tracey Hucks (Haverford College) challenges us to embrace the challenges of diversity in deed as well as word, and move our education out of the classroom into the whole lives of our students and ourselves. Laura Foote (Malone University) informs us of the challenges facing women who speak out in the public sphere, throughout history down to today, and shows how three Quaker women, in particular, have dealt with those challenges, risen above their detractors, and inspired others to speak up and speak out.
Finally, Steve Chase (Antioch University New England) uses the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to inspire us to be creatively maladjusted to the injustices of the world. He shows us through example how education can weave together knowledge, caring, and activism.
All these stories show us ways to break down the artificial barriers that attempt to compartmentalize and (intentionally or not) trivialize what we teach and what we learn. Holistic learning extends through history, through the classroom, out to the community, and into action.
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ESR creates Quaker College Leadership Network
Students from five FAHE member schools, Earlham, George Fox, Guilford, Haverford, and Wilmington met at the Earlham School of Religion for the first Quaker College Leadership Gathering. Subsequently, ESR’s Matt Hisrich has created the Quaker College Leadership Network:
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Quaker Higher Education Archive
FAHE is pleased to offer our complete archive of past issues of our biannual journal Quaker Higher Education.
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Quaker Higher Education, Spring 2013
FAHE is pleased to announce the publication of the latest edition of Quaker Higher Education (Volume 7, Number 1).
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Research Fellowship (deadline 2/15) at Guilford College’s Friends Historical Collection
The Seth and Mary Edith Hinshaw Fellowship provides up to $2,000 for research using the resources of the Friends Historical Collection at Guilford College to study an aspect of southern Quaker history. The fellowship is sponsored by the North Carolina Friends Historical Society to encourage research and use of the Friends Historical Collection. The recipient may be asked to present his/her research and findings at the Society’s annual meeting.
See http://libguides.guilford.edu/fhc/fellowships for more details.
We invite applications from a range of backgrounds: dissertation, post- doctoral, and non-academic. We anticipate that the most competitive applications will involve innovative projects of the many concerns to which Friends have turned their attention, including literature, women’s issues, family history, and race relations, as well as religious doctrine and controversies. Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • demonstrated understanding of the applicability of our particular holdings to the anticipated project. • probability that the project will result in a product that will advance the worlds’ understanding of the multiple dimensions of religion. • evidence of the applicant’s prior familiarity with and effective use of similar collections.
Application deadline for the 2013 fellowship is February 15, 2013. Applicants should send the following materials as PDF attachments to archives@guilford.edu and also mail a print copy to Gwen Gosney Erickson, Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27410:
• a three-to-five page statement of research goals, including what progress has been made to date; a statement of how this project will further greater understanding and/or scholarship by placing Southern Quaker history in the context of your subject area, an assessment of how Guilford’s materials can further its progress, and an estimate of when the project is expected to be completed.
• a current vita or resume • if applicant’s background does not include published work, include a writing sample • the names and addresses of three references who are familiar with both the field in which the applicant proposes to work, and with the applicant’s work. Please inform your references that they could be contacted. • permanent and any temporary addresses (e-mail and postal) and phone numbers
Gwen Gosney Erickson
Interim Library Director Friends Librarian & College Archivist Guilford College 5800 W. Friendly Avenue Greensboro, NC 27410 (336) 316-2046 (Library) (336) 316-2264 (FHC/Archives) www.guilford.edu/library
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Quaker Higher Education: Fall 2012
FAHE is pleased to announce the latest edition of Quaker Higher Education, Fall 2012 is now available.
This issue of QHE gathers uniquely Quaker voices to address some of the greatest challenges facing higher education today. Potentially disruptive innovation and financial crises are forcing most, if not all institutions, to reexamine our missions and the manner in which we carry them out. All the essays in this issue grew out of presentations at the June 2012 conference of the Friends Association for Higher Education. The authors respond to these challenges from a Quaker perspective, exploring what we might have to contribute to the discussion.
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Friends Association for Higher Education 