Dr. Thomas McPartland, director of the Whitney Young School, and Dr. George Shields, professor of philosophy in the Division of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy, have an article, "Lonergan and Process Philosophy," published in the peer-reviewed Lonergan Workshop, vol. 22 (2011). In this article they carry on a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and process philosophers Charles Hartshorne and Alfred North Whitehead, arguing that major similarities (theistic metaphysics, process cosmology, and appeal to subjectivity) make the dialogue a fruitful one.
Senior Whitney Young School honors student Monique Scroggins delivered a presentation on her senior thesis, titled, “Causes and consequences of American gender stereotypes,” at the Southern Region Honors Council annual conference at Tampa, Florida, on March 30. Also present at the conference was Dr. Thomas McPartland, director of the Whitney Young School.
Dr. Edwin Conner presented a paper entitled “The Man of Power and Liberal Studies for the Twenty-First Century,” at the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association of Core Texts and Courses. Dr. Conner also served as Chair of a conference session entitled “Greeks saw Homer as Ethical Instructor: Can We?” in which three presenters presented various ideas about Homer’s two epics.
The International Student Association received the Outstanding Organization Award for 2011-12 from the Student Government Association.
Members of the International Student Association have, for the second year in a row, agreed to volunteer at the Good Shepherd School. Both domestic and foreign students share with elementary school children knowledge of different countries and cultures.
The Office of International Affairs and Global education is scheduled to receive its first two international students from this program; one is a participant in a special USAID funded "HARVEST" food security program in Cambodia, while the other is a Fulbright graduate student from Swaziland. Both students will study in the Master of Science Program in Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences. These are the first students of this kind coming to KSU, according to II.E.
KSU had a faculty member and a student apply for Fulbright awards in the Fall. Dr. Cynthia Shelton applied to do scholarly work in the Caribbean, and Mr. Travis Renz applied to study culinary arts at the Masters level in Italy.
KSU is now registered as a Gilman Scholarship institution (a federal study abroad aid program for Pell-eligible students). Dr. Comell Menking is the Gilman advisor for the Office of Global Education and Programs, and Ms. Myrna Bryant is the Gilman advisor for the Financial Aid office. This semester KSU had its first two Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship applicants (decisions pending).