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Bowdoin is pleased to announce the launch of a new one-year pilot program to make available to Bowdoin alumni the Journal Storage (JSTOR) electronic journal collection. This pilot, offered through a select number of colleges and universities worldwide, gives Bowdoin alumni free online access, from their homes or offices, to over one thousand academic journals.  Students at the myJourney luncheon
If you were charting a student’s progress through Bowdoin, you’d be hard-pressed to come up with a straight line. The gift of a liberal arts education is that freedom to zig and to zag. Last week, more than 40 first-year students got firsthand advice on ways to connect the dots to maximize the impact of their Bowdoin education. The so-called “myJourney” luncheon brought first years to the table with a group of nine student facilitators, many of them upperclassmen, who shared their personal stories of negotiating a pathway through Bowdoin. As part of the United States Courts “Pathways to the Bench” profile series, federal judge Jeffery Hopkins ’82 shares his inspiring story about the power and value of education.
How do you know when your work is being noticed? Sometimes, it’s when “Saturday Night Live” spoofs it, as in the case of Geoff Canada ’74, CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone. That Canada, an impassioned champion of educational reform, has been recognized in the cultural mainstream with a joke on ‘SNL’ can only mean good things for his cause. His impersonation appears around minute 5:13 of a recurring “What Up With That” skit.
In recent years, the College has found itself counted among schools with “the best financial aid,” “the healthiest dining halls” and “the happiest students.” As The Huffington Post reports, it is now near the top (#2) of “The 10 Colleges with the Best Quality of Life.“
Talk of college endowments tends to prompt a fair amount of armchair quarterbacking, replete with comments suggesting that with “so much money, students should attend free of charge!” or “they’re doing so well, certainly they don’t need a gift from me.” Not true, writes Andrew J. Rotherham, co-founder of the nonprofit Bellwether Education Partners. Rotherham’s Time magazine piece, “College Endowments: Why Even Harvard Isn’t as Rich as You Think,” offers five reasons that “the reality of how college endowments work is different from the rhetoric.”  Doris Santoro
In a new article in the American Journal of Education, Assistant Professor of Education Doris Santoro argues that many teachers are finding it difficult to experience the “moral rewards” of their profession in a new era of rigid curricula, high-stakes testing and reduced classroom autonomy.  Geoffrey Canada '74
Geoffrey Canada ’74 has been selected to receive the second Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Education Impact. The medal is the highest honor given by the Ed School, and is awarded to practitioners, policymakers and researchers who have had an outstanding transformative impact on the education sector. “To be chosen for this medal by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which has had such a profound impact on my life and on education reform across the nation, is a deeply felt honor,” Canada said. Canada is the president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a full-service community organization geared toward improving the lives of low-income children and families in New York City through education. Dr. Charlotte F. Cole ’82 oversees Sesame Workshop’s global strategies and leads the development of all curriculum and research for its international projects, including recent projects in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, South Africa and West Bank/Gaza. Cole was the featured speaker at Tuesday’s Bowdoin Breakfast, delivering the talk ”Muppet Diplomacy: How Sesame Street is Working to Change Our World” in which she talked about the mission and the reach of the Sesame Workshop, whose name, Cole said, originated from “the concept of ‘open sesame’ and the idea that you can open the world of learning through opening Sesame.”                   Cole received her doctorate in human development and psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, previously worked as a Senior Researcher at the Joslin Diabetes Center and a college course instructor, and is a member of the editorial board of theJournal of Children and Media and served as the publication’s first Review and Commentary Editor. More than 50 middle schoolers from Lincoln Middle School’s English Language Learners program in Portland visited Bowdoin last Friday to learn about college and what it takes to get there. Their visit was organized by Mike Hendrickson ’13 and Robbie Harrison ’14 as part of the Bowdoin Alternative Winter Break program that focused on immigrant and resettlement issues. During the last week of winter break, a small group of students led by Hendrickson and Harrison spent time with the middle schoolers, talking to them about setting goals and the importance of education.              “Today was one of our ways of focusing them on college and future opportunities,” Hendrickson said. Harrison added,”It was a way for us to give them an idea of what they could set as a goal.” Continue reading Bowdoin Students Introduce Middle Schoolers to the Campus |  | ||
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