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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The eW b Magazine Gardner-Webb Publications Summer 1999 The eW b Magazine 1999, Summer Matt eW bber Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web Recommended Citation Webber, Matt, "The eW b Magazine 1999, Summer" (1999). The Web Magazine. 6. https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web/6 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Gardner-Webb Publications at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The eW b Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The A publication of Gardner-Webb University |D <3. WEB Summer 1999 Vol. XXX, No. XXX Putting Its Money Where Its Mouth Is A Bold New curriculum elements entitled of the Self’ will be a cluster The certificate programs “Dimensions of Heritage” of courses that focuses on include the following: Great Curriculum Gives and “Dimensions of the Self.” “interiority” and self-under¬ Books, Leadership and Further Notice To The Gardner-Webb core standing. “Self is that irre¬ Public Service, Community seeks to align the institution ducible essence at the core of Service, Fitness Activities, Students And The with the ideas embodied in our being that may be surren¬ International Study, and Public That Alan Wolfe’s recent book on dered but cannot be taken Integration of Faith and American opinion, One from us against our will,” says Learning. Each certificate Gardner=Webb Is Nation, After All. Wolfe Blackburn. “If character program has a coordinator Dedicated To reports that, even though the emerges from within, and an advisory board. opinions of the average ‘Dimensions of the Self is Students’ experiences will be Developing The American are often ridiculed indispensable to the student’s reported on a Social tran¬ Whole Person script that will become an official part of the perma¬ nent record. “We have in America the largest The University received a public school system on earth, the sizable grant from The most expensive college buildings, the Broyhill Family Foundation, most extensive curriculum, but Inc., of Lenoir, North nowhere else is education so blind to Carolina, to implement the its objectives, so indifferent to any new curriculum, which will specific outcome as in America. One place GWU in the ranks of trouble has been its negative charac¬ those bucking the trend ter. It has aimed at the repression of toward the dissolution of faults rather than the creation of liberal arts. values.” “The bottom line,” Those haunting words Blackburn says, “is actually from the late 'W'hham "P. developing character in your Faunce likely rang all too students, not just saying that true in Dr. Gil Blackburn’s you’re an institution that mind in October 1997. The stands for developing char¬ GWU vice president and acter in its students.” dean of academic affairs, hav¬ The new curriculum is the ing just learned in September latest in a long fine of recent of that year about Gardner- moves that have shown the Webb’s selection as one of “The bottom line,” says Dr. Gil Blackburn, “is actually country of GWU’s dedica¬ only 134 colleges nationwide developing character in your students, not just saying that tion to character develop¬ to the elite Templeton you’re an institution that stands for developing character in ment. The Templeton award Foundation Honor Roll for its students.” was presented in Fall 1997, Character-Building by the elites that dominate development.” the GWU School of Business Institutions, had realized institutional life, a clear Blackburn explained that, was recognized on national that GWU was at a cross¬ majority doggedly cling to a in addition to the current television for its mission to roads ... live up to this invalu¬ core of deeply held values Freshman Experience instill morality and ethics in able distinction or count it as that give meaning to their requirement already in place its students, the Broyhill a singular accomplishment lives. The curriculum goes (designed to assist with the Adventure Course was creat¬ and move on. into effect this fall. transition from home to col¬ ed on campus to teach team¬ Blackburn says many hours According to the Winter lege through the formation building and leadership skills, laboring over what the 1998-99 National Association of good study habits, respon¬ and a new position was creat¬ prospects of GWU’s legacy of Scholars (NAS) newsletter, sibility, etc.), “Dimension of ed to coordinate volunteer might be in decades to come the new core at GWU the Self’ includes courses in efforts among students. left him with a clear course “addresses recent negative personal Assessment and of action - grab the brass critiques of American higher Adjustment, Dimensions of ring and devise a new Editor’s Note: education but avoids the pit- Personal Health, Leisure General Studies core curricu¬ You have noticed by now that this falls that have plagued curric¬ Pursuits, literature, and Art lum that would give teeth to issue of The Web is quite different ular reform efforts at many or Music Survey. the Templeton recognition. from its traditional appearance. The institutions.” As a unique capstone to standard magazine format will still be A proposed course of Whereas courses in the the new curriculum, an elec¬ used for three ofthe four issues you action was pitched to the receive throughout the year. However, “Dimensions of Heritage” tive, certificate program faculty as a whole for consid¬ since our summer editions of this publi¬ element of the new curricu¬ rounds out the new core that cation tend to be thinner on campus eration - a three-fold venture lum will weave strands of encourages students to par¬ news, we will begin tising this tabloid into developing character in format for our summer issues in order Western, non-Western and ticipate in activities that pro¬ Gardner-Webb students that to share more alumni news with you American culture into a vide an experiential, depth involved an elective, certifi¬ (class notes, alumnifeatures, homecom¬ coherent whole, “Dimensions dimension to their education. ing info, etc.). We will return to our cate program, and new core normal format for our Fall edition of The Web. The Web • www.gardner-webb.edu Helping Heal The someone like her who has been there, worked there, and has Wounds expert information on what this conflict is all about. Gardner- GWU Professors Sought For Webb should be extremely proud that it can boast of someone of Wisdom In The Face Of Disaster her expertise.” Henderson’s thoughts on Professors Dr. Anne Kosovo were so valuable that one Henderson and Dr. Jackson daily newspaper began running a Rainer have used their expert sta¬ commentary from Henderson in tus to take the Gardner-Webb conjunction with each day’s news name to all corners of the country on the situation. Many times in recent months. appearing on the front page, Rainer is a noted Henderson, associate professor Henderson received overwhelm¬ authority on adolescent psycholo¬ of political science, has worked ing response to her candid and gy, death, grieving, and bereave¬ with the United Nations as a hard-hitting evaluations of ment. Television stations put him peacekeeper for several years in NATO’s involvement, Yugoslav on the air immediately after the the Balkans and was very familiar president Slobodan Milosevic, and tragedy occurred, papers from as with the brewing tensions in America’s role in the conflict. far north as New Jersey and as far Yugoslavia when fighting broke To date she has been quoted by west as Oregon hung on his every out there this spring. She has seen over 20 major American media word in news articles and editori¬ firsthand the atrocities and suffer¬ outlets. als, and journalists from nationally ing that the Balkan natives have Dr. Rainer, associate professor syndicated news bureaus e-mailed endured and, when word was of psychology and a licensed ther¬ Rainer constantly in order to released that she was an authority apist, found himself in a similar explain to the world what had just on the political situation there, situation this spring when the happened. the phone began ringing with horrible shooting disaster in And while Rainer is deeply sad¬ inquiries from media members Littleton, Colorado, took place at dened by an all-too-familiar scene, across the United States. Columbine High School outside he is proud that GWU is being One journalist from Florida of Denver. Having previously considered a resource for expert who was following the story told helped communities like Eugene, opinions. “No one benefits from a The Web that he had spoken Oregon, deal with out-of-control senseless tragedy like this, but if I, with many people who had high school students who go on as a representative of this opinions about the crisis, but killing rampages, Rainer was University, can help put this dis¬ Dr. Henderson was the first called time and again by news out¬ aster into perspective for some¬ he had encountered who has lets across the country to field his one out there, I feel it’s my duty personal experience with it. expert opinion on one of the as psychologist and educator to “This is a real find,” he said. worst scenes in U.S. history. do so.” “You just don’t run across Fayetteville, NC, where he was an Tennessee, Georgia and North Transouth 400 race at Darlington attorney at his private law practice Carolina. Raceway. He and his wife, Nancy from 1955 to 1998. He provided an Hargett Troutman’67, live in Class update about their children: Carol Concord, NC and their e-mail R.