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Winter 2016 Salem College Magazine contents 5 The Continuing Relevance of 30 College Moves Up in U.S. News, a Liberal Arts Education Other Rankings Our president and several of Salem’s distinguished U.S. News & World Report ranks Salem College as the faculty members weigh in on why the liberal arts matter number two liberal arts college and the number one now more than ever. women’s college in North Carolina.

32 FEATURES 22 Mount Holyoke’s Loss, Salem’s Gain New Tennis Center Is All Aces Mimi Aledo-Sandoval C’01 never pictured herself The new Bert Lain Tennis Center is a spectacular addition on the Board of Trustees. But then, she never planned to the College’s athletics facilities. It will help attract top on attending Salem College in the first place. student-athletes to Salem for years to come.

24 Leaving the Front Door Wide Open 34 New Conference, Big Thanks in no small part to the efforts of Patrice Black G-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-A-L-S! Mitchell C’89, Salem College is today the most racially and Heading into their first season in the USA South Conference, ethnically diverse college in Winston-Salem. Salem’s soccer team set some ambitious goals for themselves. They didn’t disappoint. 29 New Masters Degree in Music Offered Salem’s School of Music has introduced a new master of music degree that enhances the performance artistry of students and augments their pedagogical skills. Salem College Magazine

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D. E. Lorraine Sterritt, PhD President, Salem Academy and College Susan Calovini, PhD Dean of the College, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Katherine Knapp Watts C’80 Vice President for Enrollment, Financial Aid, and Communications

EDITORS Ed Jones Director of Communications and Public Relations ART DIRECTOR Debi Quilla DESIGNERS Johnny Johnson Jessica Sedo C’06 2 PRESIDENT’S LETTER WRITERS 26 FACULTY NEWS DeAnne Davis Brooks, EdD Lisa DeLise, PhD Krishauna Hines-Gaither, PhD 30 BACK PORCH NEWS Mary Jacobsen, PsyD Johnny Johnson 34 SALEM SPIRITS NEWS Ed Jones Daniel O. Prosterman, PhD 40 COMMENCEMENT D. E. Lorraine Sterritt, PhD

DEPARTMENTS Paula Grafton Young, PhD PHOTOGRAPHERS Jordan Brannock Lauren Olinger Wayne Reich On the cover: Our cover features the image of Janus. Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and endings, transitions, and doorways. His two heads look simultaneously into the past and the future.

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Dear members National Association of Schools of Music to offer the first graduate of the Salem family, program outside the field of education at Salem: the master of music in piano and organ performance and pedagogy with a specialization Greetings from Salem where in injury-preventive keyboard technique. The College also added four the campus is especially vibrant courses in Arabic language and culture and a new five-course minor and beautiful with spectacular in professional writing this year. autumn colors and foliage. I Salem College is in its first year in the USA South Conference, would like to share just a few of and it should come as no surprise that our Spirits are continuing the remarkable things that have their winning ways. The soccer team, led by Coach Jay Callahan, had been accomplished at Salem a season to remember in their new conference. Our Salem Spirits during the summer and fall of claimed the title of USA South Regular Season Champions and USA this year. South Tournament Runners-up. The Salem campus was a Salem’s first head lacrosse coach, Merridith Cho, joined the hub of activity throughout College Department of Athletics this year. A graduate of the the summer. The inaugural University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the Summer Weekend Retreat for College alumnae was held in July, Tar Heel lacrosse team that went to the NCAA Final Four, she will and it was an unqualified success. Over the course of three days, recruit top student-athletes in preparation for Salem’s inaugural alumnae heard talks given by several of our faculty members, toured lacrosse season in 2017–18. the Salem Archives and Rare Book Room, and enjoyed staying in the The momentum is increasing across the campus as Salem’s magnificent McHugh Sisters Flats. Plans for next summer’s weekend development team continues to focus on meeting our fundraising retreat for College alumnae are already underway. goals. Salem’s Annual Fund campaign raised a total of $1,535,342 We welcomed several new faculty and staff members last during fiscal year 2015–16. To date, the Annual Fund total for summer—among them Jeremy Shreve, who joined Salem’s this still-young fiscal year is approximately $685,000. Under the leadership team as the new Vice President for Finance and Chief leadership of Campaign Co-chairs Becky Hewit Rauenhorst C’74 and Financial Officer. Jeremy previously served as the controller and Danielle Williams A’88, the Women of Purpose campaign has raised managed all accounting responsibilities at the University of Mount over $42 million. Gifts to the campaign of any size may be made at Olive. We are delighted that Jeremy, his wife, and their two little purpose.salem.edu/give.html. We especially appreciate unrestricted daughters (future Salem students!) have joined our community. gifts since they enable us to direct the funds to where we need them Dr. Krishauna Hines-Gaither, Assistant Professor of Spanish, most. Each and every donation is greatly appreciated and will help us has assumed the role of Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness. achieve our $60 million goal. Under her direction, students, faculty, staff, and administrators You can also support Salem at no cost to you with each purchase are receiving training in respecting diversity and promoting that you make through the AmazonSmile program on amazon.com. inclusiveness. The merchandise is the same as on the regular Amazon site, and On August 23rd, students, staff, faculty, members of the Board of customers are charged the same prices through the AmazonSmile Trustees and the Board of Visitors, and Salem friends met for the program as those listed on the Amazon site. It is very easy to enroll traditional Community picnic. The afternoon included the dedication in the program through smile.amazon.com, and when you select of our new tennis center, a significant milestone in Salem’s history Salem Academy and College as the charitable organization of your and a superb facility for both the Academy and the College. The choice, Amazon will donate a percentage of each eligible purchase outstanding generosity of our donors and friends made the new to Salem. center possible, and we are already reaping the rewards of its It was a joy to meet with many Salem alumnae and friends last construction. Only days after the dedication, the courts were used summer, and I am looking forward to meeting more of you this fall for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Teen Doubles and winter. I am deeply grateful to everyone in the Salem family for Championship, and many spectators were drawn to the new facility. your creative ideas, your contagious energy, and your generosity. I am happy to let you know that enrollment among traditional- Thanks to your continuing support and your passion for Salem, age College students is the highest in our history. We welcomed an our beloved 245-year-old institution will remain forever young. incoming class of 204 first-year students and twenty-two transfer Yours ever for Salem ever, students, sustaining a record-breaking trend that has continued for D. E. Lorraine Sterritt three years. The School of Music received approval in July from the President

2 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e w i n t e r 2 0 1 6 3 4 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e THE LIBERAL ARTS D. E. LORRAINE STERRITT, PHD, PRESIDENT

n the Middle Ages, what were called “the seven liberal The history of liberal arts education is one of adjusting to new arts” were divided into two groups: the trivium, conditions in innovative ways, and the relevance of this approach consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric; and the to education builds upon the wisdom of the past in order to quadrivium, consisting of arithmetic, geometry, equip us to meet the challenges of our ever-changing world with astronomy, and music. Today the liberal arts include courage, flexibility, and imagination. The acquisition of a liberal the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social arts education begins in childhood, continues through higher sciences. Because the term “liberal arts” includes the sciences, education, and is in fact a lifelong project. it is inaccurate to speak of “the liberal arts and sciences.” The study of the liberal arts has helped the human race to adjust This fundamental approach to the major fields of knowledge, to change in healthy and productive ways. As we get older, we which began in antiquity with the purpose of equipping a person are supposed to become wiser. A continuing involvement with to undertake the duties of an adult in civic life, continued the liberal arts will help us to do so. We are given life in order through the universities of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to cultivate lifelong habits of learning, curiosity, discovery, and and is at the heart of education in our colleges and universities excitement. The pursuit of the liberal arts enables us to today. This knowledge has been transmitted through a variety be free persons helping to build a free society that freely of means, including books, lectures, artistic performances, adjusts to change. and such modern media as film, television, and the internet.

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The Salem Signature: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Liberal Arts GIVEN SALEM COLLEGE’S DEVOTION TO THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN A LIBERAL ARTS SETTING, THE SALEM SIGNATURE—THE COLLEGE’S GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM—SERVES TO PROVIDE ALL STUDENTS WITH A CORE CURRICULUM GROUNDED IN THE LIBERAL ARTS.

n 2009, the Salem Signature program underwent enhance their intellectual development from their first class substantial change, with the intent to provide students through graduation. The Signature focuses intentionally and with an academic foundation that would facilitate comprehensively on student learning in five competencies: success throughout their undergraduate careers and critical thinking, communication, quantitative reasoning, beyond. According to its revised mission statement, the global awareness, and gender inquiry. Reflecting the College’s Salem Signature “educates the whole person, realizes mission statement, which emphasizes that Salem will prepare individual potential, fosters intellectual curiosity, develops its students to “change the world,” the Salem Signature leadership skills, and cultivates women of change.” ensures that every student completes a set of Disciplinary and The revised Signature program accomplishes this mission by Interdisciplinary Dimensions. The Disciplinary Dimension cultivating in students an interdisciplinary skill set that will integrates natural science, social science, fine arts, humanities,

6 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e mathematics, and Language of Another Culture. Traditional-age Interdisciplinary seminars have become increasingly popular in students also complete an Experiential Dimension that includes American higher education, as colleges and universities seek to a service-learning course, internship, and physical activity and offer new students a common experience that will augment their wellness classes. skills in such areas as reading, writing, and critical thinking.

The Interdisciplinary Dimension features courses in the Signature The Signature’s incorporation of an interdisciplinary capstone THE LIBERAL ARTS program, as well as classes in women’s Studies, global awareness, course—SIGN 350: Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar—for every and quantitative interpretation. This far-reaching Interdisciplinary Salem undergraduate builds upon this model. Dimensions coursework makes Salem’s general education program Salem is a pioneer in this field, as it’s one of only a handful of unique and encourages the further development of diverse course schools in the country that employ this kind of interdisciplinary offerings that reflect the College’s core values throughout the seminar at the conclusion—in addition to the beginning—of undergraduate curriculum. students’ undergraduate careers. Viewing students’ academic

Traditional-age students begin their transition to Salem even growth from their First-Year Experience and Transitions courses DANIEL O. PROSTERMAN, PHD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY before they arrive on campus, having worked with the new faculty to their Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar provides a fascinating advisors to determine their fall semester courses. Students then means to appreciate all of the benefits of a Salem education. begin their first semester continuing to work with their advisors Serving as facilitators rather than disciplinary experts, capstone in our interdisciplinary First-Year Experience (FYE) classes. seminar faculty develop their course themes to address an These small classes of fifteen to nineteen students immerse them important social problem. Topics taught include “Bullying,” in writing-intensive coursework focusing on a social issue. FYE “Sustainable Living,” “Censorship,” and “Women, Work, and classes ensure that students Happiness.” The classes begin their undergraduate bring students together in careers with instruction in collaborative engagement essential academic skills— to address the course theme writing, reading, primary and to critically examine research, and evidence the perspectives they have citation—that will benefit developed within their them throughout their studies major disciplines. What do at Salem. faculty see in these Senior Faculty represent a cross- Interdisciplinary Seminars? section of disciplines and We see chemists and biologists programs from throughout working with historians and the College, including fine sociologists. We see musicians arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. and mathematicians working with specialists in political science To better engage new students with the social and academic and English. The semester culminates in group creative responses rigors of college life, the program has incorporated peer where students work together to craft an interdisciplinary mentors in every class section. Peer mentors provide additional approach to analyzing—not solving—their particular issue. Given avenues of intellectual and social engagement for new students a broad topic and free reign to design a presentation about a social by facilitating interactions with a colleague who has already issue that the students are directing, our seniors have created completed the First-Year Experience. Students in the a startling range of presentations, including documentaries, Martha H. Fleer Center for Adult Education complete SIGN 130: video performances, artistic interpretations, and community Transitions to help guide their new studies at Salem. First- demonstrations to communicate their ideas in original, compelling Year Experience and Transitions classes feature such topics ways. Our graduating classes consistently excel at collaborative as “The Meaning of Friendship Today,” “Creative Minds,” work because they’ve learned the skills necessary to succeed in “Women in Children’s Literature,” “Fear in Modern America,” and challenging settings in every year they’ve studied at Salem—dating “Travelers, Immigrants, and Pilgrims.” all the way back to that first group project they completed in their First-Year Experience and Transitions classes. Signature courses reflect a model of interdisciplinary learning in which students and faculty approach complex questions through The Salem Signature program encourages students to consider the analysis from multiple perspectives. The First-Year Experience and liberal arts as part of an ongoing process of learning that Transitions classes also initiate the curriculum of interdisciplinary will continue long after they leave campus. This sense of collaboration between students with different disciplinary purpose is crucial to the college’s identity and is reflected in the interests. This approach to student learning guides all Salem interdisciplinary core curriculum that now guides undergraduate students through their graduation. studies at Salem.

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n November 1988, Saturday based upon facts rather than doctrine, Night Live ran a sketch fueled by logic rather than emotion, featuring host Matthew and informed by multiple perspectives Modine and cast member rather than singular experience. Victoria Jackson as a young The quadrivium, the first four of couple. During dinner with the essential areas, were arithmetic, Victoria’s family, Modine’s character geometry, astrology, and harmonics. was outed as a Dukakis supporter, in a Pythagoras (c. 570 BCE - 475 BCE) room filled with Bush supporters. The taught his followers that all of life sketch ends with Modine running away, was orchestrated by ratios of whole looking fearfully behind him, while numbers, including the intricate Jackson pleads, “Run, liberal! Run!” relationships between certain numbers, When I see repeats of that sketch, the perfection of a circle, the scales I always wonder what Pythagoras in beautiful music, and the patterns or Plato would think of the modern of the stars that repeated themselves connotation of the word liberal. with the seasons of the sun. In Run, Republic VII, Plato wrote, “the little matter of distinguishing one, two, three” should be compulsory education for all and “should not be given up.” To the quadrivium, Plato added the trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Liberatae! Armed with these artes liberales, we are all free to run places never Artes liberales means the knowledge before imagined. befitting a free person. Let’s ignore the fact that it means the knowledge I wish to run with my fellow Salemites, befitting a free man and go with free my fellow Liberatae. Freed. Educated. person. The artes liberales were the Women. We are lucky to be able to run Run! seven areas of study that 700 or so into, run with, run around, and run years ago were deemed to be the areas a over artes liberales and to enjoy all the person should study in order to be well- rights, benefits, and responsibilities that rounded, capable of making decisions this running provides.

8 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e We will not run like Matthew Modine on SNL. semester’s textbooks. Plato and Pythagoras both In 1843, while displaying her prowess with language by translating a treatise on the work We will run with Sofia Kovalevskaya. In the purportedly believed that numbers transcended of Charles Babbage from French to English, 1870s, she thought beyond the confines of the money and trade, that it was somehow beneath she added her own notes about how a physics research that came before her to better the truth of numbers to use them for such theoretical “analytical engine” could be understand shapes, such as Saturn’s rings. As basal things. On that, I happily disagree with

taught to perform complex calculations and THE LIBERAL ARTS PAULA GRAFTON YOUNG, PHD, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS we run, we will pick up an orange and a Sharpie Plato and Pythagoras—we can use geometric to manipulate symbols and letters as well as and draw a right triangle with three right sequences to learn why paying just a few dollars numbers. Thank you, Ada, for placing the angles. The orange is the Earth; one vertex of more a month on that credit card can save bricks that would become the foundation of the triangle is the North Pole. The other two hundreds of dollars in interest. Let us run free computer science. We are all grateful to run in vertices are on the Equator, one-fourth of the with the liberating knowledge of compound your shadow through an interconnected world. length of the equator apart. Thank you, Sofia, interest in the footsteps of Descartes, et alia. The artes liberales have evolved beyond Plato’s for running with novel ideas about geometry I wish I could run like Salem’s beloved Liberata, and for not being restricted by prior knowledge. Emma Lehman, such as when she stood on the imagination, though his premise prevails. At Thanks for letting us run with you. rooftop of Main Hall with a dozen students to Salem, our artes liberales are complemented witness Halley’s Comet’s predictable return. and enhanced by new offerings, programs, and Maybe, if I’m still around in 2092, I’ll be a very ideas. Salem will continue to evolve and a Salem brave 128-year-old and we will all run together education will continue to bestow the incredible with Emma to the rooftop, where we will be gift of freedom. It is the liberally educated, the I WISH TO RUN WITH MY FELLOW joined by Caroline Herschel. In 1788, Caroline Liberati and Liberatae, who are the freest of SALEMITES, MY FELLOW LIBERATAE. was the first to observe, document, and map the the free—free to think beyond borders; free FREED. EDUCATED. WOMEN. WE ARE path of 35/P Herschel-Rigollet, a comet with to imagine beyond constraints of prevailing LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO RUN INTO, a 155-year periodic solar orbit. We’ll have a notions; free to try something no one has tried RUN WITH, RUN AROUND, AND RUN lively conversation about Caroline’s impeccable before; free to climb to the rooftop; free to explore the stars; free to run. Freed. OVER ARTES LIBERALES...” computations and her role in changing astronomy from a science of the solar system Salem alumnae have blazed trails along which – DR. PAULA YOUNG to the science of the universe. Caroline and our current students do and our future students Emma were not bound by doctrine or singular will run. Her current students open new paths perspectives or by the idea that women didn’t along those trails to ideas and experiences that We will run with Descartes, Lagrange, belong on rooftops. Thank you, Caroline and allow the rest of us to become even more free Euler, and the Bernoulli family, and we will Emma, for letting us run to the stars with you. than before. No one knows what paths her future understand why making the minimum monthly Finally, we’ll run to a park, then slow to a jog, students will create. I look forward to seeing payment on a credit card means that it might and we will catch up with Ada Byron Lovelace. where the next generation of Salemites will run. take eight or nine years to pay off this She will marvel at our smart phones or FitBits. Run, Liberatae! Run!

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the Liberal Arts inHigher Education: Even More Relevant in the 21st Century

IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC STRAIN, THE LIBERAL ARTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION FACE RENEWED SCRUTINY AND THE PERENNIAL QUESTIONS REAPPEAR: “WHY SHOULD STUDENTS TAKE ALL OF THOSE ‘UNNECESSARY’ COURSES? ISN’T NARROWER, MORE SPECIALIZED TRAINING A BETTER WAY TO PREPARE FOR A CAREER?”

et from competency and financial By definition, a liberal arts education is broad and diverse, perspectives alike—learning providing an array of subjects to promote extensive intellectual the most and getting the most awareness and multiple proficiencies. As such, it is not intended for your money—a liberal arts to train a student for a specific job—one that may no longer exist in a few years—even though many practical skills are education is ever more important learned within the scope of their studies. Rather, the in this fast-paced digital age of rapid globalization. liberal arts approach prepares graduates for myriad The challenges Salem graduates will face are broader and career paths within the rapidly changing world more unpredictable in nature, underscoring the significance of work. Mastery of a range of subjects and of being equipped to navigate growing complexity and to solve content helps students acquire scholarly unprecedented problems. In addition, they will need to rely on curiosity, effective methods of persuasion, their capacity to work alongside all kinds of people from a wide and a willingness to analyze and evaluate range of backgrounds and cultures. As such, the value of a options from more than one perspective. liberal arts education must now be considered against this In turn, it enhances vision, collaboration, unique backdrop. efforts to bring about consensus and A recent survey by the Association of American Colleges and commitment, and working together to Universities indicated more than three-quarters of employers accomplish important goals. recommend an education with a liberal arts emphasis. They aim to hire graduates who possess key competencies that have been shown to be critical for success. These include strong quantitative reasoning, advanced technical skills, critical thinking, creative problem solving, flexibility, effective communication skills, a capacity for lifelong learning, and evidence of leadership characteristics. At Salem, development of these core competencies is a fundamental goal. Students are encouraged and expected to learn, practice, and improve these skills across disciplines during every semester as they advance toward graduation.

10 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e In a quickly changing market that is globally competitive, of Academic Excellence, which is also advantageous for it is reasonable to examine the relevance and objectives of graduate school. our educational system. But it would be a mistake to discard A liberal arts education at Salem stretches students by a liberal arts approach that is historically and currently so THE LIBERAL ARTS MARY JACOBSEN,PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTOF CHAIR, PSYD, presenting them with contradictory opinions from different successful that it is being adopted by some of America’s viewpoints, requiring them to thoroughly examine and strongest world competitors. critically scrutinize propositions, facts, and data. With a From my perspective, Salem provides a unique environment rising global demand for innovation, the ability to generate for learning psychology. A scholarly understanding of novel ideas, imagine products and processes far beyond the psychology is essential for nearly every career, and for status quo, and to operationalize what has been imagined success in life in general, because it is all about understanding cannot be programmed into a student. Rather, through the human behavior and mental processes. Psychology is part liberal arts our students come to understand the creative of the science division at Salem for very important reasons. process and consider possibilities and fresh ideas through Advancing STEM interests and skills in young women has many lenses, from “Wouldn’t it be great if?” to “How could long been a key objective at Salem. Psychology students are we do it?” to “How long will it take?” and “What can we held to the same high standards as in any other science, being predict in terms of market share and ROI?” Along the way, required to employ skills in scholarly inquiry, adherence they develop the requisite confidence of a working scientist to rigorous scientific methods, objective evaluation, and who dares to push the edges of progress while retaining the the ability to analyze and interpret data without bias. From humility to recognize that they are standing on the shoulders the outset they learn the essential difference between of their predecessors. popular opinion and scholarly evidence. All of our classes emphasize research as the basis of knowledge in psychology. And our students engage in research first- hand in our experimental FROM COMPETENCY AND FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES courses (e.g., research ALIKE—LEARNING THE MOST AND GETTING THE MOST methods in the animal lab). FOR YOUR MONEY—A LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS Many also apply what EVER MORE IMPORTANT IN THIS FAST-PACED DIGITAL they learn to their own undergraduate AGE OF RAPID GLOBALIZATION.” research. They – DR. MARY JACOBSEN collaborate with supervising faculty to prepare a strong proposal Today, the skills possessed by liberal arts graduates for review by are increasingly in demand around the world. Talent our Institutional development and Human Resources executives recognize Review Board, a characteristic liberal arts graduates as well-rounded, real advantage knowledgeable candidates who can rethink current strategies for post-graduate and conventional models from the vantage point of many studies. They different disciplines. They are agile and active learners with then complete an the capacity to do well in a variety of roles, to stimulate new in-depth literature thinking, and to challenge themselves to strive for excellence review, determine while encouraging others to do the same. Salem has been their research offering young women the exceptional opportunity to make methods and tools, good on the promises of their potential even before the conduct the research, United States was officially established as a nation. It appears analyze their data, and that we have been on the right track from the very beginning typically present their and we continue in this tradition today, which is something findings at the Celebration very special and valuable in higher education.

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Exercise Science the Liberal Arts at Salem

xercise science and physical biomechanics. At Salem, core courses in the exercise activity professionals have science major reflect this quantitative, biological-science- based tradition and prepare many of our students to pursue the potential to solve many of careers in medicine, physician’s assistant, physical therapy, society’s most pressing problems occupational therapy, radiology, coaching, strength and including premature death, conditioning, and cardiac rehabilitation. preventable diseases, and unnecessary The exercise science major at Salem goes beyond a violence (Burt, 1998). This belief in the power of my traditional exercise science focus, however, and also discipline, and a belief in the potential of my students as reflects the liberal arts. This is important because, as future professionals in physical activity-related fields, David Andrews wrote in 2008, “The active body is as much drives my activities as a faculty member in the Exercise a social, cultural, philosophical, and historical entity as it Science Department at Salem. My goal as a teacher is to is a genetic and physiological vessel… (Andrews, 2008).” prepare students to succeed as scholars, professionals, and This quote by Andrews echoes my own perspective that, in engaged and concerned citizens who are willing and able order to meet the mission of our disciplinary area (to study to tackle major problems that can be minimized through human movement), we must focus attention, scholarship, physical activity and human movement. The liberal arts at and teaching on all factors influencing physical activity Salem are a central component in efforts to meet this goal. engagement. At Salem, this is reflected by the inclusion Exercise science is the study of the functional responses of interdisciplinary courses in our major. Women in Sport and adaptations involved in human movement (ACSM, n.d.). for instance, is an exercise science course that meets the Traditional research in this discipline involves applying Salem Signature/women’s studies requirement. scientific principles to the study of physical activity and This course offers a critical survey of the origins and results in qualitative data reflecting knowledge relating historical evolution of modern women’s sport in the United to biology, anatomy, physiology, chemistry, physics, and States. In class, we discuss the ways that the female athlete

12 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e is represented in the media; we talk about the ways that Exercise science students will go on to apply their false arguments about the biological and physiological frailty knowledge in a variety of settings. In my own career as a

of females was promoted historically, and served to greatly practitioner, I have worked as a coach—to help athletes THE LIBERAL ARTS DEANN DAVISSCIENCE BROOKS,EXERCISE OF ASSISTANTPROFESSOR EDD, limit sports provisions for girls; and we discuss economic run faster and jump higher; as a personal trainer—to help hypotheses that have served to reinforce inequalities seen women reach health-related fitness goals; and as a clinical when men’s professional sports are compared to women’s. exercise professional—to help older adults engage in safe The topics and problems we explore in Women in Sport exercise programs that aid in their recovery from open- are informed by critical race studies and feminisms, as heart surgery. In each of these cases, an understanding well as religion, sociology, philosophy, history, and biology. of anatomy, exercise physiology, and biomechanics was This range of disciplines also informs the ways that we essential—without that knowledge, I would not have been discuss potential solutions to these problems. Students prepared to design safe and effective training programs or have proposed using art, for instance, to promote social exercise prescriptions. As Salem students pursue careers change and to encourage social acceptance of the strong in these types of clinical and non-clinical settings, their and muscular female body. Because this course is presented liberal arts education will serve them well. They will have in an interdisciplinary way that is reflective of the liberal developed the wide-ranging perspectives necessary to arts tradition, students are better positioned to advocate solve issues facing real people in the real world. For this on behalf of active and sporty girls and women. This, of reason, we all greatly benefit from the liberal arts tradition course, is in line with the Salem mission to prepare students at Salem. who will change the world, since a world in which greater numbers of girls and women have more options for physical activity and sports would certainly be one that is changed for the better!

References ACSM (n.d.). “Careers in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine”. Retrieved from http://www.sfasu.edu/kinesiology/documents/ACSMCareers.pdf Andrews, D. (2008).”Careers in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine”. Quest, 60, 45-62. Burt, J. (1998). “The Role of Kinesiology in Elevating Modern Society”. Quest , 50, 80-95.

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Steeped in the Liberal Arts

MISSION: THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS AT SALEM COLLEGE IS COMMITTED TO BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE CAMPUS COMMUNITY. THE OFFICE WORKS COLLABORATIVELY WITH STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, ADMINISTRATORS, AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO CULTIVATE A CLIMATE OF AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT, AND INCLUSIVENESS FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS. THE OFFICE DESIGNS AND SUPPORTS PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES THAT SEEK TO ENSURE FAIR AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT FOR SALEM COLLEGE’S RICHLY DIVERSE COMMUNITY.

he American Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) describes liberal education as ‘‘an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity and change. It helps students develop a sense of social responsibility; strong intellectual and practical skills that span all major fields of study...” Salem College’s curriculum is designed to encompass these principles. Beginning in their first-year seminar and throughout Salem’s curriculum, students have the opportunity to engage a variety of topics from multiple perspectives. The capstone course, the Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar, is designed for students to address a real-world problem from an interdisciplinary approach. These opportunities allow students to sit at the table with their peers who represent a wide range of disciplines. To complement the curricular program, the Office of Diversity and Inclusiveness now provides a centralized flow of communication that enables the community to celebrate Salem’s successes while also pushing the pendulum of social change.

14 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e As our institution becomes increasingly diverse, we have and are open to current Salem College students. Students a responsibility to assess our practices, programming, are invited to discuss current events, pop culture, and/or support services, and curriculum. The shift from diversity the Salem climate over lunch. Roundtable Wednesdays are to inclusiveness requires us to go beyond a mere celebration facilitated by a member of the Salem College faculty or staff. of our differences. Inclusion calls for greater levels of accountability, shared leadership, and cultural responsiveness. THE LIBERAL ARTS KRISHAUNA HINES-GAITHER,INCLUSIVENESS AND DIVERSITY OF DIRECTOR PHD, Anyone who works in the field of diversity and inclusion will quickly reveal that there is never finality. This work must be continuous, enduring, and ongoing. Although our goals ALTHOUGH OUR GOALS ARE MANY, THE are many, the main objective for the Office of Diversity and MAIN OBJECTIVE FOR THE OFFICE OF Inclusiveness this year is to facilitate ongoing discussion on topics related to diversity, social justice, and the DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS THIS Salem climate. YEAR IS TO FACILITATE ONGOING DISCUSSION ON TOPICS RELATED TO I have stated in every diversity and inclusiveness training session to date that I believe it is impossible to effectively DIVERSITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND THE promote social change without understanding the historical SALEM CLIMATE.” context of the world in which we live, and also of our – DR. KRISHAUNA HINES-GAITHER institution. In a liberal arts curriculum, “history is an essential subject if we are to know about the past and the foundations of the present, and to understand the different ways people ’know’ the truth, whether by evidence, by epiphany, by The great educational liberator, Paulo Freire (2000), wrote, emotion, and how they challenge assumptions and validate “Education does not make us educable. It is our awareness of assertion” (Scott, 2014, pg. 24). Salem College is unique in being unfinished that makes us educable” (p. 58). A liberal arts that she has a long history that reveals a commitment to education does not seek finite solutions or Truth, but rather it tearing down borders and replacing them with bridges. Upon opens the doors to many possibilities whereby we understand these bridges the first African-American student treaded our that non-closure and incompleteness are part of the journey. grounds in 1785, and the first Native American student in 1826. The president of Salem Academy and College has repeatedly Steeped in the liberal arts tenet of compassion, we continue stated, “We have the position of Director of Diversity and to welcome students from all backgrounds as we seek to Inclusiveness because it is the right thing to do.” establish an inclusive community. We understand that this ongoing work can only be “Compassion is the ability to listen, truly hear and accomplished through institutional buy-in and through a comprehend another person’s perspective, and be fair and collaborative process. In the spirit of our foremothers who just, attributes often undermined by our systems of electronic dared to chart new paths for the revolutionary cause of connectivity” (Scott, 2014, p. 24-25). No greater moment women’s education, which was steeped in the liberal arts than the twenty-first century age has demonstrated the tradition, I am proud to have been named the first Director far-reaching effects of social media. The same electronic of Diversity and Inclusiveness at Salem College. jewel that allows us to connect globally and to enjoy social engagement can also be a source of heated debate, vitriolic rhetoric, and performance. One of the main goals of the Office of Diversity and Inclusiveness is to organize and facilitate ongoing training, workshops, and dialogues for faculty, staff, students, and administrators that will impact both the campus and the larger community. Shapiro (2006) explained, “What is needed are educational spaces where there is a commitment to the constant struggle to bridge differences, to create compassionate connections among people” (p. 178). To this end, the Office of Diversity and Inclusiveness has facilitated training for over 470 members of the Salem References community since the start of the Fall 2016 term. To encourage Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic face-to- face dialogue on topics that impact our sense of Courage. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Scott, R.A. (2014). “Liberal Education in Crisis?” On the Horizon, 22 (1), 23-34. community, the Office implemented Roundtable Wednesdays. Shapiro, S. (2006). Losing Heart: The Moral and Spiritual Miseducation of Roundtable Wednesdays are held weekly from 12:30-1:30pm America’s Children. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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AT SALEM COLLEGE, WE MAKE THE MOST OF OUR OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH BUSINESS Getting WITHIN A LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTION. Down to Business at Salem

trek up the stairs to liberal arts tradition, which provides the the fourth floor of breadth of knowledge today’s businesses Main Hall brings one are seeking in new graduates. to the Department The world is becoming increasingly of Business and connected on a global scale, Economics. which provides not only amazing I sometimes brand it as the business opportunities to leverage but also suite, but it’s really just a set of some- some difficult challenges to tackle. what isolated offices that house the Business trends include enhanced business administration, economics, use of data analytics and technology, and accounting faculty. It doesn’t look increased diversity, and greater focus like a setting for a traditional business on collaboration and communication. department—neither staid and stolid as Organizations need students that not business schools of old nor flashy and only understand business concepts, conspicuous as is the new trend. The but who also have a broad view of the space is functional and a little eclectic, world that can be attained through much like the faculty themselves. Salem a liberal arts education. Businesses College has assembled a business faculty look for employees who have studied with diverse backgrounds, which gives subjects that provide an enlightened us an appreciation for the value of a appreciation of people and society liberal arts education paired with a busi- (such as political science, history, ness curriculum. As faculty, we repre- philosophy, psychology, sociology, sent a variety of educational traditions, and biology). These kinds of courses including various graduate and under- prepare students to think differently graduate degrees in political science, about the world and to develop deeper organizational psychology, agricultural understandings of humanity, which economics, law, and even zoology! Tried can enhance employees’ abilities and true academicians blend with those to make ethical business decisions, who have previously led active careers think through the repercussions of in business. Regardless, we’re all con- their actions, and develop creative vinced that our students’ professional solutions to business problems. development is enhanced by Salem’s Even businesses in STEM industries

16 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e or those that focus on analytics require Salem, studentsare keenly aware of societal modern languages, and some of our courses employees who can apply research skills and environmental issues and are eager are included as electives in other majors to ask the right questions and conduct to understand how business skills can be across the College. Also, many of our students analyses appropriately, use information utilized to help solve some of these problems are curious and motivated, so we see a to make ethical, respectful decisions, and (for example, issues of food waste and food number of business administration students

communicate results to a wide audience. To scarcity, pay equity, or difficulties for women with double majors within our department THE LIBERAL ARTS that end, our business curriculum follows a in the workplace). (accounting, economics, and international business) as well as across the College in 3Ps approach which recognizes the necessity As a liberal arts college, Salem provides communication, mathematics, political of profits for businesses to function, but specific opportunities for business students science, and psychology. Students identify also takes into account the impact business to gain skills in these areas that employers can have on people (employees, customers, how they can combine the knowledge they desire. First, the business administration LISA DELISE,ADMINISTRATIONBUSINESS PHD,OF ASSISTANTPROFESSOR gain in multiple areas to create enriching, and communities) and the planet (natural major is one of the largest on campus, and satisfying careers. environment and society). At a college like we enjoy a diverse group of traditional and Fleer students from various race, ethnic, Salem College’s location near downtown nationality, and age groups. Experiences Winston-Salem and the Innovation with handling and appreciating diversity are Quarter gives students the ability to secure inherent in our classrooms and students’ internships with local companies and to have group work. Second, the Salem Signature experiences with active businesses, including requirements supplement the work we do in entrepreneurial ventures. Through its Center our department with additional training in for Women in Business, Salem has also critical thinking, quantitative interpretation, partnered with HanesBrands Inc. to deliver a global awareness, and communication. It also mentoring program to assist students in any ensures that our students have exposure to major with their professional development. information and perspectives from key liberal The Center also sponsors and advises arts disciplines to help them understand the Salem’s ethics debate team, which includes world beyond business. a mix of students from business and other majors across the college, and highlights our department’s commitment to the liberal arts ideals of critical thinking, communication, debate, and ethics. ORGANIZATIONS NEED STUDENTS Salem College is a place where the business THAT NOT ONLY UNDERSTAND faculty embraces the natural connections BUSINESS CONCEPTS, BUT WHO between business education and liberal arts ALSO HAVE A BROAD VIEW education. We expect that our students will be OF THE WORLD THAT CAN BE simultaneously taking courses to meet their business and general education requirements ATTAINED THROUGH A LIBERAL and hope they are able to see how courses ARTS EDUCATION.” outside the department can support their – DR. LISA DELISE growth as informed, well-rounded members of the business community and society at large. We also encourage students to explore subjects outside of our department Students have excellent opportunities across and take advantage of what Salem’s liberal the business and liberal arts curricula to arts tradition has to offer. Along the way, develop soft skills like communication and students in our major develop the liberal arts teamwork that so many employers desire. breadth and business depth that combine to Third, Salem provides the opportunity to given them a competitive advantage in the build bridges with other departments to job market and a strong foundation to be further enhance our students’ liberal arts productive citizens. A business administration perspective. For example, various major and degree at Salem College truly does develop minors in our department allow students to our students’ unique potential and prepares take courses in mathematics, communication, them to change the world! political science, exercise science, and

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the Resurgent Liberal Arts

18 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e can concentrate on what mortals do best: ave you generating creative ideas and actions in a data-rich world.”2 noticed? THE LIBERAL ARTS The following results from a survey of The liberal employers by the Association of American arts are Colleges and Universities are also telling: • “Nearly all of those surveyed (93 percent) back in vogue, say that ‘a demonstrated capacity to think ED JONES,COMMUNICATIONSOF DIRECTOR critically, communicate clearly, and solve especially among complex problems is more important than top employers. [a candidate’s] undergraduate major.’ • “80 percent of employers agree that, Witness this excerpt from a recent article regardless of their major, all college in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Hunting students should acquire broad knowledge 3 for Soft Skills, Companies Scoop Up in the liberal arts and sciences.” English Majors”: All of this is obviously good news for “Employers are newly hot on the trail of graduates of a liberal arts college like Salem. hires with liberal arts degrees. Class of But there is also some not-so-good news. 2015 graduates from those disciplines are False notions about liberal arts majors seem employed at higher rates than their cohorts to persist. in the class of 2014, and starting salaries Some people believe that if you study the rose significantly, according to the National liberal arts in college, you’ll be consigned to Association of Colleges and Employers’ years of underemployment and of living in [NACE’s] annual first-destination survey your parents’ basement. of recent graduates in the workforce…”1 Why are these myths about the career Witness also this excerpt from an prospects of liberal arts majors so persistent article published on Forbes.com entitled despite all the evidence to the contrary? “The ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has One reason might be that some people don’t Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket”: understand what the liberal arts actually are. “Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, WHAT THE LIBERAL ARTS WERE whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston AND HOW THEY’VE EVOLVED or Austin, Tex., software companies are As journalist and author Fareed Zakaria discovering that liberal arts thinking makes writes in his recent book, In Defense of a them stronger. Engineers may still command Liberal Education, the roots of the liberal the biggest salaries, but at disruptive arts can be traced back to the fifth century juggernauts such as Facebook and Uber, the BC. During this pivotal epoch, “some Greek war for talent has moved to nontechnical jobs, city-states, most notably Athens, began to particularly sales and marketing. The more experiment with a new form of government”: that audacious coders dream of changing “‘Our constitution is called a democracy,’ the world, the more they need to fill their the Athenian statesman Pericles noted in companies with social alchemists who can his funeral oration, ‘because power is in the connect with customers... hands not of a minority but of a whole people.’ “MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and This innovation in government required a Andrew McAfee argue in a recent book, simultaneous innovation in education. Basic The Second Machine Age, that today’s tech skills for sustenance were no longer sufficient wave will inspire a new style of work in which —citizens also had to be properly trained to tech takes care of routine tasks so that people run their own society.

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“The link between a broad education and For answers, it might be instructive to journey liberty became important to the Greeks. East to a place located 8,300 miles from Salem as Describing this approach to instruction the crow flies: Hong Kong. centuries later, the Romans coined a term for it: According to a recent article in The Atlantic 4 a ‘liberal’ education.” entitled “The Rise of Liberal Arts in Hong Kong” Zakaria notes that “the curriculum was split the former British colony has experienced a between science and humanities, the theoretical “dramatic shift in just a few decades from a and the practical…In the first century BC, this manufacturing to a service-based economy.” dualistic approach to education was ‘finally and So to better prepare students for the demands definitively formalized’ into a system described of the twenty-first century workplace, business as ‘the seven liberal arts’…. Centuries later, it was leaders are pressing Hong Kong’s leading often divided into two subgroups: the trivium— educators to adopt a new model: an American- grammar, logic, and rhetoric; and the quadrivium style liberal arts education. —arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy— One of the influential people encouraging came next.” 5 educational reform in Hong Kong is a Through the years, the dualistic nature of the businessman named Po Chung, cofounder of liberal arts has been the cause of much debate. DHL International (Asia Pacific) and currently Zakaria continues: chairman emeritus of DHL Express. EMPLOYERS ARE NEWLY “From the beginning, people disagreed over Ben Wildavsky, the author of the aforementioned HOT ON THE TRAIL OF the purpose of a liberal education. (Perhaps Atlantic article, describes Mr. Chung’s goals HIRES WITH LIBERAL intellectual disagreement is inherent in the idea this way: itself.) The first great divide took place in ancient ARTS DEGREES. CLASS OF “Chung and other backers of an unprecedented Greece, between Plato, the philosopher, and 2015 GRADUATES FROM three-year-old curriculum-reform effort are Isocrates, the orator. Plato and his followers, THOSE DISCIPLINES ARE determined to steer the city’s eight universities including Aristotle, considered education a away from the rote learning, test obsession, and EMPLOYED AT HIGHER RATES search for truth. Inspired by Socrates, they used THAN THEIR COHORTS IN narrow career focus that still characterize much the dialectic mode of reasoning and discourse to of the Asian education system. They think it’s THE CLASS OF 2014, AND pursue knowledge in its purest form. Isocrates, past time for colleges to introduce a broader STARTING SALARIES on the other hand, hearkened back to the range of subjects, to promote greater intellectual ROSE SIGNIFICANTLY ...” tradition of arête [roughly meaning excellence or curiosity, and to foster creative thinking. And virtue]. He and his followers believed a person they’re convinced that these changes will, in could best arrive at virtue and make a good turn, build a workforce of rigorous, creative living by studying the arts of rhetoric, language, thinkers—just what they think is needed to and morality. This debate – between those who meet the fast-changing needs of a transforming understand liberal education in instrumental global economy. terms and those who see it as an end in and of “…[For] Chung, who spent part of his itself – has continued to the present day.”6 undergraduate career at Whittier College, (We will return to the two-sided nature a liberal-arts school in Southern California, of the liberal arts in a moment.) producing the responsible, economically Today the term “liberal arts” includes the productive citizens Hong Kong needs goes hand humanities, the natural sciences, and the in hand with the habits of minds inculcated by social sciences. the liberal arts. General education, one of the terms Hong Kong uses for its new offerings, WHY THE LIBERAL ARTS produces graduates ‘who are critical and creative REMAIN INDISPENSABLE thinkers, problem solvers, gifted communicators, Skeptics might wonder: Given the demands of team managers, and ethical leaders,’ Chung today’s global economy where specific skill sets wrote in a South China Morning Post op-ed. are needed for specific jobs wouldn’t a narrower, Add those qualities to the ‘creative communities more career-focused course of study be more of innovation’ built by the liberal arts, he beneficial to the long-term career prospects argued, and the result is pragmatic: skills of today’s students than a broad-based ‘for which employers are willing to pay the liberal arts education? highest salaries.’”

20 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e THE RICHNESS OF THE DUALITY GOES STILL DEEPER While the liberal arts feed and discipline the left-hand side of the brain, they simultaneously nourish and expand the right-hand side. This potent combination of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, of the head and the heart, of academic rigor and freedom, is what makes the liberal arts the breeding ground of creativity, of innovation, of multiple perspectives on important issues, and more. It is also what makes an American-style liberal arts education like the one provided by Salem College the envy of the world.

INHERENT IN THE LIBERAL ARTS AT SALEM: A CALL TO SERVE OTHERS The term “liberal arts,” artes liberales in Latin, connotes the course of study considered essential in order for a free person to take an active part in civic life.10 This means that encoded into the DNA of the liberal arts is a telos, a call to action. We are called to use our knowledge and skills not just to build a successful career for ourselves, but also to be active participants in the life and institutions Hong Kong isn’t alone in Asia in adopting the THE SECRET TO THE ENDURING POWER of the human community. liberal arts. In South Korea, Seoul National OF THE LIBERAL ARTS: THEIR DUALITY University and Yonsei University are making As we touched on earlier, the liberal arts have At Salem our Moravian heritage and our major investments in liberal arts education had a dual nature from the beginning. understanding of the liberal arts call us to as well. Japan’s Waseda University and the acquire knowledge, to live our lives in ways that This duality seems to have led some to believe University of Tokyo have done much the benefit other people, and to use knowledge in that defending the liberal arts is an either/or same. So has Fudan University in Shanghai. the service of virtuous causes.11 proposition: Either the liberal arts are invaluable And Yale University has joined with the because of their practical value or because of In so doing, the liberal arts empower our National University of Singapore (NUS) to their intrinsic worth. students, our faculty, our alumnae—the establish a new liberal arts school called entire Salem community—to lead lives of 8 Our defense of the liberal arts might be strength- Yale-NUS College. extraordinary purpose. ened if we present it as a both/and proposition: As Singapore’s former minister of education, The liberal arts are indispensable both because Tharman Shanmugaratnam, once told Fareed of their intrinsic worth and because of their Zakaria: “We [America and Singapore] both have practicality. The two facets are complementary. meritocracies. Yours is a talent meritocracy, ours is an exam meritocracy. There are some parts As Dr. D. E. Lorraine Sterritt, president of Salem Academy and College, suggested in her 1. Nikki Waller, “Hunting for Soft Skills, Companies Scoop Up English Majors.” of the intellect that we are not able to test well Wall Street Journal (October 25, 2016): http://www.wsj.com/articles/hunting-for- inaugural address, an apt metaphor for the soft-skills-companies-scoop-up-english-majors-1477404061] – like creativity, curiosity, a sense of adventure, 2. George Anders, “That ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s complementarity of the liberal arts is the figure Hottest Ticket.” Forbes (August 17, 2015): http://www.forbes.com/sites/ ambition. Most of all, America has a culture of georgeanders/2015/07/29/liberal-arts-degree-tech/#5937147c5a75] of Janus. 3. It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student learning that challenges conventional wisdom, Success. 2013. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities and Hart Research Associates. https://www.aacu.org/leap/presidentstrust/ even if it means challenging authority. These Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and compact/2013SurveySummary 4. Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education, are the areas where Singapore must learn endings, of transitions, and of doorways. His (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015), 41-42 9 two heads look simultaneously to the past and 5. Ibid., 44. from America.” 6. Ibid., 42-43. to the future. In a way, the liberal arts give us 7. Ben Wildavsky, “The Rise of the Liberal Arts in Hong Kong.” The Atlantic (March 20, 2016): http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/ Janus-like powers. Through them we can look the-rise-of-liberalarts-in-china/474291/ 8. Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education, 94. to the past for instruction and inspiration while 9. Ibid., 93. we simultaneously apply the wisdom we’ve 10. Source: Wikipedia 11. Paraphrasing language from President D. E. Lorraine Sterritt’s inauguration address: learned to forge a better future. https://www.salemacademy.com/sites/default/files/Inauguration%20Speech.pdf

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MOUNT HOLYOKE’S LOSS, SALEM’S GAIN BY JOHNNY JOHNSON

One of the newest faces on the Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees, Mimi Aledo-Sandoval C‘01 never pictured herself on the board. But then again, she never planned on attending Salem College in the first place.

A decade before she ever stepped foot on the Salem campus, Mimi had her mind made up and her college career completely mapped out. “I knew I wanted to attend a women’s college,” she said. “But I had it in my head that I was going to Mount Holyoke because that’s where Baby, my favorite character in one of my favorite movies, Dirty Dancing, went.” This was not some fleeting childhood fancy. She had a plan and she was sticking to it. It was no secret that women’s college graduates had

22 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e better chances of getting into law school, better “All this time I knew I was still going to Mount chances at admittance to medical school, and Holyoke, but I came to Salem and that was it,” she better chances of becoming CEOs or Members said. “There was no turning back. I really don’t of Congress. And Mimi wasn’t about to squander know how to describe it. It’s almost like something “I’VE ALWAYS FELT her chance. just came up from the ground and grabbed hold of VERY INVESTED IN my heart, and it’s never let go.” Mimi’s mother had immigrated to Florida as a SALEM BECAUSE teenager from Cuba. She had no family to lean on. That sense of belonging, that connection, was just No support network to speak of. All she had was a something she didn’t feel at Mount Holyoke. SALEM INVESTED dream. Mimi was in elementary school when her “During Scholarship Weekend, I saw confident IN ME.” mother earned her GED, so Mimi fully understood women speak on panels. I met students committed the sacrifices that had been made to put her to their community. I caught a glimpse of Salem’s – Mimi Aledo-Sandoval within reach of the ever-elusive American Dream. sisterhood. These women were awesome and I “I visited Mount Holyoke, applied, and was wanted to shine like them,“ Mimi added. Mimi chose to recharge her batteries by joining accepted. I was offered a generous financial That fall, Mimi joined the Salem community and AmeriCorps, where she became a full-time aid package. So I was set,” she said. never looked back. volunteer with the I Have a Dream Foundation, Then something unexpected happened. Throughout her college career, Mimi poured working with low-income children in Colorado. A tenacious Salem admissions counselor, herself into her community, her studies, and It didn’t take her long to remember that her Dianne Conley C’96, entered the picture. her sisters. She took her leadership roles very passion was and always had been in advocacy. But As Mimi walked into her high school calculus seriously and discovered a passion for advocacy it also didn’t take long for her to understand she class, she was handed a “pass” to hear a recruiter and for giving back. And just as important, she needed to do more for more children. talk about Salem College. Even as a teenager, learned that one’s path through life is rarely a Mimi wasn’t one to waste time. She knew where straight line. She applied for a graduate scholarship and was she was going to college, so she had not signed up accepted into Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School “So often we think we know what we want, for or planned to attend the Salem talk. But it was of Government. She attained her public policy until an unanticipated opportunity presents itself,” either that or take a pop calculus quiz. degree but didn’t feel the kind of connection she says Mimi. did at Salem. Mimi remembers Dianne was passionate about When she started at Salem, she never planned Salem, but Mimi had already decided she would “While Harvard does many things well,” she to major in economics, intern in Washington, DC, not be impressed. said, “they don’t really take the time to build or veer into a career in public policy. relationships. Administration and faculty do not “I was just awful,” she admitted. “I sat in the back A freshman year Jan Term class on Medical share that common singular focus on making their of the room and I said, ‘Well, does Salem have Primatology or “Monkey Business” took her on a students more successful.” THIS like Mount Holyoke?’ and ‘Does Salem have trip to the National Zoo in Washington, DC. THAT like Mount Holyoke?’ and at one point “I’ve always felt very invested in Salem because Diane looked at me and smiled and asked, “It was the first time I had ever been to our Salem invested in me,” she said. nation’s capitol,” she said. “As we walked around ‘Are you Mimi?’ One of Mimi’s favorite memories from her senior and I saw the Capitol and the White House, I got year was during Founders Day Convocation. She “And I knew I was in trouble.” bitten by the bug.” That summer Mimi returned to was awarded the 2001 Elisabeth Oesterlein Award. But she wasn’t in trouble at all. In fact, Dianne intern for a Member of Congress. Not surprisingly, had seen something in Mimi. And like most Salem after graduation she headed back— for three “It was an incredible honor and a really humbling women, Dianne was not going to give up and take years. But those three years were harder than experience.” she said. “They called my name and no for an answer. anyone could have anticipated. as I’m walking up to the stage, I suddenly see that my mom is there. They flew my mom in to see me “She started calling my mom!” Mimi said. While she knew she was doing good work and — to see me receive this award. “I remember one time she even visited my making a difference, she also experienced the mom and had coffee with her.” September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon and “There aren’t many places in higher education the anthrax scare that followed. Then came the that would do that. I will always be invested in Eventually, Mimi applied to Salem hoping that the DC Sniper attacks. this place.” application would be the end of it and she could simply turn down the acceptance letter later on. “All of that was really tough, but it was when Mimi was empowered and inspired while at I found myself focusing more on the numbers Salem to face every new twist in life with courage No such luck — Mimi was soon notified that she instead of the fact that those numbers represented and confidence. She says yes to unanticipated had been selected to interview for the Chatham real people I was there to serve, I knew I needed a opportunities and lives by the mantra Scholarship and that Salem was going to fly her “to whom break,” she said. up to visit campus. much is given, much is required.”

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LEAVING THE FRONT DOOR WIDE OPEN BY JOHNNY JOHNSON

You would never hear Patrice Black Mitchell C’89 refer to herself as a trailblazer. She is much too modest for that.

But thanks in no small part to her efforts and her example, Salem College is today the most racially and ethnically diverse college in Winston-Salem. Here’s how her remarkable Salem journey began. STUDENT LIFE Patrice was not the first African American student to attend Salem College. But in 1986, she was the only black student in her class. She also stood out in another way. “I took a pretty non-traditional path at Salem,” she said. Patrice was married right after high school. Her husband was in the Air Force and after Patrice graduated, she got a job straight away. Then along came a beautiful baby girl, Ryanne, and it didn’t take Patrice long to realize that a college education was the best thing for her and her family.

24 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e “My goal was actually to go to Wake Forest,” she Long story short, Patrice’s In 2011, thirty-one years after admits. “But they didn’t allow first-year students recruiting efforts helped George Black’s death, the to enter in the spring.” change the face of Salem. Winston-Salem City Council Today, over 40 percent designated the George Black Fortunately, Salem did. So Patrice started at of Salem’s traditional House and Brickyard as a Salem during Jan Term and she planned to undergraduates are students historic landmark. transfer to Wake at the first opportunity. of color. Patrice’s father once recalled Life as a student wasn’t always easy. When she considers that that as a young boy he would Even though Patrice was married, had a daughter, percentage, Patrice can’t help occasionally be asked to help and was living off campus, she was not old enough looking back to the first day his granddad deliver bricks to to be classified as an adult student. Consequently, she arrived at Salem, her Salem College. she was having a very different college experience father bursting with pride. “Your grandfather and I would than her classmates were. “I just can’t believe I’m have to bring the bricks to the “I remember Ryanne even had to a go to a few bringing you here,” she recalls back door, because we were not classes with me,” she said. her father saying as he was allowed to use the front door,” he told her. “But today, I’m Despite a few rough patches, she was drawn in by driving her to the College. taking you in the front door.” Salem’s “not too big, not too small” quality that so Salem College held a special significance for many have fallen in love with through the years. Patrice’s father because his grandfather, George That story is one reason Patrice says she’ll always That, coupled with the truly remarkable teachers Henry Black, was a master brickmaker who had have a unique connection with Salem College. It’s who cared so deeply about each of their students, handcrafted many of the bricks that still grace also a reason she felt she had to do all she could to convinced her to stay. the campus. help diversity blossom at Salem. “Back then, there were not many students who George Henry Black had originally come to “It means a lot to me,” she said. “I gave 100 looked like me—less than a handful—and I said, Winston-Salem in 1889 after walking fifty miles percent, and if I didn’t believe in Salem I couldn’t ‘You know, I think I could really make some noise with his father, a former slave, because the two have done that. They wanted to move forward on this campus,’” she said with a chuckle. of them had heard they could make $1.50 a day and expose their students to people of diverse working together as brickmakers. backgrounds. I know what it meant to me, and I’m She also knew that every positive thing she did honored that I was able to contribute to the cause would help make it a little easier for the next Sadly, George’s father died shortly after the in some small way.” student of color who came after her. move and George had to work extra hard to help support his family. But he learned the Today, Dr. Patrice Black Mitchell serves as Three-and-a-half years later she was turning the ropes quickly and he soon excelled at his trade. vice president for student services at Trident tassel of her mortarboard over in the May Dell. Eventually, the bricks that he forged were used Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. to construct the Salem College Library, as well DIVERSIFYING SALEM No doubt her father is still bursting with pride. as mansions in Winston-Salem’s Buena Vista Soon after Patrice graduated, Salem began to neighborhood, R.J. Reynolds’ office buildings, make a major push to increase the diversity of and several of Wachovia Bank’s branch offices. its student body. Salem’s admissions team could His bricks were also used in the restoration of “BACK THEN, THERE WERE think of no one better to help the College do that Colonial Williamsburg. NOT MANY STUDENTS WHO than Patrice. Word of George Black’s extraordinary LOOKED LIKE ME—LESS So she was hired as an admissions counselor craftsmanship spread far beyond North Carolina, and she hit the road covering the territory from THAN A HANDFUL—AND I and in 1971 legendary broadcaster Charles Kuralt Baltimore to Atlanta. During her second year SAID, ‘YOU KNOW, I THINK came to Winston to interview Black for his of recruiting in the admissions office, she had Peabody Award-winning segment for the CBS I COULD REALLY MAKE SOME successfully signed ten African American students Evening News, “On the Road.” After the interview for the incoming freshman class. NOISE ON THIS THIS CAMPUS’” aired, George Black and his family were invited “I knew from experience that Salem would offer to the White House to meet President Richard – Patrice Black Mitchell students of color a great foundation,” she said. “I M. Nixon. Soon thereafter, the US Agency for would always tell their parents: ‘I realize you are International Development asked George to travel putting your child in our hands. Here’s my phone to Guyana to teach people there how to make Editor’s Note: Thanks to the Winston-Salem Journal for providing number. We’re going to take care of her.’” bricks by hand. historical background information on George Henry Black.

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Article by Fleer Center Dean Published Music School

An article written by Dr. Sydney Richardson, Director Presents dean of Salem College’s Martha H. Fleer Center for Adult Education, has been published in the Workshops in Journal of Adult and Continuing Education. The article, entitled “Using Mistreatment to Scotland, Georgia Persist Academically,” is being published both online and in print. According to its website the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education “provides a forum for rigorous theoretical and practical work in the broad fields of lifelong learning and adult, community, and continuing education.” It origi- nates in the U.K. and it is published twice a year. the director of Salem College’s Writing Center According to Dr. Richardson, the article is and as an instructor for multiple programs, a continuation of previous research she did including College Writing, Salem Signature, on college women over the age of twenty-four. Education, English, and Women’s Studies. “My goal was to tell the stories of women who “When I reflect on my career in academia, self-identified as suffering from some kind of I realize that working with adult students has Because of her international mistreatment prior to entering college ( e.g., been a part of my journey since I began teach- leadership role in injury-pre- physical/sexual abuse, emotional abuse, discrim- ing,” she says. “From the first adult learner in ventive keyboard technique, ination, neglect, etc.), and to examine how they my classroom to working in academic support, Dr. Barbara Lister-Sink, Salem used those experiences to succeed academically,” I have been fascinated by the educational process Distinguished Professor and she said. of of adult learners. More importantly, I’ve Director of the School of Music, Dr. Richardson has been a member of the benefited from seeing how adult learners apply was chosen to present two Salem College faculty since 2007. Prior to being their everyday experiences to enhance their hour-long workshops at the 2016 appointed dean of the Fleer Center, she served as college experiences.” International Society of Music Educators in Glasgow, Scotland in July 2016. The workshops were titled: Sermon Written by Salem Chaplain Published in New Journal ‘“Basic Form’ for Pianists? Toward Establishing and A sermon written by Salem The Term: A Word for the Teaching Core Principles of Academy and College chaplain Campus by the Campus will be Healthful Biomechanics” and Amy Rio has been published in available in both paperback and “Can Pianists Be Too a new journal called The Term: ebook form. Physically Flexible? A Word for the Campus by the Dr. Rio earned her bachelor What Piano Teachers Campus. The publication is issued of arts degree from Greensboro Should Know About Joint semiannually and it is written by College, her master of divinity Hypermobility” collegiate ministers. According from Duke Divinity School, and to Amazon, the purpose of the her doctor of ministry from Additionally, in October and new journal is to provide “a place Wesley Theological Seminary. November 2016, Dr. Lister-Sink for sharing timely and beneficial She joined the Salem community performed solo piano recitals homiletical, liturgical, and as chaplain in 2007. Dr. Rio’s and gave master classes and reflective resources for collegiate essay, “I always wanted to be workshops on injury-preventive ministry by utilizing collegiate Julia Sugarbaker,” was published piano technique as guest artist ministers’ own exemplary work.” in Courageous Spirit: Voices and clinician at James Madison Dr. Rio’s sermon, entitled “The from Women in Ministry University in Harrisonburg, Canaanite Woman,” focuses on (Upper Room: 2006). VA, and at Mercer University in engaging in a multi-faith world. Macon, GA.

26 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e Communication Professor Co-Authors Book About Child Abductions

Assistant Professor of Communication Dafna Lemish, founding editor of the Spring-Serenity Duvall has co-authored Journal of Children and Media calls the a thought-provoking book about book “An interdisciplinary eye-opener, United States news coverage of child grounded in the fields of childhood, abductions in the 2000s. Snatched: media, gender, and cultural studies.” Child Abductions in the United States Dr. Duvall’s research has been News Media “highlights the racial, published in Communication, Culture, gendered, and classed disparities in and Critique; the Journal of Children news coverage as it questions the ethics and Media; and Feminist Media of journalism that sensationalizes and Studies. She was the 2015 Fulbright capitalizes upon missing children,” Visiting Research Chair in Transnational said Carol M. Liebler, Professor of Studies at Brock University, Ontario. Communications at Syracuse University.

Art Professor Celebrates 20 Years NEW FACULTY at Salem with Alumnae Exhibit Salem College welcomed three new full-time faculty members for the 2016–17 academic year.

DR. CAROLINE BEAM Clinical Coordinator in the Department of Teacher Education and Graduate Studies in Education BS Appalachian State University MSA Appalachian State University EdD Appalachian State University

DR. SHAREE FOWLER Assistant Professor of Not-for-Profit Management and Director of the Not-for-Profit Management and Arts Management programs BA Salem College MA University of North Carolina at Greensboro PhD University of North Carolina at Greensboro

DR. HOLLY KAYLER SOPKO In early April, Salem College showcased artworks from more than Assistant Professor of Counselor Education fifty Salem alumni who have studied under Professor Kim Varnadoe and Coordinator of the MEd in School Counseling Program during the past twenty years. BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro More than twenty of the Salem graduates were in attendance for MEd, University of North Carolina at Greensboro the reception on April 8 in the Elberson Fine Arts Center and the PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro exhibit attracted hundreds of visitors.

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First Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness Named

Dr. Krishauna Hines-Gaither has been named Salem College’s first director of diversity and inclusiveness. In her announcement to the Salem community about Dr. Hines-Gaither’s appointment, Salem President D. E. Lorraine Sterritt wrote the following: “As Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness, Dr. Hines-Gaither will collaborate with students, faculty, and staff on programs and initiatives designed to provide exemplary learning member of the Salem College studies with a concentration tions that focus on diversity, experiences in and beyond the department of modern languages in cultural studies from the including Onua, Intervarsity classroom for the College’s richly faculty since 2004. She earned a University of North Carolina Christian Fellowship, and Black diverse student population, as bachelor of arts degree and K-12 at Greensboro. Along with her Americans Demonstrating Unity well as education in diversity teaching licensure in Spanish primary responsibility, teaching (BADU). Dr. Hines-Gaither has and inclusiveness for the entire from Salem College and a Spanish at Salem College, she participated in diversity training campus community. master of arts degree in Spanish also teaches courses in women’s workshops on campus and has “Dr. Hines-Gaither is well education from Wake Forest studies and race and ethnicity served on the Committee on qualified to serve Salem in University. Dr. Hines-Gaither studies. She has served as an Community since its formation this position. She has been a received her PhD in educational advisor to student organiza- in 2009.”

Salem Professor Chosen for Harvard University Seminar on Ancient Greece

Associate Professor of History took place July 25–31, 2016, at cross-cultural interaction in the Andrew Thomas was one of a Harvard University’s Center Mediterranean. select group of faculty members for Hellenic Studies campus in “One of my favorite courses nationwide chosen by the Washington, DC. that I have created and taught Council of Independent Colleges The seminar focused on the at Salem College is The (CIC) and the Center for Hellenic Histories of Herodotus, the Greco-Roman World.” Thomas Studies to participate in an so-called father of history. said. “I was very thankful for Ancient Greece in the Modern The discussions explored his the opportunity to participate Classroom seminar, “The description of the interactions in this seminar taught by Histories of Herodotus.” between Greek-speaking peoples distinguished faculty. I’m hoping CIC and the Center for and other societies as a way to the knowledge I gained will help Hellenic Studies selected articulate a more precise under- students at Salem develop a eighteen faculty members to standing of what it meant to be deeper appreciation and passion participate in the seminar, which a Hellene at a time of intensified for the classical world.”

28 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e School of Music Introduces New Masters Degree in Music

Salem College’s School of Music received approval in July 2016 from the National Association of Schools of Music to offer the first graduate program outside the field of education at Salem: the master of music in piano or organ performance and pedagogy with an emphasis in injury- preventive keyboard technique. The unique master’s degree program focuses on enhancing the performance artistry and increasing the pedagogical skills of each student. As part of the curriculum, students will complete a concentration in injury-preventive keyboard technique. This degree was created in response to a high rate of playing-related injuries among pianists and organists worldwide, often jeopardizing their careers in music.

Nine Salem Professors Selected to Deliver TEDx Talks

Women’s Conference a Huge Success Salem College’s Center for Women in Business held its fifth annual Salem was honored to host the inaugural TEDx Winston Women’s Conference on November 19, 2016, and it was the most Salem Women event on October 27, 2016. The event was held in successful conference to date. Over 250 people attended the event and Shirley Recital Hall and it was sold out. All told, twenty-seven according to reporter Jenny Drabble of the Winston-Salem Journal, women presented TEDx talks and nine of the presenters were the audience was “sprinkled with influential women, many of whom Salem professors. were CEOs.” Presenters from Salem included Dr. Katharine Blackwell, The keynote speakers were Sally Yoo, general counsel for Uber Dr. Lisa DeLise, Alyson Francisco, Dr. Mary Jacobsen, Technologies, and Sharon Joyner-Payne, executive vice president of Dr. Ana Leon-Tavora, Dr. Barbara Lister-Sink, Dr. Megan Regan, communications and Great Teams! for Inmar Inc. Dr. Sydney Richardson, and Sonja Sepulveda. Talks and panic discussion topics included “Investing in Your Financial Special kudos go to Alyson Francisco for cultivating Future,” “Raising Your Organizational Consciousness,” “Building Your relationships and bringing this inspiring event to the Leadership Style,” “The Importance of Building a Network,” “Balancing Salem campus. Your Professional and Personal Life,” and “Understanding Body Language.”

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Salem Moves Up in U.S. News, Other Rankings College Welcomes In the 2017 listing of the “Best Largest Incoming Class National Liberal Arts Colleges,” U.S. News & World Report has ranked in History Salem College as the number eleven women’s college in the nation. In the same report, Salem was ranked as the number two liberal arts college and the number one women’s college in North TOP 30 Carolina. Overall, Salem was listed as LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES number one hundred and twenty-two in Bryn Mawr College (6) the nation, which is a healthy fourteen- Wellesley College (17) place jump from last year’s rankings. Agnes Scott College (22) Washington Monthly magazine gave Salem College (28) This fall Salem College welcomed an Salem even higher grades, ranking incoming class of 204 first-year students the College among the top thirty of SOUTHEAST and twenty-two transfer students—the Salem College (5) all liberal arts schools in the United highest enrollment of traditional-age Trinity Washington University (8) States and placing Salem fifth among first-year undergraduates in Salem’s Columbia College (10) the “Best Bang for the Buck” colleges in 245-year history. Brenau University (19) the southeast. Washington Monthly’s Agnes Scott College (23) Total enrollment among traditional-age annual College Guide and Rankings Mary Baldwin College (26) students was 659 at the beginning of the Converse College (43) assessed colleges and universities based fall semester, also an all-time record. The Spelman College (71) on several factors including how well previous record of 631 was set in the fall of they improve social mobility, produce 2015—and that broke the previous all-time research, and promote public service. record of 608 set in 2014.

History Professor Writing Book on Impact of Pre-Cold War Atomic Science Associate Professor of History the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Daniel Prosterman has been busy Rockefeller Archive Center, and the American researching a fascinating subject few scholars Institute of Physics. He has already conducted have written about: the global evolution archival research in eight states, as well as in and impact of atomic science prior to the England and France. In March 2016, during Cold War. a sabbatical, Prosterman delivered his first The result is an upcoming book entitled presentation on this project at a conference Atomic Dreams: Creating a Nuclear World on pacifism and World War I at the University Before the Cold War. Dr. Prosterman’s book of Leeds. “I’ve also had the great pleasure argues that nuclear technology profoundly to utilize research for Atomic Dreams in influenced society from the 1890s through the the classroom at Salem, particularly in the early 1940s. During this period, Prosterman development of a special topics course, ‘The says, “Consumers drank radium-infused Nuclear Age,’ which is cross-listed between elixirs, brushed their teeth with radioactive history, political science, and environmental toothpaste, read about ‘atomic bombs’ in daily throughout the world. These research efforts studies,” he says. comics, and dreamt of a time when nuclear became the cornerstone for nuclear medicine, Dr. Prosterman’s first book, Defining technology would provide sufficient energy to energy, physics, and engineering projects in Democracy: Electoral Reform and the fuel all of human industry. At the same time, the Cold War era.” Struggle for Power in New York City, was philanthropic institutions invested millions Dr. Prosterman’s research has been made published by Oxford University Press of dollars to integrate nuclear technology in possible by grants from Salem College, the medicine and public health projects F. C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, in 2012.

30 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e Salem College Launches New Website

We are pleased to announce that the and alumnae success stories (a.k.a. “Salem The copy for the new website has also College’s previous website has been Spotlights”); a more robust social media been written to be more “Search Engine replaced with a new one. presence; and a more prominent way to Optimization (SEO)-friendly.” In a nutshell, Salem.edu now features new highlight upcoming events. We hope you’ll this means embedding key words in the typefaces; bright, welcoming colors; new agree that the new website is also easier copy so when prospective students or photography; more easily accessible to navigate and significantly more mobile parents type in certain words or phrases information about each of the College’s device-friendly—important features given in various search engines, links to Salem academic programs; updated faculty and the research/browsing habits of today’s Colleges web pages will appear at or near staff profiles; a rotating series of student prospective students. the top of the list of schools or programs that should be considered.

Alumnae Honored at 2016 Reunion Weekend

The 2016 Salem College The 2016 Salem College Young The 2016 Salem College Alumna Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient: Alumna Award Recipient: Service Award Recipient: Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux Arbuckle C‘66 Monique Farrell C‘04 Kathy Marakas Barnes C‘81

w i n t e r 2 0 1 6 31 2832 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e ON AUGUST 23, 2016, SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE DEDICATED THE NEW BERT LAIN TENNIS CENTER. TENNIS, ANYONE? The $800,000 facility features twelve new tennis courts with state-of-the-art surfacing, new posts, nets, vinyl- coated fencing, windscreens, and aluminum bleachers. As President D. E. Lorraine Sterritt put it, “The outstanding generosity of our donors and friends made the new center possible, and we are already reaping the rewards of its construction.” Only days after the dedication, the courts were used for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Teen Doubles Championship, and many spectators were drawn to the new facility. The Bert Lain Tennis Center was named by an anonymous donor in honor of Mr. Lain’s lifelong support of women’s athletics.

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NEW CONFERENCE, BIG G-O-O-O-A-L-S! Heading into their first season in the USA South Conference, Salem’s soccer team had some pretty ambitious objectives.

They wanted to signal to their new conference So how did they do? rivals that a serious player had arrived on the The Spirits were crowned the USA South scene. In fact, they hoped to dominate their West Division Regular Season Champions. They division. They also wanted to go deep in the were Runners-up in the year-ending conference season-ending conference tournament. And tournament. They finished with an 18-2-1 overall along the way, they wanted their players to record, which included a thirteen-game winning receive the recognition they deserved. streak and a 10-0 home record.

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34 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e The Spirits were also the first team in school history to be ranked in the South (number ten). Brooke Bukas became the first student-athlete in Salem’s history to earn USA South Player of the Year honors. She was also named to the All-USA South First Team. The defense allowed a school record .42 goals against per game—Salem’s opponents scored only nine goals in twenty-one games. In addition, Sydney Priest was twice named the USA South Defender of the Week, and Morgan Canepa earned the same honor once. Jordan Lanier, Hannah Huskey, and Canepa were accorded Second Team West Division honors. Kylie Dillow, Lanier, Priest, and Martha Santos were selected to the USA South All-Tournament Team. Jasmine Romero was singled out for USA South All-Sportsmanship honors. And Hannah Wagner had twelve goalie shutouts. “We had a tremendous team that went out and battled twenty-one times for an incredible season,” said Head G-O-O-O-A-L-S! Coach Jay Callahan. “I am extremely proud of the hard work the young women on the team put in throughout the season and I am also proud of our brilliant coaching staff.” The Spirits’ winning season brings Jay Callahan’s career record to 143-54-10. Callahan was recently honored with the 2016 Winston Under 40 Leadership Award.

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Salem Volleyball Season Highlights:

USA South Rookie of the Week: Taylor Moulton

USA South West Division Second Team All-Conference: Taylor Moulton and Kylie Taffer

USA South All-Sportsmanship Team: Ashlen Rector

Season Team Leaders: Total Kills- Kylie Taffer (330) Kills Per Set- Taylor Moulton (3.07) Total Set Assists- Hannah Delcamp (978) Volleyball Team Set Assists Per Set- Hannah Delcamp (9.59) Total Digs- Mariah Sharon (459) Digs Per Set- Mariah Sharon (4.21) Serves, Digs, and Total Blocks- Bernisha Master (99) Spikes Way to Total Service Aces- Hannah Delcamp (53) Impressive Season The Salem College volleyball team had an impressive debut in their first year in the USA South Conference and their second season under the direction of Head Coach Kevin Troup. The Spirits tripled their win record from the previous season and ended up with thirteen victories. Their biggest win of the year was a 3-0 upset of the third-seeded Piedmont Lions. That victory enabled the Spirits to advance to the USA South quarterfinals. The Spirits finished with a remarkable 8-5 non-conference record. Headed into the last two weeks of USA South Conference play, the team needed to upset two teams to advance to the tournament. They got their first upset on the road at Agnes Scott with a 3-1 win. It came down to the last match of the regular season and the Spirits upset Huntingdon 3-0 to qualify for their first-ever USA South Tournament. The team had several other firsts. Taylor Moulton became the first Salem volleyball player to earn USA South Rookie of the Week honors. Moulton and Kylie Taffer earned USA South West Division Second Team All-Conference honors. Salem had just one senior, Ashlen Rector, and she was honored as the team’s representative on the USA South All-Sportsmanship Team. Coach Troup said, “The 2016 volleyball season started with two distinct goals in mind: to surprise our new conference opponents with the heart to win every point. Secondly, to qualify for the USA South Conference Tournament. We met and exceeded both goals this season and we look to build on our 2016 successes in 2017.”

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Softball Team Goes Deep,

38 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e Dominates Conference When the Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) the Pitcher of the Year honor. She compiled a sterling 13-2 announced the 2016 Softball All-Conference Awards at record to lead the conference in victories. Morris twirled a banquet held in Atlanta, the audience heard the names ten complete games and one shutout while posting a 2.91 of Salem student-athletes—a lot. The Spirits’ Kierston earned run average. Garner was named Player of the Year, her teammate, Freshman Logan Bowling enjoyed an outstanding first- Brianna Morris, won Pitcher of the Year, and Logan Bowling year campaign, batting .310 with eighteen RBI and twenty was selected as Freshman of the Year. To round out the runs scored. Bowling also showed a flair for the long ball evening, Head Coach Scott Long was named GSAC Softball in her first season at second base, smacking six homers Coach of the Year by his peers. to finish third in the league in that category. Her slugging Senior Kierston Garner capped her stellar career at percentage was an impressive .552 in 2016, seventh- Salem with a season for the ages. She hit .500, stroked highest overall in the GSAC. ten home runs, and drove in forty-five runs. Additionally, Coach Scott Long completed his fifth regular season she led the conference in hits (57) and total bases (94) to at the helm of the Spirits’ program and following a 23-13 cement her status as the top player in the GSAC. record in 2016, he now owns a career record of 88-83-2. The Spirits’ Brianna Morris proved to be the most Long guided the Spirits to their first-ever trip to the NCAA dominant pitcher in the circle in 2016 en route to capturing Tournament last year and he looks to do the same in 2017.

Visit www.salemspirits.com for updated schedules, team rosters, and sports news.

w i n t e r 2 0 1 6 39 CLASS OF 2016 commencement PHOTOGRAPHY BY On May 21, 2016, the Salem College Alumnae Association welcomed 187 new members JORDAN BRANNOCK from the Class of 2016. Commencement is a joyful celebration of Salem graduates and those who support them during their educational careers.

40 s a l e m c o l l e g e m a g a z i n e “Choose every experience wisely and always bet on yourself. You should dream big and follow your passions. If you’re not happy with your life, you have the power to change it.

“Every decision you make and every action you take is designing the life you deserve. So choose wisely, for tomorrow is only as good as you make it today.”

– Erika James, PhD Dean of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School 2016 Commencement Speaker

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