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Press Release
C.W. Post Honors Program Challenges Students
To Make the World Their Classroom Honors classes will take students
to Rome and Korea
"The Honors Program has always challenged
students to strive higher and take a leadership role in their own
educations," says Joan Digby, Ph.D., the program's director and
president of the National Collegiate Honors Council. "We are now
building on that tradition. Most of the students who come here have
lived their entire lives on Long Island and have very little experience
with people and places outside of the immediate New York region.
There are many educational opportunities out there in the country
at large and overseas. The Honors Program will bring those opportunities
to our students."
In the Fall, 2001, Art professor Jacqueline Frank
will teach a course titled Rome from 330-1330. She and her students
will study the monuments of Rome from the Etruscan period through
the Baroque period. At the end of the semester, Dr. Frank hopes
that she and many of the students will be traveling to Rome to see
first hand what they had been studying throughout the semester.
Other trips are in the works. Scheduled to begin
in February, 2002, Dr. Digby is putting together a semsester in
Keimyung University in Teagu, Korea, an institution with which Long
Island University has a long standing exchange program. The six
month program would be open to honor students from all NCHC member
institutions. There are also plans to increase the number of international
students and returning adult students in Honors and to have C.W.
Post research faculty share their work with honors students.
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