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Heather McGuire Attended the Audu-bon North Carolina Board Meeting on November 5-6 in Corolla.

Cynthia Nicholson Attended the Council of Independent Col-leges Senior Leader-ship Academy on November 4-5 in New Orleans.

Ella Benson Attended the Virginia Council for Excep-tional Children Fall Conference in Rich-mond on November 18.

Carolyn Modlin Attended the Virginia Council for Excep-tional Children Fall Conference in Rich-mond on November 18.

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Patsy Taylor Attended the North Carolina Phi Beta Lambda Fall Leader-ship Development Conference in Greensboro.

Gilliam Receives Scholar Prize

The 2016. Chowan University

McDowell Columns Scholar Prize was presented to Trey Gilliam, As-sistant Professor of Religion, during the Celebration of Faculty Scholar-ship and Creative Achievements on Tuesday, November 15. The prize consisted of a cash award and a book style clock, showcasing a photo of the historic McDowell Columns Building, and engraved with Gilliam’s name.

Other 2016 prize finalists included: John Davis, Professor of English, Gregory Taylor, Professor of His-

tory Edward Snyder, Assistant Profes-

sor of History

Seok Yoon, Associate Professor of Exercise Science

Past prize recipients are: Gregory Taylor (2011) Sheryl Long (2012) John Davis (2013) Ashley Doane (2014) Thomas Brennan (2015)

Chowan to Take 500th

Anniversary Reformation Tour

Led by President Chris White, J Brabban,

Keith Reich, and Danny Moore, Chowan

students, faculty, staff, and friends of the

University will study the Reformation in

Germany, France, and Switzerland for ten

days in May.

The group will visit the historic sites of

the Reformation as Europe remembers

Martin Luther striking the nail into the

door of Wittenberg Castle Church 500

years ago in 1517. The trip begins in Ber-

lin and ends in Geneva, combining Refor-

mation history with a taste of local cul-

ture. Stops include Wittenberg, Eurfurt,

Eisenbach, Worms, Mainz, Heidelberg,

Strasbourg, Constance, Geneva, etc.

The trip is funded in part by the M. Eliza-

beth Harris International Travel Study

Endowment, which was established to

enhance study abroad for members of the

Chowan community. The endowment

provides opportunities for students, facul-

ty, and staff to enrich their global experi-

ences.

The 2016-2017 Harris Scholars are:

Kendall Butler

Ryan Harris

Wyatt Ray

Jessica Staley

Courtney O'Keefe

Olivia Borer

Sydney Bell

Jaime Calcagno

Rebecca Gayheart

Faith Fleming

Pamela Bond

David Cross

Alyssa Fairless

Emalie Hicks

Jax Eddleman

Joshua Nicholson

Dacian Patterson

Zoe Gray

McKaela Lane

Ashley Davis

Abigail Salazar

Jodie Lawrence

Faculty and Staff receiving Harris

Grants are:

Georgia Williams

Gladys DeJesus

Shannon Williams

Jay Howell

Jennifer Humphrey

Stephanie Peede

Melanie Eddleman

Brooke Reich

Syble Shellito

Liz Brown

The Chronicle of Higher Education

is celebrating its fiftieth anniver-

sary this month. Its vision fifty

years ago was “to produce great

journalism about every facet of

American colleges and university.”

Below are some of its headlines

since it first began publishing in

1966.

May 20, 1968

Campus Protest Movements

Take New Tack at Columbia

“In the turmoil at Columbia Univer-

sity this spring are sings that new

factors are being injected into cam-

pus protest movements.”

January 4, 1971

Academic Events

Something More

The Chronicle Celebrates Fifty Years

Ponderings

The season we know as one of light, joy, and gift-giving is also

regarded by some as a time of darkness, danger. With the candlelit tree, blaz-ing hearth, and festive punchbowl, Christmas Past also includes

broomstick-riding witches and vampire bat-borne cupids. Belsnickle The Pennsylvania Dutch Bels-nickle, brought to the United States by German immigrants, was a threatening figure in furs who was fond of carrying a large bundle of witches—and using them.

Krampus Bearing horns, dark hair, and fangs, Krampus hauled bad German kids down to the un-derworld—and still does. Cert Czech children feared the dreaded Cert. He came with black fur, long red tongue, horns, tail, one leg with a furry foot and the other with a cloven hoof, chains, switches, and a bad disposition—and bad boys and girls still run from him.

Shortage of Academic

Positions for Ph.D.’s Seen

Worsening in Next 20 Years

“’We have created a graduate educa-

tion and research establishment in

American universities that is about

30 to 50 percent larger than we shall

effectively use in the 1970’s and ear-

ly 1980’s, and the growth process

continues in many sectors,’ Allan M.

Cartter, chancellor and executive

vice-president of New York Univer-

sity, said.”

September 10, 1986

Women Flock to Graduate

School in Record Numbers,

but Fewer Blacks Are

Entering the Academic Pipeline

“When higher-education institutions

look for replacements for the large

number of senior professors who

will retire within the next 15 years,

plenty of female faculty members

will be available. However, linger-

ing sexual bias in hiring and promo-

tion decisions, as well as a shortage

of women with doctorates in scien-

tific fields, may cloud the promise

that women may achieve parity.”

November 1, 1989

Feeling Disillusioned?

Unappreciated?

“Professors — obsessed with being

perfect, eager to criticize, disillu-

sioned after years of sacrifice in

graduate school — may be making

themselves emotionally ill.

One psychologist believes that such

a pattern has given rise to what he

sees as an emotional disorder unique

to the professoriate. He has given it

a name — ‘professorial melancho-

lia.’”

June 13, 1997

Empty Tables at the Faculty

Club Worry Some Academics

“The faculty table at

the Johns Hopkins

Club is all but deserted

on a recent spring day.

A lone professor, gray-

ing and spectacled, sits

surrounded by seven

empty chairs. The ‘big

table,’ as it’s known,

has turned into a table

for one.”

April 21, 2000

A Couple’s Struggle to

Find Good Jobs in the Same City

“The influx of women into Ph.D.

programs has made graduate schools

a perfect mating ground. As a result,

faculty recruiters are spending more

and more time on the ‘two-body

problem’ — job candidates who

have academic spouses in tow.”

November 5, 2012

Adjuncts Build

Strength in Numbers

“When professors in

positions that offer no

chance of earning ten-

ure begin to stack the

faculty, campus dy-

namics start to change.

Growing numbers of

adjuncts make them-

selves more visible.

They push for roles in

governance, better pay and working

conditions, and recognition for work

well done. And they do so at institu-

tions where tenured faculty, alt-

hough now in the minority, are still

the power brokers.”

Saturday

November 19

Theatre@Chowan Presents

Night Sky, 7 pm (Turner Au-

ditorium)

Sunday

November 20 Honors College Student Association Awards Dinner, 6:30 pm (John’s Seafood))

Tuesday

November 22

Thanksgiving Break Begins

at the Conclusion of Clas-

ses

Monday

November 28

Classes Resume, 8 am

Wednesday

November 30 The Honors College Stu-dent Association Brown Lady Academic Bowl Semi-final Games, 11 am (Vaughan Auditorium)

Friday

December 2 The Honors College Stu-dent Association Brown Lady Academic Bowl Championship Game, 11 am (Vaughan Auditorium)

of the

Provost

is October 11th

2016 Photography Exhibition Winners

Through Their Eyes, the 2016 Stu-dent Photography Exhibition opened on Thursday, November 17. During the opening reception, the winners of the competition were announced. First Place - Darren Peoples Second Place - Shakira Williams Third Place - Giovanni McGlone The Chowan University VISION Club sponsored the competition.

The competition was judged by a professional photographer. Winning photographs were chosen based on the level of creativity and originality they demonstrated. The exhibition will remain open into the early part of the 2016 Spring Se-mester.

Taylor’s talk focused on his

book, North Carolina State

Prisons. Taylor co-wrote the

book with William Hinkle.

It is published by Arcadia,

Library Hosts Book Talk

which focuses on

local and regional

histories.

Whitaker Library hosted a

Book Talk with Greg Taylor,

Professor of History, on

Wednesday, November 16.

Written during the Great Depres-sion when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dicta-tor to save the nation from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity,

It Can’t Happen Here by Sin-clair Lewis “It Can't Happen Here is a cau-tionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Novel of the Week crime, and a liberal press. It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contem-porary as today's news.” Currently, It Can’t Happen Here is sold out.

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL NEWS

OVERHEARD “People need to be quiet and deal with Trump as

president. Anyway, I have a right to voice my opin-

ion.”

— Email from a Student