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College and Seminary News

Louisville Seminary is sponsoring “The Journeys of Paul,” an international study trip guided by New Testament scholar and professor Marion L. Soards, December 27, 2002 to January 5, 2003. The group will travel to Istanbul, Ismir, Thessalonika, Athens, with an optional extension to Rome. For additional information, contact Professor Soards at: msoards@lpts.edu or 800-264-1839, ext. 281.

The Community Technology Center at Pikeville College has made available through virtual field trips a number of adventures such as a tour of a tropical rain forest, an underwater journey to study manatees or a visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Students are able to see, hear and talk simultaneously with a facilitator at a remote site using a monitor, a camera, and wireless microphones. At Pikeville College’s center, field trips can be viewed on a large rear-projection television screen and are supplemented by surround sound. Students from Pikeville (Kentucky) City Schools and St. Francis Catholic School recently took a virtual field trip to the Louisville Science Center in Louisville, sponsored by the Center for Rural Development in Somerset. More than 200 students participated in the interactive classroom experience, which included a question and answer session on the physical and mental training astronauts receive.

Tusculum College has partnered with the on-line career resource MonsterTRAK in a system that will give Tusculum alumni some distinct job-search advantages. Through the arrangement, MonsterTRAK offers a password-protected database accessible only by students and alumni of partnered schools, allowing employers to target their recruitment efforts at those institutions. The service is provided at no charge to students and alumni.

Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, is hosting significant events again this summer: This is the 20th year for the Governor’s Scholars Program with 345 outstanding Kentucky high school students on campus for five weeks this year; from June 16-28 Centre was home to some of Kentucky’s most academically talented minority students through the Whitney M. Young Scholars Program; the 13th Annual Great American Brass Band Festival held at Centre College drew its largest crowd ever, estimated at 52,000 people for the three-day event. Centre will host a conference that deals with preservation issues important to communities and individuals throughout Kentucky, August 1–3.

Supporters of Glenn Bannerman’s unique approach to Christian ministry have started a fund to support recreational ministry at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA. The fund supports courses and programs in recreation and outdoor education, with the hope that sufficient contributions will be received to eventually endow a permanent faculty position in recreational and outdoor ministry.