College and Seminary News

King College recently announced the addition of three new science majors—forensics, neuroscience and a physical therapy dual degree. The majors will prepare students for some of the most popular, fastest growing and most lucrative careers of the 21st century. King is beginning a new alumni travel program and to kick it off, alumni have traveled to Scotland August 7–15th. The trip has been tailored exclusively for King alums and friends to experience the beauty and history of Scotland. Some of the tour highlights include the Isle of Mull, Stirling and Crathes castles, Palace of Holyroodhouse and Edinburgh Castle. Planning is under way for the 2005 alumni trip.

Rhodes College is participating in the Council of Independent College's Survey of Historic Architecture and Design involving more than 360 campuses. The survey, funded by the Getty Grant Program, will establish the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college campuses including 3,600 images of historical significance to the institutions themselves. The database eventually will be turned into a web-based image archive tool and gallery. The historic places submitted by Rhodes include Rollow Avenue of Oaks (1925), Berthold S. Kennedy Hall (1925), Palmer Hall (1925, Hugh M. Neely Hall (1927), and Burrow Library (1951) as well as the Diehl Master Plan (1923), the original master plan for the campus created by the President Charles E. Diehl and Collegiate Gothic experts Charles Klauder and Henry Hibbs.

At Louisville Seminary, Dr. Nancy J. Ramsay has published a book with a fresh perspective in the field of care, counseling, and pastoral theology. "Pastoral Care and Counseling: Redefining the Paradigms" (Abingdon Press) seeks to supplement and redefine pastoral care within today's radically changed contexts of theology, sociology, and medicine. As Louisville Seminary begins the 2004-05 academic year, it does so with full accreditation of its award-winning Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program. This good news about the MFT program has come directly upon the heels of receiving two national awards recognizing the merits of the program's overall instruction and its contribution to the preparation of students in a specialized ministry.

Maryville College honors the 50th anniversary of the College's reintegration with a lecture series. Dr. Crystal Wright, assistant professor of psychology and chair of the Community Conversations Committee said "We hope that the Fall 2004 Series will help commemorate the College's reintegration and convey the significance of this event to not only the current generation of MC students, but to the entire community." Kirsten Sheppard is the new intern with Maryville College's International Programming Office. Sheppard will be at Maryville College until May 2005, working with students who wish to study, work or volunteer abroad. She will also be organizing programs and activities to assist international students with their adjustment to Maryville College and to the United States. Each year, Maryville College has about 20 to 30 students who choose to study abroad. Popular January Term trips have taken students to Cuba, Vietnam, India and South Africa in recent years. This January, approximately 60 students will travel abroad with MC professors on three different trips: Martinique, Malta and Sicily, and southern Africa.

Great Opportunities for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary include: October 19-20, 2004 "Thy Kingdom Come: Possibilities and Promises of Church in a Multiethnic World." Nibs Stroupe and Caroline Leach, pastor and associate pastor of Oakhurst Presbyterian Church, authors of O Lord, Hold Our Hands: How a Church Thrives in a Multicultural World, will lead the event. November 16- 17, 2004 "Leading the Church in Change" is one of the greatest challenges of pastoral ministry. Leaders for the event are Cam Murchison, dean and executive vice president of Columbia Theological Seminary; David Forney, associate dean of faculty, and Dent Davis, dean and vice president for Lifelong Learning. January 24-25, 2005 January Seminars will feature Leonard Sweet, who will lead participants to "Ponder Anew...What the Almighty Can Do! Sonograms of the Future — The Sounds and Sights of Faith in the 21st Century." For more information contact the Seminary at 404-687-4562 or ConEd@ctsnet.edu.