Message-ID: <v02130504ad8973e4a60b@[204.215.137.110]> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:55:35 -0500 From: HIGHLAND COLLEGE - previously Findhorn College Subject: Scholarships to study in Scotland and Russia summer program To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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HIGHLAND COLLEGE, SCOTLAND
(Previously Findhorn College)
"Educating Tomorrow's Leaders for a Sustainable Future"
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Greetings from Scotland!
We would greatly appreciate your help in letting students know about our
new scholarship program for study in Scotland. Below is a message
containing information about our regular semester and summer programs,
including summer ecology field expeditions to Russia, as well as
information on scholarships and internships. We would be very grateful if
you could post it and e-mail or otherwise pass it on to students who might
be interested.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Highland College, Scotland
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HIGHLAND COLLEGE, SCOTLAND
(Previously Findhorn College)
"Educating Tomorrow's Leaders for a Sustainable Future"
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Greetings from Scotland!
Our financial aid funding has been confirmed, and in addition to our usual
financial aid we are now able to offer merit scholarships of up to $1,000
for those applying for the Fall '96 or Spring '97 semesters. To hold a
place, please complete and email or fax the form at the end of this
message. For detailed information about Highland College, its courses,
financial aid and student travel in Scotland and Europe, see our Website at
http://www.tiac.net/biz/fcie/.
In this message is:
1. A description of Highland College, Scotland and the Global Village
Studies Program.
2. A description of graduate work in Environmental Leadership and
Independent Study.
3. An outline of scholarship and internship possibilities.
4. A description of summer courses including the ecology field program in
the Ural Mountains of Russia.
5. An initial Application Form
We would appreciate you help in forwarding this message to colleagues,
friends or mailing lists who you think might benefit from our program.
Please feel free to email or telephone if you have questions, need further
information, or would like a hard copy of our Course Catalog. Our email is
mailto:college@tiac.net, and our U.S. toll-free phone and fax number is 1-800
932-7658. Our Website is http://www.tiac.net/biz/fcie/, and you can
download a Course Catalog and Application Form from there.
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HIGHLAND COLLEGE, Scotland
and
The Global Village Studies Program
Highland College is an innovative Scottish college with a unique
international environmental studies program. The mission of Highland
College is to educate students from around the world to be leaders of the
future in sustainable ways of living and to become agents for positive
change in their own communities and cultures.
At Highland College all education is considered environmental education,
and the curriculum includes courses in the arts, health studies,
psychology, education, philosophy and religion, and management and
leadership.
Students come to Highland College for an undergraduate semester or year
abroad, for graduate study at the masters level or research at the doctoral
level, and as independent learners for summer courses and special programs.
In addition to courses in Scotland, Highland College offers summer programs
in ecology in the Ural Mountains in Russia and ecological travel programs
to Nepal.
The semester and year-long Global Village Studies Program brings together
students from all over the world, and integrates environmental studies,
sustainability, community building, group dynamics, leadership skills, and
the psychology of personal growth. It emphasizes the interaction between
psychology and the environment, between people and the planet
As the only program of its kind in Great Britain, and one of the first in
the world, its aim is to provide the support and skills students from
around the world need to address fast-changing and complex environmental,
social and economic issues, and to create and enact positive solutions to
the challenges facing humanity and the environment in the decades ahead.
Part of Highland College's program takes place in association with the
greater Findhorn Community near Inverness in northeast Scotland, one of the
largest and most successful intentional communities in the Western world.
=46ounded in 1962, the Findhorn Community has evolved into a planetary
village with an internationally acclaimed ecological building program and a
variety of educational activities drawing many thousands of visitors
annually. The Findhorn Community is now the site of the first Living
Machine in the U.K., a revolutionary organic waste treatment system, and
was host to the very successful international conference, Eco-Villages &
Sustainable Communities: Models for 21st Century Living.
Highland College is supported and advised by a number of eminent
individuals in the environmental and academic worlds, many of whom serve on
the Board of Advisors. They include Jonathon Porritt, former director,
=46riends of the Earth, U.K., author, Seeing Green and Save the Earth,; Paul
Hawken, author of The Magic of Findhorn and The Ecology of Commerce,
leading thinker in sustainable business in Sausalito, California; Willis
Harman, writer, lecturer, formerly senior social scientist at the Stanford
Research Institute, author of Global Mind Change, and President, Institute
of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco; David Orr, Chairman, Department of
Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, author of Ecological
Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World and Earth in
Mind; John Todd, biologist, co-founder New Alchemy Institute, editor Annals
of Earth, and inventor of the Living Machine; The Very Reverend James
Morton, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City; Anita
Roddick, founder and President of The Body Shop and The Body Shop
=46oundation, developing her own graduate school of green management; and
Lama Yeshi, Director of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre, U.K.
Masters Programs
Most courses in the Global Village Studies Program and the Summer and
Special Programs are available for graduate credit. Graduate students in
the two-year Environmental Leadership program take two semesters in the
Global Village Studies program followed by two semesters of thesis research
in Scotland or elsewhere. Students in the Independent Study program follow
their special interests both within the College's curriculum and in
independent study and research modules. Upon completion, students receive
a Masters Degree from a Highland College U.S. affiliate.
Some of the following courses are available each semester:
Environmental Studies
Eco-Villages and the Global Crisis
Planetary Ecology
Scottish Ecosystems
People and the Land - The Last Three Thousand Years
=46ield Study: Regeneration of the Scottish Caledonian Forest
Ecology Field Program
Eco-Community Intensive
Leadership Studies
The Psychology of Groups
Human Development, Growth and Change
The Secret Life of Organizations: Power, Conflict and Communication
The Culture of Organizations: Cultivating Human Potential
Health Studies and Psychology
Health and Healing : An Eco-Community Perspective
The Psychology of Consciousness: Perception, Reality and New Paradigms
Counseling in Community
Health Care in the Year 2010: Beyond Holistic and Biomedical Paradigms
The Psychology of Mind/Body Healing
The Psychology of Gender: Ancient and Modern Views
The Arts and Education
Creative Arts in Education: Storytelling, Dance, Music and Poetry
Art, Culture and Community
An Introduction to the Arts in Community
Dramatic Arts Summer Program
Transformative Teaching, Transformative Learning: Educating Mind/Body/Spirit
Children in the Global Village: Early Childhood Education
The Middle School Years: The Waldorf School Model
Philosophy and Religion
The Power of the Western Way: From Platonic Ideals to Paradigm Shifts
Celtic Spirituality: Community, Myth, Ritual, and the Cycle of the Year
Religions of the Himalayas: Myth, Image and Sacred Geography
Earth, Mind & Spirit: Eco-Spirituality as an Emerging Paradigm
Off-Campus Programs
Programs in Russia are offered by Highland College in association with the
Ecologia Foundation, Scotland, and, through Ecologia, with the Institute of
Ecology, Ekaterinburg, Russia. In the Russian Ecology Program and the
Historical Ecology Program students join Russian scientists from the
Institute of Ecology, Ekaterinburg. They live with the scientists and their
teams in a camp with simple field accommodation and a field laboratory
situated on a lake in a beautiful, remote area of the South Taiga Forest in
the Ural Mountains' Serga National Park. Programs begin with two days in
Moscow and end with four days in St. Petersburg.
=46ield programs in Nepal are available in association with The Nepal Trust,
Scotland. The Nepal Trust assists the Nepalese people by co-creating
projects that are sustainable, low cost and community based. Among current
projects are a technological training project for underprivileged children
and the construction of health posts in the Humla region.
Costs, Financial Aid, Scholarships and Internships
All qualified students are encouraged to apply, regardless of financial
situation. 1996/1997 tuition, room and board is =A36,500 ($10,400) per
semester. Summer and special programs begin at $1,790 for two week
intensive 3 credit programs. Most U.S.- based aid and loans can usually be
applied to Highland College programs. In addition to its own need-based
financial aid program, Highland College now has additional merit
scholarships available to students for the fall and spring semesters.
Highland College also offers a limited number of volunteer positions and
stipended internships in Scotland and Cambridge, Massachusetts to recent
graduates. To apply for an internship or volunteer position send a c.v. or
resume and cover letter by email to mailto:college@tiac.net.
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HIGHLAND COLLEGE 1996 SUMMER PROGRAMS
Scotland Programs
=46or a complete description of 1996 Scotland summer programs, which includ=
e
special 2 week and month long programs in:
Ecology and Environmental Studies
Health Studies
Philosophy and Religion
please send a request by email to mailto:college@tiac.net
Off-Campus Programs
In Summer 1996 the following programs in Russia are offered by Highland
College in association with the Ecologia Foundation, Scotland, and the
Institute of Ecology, Ekaterinburg, Russia:
Russian Ecology Program 18 July-17 August, (4 1/2 weeks) 4 CR $2.950
Students join Russian ecology scientists from the Institute of Ecology,
Ekaterinburg. They live with the scientists and their teams in a camp with
simple field accommodation and a field laboratory situated on a lake in a
beautiful, remote area of the South Taiga Forest, mid-Ural mountains. The
programs consists of lectures, seminars and fieldwork in Animal Ecology,
including the population ecology of Russian mammals; Forest Vegetative
Communities, studying geo-botany and lichenology; and general issues of
human ecology and the relationship between environmental activism and
scientific research. The program begins with two days in Moscow and ends
with four days in St. Petersburg.
Historical Ecology Program: Russian Archaeology & Paleontology: 8 July - 16
August (5 1/2 weeks) 6 CR $3,750
Students join Russian ecology scientists from the Institute of Ecology,
Ekaterinburg at excavations at two sites in the Northern Ural Mountain
region including a large excavation of a cave on the river Lobva. Students
live with the scientists and their teams in remotely situated camps in
beautiful, remote areas ofthe Russian forest. Students work closely with
Russian scientists and the archeology and paleontology teams. The program
includes lectures, seminars, an extensive fieldwork program, and begins
with two days in Moscow and ends with four days in St. Petersburg.
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Highland College
Box 1393, Boston, MA 02117
U.S.Telephone and fax: 1-800-932-7658
Scottish telephone and fax 011-44-1309-690983
e-mail: mailto:college@tiac.net
Website: http://www.tiac.net/biz/fcie
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it's the only thin that ever has." Margaret
Mead
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HIGHLAND COLLEGE
INITIAL APPLICATION AND SCHOLARSHIP REGISTRATION
Completing this form will hold a place for you at Highland College pending
your submission of the Application Form, and, if you are applying for the
=46all or Spring semester, register you for a $1,000 merit scholarship.
Name:_________________________________________________
School______________________________
Address_______________________________________________
Telephone and email_____________________________________
Class_______________________________
GPA_________
I am applying for _____Summer'96 (Program:____________)
______Fall '96______Spring '97________Other (Specify:__________)
as an ____Undergraduate______Graduate______Volunteer_______Intern
Signature_____________________________Date:________________
Highland College
Box 1393, Boston, MA 02117
U.S.Telephone and fax: 1-800-932-7658
Scottish telephone and fax 011-44-1309-690983
e-mail: mailto:college@tiac.net
Website: http://www.tiac.net/biz/fcie
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
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We look forward to hearing from you.
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