Message-ID: <v0213050400134fa75a43@[204.215.137.110]> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:18:12 -0500 From: Findhorn College <mailto:college@TIAC.NET> Subject: Findhorn College, Scotland, Environmental Studies Scholarships, To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
FINDHORN COLLEGE, SCOTLAND
"Educating Tomorrow's Leaders For A Sustainable Future"
Greetings!
We would like to ask your help in letting students know about our new
environmental studies scholarship program for study in Scotland. The URL of
our world wide web page is http://www.tiac.net/biz/fcie.
Findhorn College is an innovative Scottish College with a unique
international environmental studies program. Students come to Findhorn
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 our
programs in Scotland, we have summer programs in ecology in the Ural
Mountains in Russia and special travel programs in 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 environmen, between people and the planet.
As the only program of its kind in Great Britain, and one of the first
anywhere, 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.
Findhorn College is associated with the greater Findhorn Community near
Inverness in northeast Scotland, one of the largest and most successful
intentional communities in the Western world. Founded 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
UK, an organic waste treatment system developed by John Todd of the New
Alchemy Institute in Massachusetts, and was host to the highly successful
Fall 1995 conference, "Eco-Villages & Sustainable Communities: Models for
21st Century Living."
The College has been supported and advised by a number of eminent
individuals in the environmental and academic worlds, many of whom have
joined our Board of Advisors. They include Jonathon Porritt, former
director, Friends 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; 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 Foundation, developing her own
graduate school of green management; Francois Duquesne, Trustee of the
Findhorn Foundation and Director of Operations, Apple U.K., and Lama
Yeshi, Director of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre, U.K.
In addition to our regular need-based financial aid program, we now have
additional merit scholarships of up to $1,000 available for the fall 1996
Semester and of up to $500 for the spring 1997 semester for students who
contact us during the next four weeks by e-mail to mailto:college@tiac.net, or by
mail to Box 1393, Boston, MA 02117.
We also have a limited number of stipended internships available to recent
graduates, as well as volunteer positions.
We would appreciate your help in recruiting the students who can most
benefit from attending Findhorn College. You may have students, friends,
family or colleagues who would be interested, or have access to bulletin
boards, e-mail groups, newsletters, publications, and other suitable places
to announce the Findhorn College program.
We are also seeking a small number of Faculty Advisors and student Campus
Representatives, and if you, or someone you know, is interested in working
actively with Findhorn College, we would be appreciative if you or they
would contact us.
Some highlights from our 1996 Summer Program are:
Health and Healing : An Eco-Community Perspective May 25 to June 8th (2
weeks) 3 CR $1,790
Earth, Mind & Spirit: Eco-Spirituality as an Emerging Paradigm June 8th to
June 22nd (2 weeks) 3 CR , $1,850
Eco-Community Intensive July 22nd to July 6th (2 weeks) 3 CR $1,790
Deep Ecology Field Program July 20th to August 17th (4 weeks) 4 CR $2,950
The Psychology of Gender: Mythic and Modern Approaches , July 20th to
August 3rd, 3CR $1,790
Group Leadership Training Program, July 27th to August 10th, 3CR $1,790
Dramatic Arts Summer Program, June 22nd to July 20th, 4 CR, $2,950
Off-Campus Programs
In Summer 1996 the following programs in Russia are offered by Findhorn
College in association with the Ecologia Foundation, Scotland, and, through
Ecologia, with the Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh University; the
Institute of Ecology, Ekaterinburg, Russia; and EcoInfo,Ecological
Education, 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
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.
Masters Program
Most courses in the Global Village Studies Program and the Summer and
Special Programs are available for graduate credit, leading to a
Certificate of Graduate Study for one and two semester programs. Graduate
students in our two-year Environmental Leadership program take two
semesters in the Global Village Studies program followed by two semesters
of thesis research and receive a Master's Degree from a U.S. affiliate
university.
Additional information is available by email, and at our website of
http://www.tiac.net/biz/fcie/ including a complete copy of our course
catalog and application form. For more information on any of our programs,
please indicate which program you are interested in (undergraduate,
graduate, summer and special programs) and send your name, postal address
and telephone number by email to mailto:college@tiac.net
Thanks very much for your help.
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Findhorn College
Box 1393, Boston, MA 02117
U.S.Telephone and fax: 1-800-932-7658
Scottish telephone and fax 011-44-1309-671082
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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