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Cap Scholars question
expansion at forum
Plans to expand the Capital Scholars
program were met with resistance last week when students in the
program voiced concerns that creating a new division of Capital
Scholars could hurt the program’s reputation.
Students in this new division would
follow a curriculum that’s more general than the interdisciplinary
curriculum offered to current Capital Scholars, according to Karen
Moranski, associate director of the Capital Scholars Program. She
said at a forum held on Jan. 21 in the Lincoln Residence Hall Great
Room that the proposed curriculum would allow individuals to enter
UIS as first-year students – or at any level – and pursue a degree
with a general education curriculum.
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Students, professors
teach at ‘Peace’ school
In an effort to reach out to the
Springfield community and to encourage activism, one UIS student has
created a social justice school at a local community center and
invited UIS students and professors to teach. The volunteers will
begin teaching at the Heartland Peace Academy in February, with the
aim of instructing students about issues affecting the community and
what they can do about it.
Junior Capital Scholar Liz Moran came
up with the idea for the Academy in late October of 2003 and brought
it to the Heartland Peace Center Board of Directors in late
November. Moran asked the Board to sponsor the program and use the
Peace Center as a classroom.
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