June, 2012
04-Jun-12
Southwest Virginia Science Teachers Academy Receives Virginia Mathematics and Science Coalition Award
The Southwest Virginia Science Teachers Academy, a collaborative effort among the Southwest Virginia Public Education Foundation, 16 school divisions in Southwest Virginia, Emory & Henry College, and American Electric Power Company-Clinch River Plant, received a Virginia Mathematics and Science Coalition 2012 Programs That Work Award.The Southwest Virginia Science Teachers Academy (SVSTA) grew out of an awareness that subgroups of students in Region 7 were not...
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04-Jun-12
Students Take Advantage of Opportunities to Study Abroad
Approximately 100 Emory & Henry students have been extending their academic year with study abroad experiences throughout the world, representing a growing participation by E&H students in international education.Among recent study abroad experiences have been a biology course in Costa Rica, an art course in Italy, a mass communications course in Zambia, physical education studies in France and Switzerland, and language studies in Peru, a psychology course in...
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12-Jun-12
E&H Bridge Program Helps Students Make Transition to College
Emory & Henry is offering a free program that provides instruction in skills intended to give students a head start in making the transition from high school senior to successful college student. Participation is limited to 20 incoming first year students.The Emory & Henry Summer Bridge Program is a one-credit program that runs from July 23 to Aug. 3. Accepted students are invited to live on campus during the program.The centerpiece of the program is a course...
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12-Jun-12
Erin Gallagher: Enchanted by Mountains, Empowered by Professors
As a native of Wheat Ridge, Colo., Erin Gallagher (’12) is frequently asked what drew her across the country to Emory & Henry in southwest Virginia. She says it was Mother Nature.“I fell in love with the natural beauty of this place,” Gallagher said.But what has kept her here have been high quality professors.Excelling in the classroom, Gallagher was confident about her future. When the division chair for the Natural Sciences Dr. Melissa Taverner asked her what she...
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12-Jun-12
Southwest Va. Consortium a Model for Improving Education
A consortium of schools and colleges in Southwest Virginia has become a model for improving primary and secondary education, according to an article written by two Emory & Henry College professors that will be published in a national journal.Instructional strategies developed by the members of the Southwest Virginia Public Education Consortium have improved students’ abilities to think in-depth about their studies and to improve their performances in areas of social...
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25-Jun-12
Peanut Butter Drive
A Peanut Butter Drive sponsored by the Staff Affairs Council to benefit the United Way Backpacks Unite program is going on now, June 25-August 24! There are many children in the area that do not receive the proper nutrition to succeed in school. Backpacks Unite is a program that delivers nutritious, healthy, prepared food to students to have on the weekends during the school year. The program provides backpacks for over 300 children in two counties: Washington and...
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27-Jun-12
Former E&H Interim-President Dr. Douglas Covington Passes Away
Dr. Douglas Covington, who served as interim president of Emory & Henry College during a time of transition at the College in 2006 passed away on June 27th at the age of 77. Prior to his arrival at Emory & Henry, Dr. Covington had a distinguished career leading such institutions as Winston-Salem State University, Alabama A&M University, Cheyney University in Pennsylvania, and Radford University, where he became the first African-American president of a non-...
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