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Student teaching in the time of COVID-19
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- February 11, 2021
Senior Shannon Kerwin, like any senior in the education department at Elizabethtown College, is ready to face her student teaching semester. COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, including student teaching. Kerwin is one of the fortunate students placed in-person at East High Street Elementary School. For the semester, she is student teaching in a
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Men’s basketball team runs 2020 Toys for Tots fundraiser
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- November 19, 2020
As the holiday season begins, it would be normal to see festivities, family gatherings, and charitable events starting to begin; however, due to the 2020 circumstances, many of these experiences have sadly been canceled, creating a sense of wonder on how the holidays will look this year. Luckily, there are still ways for people to
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Understanding Religion, Islam through a “calming” perspective
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- November 19, 2020
Haroon Moghul has contributed essays to a half dozen major news outlets, written three books, served on the Advisory Committee on Cultural Engagement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and helped establish the Islamic Center at NYU. Impressive. But Moghul would say, “My bio makes me seem like I do a lot of
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Senior thesis explores world history through familial letters, correspondence
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- November 19, 2020
The senior thesis is the culmination of four years of work within a given discipline, giving students the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned in unique, personal ways. The thesis process will inevitably vary from student to student, but at its best it will embody a student’s passion and creativity. For senior Caitlin
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Music faculty performance parallels whirlwind emotions during COVID-19 pandemic
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- November 19, 2020
This past Monday Nov. 16, the Leffler Chapel stage was once again graced by a captivating performance. Dr. Justin Badgerow and Dr. Anne Gross, associate professors of music, performed both joint and separate performances as a part of the Music Department’s annual Monday Concert Series. Gross opened with her vocal performance titled “Then and Now:
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Angel Tree Project demonstrates community engagement, solidarity
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- November 13, 2020
The Center for Community and Civic Engagement and Student Senate at Elizabethtown College will be hosting the Angel Tree Project once again this year. In a typical year, there would be a table set up with a small tree and tags hanging from the branches, each describing the age, gender, needs and interests of an
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Archival work during the COVID-19 pandemic
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- November 5, 2020
The staff at Elizabethtown College’s High Library are collecting projects of all sorts from faculty, staff and students regarding their experiences of living in the time of COVID-19. “Keep in mind if you have a class that is doing a COVID related project, course assignments can be submitted. There is no deadline whenever people want
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The Role of Ethics and Morality in the Climate Change Debate, Part 2
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- November 5, 2020
Brown made note of the fact that even though “the evidence of human causation is incredibly, incredibly strong,” there are still targeted disinformation campaigns with the intention of minimizing public awareness about the dangers of climate change. According to Brown, the reason for the disinformation comes down to the control that the fossil fuel industry
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Pushout
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- November 3, 2020
Over the duration of the Fall 2020 semester, Associate Professor of Education and Interim Director of the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) Dr. Shannon Haley-Mize has been leading both a First Year Seminar (FYS) and a book club to discuss anti-Black racism within the education system. These discussions centered around the book “Pushot:
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