Higher education
A new scholarship specifically for Lutheran students at Texas Lutheran University, Seguin (
www.tlu.edu), can cover up to $14,500 in costs. Lutheran first-time, full-time fresh- men or transfer students are eligible based on academic criteria for the the Lutheran Advantage Scholarship, which is renewable for up to three additional years. “We are committed to building on our base of Lutheran students because these students thrive at TLU and go on to become leaders in their workplace, their communities and their congregations,” said Mandy Owen, TLU director of admissions.
Physical education students at New- berry [S.C.] College began an out- reach to the homeschooling com- munity this past spring. The students in assistant professor Carla Cruick- shanks’ motor development class created and ran a physical activity program for 15 children aged 6 to 16, offering instruction with skills from jumping rope to tennis. The program, which they hope to eventually run year round, allowed students to plan “real life” lessons and demonstrated “the importance of being well pre- pared for anything within the class- room setting,” Cruickshanks said.
Jerry Pankhurst, a sociology profes- sor at Wittenberg University, Spring- field, Ohio, won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. The Fulbright is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. gov- ernment. Pankhurst will use the award in spring 2012 to teach and conduct research on the church and politics in Estonia, a former Soviet Republic. Pankhurst, a noted scholar of Russia and the post-Soviet region, as well as Islamic societies, said the award will give him access to public records and people directly involved in church and political affairs in Europe. Wit- tenberg is no stranger to the Fulbright
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program. In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education named the school one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright Scholars among bachelor’s institutions, with three faculty mem- bers and two alumni receiving awards in 2010 alone.
For the second year in a row, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., has a national track and field cham- pion. Janey Helland won the NCAA Division III national title in the hep- tathlon, scoring personal bests in five of seven events (high jump, shot put, javelin, 100-meter hurdles and 800- meter run). It was the seventh indi- vidual event title for the college’s track and field program, including Max Hanson’s 800-meter national title in 2010. Helland won with 5,061 points—a school record and only the fifth time in Division III history that a heptathlete scored more than 5,000 points.
Two German majors at Carthage Col- lege, Kenosha, Wis., won scholar- ships from the German Academic Exchange Service to study in Ger- many for the spring 2012 semester. Karin Wirth will study at the Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität in Munich, researching how Bavarian secondary schools prepare students for future jobs and higher education, and how different types of preparation affect standardized test scores. Thomas Johnson will study law enforcement and perceived security in Germany at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg. He’ll observe activity at German train stations, airports and other transportation centers, and sur- vey law enforcement personnel and fellow students to understand how police presence affects citizens’ per- ception of their security.
In difficult economic times, some uni- versities reduce or phase out Norwe-
gian studies programs. Not Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash. At a special Syttende Mai (Norway’s constitution day) celebration May 17, PLU President Loren J. Anderson announced an endowed professor- ship in Norwegian and Scandinavian studies. Established with $1 million, the Svare-Toven professorship came after a 10-year effort by the family of Trygve Svare, a PLU professor from the 1920s to 1940s, and professor emeritus Auden Toven. Days before the announcement, PLU alumna Kim Nesselquist, executive director of the Norwegian-American Foundation, carried out a flurry of fundraising to help the school reach the necessary $1 million.
Mark H. Erickson, president of Wit- tenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and Loren J. Anderson, presi- dent of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., announced they’ll leave their leadership roles in 2012. Erickson, president since 2005, said he was passing “the baton of leader- ship” after “a great deal of contem- plation and discussions with trusted and thoughtful members of the cam- pus community.” Under his leader- ship, the school celebrated many innovative academic programs, an increase in student ethnic and geo- graphic diversity, a top-ranked fac- ulty, development of an investment fund to seed strategic initiatives, new civic partnerships and a range of environmentally friendly “green” initiatives. Anderson, 65, is retiring after 20 years at the helm of PLU. His tenure was defined by a series of community-based, long-range plans and major fundraising campaigns. “It’s a perfect time for new leadership as another era of progress and devel- opment is about to open for PLU,” he said. Both university boards are taking steps to begin the process of a search to identify candidates. M
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