Higher education
Gettysburg [Pa.] College received a $1.5 million gift from The Ronald J. Smith & Diane W. Smith Charitable Fund to endow a physics professor- ship. Ron Smith, a 1972 Gettysburg graduate and Intel’s first full-time device physicist, gave the donation to prepare students for careers where applying physics principles and tech- nology to “real-world solutions” can improve the human condition and planet. Smith had a 26-year career at Intel, an early developer of semicon- ductors, memory chips, microproces- sors and other revolutionary devices.
Most Christmas orchestras have only one tuba. But Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, will have more than 100 tuba and euphonium players of all ages for a double-header of Christmas concerts Dec. 17. Capital music pro-
fessor and tubist Tony Zilincik will direct and coordinate the free Tuba- Christmas concerts, which raise food and funds for the Mid-Ohio Food- bank. TubaChristmas, a 38-year-old U.S. tradition, is celebrated in most states.
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., now offers a major in Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies. The interdisciplinary major helps students study Latin America “in an integrated way as the strategic significance of the region to U.S. inter- ests has grown, both economically and culturally,” associate professor of Spanish Nancy Scott Hanway said. As communities are increasingly shaped by immigration from Latin America, the major helps students explore “the emergence of these increasingly com-
plex communities and the cultural production that emerges from them,” as well as “understandings of racial, ethnic and cultural identity,” she said.
For the second year in a row, Finlandia University, Hancock, Mich., was listed as a Military Friendly School by G.I. Jobs, a magazine that helps the military transition into civilian life (
www.militaryfriendlyschools. com). The 1,739 colleges, universi- ties and trade schools listed include 12 of the ELCA’s 26 schools: Augsburg College, Minneapolis; Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa; Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn.; Luther College, Deco- rah, Iowa; Midland University, Fre- mont, Neb.; Newberry (S.C.) College; Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash.; Roanoke College, Salem, Va.; Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa.; and Thiel College, Greenville, Pa.
Paul C. Pribbenow, president of Augs- burg College, Minneapolis, was hon- ored Oct. 5 with the 2012 William M. Burke Presidential Award for Excellence in Experiential Educa- tion from the National Society for Experiential Education. The award includes a $2,000 scholarship for a student involved in experiential learn- ing. Augsburg won the Presidential Award for Community Service in 2010 and was one of six institutions in the nation to receive the 2011 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award.
One in nine students at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, is international. The number of CLU international students grew about 40 percent this year to 462—about 10 times the level a decade ago. Hailing from more than 40 countries, most of these students come from Saudi Ara- bia, China, Taiwan, Norway, Thai- land, Austria, India and Sweden.
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